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  • Sri Lanka expands military in marked shift

    Nov 21
    New dollar bond to help finance massive spending increase.
  • UN envoy vilified over military child recruitment charges
    Sri Lanka accuses him of being an LTTE supporter while Sinhala nationalists burn his effigy.
  • Troops massacred students - ceasefire monitors
    They shot from close range, five of the students were killed and at least 10 others were injured.'
  • Anton Balasingham afflicted by rare cancer
    Veteran LTTE theoretician saddened by suffering of Tamil people.
  • Ugly Reality
    Tamils need to come to terms with the fact that the international community is simply not interested in their difficulties.
  • What's in it for India?
    For decades, cautious and limited engagement with Sri Lanka's ethnic crisis has not served India's interests.
  • We must unite and act
    The world has turned away. The Tamils must find a way out of this crisis on their own.
  • Singh: 'Civilian deaths of utmost concern and sorrow'
    Indian Prime Minisiter Manmohan Singh has written to Mr. Vaiko, the General Secretary of the pro-LTTE MDMK in Tamil Nadu, sharing his concerns about the Sri Lankan government's attacks on civilians.
  • Army-backed paramilitaries threaten TNA MPs
    If the 8 parliamentarians from Trincomalee, Batticaloa and Amparai, did not resign their posts before Monday, November 27, they would be assassinated, the Army-backed Karuna Group warned.
  • Iran to build 2 thermal power plants in Sri Lanka
    Sri Lanka has been keen to bolster cooperation with Iran in the energy field.
  • Heavy intervention shoring up rupee
    A collapse of Sri Lanka’s currency was being stymied by heavy intervention by the Central Bank, the main opposition party said last week.

    The central bank had spent 352 million dollars from January to September to defend the rupee, with 121 million dollars being spent from September 01 to 19, former Deputy Finance Minister and United National Party (UNP) parliamentarian, Bandula Gunewardene, told Lanka Business Online (LBO).
  • Fewer Western tourists visit
    Holidaymakers to Sri Lanka fell 12.0 percent for the 12 months to October, the Sri Lanka Tourist Board said last, amidst soaring violence in the island’s North and East.

    Sri Lanka greeted 38,815 visitors in October, the largest monthly decline since December 2005.

    However, cumulative arrivals from Jan to Oct rose 7.4 percent to 482,787.
  • Driven away

    Tourists won’t put up with bombs and random violence.

    I am writing this on my laptop in the thatched dining area of our cabanas in Tangalle, Sri Lanka, safe in the knowledge that we are the only guests here.

    Given the rising level of violence, and the refusal of both sides to make concessions in peace talks, it is no surprise that tourists haven’t exactly been flocking to this fabled isle.

  • Violent roundup – week ending Nov. 5
    Summary of incidents - apart from major clashes - since October 30

    In the week to 5 November, 40 people killed, 19 injured and another 16 disappeared across all the districts of the NorthEast. Another 5 people were arrested during this time, mainly by paramilitary cadres working with the Sri Lanka Army.

    Of the 36 incidents during the week that resulted in a death, injury or disappearance, Jaffna was the most ‘active’, with 16 incidents reported.
  • Dozens killed in naval clashes
    A Sea Tiger flotilla clashed last Thursday with the Sri Lanka Navy off the coast of Jaffna, killing 25 SLN troopers, capturing 4 others alive and destroying two Dvora Fast Attack Crafts (FACs). A third Dvora FAC was damaged. 

    Five Sea Tigers were killed in the intense naval gun battle Thursday, the LTTE said. The body of a SLN trooper was also recovered by the Tigers.

    The SLN has listed dozens of sailors as missing.

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