Summary of incidents - apart from major clashes - since November 6

The week to 12 November saw 27 people killed, 11 injured, 3 disappeared and 8 arrested. However, these figures do not include the major incidents of violence, which saw scores of civilians and combatants killed.

A United Nations official Monday accused Sri Lankan government security forces of recruiting child soldiers on behalf of an allied paramilitary group which is also fighting Tamil Tigers.

The special advisor to the UN Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, Allan Rock, told reporters in Colombo that he had evidence of direct involvement of troops in forcibly enlisting children for the paramilitary group.

"In this kind of situation we have to be very cautious because [the investigation] can be manipulated"

Thousands flee Sri Lanka on wave of terror.

Artillery pounds a refugee camp, killing 42 and wounding 100. But Colombo brushes off international concern.

Operation USA, a large American NGO, says it is “collecting funds and pushing the US Government and the UN to take firm action to help re-open humanitarian corridors” in Sri Lanka. Demanding access to internally displaced people (IDPs), the NGO said “a contributing factor to the current tension between the Sinhalese and Tamils is the inequitable distribution of tsunami relief aid by the Government of Sri Lanka.”

Colombo isgoing to purchase four more aircraft from Russia.

Six TNA MPs and candidates have been killed by military intelligence and associated paramilitaries since the 2002 ceasefire was signed.

LTTE leader Vellupillai Pirapaharan’s statement conferring the LTTE’s highest civilian award.

"This is an attempt to stifle... and silence those who can justifiably espouse the Tamil cause."

Tamils fear they have lost their right to fundamental freedoms of conscience, thought, belief, opinion, expression, peaceful assembly and association enshrined in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

The Tamils are mentioned in this Sinhala Parliament only when it is time to renew Emergency Regulations.

The international community’s failure to unreservedly condemn the government's war crimes and issuing mere “regrets” will signal that a military solution is condoned.