The LTTE claimed last Saturday (October 7) that it had blunted a Sri Lankan offensive in Vaharai, on the border between Trincomalee and Batticaloa districts in Eastern Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka's Supreme Court on Monday declared the merger of the northern and eastern provinces, effected in 1987 as part of the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord, "null and void and illegal."

The move defied explicit calls by international backers of the Norwegian peace process, including India, for Sri Lanka to refrain from moves which would inflame tensions and undermine a negotiated settlement.

Escalating violence in Sri Lanka is casting doubts on whether the talks scheduled to take place in Geneva later this month between the hardline government of President Mahinda Rajapakse and the Liberation

A major military action in the battlefields of Muhamalai by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) last Wednesday morning turned out to be its worst reversal during the four-year ceasefire.

Two Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) jet bombers Tuesday destroyed the main broadcast tower and transmitter of the Thamileelam Radio station of the Liberation Tigers, but failed to disrupt broadcasts.

The station, on the A9 15 km south of Kilinochchi, broadcasts the Voice of Tigers (VoT), the LTTE’s official radio, the Thamileelam Vanoli, a commercial Tamil service and a Sinhala language service, both also run by the LTTE.