Seven years have passed since the Tamil journalist and editor of TamilNet was found assassinated in Colombo, inside a High Security Zone.

No-one has yet been brought to justice for his murder, after a trial was postponed earlier this year.

2005 saw the deaths of Sivaram, and two other Tamil media workers, S. Suhirtharajan, Trincomalee correspondent for Sudar Oli, a Tamil daily and Mrs. Relanki Selvarajah, Tamil broadcaster.

The Dambulla dispute maybe resolved by intervention from the president, reports The Sunday Times.

Representatives of Muslim political parties hope to discuss the situation directly with the president in the hope a solution maybe found.

The Sri Lankan army has been collecting information on young Tamil men and women who it claims are former LTTE cadres, reports Tamilwin.

Upto 500 young men and women, including 200 in Trincomalee have been targeted. All in the name of 'rehabilitation'.

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Security forces to search for 'ex-LTTE' returning from abroad (24 Apr 2012)

Muslims in Ampara and Batticaloa districts demonstrated for a second day through strike action, over the desecration of a mosque in Dambulla.

According to reports in the BBC, demonstrations were halted by the Sri Lankan military.

In a separate incident the office of the Mosque Federation in Kattankudi was set on fire last night in an arson attack.

Meanwhile, Muslims by the Dambulla mosque held an a special prayer session on Friday.

Despite the United Nations having released more evidence of cluster bomb use in Sri Lanka, the Sri Lankan Army has continued to deny their use.

Noting that it was “not the first time such allegations have been hurled at us”, Brigadier Wanigasooriya said,

The Ministry of Defence and Urban Development declared the month of May (specifically, 30th April to 30th May) as the 'Ranaviru Month' (War Heroes Commemoration Month) for the Sri Lankan armed forces and police force.

A parade will take place on 18th May at the Galle Face. President Rajapaksa is scheduled to attend.

A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court against a number of political parties that use the word “Tamil” in their names, claiming that it violates the Constitution of Sri Lanka.

Referring to parties such as the Tamil National Alliance and the Tamil United Liberation Front, the petition states that naming these parties using the word “Tamil”, means that establishing a separate state is within their aims.

Following a UN demining expert’s discovery this week of unexploded cluster munitions used by Sri Lankan forces during the island’s war, a medical worker has told Associated Press of seeing civilians' wounds caused by the outlawed weapons.

British High Commissioner John Rankin, speaking at the recently held Sri Lanka Apparel Sourcing Association AGM, said: