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
The Karuna Group has abducted hundreds of men and boys - some as young as 12 - and is training them for combat in camps operated with the government's consent.
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.
