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  • Paramilitaries abduct scores in Batticaloa

    Aug 24
    Complaints were made to Eravur Police that at least 20 Tamil youngsters playing with their friends near Vishnu Temple surroundings were abducted by unidentified persons in a white van on August 15.

    About fifteen unidentified armed men in a van took the boys away at gunpoint. The boys come from several villages including Santhiveli, Murakoddanchenai, Sithandy, Mawadivembu, Vantharumoolai and Kaluwankerni in the Eravur police division in Batticaloa district.
  • New labels, old game
    The Tamil project has come this far in the face of open and consistent international hostility and contempt.
  • International monitors withdraw to Colombo
    The Norwegian government, which is responsible for monitoring of Sri Lanka’s ceasefire said this week that its staff were withdrawing from the embattled Northeastern districts to the capitol, Colombo.

    The Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM), comprising staff from Nordic countries, is to lose many of its members at the end of the month: the LTTE has refused to accept monitors from countries that have proscribed the group.
  • Outrage - and silence
    The Air Force massacre of scores teenagers at the Sencholai children’s home in Vallipunam triggered outrage and anger amongst the Tamil community in Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu. But whilst some international actors criticized the bombing, others were conspicuously muted, even silent.
  • Sri Lankan airstrike kills 55 girls
    150 wounded as four jets drop 16 bombs
  • Sri Lanka blocking massacre probes - monitors
    “I have experienced this in the Balkans before. When you’re not let in, it’s a sign that there’s something they want to hide” - retired Maj. Gen. Ulf Henricsson
  • LTTE thwarts SLA offensive in Jaffna
    Heavy fighting that has raged in Jaffna since August 11 subsided this week allowing an aid ship to travel to the embattled peninsula, but sporadic artillery exchanges continued, reports said.

    Hundreds of combatants have been killed in two weeks of intense artillery exchanges and heavy ground fighting. The air and sea supply lines to Jaffna, which had been cut by LTTE shelling, hesitantly opened this week.
  • EU ban on LTTE hurt peace efforts – Hanssen-Bauer
    'We see now that the SLMM will be reduced to half its original capacity in a situation where it’s badly needed, and where the work has been more demanding than ever. I would have hoped that the situation would have been different.''
  • Sri Lanka under pressure
    'At a meeting with the President on Monday, representatives of the Co-Chairs of Sri Lanka’s donor community – the United States, European Union, Norway and Japan – raised a number of concerns''.
  • Tamils and Tigers
    Even if the international community was able to appreciate Tamil aspirations, there is little evidence that it is capable of delivering them.
  • International jurists question Sri Lanka's moves on NGOs
    “Terms such as ‘national and social well being of the country’, ‘national security’ and ‘sovereignty and national defence’ require further clarification in this context to avoid misinterpretation.”
  • Muslims blame STF for Pottuvil massacre
    Sri Lanka's biggest Muslim party, the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress is requesting international assistance to investigate the killing. Blaming the elite Special Task Force (STF) for the massacre of 10 young Muslim men, the Muslim community in Pottuvil is demanding the unit be transferred out and an independent inquiry be held.
  • Sri Lanka military plans Elephant Pass offensive
    The SLA base complex there has been razed to the ground, but EP is a much sought after prestige target.
  • On rights, the Diaspora and the LTTE
    Why does HRW have difficulty establishing credibility with the Diaspora?
  • Why Rajapakse’s actions make sense
    The President’s twin objectives cannot be fulfilled through a federal solution.
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