Majority of people in Tamil Nadu want the Indian government to support the LTTE in Sri Lanka, according to an opinion poll.

Responding to the spontaneous protests staged by Tamils in Norway demanding an immediate ceasefire in Sri Lanka, Norwegian international development minister Erik Solheim has said that he ‘cannot cause miracles’.

Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon has called for an immediate ceasefire and wants to "engage the United Nations as fast as possible" to find a peaceful solution to the decades old conflict. The announcement comes amidst continued Tamil protests that have severely disrupted the traffic in downtown Ottawa.

The United Kingdom has again appealed for the urgent need for humanitarian ceasefire in Sri Lanka saying that it was concerned at the plight of civilians caught up in fighting between the Government troops and Liberation Tigers.

Sri Lanka on Monday 13 April stripped Norway of its role as broker of the island's moribund peace process, a government official told AFP.

As the storm over last week's G20 protests continues to rage, another major demonstration, over the fighting in Sri Lanka, has been going on in London.

In a historic show of solidarity, more than 200,000 British Tamils, nearly two thirds of Tamils resident in Britain, marched through the streets of London Saturday 11 April demanding immediate ceasefire and recognition of Tamil Eelam.

Tamil youth came to the forefront, organizing and leading the protests across the globe. And both the face of protest and the method of organization are reflecting this new reality.

Across the globe Tamils are conducting hunger strikes to draw attention to the situation in Sri Lanka and to call for an immediate ceasefire to give respite to the civilian population that is the target of the Sri Lankan government onslaught.

As in the medieval Mahavamsa, so today, the Tamils are no longer human.

In a statement released by the US embassy in Sri Lanka, the co-chairs of the now defunct Norwegion initiated peace process ‘expressed urgent concern for the safety of more than 100,000 people trapped by the conflict’ and ‘stressed the importance of a humanitarian pause and of ensuring that adequate supplies of food, water and medicine reach the civilians in the zone,’

THE horror that is unfolding in Sri Lanka becomes possible because of the silence that surrounds it.

Even as his humanitarian affairs chief warned of an impending ‘bloodbath’ in Sri Lanka, the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon refused to call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire.

As the Tamil diaspora in the United States and around the world staged huge protest rallies and launched hunger strikes, in a massive show of solidarity with Eelam Tamils being subjected to a genocidal war, in an unprecedented move, US Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher, and US Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Robert Blake (via video conference) met a group of American Tamils representing different diaspora organizations to discuss the current humanitarian crisis Tamils face in Sri Lanka.