The UN Security Council's second session in a month on the conflict in Sri Lanka was a "friendly censure" of the government, according to Jorge Urbina, the Ambassador of Costa Rica, a member of the Council.

The United States has accused Sri Lanka of breaking promises to stop shelling a no-fire zone where thousands of civilians are trapped by fighting between separatists and government forces.

To what extent human beings can survive under extreme conditions was a Nazi research on the ‘dispensable Jews’ of the concentration camps, to find out the levels of extremity the human body and mind can withstand.

The top United Nations relief official Thursday repeated the world body’s concerns over the safety of civilians – numbering as high as 190,000 – trapped by fighting in northern Sri Lanka between Government forces and the LTTE.

In the wake of continuing violence and reports about deaths of civilians in Sri Lanka, the United Nations has asked Colombo to allow human rights monitors to visit the country and assess the situation.

Two more persons self immolated themselves in two separate incidents in Tamil Nadu over the plight of Tamils in war-torn Sri Lanka.

Calling for the evacuation of civilians and making them to end up in the hands of their killers, is taking side with one of the parties to the conflict and amounts to another one of the war crimes, perhaps the most serious one of them when comes from a world body of human rights, said Jaffna MP, Kajendran

More than 25,000 Tamils, across Europe took to the streets of Brussels on Monday, 16 March, demanding EU to de-proscribe the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, to exert pressure on the Sri Lankan government to allow medicine and food to the civilians besieged by its military in all fronts and to demand the Sri Lankan military to pull out from the Tamil homeland.

B. Nadesan, the political head of the LTTE Sunday, March 15 said the Tigers had "plenty of evidences" to document that the Sri Lankan government of Mahinda Rajapakse was "intentionally directing attacks against civilians," committing war crimes and crimes against humanity

How international belief in a fictional Sri Lanka fuels the slaughter.

The humanitarian situation in the Vanni is said to be dire, as a lack of food and clean water lead to illness and death by starvation.

The Tamil Diaspora in Britain is organising a direct 'mercy mission' taking food and medicine to the civilians of Vanni, forsaken by the conscience of the International Community, said Dr. V. Arudkumar from London, on Tuesday, 10 March.

Ten thousand British Tamil expatriates paid tribute Saturday at the funeral of Murugathasan Varnakulasingham, 26, who self-immolated in front of the United Nations in Geneva in protest at the international inaction amid the mass killings of Tamils by the Sri Lankan military.

The Paataali Makkal Katchi (PMK) would demand a separate state for Tamils in Sri Lanka, party founder Ramadoss said.