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.

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

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

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

Sri Lankan Defence Secretary Gothabaya Rajapakse travelled to on a day six day long visit China to discuss military cooperation including training of security personnel

As the people of Aceh prepare to go to the polls, tension is building in the region.

Sri Lanka’s economy is going through a severe crisis as key exports including garment and tea significantly drop with buyers staying away.

Sri Lanka is going on bended knees to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) - an institution it chased away two years ago - for a bailout package worth US$1.9 billion as the country's authorities scrape the barrel for foreign exchange.

The political watchdog of the Commonwealth refrained from discussing the civil war in Sri Lanka despite a last-minute plea by a group of British MPs to place it on the agenda of its meeting in London on Wednesday, March 4.

The EU Parliament passed a resolution, with a large majority, calling for immediate ceasefire between the Sri Lanka Army and Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam in order to allow the civilian population to leave the combat zone.

Despite the horrific human rights violations the Sri Lankan government is committing against the Tamil civilians in its war to wipe out the LTTE, a visiting British Member of Parliament belonging to the British Conservative party claimed that President Mahinda Rajapakse’s regime needs support not criticism

A group of 38 United States members of Congress sent a joint letter on Thursday March 12, to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and to the US Ambassador to the United Nations, Dr. Susan Rice, highlighting the humanitarian crisis faced by Tamil civilians in Sri Lanka, and expressing concern over conditions in the internment camps

Sri Lanka, the once self-trumpeted "island of paradise," turned into the island of bloodshed more than a quarter-century ago. But even by its long, gory record, the bloodletting since last year is unprecedented.

A statement by the UN right chief stating that both sides in Sri Lanka's conflict may have committed war crimes and must suspend fighting to let thousands of civilians escape, has been rejected by the Sri Lankan government and Tamils.