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  • UN nods ‘fight to the finish’

    Mar 03
    The position taken by UN Security Council Friday, February 27, indicating no go beyond ‘hearing’, and the considerate briefing of John Holmes largely endorsing and trusting Colombo’s agenda and assurances for civilians, are read between the lines by international political observers as a ‘knowing wink’ at Colombo to pursue its offensive.
  • … May Need Bailout as debt drains reserves
    Sri Lanka may need a bailout from international donors to help pay its debts as the island’s 26- year civil war draws to a close.
  • Negative outlook for Sri Lanka…
    Sri Lanka’s credit rating outlook was downgraded to negative following the ‘marked’ decline in the country’s foreign exchange reserves.
  • Diaspora Tamils continue protests
    Tamils across the world held demonstrations and rallies highlighting the ongoing genocide of Tamils in Sri Lanka and urging the international community to intervene to stop the suffering of their kin and kith back home.
  • The Diaspora as genocide resistors
    The Tamil case for genocide has been extensively discussed in a series of articles in this paper among others. We have shown structural similarities between the genocide of the Tamils and other historic genocides including the Nazi and Rwandan examples.
  • Black Air Tiger urges Vanni youth to join for final battle
    Colonel Rooban, one of the two Black Air Tigers who flew LTTE aircrafts hitting SLAF Headquarters and the SLAF base at Katunayake Friday, in a letter left behind, urged the Tamils in Vanni to join the Liberation Tigers and strengthen the LTTE's military forces in the fight against the Sri Lanka Military forces.
  • State Security
    The Tamils’ security depends on their own efforts - and nothing else.
  • Meanwhile India supplies vital drug for treating injured soldiers.
    India has agreed to supply a vital drug in short supply in Sri Lanka for post surgery treatment for the injured soldiers, according to media reports.
  • Lack of antibiotics force doctors to re-amputate patients in Vanni
    The medical care system Vanni is on the verge of complete collapse and the doctors are in deep despair due to lack of lifesaving medicines and necessary equipment required treat patients, according to the Regional Director of Health Services (RDHS) in Mullaiththeevu district.
  • Colombo killed 700 children in 2 months – Voice of Tigers
    Voice of Tigers, the official radio of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on Sunday, March 1 said Sri Lankan armed forces have killed 2,018 Tamil civilians in January and February in Vanni and that 700 of the victims were children.
  • WFP delivers Food by sea but amount only enough for a day.
    A new sea route to deliver urgently needed relief to tens of thousands of civilians people in Vanni has been opened following food convoys through land route remain suspended for more than a month.
  • HRW: SLA ‘slaughtering civilians’
    Human Rights Watch (HRW) based in New York has accused the SLA of ‘slaughtering’ civilians with indiscriminate shelling in its attempt to finish off the LTTE.
  • LTTE aircrafts target SLAF in Colombo
    Two TAF aircraft on Black Air Tiger mission carried out successful air raids diving into SLAF Headquarters in Colombo and into the SLAF base at Katunayake, according to the LTTE.
  • SLAF jet shot down over Mullaiththeevu
    A SLAF bomber was shot down in Mullaiththeevu on Friday February 27 at 11:25 am, according to civilians sources in Iranaippaalai.
  • Privacy goes public in Sri Lanka
    It was just past 10 p.m. when the hulking bus sputtered to a stop at this military checkpoint, 70 miles from the front lines of this country's civil war.
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