Tamil Canadians express their concerns and hopes for an independent Tamil state.

Leader of New Left Front, Dr Wickramabahu Karunaratne, in a column that appeared last week in Lankadeepa accused the Rajapakse administration of spending 500 billions of national wealth in its military drive to kill Tamil Tigers.

Sri Lankan national flags flew from buildings and lamp posts and posters covered walls in the capital Colombo and across the south of the island as part of week-long celebrations ordered by the government of President Mahinda Rajapakse to mark the capture of Pooneryn in the north.

Earlier this month President Mahinda Rajapakse unveiled a budget comprising of tax rises and heavy borrowing to support the government’s war efforts against the LTTE, declaring that offensive operations in the country's north would continue.

Sri Lanka has appealed to "friendly countries" to buy tea to help the country weather the global financial crisis.

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The SLA launched an intensive artillery barrage targeting all the roads from Paranthan junction last Monday, killing a 24-year-old youth in front of Paranthan St. Antony's Church and causing injuries to six, including two elderly men, in the town.

India Thursday formally handed over to the international Red Cross nearly 1,700 tonnes of relief material meant for civilians displaced by war in Sri Lanka’s north, but a top government official insisted that Colombo alone would distribute the aid.

Amnesty International last week called on Sri Lanka's government to stop blocking humanitarian aid intended for the more than 300,000 people displaced by fighting in the north.

The LTTE continue to be an extremely potent, most lethal and well-organised terrorist force in Sri Lanka and has strong connections in Tamil Nadu and certain pockets of southern India, a tribunal said.

Thousands of British Tamils demonstrated at the Parliament Square for three hours in London on November 19, urging the British Parliament to demand the Government of Sri Lanka to stop the genocide unleashed on Eelam Tamils.

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President-elect Barack Obama has offered Hillary Rodham Clinton the position of Secretary of State and the New York Senator has decided to accept the post, according to media reports.

Hundreds of Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) youth members, community leaders, non governmental organization officials participated in a protest to show their solidarity with the Eelam Tamils and condemn Sri Lanka’s continued killing of innocent Tamils.