SLA Commander, Lieutenant General Sarath Fonseka claimed that '80 percent of the fighting ability' of the LTTE has been 'eliminated' and troops would soon re-open a main supply route between Colombo and northern Jaffna peninsula.

On the first anniversary of Tamilselvan’s funeral Tamil Guardian takes a look back at the editorial from last year, 7 November 2007.

There is no purely military solution to problems of insurgency.

The all-party meeting chaired by Tamil Nadu's (TN) Chief Minister M Karunanidhi on October 14 passed a resolution that MPs from the state would resign if the Centre failed to ensure a ceasefire in Sri Lanka (SL) in two weeks.

Col. R. Hariharan, (Retired) examines LTTE tactics in recent battles.

Sea Tigers, the sea faring arm of LTTE attacked two supply ships belonging to Sri Lanka inside high security zone, near a naval harbour in northern Jaffna peninsula, sinking one ship and heavily damaging the other.

The LTTE's political wing Ampaarai released a statement declaing 65 Sri Lankan Soldier, including 45 Special Task Force members, were killed and another 98 wounded in LTTE attacks over 75 days.

LTTE fighters continued to offer heavy resistance in the Vanni battle fronts inflicting heavy casualty to the Sri Lankan forces and stalling the advancement of troops towards Kilinochchi.

Is one seeing a mini version of Stalingrad in the battle for Kilinochchi, the current headquarters of the LTTE? Could "Gen.Monsoon" and "Gen.Recession" put an end to the pipedreams of the Sri Lankan Army of a definitive victory over the LTTE?

More than 600 Australian Tamils protested in front of the National Press Club in Canberra on October 14 while the Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka, Rohitha Bogollagama, was addressing an invited audience inside the National Press Club

The Tamil Youth Organization (TYO) of Bergen, Norway, launched an exhibition titled "No Home – Just Hope" displaying photos depicting the plight of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Vanni, Sri Lanka

Two thousand plus Eelam Tamils marched in Southern Italy urging awarness of the plight of Eelam Tamils in Vanni and wider Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka defiantly refused to allow a European Union (EU) investigation into rights abuses callit an "infringement of Sri Lanka's sovereignty, self respect and dignity', and announced plans to support the garment industry financially if existing trade concessions are not renewed by EU.

“Allow us to speak. We are not terrorists. What is happening in Sri Lanka is genocide”: These were the voices of the thousands of Eelam Tamil demonstrators who braved defying a government ban and gathered in Paris on October 22.