Sri Lanka's six-decade old ethnic tension between the minority Tamils and the majority Sinhalese negatively affected both the island's socio-economic progress and ethnic harmony.
The trial, imprisonment and release of a former Tamil Tiger leader raises some tricky and potentially embarrassing questions for the British government
Referring to the news that two Indian radar operators were wounded Tuesday when the LTTE attacked the Vanni Headquarters of the Sri Lankan military, Vaiko, the General Secretary of the MDMK, in a letter sent to the Indian Prime Ministe said the Indian Government was "caught red handed in its unpardonable betrayal" of involving Indian military personnel in Sri Lanka's "genocidal war" against the Tamils.
The director of an Australian non-governmental organisation (NGO) has warned of a humanitarian disaster in the war zones of Sri Lanka in the absence of foreign aid workers.
The Tamil Tigers last week accused the government of planning a genocidal campaign against Tamils as UN agencies began pulling out of the LTTE-held Vanni regions in the island's north
Sri Lanka’s hardline government criticised United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon for expressing deep concern about Tamil civilians in the Vanni region.
Aid workers fear uprooted civilians in the north of Sri Lanka could become trapped without enough assistance as fighting intensifies between government forces and LTTE.
The Sri Lankan Government told thousands of people living in its capital "without any valid reason" to return to their villages, calling them a national security threat and ordered Tamils originating from the north and residing in Colombo for the last five years to register themselves with the police.
Fears of a humanitarian crisis are mounting in northern Sri Lanka as troops press ahead with an offensive to capture territory from Tamil rebels. A week ago the UN and other agencies pulled out of the area, where more than 200,000 people are displaced by fighting. Here one aid worker describes how hard it was to leave.
