An independent Tamil Eelam is the solution to the Sri Lankan crisis, decided a majority of voters in a Tamil Nadu poll last week.

Although the fighting over South Ossetia is not over, and fighting for another Georgian enclave, Abkhazia, looks like developing, it is perhaps not too early to learn some tentative lessons from the crisis.

Georgia has said its troops have withdrawn from the breakaway region of South Ossetia and that Russian forces are in control of its capital, Tskhinvali.

Tamil Youth Organization New Zealand (TYO-NZ) went green on Sunday July 13, planting some trees in Auckland as part of a mentoring program for young Tamil children.

In a landmark ruling, the European Court of Human Rights stays the deportion from Britain to Sri Lanka of a Tamil man, finding him to be at risk of torture by the Sri Lankan authorities.

An independent Tamil Eelam is no threat to the community of states – in the region or beyond.

Tamils across the world commemorated the 25th anniversary of Black July, the week in 1983 that saw a state sponsored pogrom kill over 3,000 of them killed in Sri Lanka.

The past four weeks of shelling and aerial bombardment by Sri Lankan Security forces has displaced over 45,000 people.

A unilateral ceasefire offer by the LTTE, to cover the period of the SAARC conference in Colombo, was rejected by the Sri Lankan government, a day after it was made.

A year after troops overpowered the Tamil Tigers (LTTE) in Sri Lanka's eastern province and took control of the area, normality has yet to return.

After Sri Lanka Army officials tell the media their forces were making "rapid progress" in Vanni, Mahinda Rajapaksa declared Kilinochchi, Mullaiththeevu is "not too far away,".

The Tamil Youth Organisation Canada and Canadian Tamil Congress co-hosted a conference at the University of Toronto, Scarborough Campus as part of Black July Commemmorations.

A visiting European Union delegation came down hard on the government over alleged human rights abuses, but acknowledged that it was ‘involved in the fight against terrorism’.

On 25th Anniversary of Black July, the article examines Sri Lankan inter-ethnic relations and the potential for a repeat of Black July.