Sri Lanka has dismissed calls for an independent inquiry into claims of human rights abuses by the military, saying its own courts will investigate.

The Sri Lankan government was deliberately carrying out a "horrendous act of genocide" by denying food and humanitarian access to the civilian population, charged LTTE Political Head B. Nadesan on Sunday 3 May.

“If the Colombo government is starving us, the world should know who is keeping us hostages. If the world’s concern is ‘purely humanitarian’ it should act this very minute to give us our means to keep the body and soul together”, is the voice of the civilian victims of Colombo’s starvation weapon, reported TamilNet, quoting hospital sources in Vanni.

The flood of wounded civilians from the conflict in Sri Lanka is overwhelming doctors and nurses in hospitals near the war zone who said Saturday people risk dying from lack of proper attention.

Tamil Nadu chief minister and DMK president Muthuvel Karunanidhi said he believed Sri Lankan president Rajapakse would keep his word and not resume combat operations against Tamil Tigers, despite the Sri Lankan military declaring there is no ceasefire in place.

A separate Tamil Eelam is the only solution that will permanently put an end to the problems of the Tamil people in the island of Sri Lanka, said Tamil Nadu former Chief Minister and principal Leader of the Opposition, Jayalalitha Jayaram at an election rally in Salem city.

SLA soldiers forcibly took away 76 Tamils from two detention camps in Jaffna district where civilians fleeing war in Vanni were held, according to local sources.

In a statement released by the US embassy in Sri Lanka, the co-chairs of the now defunct Norwegion initiated peace process ‘expressed urgent concern for the safety of more than 100,000 people trapped by the conflict’ and ‘stressed the importance of a humanitarian pause and of ensuring that adequate supplies of food, water and medicine reach the civilians in the zone,’

Paataali makkal Katchi (PMK), an ally of ruling Congress government has announced that it is forging a new regional alliance in a blow to the ruling Congress party's attempts to secure a national coalition weeks before the general election.

In the space of one week, LTTE launched attacks on STF commandos in the eastern district at four separate locations killing 9 STF commandos injuring 13.

Sri Lanka’s war on the Tamil people has reached an extremely brutal level. Many neutral observers and human rights activists have called it ‘genocide’. While brutal attacks against Tamils have reached a new height, lies spread by the government have also reached a new height.

Nimal Sripala de Silva, a cabinet minister in Sri Lanka parliament, said that India’s great assistance helped SLA to defeat the Liberation Tigers and that the people of Sri Lanka should be grateful to India

ON May Day in 1993, Sri Lankan president Ranasinghe Premadasa was in the back streets of Colombo, greeting supporters as they streamed into the capital for the day's festivities, when he was killed by a suicide bomb. Had the conventions of diplomacy permitted it, I would probably have been at his side.

To what extent human beings can survive under extreme conditions was a Nazi research on the ‘dispensable Jews’ of the concentration camps, to find out the levels of extremity the human body and mind can withstand.