The Indian government may be bereft of all guts to do anything in Sri Lanka. But at least it can render a great service by not talking about the 13th amendment as a basis to resolve the crisis.
A Sinhala-dominated Sri Lanka is not in India’s interests, writes T S Gopi Rethinaraj, a Singapore National University scholar, in the November 2008 issue of Pragati, the Indian National Interest Review.
Shops and commercial establishments in Tamil Nadu shut down and the state's roads wore a deserted look as a result of the traders' bandh (shut down) Friday on the Eelam Tamils issue.
Ridiculing the war expenditure of the Rajapkse administration UNP parliamentarian Ravi Karunanayake says the government has spent over forty million rupees to kill one member of the LTTE since 2004.
As the Sri Lankan military inducted a new fighting unit and continued its offensive attacks in Vanni, the LTTE staged air and sea attacks on military targets outside Vanni.
At a time of global financial crisis, Sri Lanka’s reliance on borrowing combined with plunging foreign exchange reserves, spiraling inflation and poor fiscal policies are making Sri Lanka the most vulnerable in the region, according to international monetary experts.
The results of the U.S. presidential election this week are more an overwhelming rejection of the way the United States has been run in the recent past, particularly during the Bush administration, than merely a victory for Barack Obama.
The silence of Western media and government has emboldened the majority Sinhalese to embark on a renewed campaign to dispossess and kill the Tamil people.
The LTTE have stepped up attacks against Sri Lankan security forces and paramilitary groups attached to them in the Eastern province, killing at least 14 in November alone and another 65 during September and October and wounding 112 in the past few weeks.
The Political Wing of the LTTE, in a statement dated 30 October, condemned the Sri Lankan government for carrying out indiscriminate aerial bombardment and artillery barrage on civilians in Vanni.
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.
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.
