A group calling itself the Mahason Battalion has sent threats to the registrars of Colombo courts and a number of human rights lawyers, saying anyone who represents ‘terrorists’ or ‘suspected terrorists’ in court will face death.

US Ambassador to Sri Lanka while addressing an interactive session at the University of Madras urged the Sri Lankan Government to articulate its vision for a political solution to further isolate the LTTE.

This is part 1 of a 2 part series looking at the economic drivers behind the Sri Lankan states genocide of the Tamils

A consortium of U.N. agencies and international NGOs operating in Sri Lanka has said the monsoon has put the 200,000-odd internally displaced persons (IDPs) at grave risk due to the lack of transport and fuel.

Heavy fighting is continuing around the key LTTE-held town of Kilinochchi in northern Sri Lanka, according to the army. Last month, the government told foreign aid agencies to leave areas held by the Tamil Tigers (LTTE) because it could not guarantee the security of aid workers. The BBC News website spoke to a doctor in the town who describes the fear as people wait for the war to arrive.

As the fighting escalated in Sri Lanka, the news of innocent Tamils civilians being killed and maimed by indiscriminate aerial and artillery bombardment by Sri Lankan forces and the revelation that Indian radar operators were assisting Sri Lankan military brought the plight of Eelam Tamils to the boil in Tamil Nadu.

Outline of positions of parties in Tamil Nadu with respect to the Tamil National Question

A senior western diplomat has warned that living conditions are deteriorating for tens of thousands of civilians displaced inside Tamil Tiger-held areas in northern Sri Lanka.

Attacks against the Sri Lankan security personnel in Jaffna peninsula and in the Eastern province are on the increase as the LTTE put pressure on the military outside Vanni also.

The United National Party (UNP) is calling for an international level investigation into the bomb blast in Anuradhapura that killed North Central Province Opposition Leader retired Maj. Gen. Janaka Perera.

Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith condemned the attack on offices of the main opposition party in northern Sri Lanka on Monday, which took the life of Major General Perera, a local opposition leader and a former Sri Lankan High Commissioner to the country.

Over forty concerned Canadian Tamil youth gathered at the cultural hall of the Richmond Hill Hindu Temple to participate in a 30 hour famine creating awareness within the Canadian Tamil community about the humanitarian crisis in Vanni, while raising funds for CARE program.

Last Thursday, a United Nations convoy of trucks carrying urgent food supplies crossed into the Vanni, after having been detained at a crossing point for days.

Maj. Gen (retd.) Janaka Perera and his wife, Vajira, a former Sri Lanka Army officer, were killed in a bomb blast in Anuradhapura Monday morning around 8:45.