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.
Putting aside political differences, Tamil Nadu political parties joined hands in voicing support for Eelam Tamils at a State-wide protest fast organized by the Communist Party of India (CPI) demanding New Delhi to withdraw military assistance to neighbouring Sri Lanka.
As a protest organized by the Communist Party of India attracted the support of many political parties and drew thousands of people across the state both the ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) and the opposition All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) hardened their stand on the Sri Lanka.
International aid agencies pulling out of the Vanni in early September has exacerbated the already difficult life of those who had displaced to the region, local reports said.
Former Chief of the Indian secret intelligence service, B. Raman, sometime ago declared that an Air Force Pilot of Pakistan based in Sri Lanka was participating in the attacks launched on the Tamil Tigers from Sri Lankan Air Force bases. It is also no secret that China has been supplying necessary arms and weapons to Sri Lanka to fight the war against the Tamil Tigers.
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.
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
