Leader of British Tamils for Labour, Sen Kandiah addressed the annual conference of the British Labour Party, in front of over 10,000 delegates and TV audience, urging the Labour Party to note with alarm the increase in violence and human rights violations perpetrated by the Sri Lankan Government against Tamils.
The Sri Lankan Government told thousands of people living in its capital "without any valid reason" to return to their villages, calling them a national security threat and ordered Tamils originating from the north and residing in Colombo for the last five years to register themselves with the police.
Fears of a humanitarian crisis are mounting in northern Sri Lanka as troops press ahead with an offensive to capture territory from Tamil rebels. A week ago the UN and other agencies pulled out of the area, where more than 200,000 people are displaced by fighting. Here one aid worker describes how hard it was to leave.
Aid workers fear uprooted civilians in the north of Sri Lanka could become trapped without enough assistance as fighting intensifies between government forces and LTTE.
The director of an Australian non-governmental organisation (NGO) has warned of a humanitarian disaster in the war zones of Sri Lanka in the absence of foreign aid workers.
Tamil Tiger commandos, supported by artillery and airstrikes, devastated the SLAF and SLA installations inside the Vanni Sri Lankan forces Headquarters on Tuesday.
Over 113 Sri Lankan soldiers were killed and 326 wounded in the space of four days last week, as the LTTE stepped their resistance against the Sri Lankan military offensive in Vanni.
A Buddhist monk and three of his associates broke into a Hindu temple in Sri Lankan capital Colombo in the middle of the night and desecrated the temple by climbing on the Kopuram and destroying devotional statues.
Tamil Tiger commandos, supported by artillery and airstrikes, devastated the SLAF and SLA installations inside the Vanni Sri Lankan forces Headquarters on Tuesday.
As fighting rages on in the north of Sri Lanka, LTTE units in the Eastern province have stepped up attacks against Sri Lankan forces in the region, with several ‘friendly fire’ incidents adding to the death toll.
