The long awaited showing of a film following a pair of female Black Tigers at the sold out Frontline Club finds the audience in expectant mood given the controversy the film has drawn.

As the SAARC summit comes to an end Ivan Pedropillai, chief editor of the Tamil Writers Guild, argues for international intervention to stop Sri Lanka's "calculated campaign of genocide".

Despite its track record on human rights and contempt for international laws and practices, Sri Lanka received USD 1.05 billion in the first five months of the year in foreign aid according to a fiscal report published by Sri Lanka’s treasury.

Asian Center for Human Rights (ACHR), in a rights report covering the South Asian Association for Regional Cooporation (SAARC), said "Sri Lanka ranks South Asia’s No.1 human rights violator,"

Iran is willing to share nuclear technology for peaceful purposes with Sri Lanka, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki told The Island newspaper.

Around Hundred Tamils were arrested in cordon and search operations around Colombo and the south of the country in the space of 5 days, as a Supreme Court filing showed that about 1200 Tamils are languishing in Welikade prison without being charged.

As Sri Lankan artillery attacks continue to impact on civilian areas, Mullaitheevu Government Agents urge the SLA to observe Safety Zones

At least five civilians, including an eighteen-month of baby, were killed and more than 25 wounded in artillery and air-strikes on Friday and Saturday last week as Sri Lankan security forces stepped attacks on civilian population centers in Vanni, in their ongoing military campaign.

Amidst intense fighting and spiraling casualties Sri Lankan government in its latest attempts to beef up its security forces numbers announced another amnesty to deserters and warned that this would the last amnesty offered.

Access to thousands of civilians who have fled fighting between government forces and the LTTE in the northwestern Mannar District between June and July was critical to prevent further hardship, according to UN officials.

Sri Lanka must act to prevent human rights abuses including abductions, the intimidation of media personnel and the recruitment of child soldiers as it fights a 25-year civil war against Tamil Tigers.

THE Sri Lankan government claims its security forces are making gains in the military campaign against the LTTE in the north of the island, but the soldiers are suffering a loss of morale as a large number have been reports killed.

An independent Tamil Eelam is the solution to the Sri Lankan crisis, decided a majority of voters in a Tamil Nadu poll last week.

Tamils across the world commemorated the 25th anniversary of Black July, the week in 1983 that saw a state sponsored pogrom kill over 3,000 of them killed in Sri Lanka.