An independent Tamil Eelam is no threat to the community of states – in the region or beyond.

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.

The past four weeks of shelling and aerial bombardment by Sri Lankan Security forces has displaced over 45,000 people.

A unilateral ceasefire offer by the LTTE, to cover the period of the SAARC conference in Colombo, was rejected by the Sri Lankan government, a day after it was made.

A year after troops overpowered the Tamil Tigers (LTTE) in Sri Lanka's eastern province and took control of the area, normality has yet to return.

After Sri Lanka Army officials tell the media their forces were making "rapid progress" in Vanni, Mahinda Rajapaksa declared Kilinochchi, Mullaiththeevu is "not too far away,".

On 25th Anniversary of Black July, the article examines Sri Lankan inter-ethnic relations and the potential for a repeat of Black July.

The Tamil Youth Organisation Canada and Canadian Tamil Congress co-hosted a conference at the University of Toronto, Scarborough Campus as part of Black July Commemmorations.

Tamil Youth Organization New Zealand (TYO-NZ) went green on Sunday July 13, planting some trees in Auckland as part of a mentoring program for young Tamil children.

LTTE leader Mr V. Pirapaharan participated in the Black Tigers commemoration day events held in Vanni on July 5.

Tamil Australians gathered in Melbourne and Sydney over the weekend of 5 and 6 July, to lend their voices to the global show of Tamil solidarity

At short notice more than 75,000 Tamil Canadians gathered at Downsview Park in Toronto, Canada for a spectacular Pongu Tamil event, forging solidarity for the cause of Eelam, on Saturday, July 5.

Gripped by civil war for over two decades, Sri Lanka is fast becoming a battleground for India and China's influence.

Patrick Lawrence an experienced US journalist adresses the question that by 2006 whether Sri Lanka could be called 'a failed state,' writes Patrick Lawrence in his recent book ‘Conversations in a Failing State’, brought out by Hong Kong based Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) in March 2008.