There was speculation in Colombo that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the major ethno-political movement of the Sri Lankan Tamils, is planning to declare the formation of a separate state for the Tamils in Sri Lanka's violent North and East on January 18, 2008.

 

Sri Lanka's violent conflict between the Tamils and the Sinhalese has denied its people an opportunity to embrace ethnic peace.

The Liberation Tigers attacked a Sri Lankan military outpost at a tourist attraction in southern Sri Lanka, killing seven soldiers and wounding many.

 

On Monday October 15, LTTE forces attacked a military detachment located in southern border of Ampaarai district in Yala National Park, one of the island's main tourist attractions.

 

The area remains tense with Sri Lanka army sealing off the sanctuary and carrying out a search operation

Many still bear the scars of the torture they suffered at the hands of the Sri Lankan military or police

Foreign traders view Sri Lanka as a good place to invest, especially in government bonds

Sri Lanka is seeking international expertise to conduct seismic surveys off the southern tip of the island in a hunt for new oil deposits, a senior minister said Friday.

 

"Initial seismic surveys shows that there are prospects for oil deposits in the southern seas and we are calling for international tenders to conduct a two dimensional seismic survey," Petroleum Minister A. H. M. Fowzie told AFP.

LTTE leader Vellupillai Pirapaharan meeting Air Tigers before setting off on their mission deep behind Sri Lankan lines.

The Sri Lankan Army has been using its newly purchased equipment, including Buffel Armoured Personnel Carriers like the one above, to aggressively pur

 

There is no way Sri Lanka's government will be able to crush its Tamil Tiger foes, and giving wide political autonomy to Tamils is the only answer, a leading European counter-terrorism expert says.

 

With near daily land and sea clashes, ambushes, bombings and air raids amid a new chapter in a two-decade civil war that has killed around 70,000 people, the government is now taking the war to the Tigers with offensives to drive them from territory they control.

Sri Lankan leader, Basil Rajapaksa, had asked the visiting UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, to emulate India and stop "policing" Sri Lanka, The Nation reported on Sunday.

 

The second most important man in Sri Lanka after President Mahinda Rajapaksa, told the ranking UN official, that India was not acting as the policeman of the South Asian region, but was helping Sri Lanka solve its problems.