Sri Lanka is seeing an escalating military campaign by the most hardline government since independence.

India and Sri Lanka are boosting efforts to stop the Liberation Tigers smuggling supplies from Tamil Nadu across the Palk Straits.

There is no way in which effective human rights monitoring can be conducted by national institutions.

They spoke fluent Sinhala. That is why I suspect the army of having taken my husband.

People do not leave their homes at night, as they are not sure of getting back home safe'

Sri Lanka's Environment Minister, Champika Ranawaka, calls for the 'annihilation' of opponents of the war.

Today we realise we have made a mistake. Through the peace pact, we have demarcated areas called LTTE-controlled areas.'

We'd be delighted to become more involved in helping to facilitate the peace process.'

International actor's bias and inaction has encouraged Sri Lanka's war and left the 2002 ceasefire meaningless - LTTE, TNA

Citing international support for self-rule of peoples elsewhere in the world, the Liberation Tigers this week again called on the international community to support the Tamil people’s demand for self-determination.

The fifth anniversary of Sri Lanka’s tattered ceasefire was marked with contrasting reactions from the parties to the agreement, the government and the LTTE, peace facilitator Norway and Sri Lankan political parties.

The Norwegian-facilitated cease-fire of 2002 offered would offer a good base from which to launch a new peace initiative.

Buoyed by the Sri Lankan military’s capture, over the past six months, of large tracts of territory from the Tamil Tigers, President Mahinda Rajapakse said the LTTE could come for talks with his government – if it laid down its arms first.

The real challenge in safeguarding social values in a democratic society is not during peaceful times.