“The number reaching Tamil Nadu each day is less than a hundred but they continue to come non-stop.”
Over fifty Tamil detainees were massacred by Sinhala inmates and jailors in Welikade prison.
The International Commission of Jurists observed: “the evidence points clearly to the conclusion that the violence of the Sinhala rioters on the Tamils amounted to acts of genocide.”
The image of the lone Tamil boy cornered by a group of Sinhala youth touched a nerve in a beleaguered minority.
Tamils who fled Sri Lankan military harassment are in limbo amid rising violence
“Anything can happen at any time,” M. V. Kanamylnathan, chief editor of the Tamil-language newspaper Uthayan said from his offices.
In a wide ranging interview, the Liberation Tigers’ theoretician and chief negotiator, Mr. Anton Balasingham elucidated the LTTE’s view on the recent controversy stirred by the international ceasefire monitors comments on the Sea Tigers, on the performance of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) and on the escalating cycle of violence.
The coalition of Sri Lanka’s four largest political parties, criticizes the European Union’s stance on the ethnic conflict.