A senior western diplomat has warned that living conditions are deteriorating for tens of thousands of civilians displaced inside Tamil Tiger-held areas in northern Sri Lanka.
S. P. Tamilselvan – who died in a Sri Lankan air force raid on Friday morning – is the most senior Tamil Tiger leader to have been killed in recent years.
The death of their media-savvy political wing leader at the age of 40 means the LTTE have lost an experienced and suave political negotiator.
For many years S. P. Tamilselvan was the public face of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
