42,000 Sri Lankan Tamil IDPs Return home. More to follow .

Exactly six months after the deletion of terrorist organization LTTE and it's entire leadership by Sri Lankan security forces that marked the end of 30 years of armed conflict in Sri Lanka,...

Pottu Amman monopolised access to Prabhakaran - Sri Lanka

"COLOMBO: The former head of the LTTE’s intelligence wing, Shanmuganathan Sivasankaran, alias Pottu Amman, had monopolised access to Tiger chief Velupillai Prabhakaran to such an extent that the latter had no...

Sri Lanka: Prabhakaran tried to escape to jungle: Aide

" Aug. 27: Worried that LTTE’s defeat at the hands of military would crush his dream of a separate Tamil homeland, slain LTTE chief V. Prabhakaran had made a last ditch attempt to escape to the jungles in the...

Vaiko wants children named Prabhakaran

" Seeking to virtually challenge the State government on its ‘no support to banned outfits’ notification, MDMK supremo Vaiko on Tuesday appealed the people of Tamil Nadu to name the newborn babies as...

Sri Lanka: The scars of a 30-year civil war

Story of the Victims, coming from their own mouths, reported by the BBC. Some sections of the so-called "international Community" keep refusing to listen to anything that the Sri Lankan people have got to say....

Sri Lanka: winning the war on two fronts

" For, in this war, as in other conflicts, there were no witnesses.Till 18 months ago, Prabhakaran’s Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) controlled one-third of Sri Lanka’s territory. He commanded a...

'Tamil unit' for Sri Lanka's army

" Sri Lanka's army is to establish an ethnic Tamil regiment for the first time, the minister for national reconciliation has told the BBC. Vinyagamoorthi Muralitharan, who defected from Tamil rebels to ally with...

Prabhakaran’s daughter also killed – says KP

" Chennai 28 June, (Asiantribune.com):  Tamil Tiger leader Prabkaran’s daughter Duvaraka has died along with him and his eldest son Charles Anthony in the final battle with the Sri Lankan forces, but the...

Misapplying R2P in Sri Lanka

" Misapplying R2P in Sri Lanka Jorge Heine ...

On the hunt for Tamil Tigers' new leader

"Rick Westhead South Asia bureau NEW DELHI–Sri Lanka's government spent much of the past...

A way out for Sri Lanka’s child soldiers

" RANJENDRAN HAS the acne and somewhat awkward gait of many a 17-year-old schoolboy. He has already completed is O-Levels and is studying for his A-Level examinations, the local equivalent of the Leaving...

'Prabhakaran's surrender could have saved 500 LTTE cadres'

"'Prabhakaran's surrender could have saved 500 LTTE cadres' Colombo (PTI): The lives of at least 500 Tiger rebels would have been saved had LTTE Supremo V Prabhakaran surrendered during the last phase of the...

An intra-diaspora war over Prabhakaran

" So what if the LTTE is military wiped out of Sri Lanka? It had control over 15,000 square kilometres of land at one point. Now only torn down sign boards remain by the road side to remind those passing by of the...

Tigers fail to commemorate death of Prabhakaran

" In a significant departure from an established cultural practice, the Tamil Tigers have not commemorated the death of their chief Velupillai Prabhakaran and his top commanders in the various battles in May this year, points out D B S Jeyaraj in an article in Daily Mirror...

LTTE under KP will not renounce violence - London Times

" The Times of London newspaper reacting to the new announcement that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) would reorganize itself as a provisional transnational government of Tamil Eelam said it has not...

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