Tamil leader, LTTE chief V.Prabaharan is alive: Channel4 News

According to Channel 4 news reports, Selavarajah Padmanabhan, the LTTE International Plenipotentiary has informed "Sri Lankan military put the propaganda. This one a wrong information. Prabaharan is still alive....

BBC reports: Sri Lanka warned on 'war crimes'

More than 6,500 Tamil civilians were killed in three months and more than 20,000 wounded due to the indiscriminate multi-barrel artillery shelling, aerial bombings, chemical weapons used by the Sri Lankan armed...

Sri Lanka: West Appalled by Bloodbath but Action is Scarce

UNITED NATIONS - After the largest reported attack on civilians in Sri Lanka over the weekend, the foreign ministers of Britain, France and Austria condemned the "bloodbath" and appealed for the United Nations Security Council to put the conflict on its agenda....

UN Calls 'Blood Bath' in Sri Lanka

The weekend bombings and barrage by the Sri Lankan armed forces in the self declared "safe zone" killed more than 1400 people were killed. The figure could be higher. More than 3,500 people were injured. It is...

Colombo blocks Lasantha murder investigation - RSF reports

  'Who is Lasantha? Why you are worried about him?' 'There are thousands of murders in the country. Why you are not worried about them?' These were the angry words of Gotebaya Rajapakse to BBC reporter for his...

Sri Lankan President Rajapakse needs, Hague ICC trial

Sixty years have gone since the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was adopted by the UN. The International Community is being a silent observer while a genocide is perpetuated in...

Tamil peace march attacked by Sinhalese in Melbourne

Hundreds of people gathered in the centre of Sydney yesterday to protest against the Sri Lankan Government's treatment of Tamils. The Tamil Youth Organisation said the "visual protest" - using coffins, barbed...

Cambodia says 4 Thai troops killed in border clash

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Thai and Cambodian soldiers revived a long-simmering dispute over an 11th century temple near their border, trading fire Friday with machine guns and rocket launchers in clashes that left as many as four people dead. The latest flare-up — if...

ACT justice and peace worker in Sri Lanka arrested

The executive secretary for justice and peace in the National Christian Council of Sri Lanka has been arrested by a government terrorism investigation unit. Mr Santha Fernando was detained at Colombo's...

Pregnant woman and fetus killed in Sri Lankan army shelling

In Sri Lankan war there is no 'safe zone' even if the government declared a small area as 'safer' for civilians. Army shellings target the 'safe zones' in view of forcing the Tamil civilians to evacuate the conflict...
 

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