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The Tamil homeland’s falling population – Sri Lanka’s 2024 census
Sri Lanka’s newly released preliminary census figures from 2024 illustrated how the Tamil North-East, particularly the Vanni region, remains the worst-affected part of the island in terms of population loss and stagnation. According to the “Census of Population and Housing – 2024 Preliminary Report” by Sri Lanka’s Department of Census and Statistics, the three districts that make up the core…

US: LTTE is not a threat to region or world

Dec 12, 2006
‘The Tigers are representing the Tamils in negotiations with Sri Lanka’

Divided experts present four different proposals

Dec 6, 2006
The main issues of contention dividing the 'majority' report and other, dissenting reports, are matters like the extent of devolution: the dissenters, all Sinhalese, want to strengthen the unitary state while the majority group want devolution.

Colombo bombing exposes security failings

Dec 1, 2006
Defence Secretary has a narrow escape as his Presidential-style screen is penetrated. Luck, not security, say analysts

Singh: 'Civilian deaths of utmost concern and sorrow'

Nov 21, 2006
Indian Prime Minisiter Manmohan Singh has written to Mr. Vaiko, the General Secretary of the pro-LTTE MDMK in Tamil Nadu, sharing his concerns about the Sri Lankan government's attacks on civilians.

Slain aid workers mourned as probe drags

Nov 14, 2006
"In this kind of situation we have to be very cautious because [the investigation] can be manipulated"

‘They want to wipe us Tamils out’

Nov 14, 2006
Daniel Pepper
Thousands flee Sri Lanka on wave of terror.

(video) Sri Lanka 'uses child fighters' - UN envoy

Nov 12, 2006
Sri Lankan government forces are recruiting child soldiers to fight against the Tamil Tigers, UN Envoy Allan Rock says in an interview with BBC.

Story of the Colombo 'safe house'

Oct 18, 2006

The arrest of a Tamil youth, Poobalapillai Kantharajah, 26, from Batticaloa, on September 29, shed light on an abduction and extortion racket that has plagued the eastern city for some time.

Investigations carried out following the arrest show that although several complaints had been made to the police with regard to suspicious activities taking place in highly residential areas in the city, no attention was paid to them and no action taken on the complaints made.

Army-backed milita 'abducting hundreds' in Batticaloa

Oct 17, 2006
The Karuna Group has abducted hundreds of men and boys - some as young as 12 - and is training them for combat in camps operated with the government's consent.

Terror label prolongs Sri Lanka war

Oct 3, 2006
Jared Ferrie
The rhetoric of the war on terror makes it easy to make glib judgments that one form of political violence is justified and another is not justified.'
US: LTTE is not a threat to region or world
Divided experts present four different proposals
Colombo bombing exposes security failings
Singh: 'Civilian deaths of utmost concern and sorrow'
Slain aid workers mourned as probe drags
‘They want to wipe us Tamils out’
(video) Sri Lanka 'uses child fighters' - UN envoy
Story of the Colombo 'safe house'
Army-backed milita 'abducting hundreds' in Batticaloa
Terror label prolongs Sri Lanka war
US: LTTE is not a threat to region or world
Divided experts present four different proposals
Colombo bombing exposes security failings
Singh: 'Civilian deaths of utmost concern and sorrow'
Slain aid workers mourned as probe drags
‘They want to wipe us Tamils out’
(video) Sri Lanka 'uses child fighters' - UN envoy
Story of the Colombo 'safe house'
Army-backed milita 'abducting hundreds' in Batticaloa
Terror label prolongs Sri Lanka war