The lives of hundreds of thousands of Tamils held in internment camps are in "serious danger" from the imminent rainy season and a looming threat of disease, a human rights group has warned.

A quarter of a million Sri Lankans being held in de facto detention camps are facing a humanitarian disaster as monsoon rains threaten to flood camps, said Amnesty International in a press release.

The United States of America called upon Sri Lanka to allow displaced Tamil stuck in camps to be able to move freely.

The Sri Lankan parliament has approved an additional 20% budget for the country's military for the remainder of this year, reported the BBC.

As Major General Sarath Fonseka's military and political stars in Sri Lanka show signs of decline, the General may have to soon decide whether to stay in Sri Lanka and suffer ignominy under the Rajapakse brothers, or to use the lottery-won US Green Card, and seek safety with his children in the US. But safety in US may spell judicial danger.

With news emerging that Sri Lanka may still be able to hold on to the GSP+ concessions, EU Ambassador to Sri Lanka Bernard Savage warned that there are still issues to be overcome.

Seventeen months after being arrested, and almost three years after writing two articles the government claims were meant to incite “communal disharmony,” journalist J.S. Tissainayagam was sentenced to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment on August 30 by the Colombo High Court.

The Sri Lankan Government has refused to release documents detailing the underlying basis of the IMF loan to Sri Lanka, but has started to comply with those terms.

A SLA soldier and explosive expert attached to Minneriya camp in Polonnaruwa was arrested by Kurunegala Police Friday, October 2, in connection with the school van bomb blast the previous Friday that killed a 11 year old girl student and injured 11 others including school children and the driver.

This is a personal narrative by someone who was an inmate of the Menik Farm IDP camp from March to July this year.

Lakhdar Brahimi and Edward Mortimer examine the prospects for peace in Sri Lanka

The Chairman of MAS Holdings, warned of “very challenging times” ahead, with the prospect of GSP Plus concessions being withdrawn by the European Union.

If Sri Lanka is to become a tropical paradise again, it must build enduring peace. This will only occur through genuine interethnic equality, and a transition from being a unitary state to being a federation that grants provincial and local autonomy.