Parameswaran Subramaniyam continues his fast unto death undettered, placing five demands including an immediate stop of the inhuman killings of innocent Tamils in Vanni by Sri Lanka armed forces.

A hunger strike by 6 Tamils in Australia, calling for the immediate halt of atrocities against Tamils in Sri Lanka that began on 11 April at 5:00 p.m. was concluded 17 April with an unprecedented rally in the capital city of Canberra where more than 8500 diaspora Tamils took part.

Thousands of Tamils from all over Germany demonstrated in Berlin Friday 24 April in the latest of a series of protests worldwide against the ongoing violence in their home country.

More than 30,000 supporters of the Tamil community in Sri Lanka gathered Tuesday April 21 for a massive demonstration on Parliament Hill - the continuation of a two-week protest calling for sanctions against Sri Lanka for its handling of a decades-long civil war against Tamil rebels.

Tamil Nadu chief minister and DMK president Muthuvel Karunanidhi said he believed Sri Lankan president Rajapakse would keep his word and not resume combat operations against Tamil Tigers, despite the Sri Lankan military declaring there is no ceasefire in place.

The West wants the Tamils to make it easy and forget the genocide.

Exercising their right of free expression, 67 registered social welfare organisations of diaspora Tamils in France, took a pioneering democratic step of secret ballot on Saturday, 18 April, and unanimously declared support to the independence war of Eelam Tamils in the island of Sri Lanka, said Ki Pi Aravinthan in Paris to TamilNet.

Majority of people in Tamil Nadu want the Indian government to support the LTTE in Sri Lanka, according to an opinion poll.

As India gears up for general elections, the plight of Eelam Tamils is taking center stage in the election scene in Tamil Nadu for the first time in several years with all major political parties, including ruling DMK, main opposition AIADMK, Congress, BJP PMK, MDMK, CPI(M) and CPI, saying that the Eelam Tamils issue will figure prominently during the election campaign.

SLA extensively used chemical weapons on LTTE combatants at Puthukkudiyiruppu (PTK) during the weekend, according to Lawrence, a senior commander of the LTTE, who personally encountered the attack and escaped, LTTE sources told TamilNet Tuesday, April 7.

Sri Lanka's government finances had been busted in 2008 with revenues 95 billion rupees below target, 118 billion rupees being printed by the central bank, while foreign financing turned negative, a local media reported citing the latest official data show.

The head of Sri Lanka’s Central Bank has admitted that the country confronts significant economic problems and hoped the long anticipated military victory in the decade's long ethnic conflict would improve the fortunes of the island’s economy

SLA soldiers forcibly took away 76 Tamils from two detention camps in Jaffna district where civilians fleeing war in Vanni were held, according to local sources.

Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon has called for an immediate ceasefire and wants to "engage the United Nations as fast as possible" to find a peaceful solution to the decades old conflict. The announcement comes amidst continued Tamil protests that have severely disrupted the traffic in downtown Ottawa.