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.

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

In a statement released by the US embassy in Sri Lanka, the co-chairs of the now defunct Norwegion initiated peace process ‘expressed urgent concern for the safety of more than 100,000 people trapped by the conflict’ and ‘stressed the importance of a humanitarian pause and of ensuring that adequate supplies of food, water and medicine reach the civilians in the zone,’

The United Kingdom has again appealed for the urgent need for humanitarian ceasefire in Sri Lanka saying that it was concerned at the plight of civilians caught up in fighting between the Government troops and Liberation Tigers.

As the Tamil diaspora in the United States and around the world staged huge protest rallies and launched hunger strikes, in a massive show of solidarity with Eelam Tamils being subjected to a genocidal war, in an unprecedented move, US Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher, and US Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Robert Blake (via video conference) met a group of American Tamils representing different diaspora organizations to discuss the current humanitarian crisis Tamils face in Sri Lanka.

Even as his humanitarian affairs chief warned of an impending ‘bloodbath’ in Sri Lanka, the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon refused to call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire.

As in the medieval Mahavamsa, so today, the Tamils are no longer human.

THE horror that is unfolding in Sri Lanka becomes possible because of the silence that surrounds it.

Sri Lanka on Monday 13 April stripped Norway of its role as broker of the island's moribund peace process, a government official told AFP.

Responding to the spontaneous protests staged by Tamils in Norway demanding an immediate ceasefire in Sri Lanka, Norwegian international development minister Erik Solheim has said that he ‘cannot cause miracles’.

Sri Lanka’s largest Tamil political party called on the government to declare a ceasefire to protect civilians in the north and demanded that humanitarian agencies are permitted access to the conflict zone before discussing a political solution to decades long ethnic conflict.

Sri Lanka’s slaughter reveals the fiction of international liberalism.

Sri Lanka’s war on the Tamil people has reached an extremely brutal level. Many neutral observers and human rights activists have called it ‘genocide’. While brutal attacks against Tamils have reached a new height, lies spread by the government have also reached a new height.

Nimal Sripala de Silva, a cabinet minister in Sri Lanka parliament, said that India’s great assistance helped SLA to defeat the Liberation Tigers and that the people of Sri Lanka should be grateful to India