LTTE Black Tiger commandos and Col. Kiddu Artillery formation launched a joint attack destroying six artillery positions of the SLA in the early hours of Tuesday, confirmed an LTTE official in Vanni to TamilNet on Wednesday.

The Paataali Makkal Katchi (PMK) would demand a separate state for Tamils in Sri Lanka, party founder Ramadoss said.

Sri Lanka has praised India for its "constructive support" to solve the Tamil ethnic problem in the island nation, saying New Delhi has taken "positive" steps unlike many other countries who are only issuing statements.

India has every right to interfere in war-torn Sri Lanka, as thousands of Tamil refugees from the island nation are making their way into Tamil Nadu, senior BJP leader S Thirunavukkarasar said Thursday, 12 March.

Ten thousand British Tamil expatriates paid tribute Saturday at the funeral of Murugathasan Varnakulasingham, 26, who self-immolated in front of the United Nations in Geneva in protest at the international inaction amid the mass killings of Tamils by the Sri Lankan military.

The Tamil Diaspora in Britain is organising a direct 'mercy mission' taking food and medicine to the civilians of Vanni, forsaken by the conscience of the International Community, said Dr. V. Arudkumar from London, on Tuesday, 10 March.

The humanitarian situation in the Vanni is said to be dire, as a lack of food and clean water lead to illness and death by starvation.

How international belief in a fictional Sri Lanka fuels the slaughter.

More than 25,000 Tamils, across Europe took to the streets of Brussels on Monday, 16 March, demanding EU to de-proscribe the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, to exert pressure on the Sri Lankan government to allow medicine and food to the civilians besieged by its military in all fronts and to demand the Sri Lankan military to pull out from the Tamil homeland.

B. Nadesan, the political head of the LTTE Sunday, March 15 said the Tigers had "plenty of evidences" to document that the Sri Lankan government of Mahinda Rajapakse was "intentionally directing attacks against civilians," committing war crimes and crimes against humanity

Calling for the evacuation of civilians and making them to end up in the hands of their killers, is taking side with one of the parties to the conflict and amounts to another one of the war crimes, perhaps the most serious one of them when comes from a world body of human rights, said Jaffna MP, Kajendran

A statement by the UN right chief stating that both sides in Sri Lanka's conflict may have committed war crimes and must suspend fighting to let thousands of civilians escape, has been rejected by the Sri Lankan government and Tamils.

Sri Lanka is going on bended knees to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) - an institution it chased away two years ago - for a bailout package worth US$1.9 billion as the country's authorities scrape the barrel for foreign exchange.

Sri Lanka’s economy is going through a severe crisis as key exports including garment and tea significantly drop with buyers staying away.