Fourteen people were killed and several, including three Sri Lankan ministers were wounded on Tuesday March 10 in a bomb explosion at a Islamic procession in Akuressa in Matara in Southern Province, Sri Lankan Police said

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

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.

The political watchdog of the Commonwealth refrained from discussing the civil war in Sri Lanka despite a last-minute plea by a group of British MPs to place it on the agenda of its meeting in London on Wednesday, March 4.

Despite the horrific human rights violations the Sri Lankan government is committing against the Tamil civilians in its war to wipe out the LTTE, a visiting British Member of Parliament belonging to the British Conservative party claimed that President Mahinda Rajapakse’s regime needs support not criticism

A bipartisan group of seven senior U.S. Senators in a letter to Foreign Secretary Hilary Clinton blamed the Government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers for the "impending catastrophe," and said: "The situation in Sri Lanka is unacceptable and must be remedied as quickly as possible.

A group of 38 United States members of Congress sent a joint letter on Thursday March 12, to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and to the US Ambassador to the United Nations, Dr. Susan Rice, highlighting the humanitarian crisis faced by Tamil civilians in Sri Lanka, and expressing concern over conditions in the internment camps

"We have been hoping for such a fresh approach to the longstanding but little understood problem of the Eelam Tamils in the island of Sri Lanka," said Selvaraja Pathmanathan, the newly appointed LTTE head of International Relations

In a call made to Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapaksa, U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton 'expressed the United States' deep concern over the deteriorating conditions and increasing loss of life occurring in the Government of Sri Lanka-designated 'safe zone' in northern Sri Lanka,'

The EU Parliament passed a resolution, with a large majority, calling for immediate ceasefire between the Sri Lanka Army and Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam in order to allow the civilian population to leave the combat zone.

The United Nations Agreement on Human Rights states, amongst other things, that individuals have the “right to life”, “the right to equality before the law” and “the freedom of assembly and association”.

The position taken by UN Security Council Friday, February 27, indicating no go beyond ‘hearing’, and the considerate briefing of John Holmes largely endorsing and trusting Colombo’s agenda and assurances for civilians, are read between the lines by international political observers as a ‘knowing wink’ at Colombo to pursue its offensive.

Sri Lanka may need a bailout from international donors to help pay its debts as the island’s 26- year civil war draws to a close.

Tamils across the world held demonstrations and rallies highlighting the ongoing genocide of Tamils in Sri Lanka and urging the international community to intervene to stop the suffering of their kin and kith back home.