A new sea route to deliver urgently needed relief to tens of thousands of civilians people in Vanni has been opened following food convoys through land route remain suspended for more than a month.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) based in New York has accused the SLA of ‘slaughtering’ civilians with indiscriminate shelling in its attempt to finish off the LTTE.

It was just past 10 p.m. when the hulking bus sputtered to a stop at this military checkpoint, 70 miles from the front lines of this country's civil war.

Sri Lankan Special Task Force (STF) commandos who had sexually assaulted a 14-year-old Tamil girl Sunday, March 1, in Vellaaveli police division, again went to the girl’s house Monday between 8:00 p.m and 9:00 p.m where they assaulted her father first and then severely tortured her mother before killing and dumping her body in the well as punishment for complaining against the STF with Batticaloa police for raping her daughter.

Tamil Tiger fighting formations killed at least 900 SLA soldiers and wounded another 2000 in 3 days of intense fighting around Puthukkudiyiruppu (PTK) reported Tamil media quoting LTTE battle command in Vanni.

A SLAF bomber was shot down in Mullaiththeevu on Friday February 27 at 11:25 am, according to civilians sources in Iranaippaalai.

Two TAF aircraft on Black Air Tiger mission carried out successful air raids diving into SLAF Headquarters in Colombo and into the SLAF base at Katunayake, according to the LTTE.

Shrapnel and bullet wounds, burns and fractures are causing death and injury amongst children caught in the conflict in Northeast Sri Lanka where hospitals are overflowing and desperately short of anaesthetic and essential medicines, according to a UNICEF statement.

Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) welcomed the appointment of Des Browne as Special Envoy to Sri Lanka by the British Prime Minister on Thursday, February 12.

Sri Lanka reacted with fury over Britain’s appointment of a special envoy to the country, labelling the appointment as ‘tantamount to an intrusion into Sri Lanka's internal affairs’ and warning of ‘major repercussions’ for relations with Britain.

After not taking up the violence in Sri Lanka in Security Council briefings and avoiding calls for a ceasefire in Sri Lanka, the United Nations on called for a halt to ‘indiscriminate fighting’.

The Congress led UPA government came under severe criticism from inside and outside of the Parliament, for its continued support for Sri Lanka’s war and for being indifferent to suffering of Tamils in the neighbouring island.

If at all there is any positive impact of the unprecedented uprising and demonstrations, staged spontaneously by the masses of Tamil Nadu and the diaspora, it is the inward awakening of global Tamils to the forces of oppression and to the defiance of the oppressors, whether domestic or international.

The United States Treasury imposed sanctions on a Tamil foundation in Maryland, accusing it of being part of a support network for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).