Maj. Gen (retd.) Janaka Perera and his wife, Vajira, a former Sri Lanka Army officer, were killed in a bomb blast in Anuradhapura Monday morning around 8:45.

Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith condemned the attack on offices of the main opposition party in northern Sri Lanka on Monday, which took the life of Major General Perera, a local opposition leader and a former Sri Lankan High Commissioner to the country.

The United National Party (UNP) is calling for an international level investigation into the bomb blast in Anuradhapura that killed North Central Province Opposition Leader retired Maj. Gen. Janaka Perera.

Attacks against the Sri Lankan security personnel in Jaffna peninsula and in the Eastern province are on the increase as the LTTE put pressure on the military outside Vanni also.

Putting aside political differences, Tamil Nadu political parties joined hands in voicing support for Eelam Tamils at a State-wide protest fast organized by the Communist Party of India (CPI) demanding New Delhi to withdraw military assistance to neighbouring Sri Lanka.

This is a reply to the opinion published last week by Dr. A.R.M. Imtiyaz, titled “Why Tamil-Muslim unity crucial for peace”

International support for Sri Lanka’s violence is underpinned by a contemptuous view of what the Tamils are.

Large numbers of civilians are reported to be fleeing Kilinochchi in the face of more air force attacks.

As a protest organized by the Communist Party of India attracted the support of many political parties and drew thousands of people across the state both the ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) and the opposition All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) hardened their stand on the Sri Lanka.

Last Thursday, a United Nations convoy of trucks carrying urgent food supplies crossed into the Vanni, after having been detained at a crossing point for days.

LTTE declare their raid on Sri Lankan Military Vanni headquarters a success

Barely two weeks after their foray into Eastern Naval Area Headquarters in Trincomalee, Air Tigers showed up again.

Former Chief of the Indian secret intelligence service, B. Raman, sometime ago declared that an Air Force Pilot of Pakistan based in Sri Lanka was participating in the attacks launched on the Tamil Tigers from Sri Lankan Air Force bases. It is also no secret that China has been supplying necessary arms and weapons to Sri Lanka to fight the war against the Tamil Tigers.

Referring to the news that two Indian radar operators were wounded Tuesday when the LTTE attacked the Vanni Headquarters of the Sri Lankan military, Vaiko, the General Secretary of the MDMK, in a letter sent to the Indian Prime Ministe said the Indian Government was "caught red handed in its unpardonable betrayal" of involving Indian military personnel in Sri Lanka's "genocidal war" against the Tamils.