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  • Sea Tiger frogmen sink Navy supply ship

    May 20
    A troop carrier cum supply ship of the Sri Lanka Navy was sunk by Sea Tiger naval commandos in the Trincomalee Harbour in the early hours of Saturday May 10.
     
    The underwater attack by Black Tigers was carried out when the supply vessel, A-520, named 'MV Invincible', was loaded with explosives to be transported to KKS Harbour in Jaffna, the LTTE said.
  • Military ‘underestimated’ Tigers’ tenacity
    When the commanders of Sri Lanka's military pledged in a New Year's message to wipe out terrorism by the end of 2008, they may have been anticipating a walkover in LTTE controlled territory.
     
    But weeks of fighting in the north and repeated bombings in other parts of the country have left Sri Lankans with the sinking feeling that it will only get worse before it gets any better.
     
    "I don't think they have really appreciated the tenacity
  • LTTE must surrender arms before talks - Rajapakse
    Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa last Tuesday said his government was ready for talks with the LTTE, provided the latter is ready to give up arms and demonstrate “genuine intent” to evolve a political solution.
     
    Speaking at the Oxford Union, Mr.
  • Karuna likely to be deported to Sri Lanka
    Britain is on the verge of deporting the renegade Tamil Tiger commander, Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan alias Col Karuna, to Colombo after he was prematurely released from prison last week, the Sunday Times reported.
     
    Karuna, an embarrassment to the British government from the time it was known that he had travelled to Britain on a Sri Lankan diplomatic passport issued under another name, was serving a nine month sentence when he was given an early release and tran
  • Insecurity and the lessons of history
    How does one community become ‘the enemy within’ to another?
  • Reserved hero: Brigadier Balraj
    Brigadier Balraj, a senior and a special commander of the LTTE, passes away.
  • Blunted Tool
    The world’s powerful states have no more commitment to sovereignty than to human rights.
  • 1 Million in Northeast face starvation as UN cuts food rations
    Even as the global food shortage worsened and price of essentials hit record levels, the UN food agency, World Food Programme (WFP) announced it is cutting down on its rations to one million Sri Lankans it is feeding in the war-torn North and East of Sri Lanka.
  • A new era of ‘South-South’ alliances?
    How Sri Lanka’s leading state-owned newspaper saw the new Iran - Sri Lanka partnership
  • A Time of Change
    New challenges and opportunities for the Tamil freedom struggle.
  • The Tamil liberation struggle & the new Cold War
    The strategic significance of Sri Lanka in the Indian Ocean region.
  • Father Karunaratnam: martyred serving the Tamil people
    ‘Peace is founded not only on respect for human rights but also on respect for the rights of peoples, in particular the right to independence’ - Vatican’s Social Doctrine
  • An introduction to GSP
    The Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) is a formal system of exemption from the general rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO) aimed at encouraging developing countries to export by allowing their products preferential access to the markets of developed countries.
  • India to give $100 million soft loan to Sri Lankan defence
    ECONOMIC Times, one of India's leading business dailies, on Sunday revealed that in spite of possible "political and diplomatic ramifications", the Indian Government was "finalizing a soft loan package of $100 million for Sri Lankan defence department to buy arms and ammunition." The newspaper went one step ahead and dubbed this move "the India fund for fighting Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka."
  • Sri Lanka Army chief meets Pakistan military
    Sri Lankan Army Chief Lt Gen Sarath Fonseka, who is on a week long visit to Pakistan, will hold talks with his counterpart there on various issues including purchase of arms for his forces, embroiled in an intense battle with Tamil Tigers.

    Lt Gen Fonseka, who left for Pakistan on Sunday on an official tour, is slated to discuss several issues including defence purchases, the Daily Mirror newspaper reported.
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