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The Tamil homeland’s falling population – Sri Lanka’s 2024 census
Sri Lanka’s newly released preliminary census figures from 2024 illustrated how the Tamil North-East, particularly the Vanni region, remains the worst-affected part of the island in terms of population loss and stagnation. According to the “Census of Population and Housing – 2024 Preliminary Report” by Sri Lanka’s Department of Census and Statistics, the three districts that make up the core…

Hawks calling the shots in Sri Lanka: analysts

Aug 9, 2006
Analysts say the real reasons for the fierce fighting could run deeper than the government’s explanation that it has launched a “humanitarian gesture” aimed at ending the Tamil Tiger blockade of the Maavilaru waterway.

Fighting shatters strained ethnic relations

Aug 9, 2006
Peter Apps
‘Now we cannot trust them’

Refugee flow into Tamil Nadu unrelenting

Aug 9, 2006
M.R. Narayan Swamy
“The number reaching Tamil Nadu each day is less than a hundred but they continue to come non-stop.”

Eyes ‘gouged out’ in mockery

Jul 29, 2006
Over fifty Tamil detainees were massacred by Sinhala inmates and jailors in Welikade prison.

Anatomy of a pogrom

Jul 29, 2006
The International Commission of Jurists observed: “the evidence points clearly to the conclusion that the violence of the Sinhala rioters on the Tamils amounted to acts of genocide.”

Icon of 1983

Jul 29, 2006
The image of the lone Tamil boy cornered by a group of Sinhala youth touched a nerve in a beleaguered minority.

Where are the ‘missing’ Tamils?

Jul 27, 2006
Andrew Mills
Western officials, rights watchdogs sound alarm

‘They took me to Colombo and tortured me’

Jul 15, 2006
Seth Meixner
Tamils who fled Sri Lankan military harassment are in limbo amid rising violence

‘Undeclared’ war takes toll in Jaffna

Jul 15, 2006
Seth Meixner
“Anything can happen at any time,” M. V. Kanamylnathan, chief editor of the Tamil-language newspaper Uthayan said from his offices.

Balasingham: Sri Lanka can still avert new war

Jun 1, 2006
In a wide ranging interview, the Liberation Tigers’ theoretician and chief negotiator, Mr. Anton Balasingham elucidated the LTTE’s view on the recent controversy stirred by the international ceasefire monitors comments on the Sea Tigers, on the performance of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) and on the escalating cycle of violence.
Hawks calling the shots in Sri Lanka: analysts
Fighting shatters strained ethnic relations
Refugee flow into Tamil Nadu unrelenting
Eyes ‘gouged out’ in mockery
Anatomy of a pogrom
Icon of 1983
Where are the ‘missing’ Tamils?
‘They took me to Colombo and tortured me’
‘Undeclared’ war takes toll in Jaffna
Balasingham: Sri Lanka can still avert new war
Hawks calling the shots in Sri Lanka: analysts
Fighting shatters strained ethnic relations
Refugee flow into Tamil Nadu unrelenting
Eyes ‘gouged out’ in mockery
Anatomy of a pogrom
Icon of 1983
Where are the ‘missing’ Tamils?
‘They took me to Colombo and tortured me’
‘Undeclared’ war takes toll in Jaffna
Balasingham: Sri Lanka can still avert new war