Residents of a Mullaitivu village have accused the Sri Lankan army of exploiting the area’s clean water sources and contaminating the water that civilians use.

People from around Kanukkeni-Thanneerootru in the Karaithuraipattu (Maritimepattu) division said that the army extracts hundreds of thousands of litres of fresh water every day from a guarded tube well in the area and has been doing so for the past ten years to supply several military camps in the Mullaitivu district.

Speakers from all three major parties in the UK called for the full implementation of a UN Human Rights Council resolution on accountability in Sri Lanka, during a debate in the House of Lords last week.

The Tamil Homeland Parents of Disappeared Forum has called for Sri Lanka to be referred to the International Criminal Court and for a United Nations peacekeeping force to be deployed to the North-East, as families continue to search for their missing children.

Sri Lanka's ministry of finance this week raised the price of fuel from midnight on February 11. 

The Vice President of the World Bank, Hartwig Schafer, arrived in Sri Lanka today on a three-day visit.

A Jaffna home faced its second petrol bomb attack on Monday, as a gang of six men targetted the house and vehicle parked in front. 

Two Tamil civilians have been injured by an army vehicle which crashed into a motorbike in Mullaitivu. 

Tamil journalist P Sathiyamoorthy, who was killed inside the ‘No Fire Zone’ by a Sri Lankan army artillery barrage in February 2009, was remembered on Tuesday. 

A Mullaitivu mother died yesterday still in search of her daughter, who was disappeared during the final stages of the armed conflict in 2009. 

Saraswathy Velu, from Mankulam, Mullaitivu, last saw her daughter, Parvathi, in Mullivaikkal. She had been searching for her daughter, the fourth of her children, ever since. 

Saraswathy's first three children were LTTE cadres who gave their lives to the Tamil struggle. 

Students from a Batticaloa school, who were made to form an armed guard of honour for the governor of the Eastern province, had received weapons training from the Sri Lankan army.