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  • Rajapakse rejects Tamil homeland, warns Tigers

    Feb 21
    Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse last Monday ruled out accepting a Tamil homeland in the island’s north and east, sparking acrimony ahead of crucial talks this week to stabilise the fraying ceasefire.

    The LTTE reacted angrily to the President’s comments, dismissing them as ‘childish’ and said that a Tamil homeland was one of the foundations of any solution to Sri Lanka’s protracted conflict.
  • ‘The Tamil homeland is not a concept that developed overnight’
    The LTTE responds to SL President Mahinda Rajapakse''s recent interview where he rejected the Tamil call for self-rule.
  • UNICEF, LTTE discuss under-18’s recruitment
    Hailing the decline in the number of youths under 18 being recruited by the Liberation Tigers, the UN child rights agency UNICEF, also called on both the LTTE and the Sri Lankan government to give top priority at the upcoming talks in Geneva to the protection of children affected by the conflict.
  • TNA contests local government polls
    The coalition of Sri Lanka’s four largest Tamil parties, the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), which at the last minute announced its intention to contest in the NorthEast the forthcoming local government polls, even won one electorate as it was the only party to nominate candidates there.
  • TRO staffers remain missing
    Despite the Sri Lanka government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam meeting for talks in Geneva, Switzerland this week, the fate of seven humanitarian aid workers abducted by Army-backed paramilitaries last month remains unknown.
  • ‘We do not see war as an option’
    The head of the LTTE’s Political Wing, Mr. Suppiah Paramu Tamilchelvan, is interviewed days before crucial talks in Geneva this week.
  • Don't expect much
    Like a re-run of an old movie we have watched many times before, we are now about to sit down and watch yet another round of peace talks between the Government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam unfold in Geneva, Switzerland next week. This time though, how many of us will be waiting with bated breath for a significant breakthrough is debatable.
  • Violence continues across Tamil areas
    Over 100 people, mainly civilians, were killed in the last two weeks alone across the Tamil regions.
  • Swiss Tamils look to preserve their culture
    Two decades after the first refugees arrived, integration is an ongoing process.
  • Two Dvoras sunk in naval clash
    Sea battle triggers controversy over Ceasefire terms
  • 10,000 vie for local government seats.
    Main parties suffer key instant defeats, SLMC runs under UNP banner and JVP to contest Tamil areas.
  • JVP stands alone but says no dispute with SLFP
    The ruling Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and the Marxist nationalist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) are to contest the forthcoming local government elections separately, despite the latter having actively supported the former’s candidate at the residential polls.
  • Kumaratunga rejects Rajapakse overtures
    “Ms Kumaratunga had clearly asked President Rajapaksa whether he really aspired for the party leadership and an apparently surprised President replied that he had not yet thought about it seriously”
  • STF probed as murdered students are remembered
    Remembrance of five Tamil students shot dead by Sri Lankan armed forces close to a Trincomalee beach on January 2 was held last Wednesday at the location where they died.
  • New drama in a fig leaf democracy
    Principles and policies are ignored in pursuit of power, position and perks.
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