Tensions had already risen in Vavuniya after grenades were tossed into the building where the rally’s organizing committee was meeting.

Why the massacre of staff and patients at Jaffna hospital become emblematic of the IPKF

International ceasefire monitors warn the ceasefire is being undermined and call for talks.

In a very close run presidential contest, malpractice could make a very significant difference'

The tension is reflective of underlying hostility against the continuing Army occupation.

Do the Tamils really expect the international community to heed our call? Or is there another reason for the Resurgence events?

State-owned shipyards to turn out frigates and attack craft

Police investigating Saturday’s killing of senior Sri Lankan military intelligence officer have revealed that the shots were fired by a person who was travelling with him at the time of the killing.

Lt. Colonel Rizvi Meedin, who reportedly commanded the army’s intelligence unit in Colombo, was found shot dead inside his official vehicle near his home in the Kiribathgoda housing scheme area on Saturday night.

What is Kumaratunga’s legacy?

Why are the Tamils uninterested in the election outcome?

‘It is the intention of Mr Ranil Wickramasinghe to generate a ‘mod’ farmer without hanging cheeks and whose buttocks are not visible as in the traditional clothing.’ So read a pre-election press release this month by one Dr Rajitha Senaratne, Sri Lankan MP and member of the leading opposition United National Party (UNP), whose leader, the aforementioned Mr Wickramasinghe, hopes to become president when the country goes to the polls in three weeks’ time.

The displacement of the entire town of Jaffna has had a profound impact on Tamil self-understanding.

Tamil parliamentarians and press reports said the youths, aged between 17 and 22, had been on their way to attend a birthday party in two rickshaws.