An international medical and humanitarian aid organization has released a statement highlighting the lack of medical facilities for the civilians living in LTTE controlled Vanni and in IDP camps government controlled territories.

India has agreed to supply a vital drug in short supply in Sri Lanka for post surgery treatment for the injured soldiers, according to media reports.

The medical care system Vanni is on the verge of complete collapse and the doctors are in deep despair due to lack of lifesaving medicines and necessary equipment required treat patients, according to the Regional Director of Health Services (RDHS) in Mullaiththeevu district.

Voice of Tigers, the official radio of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on Sunday, March 1 said Sri Lankan armed forces have killed 2,018 Tamil civilians in January and February in Vanni and that 700 of the victims were children.

A new sea route to deliver urgently needed relief to tens of thousands of civilians people in Vanni has been opened following food convoys through land route remain suspended for more than a month.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) based in New York has accused the SLA of ‘slaughtering’ civilians with indiscriminate shelling in its attempt to finish off the LTTE.

It was just past 10 p.m. when the hulking bus sputtered to a stop at this military checkpoint, 70 miles from the front lines of this country's civil war.

Shrapnel and bullet wounds, burns and fractures are causing death and injury amongst children caught in the conflict in Northeast Sri Lanka where hospitals are overflowing and desperately short of anaesthetic and essential medicines, according to a UNICEF statement.

Two TAF aircraft on Black Air Tiger mission carried out successful air raids diving into SLAF Headquarters in Colombo and into the SLAF base at Katunayake, according to the LTTE.

A SLAF bomber was shot down in Mullaiththeevu on Friday February 27 at 11:25 am, according to civilians sources in Iranaippaalai.

Sri Lankan Special Task Force (STF) commandos who had sexually assaulted a 14-year-old Tamil girl Sunday, March 1, in Vellaaveli police division, again went to the girl’s house Monday between 8:00 p.m and 9:00 p.m where they assaulted her father first and then severely tortured her mother before killing and dumping her body in the well as punishment for complaining against the STF with Batticaloa police for raping her daughter.

Tamil Tiger fighting formations killed at least 900 SLA soldiers and wounded another 2000 in 3 days of intense fighting around Puthukkudiyiruppu (PTK) reported Tamil media quoting LTTE battle command in Vanni.

After not taking up the violence in Sri Lanka in Security Council briefings and avoiding calls for a ceasefire in Sri Lanka, the United Nations on called for a halt to ‘indiscriminate fighting’.

Sri Lanka reacted with fury over Britain’s appointment of a special envoy to the country, labelling the appointment as ‘tantamount to an intrusion into Sri Lanka's internal affairs’ and warning of ‘major repercussions’ for relations with Britain.