LTTE ends armed struggle; questions remain about PrabhakaranCOLOMBO - Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tiger guerrillas announced dramatically Sunday they were calling off their quarter-century long armed struggle citing the deaths of thousands of civilians as speculation gripped the country that the elusive Velupillai Prabhakaran may be dead. No justification for Sri Lankan Tamils’ plight: Kamalesh SharmaLONDON - Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma Friday reiterated his deep concern at the escalating humanitarian crisis in Sri Lanka, saying there can be no justification for the continued plight of Tamil civilians. Rajapaksa invites UN chief to Sri Lanka to assess situationCOLOMBO - Amid mounting international concern over the plight of civilians caught in the war between the troops and Tamil Tigers, President Mahinda Rajapaksa has invited UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon ‘to see for himself the situation’ in Sri Lanka’s north. Sri Lankan military claims rebels cornered in shrinking enclaveCOLOMBO - Government troops have confined Tamil Tigers to a 4.5 sq km strip in northeastern Sri Lanka where a final battle to rescue civilians trapped in the area is under way, the defence ministry said Tuesday. Sri Lanka vows to capture Prabhakaran, dead or liveCOLOMBO - Sri Lanka has vowed to capture cornered Tamil Tigers chief Velupillai Prabhakaran ‘dead or alive’ even as it turned down New Delhi feels the ripples of Lankan imbroglioNEW DELHI - Human rights activists, including church leaders, on Wednesday staged a protest here against the ongoing ethnic war in Sri Lanka. Pro-Tamil supporters label Sonia Gandhi a terroristLONDON - Supporters of the Sri Lankan Tamils right to self-determination have described Sonia Gandhi, the wife of former Indian Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi, as a terrorist out to finish the community as retribution for her husband’s assassination allegedly by the LTTE in May 1991. Security up along Tamil Nadu coastCHENNAI - Security has been beefed up along Tamil Nadu’s 650-km coastline stretching from here to Rameshwaram following intelligence inputs that LTTE chief V. Prabhakaran may attempt to cross over from Sri Lanka, police said Sunday. Rahul Gandhi blames LTTE for father’s assassinationKOLKATA - Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi on Saturday blamed the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) for his father and former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s assissination. Prabhakaran still in Sri Lanka, vows to fight onKILINOCHCHI - Sri Lanka’s feared Tamil Tigers leader Velupillai Prabhakaran is still holed up in a coastal strip in the north and has told his cadres that he will fight on, an army commander said Friday. Civilians keep fleeing, army tightens noose around LTTECOLOMBO - Starving and wounded Tamil civilians Thursday continued to flee Sri Lanka’s war zone, taking the total escapees in four days to over 103,000, with the the last of the Tamil Tigers holed up in a small strip of land offering ‘dwindling but constant’ resistance. Lankan Army says it is closing in on LTTE chief PrabhakaranCOLOMBO - The Sri Lankan Army on Thursday said that it is closing in on LTTE Chief V. Prabhakaran’s hide out, adding that the guerrillas now controlled a mere 10-12 square kilometres of territory on the northeast coast, where thousands of civilians are still trapped by the fighting. Sri Lanka Army confirms surrender of two top LTTE leadersCOLOMBO - Two top leaders of the rebel Liberation Tigers of the Tamil Ealam (LTTE) have surrendered before the Sri Lanka Army in Puthumathalam.ccording to a Times Now report, Daya Master and George surrendered before officers of the 58th Division of the Sri Lankan Army. Karunanidhi now says LTTE is terror groupCHENNAI - A day after he reportedly said Tamil Tigers chief Velupillai Prabhakaran was not a terrorist, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi Monday did a U-turn saying the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was indeed a terrorist outfit. Miliband, French counterpart accuse LTTE of using civilians as human shieldsLONDON - British Foreign Secretary David Miliband and his French counterpart Bernard Kouchner have accused the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam (LTTE) of using civilians as human shields in the conflict zone. Sri Lanka co-chairs want pause in fighting: USCOLOMBO - Expressing an ‘urgent concern for safety of over 100,000 people’ trapped in fierce combat between the military and the Tamil Tigers, Sri Lanka’s donor co-chairs stressed ‘the importance of a humanitarian pause’ in the fighting in the island’s north, the US embassy said here Friday. Sri Lanka slams Norway over LTTE-UN meetingCOLOMBO - Sri Lanka has summoned Norway’s envoy and expressed its displeasure after Oslo arranged a meeting between a Tamil Tigers representative and a UN official, it was reported Wednesday. LTTE cornered to 28 sq km area: Sri Lankan militaryCOLOMBO - At least 38 Tamil Tigers were killed as the military cornered the rebels in 28 sq km land stretch in the north-eastern Mullaitivu district of Sri Lanka, a military spokesman said Wednesday. Tamil leader charged under stringent law for pro-LTTE speechesCOIMBATORE - Nanjil Sampath, MDMK propaganda secretary and open supporter of the banned Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was Sunday charged under the National Security Act a day before he was to be released from jail as per court orders, the police said. Allow Red Cross to evacuate civilians, India tells Sri LankaKOLKATA - India Sunday asserted that a permanent solution to the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka lay in proper devolution of power, and not through military success. Sri Lanka’s war-displaced yearn to return homeVAVUNIYA - Having lost his father to long-range fire, 23-year-old Aruldasan and a group of 40 other war-displaced people recently succeeded in escaping from Mullaitivu after 20 gruelling days. LTTE says Colombo air attack was a suicide missionCOLOMBO - Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tiger rebels have claimed responsibility for the Friday night air raid over the capital Colombo that left at least two people dead and 50 injured. The two-light wing aircraft were on a suicide mission, a pro-rebel website said. LTTE says Colombo air attack was a suicide missionCOLOMBO - Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tiger rebels have claimed responsibility for the Friday night air raid over the capital Colombo that left at least two people dead and 50 injured. The two-light wing aircraft were on a suicide mission, a pro-rebel website said. Sri Lankan investigators salvage wreckage of LTTE planesCOLOMBO - Investigators Saturday salvaged parts of two light aircraft commandeered by Tamil rebels and shot down by the Sri Lankan Air Force, military officials here said. UN wants $155 million for Sri Lanka’s war-hit regionsCOLOMBO - The United Nations Thursday appealed to its donors worldwide for a $155 million aid to help people in Sri Lanka’s embattled northern and eastern provinces. Burning of CPI leader’s vehicles triggers protests in Tamil NaduCHENNAI - Activists of various parties held demonstrations across Tamil Nadu to protest the burning of a car and a two-wheeler belonging to Communist Party of India (CPI) state secretary D. Pandian here early Friday. Hundreds killed in Sri Lanka, says ICRCCOLOMBO - Hundreds of people have been killed and scores of wounded are overwhelming understaffed and ill-equipped medical facilities in Sri Lanka’s north, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has said. Rajapaksa invites Karunanidhi, Jayalalitha to Sri LankaCOLOMBO - Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa told India’s visiting External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee that he has invited Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi and AIDMK leader J. Jayalalitha to Sri Lanka to persuade the Tamil Tiger rebels to lay down their arms and enter into the democratic mainstream. |
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