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Sri Lanka rejected a report from the International Committee of the Red Cross that accused troops of preventing the agency from assisting wounded civilians.

The Defence Ministry announced yesterday that troops had reached Vishvamadu junction, a key stronghold of the LTTE, located in the Mullaitivu district.

Jalandhar: Star off-spinner Harbhajan Singh on Thursday said Ajantha Mendis is no longer a threat to Indian batsmen and claimed victory against Sri Lanka in yesterday`s first one-dayer is a major step as Mahendra Singh Dhoni`s men attempt to become the number one team in the world.

Sri Lanka's government criticized as inaccurate a report by the International Committee of the Red Cross on a humanitarian crisis in the north, where the army is trying to defeat the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

The Government has launched a massive development scheme centralizing Dambulla town called the Maha Dambulu Development plan. Rs. 5000 million has been allocated for the first stage of this project by the Government, the Urban Development Authority sources said.

(Lanka-e-News, January 28, 2009, 11.50 PM) “Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukergee came here not for a dinner or to look into the..

(Lanka-e-News, January 28, 2009, 11.50 PM) President Mahinda Rajapakse emphasized the Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mujergee that the present military..

(Lanka-e-News, Jan. 29, 2009, 11.15 AM) Troops of the 58 Division after hours of fierce fighting that ensued with LTTE have reached the Visuamdu junction, yesterday afternoon (28). According to latest reports received, troops have now gained total control over…

Sri Lanka rejected a report from the International Committee of the Red Cross that accused troops of preventing the agency from assisting wounded civilians.

Jan 29, Colombo: Sri Lankan troops consolidating their positions in the former LTTE Tiger bastion of Mullaitivu recovered an LTTE underwater craft along with three suicide boats during a search operation.

Western Provincial Council will be dissolved from midnight today, says office of WP Governor. Gazette notification to be forwarded-JNW

A UN convoy evacuates hundreds of civilians wounded in fighting between troops and Tamil rebels in Sri Lanka.

A UN convoy evacuates hundreds of civilians wounded in fighting between troops and Tamil rebels in Sri Lanka.

Aid agencies have told Sky News a humanitarian crisis is developing in Sri Lanka as the government battles Tamil Tiger rebel forces in the north-east.

Jan 29, Colombo: The United Nations is planning to make a second attempt today to evacuate the critically wounded civilians, including at least 50 children held in a hospital in the LTTE controlled area of Northern Sri Lanka.

International rights groups pressed for urgent action to save up to 250,000 civilians trapped in northern Sri Lanka where government forces Thursday fought to secure final victory over Tamil rebels.

Source: Reuters COLOMBO, Jan 29 (Reuters) - A U.N. convoy carrying hundreds of people wounded in shelling between the Tamil Tiger rebels and the Sri Lankan military crossed out of the battle zone on Thursday, the …

Colombo police Tuesday recovered live bullets for anti-aircraft guns and a parcel of live bullets for T15 rifles from a drainage in the Rajagiriya area in Colombo district on a tip-off from a civilian in the area, sources in Colombo said.

Fifteen Tamil youths were arrested by the police and Sri Lanka Army (SLA)
during cordon and search operations conducted in the Katunayake
international airport on Monday and Tuesday. They have been handed
over to the Prevention of Terrorism Unit of the Police for further
interrogation, police sources said.

A top Sri Lankan government health official says witnesses are reporting heavy civilian casualties in fighting over the past week in northern Sri Lanka.

Troops find a 35-foot LTTE submarine-type craft as well as two 20-foot craft & a single-person craft in Muttiyankattukulam-mil official-JNW

Source: Reuters Jan 28 - Fears are rising for the safety of hundreds of thousands of people trapped in Sri Lanka’s war zone.

Sri Lankan forces are closing in on the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, …

GENEVA: A major humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Sri Lanka, with hundreds of civilians killed in the past two weeks and 250,000 trapped by intense fighting, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said yesterday.

Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam (LTTE)’s Political Office on Wednesday categorically denied a news originated in Colombo government’s media, the Daily News, and was highlighted in the International media that LTTE prevented UN convoy transporting injured patients from Mullaiththeevu district to Vavuniyaa hospital. Director of LTTE’s Peace Secretariat S. Puleedevan described the news as mischievous.

When the British Foreign Minister, Lord Mark Malloch Brown told a room-packed audience of the British Tamil Forum on Tuesday that the British government cannot interfere in the internal affairs of Sri Lanka, a member of the audience asked him then why did they proscribe the LTTE, which did nothing to Britain. The Minister had [...]

Police recovers 34kg of C4 explosives and ammo in Thaleadi, Mannar.
In Kollupitiya, a Nepali citizen arrested with 1.5kg heroin-Police-JNW

International Monetary Fund warns that world economic growth is set to fall to just 0.5% this year, the lowest since World War II-JNW

Members of the Confederation of All Students were arrested by the Tamil Nadu State Police when they attempted to surround the South Zone Regiment Headquarters ATNKNK of the Indian Army at Chennai Wednesday morning to mark their protest against “Indian terrorism that supplies weaponry for the genocide of Tamils.” Wearing black shirts to mark their [...]

Sri Lanka Army (SLA) and high government officials have instructed Jaffna Government Agent (GA), K. Ganesh, to open new detention camps in Jaffna peninsula for people brought from Vanni where an intensive war is being unleashed on the people in Vanni, Jaffna Secretariat sources said. Jaffna Teaching Hospital (JTH) had been held in a state [...]

Jan. 29 (Bloomberg) — Sri Lanka’s government criticized as inaccurate a report by the International Committee of the Red Cross on a humanitarian crisis in the north, where the army is trying to defeat the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

Anonymous persons had issued death threats by phone to Jaffna district Assistant Election Commissioner (AEC), K. Kuganathan, according to complaints made by him to Jaffna magistrate court. Jaffna court instructed Jaffna police to investigate into the complaint using the phone numbers from which the death threat call had come, sources in Jaffna said.

Students of the Chengalpattu Law College who were on a fast-unto-death seeking an immediate ceasefire in Sri Lanka were arrested by the Tamil Nadu police Wednesday morning even as their fast entered the seventh day. The students were hospitalized and their condition is being monitored. According to eyewitness accounts, the police forbade anybody from capturing [...]

More than 200 journalists and media persons staged a protest demonstration at the Chennai Press Club premises Wednesday condemning the killing of journalists in Sri Lanka, particularly the assassination of Sunday Leader’s editor Lasanta Wicremtunge. They condemned the fact that reporters who expose the killing of innocent Tamil civilians and children, or who document the [...]

External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee has told the Sri Lankan leadership that it’s time for a political settlement with the Tamils of the island nation. In a statement today, he said Sri Lanka’s military gains against the LTTE provided an opportune moment to push for a political settlement.

Sri Lanka Army has launched another brutal attack on civilians inside the ’safety zone,’ killing 23 civilians since Wednesday noon within not less than 12 hours after giving assurance to the visiting Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee. At least 121 civilians have been wounded in the artillery barrage, according to medical sources. The dead included [...]

A glimpse of the hellish fate of civilians stuck in Sri Lanka emerged as the U.N. confirmed heavy shelling in what the government told them was a no-fire zone.

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OPERATION USA APPEALS FOR FUNDS TO AID HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN SRI LANKA

ORGANIZATION JOINS GLOBAL RELIEF COMMUNITY IN CALLING FOR IMMEDIATE ACCESS TO CONFLICT ZONES FOR …

Source: Human Rights Watch .

“We are deeply grieved of the silence of the International Community and the world humanitarian agencies disregarding the great human tragedy that continues in Vanni in Sri Lanka. Will this silence be broken only after the total annihilation of the Tamils in Vanni?”, said the memorandum sent by the Commission for Justice and Peace of [...]

Only a few of the wounded have survived injuries caused by the in the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) artillery shelling on ’safety zone’, according to the civilian volunteers in Udaiyaarkaddu, who have been helping people to bury their dead. Only a few dared to send the remains to hospital mortuary. Very few of the wounded [...]

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Civilians who have been caught by the Sri Lanka Army recently in Vadamaraadchi East in Jaffna and from Murasumoaddai in Ki’linochchi district, who are confined to the ‘detention camps’ run by the Sri Lankan military, have complained to their relatives that the Sri Lankan soldiers have taken several women into their custody and were sexually [...]

Sri Lanka’s defence secretary denies ICRC and UN reports of a humanitarian crisis in the north, as troops fight rebels.

Several hundred French Tamils who gathered in front of the French Parliament Tuesday around 3:00 p.m to demonstrate in protest against the genocide of Tamils in Vanni in Sri Lanka were sent back by the French police even after obtaining official permission protest demonstration, sources in Paris said. The protestors, however, went ahead and [...]

Raising concerns over the plight of the civilians caught in the conflict in Sri Lanka, UK government calls for an end to killings.

Sri Lanka’s defence secretary denies Red Cross and UN reports of a humanitarian crisis in the north, as troops fight rebels.

(Lanka-e-News, January 28, 2009, 11.30 PM) Media spokesman on national security, Minister Keheliya Rambukwella says that LTTE that came to an understanding with the UN and the International…

(Lanka-e-News, January 28, 2009, 11.50 PM) Addressing a press briefing summoned by the United National Party today (28), party General Secretary Thissa Aththanayaka said that the…

(Lanka-e-News, January 28, 2009, 11.50 PM) “Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukergee came here not for a dinner or to look into the..

(Lanka-e-News, January 28, 2009, 11.50 PM) The Ministry of Defense yesterday provided opportunity to a group of journalists yesterday (27) to tour in recently captured Mullaithivu. Here we post several photos…

(Lanka-e-News, January 28, 2009, 11.50 PM) President Mahinda Rajapakse emphasized the Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mujergee that the present military..

(Lanka-e-News, January 28, 2009, 11.50 PM) United National party (UNP) Gampaha district MP Doctor Jayalath Jayawardhana made an open appeal to the government to provide the necessary medicine…

“Hundreds of people have been killed and scores of wounded are overwhelming understaffed and ill-equipped medical facilities in Sri Lanka’s northern Vanni region,” said the ICRC. hospitals and ambulances have
been hit by shelling and several aid workers have been injured while
evacuating the wounded. “The violence is preventing the International
Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from [...]