A Chinese spy ship disguised as a fishing trawler was tracked in the Indian Ocean recently, ZeeNews claims quoting a report. The ship was detected near the coast of Little Anadaman. It is believed that the ship had spent more than 20 days in the sensitive location before Indian radars could locate it. While the [...]

A Southern Indian court has stayed for eight weeks the execution of three men in wrongly connected with the 1991 case of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. The men known as Murugan, Santhan and Perarivalan were to be hanged at a jail in the state of Tamil Nadu on 9 September. The date for the [...]

The teenage daughter of one of the three innocent Tamils to be hung in wrongly convicted of the former Indian premier Rajiv Gandhi case has appealed to Ms Sonia Gandhi and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayaram Jayalalitha seeking pardon for her father. Harithra, the daughter of Murugan, living in an undisclosed place in the UK, [...]

The Sri Lankan government is confident of countering the baseless international allegations and criticisms after ending the war, said the Sri Lankan External Affairs Secretary Karunatileka Amunugama. He was speaking at the launch of the book about Wanni war by tourism expert J.F. Ranjith Perera. Mr. Amunugama said countering the allegations should receive the support [...]

A Tamil girl from Tamil Nadu, Kanchipuram burned herself to death in demanding withdrawal of capital punishment to three Tamil victims in the Rajiv Gandhi case. Kanchipuram people forum member Chenkodi (26), left her home to attend a demonstration in the Kanchipuram vaddachchi office, where she doused herself in petrol and set herself alight today [...]

A US embassy cable released by the Wikileaks website last week quotes a former US official in Colombo as saying that a group of doctors who were in the Wanni during the war, had been “coached” on what to say at a press briefing in Colombo after they were arrested. Dr T. Sathiyamoorthy, Dr T. [...]

The Sri Lanka Government’s legal experts have come up with a way out. New regulations will be introduced under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), The Sunday times reported. These regulations which will come into effect from after midnight August 30 will proscribe, among other matters, the LTTE, give legal effect to the office of [...]

The British Tamils Forum (BTF) delegates met with Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj s in India to apprise them of the plight of Tamil people in Sri Lanka and to urge them to support the call for an Independent International Investigation into the conduct of the genocidal war. Following on [...]

Human rights watchdog Amnesty International said the government must follow up by removing other “repressive legislation” such as the PTA, and providing accountability for those who suffered during the years of civil war.

Three city advocates today began an indefinite fast at the Madras High Court premises here demanding withdrawal of capital punishment to three Tamil victims in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.

The Sri Lanka-China Parliamentary Friendship Association met in the Sri Lankan Parliament under the Chairmanship of Speaker Chamal Rajapakse on Wednesday and elected new office bearers of the Association for the ensuing year.

In a comment dated 15.01.2010, US ambassador Patricia Butenis noted the Tamils in Sri Lanka and overseas are divided on the issue of accountabiliy and war crimes, according to just leaked Wikileaks cables.

A US embassy cable just leaked by whistleblower Wikileaks has revealed that the the US believed Chinese were bribing Sri Lanka officials to win contracts, especially those related to mega development projects in Hambantota.

India’s Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy has said that he was willing to visit Sri Lanka to ensure a solution for the Tamils if MDMK general secretary Vaiko and Naam Thamizhar Iyakkam leader Seeman admitted that their efforts had failed.