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Lanka editor held over military rift story Agence-France Presse, Monday October 19, 2009, Colombo A Sri Lankan editor was arrested for reporting on an alleged rift between a senior military commander and the government after the defeat of the Tamil Tiger rebels, police and his newspaper said on Sunday. Chandana Sirimalwatte was held for questioning after police raided the offices of his "Lanka" newspaper, a spokesman for the paper said. More»

More Indian funds for Lankan Tamils NDTV Correspondent, Sunday October 18, 2009, Chennai Home Minister P Chidambaram has said that India will, if required, allocate more funds to Sri Lanka for the rehabilitation of over 2.5 lakh Tamils displaced by the war against LTTE. Chidambaram made the announcement after a brief meeting with Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi on Sunday. He said that the discussion centred on the visit of a delegation of MPs to Sri Lanka last week. More»

Lanka to resettle 58,000 Tamils in 15 days Press Trust of India, Wednesday October 14, 2009, Chennai Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse has assured the Indian MPs' delegation that 58,000 of the 2.53 lakh internally displaced Tamils in Lanka would be sent home from camps by the end of October and the rest in a phased manner, Chief Minister M Karunanidhi said on Wednesday. More»

Inside relief camps for Sri Lanka’s Tamils NDTV Correspondent, Thursday October 15, 2009, Chennai The report submitted by the Indian delegation of MPs that visited Lankan Tamils in relief camps in Sri Lanka is disturbing. These camps have so far been out of bounds for the international media and even the red cross. More»

Separate LTTE cadres from IDPs: Lanka Oppn Press Trust of India, Thursday September 3, 2009, Colombo The government should separate the 25,000 suspected LTTE cadres likely to be present in camps for the war-displaced in northern Sri Lanka and resettle the rest, the Opposition said on Thursday and cautioned against treating the Tamil refugees as "criminals". More»

How India helped destroy LTTE NDTV Correspondent, Saturday August 22, 2009, New Delhi New Delhi had maintained that it will not give any offensive weapons to Sri Lanka. But a new book, written by NDTV's defence editor Nitin Gokhale, who had extensively reported the war for the channel, reveals that India had actively if covertly helped the Sri Lankan military to scour out and destroy the LTTE. More»

Female suicide bomber on the run in Lanka Press Trust of India, Monday August 10, 2009, Colombo Sri Lanka has issued an alert for a 25-year-old suspected female suicide bomber, seen frequenting busy commercial area of Colombo to carry out a possible 'mission'. The Sri Lanka Terrorist Investigation Division has urgently sought public cooperation to provide any information to help arrest the female suicide bomber, Abdul Shalam Fatima Yasmin, an official statement said. More»

LTTE’s new chief arrested NDTV Correspondent, Friday August 7, 2009, Colombo The new chief of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Selvarasa Pathmanathan, has been arrested in Thailand and brought to Colombo for questioning. Highly placed sources say he was picked up and flown to the capital, but there are no details of the circumstances under which he was taken into custody. More»

‘LTTE trying to revive the organisation’ Press Trust of India, Monday August 3, 2009, Colombo The LTTE could be attempting to revive the organisation amid efforts by the defeated terror group to rescue hardcore cadres housed in government-run refugee camps for Tamil civilians in Sri Lanka's northern Vavuniya district, a top minister has said. More»

New LTTE chief seeks India's help over Eelam Press Trust of India, Thursday July 30, 2009, Colombo Having taken over as the chief of the LTTE after the death of Velupillai Prabhakaran, alleged arms smuggler Selvarasa Pathmanthan has appealed to India to "understand" and help the Sri Lankan Tamils in achieving their dream of Tamil Eelam. The new leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, which has been fighting for a separate Tamil homeland in Sri Lanka for the past three decades, also said some leaders in Tamil Nadu were "unwilling" to accept the truth that Prabhakaran is no more. More»