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- Tamil-smuggling ship charged $20 million for passage
Vancouver, Aug 17: Canadian Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said on Monday that the Thai ship that brought about 500 Tamils into Canada on Friday was part of a organized criminal enterprise in....
- Canada hints LTTE behind human-smuggling ship
Vancouver, Aug 14: As a ship carrying nearly 500 Sri Lankan Tamils landed here on Thursday, the Canadian public safety minister hinted that the Tamil Tigers were behind smuggling these people i....
- Tamil Tigers' entry into Canada feared
Vancouver, Aug 12: A ship carrying over 250 Sri Lankan Tamils, reportedly including members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam (LTTE), is set to enter Vancouver, authorities said today.
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- Jayalalithaa reiterates her opposition to LTTE
Chennai, July 7: AIADMK chief J. Jayalalithaa has reiterated her opposition to the Tamil Tigers, noting it assassinated former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi and several moderate Sri Lankan....
- Sri Lanka to refuse entry to UN human rights panel
Colombo, June 24: The Sri Lankan government today declared that it would refuse visas for UN panel members appointed to investigate alleged human rights abuses during the civil war against Tami....
- Sri Lanka slams UN panel to probe war crimes
Colombo, June 23: Sri Lanka today criticised the appointment of a panel by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to investigate allegations of human rights violations during the last months of the g....
- Three suspected members of LTTE held with detonators in Tamil Nadu
Chennai, June 21: Three people suspected to be supporters of the banned Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) were on Sunday arrested with thousands of detonators in Tamil Nadu's Triuchir....
- Eelam dreams only hurting Tamils: Sri Lankan minister
New Delhi, June 12: A Sri Lankan Tamil minister who accompanied President Mahinda Rajapaksa to India says the Tamil diaspora's refusal to give up the Tamil Eelam dream is only hurting his c....
- LTTE remains a threat, says India
New Delhi, May 17: India extended its ban on Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers because the group continues to pose a threat to New Delhi and is now blaming Indian leaders for its rout last year.
- First Tamil to be jailed in Canada for funding LTTE
Vancouver, May 12: In the first case of its kind in Canada under its terrorism laws, a Sri Lankan Tamil has pleaded guilty to raising funds for the banned Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam (LTTE....
- Action mulled against Nalini
Chennai, April 23: Sriharan Nalini, serving life sentence over former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's assassination, may face disciplinary action following the seizure of a mobile telephone f....
- Tamils have not given up demand for separate homeland
Toronto: Reacting sharply to reports from Colombo that the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has given up its demand for a separatist demand, the Canadian Tamil Congress here said today that the Ta....
- Security alert in India over LTTE landings, ammunition seizure
New Delhi: A security alert has been sounded following the seizure of ammunition on the Tamil Nadu coast and the arrest of four Indian men who allegedly helped former Tamil Tiger guerrillas fle....
- People can leave relief camps after rebels traced: Sri Lanka
Colombo: The Sri Lankan government has said the displaced people living at the relief camps in the country's north would be allowed to leave only when the members of the defeated Tamil Tige....
- LTTE network shattered forever: Sri Lanka
Colombo: The possibility of the Tamil Tigers regrouping again has been "thwarted completely" with the arrest of their new leader Kumaran Pathmanathan, Sri Lankan Defence Secretary Gotab....
- LTTE chief KP knew Rajiv Gandhi was to be killed
New Delhi: The new chief of the Tamil Tigers who is now in Sri Lankan custody was one of the rare few outside the group's intelligence set-up who knew months earlier that former Indian prim....
- Sri Lanka confirms arrest of new LTTE leader
Colombo: Selvarasa Pathmanathan, who was appointed the leader of the Tamil Tigers following the killing of LTTE supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran, has been arrested, the Sri Lankan defence ministr....
- Sri Lankan Tamils angry with China, India
New York: More than two months after the Tamil Tigers were decimated, Sri Lankan Tamils living abroad remain bitter about the support China and India extended to Colombo during the war.
- 80 more Indians fly to Sri Lanka to clear landmines
New Delhi: Over 80 former Indian soldiers have left for Sri Lanka following the defeat of the Tamil Tigers to join Indians already there in clearing thousands of buried landmines.
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- Sri Lanka closes down peace secretariat
Colombo: The Sri Lankan government has closed down a peace secretariat that was set up to facilitate reconciliation talks with the Tamil Tiger rebels, an official said on Friday.
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- Sri Lankan troops recover LTTE chief's secret documents
Colombo: Sri Lanka's security forces and police have unearthed secret documents belonging to the deceased leader of Tamil Tiger rebels, a newspaper reported today.
The documents b....
- Sri Lankan Police nab three LTTE propagandists
Colombo: The Sri Lankan Police said on Thursday that they captured three propagandists of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the Eastern Province.
The LTTE supporters were....
- India awaits formal confirmation of Prabhakaran's death
New Delhi: India today said it is still waiting for a formal response from Sri Lanka confirming the death of Tamil Tigers chief Velupillai Prabhakaran and promised continued assistance to Colom....
- Karunanidhi wants India to aid Lankan Tamils
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi has sought the central government's intervention after the Sri Lankan Navy turned away a ship carrying relief materials from Europe for the....
- Lanka extends emergency to deal with LTTE remnants
Colombo: Sri Lanka's parliament on Tuesday extended the state of emergency in the country to deal with the "remnants" of the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) that was d....
- PM presses Sri Lanka to meet Tamil aspirations
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today urged the Sri Lankan government to "show imagination and courage" to meet Tamil aspirations following the defeat of the Tamil Tigers.
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- DNA tests on Prabhakaran's body matched: Sri Lanka
Colombo: DNA tests carried out on the bodies believed to be of Tamil rebel leader Velupillai Prabhakaran and his son have matched, a military spokesman said today.
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- Prabhakaran's parents in government custody
Colombo: The parents of the now dead Tamil Tigers chief Velupillai Prabhakaran are in the "protective custody" of the Sri Lankan government, a media report said today.
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- 11 Tamil rebels killed in Sri Lanka
Colombo: A week after the Sri Lankan government declared the Tamil rebels crushed, army commandos killed 11 rebels in the eastern part of the country and recovered a haul of weapons, the army s....
- LTTE make contrary claims over Prabhakaran's death
Colombo: Tamil rebels have made conflicting claims over the reported death of their leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, with one saying he was still alive and another confirming his death.
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- LTTE admits finally that Prabhakaran is dead
New Delhi/Colombo: The Tamil Tigers admitted on Sunday "with heavy hearts" the death of their leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, almost a week after Sri Lanka announced he had been killed. ....
- Tamil mourners say no going back on 'Eelam'
Toronto: More than 20,000 Canadian Tamils descended on the Ontario assembly here in black to mourn for "innocent civilians killed in the genocide" in Sri Lanka.
In their speec....
- IAF sends medical team, aid to Sri Lanka
New Delhi: India today dispatched a team of 27 doctors and paramedics to the war ravaged northern Sri Lanka, where the large civilian Tamil population is still reeling under the effects of the ....
- Displaced Tamils to be resettled by 2009-end:Sri Lanka
New Delhi: Sri Lanka is confident of resettling and providing a new lease of life to the 250,000 Tamils displaced by war in the north by the year-end, Senior Presidential Advisor Basil Rajapaks....
- Sri Lanka assures of finding political solution
Colombo/New Delhi: With the end of a decades-long insurgency led by the Tamil Tigers, India and Sri Lanka today agreed that the time was "opportune" to focus attention on relief, the re....
- After Prabhakaran: Will Sri Lanka finally have peace?
New Delhi: The dramatic albeit gory footage of a dead Velupillai Prabhakaran with a bullet hole through his forehead marks the end of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as a feared ter....
- NSA, Menon to meet Rajapaksa, press for political solution
New Delhi: India will offer to help rehabilitate Tamil civilians and press for "effective devolution" of powers when National Security Adviser M.K. Narayanan and Foreign Secretary Shivs....
- Prabhakaran was with 18 men: Karuna
New Delhi: Tamil Tigers chief Velupillai Prabhakaran was with 18 of his most loyal bodyguards when he was trapped and killed by the Sri Lankan military, one of his former rebel associates said ....
- Prabhakaran dies, marks the end of a villainous era
Kolkata: Velupillai Prabhakaran. A beefy man in his early 50’s with a butterfly moustache. The name does not evoke any sense of terror until it is preceded by the phrase 'LTTE chief'. C....
- Prabhakaran: the man is dead, the myth destroyed
New Delhi: Velupillai Prabhakaran may not have visualised his own macabre end as a mud-covered and practically naked corpse on a makeshift stretcher, but that is how it turned out to be. Despit....
- Karunanidhi urges PM, Sonia to send relief to SL Tamils
New Delhi: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi today urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi to take steps for the relief and rehabilitation of Tamils in Sr....
- Sporadic violence in Tamil Nadu after Prabhakaran's death
Chennai: Violent protests erupted in parts of Tamil Nadu today following the death of Tamil Tiger chief V. Prabhakaran and other top leaders of the terrorist outfit in Sri Lanka.
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- Prabhakaran's body found: military chief
Colombo: The body of Tamil Tigers chief Velupillai Prabhakaran has been found, the Sri Lankan defence ministry said today. The state-run TV showed the body kept on a stretcher.
Army c....
- Prabhakaran alive, claims pro-LTTE website
Colombo: Tamil Tigers chief Velupillai Prabhakaran is "alive and safe", a website sympathetic to the rebels claimed today.
The Sri Lankan military on Monday said that Prabhaka....
- Details sought from Sri Lanka on Prabhakaran: Congress
New Delhi: The Indian government has sought details from Sri Lanka about the military action in which LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran was killed, the ruling Congress party said today.
- Prabhakaran, top aides killed in Sri Lanka's war zone
Colombo: Velupillai Prabhakaran, the elusive leader of Sri Lanka's feared Tamil Tigers, was killed today while trying to escape the battlezone in the island's north along with two of hi....
- LTTE defeated, SL free from terror: army chief
Colombo: Sri Lankan armed forces have "militarily defeated the LTTE and freed the nation from three decades of terror", army chief Lt Gen Sarath Fonseka said today after Tamil Tigers le....
- Tamils block railtracks at German railway hub
Frankfurt: German-based Tamils protesting against the Sri Lankan army's crushing of Tamil rebels blocked railway tracks for two hours on Sunday in Frankfurt Railway Station, one of Germany&....
- Bodies of Prabhakaran's son, three LTTE leaders found
Colombo: A body suspected to be of LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran's elder son Charles Anthony and the bodies of three senior rebel leaders, including the outfit's political head B. N....
- LTTE ends armed struggle, doubt about Prabhakaran
Colombo: Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger guerrillas announced dramatically today they were calling off their quarter-century long armed struggle citing the deaths of thousands of civilians as specu....
- Tamil Tigers' attack foiled, president claims victory
Colombo: The Sri Lankan army foiled a last-ditch, pre-dawn attempt by the Tamil Tigers to breach military defences today, killing at least 70 fighters and destroying six vessels, a military spo....
- Sri Lanka issue failed in Tamil Nadu, says Maran
New Delhi: DMK leader Dayanidhi Maran said today that the victory of his party in the Lok Sabha elections in Tamil Nadu showed that the Sri Lankan issue had failed to sway voters in the state.
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- Sri Lankan troops take last stretch of LTTE-held coast
Colombo: Sri Lanka's military have taken the final strip of coast held by Tamil Tigers, the defence ministry said today.
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have now been ....
- Civilians in war zone to be rescued in 48 hours: Sri Lankan president
Colombo: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has said that all civilians caught in fighting in a shrinking strip of land held by Tamil separatist rebels in northeast Sri Lanka would be rescu....
- Tamil Tigers attempt suicide attack on Sri Lankan troops
Colombo: An attempt by Tamil separatist rebels to carry out a suicide attack on government troops by sea off northeast Sri Lanka was foiled today with security forces sinking at least three boa....
- India sympathises with Sri Lankan Tamils: minister
Shimla: India is sympathetic to the Tamil minority in Sri Lanka but will have nothing to do with the Tamil Tigers, Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma said today.
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- India reviews coastal security to check LTTE
New Delhi: India today took stock of the coastal security to prevent the Tamil Tigers from infiltrating into the country amid the war in Sri Lanka.
Defence Minister A.K. Antony met Indian Na....
- 31 arrested in Tamil protest at British parliament
London: Police arrested 31 people after hundreds of Tamil protesters waving LTTE flags brought traffic to a standstill outside the British parliament in the middle of Monday-morning rush hour.
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- Equal status for Tamils in Sri Lanka final goal: Sonia
Chennai: Expressing anguish over the plight of the Tamil civilians in Sri Lanka, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi said here today that the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) would work to secure equa....
- Civilians in Sri Lankan warzone facing grave danger: UN
Geneva: Four UN special experts on human rights said on Friday that there was a "humanitarian crisis" creating a "catastrophic situation" for civilians in northern Sri Lanka, an....
- Tamils in London now attack Chinese embassy
London: British police made three arrests after Sri Lankan Tamil protesters attacked the Chinese embassy in central London, smashing windows.
Reports said the protest action took plac....
- War with LTTE rapidly nearing its end: Rajapaksa
Colombo: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Thursday said the fight-to-finish military campaign against the Tamil Tigers was fast nearing its end as the troops are gaining ground into th....
- Karunanidhi demands a separate homeland for Tamils in Lanka
Chennai: Under pressure from its rival AIADMK and others, Tamil Nadu's ruling DMK has jumped into the 'Eelam' bandwagon demanding a separate homeland for Tamils in Sri Lanka.
- We will ensure Tamil state in Sri Lanka, says Jayalalitha
Chennai: Reiterating her call for a separate Tamil state in Sri Lanka, AIADMK leader J. Jayalalitha Wednesday said the Indian Army would be sent to the island nation to carve out Tamil Eelam st....
- Fed up, Indian diplomats want Tamil protesters moved
London: Indian diplomats have had it with Tamil protests. Regular raucous protests by thousands of Sri Lankan Tamils outside the Indian High Commission in London are becoming a nuisance and pre....
- Canadian academics come out in support of Tamils
Toronto: Canadian academics have launched a campaign to seek their government's intervention in Sri Lanka to end the conflict between government forces and the Tamil Tigers.
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- LTTE asks Ravi Shankar to facilitate ceasefire
New Delhi: Sri Lanka's beleaguered Tamil Tiger guerrillas on Monday urged Indian spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar to facilitate a ceasefire in the island nation.
The appeal was....
- Jayalalitha repeats vow to create Tamil Eelam
Vellore (Tamil Nadu): AIADMK chief J. Jayalalitha on Monday reiterated her promise to create an independent state for Tamil minorities in Sri Lanka "the same way as (late prime minister) In....
- PMK backs Jayalalitha's idea of separate Tamil homeland in Sri Lanka
Chennai: PMK founder S. Ramadoss today backed AIADMK chief Jayalalitha's demand for a separate Tamil 'eelam' (homeland) in the Sri Lanka's north.
"After the consti....
- Indian Army convoy attacked by LTTE supporters
Thiruvananthapuram: An Indian Army convoy was attacked by Tamil Tiger supporters in Tamil Nadu's Coimbatore city on Saturday, a defence spokesman said here.
Supporters of the Lib....
- Sri Lankan refugees traumatised after spending nine days at sea
Hyderabad: Sitting in the lap of his father Sivadas Jagadeeswaran, one-year-old Kubel is crying for milk, not aware of the tragedy in the high seas that forever snatched away his mother and ni....
- Prabhakaran still in Sri Lanka: Foreign minister
New Delhi: Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama has said that LTTE chief V. Prabhakaran is still in the small strip of coastal land the rebels hold in the island's north.
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- India donates 900 tonnes of relief material to Sri Lanka
Colombo: India today handed over its second consignment of 900 tonnes of humanitarian relief assistance to the International Red Cross to be distributed among thousands of war-displaced civili....
- British Tamil protesters should apologise to India: MPs
London: Two of Britain's most senior Indian-origin MPs today denounced Sri Lankan Tamil protesters who turned violent during a demonstration outside the Indian High Commission this week, s....
- Army, navy on high alert to prevent LTTE infiltration
New Delhi: The Indian Army and the Indian Navy have been placed on high alert along the country's southern coast to prevent any infiltration bid by Tamil tiger cadres fleeing the military ....
- Capture Prabhakaran alive, India urges Sri Lanka
New Delhi: India has reiterated that Sri Lanka capture Tamil Tigers chief Velupillai Prabhakaran alive and extradite him to India, sources in the external affairs ministry said today.
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- India did not supply war equipment to Sri Lanka: Chidambaram
New Delhi: India has not provided any help to the Sri Lankan Army that could assist them in the military operations against the Tamil Tigers in the island nation, Home Minister P. Chidambaram ....
- In Tamil Nadu politics, wheel has turned full circle over Sri Lanka
New Delhi: Tamil Nadu's political circus over the Sri Lankan conflict is a virtual copy of the 1980s but for a key difference: the Tamil Tigers were poised to grow then; now they face ....
- Ready to extradite Prabhakaran to India: Rajapaksa
New Delhi/Colombo: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has said Colombo would extradite Tamil Tigers chief Velupillai Prabhakaran, if caught alive, to India - but after first putting him th....
- Game almost over for Prabhakaran, says Rajapaksa
New Delhi/Colombo: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa today said the game was almost over for Tamil Tigers chief Velupillai Prabhakaran and all efforts were being made to catch him alive. H....
- PM calls Karunanidhi, worried about his health
Chennai/New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today telephoned Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi, who is on a hunger strike in Chennai, and said the government would do its best to b....
- 'Combat operations' ended against LTTE
Colombo: Amid mounting global concern over civilian suffering, Sri Lanka today announced that it was ending combat operations against the Tamil Tigers in a bid to end the deaths of non-combata....
- Tamil rebels resume fighting after truce call rejected
Colombo: Sri Lankan military and Tamil rebels started fighting again around the last LTTE-held area in north-eastern Sri Lanka, where thousands of civilians remain trapped, after the governmen....
- Karunanidhi on hunger strike, demands ceasefire in Sri Lanka
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK chief M. Karunanidhi began a hunger strike here today, demanding an immediate ceasefire in Sri Lanka, party sources said.
Karunanidhi is si....
- BJP for sanctions against Sri Lanka if civilian deaths continue
Bangalore: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday said that it did not favour creation of a separate state (Eelam) for Tamils in Sri Lanka and demanded that India impose sanctions on Colom....
- Tamil Tigers on last leg declare truce, Sri Lanka wants surrender
Colombo: The Tamil Tigers, who are now squeezed into an area of less than eight sq km in the island's north following a major military offensive, today announced a "unilateral ceasefir....
- Fatal hammer blows await terrorists: Chidambaram
Sivaganga (Tamil Nadu): Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Saturday sternly warned terror elements and said nobody will be allowed to play with India's unity "till the last drop of ....
- India 'hopeful of positive outcome' in Sri Lanka
New Delhi/Colombo: India said today that it was hopeful of a "positive outcome" in Sri Lanka after two of its envoys met President Mahinda Rajapaksa in Colombo and conveyed New Delhi&#....
- Injured Tamils overwhelming hospital, says doctor in Sri Lanka
Colombo: The unfolding human tragedy of weary civilians fleeing the LTTE-held area in the island's north has "overwhelmed" a 450-bed hospital in Vavuniya which now tends to 1,700 ba....
- Troops fight their way into last LTTE-held areas
Colombo: Government troops fought their way into some of the last Tamil rebel-held areas in north-eastern Sri Lanka today, with special focus on locating the hideout of the rebel leader Velupi....
- India to send Narayanan, Menon to Sri Lanka
New Delhi: Amid the growing humanitarian crisis in Sri Lanka, India on Thursday called for "an immediate cessation of all hostilities" in the island and announced that it will send two ....
- India to Sri Lanka: Killings of Tamil civilians must stop
New Delhi: Expressing concern at the plight of civilians in Sri Lanka, India on Wednesday asked the war-torn nation to ensure that the killings of Tamil civilians are stopped and underlined th....
- Two LTTE leaders surrender
Colombo: Two second rung leaders of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have surrendered to the Sri Lankan military, a military spokesman said today.
The two were identified as ....
- 40,000 Tamils protest at Canadian parliament
Ottawa: In one of the biggest demonstrations at the Canadian parliament, thousands of Tamils protested outside the House on Tuesday to seek Canadian intervention to end the "carnage" ....
- 'Exceptional steps needed to lessen bloodshed in SL'
New Delhi: Ringing an alarm bell over intense fighting in Sri Lanka's north, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on today to opt for exceptional precautionary measures to m....
- Prabhakaran is not a terrorist, asserts Karunanidhi
New Delhi: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi has said Tamil Tiger chief Vellupillai Prabhakaran is his "good friend" and he would have "deep regrets" if the Sri Lankan re....
- Has LTTE executed its military spokesman?
New Delhi: Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers may have killed their high-profile military spokesman on charges of being a "traitor" when they began suffering heavily early this year, Tamil sources say.....
- Photos of Tamil Nadu politicians found in LTTE hideouts
Colombo: The Sri Lankan military has found photographs and videos showing politicians from India's Tamil Nadu state in the company of Tamil Tiger leaders in the island's north, it was announc....
- India asks LTTE to give up weapons, Tamil MPs enraged
New Delhi: Unveiling its ambition to play a pro-active role in Sri Lanka, India on Wednesday bluntly told the Tamil Tigers to give up their weaponry and said it was ready to work with Colombo....
- India asks LTTE to give up weapons, Tamil MPs enraged
New Delhi: Unveiling its ambition to play a pro-active role in Sri Lanka, India on Wednesday bluntly told the Tamil Tigers to give up their weaponry and said it was ready to work with Colombo....
- Give up your weapons, India tells LTTE
New Delhi: India Wednesday unveiled its intention to play a proactive role in Sri Lanka by asking the Tamil Tigers to give up their weapons and said it was ready to work with Colombo to evacuat....
- Is LTTE's new global wing chief wanted by Interpol?
New Delhi: Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers, facing the worst ever crisis, have formed a new global front to possibly resume peace parleys. But is its first head the same man who is sought by India....
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