Sarath Fonseka, the former Sri Lankan army commander and presidential candidate now being detained in a navy facility, has begun a hunger strike to protest his lack of access to a telephone, his wife announced Sunday. Anoma Fonseka said her husband was prepared to fast to death. Sarath Fonseka w... [More]

Indian foreign secretary Nirupama Rao raised the issue of finding a lasting political solution to the ethnic question in Sri Lanka when she met President Mahinda Rajapaksa here on Sunday, an Indian diplomat told Express. Rao had followed the tone set by the External Affairs Minister, S M Krishna, ... [More]

German police have arrested six leading Tamil separatists, the federal prosecution agency said Friday. The men - three German and three Sri Lankan nationals - are suspected of belonging to an organisation which extorts money from ethnic Tamils living in Germany, to fund Sri Lanka's rebel Liberatio... [More]

The Madras High Court has granted bail to 15 Sri Lankan Tamils, who were arrested and remanded in judicial custody for offences under various sections of the IPC including Section 307 (attempt to murder). The charge against Padmaraja and 14 others was that while they were being kept in the Special... [More]

Fifteen political parties and 12 independent groups would contest for the nine parliamentary seats in Jaffna district. The Sri Lankan parliamentary elections are to be held on April 8. The elections are contested on a district basis with each district having a set number of seats. Political partie... [More]

Fifteen political parties and 12 independent groups would contest for the nine parliamentary seats in Jaffna district. The Sri Lankan parliamentary elections are to be held on April 8. The elections are contested on a district basis with each district having a set number of seats. Political partie... [More]

Six aides of the detained former Sri Lankan Army Commander, General Sarath Fonseka, are to be questioned by the Terrorist Investigations Department (TID). They include Fonseka’s secretary Senaka de Silva and a serving officer of the army Brig Dumina Kappetiwalana. The Colombo Magistrate on Friday ... [More]

With its huge population of Sri Lankan Tamils, Canada fears that resentment over the defeat of the Tamil Tigers last year may lead to violent response by sections of the 30,00,000-strong community here, says a report. Canadian security agencies are worried that the Tamil anger could lead to backla... [More]

Some former members of the Tamil Eelam Liberation Organisation (TELO) headed by N Srikantha, have formed a new anti-Sonia Gandhi Tamil party called Tamil National Liberation Alliance (TNLA) to contest the April 8 Sri Lankan parliamentary elections. Srikantha and the defeated Presidential candidate, ... [More]

The Sri Lankan government said Saturday it will set up community villages to rehabilitate former Tamil Tiger rebels. Over 11,000 former cadres of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) are now sheltered in 18 state-run rehabilitation centers. The majority of them surrendered to the military d... [More]

The northern Tamil heartland of Jaffna, which had been inaccessible by land since 1990, is experiencing a post-conflict Sinhalese tourist influx from south Sri Lanka. Though it brings loads of money into Jaffna, it puts tremendous pressure on the limited facilities and infrastructure in existence,... [More]

Demanding that the ban on Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) be lifted, Puthiya Tamizhagam (PT) founder K Krishnasamy said that a meeting would be organised in the city in the first week of April to explore the possibilities of achieving this legally. The meeting, for which organisations and ... [More]

Despite protests from the national opposition parties and the international community, the Sri Lankan government appears to be determined to Court Martial former Army Commander and defeated Presidential candidate Gen.Sarath Fonseka, reliable sources say. It is unofficially learnt that the Court Ma... [More]

The business community in the north Sri Lankan Tamil-speaking district of Jaffna is ready to welcome Indian investments and development projects amidst them, in spite of the fact that they, like the people of the district, harbour strong anti-Indian feelings. A Jaffna man blames India for the defe... [More]

IT took the death of Prabhakaran and the end of a 26- year-long civil war for Arvind Appadourai to express his creativity. Having written a book about the Sri Lankan Tamils and their situation during their territorial struggle, he waited several months to release his book which delved into the life ... [More]

With violent protest against his arrest continuing across Sri Lanka, former Sri Lankan Army Commander Gen Sarath Fonseka appealed to the public and army troops not to get provoked, his wife, Anoma Fonseka, told media here on Thursday. “He wanted me to convey to the people, and especially the troop... [More]

The arrest of Gen.Sarath Fonseka, former Sri Lankan Army Commander and joint opposition candidate in the last Presidential election on treason charges on Monday, has sparked protests in various quarters. Groups of people holding a protest demonstration in Amparai town in south eastern Sri Lanka, a... [More]

Developments in Sri Lanka have taken a predictable course since President Mahinda Rajapaksa began to view his army commander, General Sarath Fonseka, as a threat to his life as well as his government, in the closing stages of the war against the LTTE and immediately thereafter, last year. Fonseka’s ... [More]

1.When he was arrested on February 8 , Gen.G.Sarath Chandralal Fonseka became the first retired Sri Lankan Army chief, to be arrested. 2..It was under Lt. Gen.Fonseka that the Sri Lankan army comprehensively defeated the dreaded Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)  long thought to be invi... [More]

Gen.Sarath Fonseka , former Sri Lankan Army Commander and the defeated opposition candidate in the January 26 Presidential election , will be tried by a military court for indulging in several conspiracies including a bid to stage a military coup and assassinate President Mahinda Rajapaksa, says The... [More]