There are also innumerable instances of no

LTTE cadres marrying in the internment camps

Tissainayagam gets 20 years in prison for his reporting. Actual members of the LTTE, George Master and Daya Master, are out on bail. That's some serious Sri Lankan justice for you.

I wonder how many human rights violations they are racking up while they interrogate him now.

Ten years ago on this day (July 29th 1999) Dr. Neelakandan Tiruchelvam was assassinated by a suicide killer of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam near his office on Kynsey terrace.

This is kind of bizarre.

DBS Jeyaraj discusses the conflicts between various factions within the remnants of the LTTE. There are lots of interesting tidbits mentioned, for example: "In a puerile attempt to outshine KP his rival Castro ordered the Diaspora Tamils to demonstrate in support of the LTTE and Velupillai Prabhakaran. Diaspora Tamils began carrying placards supporting LTTE and portraits of Prabhakaran. Western governments and media were shocked. The Diaspora tigers shot themselves not in the foot but the head." TamilNet and a few other pro-LTTE news sources in particular are apparently part of an anti-KP camp, which is why its article announcing the changes to the LTTE leadership was so bizarre.

Damn those Tamil Tigers are resourceful.

On the recent declaration of the LTTE as a terrorist group by the Canadian government.

There hasn\'t been any serious communal violence post-1983 in Sri Lanka, which is probably a direct result of the Tigers having such a strong military presence. I think this is probably one of the Tigers most import accomplishments. Mind you, I don\'t t

This story hasn\'t really been picked up, which seems a bit strange.

A former LTTE cadre discusses the situation in London with respect to LTTE fund raising.

Glad to see the film is still being screened, I watched this last year at HotDocs.

The BBC story has comments from a lot of readers in the UK.

Here the Tamil threat isn\'t street gangs but the LTTE extorting money from the Tamil community in Toronto. (This article is in response to a recent report put out by New York-based Human Rights Watch.) <a href=\"http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/s

Are the LTTE unfairly targeted for their dubious use of underage soldiers? I think the difference between the LTTE and the other groups mentioned is that while these other groups may target youths for recruitment, the youths don\'t get to participate til

More on the dubious ways the LTTE raise money in Canada. The article is a bit shrill, but at the same time, is pretty accurate. <a href=\"http://www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/archives/003084.html\">Sepia Mutiny is also discussing this.</a>

This is an excerpt from his speech in Geneva.

A very good article on my biggest issue with the LTTE, their violent silencing of political dissent.

A summary of what is going on in the East of Sri Lanka at the moment. The article is pretty biased, so keep that in mind while reading it. (Tamilnation is a pro-LTTE web site.) For example, the reason Devananda is holed up in Colombo rather than operat

This article was on the front page of the Globe and Mail today.

The press conference was organized by the LTTE, which makes it a bit suspect, but if they are telling the truth that is quite damning.

The European Union plans to declare the LTTE a terrorist organization. They are doing so in response to the murder of Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar, a murder the LTTE have denied having any involvement in.

The LTTE have been kidnapping children and forcing them to become child soldiers.

Interesting information and photographs of a LTTE run cemetery in Sri Lanka. (Interesting because the comon practice for Hindus when they die is cremation. Although the Tigers are a secular group, the majority of their soldiers are Hindu, so a cemetery

A good overview of the history of the civil war in Sri Lanka.

This is the 4th film I watched at the HotDocs festival. I plan to write about it when I figure out what to write. It was amazing.