The government has acted wisely by rejecting Britain’s call for an extension of the humanitarian pause declared in view of the traditional New Year on April 13 and 14. The kneejerk reaction of the LTTE to the government’s gesture was to spurn the truce offer contemptuously out of hand and step up attacks on the [...]

The British authorities have ordered the captain of ‘Vanangaman’, a ship which set sail from the British port of Southampton for Sri Lanka carrying cargo designated to the LTTE, to turn back and return to England.
This follows a request made by the Sri Lankan Government.
The ship set sail on March 31 bearing an insignia of [...]

by Prof Rajiva Wijesinha
Secretary General
Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process
British parliament held one and a half hour debate on Sri Lanka on 5 February 2009 and members of all parties demanded a ceasefire in Vanni, demanded justice for the Tamil people, and demanded that humanitarian assistance be allowed through. They emphatically stated that there cannot [...]

Sri Lanka did right to kick the British special envoy and keep it that way when it comes to the so called “helping hand” from UK as well as EU who more or less believe the British version of everything (like the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, ha, ha). The country of the BBC [...]

by Kath Noble
Gordon Brown is clearly a genius. While Mahinda Rajapaksa has been providing ammunition to his critics by appointing just about everybody in his ruling coalition to ministerial positions to stop them causing trouble, which costs an awful lot in office expenses and generates equal amounts of confusion as to the demarcation of [...]

 
Rt. Honourable Gordon Brown Prime Minister of Great Britain
10 Downing Street
London. SW1 2AA UK.
Honourable Prime Minister:
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) aka ‘Tamil Tigers’ electronic-voice ‘Tamilnet’ informs us that you as the British Prime Minister had stated that “there is a need for a ceasefire in Sri Lanka and that he would be raising [...]