The LTTE has stepped-up into a futile but yet a well furnished terrorist strategy of ruthlessness against humanity, targeting civilians at-will in the north and east tensed zones with utter disregard to basic norms of respect to non-combatants and civilians in a context of internal disturbance.

Reports quoting officials sources said that 44 civilians were brutally killed and over 51 seriously injured in the LTTE's latest escalation of violence claimed in separate incidents in Batticaloa, Ampara, Aralaganwila and Vavuniya since the 01st of April.

Washington, D.C. 06 April (Asiantribune.com): The designation of Sri Lanka’s separatist Tamil Tiger movement (LTTE) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) in 1997 the United States government and its agencies, by federal law, are prohibited from maintaining any contact whatsoever with it while enjoying diplomatic relations with the legitimate government of Sri Lanka making the U.S. to use its diplomatic and economic tools at its disposal to exert pressure on Sri Lanka to fall in line with US’ accepted norms of good governance and rule of law.

The BBC's Colombo correspondent Roland Buerk speaks to the reclusive Colonel Karuna - the leader of the breakaway eastern faction of the Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka

The worst bit was when they put on the blindfolds. They were polite about it - apologetic even - it was for our safety and theirs, they said.But it was still nerve-wracking sitting in the back of a battered old minibus, unable to see, being driven at speed over rough roads to who knew where. We were on our way to meet Vinayagamoorthi Muralitharan, better known by his nom de guerre, Colonel Karuna Amman.

Colombo, 22 March, (Asiantribune.com): The parish priest of Madu Matha Catholic church charged despite continuous warnings not to do so, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE) keep on kidnapping 17 year old minors and young adults among war refugees who have camped themselves in the church premises.