(Colombo Lankapuvath) Jaffna Catholic church sources say that appeals were made to the LTTE to allow a group of Catholic priests and nuns to cross over to liberated areas to ensure their safety. 

29 Catholic priests and 35 nuns belonging to the Catholic dioceses of Jaffna and Mannar are in the group.

Some of the priests and nuns  trapped in the LTTE dominated area, have now started moving to a new location, Memathalan, in the East end of Mullaitivu for their safety.

By Indeewara Thilakaratne and Ranga Chandrarathne

“The festival landed the rhythm and fashion” - Novelist Thomas Keneally

Thomas Keneally, the famous author of Schindler’s Ark which was subsequently adapted into film by Steven Spielberg as Schindler’s List, commenting on the festival remarked that it gave the internationally established authors’ direct contact with cold face of literature’, referring that it was rarely they came into contact with Asian literature.

By Chris Kamalendran

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA), hitherto sympathetic towards the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is set to undergo major changes with some of the Members of Parliament already in the process of settling in foreign countries and others set to return to their original electoral bases in the north and east to continue moderate politics.

The government Friday rejected the statistics of over 250,000 civilians trapped in the Wanni and insisted that the number was less than 120,000.