Tigers and the Canadian connection

It's an American-led investigation, but nine of the arrested suspects are now known to have links to Canada. In fact, New York prosecutors allege Tiger operatives from north of the border were the driving force behind a host of conspiracies, all aimed at subverting U.S. laws meant to ban support for terrorist organisations.

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A widow remembers

Bhawani Loganathan, 56, breaks down as she recalls the fears Kethesh, as he was popularly known, had voiced barely 10 days before his Aug 12 murder about his many ailments that included failing hearing, weak eyesight and an irritable bowel syndrome that had never spared him since childhood.

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Lanka's Prophets of Doom

Now a new situation has arisen. There is bigger terrorism. The entire country is under threat. Political leaders of other countries have been assassinated by our terrorists. International espionage is being conducted by them. There was a Ceasefire Agreement and the country got out of the rut after many years of conflict. But now the country will head back to shambles unless terrorism is crushed.

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'A multilateral process needed to deny access of small arms and light weapons to non-state actors'

Sri Lanka was the first country in the Asian region to set up a National Commission, which has identified a number of areas to focus its attention such as conducting a national survey, organizing public awareness programmes, formulating a plan of action to collect illicit small arms and light weapons, examining the adequacy of the national legislation in dealing with illicit small arms and light weapons, identify sources of supply of illicit small arms and illicit weapons and to suggest ways of effectively curbing such trafficking.

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