Tamil Guardian 10 January 2007  
Shortages in Jaffna due to the Sri Lankan government’s refusal to open the A9 highway to the peninsula are biting hard, reports said. Shortages of food have sent prices soaring in the peninsula home to half a million Tamils and controlled by 40,000 Sinhala troops. Last week the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said it “also remains concerned about deteriorating livelihoods” in Jaffna.

[Food Supply is stopped by President Mahinda Rajapakse's Order]

PRIME MINISTER:
Well ladies and gentlemen the Government supports the new approach outlined by President Bush in relation to Iraq. I watched his speech. I thought it was a very clear and calm and, above all, realistic speech. He didn’t underestimate the challenge. He acknowledged that some mistakes had been made but he made it very clear what was at stake. And we all should understand what is at stake: an American or western defeat in Iraq will be an unbelievable boost to terrorism and if America is defeated in Iraq, it is hard to see how the longer term fight against terrorism can be won.

Sydney: Australia has recently signed Protocol V to the CCWC with a view to minimise post-conflict humanitarian hazards and encourages all the countries to sign it. In a recent visit to Australia, Dr.Palitha Kohona, a former DFAT Officer and current advisor to the war savy Sri Lankan Presidnet Mr.Mahinda Rajapakse, says that Sri Lanka wont be a part of it, unconfirmed sources said.
Sri Lankan Armed forces has been highly critisised recently for creating humanitarian cricis in North and East by blocking food supplies and indiscriminate cluster shell attack on innocent tamil civilian targets

January 13, 2007 (6:00 pm - 10:00 pm)
(General) Auburn Thmizhar kazhakam Kondaadum Pongal Vizha

This is a long overdue Movement – not just for Peace in Sri Lanka, but for Peace with Justice. There can be no Peace without Justice, and no Justice without Resistance. What has to be resisted is injustice, an attempt to settle a political problem by military might, the decimation of a people, the Tamil people in the North and East, abysmally poor governance which is resulting in grinding poverty in the Sinhalese South, and the  wrecking of the economy, sending the country to a ‘Failed State’.

Three civilians were killed and eleven injured inside the Vahari hospital complex where people had taken refuge from the Sri Lankan military artillery fire. Sri Lankan military has continued to fire artillery shells into Vaharai since noon on Monday 8 January 2007. Several shells fell on the Vaharai hospital roof and people who had taken refuge in the hospital complex were hit by the shells killing three and injuring eleven.