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The minority Tamil civilians are stuck in the war that is ensuing between the Sri Lankan forces and the LTTE terrorists. The rebels have held hostage about 50,000 people in an area of 12 square kilometers where there is no water or food, and they are being used as human shields by the terrorists. Those who try to escape the war front into government [...]

The war in Chechnya is over. The Kremlin will sign a decree on March 31 that would end the so-called ‘anti-terrorist operation’ in the area that began in October 1999 with the Russian incursion into Chechnya. Russia said it only wanted to neutralize the bandits that were holed up in Chechnya’s mountains. Kremlin justified the war as a campaign [...]

On Saturday, March 7, the Colombian Army seized at least four tons of explosives from rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Barrels containing explosives were discovered and confiscated during a military operation in Restrepo, southern Colombia. This is proof that the FARC, once a revolutionary group turned terrorist and drug [...]

The bodies could have been buried between 2002 and 2005 supposedly by FARC guerrillas. The mass graves were discovered in an area in the south of the country. The Colombian government has moved in to investigate in the municipality of La Macarena after allegations which villagers relayed to an NGO that advocates human rights. According to sources, one [...]

Sri Lankan troops are marching into Tiger’s territory conquering all strategic locations. No significant response yet from LTTE except a claim of having captured few soldiers. There is no retaliation and it certainly looks like retreat. Tamil Tigers movement is almost 25 years old. Their demand was for a separate homeland for Tamil ethnic minority [...]