The Tamil Tigers are accused of claymore bomb attcks on security forces.

Violence escalated in the volatile region after a senior Tamil activist was killed by unidentified gunmen.

The government and the LTTE are scheduled to meet in Geneva next week.

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I am Buddhist and follow it truly. You can never stop violence by violence. I think Raja and Prabha may be Buddhist or Hindu or may be Christian. Your people are innocent people. Why can you leave your jobs and ask somebody truly like peace. Is Siri lanka is such a dry country for good politicians. I dont think many Tamil or Singalease would appreciate Prabha or Raja. Don't follow Israel or Hamas in Palestine. Talk to Nelson Mandella or Desmon Tutu to learn how you can reconcile your poor people. I am a Laotian and I have many nice Sirilankan friends. They never told me that they are Singalese or Tamil. When I read this section I found only racist people responding very badly. Few people come with good idea.
Janei Bouaphan, Vientiane, Laos

This is for mahesh's comments Why should tamil wants separate homeland?". Mahesh I believe you should study why these freedom struggle started before asking that question. if you study that then you don't need to ask that question here or anywhere else.
Nilesh Kumar, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Yes, everybody should condemn these kind of killings. But, we should have a solution for this. LTTE is asking for a separate country for them. It is clear. GOSL says it cannot give a separate country. It is also clear, we can't split this small country. Also, GOSL says there should be a democratic solution for this problem. But present ruling party does not have a proper approach or proper solution. This is the major block for the progress and for the current bad situation. Parties like JVP and JHU make the problem worst. They are also helping for some kind of separation of the country.
Nimal Jayawardhana, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Neithere the LTTE or the SL govt. want this war to end. Who will finance their personal coffers if it does? As long as the JVP and JHU are part of the govt. there will not be peace in our country as they are as much extremist nationalist as the Tigers are extremist terriorists. We're forgetting who suffers in the long run when we go to the polls and put in place a govt who is paralyzed by their partners reluctance to compromise.
Dee, San Jose, USA

Im a Tamil, me and My family suffered too much frm LTTE, but thanx to SLA they took us to a camp, but we still got so may threatenes from most the tamils. LTTE terrorists should stop their violence, all that prabha wants is POWER!! what kind of a political system is he going to use using child soldiers and Suicide bombers, and killing his own kinds.
Luxi Thallam, UK

My beliving is any how we have to stop this violence and protect this small country. Why Tamils and sinhaless cant live together? Why should tamil wants separate homeland?? I'm pleading from all sinhala and tamil people please isolate this terrorism, build up faith on borth parties then nobody can drag us to a bloody war again.
Mahesh Indrajith, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Well, As some says here what is the use of just going to the peace talk with GOSL and wasting the time & money. Because whatever they agree they are not ready to implement it. GOSL intended to do a war with LTTE with the help of paramilitary gangs.
Thavam Mani, Jaffna

How can any one justify people (Tamils) getting killed by thugs in front of the countries police and army. Interestingly the government and the sinhale people on the BBC accuse the LTTE for not bringing peace. If the sinhalese living aboard are still so stupid what can you accept from the poor sinhalese in Srilanka, no wonder they elected JVP ( who have killed more sinhalise than the LTTE in the past)and racist Monks to the parliment.
Karu, London, UK

Civilians deaths whether they from the Sinhalese community or our community is wrong and should be unreservedly condemned, at the same time who really killed Mr V. Vigneswaran, or Mr Joseph Pararajasingham or abducted the officials of TRO, the time has come for the truth to be spoken. Let us all take a good hard look at a mirror without sending hate messages.

Claymore mines and bombs go off on the Navy and Army personnel every time before peace talks in spite of the CFA are just as bad as bombing the Trincomalee market where Sinhalese and our civilians died. Similarly the Sinhalese mobs burning shops and killing our people is unacceptable. But it is also our children dying from grenade blasts from grenades brought from our money, it is also our people without democracy and human rights oppressed from all sides now, even our liberators are perpetrating unbelievable violence on us.

Then where do we go from here, What should pro LTTE media like BBC do from now on in an era where rebel groups such as Eeta, Aceh, and PLO all have come to the democratic mainstream renouncing terrorism?
Ramesh Sivasothi, Colombo, Sri Lanka

The wholly truth is there is nothing called "Tamil Homeland". Wasn't in the past will not be in the future. Also there is nothing called "Ethnic Problem" in Sri Lanka, that is something given by the West to formulate the real LTTE Tamil Terrorism to an Innocent picture. Day by day world is getting the real fact behind the scene.
Dhammika Siripala, Edinburgh, UK

Every one remember the past(1956,1978 and 1983)
Ruban Nathan, Melbourne, Australia

It is so sad to hear, again both communities are getting back to where they started, in 1983. I see this as Sinhalese majority failed to select a leader who could be on center. Raising Nationalistic issues won't solve any problems. Only way we can think is consultation and negotiation.
Malcolm Edirisinghe, Hamilton, Canada

Is this a forum to voice the partioning? I cannot belive this. Some people say JVP and JHU had take the responsibility, a Tamil guy says he served as a navy man and navy kills tamils. First be a reslistic and be factual. There was no tamil homeland. and there would not be in future.
Wickrama Wilegoda, London, UK

Thank you very much for Sinhala People for 1983 riots. If you did not do this I cannot be a European Citizen. If we get a powerful Zunami or Natural disaster Do we have any protection. My dear Sinhala People use your brain do you want to make your counry like Singapore or Iraq ?
Sribavan, London, UK

India ,powerful neighbouring country, should step in to this ethnic conflict in sri lanka instead of keeping silence
Ram, toronto, Canada

Reply to Jan USA, we know LTTE is a terrorist organization. But 99.99% Sinhala army should be gentlemen army to protect the civilians but the killed selected Tamil civilians. I think you can see the difference?
Karuval, Canada

Let not the LTTE hoodwink us tamils anymore. Enough is enough, and the international community, together with BBC should bring pressure on the LTTE to get on with talking real peace, not rubbish to start another round of murder and mayhem.
Yohan Selvaratnam, Trincomalee

What I read from the comments posted shows that the Tamils are now as frustrated over this situation, just as much as the Sinhalese. No point calling Tamils who voice their anger over Tamil leadership of the LTTE as Traitors. Look deep inside and see that we all need peace to get that beautiful island flourish again. Though you and I are financially well off in foreign land are we truly happy being away from our motherland just due to some power hungry parties inflicting a war on our brothers and sisters? Already we are years behind other nations. When will we ever learn?
Nilakshi Perera, Singapore

Trincomalai is Tamils homelandand holly city. Srilankan security personnels and sinhalees must keep away from Tamil Eelam.
Annonymous

It is high time the LTTE as well as the Government do some serious soul searching and find a solution as to how this violence could be eradicated.
The bickering among the political parties in the South is also a reason for such violence.The JVP and the JHU which are the key parties resorting to Norway Bashing should realize that they are creating a situation where tension between the two fractions ie the LTTE and the government escalates. It is best to look at the ground situation and bring all the communities together and not allow any distrust and ill feeling.

The need of the hour is to have some skilled negotiators to talk to the LTTE and not experts who are experienced in drafting international treaties. The politicians who are sent to Geneva want to score brownne points and have no experience in dispute settlement.If this situation continues the reality of Elam for the LTTE will not be far off.
Dulip Jayawardhane, Colombo, Sri Lanka

LTTE is playing a dirty game of killing innocent civilians at a busy market place during festive season; and whenever they kill armed forces or innocent civilians, they say this is the work of the Tamil peoples' force. This is very dangerous as we can now see that the Sinhala mobs are also adopting the same tactics. This type of provocation is dangerous. Norway should do some thing proactive and not coldly reacting to incidents of killings whoever does this. Just giving out statements is pointless.
Jacob Lingham, Toronto, Canada

It is really unfair for Lankan people. There is need to slove this type issue by proper understanding between two parties. In order to creat peaceful enviroment in our country. We all pray for those are injured in serial bomb blast.
Linus de Silva, Amman, Jordan

This incident in Trinco reminds 1983 and shows the inability of the SL armed forces to protect Tamil civilians. The armed forces in North-East are only concerned about themselves and the Sinhalese. An alternate force seems to be a must.
Rasan, London, UK

I am against the extremism by any party whether it's from sinhalese or tamils. it's always the innocent people who die from violance while leaders from both sides enjoy luxury lives. Ordinary people should realize this before attacking another innocent person.
Iresh Ekanayake, Washington, USA

We strongly condemn the ongoing bruital killings which is still happening in Sri Lanka. The Universal People's Forum in Canada's British Columbia is seriously concerned about the most unfortunate incidents which is happening in Sri Lanka.
Anthony Fernando, Surrey, Canada

Reply to Bhahi Toronto Canada, If you are talking about the context of killing, yes none of these are isolated incidents, yet remember the killing culture began when the LTTE brutally killed 13 sri lankan soldiers in Jaffna in 1983. It is not the case, the problem is that LTTE employing cheap tactics to regain the lost glory and thereby throwing a golden opportunity out of the window.
Jan, USA

All the parties concerned in Sri Lanka North and East are playing cat and mouse game on the expence of innocent people.The so called counter terrorism activity by Sri Lankan armed forces is always has been killing inocent tamil civilian or helping people doing dirty job for them.How can tamil people trust them to protect them.This has been the same story ever since Sri Lanka got Independance from British.
Ravi Soosai, London, UK

Trincomalee people have gone through a series of violance over the past 50 yrs since the Brirtish left Sri Lanka. Even a child knows what will happen if there is a bombblast in Trinco. The Tigers have used all the tactics to to spoil the peace process. Finally, they decided to use Trinco to gain cheap political gains.How could you call them representatives of Tamils?
Martin, London, UK

To establish long-term peace in Sri Lanka, all the paramilitary groups should be disarmed including LTTE. No country can maintain rule of law by legitimising paramilitary groups of any nature.
PI Yapa, Brandon, Canada

People can say what ever and however from out side the troubled area. I am very certain that this is the job of the paramilitaries with the help of SL army. The SL forces were targeting the Tamils. I do not think that there will be peace and the Tamils will have to suffer for ever.
Udashangar Ratnasingham, Mannar, Sri Lanka

Rajapaksa or perabakaran They dont want to pease They want power
Rajanathan Vithy, Bexleyheath, UK

It was wrong LTTE to explode mines which kills 8 civilians so far two of them Tamils themselves. It was equally wrong that Sinhalese mobs retaliated by burning Innocent Tamil's shops and killing them as well. We should work towards defating racist Nationalist LTTE strategy to create mayhem as well as defeat Sinhala racism towards Minority Tamils.
Ajith Dharma, Enfield, UK

This is just another bullshit site, which always post comments againt tamils. or post the comments given by Traitors.
Saravanan Muthu, Chennai, India

This is a another covert and pre planned attack against the unarmed and innocent tamil people by the srilankan armed forces and paramilitary gangs.
Vathan, Trincomalee

Everyone wants peace, but not LTTE. Terrorism is the only language they can speak. They bring pain and suffer to all tamils, sinhalese and muslims. Tamils can get NO liberation with LTTE.
Sandun Dasanayake, Oulu, Finland

The problem is, we take things out of context. These attacks did not happen in the void. Remember, there were no major attacks until the assasination of V. Vigneswaran, whatever the government tells. Why not talk about his killing? The brutal murder of this Tamil activist must be seen as the tipping point. Again, people talk about the Anuradhapura massacre, where over a hundred were killed, but do not talk (or do not know because of a silent media) about the 70 or so Tamils killed just 5 days before on May 9, 1985 in Valvettiturai. It is wrong to discuss things individually, instead of discussing in the context of the general situation.
Bhahi, Toronto, Canada

No Talks.First of all ask the UK goverment to exile Anton Balasingham.Their keeping a terriorist in UK soil.
Mohan de Silva, Doha, Qatar

My home town is Trincomalee and I served as a Naval officer in Trincomalee. The government and JVP have to take responsibility to this as they fail to fulfil the Geneva promises. Trincomalee is Tamils homeland and the majority was Tamil until well planned colonisation begin. But before the truce , Tamil were scared to express theirs opinions as all over the place deployment of armed forces. After the truce and the international monitor came there, Tamil start to express theirs opinions without fear. Now some Shinhala elements and the government want to make the situation as it was before the truce.
Sella Kamal, New Malden, UK

This is a terrible mistake done by LTTE. They sould stop killing of any civilans. Killing of Vignaswaran is also his own mistake. He walked voulnerably on street being a LTTE supporter in a weponary state.
Ravi Sivalingam, Windsor, Canada

This is just a sample of what the sinhala thugs and forces are capable of doing to the innocent tamil civilians. This proves why the LTTE should disarm themselves.
Jagath Perera, Colombo, Sri Lanka

This incidents clearly show what LTTE wants. They want to see clahes between two communities. LTTE will never allow Sinhalese and Tamils live in harmony. They know that if they do so there wont be a LTTE.
Nishan Ratnayake, USA

lets tamils & singhalese talk for a workable solution. If tamil independence is the final solution lets do that and live in peace .. enough damage is done already.. lets leave tamils to decide their future themselves
Ravi, Sydney, Australia

Bomb attack on security forces by anti-government armed organizations should not be an excuse for genocide in any country. In Sri Lanka genocide of Tamils take place with the support of armed forces. Officers and politicians responsible for genocide in Sri Lanka must be brought before International War Crimes Tribunal.
Jude Sooriyajeevan, Liverpool, USA

Is the West only paying lip service to antiterrorism when it does not affect itself? Why can't US and EU intervene in a more productive and effective way? Mere condemnations are easy but lost on the world's most vicious terrorists
Shyaman Jayasinghe, Melbourne, Australia

O.K. LTTE has done that. Why burnt shops,kill innocent tamils? Wake up guys, neither Government or Sinhalese nor the LTTE is correct.Only poor tamils are suffering.
Paramesh Kirupiah, Trincomalee, Sri Lanka

It is both sad and disgusting to see LTTE throwing this opportunity to finally give a chance to PEACE. The US, UK and finally Canada now accepts that their motive is to terrorise and not participate in real politics.
Randhir Senapala, London, UK

Too many arms/weapons, too many unemployed, poor government, what else you can expect? Violent, I do not see any end of it. Where will you employ all the security forces and LTTE, if the war stops tomorrow?
Shan Mylvaganam, London, UK

Provoking inter-ethnic clashes has been the standard practice of the LTTE.
Kanna, London, UK

Firstly, my deepest sympathy goes to all the families who have lost their loved one, whether it could be Sinhalese soldiers or innocent Tamils. Violent should be condemned when it comes from any corner. At this juncture I would like to urge all parties to stop dirty tactics to gain unfair advantage at negotiation table and honestly go to talk. Remember, you are dealing with peoples life. Coming to power or capturing the power is not important.
Ravi Ratnasingham, Toronto, Canada

LTTE show who they are once again.This is not the first time.peace in SL?Only a dream.
Thaminda Attygalle, Sri Lanka

This proves that LTTE is waiting for a reason to create violance and to jepordise peace process. Their list of lies and excuses are pathetic.
S Mendis, Trincomalee, Sri Lanka

This wesite is always posting one side news which are against Tamils and of course againsr LTTE.
Kumar, London, UK

The GOSL should rein in the paramilitary/Homeguards and should not allow them to kill/maim innocent People in Both North and Eastern areas in Sri Lanka. One killing leads to another.
Nama Sakaran, St. albans, UK

Goes without saying that the LTTE is not interested in peace and validates Canada's long overdue decision to label them as a terrorist organization.
Pri, New York, USA

This is realy terrorisam from LTTE they dont WONT FREEDOM FOR TAMILS they are killlers .they never go to peace .
Rajaratnam Ramanan, Dortmond, Germany