Sri Lanka has threatened to take legal action against its former military chief Sarath Fonseka over his comments that troops had committed warcrimes against Tamil Tigers.

Sri Lankan Navy has seized another arms carrier- MV Princes Cristina said to be the largest LTTE arms smuggling ship.

Former Army chief Sarath Fonseka has put the interest of Sri Lanka at stake by talking "outrageously" about the conduct of security forces during the last phase of the war against LTTE, President Mahinda Rajapaksa has said as he attacked his election rival.

The report in international defence website Strategy Page said Pathamanathan has revealed some information about the outfit to authorities.

The Resettlement and Disaster relief services minister Abdul Rishad Bathiudeen told a Sri Lankan daily that a London-based Tamilian was asked to fund Rajnikanth's films by the LTTE.

Detained LTTE chief Selvarasa Pathmanathan has revealed the presence of a large cache of arms and ammunition hidden by the outfit in Colombo for carrying out attacks, Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickremanayake has said.

Sri Lankan President Mahenda Rajpaksha has told NewsX that LTTE's new chief Pathmanathan has been arrested in Thailand and brought to Colombo.

The LTTE could be attempting to revive the organisation amid efforts by the defeated terror group to rescue hardcore cadres housed in government-run refugees camps for Tamil civilians in Sri Lanka's northern Vavuniya district, a top minister has said.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has asked Sri Lanka to initiate steps to rehabilitate 'child soldiers' released by LTTE and ensure them access to care, protection and reintegration programmes.

Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama on Tuesday assured the Parliament that three lakh Tamil civilians displaced due to conflict with the LTTE would be "resettled shortly".

"Prevalence of peace will strengthen the economy of Sri Lanka and China will continue to be a part of the economic reconstruction of the Island country," Deputy Director General of the Asian Affairs, Commerce Ministry, China Liang Wentao said.

Sri Lanka faced fresh allegations on Friday that its army had killed huge numbers of civilians during its offensive against the Tamil Tigers, as well as complaints it was continuing to block aid workers.

Fresh from his victory against the LTTE, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has said his government will devise a "homegrown" political solution to resolve the decades-old ethnic problem in the country.

Pakistan's supply of high-tech military equipment and positioning of some of its highly trained Army officers in Sri Lanka played a key role in the ultimate defeat of Tamil Tigers, Pakistani media has claimed.

Sri Lanka was on Thursday celebrating a major diplomatic victory over Western nations determined to investigate alleged war crimes committed during its offensive against the Tamil Tigers.

Lakshmi Rasamy reached through the barbed wire enclosing this displacement camp, grabbed her mother's hand and wept for her four children who were killed in the last spasm of fighting in Sri Lanka's civil war.

Asian and Western members of the UN Human Rights Council failed to find a common voice on the situation in Sri Lanka before they were due to hold a special session on the issue on Tuesday.

The ice cream man went to work with dread every day at Colombo's main rail station, a prime target for suicide bombers who once killed several teenage baseball players on a platform in front of his stand.

Two top members of the Tamil Tigers may have been shot by their own side or executed by Sri Lankan troops while trying to surrender, according to conflicting accounts of the last days of the rebels.

The number of displaced civilians in Sri Lanka's north has reached 280,000 with up to 80,000 people escaping from the conflict zone in the last three days alone, the United Nations refugee agency has said, seeking "urgent attention" to mitigate their plight.

The Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers said it had received verified reports of child abductions from camps in the main resettlement area of Vavuniya, often by paramilitary Tamil groups.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's special envoys M K Narayanan and Shivshankar Menon on Thursday met Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa and sought a political solution to the Tamil question while offering help in the reconstruction effort following elimination of the LTTE.

Two former top aides of Velupillai Prabhakaran flew into Sri Lanka's northern war zone and "positively identified" the body of the slain LTTE supremo, who led a ruthless struggle for a separate homeland for Tamils.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon announced he would visit Sri Lanka as relief agencies and governments called for urgent humanitarian aid after Colombo said it had defeated the Tamil Tiger rebels.

A pro-LTTE website, Tamilnet.com, on Tuesday claimed that the Tamil Tiger supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran is still "alive and safe", a day after Sri Lankan army announced that it has killed the top rebel leader.