A lap top computer used by a female foreign journalist aroused the curiosity of a group of Tamil children when a media team visited Mallavi in the interior of the uncleared areas in the Vanni on a fact finding tour last week. Following the unilateral declaration of the cessation of hostilities by the Government and LTTE both local and Foreign Journalists are allowed to visit uncleared areas in the North without restriction. (Picture by Tilak Perera)

Vanni civilians welcome peace initiative

by S. Ganeshan in Mallawi

The people in Vanni uncleared areas like Madhu and Mallawi urged both the government and the LTTE to work for a lasting peace enabling them to run a normal life, as any other civilian in the country.
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US Ambassador hopes for peace

by Ranga Jayasuriya.

The United States Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Ashley Wills said the US sincerely hoped the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka would be resolved in the near future, and the country would achieve peace.
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