Several hundred Tamils are reported to have been arrested and detained by security forces for questioning following the bomb blasts in Colombo.
Archive for November, 2007
A suspected LTTE female cadre blows herself up near the Colombo office of Douglas Devananda, the Tamil minister for social welfare, killing his personal secretary. On the same day, a bomb exploded near the entrance to a popular department store in a Nugegoda, a busy suburb of Colombo.
LTTE leader Vellupillai Prabhakaran delivers his annual ‘Heroes' Day’ speech. The LTTE claims later that air strikes by the Sri Lankan military hit its 'Voice of Tigers' radio station, shortly before speech.
The government proscribes the Tamils Rehabilitation Organisation (TRO).
According to a Home Office statement, British police and immigration officials arrested Karuna Amman following a joint operation between Britain's new Border and Immigration Agency and London police.
Air strikes of a meeting of top rebel leaders kill S.P. Tamilselvan, the head of the LTTE’s political wing and five others.
