Rajapaksa serves ultimatum on LTTE
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa served an ultimatum on the LTTE on Monday to either ``free'' the citizens stranded in the war zone in the north by January 1 or face a formal ban by the government.
The UN is closely watching the situation in Sri Lanka, where President Mahinda Rajapaksa has declared an end to military operation against the LTTE, while focusing on assisting the ten of thousands of civilians who have been displaced by the conflict, a top United Nations official said today.