Doing Business with Myanmar
The Daily Mirror on 29 August 2007 reports a high-level meeting at Ceylon Chamber of Commerce (CCC) between state and business leaders of Sri Lanka and a state delegation representing trade interests…
Month: August 2007
Missing in Action – the sound girl …
Exhausted after reading too many verbose analysisez of Sri Lanka’s conflict? Ashamed of having to recite “Namo tassa, bhagavato arahato, samma sambuddhasa” over and over again? Bored with the mediocrity of your…
To Be Heard……… Talk or Shoot?
Shanthi Sachithanandam “Nation, is the geo-social entity providing maximum security for the survival of a community, Nationalism, is that fundamental desire For the assurance of a Nation Nations uniting and dividing Of…
Monks of War – Al-Jazeera on the JHU
is Al Jazeera’s second news feature on Sri Lanka aired in August. As noted on their site: To many of us, Buddhism, with the sacred principle of non-violence, is the most peaceful…
The Capture of Thoppigala – A Phyrric Victory
By Air Vice Marshal Harry Gunetilleke (Rtd) Come around mid-July this year, there were victory celebrations with much euphoria, if not in the North and North East of Sri Lanka, with some…
Views of the Periphery – Competing Views on Thoppigala
In his Mahaweera Day speech in 2005, Vellupillai Pirapaharan, the LTTE leader, depicted Ranil Wickremesinghe as a calculating fox who tried to deceive everyone by entering into a ceasefire agreement with the…
How The East Was Won – Watch the Al-Jazeera documentary
Groundviews was the first to review the new Al-Jazeera documentaries on Sri Lanka (Mistaking Night for Day in the New Dawn of the East: A Review Article of the al-Jazeera Documentaries, ‘How…
Voldemort rising
Kofi Anan, former UN Secretary General At the time of writing, news of the liberation of the East and the resulting celebrations have captured headlines and the public imagination in Sri Lanka.…
Homosexuality, Buddhism and Sri Lankan Society
By Bellanvila Sudaththa Thero and Cecil J. Dunne Before we discuss what Theravada Buddhism says about homosexuality, it is important to understand that in Buddhism people are encouraged to look inwardly when…
I will not return to my Village
I am originally from Trincomalee. Now I am living in a Tsunami, temporary shelter, in Alayadivembu which is in the Ampara District. My home town is Thoppur, Munampodivattai. We initially became internally…
Manufacturing claymores in the Sinhala media – Media ethics withering on the vine
The 14th of August was an eventful day. According to the Sinhala media, the Police “discovered” claymores and explosives at the Ideal Lodge in Wellawatte on this day. As was discovered later,…
Special Military ID For Jaffna
Security forces are issuing a Special Military ID again in Jaffna. After 1996 when the troops captured Jaffna the forces issued a special ID for Jaffna people. After the CFA they stopped…
Permission To Travel Out Of Jaffna
All of our politicians says Sri Lanka is a one country and solve the ethnic problem within one nation but they treat Tamils like citizens from another country. One Jaffna Journalist was…
“I need to move out of this camp and have a place of my own”
Following heavy shelling and bombardment in Point Pedro, we had to evacuate the village leaving all our belongings behind. While we were running for shelter from our home, sounds of artillery were…
The Chief Justice and Intelligence
Copyright: The Economist Recently our Chief Justice averred that one does not need intelligence to get into Parliament. I fully agree. But I have a further point to make to the Chief…