BETWEEN SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS, THE HAPLESS MR. VITHARANA
At the empennage of ghastly and gruesome 2006, the Majority Report of the Experts Panel was dismissed in these pages as inadequate, predictable and hesitant. In the light of what has gone…
Year: 2007
New Recruits . . .
Amidst flashing bulbs the second son of President Rajapakse, Yoshitha, was sent off to China Bay, Trincomalee for training to join the Navy.  Are there any implications of this for the…
India: ‘Hands on’?
Nations are built by the imagination and the untiring enthusiastic efforts of generations. One generation transfers the fruits of its toil to another which then takes forward the mission. As the coming…
Amidst shackles – Notes of a citizen journalist
An article, in Sinhala, on the bombing of Mannar and the general decline of human rights in Sri Lanka. Read the full article here.
Sri Lanka – Images of a divided nation
An article, in Sinhala, based on the findings of Social Indicator’s Peace Confidence Index, first published in Mawbima on 7th January 2007. Read the full article here.
Please leave us alone; a voice from Muslim community
Two Muslim traders in Katthankudy were injured by an unidentified group when they returned home from Arayampathi at around 6.30pm today. This is causing tension as Muslim people in the area believe…
Traditional solutions for modern day problems
When the people of Elpitiya are faced with a problem, they come together to discuss it and find a solution together. They believe that it is this simple concept that holds the…
Daily Security Report from UN – The plight of the North & East
Got this in my email today – paints a bleak picture of the North and East of Sri Lanka. Don’t know to whom this situation update goes to, but I’m sure there…
Update From Trinco
Security is tight in Trinco. It was tightened for the LTTE mahaviru day on November 27 and has remained tight up to now due to the land operation into Vakarai. At the…
Bus bombs
The south is in turmoil after bombs in buses. Allegedly the work of the LTTE, it’s bringing home, once again, the terror & anxiety that many of us thought we had left…
Medical Certificates Needed for Nestomalt
Nestomalt is now selling in Jaffna for medical certificate only. After the closure of the land route a big shortage for nutritional food in Jaffna. Recently some Nestomalt taken to Jaffna and…
Vaharai starves – International Community is Silent
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Vaharai starves – International Community is Silent “We only have enough food for one or two more days,†said TRO Vaharai Director of Operations Mr. Moorthy in a telephone…
Review of “Ethnic Warfare in Sri Lanka and the UN Crisis†by William Clarance
Speaking in early December 2006 to an assorted group of representatives from local and international humanitarian agencies in Colombo, I began my speech with the most virulent expletives imaginable. I then enquired…
Life in an Open Prison
An email from Ammu Joseph, circulated through SAJA‘s email list, pointed to two articles that explore the situation in the North and East of Sri Lanka at present. *LIFE IN AN OPEN…
Discrimination in Law college entrance?
9 students who sat for Law College entrance examination in academic year 2006/2007-appeal case at Srilankan appeal court today with demanding of to reduce cut off marks from 173 to 160. One…