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Year: 2009
Memories of War, Dreams of Peace
The long and bloody Sri Lankan war is over, and not a moment too soon. I really want to believe it. The alternative is too depressing to consider. Of course, there is…
The celebrations in Colombo after Prabhakaran’s demise
Video shot on the streets of Colombo and its suburbs on 18th May 2009. For related videos, please visit on Vikalpa’s YouTube Channel. For live and regular updates from the ground in…
Prabhakaran is dead – join debates on what next for Sri Lanka
From the Ministry of Defence website: LTTE defeated; Sri Lanka liberated from terror Sri Lankan armed force have militarily defeated the LTTE and freed the nation from three decades of terror, Army…
Satellite View
There will be lamentations and sadness, there are already, and recriminations. Why did we allow the unthinkable to fall down on those hapless families in tents and bunkers? Why did we agree…
Aiyo!
Isn’t it horrible to watch people being killed like this? Pictures of dead bodies strewn all over the place flood my mind. What a damned war this is! What a curse on…
Saying ‘No’ to Mum and Finding Our Post Colonial Identity
Baron Naseby is a British Conservative Party politician. He has visited Sri Lanka many times, including most recently with the British all-party delegation. Watch him in this clip explaining to a partly…
The West’s bogus concern for human rights
President Obama, in a statement made on the 13th of May, has requested the government of Sri Lanka to “stop the indiscriminate shelling that has taken hundreds of innocent lives, including in…
Eyes Wide Shut: Media illiteracy and propaganda in Sri Lanka
Mano Ganesan was recently featured on Rupavahini, the State and pro-government TV broadcaster, in a manner that suggested he unequivocally supported the LTTE and terrorism.This was noticed and taken up bloggers such…
Fear Psychosis, State of our Nation, Terrorism and Sri Lanka, our Motherland
Double standards as it may seem Lasantha’s murder was a rude awakening for many, including me. Why I call it a double standard is that many lives were previously lost and I…
Breaking news: BNR discovers through CNN poll that International Community undecided on intervening in Sri Lanka
: The International Community is expressing its concern over the deaths of thousands of civilians including at least one hundred children who are caught between the crossfire as fighting raged between the…
The Poverty of Michael Roberts’ Enlightened Humanitarianism
, by Prof. Michael Roberts, is an essay of profound importance. Sadly, not for its genius, but to the extent that it provides an abject lesson in the tragic consequences of the…
A difference of 3 days: V. Anandasangaree on the killing of Tamil civilians in the Vanni
Vikalpa Video recorded on Thursday 7th May 2009, as part of its current series on the LTTE and the end to the war in Sri Lanka, an interview with prominent Tamil politician,…
The abduction, assault, arrest and defamation of the Sudar Oli Editor: Questions for the Sri Lankan Government
The police informed courts they have no charges against Mr. Vithyatharan the Editor of both news papers, after detaining him for two months. On 24th of April, he was acquitted by Courts.…
Thought for the day
We are reading about war crimes and ethnic cleansing on an unimaginable scale. I wonder when these artillery shells will stop raining upon our people and whether there will be justice for…