It’s free. Please email [email protected] with your name and address, and we’ll gladly mail you a copy. A PDF version of the book is also available online.

Thank you, but I stress that the review is about the book GV put out, to which I have only contributed a foreword and online editorial. The rest is all citizen generated media, and any credit must go directly to the authors. Peace is a shared responsibility and challenge.

You have mountains to negotiate:

http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=33283
Zonal Deputy Director of Education shot dead in Jaffna, 27 December 2010:
”Armed men who arrived in a motorbike shot and killed 52-year-old Markandu Sivalingam, …. when Sri Lankan military had maximum deployment in Jaffna as the SL Prime Minister was visiting the city on the occasion of a Tsunami remembrance event, …”

http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=33280
‘Disaster management’ observed with Sinhala anthem in Jaffna, 27 December 2010

2. End of war, NOT end of conflict:

a. ‘Disaster management’ observed with Sinhala anthem in Jaffna:
http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=33280

Internal colonialism of post-1948 era in different phases:
i.discrimination of government institutions
ii. i+ growing army of occupation, post-1958
iii. ii.+ additional militarisation, post-2009 + pompous official functions organised by the government

b. ”Disaster Management”:

i. Sri Lanka orders cuts in aid work, BBC, 9 July 2009: ‘’The Sri Lankan government has told international relief agencies to cut back their activities in the country. … But it(ICRC) says an estimated 300,000 displaced people still need food, medicine and help to return home.’’

ii. Mission Report: Visit of Major General (ret.) Patrick Cammaert, Special Envoy of the Special Representative for Children & Armed Conflict, to Sri Lanka, 05-11 December 2009:
‘’It should be noted that the problem of accessing camps for humanitarian personnel persists throughout the country.’’

iii.‘Top Ten’ humanitarian crises: Aid blocked and diseases neglected, MSF, 21 December 2009: ‘’… Three distinct patterns dominated in 2009: governments blocked lifesaving assistance to trapped populations, including in Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and Sudan’’

iv. http://groundviews.org/2009/02/19/a-recent-trip-to-vavuniya-for-the-future-looks-dark-and-gloomy/
”They were being sent to different places like Kinniya, Polannaruwa, Mannar etc, which means even the slightest chance of a family reunion was questionable.”

v. http://transcurrents.com/tc/2010/03/no_funds_to_meet_needs_of_near.html/
No funds to meet needs of nearly 200,000 Northern IDPs due to govt refusal to endorse 2010 action plan, 13 March 2010: ”The funding crisis follows the government’s refusal to endorse the 2010 Common Humanitarian Action Plan (CHAP)…. The UN and other humanitarian agencies are running out of resources to meet the urgent needs of internally displaced persons in the North. …”

vi. http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWFiles2010.nsf/FilesByRWDocUnidFilename/SVAN-843LTD-full_report.pdf/$File/full_report.pdf
Banking on Solutions, A real-time evaluation of UNHCR’s shelter grant programme for returning displaced people in Northern Sri Lanka, March 2010: ”….The extent of shelter destruction appears to have been underestimated …. government restrictions on NGO access limited programming options, …. Movement along the A9 is also still restricted for international NGOs and UN agencies.”

vii. EXTENDING RECONCILIATON—BEYOND HONOURING THE INDIVIDUAL, Jehan Perera, Chairman, National Peace Council, 26 July 2010:
”… Even the war-displaced people who have returned to their home areas without any resources, and whose entire villages are destroyed, are also vulnerable and requiring of special protection. They have no homes, no community, and no jobs, and have no strength as a community group. In their very midst is a very strong military presence, which is organized, whereas they are not. In these circumstances, the war-displaced people need to be strengthened as communities so that they may protect themselves in the absence of external monitors such as the ICRC. … Various other statements made by government officials to NGOs also suggest that the government does not wish them to engage in community level capacity building, monitoring and protection work. ….”

viii. Displacing Northern Tamils to set up Sinhala military cantonments would increase resentment by Tisaranee Gunasekara, 1 August 2010: ‘’… Protests are an unaffordable luxury for the residents of three Tamil villages in Murukkundi, displaced from their homes when the state confiscated 4,000 acres in Kilinochchi to build 12,000 prefabricated houses for military families. …’’

ix. Analysis: NGOs question tighter access to Sri Lanka’s north, 11 August 2010: “Even we can’t understand the situation – it is so unnecessarily complicated and confusing,” said Vinya Ariyaratne, executive director of Sarvodaya Movement, Sri Lanka’s largest NGO. “This is retarding the recovery process significantly.”