Welcoming the Verdict of the Tamil People
Image courtesy AFP The TNA has swept the polls in the North. More importantly, the Tamil people have voted courageously, convincingly, and clearly. It was an expected outcome, but as President Rajapaksa…
Year: 2013
THE TNA TSUNAMI: RE-BALANCING THE EQUATION
Image courtesy The Sri Lanka Guardian The TNA victory has shown that Sri Lanka remains a functioning democracy; that it functions when there is competition; and that with or without the 17th…
State Facilitated Colonization of Northern Sri Lanka – 2013
On 25th September 2012, the Menik Farm camp in Vavuniya, which at its peak, housed close to 300,000 internally displaced persons, was officially closed down when the Government of Sri Lanka relocated…
Judiciary apologizes for failing to safeguard basic human rights
Photo by AFP, via No, not in Sri Lanka, as readers may have hoped, but in Chile. In Chile, last week, on the fortieth anniversary of the military coup by General Pinochet…
Is there the problem of Co-Existence in the Sri Lankan society?
Lakruwan Wanniarachchi/AFP/Getty Images via The sweeping rate of post war changes in Sri Lanka in its sociopolitical and economic domains are so severe that the normalcy that prevailed during the war is…
30 Years Ago: Audio recordings of panel discussions
Photograph by Tehani Ariyaratne, from 30 Years Ago To complement the launch of 30 Years Ago and focus on some of the issues the project is anchored to and inspired by, four panel discussions…
July 1983, State Racism and Truth Commissions
Image courtesy Sangam To everyone who has not read them I recommend reading Izeth Hussain’s, articles of 31 August and 7 September in The Island, and my article in groundviews and in…
What is an economic migrant?
The governments of Sri Lanka and Australia have recently reached an agreement over how to define the flow of undocumented migrants between these two countries. Both governments seem to agree on the…
Assessing Local Governance in the Northern Province
Introduction In April 2013 Home for Human Rights (HHR) undertook a survey in the Northern Province. HHR hoped to accurately capture the opinions that the people have about the performance of their…
Media monitoring of Navi Pillay’s visit to Sri Lanka
Photograph courtesy UN Sri Lanka At the invitation of the Sri Lankan Government, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay visited Sri Lanka at the end of August in what was,…
Interview with Arun Welandawe-Prematilleke, Director of ‘Paraya’
Directed by Arun Welandawe-Prematilleke and produced by Mind Adventures, will begin its run on 18th of this month to the 21st. For any other theatrical production, that description would suffice, along with…
Announcing the De Zoysa-Sivanayagam 2014 Fellowship in Digital Journalism
On September 21, 2013, Sri Lankans Without Borders in partnership with will announce the launch of the De Zoysa-Sivanayagam 2014 Fellowship in Digital Journalism. As noted on SLWB’s website, Lasantha Wickrematunge led…
Northern Provincial Council Elections: A Pre-Election Survey
Image courtesy Sri Lanka Brief Provincial Elections in the Northern Province will be held on the 21st of September 2013 – the first time in 25 years. According to the Department of…
Coercive Population Control in Kilinochchi
Photo courtesy The Social Architects [Editors note: Please read by The Social Architects, which expands on this initial report and address the points made in the comments as well as in other…
A rejoinder to “Disarming the juggernaut of religious intolerance in Sri Lanka”
I recently read this article “Disarming the juggernaut of religious intolerance in Sri Lanka” on by Dynalogue – who consider themselves a non partisan, apolitical youth discussion group who have organised themselves…
