Photo Amantha Perera/IRIN @groundviews making a submission before CTF at today's consultation with media orgs #srilanka #lka #pubconsl pic.twitter.com/MKhkfMzhre — (Former) CTF on Reconciliation Mechanisms (@ctfsl) June 28, 2016 , were invited…
Image courtesy Getty Images Keynote Address at the Peace Building Commission, Annual Session 2016 Hon. Chairperson Hon. Secretary General Your Excellences Ladies and Gentlemen, INTRODUCTION Transitions are periods of potential danger in…
By Marisa de Silva, Swasthika Arulingam and Ruki Fernando for WATCHDOG On 30th March, 2016, a suicide jacket, explosives and other ammunition was found in Chavakachcheri, Jaffna. Since then, as at 28th…
June 26 marks the International Day in support of Victims of Torture. Several recent reports have flagged that torture is a frequent and ongoing phenomenon among the police and military, even today,…
I have been accused by many in comments to my articles that I continue to write about the pogrom in Aluthgama and Muslims while the Tamils have had to undergo state terrorism…
Featured image courtesy Tamil Guardian There have been numerous debates along the lines of Sri Lanka’s ability to deliver Transitional Justice (TJ), how the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) should approach the…
Mamanithar Late Prof C.J. Eliezer AM Memorial Lecture Monash University, Clayton Campus, Melbourne, 12 June 2016 I am deeply honoured by this invitation to deliver the Maamanithar Prof Christopher Jeyaratnam Eliezer’s memorial…
Featured image courtesy TamilGuardian The Sampur power plant project has come under further scrutiny, following a project synopsis released by the Public Information Officer of NTPC Ltd, India’s largest energy conglomerate. Among other…
Featured image courtesy New York Times If only political leaders knew the horrors of war first hand, they might find other ways to solve differences, to meet threats – perhaps go to…
Inside India’s Central Information Commission, Professor M Sridhar Acharyulu is hearing a case on illegal occupation. The applicant wants to know if the Registrar of Co-operative Societies, (RCS) which deals with housing,…
Photo from DBS Jeyaraj The name Nalin de Silva helps us to determine a certain ambiguity in – what remains of – the Sri Lankan academic discourse. On the one hand, he…
Photograph courtesy Business Today ‘The sleep of reason produces monsters.’ Goya (The title of the 43rd etching of Los Caprichos) Post-Rajapaksa Sri Lanka is being haunted by the ghost of the Rajapaksa…
Comrade Somawansa Amarasinghe since joining the JVP in 1969, had been committed at that time to the political line of the JVP. I understand that while he was held in custody in…
For more than 20 years I have been in the movement, I have sustained injuries in many battles, I know to command combat forces, I know to lift a rifle and shoot….
June 14 marks World Blood Donor Day. takes a look inside Sri Lanka’s National Blood Transfusion Service, to better understand the process of blood donation – and how it showcases the best…
