Photo courtesy Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice Last week, SACLS released a report titled “From Words to Action: A Road Map for Implementing Sri Lanka’s Transitional Justice Commitments”. This report unpacks the…
Featured image courtesy Justin Tallis – WPA Pool/Getty Images The South Asian Centre for Legal Studies (SACLS) held a panel discussion to present their recommendations for a roadmap for implementation of HRC Resolution…
IMAGE COURTESY http://dbsjeyaraj.com/dbsj/archives/24335 Dear Basheer Segu Dawood, Following your Media address about the Muslims’ demand for a separate Muslim Province, I consider it my responsibility as a Srilankan Muslim, since you allege…
Featured image courtesy Wired Following trends in social media use, is now enabling mobile updates via WhatsApp. To sign up, simply fill in this form and add the number specified within to your…
Image courtesy IRIN “The regime has changed, but the system remains the same; how can we expect justice from them?,” asked a Tamil nun who survived the brutal conflict between the Sri…
Featured image courtesy AFP/Getty Images Judge Patrick Arthur Devlin Given the manner in which this land is touted as the “Miracle of Asia” by some, living in a state of utopia, as…
Featured image courtesy Huffington Post During the past months the race between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton to be the Democratic Party (DP) nominee for US president has ignited interest around the…
Language can simultaneously connect and divide, as Sri Lanka has learned to bitter effect in the past. The divisiveness could be said to have begun with the Official Language Act of 1956, which…
Since 2009, Jaffna has become host to hordes of curious tourists, visiting to see what a city ravaged by war looks like. For the residents, there are many bitter memories. It is…
Featured image courtesy Bands in Town The timeless universal language, music? Not the way I see it… in fact, a musical experience is much more likely to reflect a particular time, place,…
Read Part 1 here. There have been diverse responses to the singing of our National Anthem in both our national languages; some sensible, some stupid; some patriotic, some racist. Among the questions…
Featured image courtesy constitutionnet.org (photo credit: Hemmathagama) Ever since the political changes which ensued in 2015, there appears to be another social contract between the government and the people of Sri Lanka forming.…
Photo courtesy Sri Lanka Brief Subramanium Ramachandran, a Jaffna based Tamil journalist disappeared on 15th of February 2007 in Jaffna. Despite eyewitness accounts of being detained at an Army checkpoint and camps,…
Photo courtesy Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice In a recent article, Ram Manikkalingam – a member of the Sri Lankan President’s Office for National Unity and Reconciliation (ONUR) – argues that…
The Independence Day celebrations commenced with the national anthem sung in Sinhala and concluded with the national anthem sung in Tamil. It was a first and a good first, a gesture of…
