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Author: Alan Keenan

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Colombo, Economy, Human Rights, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Sri Lanka’s Uprising Forces Out a President but Leaves System in Crisis

Sri Lanka has been through a tumultuous ten days. What exactly has happened? In a stunning display of “people power”, massive crowds overcame large deployments of police and soldiers and other obstacles…

Alan Keenan Alan Keenan on 07/18/2022
Memorialisation, Peace and Conflict, Post-War, Reconciliation, Transitional Justice

Mullaivayakal and the Meaning of Justice, 12 Bitter Years On

The first five months of 2009 brought immense and unprecedented pain to the people of northern Sri Lanka, and to their many Tamil relatives outside the country who looked on and received…

Alan Keenan Alan Keenan on 05/18/202105/18/2021
Colombo, End of war special edition, Human Rights, Identity, IDPs and Refugees, Jaffna, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Vavuniya, War Crimes

I REMEMBER: 19 May 2010

As we come together to commemorate the anniversary of the end of Sri Lanka’s long and bloody civil war, these are some of the things I remember: I remember hearing reports in…

Alan Keenan Alan Keenan on 05/20/201005/19/2012

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