Paddy at Rs. 20 and Rice at Rs. 60 – What is the mystery?
Can we keep both the Farmer and the Housewife happy? It is hardly a secret that the rapidly increasing price of rice has now become an unbearable burden for the masses, with…
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Speech by Justice P N Bhagwati at the IIGEP’s final press conference
Short speech by Justice P N Bhagwati at the IIGEP’s final press conference, held this morning in Colombo. Headphones recommended as the audio is weak.
How close is Sri Lanka to ending the war with the LTTE?
Click on the following link to respond to the poll. Compared to a year ago, how close is Sri Lanka to ending the war with the LTTE?
Groundviews on Twitter
New content notification on Groundviews is now available through Twitter. If you have no clue what that means, check out the video below. Twitter joins the Groundviews Facebook Fan page as a…
Violating the Madhu Sancuary – Some brief thoughts
 Image courtesy Mannar Diocese website  The sacred shrine of Madhu is being violated. What right has the LTTE to encroach on the Pilgrim Reservation Area gazetted under the Pilgrimage Ordinance in 1982?…
Groundviews back online, with new features and enhanced for mobile phones
is fully back online after an upgrade of its back-end content management system to the latest version of WordPress. While the site looks and feels the same, improvements under the hood make…
Scheduled downtime for Groundviews
Groundviews will be down tomorrow, 10th April, for a scheduled upgrade. The site should be up and running as normal by 11th April the latest, but we don’t really expect it to…
The JVP today – Videos and Interviews
A selection of videos on the the JVP in Sri Lanka, including footage from yesterday’s farcical press conference, interviews with JVP leaders from 1971 and interviews with Lionel Bopage. Note that most…
An education to die for
Mangalanath Liyanarachchi – Trincomalee The students of the Trincomalee campus face an uncertain future if government plans to move their campus to an insecure location are realized. Students of the Eastern University’s…
Withdrawal of the IIGEP (International Independent Group of Eminent Persons): Interview with Nimalka Fernando
Prominant Civil Socity activist and Lawyer Nimalka Fernando speaks on the withdrawal of IIGEP (International Independent Group of Eminent Persons) and its implications for human rights protection in Sri Lanka.
Militarizing the Media Mahagedera?
The news that a retired SLA General is considered as chairperson of RÅ«paváhini (SLRC) comes as a terrifying antidote to the remaining freedom of expression in the decomposing democracy in Sri Lanka.…
Lionel Bopage: Evolution of the LTTE and Prabhakaran’s role in the Tamil nationalist struggle
Lionel Bopage speaks on the evolution of the Liberation of Tamil Tigers Eelam (LTTE) and Prabharakan’s role in making the outfit what it is today. Lionel Bopage was a former General Secretary…
Travels in a Militarised Society – 7 – Cultural Iconography: Odel Present and Past
I enter Odel from the car park side with echoes of the student protest and the rubber bullets in my ears. I wet a hankie with my water bottle and wipe the…
THE CONTINUING VIOLATION OF THE SEVENTEENTH AMENDMENT: YET MORE UNCONVINCING EXCUSES
Rohan Edrisinha It is pertinent at this moment to examine why even now the 17th Amendment to the Constitution is not implemented. The media has reported that President Mahinda Rajapaksa told Opposition…
Public Perceptions: National Security and/or Human Rights
Bhavani Fonseka and Pradeep Peiris Introduction The global war against terrorism has lead to a situation where the use of force, pre-emptive strikes, display of military power are justified in the name…