Sri Lanka’s Dirty War
July 2007 In the past 18 months, over 2,000 Sri Lankans have been kidnapped or murdered, allegedly by government death squads. Now Human Rights Watch is calling for aid to Sri Lanka…
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The Indo-Lanka Accord – Some reflections 20 years hence
ඉන්දු ලංක෠ගිවිසුම (1987 ජූලි- 2007 ජූලි): අවස්ථà·à·€à¶šà·Šà¶¯? බලහà¶à·Šà¶šà·à¶»à¶ºà¶šà·Š ද? “ඉන්දු ලංක෠ගිවිසුමෙහි දසවන සංවà¶à·Šà·ƒà¶»à¶º අවස්ථà·à·€ පෙන්නුම් කරන්නේ එහි අරමුණ වු ජනවà·à¶»à·Šà¶œà·’ක ගà·à¶§à·…ුවට දේà·à¶´à·à¶½à¶± විසඳුමක් සොය෠ගà·à¶±à·“මෙහි ල෠à·à·“â€à·Šâ€à¶» ලංකà·à·€ ඇදහිය නොහà·à¶šà·’…
An inconvenient history: A reply to Victory Ivan’s viewpoints on criminal defamation
වික්ටර් අයිවන්ට පිළිà¶à·”රක් : à¶à·€à¶à·Š බොහ෠දේ à¶à·’බේ උවිඳු කුරුකුලසූරිය “à·ƒà·à¶´à¶»à·à¶°à·“ අපහà·à·ƒ නීà¶à·’යට එරෙහිව මෙන්ම ජනමà·à¶°à·Šâ€à¶º නිදහස වෙනුවෙන්ද වික්ටර් අයිවන් විà·à·à¶½ à·€à·à¶© කොටසක් කර ඇà¶à·’ බව අවිවà·à¶¯à·’à¶à¶º. එහෙà¶à·Š ඒ සියල්ල à¶à¶¸à¶±à·Š à¶à¶±à·’වම…
Let’s stop corruption in Sri Lanka!
A litany of socio-political problems we face today can directly or indirectly be traced back to the existence and growth of corruption. Bordering on criminality, exacerbating extreme poverty, stifling economic development and…
Groundviews YouTube video channel
All videos posted on Groundviews (and hosted on Youtube) can now be found at Video Stories. We will add new content to the Groundviews channel regularly from videos uploaded by other content…
Vienna Convention and Sri Lankan Child Worker on Death Row
Donna E. Chung, Ph.D. International Trade and Labour Compliance Advisor Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg, P.A. Washington, D.C. 20 July 2007 On 15 July 2007, just one day before the deadline, a judicial…
“Our people are at your mercy” – Tamils flee Sri Lanka conflict
“I have a moral duty to pacify wherever there is irritation given to the Sinhalese. I have a duty to pacify them and tell them our people are at your mercy. They…
Scent of the Lotus Pond: Censoring art or protecting culture?
Groundviews was able to obtain footage of a scene the Public Performance Board of Sri Lanka seeks to completely remove from Sathyajith Maitipe’s film Scent of the Lotus Pond. In a review…
Rajpal Abeynaike, Editor of Lakbima, offers exceptional responses to story on Groundviews
I’m breaking with the established guidelines for this site to reproduce in full the response of Rajpal Abeynaike, Editor of Lakbima, in response to the story this website ran on his practice…
Rapping Peace: Lions and Tigers
An SMS exchange with a friend recently on creating new communications strategies to promote peace prompted me to upload Brown Boogie Nation’s Lions and Tigers to Youtube. Can one make an argument…
Voices of Reconciliation Radio – New Content
Tune in and turn up the volume! VOR Radio aims to enhance social, political and cultural cohesion in Sri Lanka through podcasts in Sinhala, Tamil and English with a special focus on…
The pretense of professionalism – the flipside of media freedom in Sri Lanka
In calling the media “feral beasts” caught in a vicious cycle of unravelling standards Tony Blair, in his last days of office, may have captured the approach to journalism by some of…
The flip side of picturesque: Estate workers in Sri Lanka
From Al Jazeera’s channel on YouTube. Also read Causing a storm in a tea plantation.
Sri Lanka : Decades of Displacement
From UNHCR’s video channel on YouTube. Also read Maps of Shame.
Sri Lanka blocks TamilNet
Follow up to Tamilnet banned? – How to continue to access the site from Sri Lanka Original story available from here. [TamilNet, Tuesday, 19 June 2007, 15:32 GMT] TamilNet has completed 10th…