The Importance of Working With
Image courtesy “Machan, I hope a couple of UPFA guys get elected, too!” said my drinking partner, the Sri Lankan Tamil fellow Sivapuranam Thevaram. It is a warm and beautifully sunny day…
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Whither the Sri Lankan Tamils?
Photo courtesy (Rafiq Maqbool/AP) I attended the Thanthai Chelvanayakam Memorial lecture entitled “Whither the Sri Lankan Tamils?” given by Justice C. V. Wigneswaran to mark the 36th death anniversary of Mr. S….
Why a TNA-run Northern Council is more positive than negative
Image courtesy in.com Had the Government not made the mess it has by fussing over the 13th amendment, it could have shown off the TNA run Northern PC in all global forums…
Sumanthiran’s Choice
I have two Tamil friends. Their names are SriLankan Tamil and Tamil Sri Lankan. “Aren’t they the same?” you ask. No, the order in which the identifiers appear is significant, and is…
Sri Lanka at a critical crossroad: JHU and the 13th Amendment
Udaya Gammanpila, Senior Member of the Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU), courtesy FT.lk The country stands at a crossroad. A parliamentary victory for the JHU bill will complete the negative process which commenced…
Spot Fixing Sri Lanka Style: Revisiting the Enumeration of Vital Events
Image courtesy Thuppahi blog In November 2011, Sri Lanka’s Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, said that discovering how many civilians “died or went missing during the last few months of the conflict” would…
Sri Lanka’s Numbers Game
Image courtesy Hill Post On May 16 a seminar was held at the Marga Institute to launch a publication by the Independent Diaspora Analysis Group – Sri Lanka (IDAG-S) – The Numbers…
Land acquisition by the Sri Lankan Army in Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu Districts
Only one question. Why? Ask it. Repeatedly. Download the acquisition notices as a PDF here.
Reconciliation, Rights & Freedom: Four years after the end of war in SRi Lanka
Image courtesy It is now 4 years after the end of the war. The way we Sri Lankans will remember the end of the war is likely to demonstrate once again how…
The consequences of political representation or the lack of it
Image from AsiaNews.it The focus of my article in the of 5 May was on the need for Northern Provincial representation. It now looks as if those elections may be held in…
NORTHERN PROVINCIAL COUNCIL: THE DEVOLUTION DEBATE
I approach this subject as a political scientist, a former diplomat and briefly a Minister in the Cabinet of the North East Provincial Council. At the overlap of these experiences and roles…
Northern Provincial Council Election and the Future of Lankan Tamil Politics
This year promises to be a decisive one for Lankan Tamils. Events that take place this year will considerably determine the future trajectory of Tamil politics. It is only a beginning where…
Travails of the Women in the Vanni
Photo courtesy Amantha Perera / Perambara All of us remember the day the war ended in Sri Lanka. While those in the rest of the country rejoiced, to the Tamils, many of…
Appeal from the Tamil Civil Society to the International Community regarding the upcoming resolution in the UNHRC on Sri Lanka
This appeal, signed by civil society activists who live and work in the North and East of Sri Lanka, seeks to state our position with regard to the resolution on Sri Lanka…
The Numbers Never Lie: A Comprehensive Assessment of Sri Lanka’s LLRC Progress
Download the report in full here, or view in inline here. ### Introduction Nearly four years since the end of the country’s civil war, Sri Lanka remains a divided, post-war society, as…