A circus has come to town
From – 31st January 2007 With the LTTE cleared from Sampur and Vaharai, the UNP depleted and the JVP marginalised, the cabinet swelled to record proportions, the Donor Forum concluded and the…
Districts
Brotherhood Bloodshed Again?
The TMVP has given a request to the government to conduct eastern provincial council elections and before that to setup an interim council. Because most of the eastern province is now under…
Groundviews upgrades: Preview websites before visiting them
Using SNAP, readers now get a preview of any link to a website within a post. All you need to do is to hover over a link to see a small window…
Blast Outside Eastern University Batticaloa
Regarding the blast right outside the Eastern University in Batticaloa Vantharumoolai at around 11.30am yesterday, about 15 km north of Batticaloa town, the information I have heard is that there were around…
THE OSLO DECLARATION: REPORTS OF ITS DEATH ARE NOT GREATLY EXAGGERATED
The Morning Leader (31st January 2007) carries a report of the first press conference given yesterday by the Hon. G. L. Peiris M. P., the new Minister of Export Promotion and International…
Jaffna Prices At MPCS Now Higher Than When Taxed
Jaffna people are now paying a higher price for essential things than when they were taken through the land route and taxed by the LTTE. Now essential items are taken to Jaffna…
Tour A Bohra
Dr Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin Saheb greeting AHM Aswer In case you hadn’t noticed, Colombo has been full of men and women in head to toe cloth, white and colored respectively. Nice hats…
Cutting off telecoms in Sri Lanka redux…
This from the FMM today: Internet facilities and 8,000 telephones cut off in Jaffna Peninsula The Free Media Movement (FMM) is deeply disturbed to learn that basic communications facilities to the Jaffna…
A Look Into A Village In Kalutara
My recent visits to the coastal village of Nalarua in the district of Kalutara, about 5 kilometres from Kalutara town, got me thinking about life in the south. 450 families live in…
Poll: What does the Minister of Special Projects do?
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More Defensive Offensives – coming soon…
If the Bush regime can do it, why can’t the Sri Lankan Government … From today’s Daily News: Army Commander Lieutenant General Sarath Fonseka paid a special visit to the area yesterday…
Poll: Is the international community partial to the LTTE?
As we move towards the Donor Conference towards the end of January, it would be useful to see what the Groundviews community think of the partiality, or lack thereof, of the International…
42 People Surrender at Jaffna Human Rights Commission
42 people have surrended at the Human Rights Commission Jaffna office so far. They were facing death threats. HRC officials produced them before Jaffna Magistrate and the Magistrate ordered that they be…
Double standards?
A post here points to a powerful new report on the dangers on humanitarian aid work in Sri Lanka and elsewhere. Reports in Groundviews, both from Citizen Journalists as well as news…
Groundviews upgrades
Following this article in the Daily Mirror today, we’ve experienced a surge of traffic to & interest in Groundviews that I hope will be sustained in the months to come. We’ve now…