Trincomalee

Human Rights, Human Security, IDPs and Refugees, Peace and Conflict, Trincomalee

The Government’s “Eastern Rising”

The UTHR(J) is not known for its love towards the LTTE. It’s one time leader and revered academic Rajini Thiranagama was killed by the LTTE. Even today, it’s present leadership lives in…

Groundviews on 08/16/2007

Ampara, Batticaloa, Human Security, IDPs and Refugees, Jaffna, Media and Communications, Peace and Conflict, Trincomalee, Vavuniya

Dismissing inconvenient truths – The Divaina’s take on Groundviews

Clearly, Groundviews seems to be doing something right in highlighting the plight of IDPs and refugees in the embattled North and East of Sri Lanka through stories such as and others. The…

Groundviews on 08/14/200704/11/2008

Ampara, Human Security, IDPs and Refugees, Mannar, Peace and Conflict, Trincomalee

Ã¢Â€ÂœI pray God that no one in this world should face the hardships, faced by my child and meÃ¢Â€Â

“registration” Eachchilampattai, Trincomalee Sri Lanka. IDP registration point. this young girl and her family had to flee from their village. They had to walk 36 km to reach this school where hundereds…

CHA on 08/08/2007

Ampara, Batticaloa, Colombo, Constitutional Reform, Jaffna, Mannar, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Puttalam, Trincomalee, Vavuniya

The Indo-Lanka Accord – Some reflections 20 years hence

Groundviews on 07/27/200704/11/2008

Ampara, Batticaloa, Human Security, IDPs and Refugees, Mannar, Peace and Conflict, Puttalam, Trincomalee, Vavuniya

Homeless in one’s homeland

Photo credit: Agron, from Portraits of Displacement Worldwide, those rendered homeless and destitute by violent conflict is growing. According to UNHCR statistics, the figure of Internally Displaced Persons stood at over 32…

Janith Vipulaguna on 07/11/2007

Batticaloa, Human Security, Peace and Conflict, Trincomalee

Closer Look At Operation To Capture Thoppigala

To recap what has happened recently, 15 LTTE bodies were recovered on 22nd June in Toppigala while the government forces and LTTE both launched heavy artillery and mortar strikes at the front…

CRep on 06/25/2007

Colombo, Mannar, Peace and Conflict, Puttalam, Trincomalee

The flipside of Islamic fundamentalism in Sri Lanka

Reproduced with the kind permission of the author, and first published in the Hindustan Times. The flipside of Islamic fundamentalism in Sri Lanka PK Balachandran Kattankudy (Eastern Sri Lanka), April 24, 2007…

Groundviews on 04/25/2007

Anuradhapura, Batticaloa, Colombo, Galle, Human Rights, Matara, Peace and Conflict, Trincomalee, Vavuniya

Groundviews on 04/23/200704/11/2008

Ampara, Batticaloa, Human Rights, Human Security, Peace and Conflict, Trincomalee

Any More Separation For TMVP?

TMVP is remembering their 3rd year of separation from the LTTE on April 10th 2004 when 175 Karuna cadres, including female cadres, were massacred in Verukal in an attack by the LTTE…

CRep on 04/10/2007

Disaster Management, Human Rights, Human Security, Peace and Conflict, Trincomalee

Groundviews on 04/05/200704/11/2008

Colombo, Human Rights, Human Security, Peace and Conflict, Puttalam, Trincomalee, Vavuniya

Theeban’s murder: An epitaph in Sinhala

In my recent contribution in Sinhala to Mawbima, I explore the murder of Thillainayagam Theeban as first reported by Nalaka Gunawardene in this forum. An interesting footnote is that not a single…

Sunanda Deshapriya on 03/15/2007

Ampara, Batticaloa, Human Rights, Human Security, Jaffna, Peace and Conflict, Trincomalee

Security Forces North & East Operations

Civilians are returning to government-controlled areas on a mass scale and are fleeing LTTE territory, while the main goal of the government is to wipe out LTTE from the eastern area. This…

on 03/12/2007

Human Security, IDPs and Refugees, Peace and Conflict, Trincomalee

Ã¢Â€ÂœSome people were shot while going to see their houses on the road like dogsÃ¢Â€Â

Interview was taken from: MRS.GNANAPRAGASAM ARASAMMAH, 53 years. Displaced from: PALAI NAGAR, MUTHUR 2, Trincomalee Now at the welfare Centre: SRI KONALINGA MAHA VITHYALAYAM IDP’S CAMP – LINGA NAGAR, Trincomalee We all…

CHA on 03/07/2007

Batticaloa, Colombo, Galle, Human Rights, Human Security, Jaffna, Peace and Conflict, Trincomalee

White Vans, Disappearances And Abductions

Lets talk about white vans, disappearances and abductions. How much do people who don’t speak in Tamil know about these subjects, and conversely how much do people who speak in Tamil know…

Chamath on 03/05/2007

Ampara, Batticaloa, Human Rights, Human Security, Jaffna, Peace and Conflict, Trincomalee

What Is The Future Of The Eastern University?

The Eastern University Muslim students are trying to get transfers to other universities for security reasons following the claymore attack by the LTTE on January 31st 2007. Students outside of Batticaloa district…

CRep on 02/14/2007