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

Sri Lanka : Decades of Displacement

From UNHCR’s video channel on YouTube. Also read Maps of Shame.

Groundviews on 06/24/2007

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

Groundviews on 04/23/200704/11/2008

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

Peace and Conflict, Vavuniya

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…

on 01/29/2007

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

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…

on 01/25/2007

Advocacy, Ampara, Batticaloa, Colombo, Jaffna, Peace and Conflict, Puttalam, Trincomalee, Vavuniya

Seeing mobile phones as a basic human right

News that mobile phone users in the North & East of Sri Lanka are once again cut off is a disturbing trend in the erosion of fundamental rights, including Article 19 of…

Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa on 01/18/2007

Advocacy, Batticaloa, Colombo, Human Rights, Human Security, IDPs and Refugees, Peace and Conflict, Puttalam, Trincomalee, Vavuniya

The Costs and Consequences of Ã¢Â€Â˜Clearing’ the East

Last week this column ended with the statement that there was a lot to be learnt and unlearnt in 2007. The new year is now with us and with it the unfolding…

on 01/15/2007