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Features, Jaffna, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Reconciliation, Vavuniya

Racing Tanks with Bicycles: A Parable of ‘Reconciliation’ in Sri Lanka

Some photographs of ‘aid’ being provided to Sri Lankan Tamils in Keppapilavu were recently posted online. The Keppapilavu community were the last to be released from the Menik Farm Camp, but were…

Amal de Chickera Amal de Chickera on 12/27/201212/27/2012
Colombo, International, International Relations, Peace and Conflict, Science and Technology, UN Panel Report, Vavuniya

Eating properly and smiling: The evasive Valerie Amos on Twitter

On 18th December 2012, at around 10pm in Sri Lanka, Valerie Amos, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator took to Twitter, ostensibly to answer questions related to the…

Groundviews Groundviews on 12/19/2012
Jaffna, Language, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Vavuniya, War Crimes

Still Counting the Dead: A welcome first step

“We used to be a very proud people”1 – Uma, I Few years ago, during a very wintery January weekend, at a Copenhagen hotel, I was scrambling to prepare a last minute…

Krishna Kalaichelvan Krishna Kalaichelvan on 12/02/201212/01/2012
Colombo, Features, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Vavuniya

The Vanni: Depicting the end of Sri Lanka’s war through a graphic novel

, a multimedia graphic novel based on the hellish denouement of Sri Lanka’s 27 year old war in the first half of 2009. A preview can be viewed here. Since the live…

Groundviews Groundviews on 11/19/201211/19/2012
Colombo, Human Rights, Human Security, International, Peace and Conflict, Poetry, Politics and Governance, Vavuniya, War Crimes

Howling

What shall I do, living in Peru, with this report of systemic failure in U.N. monitoring in Sri Lanka, how bureaucrats drove away from the disaster to come, buried hard- earned stats…

Indran Amirthanayagam Indran Amirthanayagam on 11/15/2012
Features, Human Security, Media and Communications, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Vavuniya

Restrictions and intimidation on journalists covering resettlement process in the Vanni

From After more than 11 months of the LLRC report being handed over to the President, the above recommendation remains far from reality, despite the National Action Plan to Implement Recommendations of…

Ruki Fernando Ruki Fernando on 10/31/2012
Human Rights, Human Security, IDPs and Refugees, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Vavuniya

“Nothing to call our own…” – The plight of the recently returned, resettled and landless IDPs in Sri Lanka’s North

Recently returned to Puthumathalan “As you drive past pile upon pile of corroding vehicles stacked one above the other, past pots, pans, sarees, slippers and plates (that once belonged to the people…

Marisa de Silva Marisa de Silva on 10/03/201212/28/2012
Features, Human Security, IDPs and Refugees, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Vavuniya

Menik Farm: The tragic end of a bitter saga, from detention to forced relocation

These were some of the questions that people who had fallen victim to the Sri Lankan Government’s latest resettlement program asked us when we visited them last Sunday 30th September 2012. The…

Ruki Fernando Ruki Fernando on 10/02/2012
Colombo, Poetry, Vavuniya

Happiness Blues, Sri Lanka

I don’t know what to say, my friend, I have some blues that don’t seem right, too light and fancy free, happiness and all that putty you poke and pat, grinning silly,…

Indran Amirthanayagam Indran Amirthanayagam on 10/02/201210/01/2012
Features, Human Security, IDPs and Refugees, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Vavuniya

Putting paid to the Government’s false claims: The new IDPs in Sri Lanka

Editors note: On the day Menik Farm was officially closed, an urgent memo was circulated widely on the fate of the IDPs from Keppapilavu. The memo adds vital context to the following…

Dilrukshi Handunnetti Dilrukshi Handunnetti on 09/29/201209/29/2012
Features, Human Security, IDPs and Refugees, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Reconciliation, Vavuniya

Sri Lanka’s forgotten mass graves: Google Earth and remembering the dead in Nandikadal

was the first look at the end of the war in Sri Lanka through historical satellite imagery freely accessible via Google Earth. The article was an open invitation for those using Google…

Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa on 09/18/201211/03/2021
Human Security, IDPs and Refugees, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Vavuniya

The struggle to go home in post war Sri Lanka: The story of Puthukudiruppu

Rajini (pseudonym) was amongst the ten women we met in a church in Vavuniya district about a week ago. At the time she and two of her children were living in Kadirgama…

Ruki Fernando Ruki Fernando on 08/16/201208/15/2012
Features, Identity, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Reconciliation, Vavuniya

Ganesan Nimalaruban: A damning murder, funeral and silence

Photo credit: It is very likely readers of Sinhala mainstream print media have no clue who Ganesan Nimalaruban was, or exactly how he died. A simple Google news or general web search…

Groundviews Groundviews on 07/31/201207/31/2012
Human Rights, IDPs and Refugees, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Reconciliation, Vavuniya

Surrendering and Disappearing: Where are they now?

In the controversial Commission of Inquiry on Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation, 53 LTTE cadres who surrendered during the final days of the war in May 2009 are alleged to have been disappeared…

Jayashika Padmasiri Jayashika Padmasiri on 05/05/201205/05/2012
Features, Jaffna, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Vavuniya, War Crimes

Cluster bombs in Sri Lanka: From denial to discovery

Ravi Nessman from Associated Press has broken what’s perhaps the most important story on the war, since it ended three years ago. In a story published by AP a few hours ago,…

Groundviews Groundviews on 04/26/201206/20/2016

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