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Human Security, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Reconciliation, Vavuniya

The futility that is Omanthai: Post-war Sri Lanka’s reconciliation shortfalls

Image courtesy JDS (metal sheet) shed, where males and females follow separate queues to have their bags checked by male and female army personnel, respectively. The checking too has now become so…

Marisa de Silva Marisa de Silva on 04/16/2012
Features, Human Security, IDPs and Refugees, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Vavuniya

Menik Farm after the cyclone: The continuing misery of IDPs

After a punishingly hot day, the skies seemed to provide some relief to the residents of Chettikulam as they opened to release heavy showers during the early evening of Saturday, March 31st….

WATCHDOG WATCHDOG on 04/07/201204/07/2012
Colombo, Jaffna, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Vavuniya

Arbitrary Detention in Sri Lanka: Internment, Rehabilitation, and Surrenderees in the Prison System

Photo courtesy GlobalPost. Stephen Hird/Reuters. 1.     Internment The first type of detention I looked at was the internment of IDPs from May 2009 to December 2009, immediately following the war. This form of…

Calleigh McRaith Calleigh McRaith on 02/14/201202/22/2012
Colombo, End of war special edition, Features, Human Rights, Jaffna, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Reconciliation, Vavuniya

The End of War in Sri Lanka: Reflections and Challenges released as iBook

From 19 – 27 May 2010,  ran a special edition on the end of war in Sri Lanka. Over this week alone, the site received over forty-thousand readers and exclusively featured over eighty-thousand words…

Groundviews Groundviews on 02/07/201208/17/2013
Colombo, Human Security, Jaffna, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Reconciliation, Vavuniya

Optics and politics of grief

Photo courtesy asianews.it UTHR(J), Special Report No: 34, December 2009 Moderating the session with Dr. Abuelaish Izzeldin, the author of at the Galle Literary Festival this year was memorable not so much for…

Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa on 01/29/201201/29/2012
Colombo, Features, Jaffna, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Reconciliation, Vavuniya, War Crimes

LLRC REPORT: REASON, REFORM, ROADMAP

Photo, courtesy JDS, is of Sri Lanka’s President reading the LLRC report on a ‘‘ at his official residence. Though not without flaws and lacuna, the long awaited LLRC report does not disappoint, and…

Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka on 12/21/201112/28/2011
Colombo, Jaffna, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Reconciliation, Vavuniya, War Crimes

The LLRC report and ‘accountability’ in Sri Lanka

Readers will find no big surprises after reading the final report of Sri Lanka’s . It is very much what most people were expecting. A document that looks to the future, exonerates the…

Gibson Bateman Gibson Bateman on 12/20/2011
Jaffna, Peace and Conflict, Poetry, Vavuniya

Measuring (After Nandikadal)

An embarrassment, to forget over short eats, ignore the bundle on his back, that sloshed set of poetry he cannot avoid carrying, an appendix, reptilian brain, fascination with naming elements of the…

Indran Amirthanayagam Indran Amirthanayagam on 12/04/201111/30/2011
Colombo, Identity, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Reconciliation, Vavuniya

Response to Michael Roberts’ ‘Turning Former LTTE Personnel into Sri Lankan Citizens?’

Photo courtesy Michael Roberts’ recent piece on the government’s rehabilitation programme of alleged former LTTE combatants is generally approving of that programme, not only directly but also indirectly in making the kinds…

Ambika Satkunanathan Ambika Satkunanathan on 11/27/2011
Advocacy, Human Rights, Human Security, IDPs and Refugees, Jaffna, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Reconciliation, UN Panel Report, Vavuniya, War Crimes

Post-war situation in Northern Sri Lanka & Prospects for Reconciliation

Changes since the end of the war: 30 months after the end of war, more people travel between the once off limits North[i] and the South and many of the travel restrictions…

WATCHDOG WATCHDOG on 11/19/201111/19/2011
Human Security, IDPs and Refugees, Satire, Vavuniya

What You Didn’t Know About The Vanni And Were Too Afraid To Ask

Prologue This is the continuing story of Gajaman Nona, an accomplished Sinhala poet, who was born in 1758. Emerging from a time capsule, GN finds herself in year 2011. The lady, who…

on 11/15/2011
Advocacy, Batticaloa, Features, Human Rights, Jaffna, Long Reads, Media and Communications, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Reconciliation, Vavuniya

Women Left Behind: Truth Commissioning in Sri Lanka

A mother displaying the photographs of his sons which are missing during the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) session in Trincomalee, December, 3-5, 2010. Photo courtesy Centre for Human Rights [i]…

Jo Baker Jo Baker on 11/11/201111/10/2011
Features, Identity, Long Reads, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Reconciliation, Vavuniya

Turning Former LTTE Personnel into Sri Lankan Citizens?

Editors note: Also read a response to this article by Valkryie, titled ] Whatever the death toll during the last stages of Eelam War IV in 2009 the official government data in that…

Michael Roberts Michael Roberts on 10/28/201111/27/2011
Human Rights, IDPs and Refugees, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Vavuniya

Re-displacement of Menik Farm inmates to Kombavil (Mullativu)

On 20th September 2011 the Government of Sri Lanka had announced that Menik Farm, hosting 7394 persons (2097 families) will be closed down.[i] The solution imposed on these people has been to…

WATCHDOG WATCHDOG on 10/03/201110/03/2011
Human Rights, Human Security, Mannar, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Vavuniya

Grease Devils and Police and Army attacks on civilians in Mannar and Vavuniya

    Police attacks on civilians in Komarasankulam (Vavuniya district) 11 men were arrested by the Vavuniya Police in Komarasankulam at 10.30 pm on 20th August 2011.  The men were severely beaten…

WATCHDOG WATCHDOG on 10/02/2011

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