Sri Lanka’s War Burden: Two years on
Photo credit Eranga Jayawardena/AP, Encyclopædia Britannica Online During the last couple of months, the former UN spokesperson in Sri Lanka – Mr Gordon Weiss has been promoting his book titled “The Cage”…
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Can a ‘Sinhala patriot’ explain pesticides, arsenic and fertiliser?
Photo courtesy Arsenic and toxins found in baby rice food – what you need to know There is a new Sinhala nationalist political trend that now throws out a completely novel discourse,…
KUMAR SANGAKKARA’S COWDREY LECTURE
Photo courtesy Cric When Kumar Chokshanada Sangakkara, Trinity Lion, Ryde Gold Medallist, and former captain of Sri Lanka, delivered what can only be called a magisterial oration at the 2011 MCC Spirit…
The attack on TNA Parliamentarians in Jaffna: A timeline of outrageous denials (Updated)
TNA MPs at the assault location. Photo courtesy Transcurrents A comment left on left recently by a well-known commentator David Blacker, notes, “When you attempt to use terrorism to further your goals,…
Resource book for historians, researchers and media: A year of tweeting from Groundviews
Visualisation of our Twitter followers. See larger version here. We used the web service Tweet Book to capture all our tweets over the past year in a single PDF. We’ve tweeted thousands of…
Photographic evidence of war crimes in Sri Lanka, or not? (Updated)
“The resulting carnage, photographed by Harun, was indescribable, but worse was to come.” The Living Scotsman’s review of by former UN spokesperson Gordon Weiss flags, inter alia, photos taken by Ret. Col….
The war that confronts us: Looking at Sri Lanka’s official responses to Channel 4 video
Image courtesy Channel 4 Channel 4’s is anything but understated. It is designed to shock, even if you are the most hardened of viewers. Images of blood-soaked bodies assail you from every…
Provoking, persecuting and pushing Sri Lanka: Enough!
Photo credit REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte: Special Forces Combat soldiers ride in a parade during a war victory ceremony in Colombo May 27, 2011. Sri Lanka holds a military parade and memorial for fallen…
Thoughts on a documentary: We are complicit in Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields
It was the most gruesome of visual feasts and it when it ended, the most disorienting sense followed. One is struck, not by the extremity of human suffering; but by stillness, by…
Exclusive interview with Callum McCrae, Director of ‘Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields’ produced by Channel 4
caught up with Callum McCrae, Director of the highly controversial and very disturbing film by Channel 4, Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields, in New York, a day before the film was due to…
Groundviews blocked in Sri Lanka (Updated)
Update, 7.40pm: As we note in our tweet, we wish the Sri Lankan government made up its mind! This site, and even Transparency International’s site are now unblocked on SLT ADSL. The…
Exclusive: Syllabi and timetables from compulsory University ‘leadership’ training course
Image from Virakesari Online. [Since the time this article was first published, the service used to host the embedded PDFs requires registration and a fee to download the documents locally. All of…
Months after the 18th Amendment: Is the Executive really more accountable to Parliament?
Image via BBC The 18th Amendment, we were told, would make the President more accountable to Parliament. The Editorial of the noted back in the day, By making it mandatory for the…
Checkmate, Rajapakse! The UN Report, Militarism and Public Religion in Sri Lanka
The author of this article, in January 2012, wanted us to take it down. Although published under a pseudonym on , the real name of the author and the full content of…
The limits of the Mahinda Chintanaya: FTZ workers and Buddhist monks rise up against government
Photo courtesy Vikalpa Protests in Katunayake Free Trade Zone: No police in sight has audio and video footage of the violent protests over the course of the week in the Katunayake Free…