Unending End Game
The end game is not ending. It is being drawn out with an ever increasing toll to the lives and suffering of the civilian population estimated by the UN and the international…
Human Security
None Other Than Mahinda Rajapaksha!
Lasantha Wickrematunga faced his last moments at an unusual time at an unusual place. From the moment he left home the day he was murdered, he was aware that he was being…
The LTTE – A Spent Force?
A side issue arising from Professor Michael Roberts’s According to Professor Roberts, dissident SL Tamils are of the view that the LTTE has passed its use-by date and a new leadership is…
Resonating the interests of chauvinism? – My response to the two articles by Prof. Michael Roberts
I would like to preface my response to Professor Michael Robert’s two articles (). By writing this, I have no wish to devalue my friendship with Professor Roberts. For at the end…
Government and LTTE differ on value of life
:Â Researchers at the Sri Lankan Ministry of Defence and their counterparts at the LTTE Humanitarian Research Institute at Puthukkudiyirippu (formerly based in Kilinochchi and which did not at any time have a…
An “unpatriotic†appeal for a UN mechanism to protect civilians
These are difficult times for all. The GoSL is fighting a humanitarian war to liberate innocent civilians from the scourge of man-eating Tigers and claims that the safety and welfare of these…
A recent trip to Vavuniya: For the future looks dark and gloomy
Though I have been following the news about the war in Vanni, and the damages made to human lives and properties, I never thought it would be so bad until I went…
What’s wrong with Michael Roberts’ enthusiasm for a “knock-out blow?â€
Vasantha Raja, Editor, www.lankaeye.com  After reading Michael Roberts’ “Dilemmas at wars end” and his subsequent “Clarifications & Counter-offensive” my curiosity above all was to find out what kind of logic could have led…
Let us make the bombers accountable to us!
As I write more than 250,000 civilians are trapped in jungle near Mullaitivu. They have little food, water and medicine. They are being injured and killed. They need help. Please speak to…
To The Courts, In Remorse
Drop all charges against Tissanaiyagam. his glaucoma needs treatment and his wife will be grateful, …and the Dean of the Diplomatic Corps will feel less inclined to speak at public acts of…
From the ‘sole representative’ to the ‘sole alternative’: Justice for, and within the Tamil Community
With the position of spokesperson for, and sole representative of the Tamil community set to become vacant upon the projected defeat of the LTTE, one would hope that space would be created…
Thoughts on violence against and the future of independent media in Sri Lanka by Dinidu de Alwis
Dinidu de Alwis, a well known and well read blogger and journalist in Sri Lanka shares some thoughts on the future of independent media in Sri Lanka and the significant challenges it…
Ashes at the Stake – For Lasantha
I remember the day I heard Richard was killed Almost twenty years ago. Far away in the diaspora I sat all night My back bent and still. Regimes shifted, People still disappeared…
Protest march by lawyers over Lasantha Wickremetunge’s assassination
Video courtesy Vikalpa video. For details, read .
One of Us
During civilized periods in the history of kingdoms courtiers, or the king’s person himself, in audience with the gadfly, would offer the fellow death or exile. These days assassins butcher their fly…