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…
IDPs and Refugees
Calling a spade a spade: Michael Roberts’ ‘moral relativism’
Dear Sanjana, I am responding to Michael Roberts’ two articles , and since about half of article-B was devoted to the counter offensive aimed at Lionel Bopage and me, I do hope…
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 undue humanitarian concerns? – Responding to Michael Roberts
Michael Roberts in an article published on recently suggests that in the context of “an uncertain number of Tamil ‘civilians’ trapped within the beleaguered and shrinking LTTE territory…emotion and humanitarian concerns have eclipsed…
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…
Detailed response to Jeevan Thiagarajah’s ‘Settling conflicts after the war and doing what is right’
When I read Jeevan Thiagarajah’s piece published on a few days ago several questions sprung to mind. Why is the article trying so desperately to be apolitical? How can we solve conflicts if…
DILEMMAS AT WARS END: CLARIFICATIONS & COUNTER-OFFENSIVE
My essay DILEMMAS (note the plural) was also sent to a circle of friends and has appeared in other outlets, viz., http://sacrificialdevotionnetwork.wordpress.com and the , 11 February 2009. I thank all those…
Painting the tomb white
The disturbances in Sri Lanka are slowly drawing to an end. I call it disturbances as many times we have heard the authorities say that it is not a war. But if…
A response to Michael Robert’s Dilemma at Wars End: Thoughts on Hard Realities
This is a response to Michael Robert’s article published on Groundviews recently titled. I am disappointed that a historian of Dr Michael Roberts’ stature and humanitarian sensibility is seduced by the triumphalist…
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…
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…