Edifice of Retrogression
“There will be a political vacuum in the ethnic relations of this country as long as devolution is a non-starter, a mere word in the south. Despite the balance of forces, the…
Issues
War, abductions, killings, human rights violations and evictions
War, Abductions, killings, human rights violations, and evictions are synonyms widely used to describe the current situation in Sri Lanka especially in the international area. Are we facing the gravest period of…
A Small Victory for Human Rights
R.M.B Senanayake Photo credit: Dinidu De Alwis Hundreds of Tamils temporarily resident in Colombo in lodges were summarily bundled into buses and forcibly taken to the towns in the North & East.…
The flip side of picturesque: Estate workers in Sri Lanka
From Al Jazeera’s channel on YouTube. Also read Causing a storm in a tea plantation.
Sri Lanka : Decades of Displacement
From UNHCR’s video channel on YouTube. Also read Maps of Shame.
Sparks from the Notes of a Vagabond Mind
The Sri Lankan film director and writer, Tissa Abeysekara, is one of our greatest storytellers in both Sinhala and English. Two of the best examples are his short novel, Bringing Tony Home,…
Defence Secretary: The epitome of bad governance
The last column suggested that the tide of popular opinion may well be turning against the Rajapakse regime on account of the human rights and humanitarian situation, international censure and the rising…
Sri Lanka blocks TamilNet
Follow up to Tamilnet banned? – How to continue to access the site from Sri Lanka Original story available from here. [TamilNet, Tuesday, 19 June 2007, 15:32 GMT] TamilNet has completed 10th…
Tamilnet banned? – How to continue to access the site from Sri Lanka
Reports received by Groundviews indicate that Tamilnet is inaccessible from many major Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Sri Lanka. At the time of writing, the site is confirmed to be inaccessible from:…
SRI LANKAN DEMOCRACY IN PRACTICE: 1997 – 2007
On 27th June 2007, Tony Blair leaves office after a little over a decade as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He leaves office a reviled figure, largely due to the…
We will no longer tolerate …
It seems that students from the Sri Lankan diaspora are getting activated. An email is doing the roungs urging people to participate in an email campaign. I have pasted this email message…
(Rajapakse) & Co.
A Tragi-Comedy in Three Parts Act I “& Co.” is a political satire on Swarnavahini that’s quite hilarious, until of course we realise we are essentially laughing at the tragedy that is…
A question to the government and the LTTE
What place is home for Tamil, Muslim and Sinhala Sri Lankans? Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in. — Robert…
Half a Democracy
Photo credit: CDD This government does not represent me. It’s been said time and time again by the dissatisfied, the outraged and the incredulous community of Sri Lanka that is rapidly running…
“We could have put all of them in detention.” ?!?!
In a chilling and frank admission of the true mentality of this repugnant government, Defense Secretary Gothabaya Rajapaksa (not known for his tact) admits in an interview to Reuters that the eviction…
