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Colombo, Human Rights, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Downgraded to Repressed: Assessing Sri Lanka’s Ever Shrinking Civic Space

The CIVICUS Monitor, an organization that tracks the status of civic space around the world, has downgraded Sri Lanka’s civic space in 2023 to repressed from obstructed due to authorities attacking protesters,…

Groundviews Groundviews on 12/06/202312/06/2023
Colombo, Human Rights, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, War Crimes, Youth

Children are the First Victims of Every Conflict

Children have always been the most vulnerable and innocent casualties of any conflict. Past conflicts have had a devastating impact on children’s lives and ongoing conflicts continue to perpetuate their suffering. The…

Mohammed Mahuruf Mohammed Mahuruf on 12/04/2023
Colombo, International, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Understanding Kissinger

For 30 years if not more, Henry Kissinger, who died this week aged 100, shaped the course of US foreign policy and in one sense defined global politics. A Nobel Prize Laureate…

Uditha Devapriya Uditha Devapriya on 12/03/2023
Batticaloa, Human Rights, justice, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Transitional Justice

The Mylanthanai Massacre: A Continuing Cycle of Impunity

Nallasera Nallamma was cooking lunch when the soldiers stormed into her remote village of Mylanthanai, one hour northwest of Batticaloa town, on August 9, 1992. They rounded up the villagers, separating the…

Ama Koralage Ama Koralage on 11/24/202311/25/2023
Colombo, Human Rights, International, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Kill the Families

  When I set off for Columbia University to become a foreign correspondent, to cover wars and peacemaking, famine,   floods, murders, kidnappings, larceny on a global scale, I never imagined that…

Indran Amirthanayagam Indran Amirthanayagam on 11/24/202311/24/2023
Colombo, Human Rights, Memorialisation, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Reconciliation

Remembering the Dead

As a Catholic, I start November with All Souls Day remembering our departed loved ones; as a Tamil, November ends with remembering the Tamil militants who sacrificed their lives for a Tamil…

Maureen Ernest Maureen Ernest on 11/23/202311/25/2023
Colombo, Human Rights, justice, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, War Crimes

Three Poems for Palestine

   APOCALYPSE The thunder of horses’ hooves No longer evokes terror This comes from the skies Life limps amidst the craters, The suffocating smoke, Brimstone would be a welcome manna from heaven…

Premini Amerasinghe Premini Amerasinghe on 11/22/2023
Colombo, Human Rights, International, justice, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

“Absence of Evidence is Not Evidence of Absence”

The title of the article comes from a comment made by Donald Rumsfeld when he was US Defence Secretary for President George Bush and when they learnt that the UN Monitoring, Verification…

Dr Ameer Ali Dr Ameer Ali on 11/21/202311/21/2023
Colombo, Corruption, Economy, Human Rights, justice, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Still, the Mirage

The Supreme Court judgement about the Rajapaksa culpability for Sri Lanka’s economic ruin couldn’t have come at a better time. The sense of hope generated by the ending of chronic shortages and…

Tisaranee Gunasekara Tisaranee Gunasekara on 11/19/202311/19/2023
Arts and Theatre, Colombo, Human Rights, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, War Crimes

German Artist Otto Dix Depicts the Horrors and Futility of War

Artists and writers throughout the ages have depicted the horrors of war in graphic detail in their work. From Wilfred Own’s poems about World War I to Picasso’s painting Guernica on the…

Minoli de Soysa Minoli de Soysa on 11/15/202311/15/2023
Colombo, Human Rights, International, justice, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, War Crimes

Indefinite Security Responsibility or Infinite Control Over Gaza?

“Those who want to thwart the possibility of a Palestine State should support the strengthening of Hamas and the transfer of money to Hamas. This is part of our strategy” (Benjamin Netanyahu…

Dr Ameer Ali Dr Ameer Ali on 11/11/2023
Colombo, Human Rights, International, International Relations, justice, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, War Crimes

Palestine and Israel, International Law and Sri Lanka’s Grim Experience

Recent events in the Middle East have left people throughout the world horrified, especially since so many of the injured and killed have been children. Those with widely varying backgrounds and beliefs…

Savitri Hensman Savitri Hensman on 11/10/202311/10/2023
Colombo, Culture, Identity, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Religion and faith

The Future of Sinhala Buddhist Nationalism

During his recent visit to the United States, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, the leader of the National People’s Power, addressed an interesting question from a Sri Lankan resident. The person highlighted the significant…

Shashik Silva and Ammaarah Nilafdeen Shashik Silva and Ammaarah Nilafdeen on 11/07/2023
Colombo, Diaspora, Human Rights, justice, Peace and Conflict, Poetry, Politics and Governance

Tamilian in Paris

Weekly   The restaurant served idly and dosai around the corner from Notre Dame, before the fire, in a perfect union of India and Europe, while at my table a waitress asked…

Indran Amirthanayagam Indran Amirthanayagam on 11/06/2023
Colombo, Human Rights, justice, Media and Communications, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Writers Under Siege

Challenges in Addressing Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists in Sri Lanka

In a report on Sri Lanka presented to the UN Human Rights Council in September 2023, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights had stated, “lack of accountability at all levels remains…

Ruki Fernando Ruki Fernando on 11/02/202311/02/2023

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