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21 Years of Hopeless Existence
Image credit PaperMag June 20th was World Refugee Day. For many it is about remembering the plights of many people the world over, who today are without rights, a state and an…
Image credit PaperMag June 20th was World Refugee Day. For many it is about remembering the plights of many people the world over, who today are without rights, a state and an…
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…
Reaction to the recent programme by UK’s Channel 4, , has great variety, ranging from “Ah, didn’t we tell you all along, the Sinhalese and their army are nasty people,” from the…
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…
Apologists for the Sri Lankan government have marshaled a number of arguments in response to the growing pressure on accountability for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Some are less clever than…
Following the broadcast of ‘Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields’ on the 14th of June and its public release – for seven days – on Channel 4’s website, there has been an overwhelming international…
Rwandan President Paul Kagame. Image courtesy Wikipedia For many of us in Sri Lanka the only thing we’re really likely to know about Rwanda is that a genocide happened there in 1994.…
The recently telecast Channel 4 documentary on ‘Killing Fields of Sri Lanka’ sheds no new light (despite claims to the contrary), in terms of groundbreaking evidence, regarding the incidents related to the…
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…
‘ . The idea that this form of indoctrination should be forced upon university students, and its acceptance by many in the country, is a remarkable detraction from what we strive…
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…
[Author’s note: As you are probably aware the leadership training for undergraduates is now well under way in 28 military installations around the country. Although the government has stated that this will be…
The three day long seminar titled “Defeating Terrorism: Sri Lankan Experience” conducted by the SL Army and Ministry of Defence was concluded recently. During the event, top level military and civil officers…
Mr. A Nawan, Deputy Solicitor General of Sri Lanka This symbolic screen grab is from a short video on Channel 4’s website, on the occasion of screening in Geneva a one-hour documentary…
Since May 2009, we have been told by government that the Sri Lanka army defeated the LTTE using a combination of new tactics and strategies, undergirded by an unswerving political will helped…