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Transitional Justice

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#GoHomeGota, #GotaGoHome, Colombo, Human Rights, justice, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Reconciliation, Transitional Justice

Questions of Justice and Accountability

As videos of helicopters taking off in the early hours of Tuesday May 10 appeared on social media, rumours swirled that some members of the Rajapaksa family had fled Colombo. While the…

Mirak Raheem Mirak Raheem on 05/21/202205/21/2022
Colombo, Memorialisation, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Transitional Justice, War Crimes

From Mullivaikkal to Nakba and Ballymurphy, Truth is the First Victim

Sri Lanka is grappling with its worst economic crisis since its independence in 1948. But amid this serious economic situation, Tamils on the island and around there world are going to commemorate…

Thamil Ananthavinayagan Thamil Ananthavinayagan on 05/18/202205/18/2022
Jaffna, Memorialisation, Moving Images, Transitional Justice, Writers Under Siege

The Brother Who Never Came Back: 15 Years Since the Disappearance of Subramaniam Ramachandran

“Even today I believe he will return but if he doesn’t, let him remain missing. If you want to report that he disappeared on the 15th, you can do that. We would…

Selvaraja Rajasegar Selvaraja Rajasegar on 02/16/202202/17/2022
Colombo, Human Rights, International Relations, justice, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Reconciliation, Transitional Justice

Human Rights – Reconciliation or Defiance?

Protection and justice for the people of Sri Lanka will be discussed by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) at its 49th session from February 28 to April 1. In the…

Savitri Hensman Savitri Hensman on 02/12/202202/12/2022
Colombo, Human Rights, justice, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Reconciliation, Transitional Justice

Twelve Cries From Home: Searing Accounts from Families of the Disappeared

“Sri Lanka has the world’s second-highest number of cases registered with the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances. Since the 1980s, an estimated 60,000 to 100,000 people from all…

Groundviews Groundviews on 02/01/202202/03/2022
Colombo, Human Rights, justice, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Reconciliation, Transitional Justice

Taking the Military to Task with International Sanctions

While Sri Lanka grapples with an inevitable economic meltdown, the international community has not forgotten the country’s obligations to move towards a reconciled society through the process of transitional justice. One of…

Groundviews Groundviews on 01/17/202208/23/2022
Colombo, Human Rights, justice, Memorialisation, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Reconciliation, Transitional Justice

Desmond Tutu – An Inspiration and Challenge for Sri Lanka

Desmond Tutu was a black, South African, Christian male but in a world where colour, caste, class, ethnicity, religion, citizenship, sexuality and gender matter, he transcended all of that to be a…

Ruki Fernando Ruki Fernando on 12/31/202112/31/2021
Colombo, Human Rights, International Relations, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Transitional Justice

Time is Running Out to Stop Sri Lanka’s Slide into Mayhem

As the world marks Human Rights Day, two years of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s presidency and over one year of his government have seen Sri Lanka slide rapidly down the slippery slope to…

Minoli de Soysa Minoli de Soysa on 12/10/202112/23/2021
Colombo, Human Rights, justice, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Transitional Justice

The Constitutional Roots of the Problem of Disappearances

There is a bagful of tricks that Sri Lankan governments have been using when it comes to the issue of revealing the truth and providing justice to the families of the disappeared.…

Basil Fernando Basil Fernando on 11/24/202111/24/2021
Colombo, Human Rights, justice, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Transitional Justice

Pursuing Justice and Accountability for the Navy 11

There is an air of weariness around the small protest at Hulftsdorp outside of the Supreme Court. They silently unfold the banners as they have done countless times before, lining up in…

Minoli de Soysa Minoli de Soysa on 11/04/202111/05/2021
Colombo, Culture, Human Rights, justice, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Reconciliation, Transitional Justice

Healing Trauma Through Art: A Personal Journey

When Ajantha Ranaweera was ten years old, his brother who was in the army went missing in action. Several years later, he was declared dead. There were no remains. On that day in…

Groundviews Groundviews on 10/15/2021
Colombo, Human Rights, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), Reconciliation, Transitional Justice

Adhering to Human Rights – The Time for Words is Over

When a government contravenes the rule of law, crushes human rights, reneges on its responsibility of protecting its own citizens and begins attacking them instead, the international community will step in. It…

Minoli de Soysa Minoli de Soysa on 09/22/202110/11/2021
Colombo, Human Rights, justice, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Transitional Justice

Confronting the State on Disappearances

August 30 is marked across much of the world as the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances. For the families and the friends of the disappeared and human rights groups…

Mirak Raheem Mirak Raheem on 08/30/202108/30/2021
Colombo, Human Rights, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Reconciliation, Transitional Justice

New Mechanisms Required to Ensure Justice for the Disappeared

Today of the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances “Sri Lanka has the world’s second-highest number of cases registered with the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances.…

Basil Fernando Basil Fernando on 08/30/202108/30/2021
Colombo, Human Rights, justice, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Transitional Justice

Office on Missing Persons and the Zero Policy on Justice

One of the issues that demonstrated the approach of the Sri Lankan authorities to the problem of enforced disappearances can be discovered in a study of the narrative of the Office on…

Basil Fernando Basil Fernando on 06/04/202106/04/2021

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