Sri Lanka’s Post-War Crisis: War Crimes and Channel 4
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…
War Crimes
The ramifications of the Channel 4 documentary ‘Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields’
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…
Twitter explodes with reactions and responses to Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields
Channel 4 broadcast Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields tonight in the UK, which it describes as “a hard-hitting investigation into the final weeks of the Sri Lankan civil war, featuring devastating video evidence…
Checkmate, Rajapakse! The UN Report, Militarism and Public Religion in Sri Lanka
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…
When allegations become evidence
Media and advocacy groups make mistakes. It’s true. The reason for the errors can vary from simple human error, time constraints resulting in insufficient research to subtle manipulation of facts and wording…
Giving the middle finger: Sri Lanka’s conflicting responses to war crimes allegations
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…
How Sri Lanka Defeated Terrorism, Defence Seminar: Observations from a participant
From the 31st of April to the 2nd of May I attended the Defense Seminar organized by the Sri Lankan Army. I wish to draw on what I saw as some of…
Mojo for mayhem or source of serendipity? Sri Lankan Army’s model to defeat terrorism
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…
US Defence Attache’s observations on the end of war in Sri Lanka (Updated with US State Department response)
The on-going ‘Defeating Terrorism: The Sri Lankan Experience‘ seminar is providing much food for thought. by Dr. David Kilcullen published on this site is based on a speech delivered at this seminar.…
The Global Context of Counterterrorism: Strategy, Ethics, and Sustainability in Sri Lanka’s COIN Experience
[Editors note: We were forwarded Dr. Kilcullen’s speech by someone present at the on-going “Defeating Terrorism: The Sri Lankan Experience” seminar in Colombo. The person who sent us the email noted that…
Is the war crimes video confirmed by UN as authentic “unrepresentative and irrelevant”?
The Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial summary or arbitrary executions, Christof Heyns, presented at the 17th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council sessions in Geneva today found, after…
A robust debate on No Fire Zones (NFZs) and International Humanitarian Law: Artful dodging of war crimes in Sri Lanka?
Original image courtesy PEDRO UGARTE/AFP/Getty Images A central challenge of curating content on , the explosive new book on the end of war by former UN spokesperson Gordon Weiss. What follows are…
The continuing disinformation campaigns in Sri Lanka: Is mainstream media complicit?
For the second time in a fortnight, subscribers to the newspaper have been entreated to an interesting disinformation campaign that appears to be conducted with those embedded within, and possibly with the…
A review of ‘The Cage: The Fight for Sri Lankan & The Last Days of the Tamil Tigers’
I was elated to take delivery of my copy of with articles perceived to be against the incumbent government, that this tome will be freely sold in bookstores. The publication and release…
V-Day 2nd Anniversary: Peace Under Pressure
Original image by J. Adam Huggins for Every mayoralty in Paris has tablets on which are inscribed the names of those from that locality who died in the many wars which France…
