We reproduce in full a statement by the Tamil National Alliance that responds to a large excerpt from the report of the UN Panel of Experts looking into allegations of war crimes…
: The numbers do not add up. Census says 430,000 people resided in the Vanni mid-2008. A year later, 290,000 are shepherded by the Army into “welfare centers” where one hundred men,…
Rajiva Wijesinha, MP, in his column published in the today, expressly notes that, “I have now had an opportunity to read through what is supposed to be the Report of the Panel…
Over 4 years ago, on a short visit to the US, I was introduced to an Elementary – Teacher in a public school in Brooklyn, at a private party. The adjective for…
newspaper published today sections of what appears to be a large excerpt from the report of the UN Panel of Experts looking into allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity in…
Photo credit: Eranga Jayawardena / AP, taken from At a recent seminar at the in Paris, a team from the National University of Singapore’s Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS), on a Paris-London…
Photo courtesy Inner City Press Finally, yes finally, one big phase of the game came to a close with just a whimper. Now, its the next phase of the game. On 12 April,…
Almost one year ago, first featured an interview with Dr. Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu. At the time, just after the parliamentary elections leading from the decisive presidential election, the government was riding a wave…
In consideration of the vague exposition on the reasons behind the meeting between Ban Ki-moon and representatives of the Sri Lankan Government in New York on the 23rd of February 2011, as…
To rephrase the words of Marx and Engels: a spectre is haunting Sri Lanka – the spectre of an international investigation. More specifically, a demand has been made by the West, and…
Image courtesy Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) is pleased to announce the launch of two archives covering media reports on and submissions to the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC). The…
On May 19th 2009 the last shots in the nearly three decade long war between the Sri Lankan state and the LTTE were fired. The end came in the form of the…
Featuring satire, poetry, photography and video to critical commentary and analysis, covered major political events and processes in Sri Lanka over 2010. The site’s comprehensive coverage of the first commemoration of the end…
[Authors note: Mullivaikal is where the last phase of the war between Sri Lankan Armed Forces (SLAF) and Liberation Tiger of TamilEelam (LTTE) took place. According to the Government of Sri Lanka,…
Photo courtesy Inner City Press There is nothing to scratch heads for, to find the reason why Moon at the UN and Mahinda in Colombo agreed to have the UN Secretary General’s…
