Sri Lanka amongst challenges to 'never again' myth - Annan

The cry of “never again,” raised by so many in the years after the end of the Holocaust 1945, has rung increasingly hollow with the passing decades, Kofi Annan, former secretary general of the United Nations, protested in an op-ed Friday in the International Herald Tribune. “The Holocaust remains unique … but instances of genocide and large-scale brutality have continued to multiply — from Cambodia to the Congo , from Bosnia to Rwanda , from Sri Lanka to Sudan ,” he said. “It is surprisingly hard to find education programs that have clearly succeeded in linking the history of the Holocaust...

Britain in Jaffna

Britain must play its role in re-establishing the Tamil homeland’s connections to the world.

Diaspora must continue to defy

We live in an era when the Sri Lankan state is callously trying to eradicate the Tamil nation and its identity within the borders of Sri Lanka , first through mass killings and now the forced Sinhalisation of Tamil homelands. At this time, those of the Tamil nation residing outside the clutches of the island’s government play an essential role in safeguarding the nation and vocalising its stifled aspirations for an endurable peace – a two state solution. Sri Lanka ’s bullying of the Tamil diaspora is more than an authoritative state tightening its grip on civil liberties - it is the ruthless...

Chinese embrace may prove costly to Sri Lanka

China is recreating its Africa story in Sri Lanka. Little China enclaves are sprouting up in the Buddhist majority island nation in the Indian Ocean as President Mahinda Rajapaksa has spread the red carpet all the way from Colombo to Jaffna.

Taking stock on the first anniversary of Internationally abetted genocide

Tamils, members of one of the oldest nations of human civilization living in their historical homeland now divided between India and Sri Lanka, as well as living in many parts of the world as diaspora, observed with trauma the first anniversary of the genocide committed and continued to be committed on their nation in the island of Sri Lanka. While the Sinhala state in the island openly and officially celebrated the occasion as its victory, Tamils experienced the phenomenon as a vicious unprecedented trial on human civilization by an international system that has been working against them...

British policy must align with the times

It is now clear that the time for 'quite diplomacy' in dealing with Sri Lanka's spiralling political crisis is now past.

Friends like these

The Sri Lanka option: The rush to learn lessons from the obliteration of the Tamil Tigers

Thought crime, torture and kingly fiat

The detention, trial, imprisonment and subsequent pardon of the journalist Tissanayagam reveals that the rule of law no longer applies in Sri Lanka.

War by other means

This is the text of a speech delivered in London on Aril 29, at the fifth anniversary of the death of Sivaram. "Even the most casual observer of the Sri Lankan state’s conduct can see that the situation today is the continuation of war by other means."

Rajapaksas and War Crimes

There is little doubt the war crimes issue would have any impact on this parliamentary election. The April 8 election has nothing serious on its platforms. It’s all about athletes, film stars, cricketers, journalists and also lumpens, and more about these “wonderful” personalities.

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