India makes rather a hash of things – again

Received wisdom for some years has been that Washington has developed a close understanding with Delhi on security issues relating to Lanka, and to put it loosely, had subcontracted its interests in this respect to India.

Tamils are sub human

As in the medieval Mahavamsa, so today, the Tamils are no longer human.

Sri Lanka's war on the Tamils is about racism, not terrorism

THE horror that is unfolding in Sri Lanka becomes possible because of the silence that surrounds it.

Cluster bombs, concentration camps, attacks on civilians and media … Sri Lanka’s lies

Sri Lanka’s war on the Tamil people has reached an extremely brutal level. Many neutral observers and human rights activists have called it ‘genocide’. While brutal attacks against Tamils have reached a new height, lies spread by the government have also reached a new height.

Inclusion the way to real peace

ON May Day in 1993, Sri Lankan president Ranasinghe Premadasa was in the back streets of Colombo, greeting supporters as they streamed into the capital for the day's festivities, when he was killed by a suicide bomb. Had the conventions of diplomacy permitted it, I would probably have been at his side.

How 30 years of civil war in Sri Lanka have devastated the country’s ethnic Tamil population

For the past 3 months, at least 300,000 people in Sri Lanka have endured suffering as a result of the country’s ongoing civil war between the Singhalese-dominated government, the SL Army (SLA), and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

Self-sacrifice for the greater good has a long tradition

The gathering momentum of global Tamil protest against Sri Lanka’s genocidal war has included acts of self immolation by Tamil activists in India and Europe. This form of protest appears at first sight to be exceptional and unusual; in need of explanation when sitting alongside the other more accepted forms of public dissent.

The Diaspora as genocide resistors

The Tamil case for genocide has been extensively discussed in a series of articles in this paper among others. We have shown structural similarities between the genocide of the Tamils and other historic genocides including the Nazi and Rwandan examples.

Vanni: the "most ignored human tragedy"

"There were dead women and children all around, I saw that and I began to strike my cheeks and cry. I won't forget this until the day I die," said Kalaivaani, who had narrowly escaped from the Sri Lankan government’s bombardment of the civilian safety-zone in Vanni.

International obligations towards the Tamil people

The Tamil case for genocide has been extensively discussed in a series of articles in this paper among others. We have shown structural similarities between the genocide of the Tamils and other historic genocides including the Nazi and Rwandan examples. For lack of space, we will not repeat our case here.

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