Cleansing the east of Tamils (updated)

Sri Lanka is changing the demographics of the east with international assistance.

Where does the Army go after Vakarai?

A Sinhala nationalist newspaper questions the importance of capturing a tiny town that most Sri Lankans had never heard of before.

What alternative?

Had Ranil been President, a more subtle program of dismantling the LTTE would have ensued. With Rajapske, a cruder set of tactics is being used.

Not ignorance, but indifference.

There is no dignity in being victims of another genocide.

How war became possible

The ferocious war being thrust upon the Tamils is not the result of a series of unfortunate and unforeseen events.

New factors open India's door to the Tamils

Options hitherto frozen out by past history are being explored anew.

Rajapakse is bent on a dictated peace

He intends to remove the Eastern Province from the control of the Tamils and ultimately convert it into a Sinhalese majority area.

The name makes the news

Labels are the shorthand for judgments.

The fatal fantasy

A lesson in how fieldwork and analysis can lead to catastrophically wrong conclusions.

Rest in peace, Bala Annai

Your people will not rest until your dream of a free Eelam is realized.

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