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Karaitivu 1985: A Forgotten Anti-Tamil pogrom in the Shadow of Sri Lanka’s Genocide
File photograph: Karaitivu Beach (Gowshan Nandakumar) It was a quiet morning on 12 April 1985 when Karaitivu, a small coastal Tamil village in the Amparai district of Sri Lanka’s Eastern Province, was plunged into terror. As villagers prepared to celebrate the Tamil New Year, armed mobs - composed largely of Muslim men and backed by Sri Lankan security forces - descended upon the village and…

Growth statistics mask deepening economic crisis

Jan 23, 2007
The Economist
There is a growing scepticism about the veracity of Sri Lanka's GDP statistics.

A day of national grief

Dec 26, 2006
All sections of Tamil society came together in common appreciation of the freedom struggle.

Depopulation is part of Rajapakse's genocidal war

Dec 26, 2006
D.B.S. Jeyaraj
The Sinhala supremacist regime of President Mahinda Rajapakse has a major politico - military objective against which the Tamil people are regarded as being of no consequence

Licence to arrest and torture

Dec 12, 2006
The PTA provides an incentive for interrogating police to obtain confessions from detainees by any means, including torture'

US: LTTE is not a threat to region or world

Dec 12, 2006
‘The Tigers are representing the Tamils in negotiations with Sri Lanka’

Divided experts present four different proposals

Dec 6, 2006
The main issues of contention dividing the 'majority' report and other, dissenting reports, are matters like the extent of devolution: the dissenters, all Sinhalese, want to strengthen the unitary state while the majority group want devolution.

Colombo bombing exposes security failings

Dec 1, 2006
Defence Secretary has a narrow escape as his Presidential-style screen is penetrated. Luck, not security, say analysts

Singh: 'Civilian deaths of utmost concern and sorrow'

Nov 21, 2006
Indian Prime Minisiter Manmohan Singh has written to Mr. Vaiko, the General Secretary of the pro-LTTE MDMK in Tamil Nadu, sharing his concerns about the Sri Lankan government's attacks on civilians.

Slain aid workers mourned as probe drags

Nov 14, 2006
"In this kind of situation we have to be very cautious because [the investigation] can be manipulated"

‘They want to wipe us Tamils out’

Nov 14, 2006
Daniel Pepper
Thousands flee Sri Lanka on wave of terror.
Growth statistics mask deepening economic crisis
A day of national grief
Depopulation is part of Rajapakse's genocidal war
Licence to arrest and torture
US: LTTE is not a threat to region or world
Divided experts present four different proposals
Colombo bombing exposes security failings
Singh: 'Civilian deaths of utmost concern and sorrow'
Slain aid workers mourned as probe drags
‘They want to wipe us Tamils out’
Growth statistics mask deepening economic crisis
A day of national grief
Depopulation is part of Rajapakse's genocidal war
Licence to arrest and torture
US: LTTE is not a threat to region or world
Divided experts present four different proposals
Colombo bombing exposes security failings
Singh: 'Civilian deaths of utmost concern and sorrow'
Slain aid workers mourned as probe drags
‘They want to wipe us Tamils out’