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  • Fonseka's resignation letter

    Nov 24
    General Sarath Fonseka, Sri Lanka Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), sent his letter of resignation to the Sri Lankan President, Mahinda Rajapakse on November 12. His letter was accompanied by a 17 point Annex setting out the factors that led to his resignation. These factors included his dissatisfaction at being stripped of his position as Army Chief to be appointed CDS with fewer powers and responsibilities, as well the government allegedly putting Indian troops on high alert about the possibility of a coup in Sri Lanka. The body of his letter, as published in the Sri Lankan Guardian, is reproduced below. The annex is reproduced separately on this page.:
  • Sarath Fonseka: the frying pan or the fire?

    This piece is written on the assumption that Sarath Fonseka (SF) will stand for the presidency and be supported by a Joint Opposition (JO) of the UNF, the JVP and possibly minority parties.

  • Protest unsettles Victoria's Secret's catwalk
    Several American activists protested in front of the midtown Manhattan New York State armory building where Victoria's Secret catwalk event was being held Thursday, November 19.
  • Rally for refugees in Toronto
    A Tamil Canadian protester chokes back tears as she recalls a cellphone conversation she had several days ago with a cousin detained in a Sri Lankan camp holding Tamils displaced during the country's civil war.
  • Fonseka invigorates speculation of Presidency aspirations
    General Sarath Fonseka resigned from the Sri Lankan Army on November 12, and in doing so, fuelled speculation that he intends to run for President at the next election.
  • Rights advocate seeks end to impunity for war crimes
    The experience of growing up and beginning her work as a human rights advocate in apartheid South Africa has never left Navi Pillay. It is an experience that deeply informs her work as the United Nations high commissioner for human rights.
  • Kicked out of the office
    Following General Sarath Fonseka’s resignation from the Sri Lankan Army on November 12, the government not only relieved him “with immediate effect.
  • Jaffna an open prison say visitors
    Activists who visited Jaffna, in northern Sri Lanka, after years away, expressed dismay at it being an open prison with a need for ‘special visas’.
  • Historical Constant
    Why the outcome of Sri Lanka’s elections is irrelevant.
  • Government faces challenge says IMF
    The International Monetary Fund has declared that Sri Lanka’s budget deficit targets for 2009 and 2010 are challenging, due to the slowdown in growth
  • Sri Lanka forces fire into Haitian civilians
    In Haiti on November 10, United Nations peacekeepers from Sri Lanka fired live ammunition resulting in injuries to civilians, reported Inner City Press.
  • Tamils recall tortured past
    The scars in Kumar’s hands are zipped-up wounds. Though the flesh is repaired, the marks are alive. You could almost reach out and open them, see the blood trickle out softly to tell a story.
  • In Sri Lanka, anger over detainees' fate
    Six months after Sri Lanka's decades-old civil war ended with a final assault, about 200,000 people remain trapped in overcrowded government-run camps that were once safe havens for those fleeing the conflict.
  • Reconciliation cannot come without parity and dignity

    When the Second World War was ending in the Western Theatre in May 1945, the British public made one of its wisest decisions in history in sending Winston Churchill to political retirement and electing Clement Atlee who was able to evoke new hopes about freedom of peoples all over the world by announcing independence to colonies.

  • Witness reports
    “I viewed what happened on the beach below through the lens of a camera recorder from the seventh floor of a building located next to the Bambalapitya railway station”, Assistant News Editor of TNL News channel
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