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Did Mullivaikkal End History?
The full text of a speech delivered by Father Jeewantha Peiris on May 16, 2026, at the SEDEC Caritas Hall, at an event organised by the Movement for Equal Rights. _____ I think it is very important that in this evening’s discussion we ask the question of whether Mullivaikkal marks the end of history, because what we are still reading is history written by someone. Most of the time, we…

‘Paranoid Colombo machinates IDP human shield’

Sep 29, 2009

A whole world is duped in what Colombo is machinating in the name of resettlement of IDPs, Tamil circles in Jaffna commented, citing Sri Lanka Navy’s new internment camps around its installations in the island sector of Jaffna.

 

The politics of internment

Aug 4, 2009
Himal

Throughout the years of the island’s ethnic conflict, successive governments of Sri Lanka maintained that the war was against the LTTE and not the Tamil people. As such, with the end of the war in May, the world expected to see Colombo launch a process of reconciliation that would once and for all resolve the grievances and aspirations of all communities, and particularly the Tamil community.

Life during peacetime

Aug 4, 2009
Lead Story
With Sri Lanka's war over, there is no excuse for anti-Tamil policies

Defeated, friendless Tamils face annihilation

Jul 21, 2009
Dr John Whitehall
On May 19, the Sri Lankan Government declared victory over the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) who, for some 25 years, had led the struggle for autonomy for ethnic Tamils in their traditional region, the lowlands of north-east Sri Lanka.

Holding grounds is fundamental to everything

Jul 21, 2009
Editorial Board
Professing defeatism or surrendering basic grounds are not the ways to begin or to sustain the struggle.

Sri Lanka - camps, media…genocide?

Jul 7, 2009
Martin Shaw
What kind of violence has the Sri Lankan state been committing against its Tamil civilian population as the island‘s civil war ended; on what scale and with what intentions? Martin Shaw explores the difficult terrain where war, atrocity and genocide meet.

Historic task awaits all freedom fighters

Jun 23, 2009
TamilNet Editorial Board
The Eelam Tamil nation doesn’t need words to explain the current situation because everybody feels it in the core of their heart. This is a situation that warrants no one else but only the members of the nation to rise up to the occasion. Unprecedented catastrophe awaits unprecedented response from the nation.

International war crimes probe needed

Jun 23, 2009
The following is the full text of an editorial in the Japan Times titled “What price victory?”. Japan is Sri Lanka’s biggest bilateral donor.

Demonstrate the politics of war

Jun 2, 2009
TamilNet Editorial Board
More than the massacre, maiming and incarceration, what causes the height of the trauma to Eelam Tamils is the utter disregard of the norms of civilization and shameful deceit committed by India, the International Community and the United Nations in the happenings of the island of Sri Lanka.

The Eelam Forecast

Jun 2, 2009
Sadanand Menon
The Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora will take the place of the LTTE
‘Paranoid Colombo machinates IDP human shield’
The politics of internment
Life during peacetime
Defeated, friendless Tamils face annihilation
Holding grounds is fundamental to everything
Sri Lanka - camps, media…genocide?
Historic task awaits all freedom fighters
International war crimes probe needed
Demonstrate the politics of war
The Eelam Forecast
‘Paranoid Colombo machinates IDP human shield’
The politics of internment
Life during peacetime
Defeated, friendless Tamils face annihilation
Holding grounds is fundamental to everything
Sri Lanka - camps, media…genocide?
Historic task awaits all freedom fighters
International war crimes probe needed
Demonstrate the politics of war
The Eelam Forecast