President Rajapakse’s crackdown on political opponents, including the arrest of the defeated opposition presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka, is not as unexpected or as surprising as many commentators are suggesting.

The current pattern of human rights violations reflects the new dynamics of war.

The impossibility of the Tamil nation and the rejection of the most powerful Tamil actor’s sole representative claim have historical precedents in South Asia.

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

‘Human shields’ is the perfect logic through which to prosecute a war that punishes the Tamil populace for supporting the LTTE.

The Tamil project has come this far in the face of open and consistent international hostility and contempt.

The pogrom against Tamils in July 1983 was supported by deeply held ideological assumptions that still inform the political logic of the Sinhala people and their leaders.

The paranoias of Sinhala Buddhist nationalism explained.

What is the wider impact of selective criticism on the norm of human rights?

The furore over the Tamil boycott ignores a central question: under what conditions is the act of voting central to democratic governance?

The assertion that peace requires the urgent democratisation of the Northeast conceals an unwillingness to confront two unavoidable realities of Sri Lankan politics.