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  • Bollywood courts Colombo ignoring Tamil sentiments.

    Jun 01
    As Tamils world over mark one-year of the Indian abetted genocidal war against Eelam Tamils in the island of Sri Lanka, the Hindi film industry known as Bollywood and the major Indian conglomerate of trade unions, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) are joining hands with Rajapaksa regime in Colombo in staging 11th International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) awards weekend during the first week of June in Colombo.
  • Chinese embrace may prove costly to Sri Lanka
    China is recreating its Africa story in Sri Lanka. Little China enclaves are sprouting up in the Buddhist majority island nation in the Indian Ocean as President Mahinda Rajapaksa has spread the red carpet all the way from Colombo to Jaffna.
  • ‘Kill everybody!’ order came from the top – SLA officer
    Executions of Tamil civilians and surrendered LTTE fighters and their families were carried out under orders ‘from the top’, Sri Lankan Army soldiers have claimed.
  • Taking stock on the first anniversary of Internationally abetted genocide

    Tamils, members of one of the oldest nations of human civilization living in their historical homeland now divided between India and Sri Lanka, as well as living in many parts of the world as diaspora, observed with trauma the first anniversary of the genocide committed and continued to be committed on their nation in the island of Sri Lanka.

  • Rajapaksa appoints yet another commission
    The Rajapaksa government has appointed an eight-member Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission
  • Evidence suggests war crimes in Sri Lanka - HRW
    New evidence of human rights abuses committed by the Sri Lankan government during the last stages of the war last year have been uncovered by the New York based global rights monitor Human Rights Watch (HRW).
  • War Crimes Day observed globally by Tamils
    Tamils across the globe commemorated the first anniversary of the end of the Mulliyavaikkal massacre and marked 18 May as ‘War Crimes Day’.
  • Sri Lankan proposal won’t address war crimes
    The Sri Lankan government's suggestion that a newly announced commission will provide accountability for laws-of-war violations during the armed conflict with the separatist LTTE is yet another attempt to deflect an independent international investigation, Human Rights Watch said
  • Sri Lanka dismisses war crimes charges
    The Sri Lankan government has issued furious denials against allegations of war crimes committed by their forces during the final phase of the war last year.
  • Accounting for Vanni will define Sri Lanka’s future.
    2009’s single, protracted program of state-conducted slaughter has a sixty year-long antecedent.
  • Thought crime, torture and kingly fiat
    The detention, trial, imprisonment and subsequent pardon of the journalist Tissanayagam reveals that the rule of law no longer applies in Sri Lanka.
  • War by other means
    This is the text of a speech delivered in London on Aril 29, at the fifth anniversary of the death of Sivaram. "Even the most casual observer of the Sri Lankan state’s conduct can see that the situation today is the continuation of war by other means."
  • Impossible Dream
    Sri Lanka’s elections repeat lessons the lessons of 1956.
  • Rajapaksas and War Crimes
    There is little doubt the war crimes issue would have any impact on this parliamentary election. The April 8 election has nothing serious on its platforms. It’s all about athletes, film stars, cricketers, journalists and also lumpens, and more about these “wonderful” personalities.
  • ‘Longstanding, systematic discrimination’ of Tamils says US report
    Sri Lanka violated human rights last year as it dealt a final blow to Tamil Tiger insurgents the US State Department said in its annual human rights report.
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