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Remembering Pon. Sivakumaran 52 years on
Today marks 52 years since the death of Ponnuthurai Sivakumaran, the first Tamil to die in the liberation struggle.  Sivakumaran was a member of the Tamil Manavar Peravai (or Tamil Student Federation, TSF) and a leading militant in the early armed Tamil struggle. With decades of Sri Lankan state repression and deadly anti-Tamil pogroms already having taken place, Tamil militant…

War to deepen before any new peace talks

Aug 9, 2006
Simon Gardner
“I can’t see anyone getting back to peace talks until a clear change in the balance of power on the ground has been accepted, and likewise with the ceasefire.”

Hawks calling the shots in Sri Lanka: analysts

Aug 9, 2006
Analysts say the real reasons for the fierce fighting could run deeper than the government’s explanation that it has launched a “humanitarian gesture” aimed at ending the Tamil Tiger blockade of the Maavilaru waterway.

Fighting shatters strained ethnic relations

Aug 9, 2006
Peter Apps
‘Now we cannot trust them’

Refugee flow into Tamil Nadu unrelenting

Aug 9, 2006
M.R. Narayan Swamy
“The number reaching Tamil Nadu each day is less than a hundred but they continue to come non-stop.”

Eyes ‘gouged out’ in mockery

Jul 29, 2006
Over fifty Tamil detainees were massacred by Sinhala inmates and jailors in Welikade prison.

Anatomy of a pogrom

Jul 29, 2006
The International Commission of Jurists observed: “the evidence points clearly to the conclusion that the violence of the Sinhala rioters on the Tamils amounted to acts of genocide.”

Icon of 1983

Jul 29, 2006
The image of the lone Tamil boy cornered by a group of Sinhala youth touched a nerve in a beleaguered minority.

Where are the ‘missing’ Tamils?

Jul 27, 2006
Andrew Mills
Western officials, rights watchdogs sound alarm

‘They took me to Colombo and tortured me’

Jul 15, 2006
Seth Meixner
Tamils who fled Sri Lankan military harassment are in limbo amid rising violence

‘Undeclared’ war takes toll in Jaffna

Jul 15, 2006
Seth Meixner
“Anything can happen at any time,” M. V. Kanamylnathan, chief editor of the Tamil-language newspaper Uthayan said from his offices.
War to deepen before any new peace talks
Hawks calling the shots in Sri Lanka: analysts
Fighting shatters strained ethnic relations
Refugee flow into Tamil Nadu unrelenting
Eyes ‘gouged out’ in mockery
Anatomy of a pogrom
Icon of 1983
Where are the ‘missing’ Tamils?
‘They took me to Colombo and tortured me’
‘Undeclared’ war takes toll in Jaffna
War to deepen before any new peace talks
Hawks calling the shots in Sri Lanka: analysts
Fighting shatters strained ethnic relations
Refugee flow into Tamil Nadu unrelenting
Eyes ‘gouged out’ in mockery
Anatomy of a pogrom
Icon of 1983
Where are the ‘missing’ Tamils?
‘They took me to Colombo and tortured me’
‘Undeclared’ war takes toll in Jaffna