The fear that gripped the Tamil community in Colombo had only just begun to wane after a decline in the number of abductions when the indiscriminate arrests of over 2000 Tamils following the twin bombs in the city and a suburb, shook them to the core.

The cordon and search operations carried out last week in the city and the suburbs came as a surprise not only to the Tamils, but to people of other ethnicities as well.

The Tamils in the capital faced similar problems when bomb explosions were a part and parcel of Colombo life a few years ago.

The Tamils were therefore to heave a sigh of relief when the Ceasefire Agreement was signed five years back.

He lives on a suburban street in Ajax in a two-storey brick house with a double garage and fruit trees in the garden.

The quiet neighbourhood east of Toronto is worlds away from the civil war Raja Kasturiarachchi left behind when he moved to Canada after retiring from the Sri Lankan National Police.

But if he came to Canada to escape the past, he hasn't.

The Canada Border Services Agency says it intends to deport Mr. Kasturiarachchi because he was complicit in war crimes.

As a former Sri Lankan police chief, the CBSA says, Mr. Kasturiarachchi is to blame for “systematic” and “widespread” abuses committed by the force “on a regular ongoing basis.”

With both sides in Sri Lanka's civil war increasingly committed to military means, prospects for peace have all but evaporated.

The current international focus on human rights is insufficient to capture the cold calculations and reasoning in the intentions of the Sri Lankan state’s colonisation of Tamil and Muslim areas.

A review of the al-Jazeera Documentaries, ‘How the East was Won’ and ‘Monks of War’

The Sri Lankan government may hail the scorching of the east as a victory but for the civilians of the east it is hell on earth.

A review of the al-Jazeera Documentaries, ‘How the East was Won’ and ‘Monks of War’

"There is clear evidence that production in several sectors of the economy was affected by the prevailing security conditions and the tight money policy."