As international calls for negotiations and political solutions to Sri Lanka's conflict grow . This weeks editorial asks, what are these talks expected to solve ?

The Tamils are seeking liberation, not just an end to human rights abuses.

International actions have revealed the hollowness of external assurances.

The world’s powerful states have no more commitment to sovereignty than to human rights.

How Sri Lanka’s leading state-owned newspaper saw the new Iran - Sri Lanka partnership

New challenges and opportunities for the Tamil freedom struggle.

As a humanitarian crisis unfolds, the Diaspora needs to help again.

The goodwill of the Sinhala majority is a brittle basis for lasting peace in Sri Lanka.

Why should the Tamils expect a change in international conduct?

Kosovo's victorious march to independence has lessons for other liberation struggles

The world will come to face a choice: perpetual conflict in the island or a two-state solution.

Why the UNP was never committed to federalism.

The effects of today’s dynamics on Sri Lanka’s sociopolitical fabric will be powerful and long lasting.

The APRC legitimized international support for Rajapakse’s war.