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Ranil Wickremesinghe is Sri Lanka
The recent head-to-head interview on Al Jazeera with Mehdi Hassan has brought Ranil Wickremesinghe back into the spotlight. The former Sri Lankan president was described as ‘childish’ and ‘callous’ in how he conducted himself. For many Sri Lankan viewers, as commentary flooded social media in the days after it aired, Wickremesinghe was simply an 'embarrassment'. His…

Demerger: lessons for the future

Oct 31, 2006
Satheesan Kumaaran
The Supreme Court ruling demonstrates is the fragility of constitutional changes, even when underwritten by powerful international actors such as India.

Why Tamils say genocide

Oct 17, 2006
J. T. Janani
It does not take mass deaths to destroy a nation.

‘A humanitarian catastrophe due to the economic embargo’

Oct 3, 2006
The full statement by the TNA before its protest, delivered by Mavai Senathirajah MP

History of Intransigence

Oct 3, 2006
J. T. Janani
Why has devolution of any form not happened already, almost sixty years since independence and thirty years since Sri Lanka’s war began?

Blackouts and blockades

Oct 3, 2006
Animesh Roul
Sri Lanka is humanitarian services as a weapon of war.

A new period of terror

Sep 19, 2006
Asian Human Rights Commission
In Sri Lanka a white van without a number plate is a symbol of terror and the disappearances that occurred in all parts of the country.
 
Commissions on Disappearances in the South during the last few years of the 1980s have documented at some length how armed men, travelling in white vans without number plates abducted thousands of people who were never seen again. These reports are available at www.disappearances.org. 
 
Now such vans have reappeared and do so frequently in the Jaffna peninsular.

No end in sight

Sep 19, 2006
The co-chairs’ resolve is doubtful.

On Sri Lanka

Sep 19, 2006
This is the statement issued by Co-Chairs of the Tokyo Donor Conference - Norway, the European Union, the USA and Japan – following their meeting in Brussels on September 12, 2006.

No Fear

Sep 5, 2006
Editorial Staff
The arrests in the United States and Canada last month of a handful of Tamil expatriates in connection with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) shocked the Tamil Diaspora communities there and elsewhere. Those arrested were charged with a number of crimes, including attempting to buy missiles and rifles for the LTTE and, incredibly, with attempting to bribe US officials to lift the ban on the LTTE.

Just not good enough

Sep 5, 2006
J. T. Janani
So much for international standards.
Demerger: lessons for the future
Why Tamils say genocide
‘A humanitarian catastrophe due to the economic embargo’
History of Intransigence
Blackouts and blockades
A new period of terror
No end in sight
On Sri Lanka
No Fear
Just not good enough
Demerger: lessons for the future
Why Tamils say genocide
‘A humanitarian catastrophe due to the economic embargo’
History of Intransigence
Blackouts and blockades
A new period of terror
No end in sight
On Sri Lanka
No Fear
Just not good enough