The formidable obstacles to peace and negotiated settlement have been assembled by President Rajapakse himself.
Similar attacks on aid workers elsewhere in the world are usually unreservedly condemned. Why not here?
An intimate view of international standards on human rights, democracy and all that.
When the time comes, the Tamils might also wish to freely navigate global economic dynamics for themselves.
Tamils should ask themselves - is it realpolitik and not moral imperatives drive policy decisions in foreign capitals?
Any meaningful steps toward a viable peace process, let alone a stable peace, must start with the demilitarization of Tamil areas.
The unprecedented violence in Sri Lanka’s Northeast is forcing the government of President Mahinda Rajapakse to abandon its hardline stances on the peace process.
India will have to overcome its anathema for the LTTE and accept the primacy of the Tigers in the Tamil polity.
A resident of Nallur, Jaffna responds to criticism in Sri Lankan newspapers of the Tamil boycott of last November’s Presidential election.