OPINION

History of Intransigence

Oct 3, 2006

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.