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The Sri Lankan government military onslaught on Tamils have met with heavy condemnation throughout the world.
More than thirty political parties and organisations from all over the globe who met in the capital of Holland made an appeal to left wing and progressive forces to come forward in (…)
, by SIVASEGARAM S.
The Sri Lankan left has several features that distinguish it from the left in India. The first Marxist party, the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP), formed much later than that in India in 1935, was Trotskyite dominated. The Communist Party of Ceylon (CP) was formed following the expulsion of (…)
“Organising and participating in an event like this is also about overcoming the fear psychosis that has paralysed us since the resumption of war” — Nimalka Fernando, International Movement Against Discrimination and Racism (IMADR)
Over 1 300 people from all parts of Sri Lanka converged on (…)
, by KARUNARATNE Vickramabahu (“Bahu”)
The demonstration and the public meeting by the Movement against the Media Suppression held in Colombo last week, was a success. There were around thousand protesters from media, trade unions and mass organizations.
Bala Thampo and the CMU, Bank Employees Union, Saman and the Independent Trade (…)
, by GLESSON Margaret
Brisbane,
A packed public meeting at Brisbane’s Activist Centre on February 6 heard Brian Senewiratne, a Sinhalese consultant physician in Brisbane, deliver a passionate and informative presentation on the long struggle of Sri Lanka’s Tamil-speaking minority against persecution by that (…)
, by KARUNARATNE Vickramabahu (“Bahu”)
Stop the war: In the aftermath of the unilateral withdrawal of the Ceasefire agreement by the Rajapakse regime in Sri Lanka and the growing civilian massacres, destruction and absence of rule of law, there can be little doubt that the government’s intention of a military solution is bringing (…)
, by Publius
As the major military onslaught against the LTTE gathers pace to the accompaniment of increasingly jingoistic rhetoric of ruling party politicians, bureaucrats and military top brass, Tamil nationalism in Sri Lanka finds itself at a critical crossroads. What may or may not happen in the (…)
, by KARUNARATNE Vickramabahu (“Bahu”), Left Front (Sri Lanka)
Stop the war:
In the aftermath of the unilateral withdrawal of the Ceasefire agreement by the Rajapakse regime in Sri Lanka and the growing civilian massacres, destruction and absence of rule of law, there can be little doubt that the government’s intention of a military solution is bringing (…)
Two years on from when the Sri Lanka Freedom Party and Left coalition (United Peoples Front Alliance) candidate, Mahinda Rajapakse, narrowly won the Sri Lankan presidential election presents an opportunity to identify some trends in the present government’s economic policy.
The two issues that (…)
, by DLF (Sri Lanka), NANAYAKKARA Vasudeva
Thopigala: Military success but road to nowhere
The army has finally captured Thopigala at some cost and it has inflicted greater losses on the LTTE if reports available to us are to be believed. The government is crowing about a great triumph and indulging in countrywide celebrations, though (…)
, by Coalition of Muslims and Tamils for Peace and Coexistence (Sri Lanka)
The new flag for the Eastern Province, introduced by the government, displays three animals: a lion symbolizing the Ampara district, an eagle for Trincomalee and a fish for Batticaloa. Batticaloa has long called itself the land of the “singing” fish, but why an eagle was chosen for (…)
, by RIDGE Mian
The island nation’s government is receiving new support from an unusual political group.
Colombo, Sri Lanka - As the war that has ravaged Sri Lanka for 25 years once again degenerates into widespread violence, the government is receiving new support from an unusual political group.
They (…)
, by FIDH
International Federation for Human Rights
Paris, 11th June, 2007 - The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) expresses its deep concern regarding the expulsion of hundreds of Tamils from Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka, on June 7, 2007 by Sri Lankan army and police forces.
The (…)
, by PERERA Amantha
Colombo, Jun 25 (IPS) - The overhead projector cast a ghastly glow on the larger- than-life picture of Darmarathnam Sivaram, the Sri Lankan Tamil journalist abducted and killed in April 2005.
Colleagues had gathered for his commemorative lecture and the ghostly atmosphere fit right into (…)
, by BOUSTANY Nora
A leading human rights activist expressed fears that a northbound mobilization of troops in Sri Lanka indicated the Colombo government was planning to open another front in its push into Tamil Tiger territory, in retaliation for increasingly brazen rebel attacks involving airstrikes (…)
, by SLEE Chris
The arrival in February of 85 refugees from Sri Lanka, most of them members of the island’s Tamil minority, in Australian waters near Christmas Island highlights the situation of war and racial oppression in Sri Lanka.
Over the past year, full-scale war between the Sri Lankan government and (…)
, by Fourth International
Resolution on Sri Lanka adopted by the Fourth International’s international Committee in Feburary 2007.
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“Noting the petition campaign launched by the British section of the FI on the Tamil National Question in Sri Lanka as most appropriate and valuable, this assembly agrees to (…)
, by KADIRGAMAR Ahilan
The report of the All Party Representative Committee on constitutional reform and the establishment of the commission of inquiry to investigate human rights violations offer a glimmer of hope in Sri Lanka.
The much internationalised Norwegian peace process in Sri Lanka has failed. And (…)
, by JAYAWARDENA Kishali Pinto
Reproduced below is full text of a three part article by Kishali Pinto Jayawardena.
The Sunday Times Online 14 January 2007
ASSESSING SRI LANKA’S PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION OF INQUIRY [Part 1]
In a three part series commencing this week, this column will examine in detail the mandate and (…)
, by KARUNARATNE Vickramabahu (“Bahu”)
This speech by Dr. Vickramabahu Karunarathne, the President of the Left Front, was given to a London public meeting.
After more than fifty years of gaining independence from British rule still we are not really free. This was symbolised by the Independence Day celebrations where the president (…)
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