Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by BANDARA Yamuna
This is a story about a country where over 200,000 men women and children were displaced by war in a year; a country where 600,000 people from the minorities are confined and denied basic human requirements; a country where shelling and air raids are the only Christmas and New year fireworks for (…)
, by SARAVANAMUTTU Paikiasothy
Last week this column ended with the statement that there was a lot to be learnt and unlearnt in 2007. The new year is now with us and with it the unfolding of an endgame. As to who will be left standing and how and as to how long it will take remains to be seen. The point about the learning (…)
, by International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is deeply concerned about the steady erosion of press freedom in Sri Lanka, following reports of the media being denied access to war zones, incidents of self-censorship and intimidation, and news journalists were forced to flee the country (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
We wish to express our deep concern about the apparent abduction of Professor S. Ravindranath, Vice-Chancellor of Eastern University in Sri Lanka. On Friday 15th December, he left a meeting of the Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science in central Colombo, and has not been seen (…)
, by BASTIAN Sunil
The failure of Sri Lanka’s peace process is partially due to the simplistic government-versus-LTTE formulation adopted by international mediators.
While the history of the current process of Sri Lanka’s globalisation goes back to the colonial period, the opening up of the country’s (…)
, by KARUNARATNE Vickramabahu (“Bahu”)
The Sri Lanka government is carrying out an undeclared war against the Tamil people. The government of Mahinda Rajapaksa has consistently breached the 2002 cease-fire agreement with the LTTE. The anti-war opposition has been put under extreme pressure. Tamil MP Nadaraja Raviraj was gunned down (…)
, by WICKRAMASINGHE Nira
This article draws on material in Nira Wickramasinghe’s “Sri Lanka’s conflict: culture and lineages of the past” (Journal of International Affairs, 60/1, 2007).
The exclusivist politics and mindsets of those who have drowned Sri Lanka in civil war must be challenged by a creative (…)
AI Index: ASA 37/033/2006 (Public) News Service No: 290
8 November 2006
Amnesty International is deeply concerned by reports of the killing today of as many as 65 civilians taking refuge in a school in Kathiraveli, a coastal hamlet 15 km north of Vaharai in the eastern district of (…)
, by SLEE Chris
Since December 2005 there has been an escalating armed conflict between the Sri Lankan Army (SLA) and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The Sri Lankan armed forces have carried out a series of brutal massacres of Tamils, such as the August 14 bombing of an orphanage by the air force. (…)
, by RAMACHANDRAN Sudha
BANGALORE - Even as fighting between government forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rages in Sri Lanka, a war of words has broken out between India and Pakistan over issues related to the island’s civil war.
While Pakistan has accused Indian intelligence agencies of (…)
, by MURALIDHAR REDDY B.
The peaceniks are against a military solution to the ethnic conflict in the island nation. The government believes the NGOs have done more harm than good. And the stalemate continues.
PEACENIKS, MEDIATORS, and non-governmental organisations (NGOs), indigenous and foreign, in Sri Lanka are all (…)
, by NSSP
Anti war demonstration organized by National Anti War Front including Left Front (NSSP) and several other organizations, held in Colombo on17th August was attacked by Sinhala chauvinist monks who are supporters of the govenment. Under the leadership of our comrades, we could chase away these (…)
, by KARUNARATNE Vickramabahu (“Bahu”)
Right of self determination of Tamil speaking people is a foremost issue in modern Lankan society. Though it is related to the Tamil vs. Sinhala conflicts narrated in various chronicles, the present form arises out of inability to construct a democratic, plural, civil society. Though Sri Lanka (…)
, by WILLIAMS Kerryn
On August 14, the Sri Lankan Army (SLA) bombed the Sencholai children’s home in the Mullaithivu district, killing at least 61 Tamil students and injuring hundreds of others. Students from up to 18 schools in the region had been attending the centre for first-aid training. Most of those killed (…)
, by Eelamurasu
Twenty-three years ago, in late July 1983, Sri Lanka’s Tamils were terrorised by angry mobs murdering, maiming and burning their homes in an orgy of violence unparalleled in the island’s history. This article is published courtesy of Eelamurasu.
More than 3000 Tamils were killed within just (…)
(New York, April 25, 2006) - The Sri Lankan government has failed to respond adequately to recent attacks by armed groups on ethnic Tamils and their homes and businesses in Sri Lanka’s eastern Trincomalee district, Human Rights Watch said today.
Police and other security forces reportedly (…)
, by WIJETHILAKE Niel
On December 26 2005, Sri Lankans commemorated the first anniversary of the disastrous Tsunami that brought fear and devastation that will remain and haunt their minds for many years to come. Official reports said that that close on 60,000 human lives were lost and the damage caused to houses and (…)
, by Inform
Introduction
Sri Lanka moves into 2006 with little to be optimistic about.
The first anniversary of the tsunami of 2004 was celebrated in the south with the state media making the universalizing declaration of 9.30 a.m. as being the ‘moment when the first tsunami wave’ hit the island. As is (…)
, by JAGTIANI Sunil
The 90,000 people displaced by civil war have received a slower response, threatening to deepen ethnic grievances.
VAVUNIYA, SRI LANKA - Kandya Parwathy and her family live in abject poverty and discomfort in a sprawling camp in northern Sri Lanka. They are refugees, not from the tsunami 12 (…)
, by KARUNARATNE Vickramabahu (“Bahu”)
I like to start my speech with an announcement. We have been using New Left Front as our public name in the recent past. Some left groups and a party have questioned this on ethical grounds. New Left Front was formed as a front of several groups and they say that it is not correct to keep the (…)
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