DMK pushing Sri Lanka deeper into the hands of China?
In June 2009, when Sri Lanka officially celebrated the defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam after a bloody war that lasted 25 years, the …
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For Karunanidhi, the time is now or never!
The two situations are not the same but the similarities are compelling. In Aesop’s fables about the boy who cried wolf too often, the losers are the boy and the flock of sheep which get devoured by the wolf. Reconstructing the same …
Envy, driving the anti-Muslim campaign?
The brutal civil war that ended nearly four years ago is now the subject of intense scrutiny and criticism from abroad. The ongoing session of the UN Human Rights Commission at Geneva is about to vote on a resolution initiated by the …
Sri Lanka, as It Heals From War
My two-week trip was my second visit to the Jaffna Peninsula, a 400-square-mile expanse of Technicolour temples and arid, surreally beautiful landscapes in northern Sri Lanka that have only recently opened to tourists after a 26-year civil war. I had …
Enemies of the Internet 2013
Today, 12 March, World Day Against Cyber-Censorship, Reporters Without Borders is releasing a Special report on Internet surveillance, available at surveillance.rsf.org. It looks at the way governments are increasingly using technology that monitors online activity and intercepts electronic communication in order to arrest …
Rights of Sri Lanka’s Soldier’s vs LTTE Terrorists
Shenali Waduge In the current context of things it is imperative that we draw the lines between what and who are legal and what and who are not. With 32 nations including Sri Lanka having banned LTTE as a terrorist organization we would first like …
Child born with HIV is ‘functionally cured’
For the first time, doctors are reporting that a child born with HIV and put on an unusually aggressive treatment regimen has been functionally cured of the infection. …
The Delusion of Thinking Sri Lanka is an Israeli Type Garrison State
By Dr.Dayan Jayatilleka Courtesy: Daily Financial Times As an island, Sri Lanka’s history has been shaped by the dialectic of the internal and external, with the latter playing a decisive role for prolonged periods. These external forces and factors have …