Inside, there are no victims, no killers, and no questions. There are only bright white lights and the click-clack of sewing machines in this new garment factory in war-torn eastern Sri Lanka. Outside, the land is littered with memories from the island’s quarter-century civil war: Five farmers shot dead in March. Fifteen buried in a [...]
If General Sarath Fonseka is elected as the President he will behave like a dictator and no one will be able to speak out against him or his misdoings and so he will not have the vote of the minorities especially the Tamils, the Ceylon Workers Congress (CWC) said. The CWC media unit qouted Estate [...]
The United Nations has welcomed the decision by Sri Lanka’s government to announce the release of the remaining 130,000 Tamils kept in detention camps for the last six months. About 250,000 people fled the final bloody phase of the civil war between the government and separatist Tamil Tigers. They were ultimately housed in government-run camps [...]
By Saroj Pathirana BBC Sinhala It has been six months since the end of the armed conflict in Sri Lanka, but normality has yet to return to the Tamil cultural heartland of Jaffna, activists and former residents say. Groups of former Tamil residents and media activists recently visited Jaffna. It was an emotional and nostalgic [...]
By Saroj Pathirana BBC Sinhala service Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers in the UK have accused the British government of double standards – trying to send them back to Sri Lanka on the one hand while accusing the island’s authorities of human rights violations on the other. Nadarajah, a former Tamil Tiger rebel, says the [...]
Fears that British weapons were used against civilians in Sri Lanka’s war against the Tamil rebels have prompted calls for a review of the arms trade. In its annual report due to be published today, the Commons Committee on Arms Export Controls argues that all existing licences to Sri Lanka should be investigated. MPs specifically [...]
The DMK, which claims to espouse the cause of Tamils worldwide, has failed to serve the Tamil cause in Sri Lanka and missed a great opportunity to secure them a homeland in the island republic, according to Congress member of the Rajya Sabha, Dr EM Surdarsana Natchiappan. Dr Natchiappan heads the Standing Committee on Law [...]
The great Palestinian theorist Edward Said reminded intellectuals that their duty was to “Speak truth to power”. A necessary corollary is that when the masses believe in false gods it is the duty of intellectuals to exorcise these demons, to speak truth to the masses. A heavy burden today is to exorcise Sinhala racism and [...]
Sri Lanka should take immediate steps to rehabilitate the internally-displaced Tamils in the island nation and ensure they were resettled in their original place of inhabitation’s, senior BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu said today. “The displaced Tamils are staying in many camps in Sri Lanka. There are reports that the camps lack basic amenities and [...]
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