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September, 2012

The LTTE's Mega Landmine Hit

Sen. Nadesan on Language Problem

 

August, 2012

Re-reading a Saint: Review of "Interpreting Devotion"

Burma's Minority Rights

Act Now to Save Lives in Syria

TfO: Two Cheers for Amb. Butenis

Act Fast for Reconciliation

Broken Promises

TESO Resolutions

Subramanian Loonyswamy

Census 2012

Spin on Economic Growth in N

LLRC Action Plan a Bluff

AI: Ensure Detainees Charged or Released

Amnesty India Campaign

ICJ: Reconciliation at Crossroads

Profiting from Indo-Lanka Accord

Bridging the Language Divide

OCHA Aid Appeal

Mr. S. Arumugan Bio

War in Peace

Eastern Election & Muslim Congress

Armed Groups in East?

HRW: Massacre Unpunished

Buddhists Behaving Badly

2012 Religious Freedom Report

Census 2012

Northern Province 2011

Review of 'Gota's War'

130 Missing in Batti

 

July, 2012

Civil Society Memo re Elections

TAG et.al. Submission on Asylum Seekers

War Abuse Inquiry May Take 5 Years

Remembering Black July

Sepala Ekanayake Story

Review of 'Crucible of Conflict'

TfO: Benefit to India

Land, Demography & Forced Emigration

Western Influence Waning?

Gota Goes Berserk

Legitimacy of Self-Determination Struggle

Prof. Eliezer Biography

US to 'Remain Engaged'

Food Insecurity in Jaffna

How Credible Troop Reduction Claims?

Military Presence in Northern Province

'Last Years of the LTTE De-Facto State'

A Victor's Peace

Remembering Kovai Mahesan

Army Abuse Tamil Women Say

ICC Flaws

AHRC: Perspectives on Torture

Salem-News at FeTNA

Sinhala Military Colonies

How to Kill a Tiger

A Threat to World Order?

TIC: Brutal Attack on Political Prisoners

Basic Math of Root Cause

Urgent Need for Accountability

US Trafficking Report 2012

 

June, 2012

Presentation at UNHRC Session 2

Rehabilitation of Ex-Combatants

Remembering Mervyn de Silva

Presentation at UNHRC Session

'Still Counting the Dead'

Trying to Make NZ Intelligence Services More Accountable

Sharp: Dictator's Nightmare

Wikileaks: Nambiar's Visit 2009

Sumanthiran Speech on Land

Resolutions Passed at ITAK Convention

Surendiran Interview

Deng: An Impossible Mandate

Tamil Social Formation in SL

Diaspora Lifeline

Suu Kyi Redux

Amnesty UPR Submission

AI: Human Rights Situation in SL

US GSP+ Risks

Inspired by Father's Day Again

Military Matters in North

Continuing Harassment of Bishop

SL's Troubles Drift a Long Way

Jaffna Challenges

Quo Vadis Karunanidhi?

Traces of the Past

End of War Video Footage

Thiyaganur Buddha

Tamil Inscriptions: Community & Caste

UN Report on Children in Armed Conflict

Press and Genocide Prevention

Prof. AJ Wilson

SL Without Chaos

War & Non-violence 2

Nomination Hearing for US Ambassador to SL

A Good Day

North Belongs to Who?

Sampanthan Speech to ITAK

CPA: Tamil Language Rights

Valachchenai Paper Factory

Tragedy of SL State

CSW 2013: Violence Against Women

Amnesty's 2011 Report

UNHRC & After

 

May, 2012

CPA: Benchmarks for Reconciliation

Liberia's Taylor Sentenced

Peoples of Early Sri Lanka

The National Question & the Tamil Liberation Struggle

Three House Floor Speeches

GTF-TGTE Joint Remembrance Message

UN HRC Booklet

TGTE May 18 Address

WTO May 18 Statement

New Buddhist Stupa in Mullaivaikal

Winning the Peace

USTPAC: CA Remembrance Day

Time for Mourning is Over

War & Non-violence

CTC Remembrance Days

Memory of Massacred

Steamy General

Mass Atrocities Prevention Board

NY Man Freed

Drones & Human Rights

Second Sunrise

Caste & Nation

Setting the Scene 2007

No New Kurdish Strategy

Post-Geneva Repairs

Bad Gamble

US Demining Visit

Tigers & Spears 9

Masacre de los Tamils

Geopolitics of Peace & Conflict

 

April, 2012

USTPAC Condemns Mosque Attack

5 Years On: Eastern Province

US Military Training for SL Forces

Devolution Questions

UN Finds Cluster Bombs in SL

TIC: Dambulla Mosque

Jaffna Widows by Age

Land Use in Batti

S.A. David: Eyewitness to Welikade Massacre

ICG:Rebuilding under the Military

Paddy Cultivation Jaffna

UNHCR Sri Lanka Profile

Number of IDPs in SL Dec 2011

Origin of People Remaining in Menik Farm

TfO Calls for Referendum

Hinduism's Influence in Japan

SL: Farmland Grab

Caste in Tamil Diaspora

Pentagon's Southasia

AI Get on the Bus 2012

Lessons from S Asia

UNHRC & Tamil Diaspora

Indian Ocean as Zone of Peace

Tigers & Spears 8

'Spoiler & Reconciler'

'Integration' of Tamil Areas

Analysis of US Report

Fishing in Turbulent Waters

SL's Unending Conflict

Sampanthan Speech on UNHRC Resolution

State Dept. Report to Congress re GoSL Measures

Factual Supplement to State Dept Report

Of Martyrdom & Hope

Mirror: Only Truth

Thamarai on UN Resolution

Trade Union Violations

 

March, 2012

India's Democratic Closet

Tigers & Spears 7

Killing Balachandran, Saving Uvindu

UNHRC Resolution

First Step Toward Accountability

SL Ethnic Groups Divided over Resolution

UN Votes on SL Carnage

Patterns of Impunity

Chronology of Attacks

Incentivizing Local Government

US Military Aid in SL War

Tigers & Spears 6

TNA: Broken Promises

TNA on Land Powers

TNA: Police Powers

Killing Fields 2: War Crimes Unpunished

TCWA: Rajapaksa Agenda

Post-LLRC HR Violations

CPJ: Media Restrictions, Abductions

FeTNA Letter to India PM

AI: SL's Security Detainees

Tigers & Spears 5

Forum Asia on Land Grabbing

CPA: Rhetoric & Reality

Guatemala Gives 6,060 Year Sentence for Massacre

Genocidio: La Masacre de los Tamils

SL Against Itself

Revisiting SL's Bloody War

TNA Letter to UNHRC

 

February, 2012

Globe: Denial in SL

RSF: No Progress

ICG: Dead & Missing

Tigers & Spears 4

UNHRC Media Brief

HRW: Halt Deportations

Colvin & White Flag Surrender

Book Release Speech

Our Duty to SL & Human Rights

Joint Letter on Accountability

Uyghurs & the Future

Guatemala's War Years

ATC: Tamils Saddened by Colvin Death

Perinbanyagam & JYC

A Handbook to Jaffna 1905

How to Halt Butchery in Syria

HR Groups Welcome Silva Removal

Rise of Cultural Nationalism

NGOs Call for US Action

Amnesty: No Arms for Atrocities

Passion & SL Buddhism

The Nadhi...

The Defeated

Prof. Holt Responds

Abdul Kalam Visit Rejoinder

Tamils a Distinct People

TNA Resettlement Report

TNA Situation Report

Prabakaran's Tigers & Mandela's Spears 3

Tamil Insurgency in SL

Poverty-Conflict Symbiosis

Murky Disappearances

Action, Not Mourning

Black Day

Tyranny of the Majority

HRW: UNHRC Must Act

Out of the Silence

Abdul Kalam Proves

USTPAC: Hold Off IMF Loan

IPCS: LLRC Report

SL General Admits War Crimes

Fog of Uncivil War

 

January, 2012

Tamils Await Peace Dividend

'Uchithanai Muharnthaal'

'STF Killed Trinco 5'

Reader: 'Biased, Prejudiced'

HR Groups Against Silva's Proposed Appt

US 2012 Appropriations

MP Sumanthiran on Militarization of NE

Guatemalan General Accused of Atrocities

Karen Parker Interview

HRW: No Progress on Justice

Dictator in Guatemala Court

Sumanthiran Speech in Canada

Hanky-panky at 'The Hindu'

Shelling the Safe Zone

Watching the War by Satellite

Bleak Future for Tamils

SL's Disappeared

Sexual Abuse in NE

Columbia's Reparations

TNA's Response to LLRC

2011 Buchwald Awards

Can Krishna Succeed?

Rep. Berman Calls for Accountability

Women's Insecurity in NE

Gap, Inc.

Chile's Mapuche

Pioneer Americans in Jaffna

Nationhood: Muslim Perspective

'Kolaveri Di' in Tamil?

LLRC an Inconvenient Truth?

Sinhala Nationalist History

Taking Back Democracy in SL

 

December, 2011

SL's Ghosts of War

Timeline Winter/Spring 2009

TNA Statement on LLRC

USTPAC: LLRC Flawed, Intl Investigation Urgent

No More Excuses

AFTA: Refer to ICC

Amnesty, HRW Response to LLRC

Justice Wigneswaran Interview

TCHR: Chronology

Profit Motive & Natl Security

Burma: Offer Minorities Cannot Refuse

Prabakaran's Tigers & Mandela's Spears 2

Land Issues in North

SL & the Responsibility to Protect

Asia's New Battlefield

Tsunami Recovery: Ethnic & Regional

Prabakaran's Tigers & Mandela's Spears

TNA Statement Dec. 3, 2011

GoSL Gave Orders

Senate Letter re Militarization & Accountability

Gaza's Food Heritage

 

November, 2011

Pulmoddai Mineral Sands

Police & Army in SL

TIC: Create an Authoritative Record of Casualties

ITS Statement on Tamilar Sangamam

'Torture, Power, Democracy'

'In My Mother's House'

'The Sri Lanka Reader'

'Pathways of Dissent'

Biafra's Ojukwu Dies

Real Lessons of SL War

Prabakaran Bibliography 3

Aryan Theory 4

Fear & Loathing in SL

NORAD: Pawns of Peace

TIC: Political Prisoners

Sampanthan Speech in Canada

Sumanthiran Interview in Canada

Still Torturing Tamils

Freedom from Torture Report

Serious Concerns in NE

Critical Situation of the Tamil People

Fonseka's 2010 Programme

Major Dam on Yan Oya

British Demarcation of the Tamil Homeland

Coast Under Threat of Climate Change

Qaddafi & Uncle Sam

 

October, 2011

Tamizhar Sangamam 2011

You Want to Track Me?

Continued Militarization

TN Nuclear Plants

Bitter Past to Prosperous Future?

Land Rights in NE

Language: Power, Exclusion, Inclusion

Rapporteur on Right to Food

Farmers Anxieties

"Colonization Canard"

Steve Job's Angle

Amnesty Briefing on Torture

ICJ Submission on Torture

Principles of Good Governance

ETA Halts Campaign

'Women Fighters' by Adele

Press Freedom 2011

Detailed Land Use Maps of Vanni

US Foreign Assistance to SL

US AID Fact Sheet

Asylum Seekers from SL 2009-11

Relocation Failures in SL

SL Raises Defense Spending

Animal Rights

Kannadasan on MGR

Empire's Children

Ten Terrifying Questions

UN Rally Speech

IED Statement to UNHRC

Remembering Poet Kannadasan

 

September, 2011

Archeological Sites in North

Concepts & Structures of a Settlement

SLMC & a Seperate Seat

Lawsuit Filed Against Gen. Silva

Case Filed Against President

Tamils in Myanmar

Amb. Kunanayakam & the PTA

TAPI: Report Referral Positive Step

Aryan Theory 3

ICG: Progress Report

HRC: Enforced Disappearances

Amnesty: SL's Rights Crisis

Multilingualism & Academia

Detainees & Disappearances

PCs White Elephants?

Sham of Lifting Emergency

Law Victimizes Tamils

Moment of Sorrow & Courage

TNA Statement for UNHRC

AI: Justice for SL Rights Crisis

Only Possible Solution

Three Chronologies

Alternative Ramayanas

Terrorism Shibboleth

Colonization of the East 1990

13th Amendment: Devolution or 'Comic Opera?'

Libyan Rebels Successful?

Politics of Grief

Ethnic Triumphalism?

Greasifying State Terror

SL Replaces Emergency Powers

PSC a Delaying Tactic

 

August, 2011

'The Cage'

TIC: More Measures Necessary

The Aryan Theory 2

'Ghosts of Belfast'

Trafficking in Persons Report

AI: Repressive Laws Remain

Al Jazeera Visit to North

Equitable Rights

Ethnic Nature of NE Must Be Changed

What US Businesses Must Consider

NZ MPs: "Killing Fields"

The Aryan Theory

Role of IPKF

US Country Reports

Phantom Menace

Mystery of the VC

Review of 'Pathways of Dissent'

Space-Related Identity in SL

Status of War Widows

How Serious about Political Settlement?

Developing the NE

UN on Attacks on Schools & Hospitals

JAAS: Displaced Northern Muslims

Prof. Sivathamby: a personal appraisal

Sampanthan Interview

Two Years Later, Tamils Still Suffer

TNA: Mullaitivu Resettlement

Erasing Tamil Culture

AHRC: Innocent Man in Detention

AHRC: Police Torture

'Finish the Job'

TNA Statement on Talks re Political Solution

Murali Should Speak Up

The Missing Element

Muslim Identity & Tamil-Muslim Relations

Ban's Never Again Moment?

No Justice for ACF

Report Whitewashes Abuses

What South Africa Can Do

Krishna Statement

The SBS Industry

Welikada Prison Massacre 1983

'Extremely Violent Societies'

 

July, 2011

Tamil Parties Make Strong Showing

In Memory of V. Sivasubramaniam

Remembering Mass Killings

1983 Pogrom

Sampanthan Statement on Local Elections

Protecting Human Rights in Sri Lanka

Women Still Facing Consequences of War

SL Army is Essentially Sinhalese

War Crimes for Wickets

Emotional Politics

SL's Post-war Dilemma

CTC Calls for Free Elections

Recent TNA Statements

WSJ: India's SL Problem

ICG: Reconciliation Harder

Interview with Amnesty's Zarifi

India in the Killing Fields

Overseeing the Farm

Wearing Thin

 

June, 2011

ICG: India & Sri Lanka

Amrithalingam on May-June 1981 Events in Jaffna

Rajapaksa's Core Poltical Constituency

Cricket & the Killing Fields

TAPI: Investigation Aids Reconciliation

USTPAC Commends CM Jayalalitha

UN HRC Submission

Empowering Diasporas

The Silence of Sri Lanka

Channel 4's 'Sri Lanka's Killing Fields'

'Hela Nation Not Yet Independent'

IDC Handbook on Detention Prevention

Petition for a Referendum

An Uninvited Speech

Economic Sanctions in TN

Autonomy in Music

Why Pick Diaspora Pockets?

"The Cage"

Tamil Amnesia on History

'Genocide Unearthed'

Consensus Politics

 

May, 2011

'Definitive War Crimes'

11 HR Groups Letter to Clinton

Confronting the Killing Fields

Pakistani Paramours

Kyrgyzstan Inquiry

Prabhakaran's Liberation Struggle

Barking at the Moon

Jayalalitha's First Salvo

Long Overdue

Why Diaspora Tamils Continue Support

Amnesty: Survivors Appeal for Justice

Love Amongst Tamils

OCHA: Joint Humanitarian Update

Aftenpost Wikileaks

Too Many Rajas

Harassment of Former Detainees

Peace a Battle

TNA Response to UN Report

Exposed Core

'Smell of Death' Book Review

The Sivarasan Cover-Up

India's Southern Promises

Upcountry Tamils Recede

Dare Not Criticise

Power Devolution?

Asst Sec Blake's Press Conference

A Second Chance

1961 Satyagraha's 50th

UN Should Do More in SL

Diaspora: Difficulty & Dilemma

Unity, Survival, Destination

TAG: UN Panel Report

 

April, 2011

Track Record of SL Commissions

USTPAC Welcomes Report

TAPI Recommends Investigation

CTC Urges Meaningful Action

AFTA: Panel Report

US Amb Rice Statement

OHCHR Urges Further Investigation

Credible Reports of War Crimes

UN Panel of Experts Report

Panel of Experts Report Extracts

WP: 40,000 Civilians Killed

Rebels With a Cause

Breaking the Silence

UN Panel on Warcrimes- Augmenting Videos

AFTA: Report Finds Allegations Credible

Open Letter to Pres. Obama

Sri Lanka Attacked [Tamil] Civilians - UN Panel

Ethnic Cleansing in SL Armed Forces

UN Report on War Crimes Accountability

US Law Student Accuses Sri Lankan Leaders of War Crimes

HRW on War Crime Accountability in Sri Lanka

UN Policy Shift on R2P

Sec Blake at HFAC

SL Muslims in US

Equal Rights for SL Tamils

TNA Statement on Election

1971 JVP Insurgency Revisited

Moving Globally Against Tigers

UK Foreign Office Report

TE Movement

 

March, 2011

Look Beyond 13th Amendment

Why is it Perplexing?

Vanquished People

Reintegration of LTTE Cadres

Freedom Fighters?

Land Day

Tamil Activist-Journalist

Security for Normalcy

Hindu: '13th Amendment Plus'

Libya & R2P

In Memoriam: T. Sabaratnam

Making Use of Tamil Struggle

VOA: Lasting Peace in SL

Tribes With Flags

SL: Eye of the Storm

LKY: China's Might

Why Biafra Lost

Riding UNESCO Horse

The Diaspora Factor

Amnesty: LLRC Not Accountability Process

India Kept Pressure Off SL

Asst Sec Blake's Remarks

What is Going on in N SL?

War Ends, Women Struggle On

T. Sabaratnam Passes

Amnesty: SL Must Release Prisoners

Amnesty PTA Campaign

Amnesty: Forgotten Prisoners

Ponniah's '1961 Satyagraha'

GWTF: Plight of Tamil Women

TGTE: Brazil Urged

Thirunelveali YMHA

Problem with Karma

Challenges of Conflict Prevention

Batti Farmers Affected by Floods

Cash Transfers to Vanni Families

Libya's Patient Revolutionaries

Senate Resolution 84

Interview with Asst Sec Blake

 

February, 2011

Military Business Model

AI: Need to Address Persistent Impunity

Elegy to Parvathi Amma

TGTE: UN Should Not Fail in Libya

SL Muslims: Ethno-nationalism & Ummah

Parvathi Amma

SL Tamil Nationalism, II

ICC Brief re Kohona

1961 Satyagraha's 50th

Tamil Studies Conference 2011

Capacity Building in Rwanda

Diaspora & Future of Tamil Struggle

'Risky Boat People'

Land System in North

Tomorrow Never Comes

Landmines & Land Rights

Playbook for Revolution

US Priorities in S Asia

The India Model

Flooding in SL

AI: Enforced Disappearance

SL: The Road Ahead

The Road to Peace

Northern Violence

Close Encounters

SL Tamil Struggle, Chap 22

'Tiger': A Rejoinder

Encouraging Crimes

Taking Tea with Torturers

CPA: Supreme Court's Ruling

Japan's Leadership Test

SL Tamil Struggle, Chap 21

Bank Lending & Ethnicity

Quest for Dignity

 

January, 2011

SL Leader Sued in US

AFTA: Refuse HC Navy Man

Why I Write

Hawaii Temple

War Crime Investigations of Visiting Rajapaksa Urged

Death of the Tiger

P. Arunachalam Memorial Oration

AFTA: State Terror in North

Oxford Lessons

Amnesty: Investigate Pres during Visit

MRG: Minorities Targets of Abuse

OCHA Flood Appeal

Smothering Revival

SL Tamil Struggle, Chap 20

Some Reflections on J & S

Buchwald Humor Awards 2010

Freedom 2011

Review of 'Public Writing'

Breaking Up Is Good

Sudan Election

Hu Cometh

Panel Arouses Strong Emotions

Vanni People Missing

Mannaar Diocese Submission

Northern vs Puttlam Muslims

'Tamil Studies in Ceylon'

US Embassy Cables: Remove Chief SLMM

In Sudan, a Colonial Curse

Death of the Tiger

US Embassy Cables: Radio Equipment

US Embassy Cables: Relief Funds

US Embassy Cables: Doctors Recant

US Embassy Cables: Assessing Progress

Cases in Point

Make Peace with Tamil Diaspora

Convention on Disappearances Takes Effect

KP Ratnam: An Appreciation

AID: Fact Sheet

Ending Internal Displacement

Chewing Gum for Terrorists

Trinco 5 Anniversary

War Against the Tamils

New Year Message

Concern Regarding SL

India Digs In Heels

Sudan's Crisis

 

December, 2010

Ensuring Insecurity in Tamil Areas

Logic of SL Disappearances

Fire Inside

Tamil Buddhists

Journey of Fear & Hope

Boston Globe: Probe

Bawa Muhaiyaddeen

Senewiratne: Open Letter

Prof. Hoole Meets Kipling

SL Tamil Struggle, Chap 19

Nallur Kanthaswamy Temple

TGTE: UN Panel Submission

USTPAC: Boycott Rallies

SL Leaders Complicit

US Embassy Cables: Paramilitaries

30,000 Disabled by Shelling

On a Beach in SL

'Surrender is Out of the Question'

Will We Ever Learn?

What Development?

US Lawmakers Urge SL Probe

SL in 'Recession'

Letter to Seneviratne

CJPD: '60 Years & More'

SL Tamil Struggle, Chap 18

Costs of Confrontational Diplomacy

TGTE Speech

Waking is Another Dream

AFTA: War Crimes Evidence

NCCT: Towards Global Justice

TfO: Useful Video Evidence

What Tamils Can Expect from UN Panel

SL Tamil Struggle, Chap 17

Review: TIC 'Peopling of SL'

Sivanayagam: Open Letter

Sivanayagam: A Tribute

Sivanayagam: A Wreath

Sivanayagam: Outstanding Journalist

SL War Crimes Suspect at UN

SingSoc Simpletons

Ordinary Grief

Democracy Only Way

New Execution Video

Did Amb Accuse SL Pres of War Crimes?

Biafra Parallels

SL's Alternatives Abroad

1 Country, 2 Nations

 

November, 2010

More on Dharmalingam

A Fishy Story

Lingering Reality

SL Tamil Struggle, Chap 16

Parameters for an Investigation

War Criminal & UN

Prabharakan Bibliography 2

Tamizhar Sangamam Big Success

US: Protection of Civilians

SL Tamil Struggle, Chap 15

Obama's Speech in Parliament

Obama Takes Asia

Mullaithivu SL's Srebrenica?

AI, HRW, ICG

Photos Allege Sri Lanka Massacre

TCHR: Proposed Solutions

TCHR: Failed Talks

SL Tamil Struggle, Chap 14

Eunuchs & Defense Analysts

TCHR: UN HR Incidents Forms

TCHR Report 2007

Thoughts of Thondaman, Sr.

Fonseka & Democratisation

Enforcing Laws of War

 

October, 2010

SL Tamil Struggle, Chap 13

Indian Ocean & US Power

Natural Allies

Child Soldiers & US Military Aid

Lost in Civil War

Humanitarian Update

Remembering V. Dharmalingam

SL Tamil Struggle, Chap 12

Rajapaksa Averse to Devolution

Self-Determination & Conflict Resolution

Beyond Resettlement

'Politics of Genocide'

Sirimavo in 4 Frames

Reconciliation of ex-LTTEers

IMDC: Difficulties for Returnees

Contradictions of Capitalism

US Judge: Tigers a Threat?

SL Tamil Struggle, Chap 11

'Traitor'

Transactions with the State

Discreet Charm of American Poodle

AI: Int'l Inquiry Needed

SL Judiciary & Ayodha

On Mrs. Amirthalingam

SL Tamil Struggle, Chap 10

Blake: SA's Unheralded Stories

Boycott Momentum

Kashmir: Time Has Come

ICJ: Beyond Lawful Constraints

US AID Map

TGTE Becomes Official

 

September, 2010

Sri Lanka Holds Tight to China

Partition of Sudan Likely

Sri Lankan Tamil Struggle Chapter 9: Religious Revival

18th: Wheat & Chaff

Beaten but not Broken: Struggle of Tamil Women

Loss of TE Leverage

Who Killed Rajani?

SL Tamil Struggle, Chap 8

'Tea Time with Terrorists'

MP Sumanthiran's Speech on 18th Amendment

Project Madurai

Life in Detention

Business from Ashes of Caste

SL Still Denying Deaths

SL Tamil Struggle, Chap 7

CPA: Returns & Land Issues

Nuda Veritas

SL Tamil Struggle: Chap. 6

Colonizing the North

Devolution & Parachutes

Review of 'Rebel Land'

Mannar Misery Continues

Tamils of a Different Stripe

Investing in the NE

ADB Fact Sheet

Notes on the Jaffna Economy

Israel SL Links, part 2

 

August, 2010

'Shadow of Silence'

SL Tamil Struggle: Chap. 5

CIA's Fingerprints

Indians Monitoring Aid

'Worse Than War'

Why Not Kill Them All?

Collective Trauma in the Vanni

Story of the Sun Sea

US Supplies SL Air Force

SL Tamil Struggle: Chap 4

SL's Telling Exodus

Israel SL Links, part 1

Deepening Internal Colonialism

AI: ACF Still Awaiting Justice

Powderkeg in Paradise

Role of the Moral Police

SL Tamil Struggle: Chap 3

KP & Stockholm Syndrome

58 Congressmen Call for Intl Investigation

Changing Demographics

Duraiappah Dossier Part 2

SL Tamil Struggle: Chap 2

Welikade Massacre 1983

Humanitarianism in SL

The Elders: Global Silence

OCHA: Resettlement Progress

OCHA: Humanitarian Action Review

Malnutrition in NE

Lessons of Srebrenica

 

July, 2010

SL Tamil Struggle: Intro

SL Tamil Struggle: Chap 1

USTPAC Remembers Black July

Reconciliation Not Possible?

TAPI Response to SL Trip

Black July Revisited

Collective Trauma

Duraiappah Dossier Part 1

Symbols, Politics & War Crimes

TAPI Condemns Colombo Violence

Historicity of Eelam

A Critique of Robert Pape

Human Rights & Development

Spending for Stability

Sinhalization Agenda

Ending Territorial Pursuit

Development & Colonization in East

Boston Man Released

M.I.A.'s New Album

CTC Welcomes UN Panel

TAPI Applauds EU Push for Human Rights

 

June, 2010

OCHA Snapshot

TAPI Commends UN Panel

Police Language Hurdle

Agriculture & Land Settlement

Narayan's 'Dodu'

Reconciliation Not Conciliation

Means & Ends

SL's Wartime Abuses

Ban Appoints Panel

Bruise on First Amendment

TGTE: Right of Return

Mullivaikal Last Stages

Myth of 'Never Again'

CPA: Eastern Recovery

Akashi Interview

CSIS: Consolidation, Not Reconciliation?

TNA: Current Situation in Vanni

Home in Oakland, CA

Some Eelam Locales

Cultural Campaign against Tamils

Military-Buddhist Complex

Records of Those Fleeing Vanni Destroyed

Mass Graves Nothing New

Sri Lanka Demands Justice

Trade: An Old Leverage

SL: View from Afar

CID Picketing in Vavuniya

Vanni: War Never Ended

War Hero Could be Executed

Sinhala Symbols, War & Peace

Memory Bulldozed

FeTNA 2010

Dissecting the Prabhakaran Death Story

'Son of Hamas'

Alston Statement to HRC

From Post-War to Political Solution

 

May, 2010

Rajiv's IPKF Folly

Probe War Crimes in SL

HRW: Evidence of Wartime Abuses

Is UN Complicit in War Crimes?

TfO: Things to Discuss with Pieris

Killings of Tamils Ordered from Top

Demolition of War Memorials

Sins of the War Victory

Tutu & Brahimi: One Year On

Civil War Legacy

NESOHR: Remembering

Remembrance Day Rally in DC

Land in the Eastern Province

ICG: War Crimes in SL

SL Forces Blamed for Most Civilian Deaths

AI: UN Must Investigate HR Violations

Message from Fr. Emmanuel

TAPI Criticizes Slow Progress

Behind Barbed Wire

MP Sumanthiran's Speech

TFO: Remember the Massacre

Amb. Rice Statement on SL Commission

AID Fact Sheet

HIU: Camps Closing, Many Still Displaced

MP Sritharan's Speech

A Voice from the Ashes

Why Shouldn't We Live in Tamil Areas?

Writers Remember & Speak Out

Origin of Sivaram

Redeveloping the North

AHRC: New Commission

CTC: Days of Remembrance

Global Cemetery

 

April, 2010

Response to ICG Report on Tamil Diaspora

Cash for Work in Jeyapuram

Luring Investors to Former War Zones

Obama, Foreign Policy & Armenians

'Unspoken Genocide' Speech

Follow Victory with Political Solution

Conversation with Saravanamuttu

GTF on SL Election

Can Singapore Be a Model?

American Ceylon Mission

AI: Drop Emergency Laws

Toady's Throne in Jaffna

Poet Kalyanasundaram Remembered

Convention: Unspoken Genocide

CTC on TGTE Elections

TfO on TGTE Election

AI: World's Most Vulnerable

Commonsense for a New Era

Discussing Tamil Natl Interest

Travails of an Ordinary Suspect

'Tearing Apart the Land'

Will Tamil Rights Be Upheld?

GTF Welcomes UN Panel

USTPAC Supports Advisory Panel

UNICEF 2010 Plan

A 'Pragmatic Approach'

At N. Ram's Expense

Archaeology Sparks New Conflict

Future Bleak for Those Who Backed Tigers

Making Land Safe

"We Have to Move On"

 

March, 2010

Conversation with Sachithananthan

Where Are We Headed

Tamils on Probation

Australian FM Statement

Military Occupation of NE

'Engaging' the Tamil Diaspora

Transparency & Tamil Organizations

Politicization of Buddhism

Third Choice

Bring Them to Justice

TGTE Advisory Final Report

Lanka's Nowhere People

Homecoming for Muslim IDPs

Tamil Refugees in India

US 2009 HR Report

USTPAC Appeal to UNHCR

TfO: Let Merak Refugees Proceed

UN Minority Expert Report

Forgotten Refugees of Lanka

Map of IDPs in North

Evil Chasers, Crooks & Traitors

The Diaspora

Aid & Trade Fuel Genocide

Help Merak Refugees

Re-Opening Schools Priority

CTC Welcomes Proposed UN Panel

USTPAC: Intl Women's Day

Arulamma Thambiraja

GTF Letter to Tamils

Ban Voices Concern

Shaping Western Policy

ICG: 3 Messages for the Diaspora

Lanka's Problems Need Attention

Six Blind Women

 

February, 2010

No Blood for Panties #1-3

People Power!

Sen. Casey's Statement for GTF

Milliband's Speech to GTF

Diminishing Democracy

Move On

Caste in Modern Politics

Distancing Ourselves from India

ICG: Tamil Diaspora After the LTTE

War Crimes in Sri Lanka

Ignoring Two Decades

Crackdown on Democracy

Malvana Convention of 1598

Constitutionalism or Feudalism

Mannaar Colonization

India Worries & Hambantota

'Operation Ellalan' Film

Footnotes in Gaza

OCHA: IDPs & 'Resettlement'

Losing Sri Lanka

TAPI Deplores Fonseka's Detainment

CTC: Dictatorship

Free Speech & Terror

MLK's Road to Peace

Jaffna HSZs

A Blind Man's Meal

VOA: Independence Day

Children in Armed Conflict Report

Mined Road Ahead

Road from Elephant Pass

Up to 40,000 Tamils Killed

Muffled Cry for Self-Rule

CSIS: SL's Elections

Context of Eelam Struggle

Scalawags & Carpetbaggers

Jaffna Fort Restored

Heartbreak in Jaffna

HRW: End Indefinite Detention of Tiger Suspects

254 Tamil Boat Refugees

'Massacres of Tamils 1956-2008'

Principles of US Engagement

UNHRC Debate on SL

Election Losers

80,000 IDPs Remain in Vavuniya

 

January, 2010

Still Over 400,000 Displaced

People's Tribunal on SL Final Report

CTC: Tamils Disenfranchised

Seeking Justice After Elections

USTPAC: Intl Holocaust Day

This is a Setback Only

Suitable Awards

Political Goals thru Investment

Economic Investment

TIC: Rajapaksa Dynasty

AHRC: Repeal the PTA

Space Odyssey

Report on Transnational Govnt

Holocaust Day & Tamils

Tissa's Bail

Rebirth of Hydraulic Civilization

ICG: A Bitter Peace

Execution Video Authentic

TNA Statement on Election

No Blood for Panties

Malaysia HR Report

Why a Tribunal on SL?

People's Tribunal on SL

What Should Eelam Tamils Do?

Tamil Voters Beware

TLHRC: Democracy Under Siege

Cultural Genocide

 

December, 2009

GTF: Sponsor a Child or a Family

ITRO 5 Year Tsunami Appeal

Tamils & Elections 2010

Trinco HSZ & SEZ

HSZ: Rights to Return & Restitution

Principles for NE Reconstruction

2010 US Appropriations Bill re SL

State, Religion & Violence

Landmine Clearance

World Bank & Rehabilitation of NE

Elections a Caste Carnival

US: Human Rights Essential

Obama's Nobel Speech

GoSL Killed Surrendering Tigers

War Crimes Video Authentic

Uneasy Homecoming

Politics of Ethnic Deception

TAGENZ: Lies Exposed

Hearing: Ongoing Humanitarian Crisis

Power & Accountability

Telangana State?

Case for Commonwealth Suspension

Children Among 11,000 'Fighters'

Maveerar Naal 2009

AIUSA Letter on IDPs

Modern-Day Genocide

Blood on Our Hands

Most Refugees in Transit Camps

Dateline 1972-2009

Tamil Struggle to be Free

Camps, Elections & Resettlement

Tamil Genocide by SL

 

November, 2009

Health Report on Camps June-Nov

The Gentiles: A History

Elders Call for Protection of Rights

Humanitarian Access Map

AI: Pay Attention to SL Crisis

HRW: Free Unlawfully Detained

Movement of Vanni IDPs

Lessons from Zurich Conference

Sampanthan Speech on Unlawful Occupation of State Lands

Wobbly Bridge to the Diaspora

TIC: Zurich Meeting of Tamil Parties

On Fonseka's Resignation Letter

Speeches at AGM

Amnesty USA Letter

Remembering the Future

Prabhakaran: a Bibliography

Amnesty Action on Displaced

Remembrance Day 2009

Sudan: a Critical Moment

Anger Over Detainees' Fate

Group Urges Tamils Not to Invest

Buy & Return

Mineral Sand Mining

Congress Pressures SL on Refugee Camps

PEARL Applauds H.Res. 711

End Persecution of Tamils

On KP's Dilemma

Situation Absolutely Grim

Maoist Rebels Widen Reach

Stop SL's Crimes

HSZ: Rights to Return & Restitution

November Rain

Perahera in Jaffna

 

October, 2009

No Answer

Great Power Confrontation

'Rebuilding War-Torn States'

Growth Prospects

CTC: 'Ocean Lady' Appeal

When Friends Fail

Tamils in Camps Seek Escape

USTPAC: State Report Call for Action

CTC: Need for Independent Inquiry

UNHCHR Backs War Probe

US Report on Incidents during Recent Conflict

YT Swap Bombs for BlackBerries

AI: Rape in Custody 2002

Timeline of National Conflict

Bandaranaike Assassination Revisited 3

Writings of K. Mylvaganam

Peoples Under Threat 2009

Camp Conditions Deteriorate

Open Letter to UN Sec-Gen

Behind the Bloodbath

TfO Congratulates Obama

USTPAC Supports Clinton's Efforts

AI: Displaced Trapped b't Military & Monsoon

GSP+ & Job Losses

Malaysia Crackdown

Applying Pecuniary Pressure

Eelam Tamils After the War

Tamil Inmate Info Needed

The Situation in Sri Lanka

Living in Menik Farm

Comprehensive History of the Tamils

Bandaranaike Assassination Revisited 2

Review of PATRIOT Act

Justice for Tamils

AI: Mass Arbitrary Detention

Courageous & Ethical Journalism Award to Tissa

 

September, 2009

Wilting Laughter

Bandaranaike Assassination Revisited

HRW: Demand End to Detention Camps

Anna Centennial, Part 4

UN Rally to Unlock the Camps

Justice Wigneswaran's Speech

Anna Centennial, Part 3

Voice of the Forgotten

Lanka' Barbed Wire

What Next?

Human Cost of Conflict

World Demands Attention

Along the Path

GoSL Violating Constitution

N Ramayana

USTPAC: Protests on SL Clothing Sept 12

Access Denied

Land Sensitive Issue in NE

Boston Globe: Free Journalist

Conviction of Tissainayagam

Tissa's Statement to the Court

Sri Lanka & Friends

GTF Paris Convention

USTPAC Mourns Sen Kennedy

Indpendent Investigation Urgent

Laid Open

UN Unmasked

 

August, 2009

State Terrorism & Animalism

Purchasing Power

Indian Citizenship for Tamil Refugees

BTF: Unlock the Camps

Amnesty: 4 Doctors Released, 1 Still in Danger

TfO: Keep War Criminals Out of US

Evidence of War Crimes?

Torture & Executions in SL

TAG: Satellite Image Analysis

New Battle for Ceylon

Inspiration Generators of the Tigers

Interview with CHA Executive Director

CNN: Sri Lanka's Suffering

Lessons from the Polls

Myanmar Troops Gain

US*TPAC: KP's Arrest

Critiquing Prez' Speech

Notes from the Red Corridor

US Pays for Demining

TRO Humanitarian Day

NESoHR: World Humanitarian Day

US*TPAC: World Humanitarian Day

Prabhakaran's Dream 'Not Out'

Downpours Flood Camps

Fostering Hatred

The Way Ahead

Who's Most Likely to Secede?

Indian Ocean: Strategic Playing Field

'Death in the Military'

Unlawful Detention Act

Self-Determination Again

Gaza Disproportionate?

Reporting on Black July

The Politics of Internment

Aid & Access in SL

AID Fact Sheet #15

US Asst Sec Schwartz Press Conference

TCHR: War Criminals Should Be Charged

 

July, 2009

A Lankan Lament

HRW: Free Civilians

The Way Forward

CTC: IDP Report

Rally Aug 3 in NY Asking Chinese Assistance

Amirthalingam Anthology

34 Journalists & Media Workers Killed 2004-9

War Without End

Black July Revisited

Black July Testimony

On That N. Ram Interview

Pseudo-Historians

TAG Letter re 'Doctors' Orders'

Tamil Camps

Diaspora Youths Should Lead

Ethnic Cleansing in SL

Thanks & All

Xinjiang's Strongman

Tamils Languish in Camps

Doctors' Orders

1400 Tamils Dying at Manik Farm

Sangam Release on Wiesel Statement

The LTTE's Military Debacle

Health as a Weapon?

'Mahavamsa' Buddhism

SL's Camps...Genocide?

To Catch a Tiger

Making Money Thru Suffering

'LTTE to Continue Thru Political Means'

New Era for North

Understanding SL's War

SL's Ethnic Conundrum

De Silva on Prabakaran

New Directions in Tamil Nationalism

HRLC Letter to Obama

Wiesel Statement

ICG: SL's Judiciary

Triumphalism & Uncertainty

 

June, 2009

CTC & ITS: North American Resolution

Sangam Press Release on PTGTE

Growing Importance of Trade as Leverage

Homes for Orphans Needed in Jaffna

Greenland Loosens Danish Rule

China Crosses the Rubicon

The Tamil Buddhists

Plans for Militarization & Colonization

Uncivil Victory

You Were Deaf to Our Cries

Sweet Revenge

Do I Know What It Means...?

Confronting the Death of Prabakaran

Provisional Transnational Government of TE

DILT Statement

Internal Colonialism

Diaspora for Dummies

Fresh Claims on Tamil Casualties

Break the Silence Walk

The Disappearing Act in SL

Tamils Languish in Death Camps

AI: 20 Years of Make-Believe

Possible Futures Post-War

A Gift to King Mahinda

Up Close & Spineless

Humanitarian Intervention

UN Highlights SL Challenges

HRW: End Illegal Detention of IDPs

13, 130 IDPs Missing

Response to 'Winning the Peace' Appeal

Note for Basil

Michelle's Arms Meet Refugees

Plight of Vanni People

Grief in the Camps

Safe Harbor & the Emergency

Multi-Faith Prayer Service

Neglect of SL's Tent People

Trade: A New Leverage

Kasi Ananthan at 70

NESoHR: Safeguard the Interned

We Die Before We Fall

The Liberal Moment

Mercy Mission for IDPs

HRW: Avoid Postwar Witch Hunt

Land Use Map of Batti

Pillay: UN Supports War Inquiry

Investigating War Crimes in SL

Violations of Int'l Covenants

Genocide in Sri Lanka

Sen. Feingold Statement on SL

TfO: UN Useless

AI: UN Must Publicize Civilian Casualty Figures

SL's Rescue Story

Freedom Denied

High Casualties Due to Banned Arms

Ban Calls for Inqiury

Support University Students from Vanni

Ditch the Cholas

Burning of Jaffna Library

Oil Search

The Suffering in Lionland

 

May, 2009

Call to Organize Picketing of Stores

Up to 35,000 Civilian Casualties

Comments by a Kurdish Nationalist

Tamils Fear Bout of Ethnic Cleansing

Close the Stable Door

AID Complex Emergency

OCHA IDP Map

More Than 20,000 Civilian Deaths

UN Hid Massacres

Peace Needs More Soldiers Than War?

Witness to Disaster

Prabhakaran's Soma & Prabhakaran's Sense

Unity, Not Confusion

No Victory in Sri Lanka

Hidden Captives

UNHCHR Urges Inquiry

Video Discussion: What Now for Tamils in Sri Lanka?

Durable Political Solution Key to Development

Lion, Tiger & Lies

Brokering Surrender

How the Tigers Were Beaten

A Fifth of Children Missing

Use of Banned Arms

White House Demonstration Continues

Every War Like This One?

TCHR: Massacre of Civilians & Peace Emissaries

A Dedication to the Heroes & Heroines

A Tragic Misdiagnosis

Time to Transcend & Transform

Winning the Peace

Reports of 15,000 Killed

AI: Fears for 3 Doctors

Sri Lanka's Untold Story

UN Aid Blocked

Response to ICG 'Day of Reckoning'

Need to Know the Truth About Tamil Enclave

Rebels Routed

Pictures from 25 Years of War

Open Letter to Sec. Clinton

Vanangaman Mercy Mission Ship

A Conflict Without Winners

Tamil Civilian Deaths in Vanni by SLA

Speech on Tamil Genocide at White House Rally

White House Rally Letter

Bloody Sri Lanka

TfO: Gas Attacks on Tamil Civilians

Security Council's First Move

Attacks Kill Dozens

Obama: Action Required

PEARL & HELP Response to Obama

Distant Voices, Desperate Lives

Tamil Americans Welcome Pres' Statement

AAAS: Satellite Imagery

Statement by Sonali

Starvation Deaths in Detention Camps

India's Responsibility Towards SL Tamils

Videos of Vanni Tragedy

HRW: Shelling of Hospitals a War Crime

UN Tells of 'Bloodbath' in SL

Ideas for After the War

Ideas to Win the War

Save Sri Lanka

UN Rapporteurs: SL Needs Urgent Scrutiny

Tamil Studies: A Review by Vithiananthan

SL: The Challenge is Genocide

Truimphalism & Other Delusions

TRO's Christy Enclave Report

TRO Relief in Vanni

Clash of Nationalisms

Sangam Letter to Jayalalitha

Act Immediately

Sivaram's 4th Memorial Anniversay

Falling Down on the Job

Airdrop Food Urged

Should Obama Do Something?

Indo-LTTE War, Part 14

US Throws a Curve Ball

Candlelight Vigil NYC May 8

Tamils Put IC to the Test

Disconnect & Mobilisation

Tamils Are Subhuman

SL's Dirty War

 

April, 2009

TCHR: DRC Report [pdf]

TRO Appeal - Impending Civilian Slaughter

LTTE: Unilateral Ceasefire

Situation: Joint Attacks

'Comical Alis' of SL

MSF: Casualties Stream In

Murder & Silence

No to Sri Lanka

Comments on Raman

UN: Can You Answer for Genocide?

Only Possible Action

Tears Taste Like Salt

TN Women Fasting Against Genocide

Press: Why Not?

TfO: Co-Chairs' Bias

AI: Civilian Casualties Rising

Day of Reckoning in SL

CTC: Carnage in SL

ICG: Crisis in SL

ICG: Lessons from the East

Speech at NY Rally

R2P Centre Letter to Security Council

TIC: Tamil Genocide

New York City Rally

Right to Intervention by the British Government

Surviving in the Safe Zone

TNA: Tamils Subjected to Genocide

Nadesan: Ceasefire to End Genocide

Crushing Victory

Recent Quotes 6

SLA Uses Chemical Bombs

Ex-President Fujimori Convicted for War Crimes

The Long Walk

TRO: On the Spot Report

Actions & Reactions

Futile Wait

Wakeley Paul: A Life

TIC: War Crimes Warning

Exit Tiger, Enter Dragon

Home, Space, 'Other'

Poll Shows No Help Expected

Explaining the SL Conflict 1

Explaining the SL Conflict 2

This is a Racist War

Gogol & Sri Lanka

 

March, 2009

Screening, Demining & Resettlement in Vanni

Tamil Party Calls for Ceasefire

Dalits in India

SL Crisis: It's the Economy

TNA Statement on Prez's Invite for Talks

1991 Colombo 7 Conversation

SL Can No Longer Be Ignored

UN: Humanitarian Crisis

Col Hariharan Reminiscences

Genocide of Tamils

Civilians Killed by SL Armed Forces

UN: Casualties in Vanni

HRW Letter to IMF

Sen Kerry Urges Protection of Civilians

Why Tamils Are Upset

Open Letter to Jeyaserkara

Coming Out of the Chauvinist Closet

Resentments Challenge to Peace

Slaughter Waiting to Happen

Inclusion is the Way to Real Peace

Disappearances in SL

TfO: Constitutional Solution Needed

TfO Poll: 'What Should be Done?'

Karuna in Politics

UN HR Council Statement by Pasumai Thaayagam

Vanni Situation Report

GA Situation Report

RDHS: Non-Availability of Medicines

Letter on WFP Food for Mullaitivu

Famine Deaths in Vanni

Food Prices in Mullaitivu

Civilian Casualties in Vanni 2009

Human Chain Circles Toronto Core

SL's Choices: Accomodation or Partition

Peace is the Way!

Colombo's Secret War

Politics of Solutions

Speck

But For The Grace

On the Lahore Shooting

US Statement on Humanitarian Situation

OHCHR: Serious Violations in SL

US Congress Letter to Secretary Clinton

US Senate Letter to Clinton

ICG: Conflict Risk Alert

'Humanitarian' Intervention

Wakeley Paul's Writings on Federalism, Constitutional Reform, etc.

Productivity of SL Tamil Scientists

Referendum Urged in NE

Press Groups Call for Justice for Journalist

CPJ: Media Attacks

AI Condemns 'War Without Witnesses'

We Send Them the Money

A Poem to Remember

Roots of the Conflict

China Fuels Sri Lankan War

Civilian Toll Rises - Aid Workers Say

War Crimes Arrest Warrant to Sudan's Head of State

Diaspora Memo on Civilian Protection

Recent Discussions on Tamil Crisis

Anna Centennial, Part 2

 

February, 2009

TCHR: Civilian Casualties in NE 1958-2008

Civilian Casualties in NE Jan/Feb 2009

Child of a Problem

Farm Hounds

HR Barkers & Me

RSF: Vithyatharan Arrested

Responsibility to Protect Tamil Civilians

The Fire

Dining With Terrorists

Mullaitivu Council of NGOs Appeal to UN

TIC: War Crimes Warning

US NGO Forum Letter to Clinton

Forgotten by Intl Community

War Nears End, but Peace Distant

Passing of Mr. K. Mylvaganam

Achieving Eelam

Killing Fields

Genocide in Sri Lanka

Indo-LTTE War, Part 13

Tamils in Concentration Camps

The Barbed Wire Returns

HRW: Detention Camps for the Displaced

TAG Sends Model Indictment to US Attorney General

Arrest Warrant for Sudan

Collateral Damage

SL Plans to Hold Refugees for 3 Years

TRO: ICRC Leaves Vanni

Nudist Colony

SL Closes In

Email from Vanni Inhabitant

Killing Cadres, Not the Cause

Bruce Fein's Lecture in India

TAG: Model Indictment Submission

Clinton & Miliband Statement

TfO: Congress Force a Solution

India, India, None but India

AI Urges Temporary Truce

AI: Bomb Strike Despicable

Tamils Against Genocide BBC Interview

SL Rejects Call for Truce

TNA: Co-chairs' Stand Fails in Fundamentals

Sen. Leahy Statement on SL

The Anguish of Sri Lanka

PUCL: Let UN Administer Camps

How the Tamils are Pushed Further

Rep. Berman Letter to Rajapaksa

Senate Concern for Humanitarian Situation in SL

Canada-wide Day of Mourning Feb 4

SL Co-Opts Rebels

ICRC in Hospital Hit by Shelling

Tamils in Lanka Jews Under Nazis?

SL Situation 'Nightmarish'

CJPCD: Stop the Human Tragedy

Anna's Centennial Anthology

Video of Indian Embassy Demo

When

Refugees Shelled as Army Closes In

 

January, 2009

Commission for Justice & Peace

Songbird of 'Slumdog'

Save the Tigers

SL Should Offer Tamils Hope

UN Leads Evacuation from SL

OHCHR Deplores Deteriorating Situation

Respect for International Humanitarian Law

Rev. Anantharaja Injured

The Savaging of Humanitarian Law

Migrant Mullaitivu Crane

Peace Hard When Want Tamils Wiped Out

UN Sec-Gen Says Civilian Protection Absolute Priority

Appeal from Regional Director for Medical Services

AFTA: Urgent Action to Prevent Genocide

TNA Urgent Appeal

How Can People Say This is Peace?

Caught Between the Tigers & the Tanks

Rally in Washington, DC Friday, January 23

SL Presses Rebels, Mounting Cost

Recent Quotes on SL V

Review of 'Love Marriage'

Remembering Buchwald

Tamil Existentialism

TRO Situation Report Jan 17 2009

The Goddess Lives in NY

Sangam Letter to Thirumavalavan

'Hunger'

D

Thought Police & Scapegoating

Recent Quotes on SL

NESoHR: Victims of Bombing & Shelling

NESoHR December HR Report

Tamils Petitioning White House

Before & After Kilinochchi

Military Delusions

Of Sowing & Harvests

Why Conflicts Will Continue

Open Letter to US Ambassador

TNA Press Release

What Next after Kilinochchi?

SL's Next Battle

TRO Situation Report Nov. & Dec.

NESoHR: Food for the Vanni People

Recent Quotes on SL

Dark Side of Democracy

NESoHR: Shelling & Bombing Victims

SL's Grim New Year

Poll: Tamils Want Separation

Struggle of the People Continues...

Development & the Tamils

 

December, 2008

Indo-LTTE War, Part 12

SL's Information War

New Chance for Darfur

Barriers to the 13th Amendment

Letter to Archbishop Gomis

UN Expert Wants IDPs Protected

BTF: Unspeakable Truth

SL's Ignored War

Prof. Kailasapathy Evaluated

TCHR: 'Liberation' of the East

NESoHR November HR Report

Never Again

Maampalam Swamy Eulogy

Human Rights & State Power

OCHA: Muttur IDPs

Manifesto of an SLA General

The Tamil People's Right to Self-Determination

For Peace to Dawn

Preventing Genocide

IFT: On the 60th Anniversary of the UDHR

When to Intervene

Blood Lines

The US Perspective on SL

SL Deadlier than Afghanistan

Child Rights on the Firing Line

UDHR & Sri Lanka

Poverty in Sri Lanka

World Bank Strategy

A Mango Tree in My Front Yard

UN HR Awards

UN Must Focus on Genocide Prevention

War, Memory, Progress

Wiseacres & Snobs

NESoHR: Extra-judicial Executions Since 2002

Cyclone Flooding in Jaffna

Mr. Gunasingham

Tiger Links with Islamist Groups

SL Army Pushing to End War

Documenting Atrocities in Darfur

NESoHR: Shelling of Civilians

Fire-Breathing Dragons

Stars & Stripes

Constellations of Violence

Flooding Video

It's the Tamil Economy, Stupid

US Integrating East with SL

 

November, 2008

NESoHR: Education of IDP Children

NESoHR October HR Report

HRW: HR Deteriorating in East

2008 Heroes' Day Speech

Kalivanar NS Krishnan

Barred from Zimbabwe

AGM Pictures

US Complex Emergency Fact Sheet

IASC Situation Report

Genocide Theory's Blind Spot

TRO Progress Report Nov 5

Rajapakse's Strategy

700 Jaffna University Students Need Support

Indo-LTTE War, Part 11

Arms Race in Sudan

Rwanda's Shadow

Response to Adm Keating

Response to Amb Blake

Review of Sivaji Ganesan Autobiography

Obama Wins & Tamils Hopeful

Kilinochchi Battle, Archetypal Disaster

Our Sangam's AGM!

Wrong Premise

NESoHR: IDP Health

NESoHR: Kilinochchi Shelling

'Crucible of Conflict'

'Militarizing Sri Lanka'

Clips Having Impact in TN

The 'Unthinkable' in Afghanistan

Colombian Civilians in Guerrilla Toll

Blue States Secede & TFO Videos

N. Ram's Naivete

 

October, 2008

Enough is Enough

NESoHR: Kili-Kumarapuram Bombing

Fein Challenges Swamy on Genocide

Sri Lanka's 'Disappeared'

IDP Crisis Week Nov 2-9

Caritas-HUDEC Vanni Appeal

ICG: Eastern Province

Advances Will Not End War

SL Tsunami in Indian Politics

Should Eelam Federate with India?

SL a Country or an Island?

Land of Deception

The Alleged Booker Prize

Beginning the End of War

All Party Conning

TCHR: Solutions Proposed

TRO: Vanni Situation Critical

Too Few Tamils in SL Govt Service

Improving the Tamils

Sangam Letter to TN Leaders

'The Struggle'

Indian Tamils Break Their Silence

Call for Conference on Genocide

On Malini's Malady

TN Going Eelam Way?

Art of Political Murder

Innocent Voices

Sexual Predation by SLA Men

OCHA Vanni IDP Report

OCHA Batti IDP Report

Is There War in Your Ur?

Tamils Hurt by Fonseka's Remarks

Perpetual War

El Presidente's Newman Act

Singapore Opposition Figure Jeyaratnam Passes Away

SL Government Bombs Tamil Head Quarters

 

September, 2008

Time for International Public Protest

TIC: Tamil Right to Self-Determination

Rudrakumar's Rally Speech

Sri-Skanda-Rajah Rally Speech

NESoHR: Convoy Problems

IED: Genocidal Situation

Safe Havens for Civilians Needed

India Global Military Power

Russell, Power & the 'Alternative Leadership'

Fears as UN Leaves Conflict Zone

Apply Sanctions on Sri Lanka

UN Day of Peace

'The Iliad' & the Tamils

The Black Tigers

'Tarzan Lives' & Tamils

Fallout of Vavuniya Attack

NESoHR: Destruction in Karaithiraipattu in 1 Year

CPA: Underage Recruitment Status

TRO: Banning Aid Workers Worsens Crisis

AI: Blocking Aid Endangers Civilians

Winning Hearts in the North

Farmers in Vanni

AFTA: Expulsion of Aid Workers

NESoHR: Expelling Aid Agencies

Solution, But Not for the Problem

SL Diaspora Conference in KL

Power Sharing as Peace

NESoHR August HR Report

Appeal to UN to Save Our Population

Vanni Aid Workers Barred

Displace or Die

The Tide is Turning

Shell Blasts Puthumurippu

Azadi

TRO: Humanitarian Crisis

Amnesty: Disappearances Must End

Prof Ohno, Linguist

NESoHR: Puthumurippu Shelling

SL Tamils Fear Security Forces

'Great Game' in Indian Ocean

 

August, 2008

The Plight of the Vanni Refugees

Review of 'Horizontal Inequalities & Conflict'

Numbers & Braggadocio

Latest Exercise in Genocide

Fickle Approval of War

The Sri Lankan Solution

Russia Backs Independence for Enclaves

UN, Self-Determination & Terrorism

Shelling of Mullaitivu General Hospital

Film Review of "My Daughter..."

The Indo-LTTE War, Part 10

'Tell Me How This Ends'

A Genocide Inquiry?

Fishing Restrictions in Sri Lanka

Where Are the Men in Batticaloa?

Stalingrad at Kilinochchi?

Black July Quotes

NESoHR: Mullaitivu Hospital Complex Shelling

Ponnambalam's 1982 Presidential Candidacy

IDPs Need Legal Framework

Not Many Pluses

Fragile Fictions

RSF: Release Tissainayagam

Is There No End to This Madness?

CTC: Commemorating a Tragedy

NESoHR: Displacement Update

Thousands of Families Flee

 

July, 2008

TIC: New Direction Needed

Remembering Black July

25th Commemoration of Black July

Waiting for Justice

TCHR: SL Should be Referred to ICC

A Snail's Vision

Ethir: Olympian, Bridge-builder

Lest We Forget!

Victims & Rascals of Black July

TRO: Humanitarian Crisis in Vanni

NESoHR: Meeting IDP Needs

NESoHR: Siege on Healthcare

Soaring Fuel Prices

Colombo Closes In

The Sri Lanka Situation

Interview with Anita Pratap

Military Pathway to Nationbuilding

The Primates of the State Dept.

SL's Forgotten Conflict

IDP Report

Self-Determination Dilemma

Why Independence?

Like Myth & Mother

Untold Tragedies 3

Untold Tragedies 2

Engaging Nepal's Maoists

Sudanese President Charged with Genocide

Terrorist Turned Liberator

'Pongu Thamizh' Around the World

SL for Beginners

The Tamil Diaspora & the Struggle for Freedom

Where We Are Now

What If the Rain Fails?

Remembering Black July

India Chases the Dragon

Politics of Human Rights

Echoes of a Bloody Past

Tennyson, Bose & 'Do or Die'

NESoHR June HR Report

Saying No to Louise Arbour

Black July Exhibit

HRW: No IDP Internment

Analysis of the Military Situation

Bold Colombia Rescue

Implementation, Please

Is Ethnic Conflict Inevitable?

An Olympic Appeal

Pieter Keuneman on Black July 1983

ACF: Justice for Muttur

 

June, 2008

Fires Within

IFT Denounces Criminalization of Diaspora

Failed States Index 2008

USCR: World Refugee Survey

Fear Stalks Colombo as Mines Kill Tamils

Genocide or Politicide?

The Ladder

US on Sudan

AI: Arbitrary Detention of Tissainayagam

NESoHR: Vanni Displacement

Prelude to Black July

NESoHR: PTK Bombing

CTC: Even-handed Approach Needed

CPA: UNICEF Database

Letter to Stockwell Day

Preserve the Core, Stimulate Progress

Jaffna Report June 17

Place an Arms Embargo

Home, Space & the 'Other'

Untold Tragedies

Barbarous Torture

Response to 'Re-Emergence of Tamil Nadu'

Re-emergence of Tamil Nadu Factor

Sampoor Power & Civilian Trauma

CPA: Trinco Land Issues

Pax Romana: Mannar IDPs

Amnesty Reflections on SL's UPR

A Century of Tamil Poetry

Thamizhelam Book Review

NESoHR: Plight of Jaffna People

Search for UN Rights Job

Gone with the Wind

Jaffna Report

Letter to Minister of Defense Rajapakse

The 'Island's' Apology

Tamils in Myanmar

India, China Compete

War and Life

Lingerie and Terror

Peace Fills a Vacuum

Amnesty: Abduction of Humanitarian Worker

NESoHR: Murukandy Claymore Attack Report

 

May, 2008

The Indo-LTTE War, Part IX

Jaffna Administration after Riviresa

Reflections of a Leader

Remembering Silenced Voices 1983

Healing Rite

Tamil Journalists Killed 2000-2007

Blunted Tool

The GSP+ Affair

UN Recognizes De Facto States

Plea for Your Evidence

SL Slams Door

NESoHR: People of Mannar

SL's Human Rights Review

"Mounting Tragedy of Errors"

Comment on PC Elections in East

AI Appeal for Tissainayagam

Singapore's Opposition

Kumuthini Boat Massacre

Sovereignty & Self-Determination

The New Cold War

Tutu: No Right to Be There

Sir P Arunachalam Memorial

Ten Canons from Charlton Heston

Develop Now, Destroy Later?

SL's Democracy Ravaged

Intervention to UN Advisor on Genocide

SIPRI: Arms Transfers to SL

Conflict and Autonomy

Malaysian State Assemblyman Still Detained

Danger to Methodist Minister

NESoHR: Thadchanamadhu Claymore Attack

TIC: Arrest/Disappearance Hotlines

CTC: Black July Commemoration

Say No to SL on HR Council

Cries from the Palmyra Grove 30

TCHR: Dictatorial Democracy

Puzzles of Premadasa's Assassination

Elections in the East

Anzac Day & the Eelam Tamils

AI: Veil of Secrecy in SL

AHRC: Peace Secretariat

Demographic Changes in the Tamil Homeland

 

April, 2008

Destruction of the Tamil Community

Growing Up Under Militarisation

TIC: Killing of Civilians Must Stop

Pariah Diplomacy

Rajapakse's Political Graveyard?

AHRC: IIGEP Episode

The Three Crows

Iran Trains SL Intelligence

Visions Summer Leadership Camp 2008

Athulathmudali's Scorched Earth Policy

Devastation in the North

SL's Failure to Protect

Save Grace Home

Cries from the Palmyra Grove

Another Clergy Brutally Murdered

IFT: Karunaratnam Killing a War Crime

AFTA: SL Silences a HR Activist

Colombo Diocese on Fr. Karunaratnam

TCHR on Fr. Karunaratnam

NESOHR Condems Chair's Assassination

Sangam Grieves Loss of Fr. Karunaratnam

TIC Mourns Fr. Karunaratnam

Cries from the Palmyra Grove

Arthur Clarke, Mrs. B & a Fan

Born Without Hope

Watchlist Report on Children in SL

Indo-LTTE War, Part 8

Land Cover Map

Black Tiger

US Shamed by Mandela Terror Link

A South African Perspective on the SL Conflict

Inescapable Reality

Like a Tsunami That Won't End

TRO: Mannar-Madhu Report

Impact of War on Health

AI: Tissanayagam's Arbitrary Detention

NESoHR: March HR Report

Memorandum to the Commonwealth 1974

Chelvanayagam's 110th

UNICEF Database on Underage Recruits

What a Joke!

Spiritual Conquest of the Tamils

In SL, Fear of Being Disappeared

UN SAPG: Genocide Prevention

TRO Report March 1-10

 

March, 2008

Tamils' Right to Self-Determination

Being Human, Being Tamil

Humanitarian Crisis or Genocide

GOSL Worse than Officially Listed Sponsors of Terrorism

Seeking Justice in a Racist State

Buddhist Shuns Nonviolence

Interfaith International at UN HR Council

Tamil Genocide

Anura Bandaranaike

Solution Within the Present Consitution Improbable

SL Economy in Doldrums

Economic Lessons from Malaysia

On Struggle

Easter Message for a Crucified People

Economy of the Conflict Regions

Jaffna: Besieged by Terror

Eelam Refugees & the SL Terror State

Indo-LTTE War, VII

Remember the TULF's 1977 Manifesto?

IED: HR Situations Requiring Attention

Investment Climate in SL

Sri Lanka's Recurring Fever

Economic Indicators

The War in Sri Lanka

Living in 3 Centuries

Tigers & Elections

Confronting Truth

Prof. C. J. Eliezer

TCHR: SL Highest in Disappearances

Parts of Malaysia Roll Back Race Policy

US State Dept Report on SL

'War Journey'

Bloomberg Blues

Seminar on Ethnic Conflict in UK March 22-23

TYONZ : Killing of MP Sivanesan

IFT: Neither Freedom Nor De-Colonisation

TCHR: Eelam & Kosovo

NESOHR February Human Rights Report

TCWA: 13th Amendment

SL's 'Wild East ' Votes

Kosovo: The Global Significance of Independence

Taking Aid from China & a Pass on Human Rights

The Endless War in Vanni

'Siritharan' Sunthar - Ace Cartoonist

Etnic Divide Worsens as SL Conflict Escalates

AI: Disappearance of Prof. Mahendrarajah

Responding to Mr. Rasalingam

CTC: Collapse of Rule of Law

HRW: Disappearances a Crisis

Kids Dream Photo Exhibit

Eastern Polls & Pacification

Dissecting Jayatilleka

Cyprus Solution?

Mills' Nationality & Chelvanayagam

The Sethu Gridlock

SL's Republican Constitution

 

February, 2008

Enduring Power of Ethnic Nationalism

UNHCR Appeals for SL Displaced

Indo-LTTE War, Part VI

TIC to UN Human Rights Council

Because We Can

Standing Up for Detainees

Global Shipping Lanes

GoSL Shows Little Appetite for Peace

Half a Million Affected by Conflict in 2008

SG: R2P 'Profound Moral Imperative'

AFTA: Kosovo's UDI

Responses to the Ambassador

ICG: Return to War

Tamil Studies Conference in Toronto May 15-17

Killing Prabhakaran Will Not Silence the Tamils

Comments on 'Kosovo Countdown'

On the Traditional Tamil Homeland

Reminiscing on VC Raveendranath

Independence a Farce

Kosovo Before UDI

HRW: Events of 2007 in SL

Tamil Student Assoc. 'Most Outstanding'

An End Foreseen

Who Prevents Muslim Resettlement in Jaffna?

TNA Will Not 'Touch' the 13th Amendment

Passing of US Rep. Tom Lantos

CTC: Increased Civilian Deaths in SL

'Edge of the Lagoon'

Anti-Tamil Discrimination in Malaysia

The Moderate Position on Eelam

We Will Win! We Will Win!

NESoHR January HR Report

Amnesty: Right to Life Disregarded

ACHR: UN Test

Sixty Years to Flop

Sixty Years Of Ethnic Conflict

Military Stalemate?

Genocide Intervention Network

Economic Issues Contribute To Ethnic Conflict

January '08 Civilian Toll in NE

Listening to the Grasshoppers

APRC: From Hope to Despair

IFT: Regaining Sovereignty

Shell-Shocked Generals

Sri Lanka Needs Our Leadership

TCWA: Feb 4, 1948 Black Day

Reaching 60 & Nowhere to Go?

TIC: APRC Politics

An Agreement to Fight Some More

TRO: Anniversary of Execution of 7 Humanitarian Workers

 

January, 2008

What Can I Do?

SL's Human Rights' Void

Trinco Orphanage Appeal

Agriculture or Services?

Genocide, the World & Us

Tamil Statehood?

SL Airlines Boycott Flier

Anton Balasingham's Vision

Blast from Past: The PA's Poliical Mirage

On That FBI Report 'Taming Tigers'

Unsolved Mysteries of the FBI

Life in Vanni Then & Now

What Liberation?

Will Rajapakse Hoodwink Again with the APRC?

APRC: Key to Peace or Albatross?

APRC: The Past Repeats

We Send Them the Money VII

TRO: SL Withdraws from the CFA

Indo-LTTE War, Part V

Maheswaran: The Forgotten Hero

Bharathiar's 125th

MSF: Civilians Increasingly Under Fire in SL Conflict

Amnesty Call for Protection of Civilians

BTF: Boycott Sri Lanka Airlines

A Letter to HC Dominic Chilcott

High Definition Assassination

Split Asunder

TCHR: Killings of HR Defenders by Security Forces & Paramilitaries Since 2000

TCHR: Paramilitary Groups Have License Against Opponents

PS: Status of Schools in the NE

Eyes Tight Shut

Rajapakse's Big Bet

US & Germany to Recognize Kosovo

Independence Daze

HRW: Cover-Up in Colombo

TIC: War on Civilians

JVP Noose Around APRC Neck

Peace Group Leaving Sri Lanka

Willms Statement on CFA End

TWG Letter to PM Manmohan Singh

NESoHR 2007 Annual HR Report

Kumar Ponnambalam's 8th Death Anniversary

Indo-LTTE War, an Anthology IV

A New Year to Double Our Efforts

Time to Chisel Our Own Destiny

Sinhalisation of the East

To Jaffna & Back

 

December, 2007

Rebellions, Leaders & Our Future

Ethnic Cleansing of Tamils in Sri Lanka

Tsunami Aid 'Missing'

UN IDP Expert Urges Targeted Measures

IDP Resettlement & Colonization in the East

CPA Policy Brief on Humanitarian Issues

Tamils Left Out of Tsunami Rehab

1997 FTO Listing Revisited

Tamil Diaspora & Recognition of the Natl Problem

Quotes on Sri Lanka II

TIC: Human Rights Commission Downgraded

Tamils: Disruption to the Norm?

Milennium Challenge Corporation Report

A Brave and Startling Truth

Aftermath of LTTE Leader's Speech

Response to HC Dominc Chilcott

Reporting on Civilians & Media Filters

MRG: HR Crisis for SL's Minorities

Signs of the Times

UN Human Rights Council & SL

Lions of the Punjab

ACHR: 1000 Conflicts Now

What are Those Grievances of Tamils?

Indo-LTTE War Anthology III

Ganesan Receives US Award

Kosovo's End Game

TIC: HR Abuses & Impunity in SL

We Send Them the Money VI

TRO: HR & Humanitarian Situation

NESoHR: Human Rights Day

AI & HRW: End Abuses

Oceanic World Orders

'Internal Colonialism'

NESOHR Monthly HR Report

Appeal to Stop the Genocide II

Appeal to Stop the Genocide

Tamils: Anti-Ethnocide Campaign

Amnesty Condemns Mass Arrests

UN SC's Message on Human Rights Day

Flying Visit

The Murder of Tamilchelvan

Rebel with a Smile

TCHR: Paramilitaries & a Terrorism Conference

More Than a Minority Problem

Suffering in Silence

Indo-LTTE War: An Anthology II

 

November, 2007

SL Charity President Responds

We Send Them the Money V

Terrorism, Violence & Reconciliation

RSF: Bombing Radio Station a War Crime

Amnesty Condemns Civilian Killings

Prabakaran's 2007 Heroes' Day Speech

Bose's INA & Asian Independence

Bush's Best Hope

Sangam Celebrates 30th Anniversary

Indo-LTTE War: An Anthology

Politics of Terror in the Devil's Playground

RSF: Tamil Newspaper Proofreader Missing in Jaffna

UN Intervention in SL?

GoSL Banning of the TRO

Tamils Have Legitimate Grievances

TRO Response to US Actions

Pulp Fiction Writers

Thamilchelvan: Tribute to a Leader

We Send Them the Money IV

Eelam & Indian Security

SL: Search for Peace

Lifting Our Lamps

Tamilselvan Eulogy

Ganesan: GoSL Can Agree to JVP Budget Demands

KT Rajasingham, Karuna & Pres. Rajapakse

GoSL Borrowing from Tamils

NPC: Failure to Implement Intl HR Standards

Violence Drags On in SL

Recent Quotes on Sri Lanka

No Choice

What's Wrong with 'Rights?'

TCHR: Tamils Killed, Disappeared 1956-2007

We Send Them the Money III

Dudayev & Thamilselvan

HRW Letter on US Military Funding of SL

Response to Article on Tamilchelvan

'Halo 3' & Sri Lanka

The Other Crisis

ICG: Sinhala Nationalism

Peoples of 'Historical Waters'

Shipping Technology of the Cholas

We Send Them the Money II

Five Killed or Disappear Daily

Assassination Demonstrates Resolution Spearheaded by Military Means

We Send Them the Money

Memories of Tamilselvan

Tribute to Thamilselvan

Sen. Leahy's Statement on Sri Lanka

Mullaitivu NGO Consortium Condemns Thamilchelvan Killing

SL Airstrike Kills Tamil Political Leader

Head of Political Wing Assassinated

Holy Ghost on the Malabar Coast

 

October, 2007

Are You a Civilian?

'National Ideology' in a Buddhist Country

UN: Impunity Makes Mockery of Extrajudicial Execution Procedures

UN: Torture Widely Practiced in Sri Lanka

Agenda for Demographic Change in Trinco

On Anandasangaree & the Air-base

Tears for the Twenty-One

Pseudo Operations & Counter-Insurgency

Sivaram & Counter-Insurgency

Sivaram & Counter-Insurgency 2

Sivaram & Counter-Insurgency 3

Clinton: "Can't Lump All Terrorists Together"

Tamils Are a 'People' - Tho a Minority

IASC: NE Situation Report Oct 18, 2007

Sixty Cheers for the CIA

Louise Arbour's Statement

Letter to Louise Arbour, UNHCHR

Sinhala Colonisation Cloaked as 'Development'

Vision of a Nation No Longer in the US

1 in 3 Kids in NJ in Immigrant Family

Past Efforts & Present Needs

Obstacles Faced by the Humanitarian Community in SL

Sri Lanka on the Brink of All-Out War

NESOHR: Threats to Tamil Media

ACHR: Arbour's Visit a Test for SL Leadership

LTTE: Sept Human Rights Report

The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress

SL State Terrorism & the Helpless Tamil Diaspora

Is That All You Got, Karuna?

TRO Situation Report Sept 16 - Oct 5 2007

Lanka Becomes 'Sri Rajapakistan'

Prelude to the Indo-LTTE War, Part 5

Int'l Dimensions of the Conflict in SL

UN OCHA: Access to IDPs

USAID: Complex Emergency Fact Sheet #5

Recognize the Sovereignty of the Tamil People

The Roots of Civilisation

Failed States Index 2007

Core Issue

UNP Drops Federalism

TRO: Killing of 59th Humanitarian Worker

 

September, 2007

Prelude to the Indo-LTTE War, Part IV

'India After Gandhi'

The Intimate History of Collaboration

Serious Omissions in Address to the UN

Eelaventhan: UN & Safety for Tamils

IDMC: Displaced People in SL

The Clash Within

What 'Responsibility to Protect' Means to Tamils

Letter to the UK Ambassador to the UN

Prelude to the Indo-LTTE War, Part III

'The Shock Doctrine'

Humanitarian Action in the 'Undeclared War' in SL

Colombo Tamil's Visit to Jaffna in 2003

TRO Mullaitivu Office Bombed by SLAF

US Report on SL Religious Freedom

Sign of the Times in Tamil Nadu

Why a Federal Set-up is Unfeasible

Prelude to the Indo-Lanka War, Part II (a)

Prelude to the Indo - Lanka War, Part II (b)

Dialogicality, Inclusiveness & Equality in the SL Peace Process

TCHR Appeal to the UN Human Rights Council

TCHR: Christina & Hindu Buildings Destroyed

On Epic Poet Kambar

TRO Mannar Report

TRO Situation Report August 16-31 2007

To Be Heard...Talk or Shoot?

Rising Prices

Foreign Ministers of Sri Lanka

Amnesty: UN HRC Must Address Violations

Now What?

APRC 'Dead in the Water'

Amnesty: Impunity for Enforced Disappearances Must End

Lee Kuan Yew on Modern Perils

 

August, 2007

Submission to the COI on Human Rights

Report on Killing, Disappearances Compiled

Jaffna's Media in the Grip of Terror

TRO Situation Report August 15, 2007

NESOHR: Padakuthurai Aerial Bombing

NESOHR: Tamil Massacres 1956-2002, small file

Edmund Samarakkody on July-August 1977

Tamil Troubles & Gen. Mehta

Sinhalaspeak

SAHR Report on Sri Lankan IDPs

The Long Way Home

Remembering Mutur, 2006

TCHR: 44 Humanitarian Workers Killed 2006-2007

Sri Lanka's Shame

Koodankulam Goes Nuclear

Conceptualization of an Island

Crossing the Line in Sri Lanka

Tribute to Kumar Ponnambalam

Unity in a Difficult Time

The War As We Saw It

Civil Administration & Development Priorities in East

Opportunistic Politics Never Serve a Community

UN OCHA: IDPs in Batticaloa

TRO Kilinochchi Situation Report

East: the Lost Battle for Survival

A Desire to Feed the World

NESOHR Report on Sencholai Massacre

TYO Australia Remembers Sencholai Bombing

LTTE PS: July 2007 Human Rights Report

Prelude to the Indo-LTTE War

TRO: Massacre of 17 Action Contre Le Faim Staff

Comment on NESOHR's 'Massacres of Tamils'

Black July Website Launched

TIC:: Premature Returns Endanger Asylum Seekers

Northern Operation Will Not be a Cakewalk

Families & Friends of the Disappeared

On Neelan's Tightrope Act

Confederation in Bosnia, Iraq & Sri Lanka

 

July, 2007

The 1987 Indo-Sri Lanka Accord

NESOHR: Tamil Massacres 1956-2001, Part 1

US Senate Freeze on Aid to SL?

Steve Gilchrist's Speech

The Backstory of Black July 1983

Speech from DC Rally

Ethiopia Blocks Food Aid

Erasing the Tamil East

Kudumbimalai into Thoppigala?

Memories Which Cannot Be Forgotten

The Lessons of 1983

A Curse for Darfur?

The Deals of Dr. Neelan

Beyond Federalism?

Celebrating Eastern Victory?

GoSL on a Hot Tin Roof

Freedom is a Right, Not a Crime

Mooning the 'Washington Times'

FeTNA 2007

Political Prancing for Pole Positions

TRO Condemns SLAF Bombing of IDPs

US May Bypass UN for Kosovo Independence

US on Autonomy and Indpendence in Western Sahara

The Current Status of US 'Material Support' Laws

Revealing Silence

The Better Half

DMK Views on the Eelam Issue in the 1990s

The Latest Militarized Zone is Muthur East

TRO Situation Report June 2007

Confederation or a Separate State

Conquer & Negotiate?

Vaharai Emergency Assessment Report

No Progress on Murdered Aid Workers

Anointed Federalists & Anandasangaree

Korakkankaddu Village

Why is SL's Past Hidden?

Rate Signals

Two Tests of Government Sincerity

 

June, 2007

G.L. Pieris' Wars for Peace

When Justice Fails

Open Letter to Hon. Erik Solheim

The Dravidian Movement in TN

Stepping Up

Sivaram Memorial Lecture

A Year After Massacre of 17 Aid Workers

Sri Lankan Tamil Migration

Is Sri Lanka Falling Behind?

Briefing Paper on Sri Lanka

China's Rising Power

Et Tu Brute?

IDSA: India's Options

Scholarship Appeal

Reflecting on Tamil Displacement Over 30 Years

'Let My People Go': Like Moses to Pharoah

The Problems of Immunity & Impunity

Humanitarian & Political Crisis in Sri Lanka

The Continuing Genocidal Crisis in Sri Lanka

CPA: Status of Underage Recruitment

Ethnic Cleansing by Decree

SL's Scars Trace War Without End

ICG: Sri Lanka's Human Rights Crisis

Amnesty: Pres. Must Invite HR Field Operation

IC Holds Responisiblity for Devastation of Tamils

Kick Starting Recovery in Vaharai

OCHA May NE Monitoring Report

And Then They Came for Me

Tamil Culture: Past, Present & Future

On Our Own

SL Military Talks Less Tough

What About These 122 Disappearances?

IIGEP Faults Commission of Inquiry

How to Tell Tamils They Don't Belong in SL

Evicted

SL Accused of Ethnic Cleansing

A War Stranger Than Fiction

DFID: Development Dilemmas

CTC: Sivaram Memorial Scholarship in Journalism

From Democracy to Farce

Nigeria: Crude Awakening

Basque Separatists End Cease-Fire

The British House of Commons Debate

Operation Poomalai

The Credibility Gap

Why is the West Being Sympathetic?

Muslims Caught in the Crossfire

 

May, 2007

Weakening the LTTE Before Talks - Myth

Mannar & Anuradhapura Massacres in 1984/85

Lies & Damn Lies!

SL's War & US Support

Archbishop's Recent Comments on SL

Colombo Will Shun Peace Until No Military Option

AHRC: SL - Epidemic of Lawlessness

3 Global Financial Institutions Roles Questioned

Terror Unleashed on Jaffna Students

HR Charade & the Delusions of Rajan Hoole

If I Die, My Death Will Be Registered

Failure to Share Power

US: No Change in Policy Towards SL

Why Tamils Face Int'l 'Shock & Awe'

The Great Language Divide

Message Not Clear!

Section 29 & the 1972 Constituent Assembly

Foreign Aid Cut Fears as SL Fails on Human Rights

US Concerned, Halts Some Aid

What a Flying Menace!

Learning from Success

SL Probe of Aid Workers' Massacre 'Flawed'

Shanghaied

Big Oil in Tiny Cambodia

Memorial in Italy for Murdered TRO Workers

The Great Divide

TYONZ Letter to French Ambassador

Eyewitness Account of Tamil Attack

Civilizations & the Challenge for Peace

The Divisions That Tighten the Purse Strings

Comments on the SLFP Proposals

'The Island' & Federalism

The Forgotten Land

Politics, Not Morals

Western Sahara Between Autonomy & Intifada

 

April, 2007

US on Prabhakaran in 2002

Unionist Murders in Columbia

Boris Yeltsin, the LTTE & Indian Gumshoes

Sovereignty, Nationality, Citizenship

IFT: Protest on Action Against Tamil Diaspora

Appealing the Designation

Bloodbath Looms in War-Torn Sri Lanka

Civil War Spares Economy

On Leadership: Part II

TRO Relief for Mannar IDPs

US & Australia Strike Refugee Deal

A Fast to End the Genocide

Murder, Mayhem & Fraudulence

March Civilian Toll

US Foreign Policy

The Mineral Industry of Sri Lanka

Driving Up the Price of Blood

Indigenous Peoples & Natural Resources at the UN

Closing the Door After the Horses Have Bolted

From Passion to Politics

COTANZ: Sri Lanka Disregards Disappearances

Overseas TRO to Provide Relief in the East

Terrorist Lists & Humanitarian Assistance

On Leadership, Part 1

3 New DVDs on SL Crisis

COTANZ: France Arrests

The Meaning of Terrorism

A Humble Appeal

Why SL Forces Won't Attack Tiger Heartland

Concrete Idea

Fig Leaf

Casualty Count

Oil & Violence in Sudan Drilling

How Donors Fail Children in Conflict-Affected Fragile States

Thousands of Civilians Flee in Colombia

Amnesty: Human Rights is the Issue

Halt Abductions, Sri Lanka Urged

SL Government Makes 'Final Push'

Tamils Have a De Jure State

ACHR: Disappearances & the Collapse of the Rule of Law

Sri Lanka: Endless War

SL Seeks Bids for Oil Exploration

Upwardly Global in NYC

Jaffna Situation Report

Letter from Batti on Ozanam Children's Home

IASC: Batticaloa Situation Report

IASC: NorthEast Situation Report

SL Troops, Rebels Renew Violence

New Sri Lankan Air Defenses

 

March, 2007

Early Warning

NESOHR: UN Assist an End to Violence

Amnesty: Incommunicado Detention

No Education in the East

The YouTube Defense

Ban Ki-Moon: Testing the Tightrope

UN Mediator Calls for Kosovo Independence

Amnesty: Play by the Rules

The Wind That Shakes the Barley

Chennai 600028

Engineered Catastrophe

Touch Me Not

DVDs on the Tamil Situation

TRO: Ensure Safety of Humanitarian Workers

TRO: Respect Humanitarian Workers

TNA Visit To Welikade Prisoners

TRO: 5 Years of Ceasefire - A Missed Opportunity

Terror War Victimises World's Minorities

Impending Humanitarian Crisis in Sri Lanka

Preventing a Diplomatic Settlement

Sri Lanka Seeks Global Help

Racism in the 21st Century

Stalin's Antipathy & a Missed Opportunity

NESoHR: Humanitarian Urgency to Jaffna Land Route

Trinco IDPs Used as Human Shields for Military Camps

Double Exposure

IFT: Human Rights Crisis in the NE

Memorial Service Held for Abducted TRO Workers

Caritas Fears Crisis as Violence Escalates

Alternatively Able Persons

Aftermath of the UN HR Council Meetings

Fait Accompli?

Sri Lanka's Lost Generation

AI: Armed Groups Infiltrating Refugee Camps

More Than 100,000 Flee

Un-Making Old Choices

IED: Children & Armed Conflict

Dismay Over the New UN Human Rights Council

Politics of Naming: Genocide, Civil War, Insurgency

False Hope

Rwanda: Lessons on Genocide

Australian Human Rights for the Voiceless

Making the Point

IASC: Fact Sheet

IASC: NorthEast Situation

Urgent Appeal on the Situation in the East

Awards to Recognize NZ Youth in HR Work

Tamilchelvan Interview

ACHR: Abductions Officially Admitted

UN: Ending Impunity for Violence Against Women

AI: Enforced Disappearance in Jaffna

Deft Dancing on the 'D' Word

Humanitarian Access in IDP Areas

Refugees Unsure of Future

Tamils - a Nation Without a State

The Boer Wars

The Malayan Emergency

Exhuming Accountability

AI: Incommunicado Detention

Eyewitness to Allaipiddy Shelling, August 2006

A Lapse in Diplomatic Security

Comment on 'Security Lapses'

Comment 2 on 'Security Lapses'

A Rounding Error

ICJ: Anti-Terrorism Laws Abused in Sri Lanka

On Waiting

SL's Endangered Peace Process & the Way Forward

 

February, 2007

A Land of Milk & Honey

Nuts and Bolts of Narayanan & Indian National Security

The Tamil Homeland

Tamil Civilians Continue to Live in Fear

Tamil Americans Call for Recognition of Tamil Sovereignty

India Can Play Bridge-builder, China Can't

TIC: Appointment of LTTE Spokesperson on Human Rights

My War Away From War

Diego Garcia's Hidden Role in Sri Lankan Politics

California Split

Turks & Kurds

Rising Tension Over Tamils

CPA Studies the Rock Report

Reform or Decline?

Paris Principles

IMF Help Not Wanted

Super Duper Sri Lanka, Part I

Super Duper Sri Lanka, Part II

Playing God

TIC: Abductions & the Rule of Law

Learning Politics from Sivaram

Ethnic Warfare in Sri Lanka & the UN Crisis

The Power I Have, I Will Not Share

On SP Amarasingam

AHRC: Death Threats & the Trivialisation of Life

Sri Lanka's President Mindless

US Lawmakers Ask Bush to Appoint Special Envoy

The Muslim Insurgency in Southern Thailand

TIC: Attacks on Human Rights Defenders

SL State Terrorism & Tamil Children

V. Navaratnam: A Man Ahead of His Time

IDPs in Sri Lanka

Notice: EelamNation.com Vandalized

Pres. Mahinda: The Blue Dyer

Medicine Ban in Vanni

10 Non-Iraqi Books for Understanding Iraq

'Leashing the Dogs of War'

History Behind the Present Ethnic Conflict

 

January, 2007

Genocidal Crisis in Sri Lanka

UN Bodies & Ending Underage Recruitment

Art Buchwald & the Dangers of Political Humor

India Must Stop Assistance to GoSL

Ceaseless Dynamic

The Utility of Force

What is Needed to Prevent Mass Atrocities

The Attack on Human Rights Watch

The Roots of Dalit Rage

ICJ Urges Sri Lanka to Ratify Convention Against Enforced Disappearances

Humanitarian Petition to the UN

Democracy & Lollipops

Territorial Control Where Necessary

An Appeal to the Sri Lanka Aid Consortium

Ban's First UN Task

Fate of MOUs & Pacts

US Nominates Memer for IIEP

TSST Tsunami Housing Progress Report (via IOM)

An Urgent Quest to the Tamil Diaspora

Responsibility to Protect

Edmund Samarakkody (1912-1992): Sanest Sinhalese Voice

New War

Sri Lanka Disasters: Natural & Man-Made

New Mannar Bridge?

Dude, Where's My Country?

Ending Violence Against the Girl Child

Visions Update 2006

New Interim Parliament in Nepal

Report from Vanni: Political Proposals 2

Report from Vanni: Political Proposals

The ZOA & Thangavelayuthapuram

How War Became Possible

A Reply to Amb. Goonetilleke

'TamilNation's' Comment on 'Letter to Rajapaksa'

An Open Letter to Pres. Rajapaksa

An Open Letter to the US Ambassador

TRO Trinco Office Attacked

TRO Colombo Office Raid

Passing of Mr. AYS Gnanam

NESOHR: Lack of Medical Supplies at Kilinochchi Hospital

Home

IFT: Sri Lanka's War Crimes

TRO: Food as Weapon of War

Politics of Resource Patriotism

Tea & Tourism

Playing Tough: Apparel Trade in 2007

NESOHR: Illuppaikkadavai, Mannar Bombing Appeal

Evolution of the Eelam Tamil Diaspora: A Bibliography

No War in Sri Lanka

South Asia's Conflicts

George Bush & Sonia Gandhi

Save the Human

Illiterates & Indian Music

 

December, 2006

Sethusamudram Canal Dredging

A Gamble is a Gamble

Not Emerging, but Emerged Nations

Review of 'No More Tears, Sister'

Response to Dr. Hoole's Recent Article

The Boundaries of Tamil Eelam

The Price of Peace in Sri Lanka

A Dedication to Prof. Raveendranath

Australian Professor Talks of His Experiences

Depopulating Sampoor

Tamil Eelam & the US Declaration of Independence

Stifling the Aspirations of the Tamils

Urgent IDP Needs in Manmunai North, Batticaloa

On V. Navaratnam, 1910-2006

Rajapakse Inc. a Barrier to Peace

In Memory of MP Joseph Pararajasingham

TRO: Tsunami - Two Years On [pdf]

V. Navaratnam's Last Interview

Black Christmas

Damnable Dependent Relationship

Tsunami Funds Languish in Banks

Tamil Americans Saddened at Balasingham's Passing

Amnesty Appeal on VC Raveendranath

NESOHR: Appeal to the UN

The Face of the TRO

Sangam's Statement on Mr. Balasingam's Passing

Bala Annai

NESOHR: Forced Evacuation from Vaharai

Anton Balasingham: A Life

Anton Balasingham: Articulate Conductor of the Band

JRS: Refugees in India

NESOHR: From 'Roofless' to Criminals' Prison

The Killing Match

Indo-Lanka Relations: My Memories

A Critique of the ICG Report

The Pre-eminence of State Terrorism

Nalanda University

TRO: IDP Camps Shelled

An Assessment & Appeal to My Friends

Aceh Election Tomorrow

TRO Holiday Appeal

One Day of Peace in Sri Lanka

Banning, the PTA, etc.

War of Words Over Sri Lanka Literary Festival

CFA Buried

Comparing Notes on Collaborators & Informers

Sri Lanka's Nightmare

A Loaded Question

The Final Verdict on Tamil Eelam?

Sri Lanka is India's Problem

Indian Re-Thinking of the Sri Lankan Situation

Reconciliation with India

Triumvir Rajas

 

November, 2006

A Glimpse into Our Apocalyptic Future

It's the Global Economy, Stupid

Vaiko: SL Tamils Want a Separate Nation

Kumaratunge in South Africa

A Reading of the Current Situation

London 'Times' Ad

Government Clamps Down on Jaffna University

Judge Strikes Down Bush on Terror Groups

Maaveerar Naal

Why Sri Lanka Has Sidelined India

NESOHR: Two Catholic Priests Arrested for HR Work

TRO Court Appeal on Freezing of Funds

Prabakaran's 2006 Heroes' Day Speech

On Heroes' Day, Check the Label

Maveerar: A Poem

NESOHR: A9 Controversy

TCHR Commentary on MP Raviraj's Assassination

Ugly Reality

An Open Letter to the Co-Chairs

On Milton Friedman, MGR & Annaism

Rajapakse Cooking His Own Goose

AP Venkateswaran Interview

Comments on Co-Chairs' Conference

Implications of Sri Lanka's 2007 Defense Budget

The War Costs Everybody, but the Tamils More

After Geneva, What?

Tamil Australians Boycott Sri Lankan Goods

7 Abducted TRO Aid Workers Not Included in CoI

TIC Appeals to UN Human Rights Council

A Tale of Two Tamil Vice Chancellors

Letter to US Under Secretary Nicholas Burns

Nepal's Comprehensive Peace Agreement

Humanitarian Catastrophe in Sri Lanka

War Games & Peoples' Lives

'Anti-insurgency' Comparison

Tamils Need Real Autonomy

Karpu: Tool of Oppression?

Caste, Dowry & Arranged Marriage

Amnesty on GoSL's Commission of Inquiry

Nepal's Peace Agreement

TRO Vaharai Appeal

Tamil Americans Condemn MP Raviraj's Assassination

HLP Letter to UNHCHR Louise Arbour

Micro-states

Sri Lanka Army Recruits Children: UN

The Right to Kill Civilians

The Future of Tamil MPs in Sri Lanka

Kidnappings Haunt Long Ethnic War in Sri Lanka

A Gratifying Day with Dr. Brian Senewiratne

In the Aftermath of Geneva 2

The Situation in Jaffna

Summary of Displacement Apr-Oct, 2006

Jayawardene Centenary Chuckles

IFT Calls for Response to Terror

The Paradox of International Policy

De-merger: Lessons for the Future

Geneva 2: Louder than Words

Tamils Feel Marginalized, Muzzled

Rajapakse: Be a True Buddhist

UN: The Girl Child & Armed Conflict

Don't Support State Terrorists

Sovereignty & Territorial Integrity

Sri Lanka's Nonsense 'Talks'

The Spectre of Kidnappings Returns

 

October, 2006

TNA Petition to UNHCR & UNHCHR

TNA Petition to UNHCR & UNHCHR

A Society Without Compassion

The Human Rights Bind

Critical Mass

Why Tamils Say Genocide

Embargo on Sri Lanka

Geneva II: Armed Armistice

Euphoria about the SLFP-UNP Agreement?

Reporting from Vanni III

IFJ: End Attacks on the Media

Checkpoint Jesus

Responses to 'A Proposal'

Paradox of the Southasian Welfare State

Agni Keela II

The Writing on the Wall is Red

US Promoting a Political Solution in SL

'Legitimate Rights' & the Tamil Tigers

Asia's Unending War

Update on Fr. Jim Brown

TIC Tsunami Report #7

Some Remarks on International Involvement, etc

Illiberal Democracy

Swiss Media House on Destruction of VOT Tower

The Sri Lankan Constitution

Monitoring a Little-Noticed War

Views on Current Reality

Extras in Film, Politics & Diplomacy

More Questions Than Answers

Death by Government

My Proposal for Normalcy

The Tigers' Fighter Journalist

Sri Lanka Continues to Mislead the World

No Turning Back Now

Pres. Dr. APJ Kalam: Developed India

Understanding the JVP

History of Intransigence

Requiem for Mahinda

A Sri Lankan Turkey Roast

India Takes Tamil Support for Granted

Petition to Kofi Annan

Terrorism & Liberation

Paradoxes of Counterinsurgency

Sri Lankan State Terrorism

NESOHR: Sencholai Update

Call for a Diaspora Boycott

TCHR: Need for an Economic Embargo

Debate on the Boycott of Sri Lankan Goods & Services

 

September, 2006

Voice from the Peninsula

Two Poems

Reporting from Vanni I

Reporting from Vanni II - Muzzling the Media

The Poor Man's Air Force

In the Path of Adrian Wijemanne

Rights of the Internally Displaced

Recognition for Eelam

Message of Sacrifice

The 'Disappeared' in Sri Lanka

Queen of Tamil Cinema No More

Blackouts and Blockades

Armed Conflict & Humanitarian Law: the Rajapakse Era

Senator Patrick Leahy's Statement on Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka Most Militarized in South Asia

AI: Commission of Inquiry Must be Independent

Improving Civilian Protection in Sri Lanka

The Mind of Mao

Briefing Paper on Disappearances

When Ceasefires Fail

Taking Dance from Jaffna to Paris

Senseless Words & Inappropriate Deeds

Sangaree & Elections

The Politics of Extrajudicial Killings

Kebithigollewa Massacre

Economy, Culture and Civil War in Sri Lanka

Resumption of War Tests Civilians' Endurance

Supreme Court Removes SL from Intl'l Law Obligations

Where to From Here for the Rajapakse Government?

Cost to Civilians of the SLA Misadventure

Wavering International Commitment to Human Rights in SL

UN Ruling 'Not Binding' in Sri Lanka

Citizens, Civilians, Casualties

The World Ignores Sri Lankan State Terrorism

Underage Recruitment & the Law

HRW Protests UNESCO Prize - to Karimov

HRC: 50 Tamil Youth Disappear in Jaffna in August

AHRC: White Vans & Disappearances

Climate Fears for Bangladesh's Future

On Reading 'The Function of Military History'

Tamil Families Take to the Sea

The Sri Lankan Conflict

Amnesty Update on Disappearance of Fr. Jim Brown

TYO Protests Freezing of TRO Bank Accounts

No Fear

The Crunch

India Struggles to Find a Coherent Policy on SL

An Exchange Between an Uncle and His Nephew

Court Case Concerning 17 Executed Aid Workers Transferred Out of the NE

Sri Lankan Tamil Refugees in India

IFT: The Military Annexation of Sampur & the CFA

The Race to Replace Kofi Annan

Understanding Patterns of Information Flow about the NE

Tamil Mind and Tiger Mind: A 1994 Debate

The Charge is Genocide; the Stuggle is Freedom

TRO Protest on Freezing of Bank Accounts

ICRC Concerned About Human Cost of Conflict

State Terrorism: Who is to Bell the Cat?

Power without Responsibility

The BBC and its Flirtations with Sri Lankan Propaganda

Fishing in Troubled Lanka

Three Appeals on Disappearance of Catholic Priest

NESOHR: Threats to Those Involved in Human Rights Work

Threat to the NGOs

Tamil 'Terrorism' Not So Simple

 

August, 2006

Urgent Appeal: Rescue the Students

New TRO Sponsor-a-Child Program

Ten Steps to Safeguard the Ceasefire

Monitors Say Troops Killed Aid Workers in Sri Lanka

Despair of One Displaced Village

Mullaitivu Principals' Association Letter to UNICEF

Jaffna Diocese: Letter to UN on Fr. Jim Brown's Disappearance

UNHCR & WFP Reports

NESOHR: Urgent Appeal to Halt Military Activities

A Pit List for the President

Tamils and Tigers

Henricsson: "There is No Military Solution"

On Kadirgamar, Khlestakov and Kumar Ponnambalam

NESOHR: Missing Allaippiddy Catholic Priest

The Bombing of Tamil School Children in Sri Lanka

War Backfires on Sri Lanka

TRO Appeal for Affected Civilians

Military Operations Against Civilians Exposed at UN

On Rights, the Diaspora, HRW and the LTTE

The Road to War

LTTE Child Protection Authority Press Release

LTTE Child Protection Authority Report Summary

LTTE Child Protection Authority Report 2006

Random Thoughts on K. Thurairatnam

CHA Aug 6 Fact-Finding Mission to Muttur

Water Gate Strategy

Journey to My Motherland

I Wish You Had Been Concerned...

Third Parties Attempt to Undermine the Tamil National Movement

In Conversation with PK Balachandran, Part 1

In Conversation with PK Balachandran, Part 2

In Conversation with PK Balachandran, Part 3

We Have Come Full Circle

UNHCR Chief Visits Sri Lanka for First Time

Peredeniya U.: Precursor to Black July 1983

First Foretelling of Sri Lanka's Split

COTANZ: The Mavilaru Bombing

IFT: Urgent Need to Prevent Impending War

Appreciation of Denmark's & Finland's Work on the SLMM

Adrian Wijemanne: An Appreciation by a Reader

Flies vs. Hammers: Asymmetric Warfare

 

July, 2006

Adrian Wijemanne - An Appreciation

Rajapakse Heading for Deeper Waters

The Botched 1987 JVP Hit on Rajiv Gandhi

Sri Lanka's Week of Shame

Reflections on Sinhala Buddhist Origin Myths

The Failed Peace Trap

Why a Solution Within a United Sri Lanka?

Black July to Black Rule

NESOHR: 1983 Re-enactment in the Making

Civil Wars

TRO Employee Assaulted by Army in Jaffna

Who is Jayatilleke Advising?

All Party Conference Just a Political Drama

Count Ethnic Divisions, Not Bombs

Fishing Piracy

Keeping the Peace?

Live With Death: A Black July Commemoration

The Neutralisation of Tamil Moderates

AHRC: JR's Liability in Black July

Dr. Ramadoss: Champion of Tamil Rights

Sri Lanka:A State That Has Failed

Arrested by the GoSL Army

Lessons of the Mini Battle of Vakaneri

Burning Bright: Remembering the 1958 Anti-Tamil Pogrom

How the EU Produced a War

Duplicity, Indifference & Cruelty

Grow Up, UNICEF

Eelam Intifada

What Narasimhan Ram Should Understand

Remembering Black July & the Failed State of Sri Lanka

NESOHR: Appeal for Protection

Nelson Mandela & Terrorism

The Missing Tamils of Sri Lanka

Interview with Dr. Radhika Coomaraswamy, UNSRCAC

The LTTE's Flexibility in the Current Peace Process

TIC: Allaipiddy Case Report

Black July 1983

On Educating Robert Pape

The 1987 Indo-Lanka Accord

Mother India & Eelam Tamils

Pinching the Child While Rocking the Cradle

International Involvement: Lessons from Sri Lanka

From Tamil Typewriters to Sinhala Helicopter Gunships

'Undeclared' Jaffna War Taking Toll

The CRC. Optional Protocol, Child Soldiers & the LTTE

Martin McGuinness Meets Tiger Leadership

Outgoing US Ambassador: No Military Solution in Sri Lanka

Taming the Tamil Tigers

The Prisoners of New York

M.A.D.

 

June, 2006

India and the LTTE: 'Out of the Box'

An Eelam Apologist on the 'Lanka Guardian'

Boston Globe: Sri Lanka's Uncivil War

Justice Surmounts Freedom Struggles

Killer Tigers or GoSL/Paramilitary Dirty Tricks?

TSVP Speaker at U Toronto June 30

Rsponse to Col. Hariharan's "LTTE Strategies"

Tamils Need a Homeland

Tamil Refugees Reach India

TIC - The Quest for Human Dignity: Summary

TIC - Tamils of Sri Lanka: The Quest for Human Dignity

Violence Begets Violence

Pennies, Pen-pals Make International Connections

New UN Peacebuilding Commission

The Lion Flag & State Terrorism

The Four Faces of Mahinda Rajapakse

Sinhala Military Occupation & Tamileelam

Mutur Under Siege by Many Parties

Pesalai Church Attack Pictures

AFTA: International Community Must Condemn Dirty War

COTANZ: Civilian Killings & Paramilitary Operations

Concerning the Bus Bombing & the Current Crisis

Catalonian Voters Approve Autonomy Plan

Quo Vadis Karunanidhi?

Letter to Amb. Lunstead on Mannar Church Bombing

IFT - Sri Lanka's Readiness to Launch War on the Tamil Nation

Dead End

Statement of US Ambassador-to-be Robert Blake

Barbaric Massacre of Innocent Sinhalese Civilians

Bishop of Colombo: The Killing of Innocent Villagers

Amnesty Condemns Attack on Civilian Bus

The Tamils' Right to Self-Determination

For Kosovo, Hope for Independence from Serbia

People Terrorized After Massacre of Tamil Family

TCHR: Defense Ministry Pays for Killings of Civilians

'The Forsaken Land'

Tamileelam is the Only Feasible Solution Left

Refugees in Muthur East

Amnesty: Manthuvil Disappearances

Oslo Talks

The Tamil Homeland is No Longer 'Mythical'

More on Mr. Idaikadar's Fast

Tamil Australian Resolutions

COTANZ: Civilian Killings in Batticaloa

COTANZ: Sri Lankan Attacks on the Media

Arrests and Other Abuses

Targeting Tamils in Sri Lanka

A Realistic Look at the Sri Lankan Problem

Sri Lanka Lost

Branding the LTTE as Terrorists

Key Elements of Darfur's Peace Agreement

Children Killed, Disappeared & Injured During the CFA in GoSL Areas

Mr. Idaikadar's Fast

Torching of Jaffna, Part 1

Torching of Jaffna, Part II

Torching of Jaffna, Part III

Torching of Jaffna, Part IV

The Problem is Implementation, Not Talks

 

May, 2006

TCHR: Civilian Deaths Since Mahinda's Election

Extrajudicial Killings of Tamil Civilians Since the Ceasefire

Press Release: Stop GOSL Atrocities

An Appeal to Prevent Civil War

Symbolic Politics

Peace - The Difficult, Yet Necessary Path

UNHCHR Concerned Over Increased Number of Civilian Killings

Unanswered Questions Remain on Kadirgamar Killing

Iran Shuts Down Newspaper Over Cartoon

US, EU Blacken Hopes for Tamils

What Next for the International Community?

The Sinhala Nationalist Quagmire & the Tamil National Question

A Tiger Under Every Stone

Sri Lanka is Not a Failed State Yet, But...

Sri Lankan City Mired in Ethnic Violence

The Sea Rights of States in Formation

The Situation in Muthur

Peace without Rights, or Rights without Peace

Any Questions?

LTTE Refutes SLMM Statement on Sea Rights

Condolence Letter re Maj. General Furuhovde

Injustice in Justice

Medical Report from Muthur

Call for Immediate Action on Trincomalee Situation

Foundation for Co-Existence Situation Report

ACTS Press Release

Amnesty: No Place Like Home

A Deepening Ethnic Violence

Identity and Violence

Sri Lanka's Human Rights Pledges

Letter on Sri Lanka's Human Rights Pledges

Lacking Conviction

Sri Lankan Tamil Demography

Celebrating the LTTE's 30th Anniversary

'Uthayan' Attack: Selections from the press

Peace Deal Signed in Darfur

Tamils in Independent Ceylon

Appeal for Indian Economic Sanctions Against Sri Lanka

Background on Female Tamil Journalist Arrested

Death Threats in Trinco

Comments on Post-Geneva 1 Activity

Political Killings & Their Gains

Civil War in the Jungle

Sri Lankan Trying to Build a Life

The Politics of Pipelines

'Buddhism, Conflict & Violence in Modern Sri Lanka'

Dignity - a poem

What Do the Terms 'Eelam' & 'Ilankai' Mean?

Getting to Know Sri Lankan Tamils

Consolidated Report on the Trincomalee Displacement

A Request for Help from Tamil Expatriates

The Killing of Innocents in Sri Lanka - April 2006

What Questions Are Worth Asking?

The Betrayal of Sivaram

Remembering Sivaram

Unity Through Autonomy in Iraq

 

April, 2006

Guns in the American Revolution

Taraki: The Larger Picture

RSF: Sivaram's Death Still Unpunished

UNHCR Assessing Needs of Newly Displaced

Nonviolent Peace Force Report

Amnesty Calls for Respect of Human Rights

Trinco Report by Colombo NGOs

NESOHR: Puthur Killings Case Report

PEARL: Attacks Against Sri Lanka's Minority

Letter to the EU

A Call to Condemn & Stop Government Actions Against Civilians

TRO Urgent Appeal

SL Strikes, Thousands Flee Homes

The Right of Self-Determination

What Negotiations?

Tamil Nadu Assembly Elections

When Does Rights Advocacy Fail?

Born With A Plastic Spoon

Trinco Conspiracy

US Court Ruling for Ahilan Nadarajah

TCHR Response to 2 HRW Reports

NESOHR: Puliyankulam Murders

TRO Appeal for Trinco Refugees

On the Killing of Nishanthan (17)

What Happened in Canada

NESOHR: Civilian deaths since Geneva 1 (Feb. 23, 2006)

On Academic Politics & Religious Zealotry

Regrettable, Counterproductive

Tayi

NESOHR: Fishermen's Right to Livelihood

Tamilchelvam Letter to Amb. Bratskar

TWA: Deep Concern Over Trinco Riots

S Nagalingam's Passing

Tamil Studies Conference May 11-14 in Toronto

AHRC: No Sri Lanka on UN Human Rights Council

Zip-a-dee-doo-dah

TNA Press Release

TCHR Appeal on UN Human Rights Council

Hope Outreach UK April 2006 Report

Sinhala State Terrorism & Western Foreign Policy

A Campaign of Bloodshed

The Spider and the Fly - A cautionary tale

Speeches at Nedumaran's Book Release

Who Cares for Kadirgamar?

Sir Ponnambalam Ramanathan

The Eight Stages of Genocide

IMHO's Annual Meeting April 15 in Baltimore, MD

Three Mules & Sister Rajani - A Rejoinder

Road Map to Change 1.3B Lives

Democracy? Good Government More Vital

The Situation in Tamil Nadu and Eelam Politics

COTANZ Condems Vigneswaran Assassination

Canadian Tamils Disappointed by LTTE Listing

Oviar Pugazhenthi Book Release

The LTTE Are Freedom Fighters

Open Letter to the American Red Cross

Cohabitation Doesn't Work

TIC: Acquittal of Agni Subramaniam

Your Move, Mr. President

The Elephant in the Room

Negotiation with Armed Groups: Sri Lanka and Beyond

Mourning Mr. V Vigneswaran

Powersharing or Partition?

War is a Complex Disease

Palacingham Pre-Conditions for Talks

NESOHR Condemns Mr. Vigneswaran's Killing

NESOHR: Challenge to Justice and the Rule of Law

Does Sri Lanka Need a Muslim Infantry Battalion?

Pursuit of War by Other Means

FAQs on the Sri Lankan National Conflict

Three Month Anniversary for Mr. Pararajasingam, MP

To Bridge the Difference in Sri Lanka

Paramilitaries and the Ever-Receding Peace

Roar of Tamil Rights

TCHR: Child Rights in Sri Lanka

End of the Sri Lankan Human Rights Commission?

 

March, 2006

Response to the HRW Report

Ayurvedic Exhibition in London

Letter on TRO Abductions

HRW: False Alarm!

Federalism or Partition?

NESOHR: Attack on Sampoor Village

New UN Human Rights Council

Drying Out the Insurgency

Congressional Hearing on Unrest in Sri Lanka II

Congressional Hearing on Unrest in Sri Lanka

Non-States and Non-Entities

Dissecting the HRW Report

IFT Response to HRW Report

The HRW Report & the Foreign Minister

COTANZ Response to HRW Report

Courting War

As It Happens...

How to be Ignored

Independent Expert on Minority Issues

Real Injustice

AFTA Statement on HRW Report

Ever Heard of AFSPA, PTA, TADO & ATA?

Wonderful World?

Britain's Answer to Separatism

Open Letter to John Cushnahan

On the Performance of Police Chief Chandra Fernando

HRW Backtracks on Extortion Charge

Stark Choices for Sri Lanka

Constitutional Council - A contrary view

Hue and Cry about Child Soldiers

HRW Missing an Opportunity

CTC Response to HRW Allegations on Extortion

Negotiating Peace in Nepal

No Hope of Enduring Peace

Global English

UNICEF and Underage Recruitment

Amnesty on TRO Abductions

A Sinhala Perspective on the EU Contribution to the Peace Process

MP Ponnambalam: The EU's Contribution

TCHR - The EU Contribution

Stumbling Peace Talks

Shattered Dreams

General Accused of Illegal Operations Against Kurds

Letter to the ICJ

The Tamil Perspective on Negotiating Peace in Sri Lanka

Dishny Restaurant in Paris

Geneva Talks: a turning point?

First Deal, First Hurdle

Disarming Karuna

UN Plays Politics with Jaffna Displaced

What is Terrorism?

Peace Talks - Again?!

Three Mules and Sister Rajani

Tamil Rulers of the Kandyan Kingdom

Uncharted Waters

Rajapakse is Wrong!

Sinhala Constitution

Lessons from Another Insurgency

Looking for Loopholes

The CFA Controversy

Strengths & Weaknesses of Mme Coomaraswamy

Anti-Tamil Bias

Rights of the Child

Develpment as a Precursor to Conflict Resolution

 

February, 2006

Peace Talks That Have Gone Nowhere

Ibn Battuta's Visit to Kingdom of Jaffna in 1344

Kasi Ananthan's Poesy & the Eelam Liberation Struggle

Ballad of the Sea and the Land

Will Sri Lanka Defeat Hostile Symbolic Politics?

Talks, Talks and More Talks

Socio-economic Inequality & Ethno-political Conflict

Imperial Reckoning: Kenyan Gulag

Negotiating Peace in Sri Lanka: Efforts, Failures & Lessons

Rethinking Sovereignty

Genocide Continues With Negotiations

TRO Preschools [pdf]

TRO Children's Homes [pdf]

Silent Lessons: So Much for Free Speech

Letter from a Tamil

Sri Lanka's Only Hope for Peace

Tamils Not to Reason Why

Aceh Bill Slammed

US Role in Sri Lanka

Send in the State Department

Fighting Sri Lankan State Terrorism

Cease-Fire Talks

Mallikai

People, Principles, Policies

Too Few Tamil Speakers in Government Service

Letter to Rajapakse: States Smaller than Sri Lanka

A Mirage of Equality

The Tamil Struggle

Response to Coomaraswamy

Falsehood Reveals the Truth

Profiles of Abducted TRO Staffers [pdf]

TRO Cooperation with Police on Abductions [pdf]

The Limited Scope of the CFA

Thamizhar Martial Arts

NESOHR: Abduction of Rajaratnam Thevachandran [pdf]

Coomaraswamy Replies

Tamil Diaspora Politics [pdf]

India Acquired Language, Not Genes From the West

Democratic Sri Lanka? A Parody

The Essence of the Geneva Talks

TRO's Speech to Consortium of Humanitarian Agencies [pdf]

Mr. De Chickera's Fantasy

Valentine for Anandasangaree

TRO Abductions: Who Did It?

Police in Darfur

Interview with Prof. Sivathamby

Archeology and Cultural Belonging for Minorities

Sri Lankan Abductions Require Intervention

Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor Urges New Push for Peace

Abduction of NGO Workers

US Lends Sri Lanka More for Arms

The Land That Has So Much

Preferring Patience

Beyond the Obvious

Sinhala-Muslim Romancing and Rift

NESOHR: Abduction of TRO Employees

Violence Falls, but Peril Remains

 

January, 2006

Another 5 TRO Staff Reported Missing

Update to TRO Kidnapping

TIC Condemns Abduction of TRO Workers

TRO Workers Kidnapped

The Bigger Picture

A Mischievious Game

Self-Defense

Truth in Sri Lanka

Collective Punishment for the Tamils

Preparing Lessons for Orphans

The Future of Preemption

The Latest Gimmicks

War Against False Democracy

Ratwatte Acquitted and Canadian Elections

US Setting the Clock Back on Peace

Child Recruitment

State Terrorism in Sri Lanka

Comments on the 2006 HRW Report

Memorandum to Secretary Rice

Letter to Ambassador Lunstead

Letter to Cardinal Murphy O'Connor

Somaliland and International Recognition

East Timor Report to UN

The JVP and Pol Potism

Small Change

TRO's Media Response [pdf]

TRO and the Sunera Foundation [pdf]

Rajapakse: A Prisoner of Sinhalese Nationalism

Musings on a 'Gotcha-Gotcha' Thread from a Sydney Brenner Story

Back to War

Interests, Not Values

TRO: Urgent Appeal for Humanitarian Assistance - Jaffna Conflict Internally Displaced Persons [pdf]

Sri Lankan First Lady Breaks Guruvayur Tradition

The

Get With It, Mr. Ambassador

The US and Australia Are Turning a Blind Eye

Shifting the Balance of Power, Capturing the Power of Leverage

The Problem and its Solution are in Sri Lanka, not in the US

First Tamil Class at University of Toronto Inauguration

An Open Letter to the American Ambassador to Sri Lanka

Music is the Food of Love

Accept the Reality of a Separate State for Tamils

Pongal Greetings!

NESOHR: Pesalai Incident [pdf]

NESOHR: Kandeepan Case Report [pdf]

AHRC: 20 Forced Disappearances in December, 2005

Amnesty Appeal re Four Disappearances

Amnesty Concerned About Escalation of Violence

The Dilemma of the US, the LTTE and the Buddhist Ayatollahs

The TRO

Response is Called For

Tamil Film History and Its Achievements

Primary Sources for the History of the Sri Lankan Tamils

Vaiko's "Letters from Prison" Book Release

Relief & Rehabilitation First Anniversary Report of St. John's Church

NESOHR: Civilian Attacks, Nov 20, 2005 to Jan 9, 2006 [pdf]

NESOHR: Abduction of B. Rajeevmohan [pdf]

NESOHR: Tharshini Case Report [pdf]

NESOHR: Forced Evictions - Jaffna [pdf]

NESOHR: Statistics on Civilians Affected by War [pdf]

Letter from Jaffna University Medical Students Union

Blaming the Past in Sri Lanka

The Conflict in Sri Lanka: Ground Realities [pdf]

Letter to the Editor of the 'Washington Times'

The Tamil-Muslim Question - Again

IFT - Tamil Civilians Need Protection Against a Vindictive Armed State

Letter to the Co-Chairs from the Association of Tamil Americans

Too Much Talk

The Pararajasingam Murder - the Fall-Out

Comments on H L de Silva's Oration

People's Struggle is the Only Option

SAARC and the Sovereignty Bargain

The Real Reasons Behind the Murder in the Cathedral

The Low-Down on Narasimhan Ram, the Ignoramus

Involuntary Disappearances in Sri Lanka on the Increase

 

December, 2005

An Eternal Political Stalemate

Hypocrisy of the West Exposed

Continued Restrictions on Travel

The Tsunami One Year Later: One Million Still Homeless

Rajapakse's Military Agenda Commenced

Armed Groups and Resolution 1612

Lessons for Negotiating with Armed Groups for an End to the Use of Child Soldiers

Drawing Circles in the Sand

If India Gets Involved, Tamil Nadu Will Turn Out to Be Another Kashmir - Vaiko

What Lara Croft Would Look Like if She Carried Rice Bags

A Call to Impose Sanctions on the Government of Sri Lanka

Is War Imminent?

Crunch Time for Rajapakse

Tsunami One Year On

TRO 12 Month Tsunami Update [PDF]

Tsunami's Legacy: Extraordinary Giving and Unending Strife

The Rumours of Peace

Reign of Blind Terror

Tsunami-hit Orphanage Rebuilt

M.I.A.: Guerrilla Goddess

The Restless Children of the Dalai Lama

The Root Causes of Tragedy

The Root Cause of the Conflict: The Mahavamsa Conflict

Don't Support Sinhala Terrorism

Old Prejudices Keep Tsunami Aid From Tamils

Jakarta to Submit Draft Laws on Aceh

SLTMA Condemns Arrest of Tamil Journalist

Lessons in Gratitude from Movie Maestro Sivaji Ganesan

Healing and Awareness through Theater

NESOHR - International Human Rights Day Celebrations

Coomaraswamy Must be Sued for Hate Speech

Dhanapala Touts Ability to Lead the UN

Comments on Coomaraswamy Speech

Appeal for Eelam Flood Victims in Tamil Nadu

Toronto Vigil December 26

Expulsion of Jaffna Muslims: The Logic of Cultural Genocide

Required: Paradigm Shifts

Shadow War in Sri Lanka

Radhika Coomaraswamy on Tamils and Human Rights

Sri Lanka Elections and Tamil Participation

Karuna and Kalkudah

Sow the Wind and Reap the Whirlwind

The Threat of Genuine Negotiations

Archbisop of Westminister to Visit Sri Lanka on Christmas

Expulsion of Jaffna Muslims: A Response to the Claim of Cultural Genocide

Is Peace Feasible?

War by Other Means

Sri Lanka Report to the UN Committee Against Torture

UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions Sri Lanka Statement

Congress Advocates Review of US Tsunami Relief Effort

Sudan's Interim Power-sharing and Peace in Sri Lanka

The Graceful Guru

Amnesty - Act Now to Prevent Escalation

NPR Investigates US Immigration Detention Centers

Was Hinduism Invented?

A Hole in the Head

Mahinda Rajapakse and the Art of the Possible

Some Thoughts on the 2005 Heroes' Day Speech

Spies, the Poor and Unconnected

Short Fuse in Sri Lanka

No 'Peace' Rice in an Empty Pot

Wait and Observe

Peace Process on the Ropes

Oh! International Community! What is Your Response?

 

November, 2005

A Flashback to Pirabhakaran's 1995 Interview

Sri Lankan Reneges on the Oslo and P-TOMS Agreements

Clinton Visits Kinniya

Comments on the Expulsion of the Jaffna Muslims

Tripartite Strategic Considerations

K Alvapillai: Silent Axle

Bangalore Trial of Tamil Separatists

Human Rights Day December 10

What's Next? Independence?

The Absence of Accountability

A Book to Honor Pirabhakaran

Pirapaharan's 2005 Heroes' Day Speech

Eye of the Storm?

Elections - 2005

Peace and Economy: An Analysis of Chintana

Expulsion of Jaffna Muslims: Cultural Genocide or Battlefield Strategy?

Sri Lankan Muslims and a Military Career

Australia'a Remembrance Day

Vanni Preparing for Heroes' Day

The Addiction Trade Wars

Anandasangaree and the 1977 Assault on Amirthalingam

Pictures of IDPs from the Jaffna HSZs Now in Alvai

Tamil Bishops Urge Vote for Peace

The Sri Lankan Presidential Election and the International Community

The European Union and the Tamil Struggle

The Sri Lankan Presidential Election: Tweedledum or Tweedledee

The South has Spoken

The LTTE Teaches a Lesson to Those Who Play Political Games

Sri Lankan Presidential Electi