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May, 2008

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