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March, 2010

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’s President

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'

Déjà Vu All Over Again!

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