Indian policy towards Sri Lanka is caught between the national interest and serving domestic interest groups.
By Ankit Panda for The Diplomat
In a controversial move, India abstained from a U.S.-sponsored resolution on human rights in Sri Lanka at the
Sri Lanka can claim a moral victory on the basis that 2014 UNHRC Resolution was adopted against Sri Lanka with 23 votes while a majority comprising 24 nations did not support the Resolution by either voting against or abstaining with …
Britain’s call for a Sierra Leone type tribunal against Sri Lanka and that utopian organization in the sky without a country called TGTE (Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam) organizing in Geneva a press conference presided by the 1stPresident …
H. L. D. Mahindapala
Of the many contradictions, misinterpretations, distortions and perversions in the political culture of the north the role of religion, in all its dimensions, is the least explored and understood. In contrast, Buddhism has been explored almost …
The days following the elimination of the LTTE leadership were justifiably joyous for a nation that had been plagued and held hostage by terrorism for three decades. Joy, however, is relative to place and person. I am thinking about the …
Dr Noel Nadesan
The war radicalized Jaffna and it was inevitable that we could never again return to the good old Jaffna we knew. There were signs of a new Jaffna emerging imperceptibly even during the war years. I have …
So that is the expert report!
Navy Pillai came but never visited the Sinhala massacre villages, nor found out about the ethnic cleansing of the Sinhalese and Muslims- over 200,000. by the LTTE!
So much for the ‘Pillai Navy’!
NAVI …
An explosion followed by a huge fire rages in the south-west part of Pristina in the early hours March 25, 1999 after NATO forces launched a missile attack against Yugoslavia (Reuters / Yannis Behrakis)
Years on, Serbia still bears deep …
“ Slaughter every man, woman, and child (including babes suckling at the breast)”were the orders given by Governor Robert Brownrigg (3rd British Governor of Ceylon from 1813 – 1820) to Maj. Gen. Hay MacDowell in 1818 that left the …
I am aggrieved and so are my children. I don’t know where my husband is and they don’t know where their father is. Some may not know who my husband (their father) is and was so let me tell you …