The conflict in Sri Lanka has been described as a non-international armed conflict by the Ban Ki Moon appointed 3 member panel (which is not sanctioned by either the UN Security Council or the UN General Assembly). LTTE is designated …

 By Dr. Daya Hewapathirane
 
Propensity to violence and criminal activities is not a recent development among Tamils. The history of Tamil involvement in our country is marked by excessive violence, plunder, deceit and ingratitude. This particularly characterizes the history of …

Courtesy of  The Sunday Times

The upcoming visit to Sri Lanka of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances could be ‘the thin end of a large wedge,’ leading critics of Sri Lanka’s domestic mechanisms to demand more …

Human Rights Watch came out with a 140 page report titled ‘We will teach you a lesson’: Sexual violence against Tamils by Sri Lankan Security Forces” in 2013. HRW’s “untold number of rapes of Tamil men and women in …

In the context of the intensifying crisis of governance in Sri Lanka witnessed over the past three or four months university scholars and professionals of the University of Peradeniya  have inaugurated an organisation called Association of Scholars and Professionals in …

A committee comprising of six members has been appointed to coordinate between President Maithripala Sirisena and former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, with regard to the future affairs of the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) including its main coalition partner – …

450 years of foreign invasion & occupation, 133 years of British rule cannot replace 2300 years of Sinhala Buddhist rule but they keep trying and gaining ground too. 67 years of post-independence where former colonies remain tied to and enslaved …

By EDWARD GUNAWARDENA

Chief Minister Wigneswaran hell bent on getting rid of the Armed Services from the North has arrived at the perverted conclusion that the post-war deployment of the military in the North has contributed to the rapid spread …

Pro-LTTE TNA backed Tamil protesters broke out in the Kilinochchi for the first time since defeat of LTTE Tamil terrorists in May 2009 and pro-Tamil Ranil grabbed the power on 8^th January 2015 against building of Buddhist temple in …

Ananthy Sasitharan in the Eye of a Controversial Publicity Storm Again

DBS Jeyaraj

(Extracts from the full article)

The LTTE political wing members were at the forefront in conscripting youths based on the dictum “Veetukku oru veeran allathu veeranganai”(a hero …