- 01 September 2013
Sri Lankan boat migration to Australia: Motivations and dilemmas
Over the past 18 months, Sri Lankans have boarded boats for Australia in record numbers. Stories from boat migrants depict complex political and economic motivations for their journeys, contrary to the statements by both governments..................
- 08 August 2013
Land Grabs: Exultant state vs. agonized citizen
Land grabs i.e. the acquisitioning of land by the State/Military has been in the news more often than necessary throughout this year. This last week we saw it becoming headline news again as we learnt that Sriraghavan Kadirgamar.....
- 22 July 2013
Sri Lanka: Behind the facade of accountability and reconciliation
Anxious to escape reprimand by the international community at the next UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) sessions and Commonwealth heads of Government Meeting, Sri Lanka has arrested 12 persons in connection....
- 20 April 2013
Remembering Fr.Kili: A walk down memory lane
‘Kili’ Father as he was known affectionately was assassinated on 20th April, 2008 by a deep penetration unit of the Sri Lanka Army. We lost two other members of NESOHR previously. Chandra Nehru Ariyanayagam....................
- 31 July 2013
Sri Lanka: Will mass grave case be buried?
On November 24 last year, workers digging a trench in the compound of Matale hospital, central Sri Lanka, made a gruesome discovery. Using a backhoeing machine ahead of plans to build foundations for a new bio-gas....
- 16 May 2013
Stranded in Dubai: Tamil refugees live in ‘constant fear’
After surviving the brutality of the Sri Lankan civil war and its aftermath, 15 refugees face an uncertain future. So desperate for clothing, they fashioned dresses from bed sheets, pulling out individual threads to use as cotton and improvising....
- 23 February 2013
The other half of murder: The killing of a child
Could death be a half-truth? This question is obviously a killer’s last hope and best alibi. There is enough truth in that great genre of mystery fiction to suggest that murder can often be an open debate. This does not help the dead.....
