- 09 October 2015
Sri Lanka at a crossroads
There's been a seismic shift. The publication of the UN report on Sri Lanka in September put on record indisputably and for posterity the terrible suffering endured by Tamils in the final phase of the Sri Lankan civil war. That acknowledgement.......
- 28 June 2015
Shattered, but Unbroken: Survivors of torture in Sri Lanka
Perhaps it would have been better to have died that day,” she said, “and yet I have a desire to live”. Surprisingly perhaps, this comes from a woman whose struggle is by no means over. Any day now she could be rounded up in the country where she lives....
- 18 June 2015
With just 273 political prisoners in custody, how many have disappeared?
New questions about wartime and post-war disappearances in Sri Lanka emerged following a bombshell revelation that the Government hs only 273 political detainees in its......
- 03 October 2014
Detention of Balenderan Jeyakumari: Why it is so sinister
Just over 200 days ago the Sri Lankan authorities arrested a Tamil mother, Balenderan Jeyakumari, and her teenage daughter. Mrs Jeyakumari had been campaigning to find out what had happened to her 15-year-old son,...
- 24 June 2015
In Defence of Diaspora: Sri Lanka's invisible victims
There's typically a sense that once people have fled their country they no longer deserve a full stake in its future. Perhaps the assumption is exiles have assimilated elsewhere, their children no longer speak the.....
- 07 January 2015
Getting the Truth Out: Creating a Sinhala version of 'Sri Lanka's Killing Fields'
Sri Lanka is preparing for an election which could change the political landscape of the country - yet fail to confront the most central issue the island faces. Now it is more.....
- 18 May 2014
No greater sorrow than the loss of one's native land
It was the poetic genius of Euripides who first recognised and recorded one of the most powerful sources of misery in the human condition. “There is no greater sorrow on earth than the loss of one’s native land,” wrote one...
