- 05 February 2016
Sri Lanka: Looking for a deal, not truth and justice
Sri Lanka’s fledging transitional justice process is in trouble already. It’s getting impossible to paper over embarrassing public differences between the country’s President and its Prime........
- 29 January 2016
Sri Lanka constitution: What’s in it for the Tamils?
Sri Lanka's new government, which is taking steps to draw up a new constitution, is likely to cheat Tamils out of a political system that reflects their aspirations. Restrictions imposed by the government on the constitution-making..............
- 08 September 2015
US stand on Sri Lanka perverts international justice
At the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva next week, the US is to sponsor a resolution on war crimes in Sri Lanka, in collaboration with the Colombo government. This is despite wide recognition that Sri Lankan......
- 01 July 2015
Subjugation in Disguise II: Trading justice for 'reconciliation'
Tamil populations situated in various countries in the Indian Ocean region, from Sri Lanka, and India to Burma and the Malay Peninsula have been subjected to the hegemony of ruling elites of the dominant nations who effectively inherited.....
- 30 November 2015
Sri Lanka’s transitional justice: Genuine move or red herring?
Sri Lanka's Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera met with civil society organisations (CSOs) on October 29 to discuss public consultations for setting up a transitional justice project to deal with the mass........
- 22 August 2015
Sri Lanka election: Tamil voters must keep TNA on straight and narrow
The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) performed exceptionally well in Sri Lanka’s parliamentary election on August 17. But as it prepares to negotiate with the new......
- 26 June 2015
Subjugation in Disguise : False models of multiculturalism and reconciliation
Singapore is often cited as a success story of multi-culturalism, Westminster modeled democracy and free-market capitalism. It is likewise projected by Western establishments as a model......
