Presidential Election 2010 Why vote Dr. Vickramabahu ? Below is the text of an appeal for signatures to support the electoral campaign of Vickramabahu Karunaratne, better known as Bahu. He is the only candidate in the election calling for self [...]
I fear that the attitude of supporters of the Tamil cause towards Latin America is rather subjective, and that their approach is still sentimental. I will come to that later in my response, but, before that, the Tamil nationalist, especially [...]
“The impunity with which the Sri Lankan government is able to commit these crimes [referring to 2009 war atrocities, including brutal internment of 300,000 Tamils] actually unveils the deeply ingrained racist prejudice that is precisely what led to the marginalization [...]
The Geneva Declaration on Terrorism, passed May 29, 1987 by the UN general assembly, points out that the main perpetrators of terrorism are governments striving to keep down parts of their populations or other peoples. In this document, at that [...]
“At independence, in 1948, the new political elite, in its rush for power, cultivated ethnic support in a society whose real imperative should have been the eradication of poverty. Language became the spark,” journalist-documentary filmmaker John Pilger recently wrote. (12) [...]
Former Sri Lankan army chief General Sarath Fonseka’s entry into the country’s political arena might alter the geo-political equations in South Asia permanently. The Pentagon-friendly solider might win widespread support from the business community were he to run for president. [...]
Sri Lanka—formerly Ceylon, in English, and Serendib in Arabic (which gave rise to the word serendipity)—is commonly referred to as the “pearl of the orient” due to its beauty and wealth of natural resources, flora and fauna. Today, it is [...]
“Those who are exploited are our compatriots all over the world; and the exploiters all over the world are our enemies… Our country is really the whole world, and all the revolutionaries of the world are our brothers,” President Fidel [...]
Fred Leplat reports on the defeat of the Tamil liberation movement. The vicious offensive against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) launched by the Sri Lankan army at the start of 2006 ended in May with a brutal defeat [...]
Several thounsand Tamils marched through London on Saturday 17 Oct 2009 to protest against the continued detention of civilians in Sri Lankan camps, calling on the UK government to press for their release. Ban Ki-Moon – Tamil blood on your [...]
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