Dismantling Sinhala Utopia

Global liberalism confronts Sri Lanka’s ethnocracy. [more]

Senior Sri Lankan officer provides evidence of war crimes

Tamils Against Genocide, a US-based activist group has obtained a 100-page long sworn affidavit from a senior commander of the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) who has fled Sri Lanka seeking asylum for himself and his family. The affidavit details many war crimes carried out by the SLA in the closing stages of the island’s war last year. [more]

UN expert dismisses Sri Lanka’s reconciliation commision

In a brief but compelling interview with The Sunday Leader, UN Special Rapporteur on Extra-judicial Executions, Philip Alston slammed a Sri Lanka government initiative, asserting the Commission on Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation will not focus or address human rights, humanitarian law, violations or war crimes. [more]

UN chief appoints war crimes panel on Sri Lanka

Despite Sri Lanka’s vehement objections, the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has appointed a trio of international experts to examine reports of widespread war crimes during Sri Lanka’s war against the Liberation Tigers. [more]

US war crimes experts visit Sri Lanka

Samantha Power, Director of Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights of the National Security Council in the Obama administration, David Pressman, Director for war crimes atrocities and civilian protection of the US National Security Council, and Ms. Patricia A Butenis, Ambassador of the US in Sri Lanka, met with Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapakse on June 15. [more]

On the road to ruin: why Sinhala nationalist strategy will deter investors, worsen losses and deepen debt

The Rajapaksa Government made it very clear during its first term that it was against privatization of state enterprises and halted the process of privatization. [more]

GSP+ conditions

The following are the conditions set by the European Commission for a 6 month extension of the GSP+ benefit to Sri Lanka, with the proviso that Sri Lanka had to provide written commitment to these conditions by July 1. [more]

Sri Lanka dismiss EU conditions for GSP+ extension

Sri Lanka has refused to comply with European Union conditions for the extending of GSP+ trade concessions, calling them ‘insulting’. [more]

Diaspora must continue to defy

We live in an era when the Sri Lankan state is callously trying to eradicate the Tamil nation and its identity within the borders of Sri Lanka, first through mass killings and now the forced Sinhalisation of Tamil homelands. [more]

Britain in Jaffna

Britain must play its role in re-establishing the Tamil homeland’s connections to the world. [more]

Sri Lanka amongst challenges to 'never again' myth - Annan

The cry of “never again,” raised by so many in the years after the end of the Holocaust 1945, has rung increasingly hollow with the passing decades, Kofi Annan, former secretary general of the United Nations, protested in an op-ed Friday in the International Herald Tribune. [more]