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  • Co-chairs 'regret' Kilinochchi hospital bombing

    Nov 06
    The backers of the peace process refuse to condemn the Sri Lankan airstrike which killed six civilians.
  • Implications of joint US - Sri Lanka military exercises
    The participation by US ships of the 5th fleet and over 1000 troops in exercises with Sri Lanka's military is significant for many reasons.
  • Spectre of kidnappings returns to Sri Lanka
    Mysterious abductions have come to haunt Sri Lanka once more.
  • Indian model not intended to satisfy self-rule aspirations
    The post-partition constitution of India was not required to address any sovereignty issues similar to those that lie at the core of Tamil struggle, and therefore, is ill-suited for Sri Lanka, says Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam, Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarian.
  • The paradox of international policy
    The more successful Sri Lanka’s military efforts are, the less international support there will be for a negotiated solution.
  • Army prepares new offensives in Jaffna, east
    Sri Lankan military intensifies shelling of LTTE-controlled areas and deploys additional troops and military hardware in the forward areas.
  • LTTE outlaws child recruitment, labour
    The Liberation Tigers’ administration has enacted the Tamileelam Child Protection Act 2006 (Act No. 03 of 2006) to protect the rights of children.
  • Peace process turns on A9’s fate
    The government has refused to reopen the road. Analysts say this is because the military wants to recapture the LTTE-held southern part of the peninsula and doesn’t want to dismantle its substantial military buildup in the middle of the peninsula astride the highway.
  • Dead End
    The Tamils are in a familiar predicament.
  • Demerger: lessons for the future
    The Supreme Court ruling demonstrates is the fragility of constitutional changes, even when underwritten by powerful international actors such as India.
  • Geneva talks end in fiasco

    A waste of time. That is the widely expressed characterisation of the two days of Norwegian facilitated talks between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers in Geneva over the weekend.

    Even as the talks approached, the omens were not good. No agenda was agreed or even discussed ahead of the talks – though both sides were bluntly telling the media what they were going to talk about.

  • Heavy intervention shoring up rupee - UNP

    A collapse of Sri Lanka’s currency was being stymied by heavy intervention by the Central Bank, the main opposition party said Sunday. The central bank had spent 352 million dollars from January to September to defend the rupee, with 121 million dollars being spent from September 01 to 19, former Deputy Finance Minister and United National Party (UNP) parliamentarian, Bandula Gunewardene, told Lanka Business Online (LBO).

  • Iran to build 2 thermal power plants in Sri Lanka
    Iran will build two 300- and 500-megawatt thermal power plants in Sri Lanka, Iranian Energy Minister Parviz Fattah has said.

    Speaking to reporters after a meeting with his Sri Lankan counterpart W D J Seneviratne, Fattah said that an agreement on construction of the power plants would be signed by the two sides this week.
  • Sinhalese celebrate demerger amid Tamil anger
    Supreme Court declares the 1987 merger of Sri Lanka’s North and East,effected in the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord, as illegal and invalid.
  • Jaffna humanitarian crisis worsens
    Aid workers and civilians complain that over half a million people in Jaffna are now living on just one meal a day.
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