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From Visionary to Bystander: How ITAK has forgotten its historic roots
  Ilankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (ITAK), the largest Tamil party in Sri Lanka and once a pioneer of Tamil nationalism in the first decades after the independence of Ceylon, has strayed far from its historic mission. Founded in 1949 as the Federal Party, ITAK was born out of the necessity to challenge the Sinhala-Buddhist majoritarianism that sought to dismantle the political and cultural…

We have come full circle

Jul 27, 2006
Jana Nayagam
The international community has - again - put the Sinhala establishment in charge of the Tamils’ future.

How the EU produced a war

Jul 15, 2006
J. T. Janani
Given that EU always had leverage over the Colombo government, it is surprising that things have gotten so bad.

Context determines who is a terrorist

Jul 15, 2006
Gwynne Dyer
Even Mandela would not escape label today

The end game that won’t end

Jul 15, 2006
Roshan de Silva Wijeyeratne
What the international community have not quite grasped yet is that this is a Sri Lankan Government like none before.

Sri Lanka's uncivil war

Jul 2, 2006
Lead Story
Theacknowledgment of a Tamil right to self-rule in their own homeland marks a welcome evolution in US policy.

A sterile battle

Jul 1, 2006
Lead Story
'The Tamils have already made the biggest concession of all by making a form of self-rule, rather than independence, their aim.”

Grow up, UNICEF

Jun 30, 2006
J. T. Janani
Playing political football with child soldiers.

A need to re-write the international rule book

Jun 30, 2006
Jana Nayagam
At some point in during the peace process, the international community assumed that it was no longer necessary to apply the concept of parity to resolving the Tamil question.

The duplicity in admitting Tamil ‘grievances’

Jun 16, 2006
Jana Nayagam
There is no sense that the international community actually understands what the Tamils themselves want. Or care to find out either.

Legitimacy can only flow from power

Jun 16, 2006
Vinothini Kanapathipillai
Denying the Tigers legitimacy took priority over resolving the conflict - and has led to the brink of war.
We have come full circle
How the EU produced a war
Context determines who is a terrorist
The end game that won’t end
Sri Lanka's uncivil war
A sterile battle
Grow up, UNICEF
A need to re-write the international rule book
The duplicity in admitting Tamil ‘grievances’
Legitimacy can only flow from power
We have come full circle
How the EU produced a war
Context determines who is a terrorist
The end game that won’t end
Sri Lanka's uncivil war
A sterile battle
Grow up, UNICEF
A need to re-write the international rule book
The duplicity in admitting Tamil ‘grievances’
Legitimacy can only flow from power