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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…

Open door to extremism

Oct 19, 2005
Vinothini Kanapathipillai
What are the possibilities for consensus on a solution to Sri Lanka's conflict?

Whither peace after the polls?

Oct 11, 2005
Vinothini Kanapathipillai
Regardless of who wins the Presidential polls, the prospects for a revival of the Norwegian initiative look slim.

Fear and loathing

Sep 28, 2005
Madeleine Bunting
Anxiety about terrorism is now shaping Britain’s political debate and redefining allegiances.

An impediment to the peace process

Sep 28, 2005
It is unfair and unacceptable to choose one party to the peace talks and penalise it.

Development won’t end Sri Lanka’s war

Sep 21, 2005
Jana Nayagam and Suren Manoharan

UN terror resolution enables repression

Sep 19, 2005

Pawns on the board

Sep 18, 2005
Lead Story

Security imbalance, not violence, threatens truce

Sep 14, 2005
Jana Nayagam

Fighting the war the terrorists sought

Sep 13, 2005
Mark Danner

Coalition politics and coalition economics

Sep 13, 2005
The Economist
Open door to extremism
Whither peace after the polls?
Fear and loathing
An impediment to the peace process
Development won’t end Sri Lanka’s war
UN terror resolution enables repression
Pawns on the board
Security imbalance, not violence, threatens truce
Fighting the war the terrorists sought
Coalition politics and coalition economics
Open door to extremism
Whither peace after the polls?
Fear and loathing
An impediment to the peace process
Development won’t end Sri Lanka’s war
UN terror resolution enables repression
Pawns on the board
Security imbalance, not violence, threatens truce
Fighting the war the terrorists sought
Coalition politics and coalition economics