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The death of a cause

Sat, 2009-05-23 11:34 — srinir
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 Vellupillai Prabhakaran is dead and officially dead. A quick blog post on what happened and what entails. 

Sri Lanka and Israel -- divergent parallels

Wed, 2009-02-04 16:35 — srinir
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A Blog entry on the Lankan conflict.

And Then They Came For Me

Tue, 2009-01-13 20:06 | Lasantha Manilal Wickrematunge

An editorial by Lasantha,published posthumously in "The Sunday Leader".

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The Sunday Leader

Who speaks on behalf of Lanka's Tamils?

Tue, 2008-10-21 13:02 | Sadanand Menon

The LTTE, by all accounts, seems to have been lassoed. The dreaded militant outfit fighting for an independent Tamil state within Sri Lanka, is said to be engaged in a last ditch battle from its encircled base in the Vanni region in Jaffna. The Lankan army claims to be a couple of kilometres short of the LTTE’s administrative headquarters in Kilinochchi.

The Humanitarian Crisis in Srilanka

Tue, 2008-10-21 12:57 | EPW Editorial

The Sri Lankan government's two-year long strategy of a “military solution” has led it to a situation where it has more or less cornered the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the Wanni region in the northern part of the country. But the tactics of an “all out” military operation and the LTTE’s own strategy of using the population of Wanni as cover has resulted in a terrible humanitarian situation for the Tamils in the region, a human crisis that the rest of the world, let along neighbouring India, cannot ignore.