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Monthly Archives: August 2011
An Anchor Reflects
A neighbor approached me the other day as I was pulling into the driveway . She’s a school teacher and she’s simply overwhelmed. No, not by her third-graders. By the news. More specifically, she says, news from abroad is an unrelenting roster of reports of war, destruction, and despotism. “Every time I turn on the radio,” she said, […]
Read MoreMedia owner threatened, Editor severely assaulted, correspondents harassed!
Already battered Freedom of expression and media rights took yet another ugly turn last month in Sri Lanka. A leading
news paper owner was threatened by the President, the news editor of the largest circulating Tamil daily in Jaffna was assaulted and critically injured by the military backed para military gang and two correspondents of popular […]
Sri Lanka: Sinhalese refuse to accept historical errors and crimes that made war unavoidable
“A historic victory can wreak as much havoc as a historic defeat”. Tony Judt (Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten 20th Century)
The road to Black July (and the long Eelam War it rendered unstoppable) was paved with avoidable errors and needless crimes. Amongst this litany, arguably one of the most poignant is the fate of the […]
Some Critical Notes on the Non-Tamil Identity of the Muslims of Sri Lanka, and on Tamil–Muslim Relations
Abstract: The ethnic civil war between the Tamil and Sinhalese communities that ravaged Sri Lanka inthe late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries and which ended in May 2009 has attracted great interest from scholars of ethnic identity. Both the Tamil and Sinhalese ethnic groups employ language—Tamil and Sinhalese—as their primary ethnic marker to support their distinct ethnic formations. As for the […]
Read MoreAre Sri Lanka’s Relations with China Deepening? An Analysis of Economic, Military, and Diplomatic Data
Abstract: During the past few years, Sri Lanka appears to have forged closer relations with China. Sri Lanka welcomed Chinese investment in building a port in Hambantota, arms from China for use in its civil war, and “dialogue partner” status in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Such high-profile moves have unnerved analysts fearing the rise of Chinese influence in […]
Read MoreCBK’s Morning Afterthoughts and the Local Authorities Election
President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga always wrote well and spoke eloquently when she resisted a propensity to be overly loquacious. While her recent peroration contains many intelligent and valid points, her credibility and their validity comes into serious question because she is not an independent observer or a reformist leader –in-waiting, but precisely a two term […]
Read MorePersons displaced by war at increased risk of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Depression, Anxiety
Science daily August 3: Residents of Sri Lanka who were internally displaced during the civil conflict that occurred in their country from 1983 to 2009 have a higher prevalence of war-related mental health conditions that include depression, anxiety and post traumatic
stress disorder, according to a study in the August 3 issue of The Journal of […]
President Rajapakse likely to be served summons via media in US case, Gota may be added as a defendent
• Motion will address the issues of personal jurisdiction and head of state immunity
• Gotabaya Rajapakse likely to be added as a defendant
• Motion will seek authorization to serve summons by publication or electronic means
• Lawyer says will try all methods including to deliver summons through US Embassy in Colombo
• Speculation rife President Rajapakse has […]
More political intrigue as Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister allegedly has Wildlife Chief fired for doing his job
In a shocking turn of events following allegations of criminal activity against a highly connected government minister,
Director General of the Wildlife Conservation Department (WLCD) Dr. Chandrawansa Pathiraja has been removed from the WLCD with effect from yesterday (August 1).
According to highly placed sources from the WLCD who spoke on conditions of anonymity in fear for […]
Freedom of Media continues to be under threat despite end of war
The freedom of expression and of the media received another brutal blow with the murderous assault on senior journalist
and news editor of the Uthayannewspaper, Gnanasundaram Kuganathan, in Jaffna on Friday. He is now in acritical condition in the intensive care unit of Jaffna Hospital with headinjuries due to blows from iron bars. The victim had previously […]
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Some Critical Notes on the Non-Tamil Identity of the Muslims of Sri Lanka, and on Tamil–Muslim Relations
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Are Sri Lanka’s Relations with China Deepening? An Analysis of Economic, Military, and Diplomatic Data
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CBK’s Morning Afterthoughts and the Local Authorities Election
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Persons displaced by war at increased risk of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Depression, Anxiety
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President Rajapakse likely to be served summons via media in US case, Gota may be added as a defendent
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More political intrigue as Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister allegedly has Wildlife Chief fired for doing his job
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Freedom of Media continues to be under threat despite end of war
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