08/19/2011
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Sri Lanka Guardian
Time of events leading to his departure from Sri Lanka, by Dr. Hoole
07/23/2011
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Sri Lanka Guardian
(July 23, Jaffna, Sri Lanka Guardian) The EPDP, supposedly a former armed group which continues to be represented by gun-toting cadres led by Minister Douglas Devananda, is the main Tamil ally of President Rajapakse. The violent EPDP seemed the only way in which the President can show Tamil support and therefore it has become his most crucial ally in warding off calls for war crimes inquiries on the grounds that Tamils support him.
06/28/2011
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Sri Lanka Guardian
Sri Lanka president Mahinda Rajapaksa called for reforms in the United Nations alongside other international institutions.
02/12/2011
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Sri Lanka Guardian
COLUMN BY SHANIE: (February 12, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) The Citizen's Movement for Good Governance (CIMOGG) is one of the few civil society organisations in Sri Lanka which has consistently stood up for civil rights and good governance in our country. Earlier this week, CIMOGG sponsored a public lecture by Jayantha Dhanapala at the auditorium of the Organisation of Professional Associations on energising the civil society in Sri Lanka. In his lecture, Dhanapala contended that civil society had an important role to play but was not doing enough, even though there were mechanisms available that allowed for civil society to intervene in promoting good governance.
11/22/2010
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Sri Lanka Guardian
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa reads the 2011 budget in Parliament in Colombo November 22, 2010. Sri Lanka's president proposed a 2011 budget on Monday promising a swathe of tax cuts and the lowest deficit in 19 years, aiming to quicken the pace of post-war economic revival. However, there were few specifics about how revenue would be raised in the budget, the first full-year spending plan since the country won a quarter-century war over the Tamil Tigers separatists in May 2009.
11/12/2010
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Sri Lanka Guardian
(November 12, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) After nearly two decades of suppression of dissident Tamil parties by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the re-emergence of plurality in Tamil politics since the May 2009 defeat of the LTTE has altered the political landscape for Sri Lankan Tamils. In a series of exclusive interviews conducted in Sri Lanka in June 2010, FDI Associate Sergei DeSilva-Ranasinghe speaks with Mr Thirunavukkarasu Sridharan, leader of the Eelam People’s Revolutionary Liberation Front, Padmanaba faction (EPRLF-Naba) and Mr Dharmalingam Siddharthan, leader of the People’s Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE) and, by correspondence in October 2010, with Dr Muttukrishna Sarvananthan, Principal Researcher at the Point Pedro Institute of Development, about the general situation facing Sri Lankan Tamils after the civil war, the implications of the LTTE’s demise and Tamil aspirations for the future.
09/19/2010
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Sri Lanka Guardian
(September 19, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Having removed the sole really-existing impediment to dynastic rule with the 18th Amendment, the triumphant Rajapakses are hatching the next step in their constitutional revolution. According to Minister Maitripala Sirisena, the 19th Amendment will introduce a hybrid of proportional representation and first-past-the-post systems. It will also reform the 13th Amendment, the Indian-propelled constitutional provision which devolved a measure of power from the centre to the provinces and, thus, from the majority to the minorities.
07/17/2010
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Sri Lanka Guardian
(July 17, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) The re-commencement of the practices of registering Tamils with the police and of conducting search operations that target them have been widely reported in the Tamil media in particular and have created a renewed sense of insecurity and injustice amongst the larger Tamil population that is detrimental to national reconciliation. The practice of registering of Tamils and security search operations of private residences even late at night was carried out during the period of war and terrorism. But today more than 14 months have elapsed since the war ended, and there have been no acts of militancy or terrorism in this period that would necessitate a revival of the harsh measures of the past. Two months ago Parliament approved the repeal of a large number of emergency laws which was projected worldwide as a sign that normalcy had returned to the country.
06/13/2010
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Lakbima News, Sri Lanka Guardian
(June 13, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Your browser may not support display of this image. President Mahinda Rajapaksa left for India recently and he is set to show his Indian counterpart a draft of the proposed Constitutional amendments. This is seen by many as a gesture of subjugation and their requests to open a Deputy High Commissioner’s office in Kandy and a consulate office in Hambanthota and their insistence of implementing the 13th Amendment are seen by many as attempts to impose their will on Sri Lanka?
05/01/2010
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Sri Lanka Guardian
This paper is an attempt to examine the contours of Indo-Sri Lanka maritime issues post the defeat of the LTTE and the possible impact on safety and security in the sub continent. Various developments have taken place since the defeat of the LTTE. The notable ones are discussed in the succeeding paragraphs.