01/11/2012
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Groundviews, Lanka Solidarity
***LANKA SOLIDARITY STATEMENT*** We welcome the Report’s contributions to political discourse, but even its most critical conclusions reveal its irredeemable limitations: like the many commissions of inquiry before it, it is neither a truly investigative body, nor empowered to hold political elites to account. Nevertheless, the Report, which contains the testimony of thousands of citizens and surveys the political challenges confronting Sri Lanka, invites further discussion and debate.
11/20/2011
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BBC
EDITOR'S PICK: In 2009, a young boy flees Sri Lanka's civil war carrying a violin. In 2011, BBC reporter Priyath Liyanage tries to find him. Follow links for the full radio clip.
08/26/2011
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Reuters
(Reuters) - India and Western nations on Friday praised Sri Lanka's lifting of tough wartime emergency laws but an opposition party said it was merely a ploy because the government still has the power Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) at its disposal.
08/23/2011
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BBC
One hundred people in Jaffna were arrested on Monday evening after the villagers attacked a local military camp in Navanthurai.
08/18/2011
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Al Jazeera
Two years after the end of Sri Lanka's civil war, many minority Tamils in the north say the military retains too strong a hold over their daily lives.
Al Jazeera was granted special permission by the government to travel and see how the path to peace is progressing.
Steve Chao reports from Jaffna, the capital of Northern Province.
08/12/2011
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The Island
"It appears to us that a new and menacing element is crashing into the political scene, which element all responsible persons should determine to eradicate. If unchecked ,this deplorable violence cannot but harm and even destroy the democratic foundation on which our present society is built, whatever short term gain to one party or another....A special responsibility must lie on a government that law and order is maintained, and in particular that opposition demonstrators are not attacked by government supporters. For supporters of a government in power often feel that they can flout the law with impunity, and some leaders may even encourage them to do so. Similarly, there are always some police officers who are reluctant to be firm with those they believe to enjoy political patronage."
07/30/2011
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The Hindu
CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat on Saturday made a strong case for demilitarisation and ending of emergency laws and regime in the North and East of Sri Lanka, saying the failure of Colombo to dismantle the military regime and apparatus was hindrance to a political solution.
07/23/2011
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The Hindu
President Mahinda Rajapaksa's roadmap for finding a 13th Amendment-plus political solution will take the Tamil question in Sri Lanka to a Parliamentary Select Committee, which will look into it and propose suitable constitutional amendments, and then on to Parliament. Meanwhile, local elections in the Northern Province, which are being held on Saturday, would be followed by a Provincial Council election.
07/07/2011
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Groundviews, Sumanthiran, TNA
Document tabled in parliament on 07 July, 2011By M.A. Sumanthiran MP (TNA)
05/25/2011
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Saudi Gazette
Just as government troops prepared this week to celebrate the second anniversary of the decimation of Tamil separatist rebels, thousands of young, new entrants to national universities across Sri Lanka on Monday began entering military camps for a three-week training course that has triggered an intense debate as to whether the country is heading towards a militarized society.