07/13/2011
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Al Jazeera
Sri Lanka's civil war came to an end in 2009, but many online say now problems facing the country's Tamil minority are going unnoticed.
05/29/2011
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Sunday Observer
The number of voters in the Jaffna district will drop by over 300,000 in the new voter registers, said Elections Commissioner Mahinda Deshapriya.
05/19/2011
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The Hindu
India has advised Sri Lanka to take rapid steps domestically to ease international pressure emanating from a report on the conflict with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in which the government has nearly been accused of committing war crimes.
04/08/2011
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The Canadian Press
Sri Lanka's government must account for ethnic minority rebels and others who were detained at the end of the country's civil war almost two years ago because some appear to have disappeared, a rights group said Friday.
01/19/2011
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www.minorityrights.org
With the end of the conflict between Sri Lankan government forces and the Liberation Tigers for Tamil Eelam (LTTE or ‘Tamil Tigers’) in 2009, normality has returned for much of the population of Sri Lanka. But for members of the country’s two main minority groups – Tamils and Muslims – living in the north and east of the country, harsh material conditions, economic marginalisation, and militarism remain prevalent. Drawing on interviews with activists, religious and political leaders, and ordinary people living in these areas of the country, MRG found a picture very much at odds with the official image of peace and prosperity following the end of armed conflict.
08/03/2010
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AFP
COLOMBO — A group of global statesmen, founded by Nelson Mandela, Tuesday criticised the Sri Lankan government for failing to build on peace brought to the island by the end of the civil war last year.
07/28/2010
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Asia News
In July 1983, up to 3,000 Tamil civilians died in Sinhalese-initiated riots that set off the country’s civil war. Today, there are 81,000 widows in Sri Lanka and the military occupies two thirds of the country, CSM member says. Christians are in favour of a multi-ethnic state.
07/01/2010
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Seminar (India)
Sri Lanka’s current political predica-
ment extends back to the late colonial
period, decolonization and the forma-
tion of the postcolonial state. The
Soulbury Commission, which pre-
pared the ground for decolonization
and was responsible for Sri Lanka’s
Constitution at independence, empha-
sized British concerns at that time as
‘interests of the British Empire’ and
the ‘protection of minorities.’
04/01/2010
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Himal Southasian
The title of this piece purposely uses the word Lanka and not Sri Lanka. The name and concept of ‘Sri Lanka’ was reified in the country’s republican Constitution of 1972, at a time when the prefix Sri was problematic for the minority communities because it symbolised Sinhala Buddhist majoritarianism. Indeed only a decade earlier, there had been a major ‘anti-Sri campaign’ in the North in effacing the number plates of vehicles with the Sinhala character ‘Sri’, particularly since it came soon after the ‘Sinhala Only’ language polices of 1956. During the much-needed shift from the colonial legacy, the colonial name Ceylon was abandoned as was the Soulbury Constitution in 1948 when a republican Constitution was created.
03/28/2010
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Tamil Week
by D.B.S. Jeyaraj
The single –largest Sri Lankan Tamil political group in the dissolved Parliament was the conglomerate known as the Tamil National Alliance (TNA). The TNA which contested the April 2004 general elections under the “Veedu”(House) symbol of the Ilankai Thamil Arasu Katchi (ITAK) obtained twenty-two seats including two nominated under the national list.