03/27/2010
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Global Post
Incumbent President Rajapakse has made it clear he favors economic growth over the well-being of his populace.
03/09/2010
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Dissident Voice
The deepest division in Sri Lanka is not the so-called ethnic divide but the split between supporters of democracy and supporters of totalitarianism, and the recent elections proved this point.
03/08/2010
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Groundviews
The general election offers all of us an opportunity to play our part in ensuring that the bases for good governance and economic take off are firmly laid within a solid democratic framework of effective checks and balances on the exercise of executive power. It must not be yet another exercise of going back to the future.
03/01/2010
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Himal Southasian
The potent similarities between the election of Mahinda Rajapakse now and J R Jayewardene nearly three decades ago.
02/27/2010
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BBC Tamil
When Mahinda Rajapaksa was re-elected president of Sri Lanka in January, media organisations and human rights groups said they hoped the suppression of dissenting voices would end.
02/24/2010
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Daily Mirror
General Sarath Fonseka today rejected the latest invitation to join the United National Front (UNF) alliance, former parliamentarian Mano Ganeshan told Daily Mirror online adding that the alliance will meet in a short while to discuss the issue.
02/24/2010
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Colombo Times
The Supreme Court granted interim relief in a Fundamental Rights petition filed for the release of (retd) General Sarath Fonseka by granting visits of his immediate family members and medical attention of his choice and also the access of his attorney but did not grant his release.
02/07/2010
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The New York Times
After 26 years of war that ended with a decisive government assault last May, Sri Lanka’s Tamil minority seems no closer to winning a measure of autonomy in a Sinhalese-dominated nation, and Tamil nationalism, the cri de coeur of the Tamil Tiger insurgency, seems all but dead.
02/03/2010
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Himal Southasian
Up-country Tamil plantation workers remain a subjugated community, treated as little more than bonded labour. The current political foment includes opportunities for change.
02/03/2010
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Himal Southasian
All in all, the title Pathways of Dissent is both politically hegemonic and academically wanting, as the volume does not in any way touch upon the critical tools afforded by dissent. Another work is clearly needed in order to bring that critical thrust into the analysis of Tamil nationalism.