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APRC PROPOSALS TO PRESIDENT
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APRC, jan 25.
The following are the proposals handed over to President Mahinda Rajapaksa by the All Party Representative Committee (APRC) yesterday, on fully implementing relevant provisions in the present Constitution, in order to achieve maximum and effective devolution of powers to the provinces in the short term
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THE RIGHT OF RETURN TO JAFFNA
THE EVICTION AND THE EXODUS
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By Sharika Thiranagama, jan 5.
As Sri Lanka continues to teeter on the edge of all-out war between the
LTTE and the Sri Lankan state, it is hard but necessary to believe that
the country does not need to endlessly repeat the same cycle of events.
Roads within the war-zone areas of the north, and even more so the east,
have once again been crowded with thousands of shelter-seeking Tamils and
Muslims – continually pushed this way and that by warring parties. But
this is a war for homeland on one side and for a sovereign state on the
other, and neither actor will provide ordinary people with homes or lands
or the basic rights of citizenship.TLA FORUM
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UNITE AGAINST POLITICIANS
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THE COLOMBO POST EDITORIAL , Tuesday 13 November.
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THE PEACE PROCESS IN SRI LANKA
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Rohini Hensman, November 1.
The 2002 Ceasefire Agreement (CFA)
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UNFINISHED BUSINESS OF THE FIVE STUDENTS AND ACF CASES
– A TIME TO CALL THE BLUFF
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UTHR, April 1.
On 4th August 2006 17 aid workers were extrajudicially executed in their Action Contre la Faim (ACF) compound in Mutur town. Through blatant cover up by the Sri Lankan authorities, their experts, Attorney General and diplomats overseas the facts of killings have been suppressed along with any potential association between this massacre and the killing of five students on the Trincomalee foreshore on 2nd January 2006.Discuss this Article on TLA Forum
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RECURRING NIGHTMARE
STATE RESPONSIBILITY FOR “DISAPPEARANCES” AND ABDUCTIONS IN SRI LANKA
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HRW, March 8.
The resumption of major military operations between the government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in mid-2006 has brought the return of a haunting phenomenon from the country’s past—the widespread abduction and “disappearance” of young men by the parties to the conflict. With the de facto breakdown of the 2002 Norway-brokered ceasefire between the parties, and its formal dissolution in January 2008, it is likely armed conflict will intensify in the coming year. Unless the Sri Lankan government takes far more decisive action to end the practice, uncover the fate of persons unaccounted for, and prosecute those responsible, then 2008 could see another surge in “disappearances.”TLA FORUM
Hundreds of enforced disappearances committed since 2006 have already placed Sri Lanka among the countries with the highest number of new cases in the world. The victims are primarily young ethnic Tamil men who “disappear”—often after being picked up by government security forces in the country’s embattled north and east, but also in the capital Colombo. Some may be members or supporters of the LTTE, but this does not justify their detention in secret or without due process. Most are feared dead.
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THE SECOND FASCIST FRONT IN SRI LANKA – TOWARDS CRUSHING THE MINORITIES AND DISENFRANCHISING THE SINHALESE
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UTHR, March 5.
The Ceasefire Agreement has been abrogated, the Nordic Monitoring Mission has left and it is now a war without witnesses. Civilians on both sides are the main victims as each side pursues military advantage regardless of them. One way or the other, singly or otherwise, each side has deliberately targeted civilians of the other ethnic group. The bus bombings in Okkampitiya in Moneragala on 17th January and near Madhu in the LTTE-controlled area on 29th January, claiming in all more than two score lives, including women and children, are notable among the continuing outrages.
FORUM
The LTTE will not be party to any democratic settlement. It will continue along its malefic course giving mutual sustenance to its Sinhalese extremist counterparts. The State, which was functionally truncated into a “Sinhalese State” by the myopic politics of the South and precipitated the Tamil armed struggle, continues to foster impunity – the main tool of an ideologically motivated clique now in control of the government.
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GETTING PRABHAKARAN
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indiatoday, feb 10.
The Sri Lankan Army Headquarters in the heart of Colombo is among the most heavily fortified complexes in the country. To get to the office of Lieutenant-General Sarath Fonseka, commander of the army, one has to go through a confusing maze of security checks.Discuss this story
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SLOW STRANGULATION OF JAFFNA:
TRASHING GENERAL LARRY WIJERATNE’S LEGACY AND ENTHRONING BARBARISM
- A BEQUEST OF MAHINDA ( JATHIKA) CHINTANA
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uthr, dec 5.
Even as this report was in preparation, the rising tempo of violence further affirmed our fears that war-like ideologies were gaining uncontested primacy on both sides, holding in prospect a bleak future for the people of Sri Lanka. Those advocating a military solution might feel vindicated by the intransigence of the LTTE and rationalise military setbacks as inevitable in war. The LTTE having irretrievably bound itself in suicide politics, would continue to plead the futility of a political settlement with Sinhalese governments bent on destroying the Tamils. Both sides would trot out seemingly logical arguments to back their stand. That is the tragedy of Sri Lanka. People, whether Sinhalese, Tamils or Muslims must bear the brunt of their “elected” or self imposed leaders’ callousness. The Sinhalese leadership, with their amnesia for recent history vie for power by degrading themselves and the country to a shambles.
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INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS FROM NORTHERN PROVINCE IN PUTTLAM
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Dushiyanthini Kanagasabapathipillai, Dec 2.
Puttlam district is situated on the coastal belt of North Western Province of Sri Lanka. Its total population is 8,14,000. Sinhala population is 5,85,000, Muslim population is 1,49,000, and Tamil population is 80,000. There are currently 75,000 Internally Displaced Persons from Northern Province in Puttlam. These statistics are from a survey carried out by the District Secretariat of Puttlam.
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