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13th Amendment: Devolution or 'Comic Opera?': Thirteenth Amendment to Sri Lanka Constitution |
| [ Tuesday, 13 September 2011, 07:33.55 PM | Tamil Nation ] |
Now, let us ask the further question: how will work in the Province be financed? After all, executive power in respect of provincial matters, cannot be exercised without expending money... But in the end it is the President who will determine the amount of the grant to made to a particular province... If the French revolutionaries were offered cake instead of bread, the Tamils of Eelam have been offered form without content... Tamil nationalism cannot be snuffed out. It can be reasoned with. The 13th Amendment, however, seeks to create a Constitutional frame within which the Sinhala people may rule the Tamils of Eelam more effectively by creating and nurturing a class of Tamils dependent on the patronage of a Sinhala dominated Central Government for their political and perhaps, even their physical, survival.
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| President Rajapaksa’s Terrorism Shibboleth |
| [ Tuesday, 13 September 2011, 07:29.03 PM | Media Hause ] |
| Rajapaksa says that, “We are building a new society, learning from the lessons of the past, and moving towards the promise of future success.” Now that more than two years have passed, can he inform now, what percentage of Tamils (indigenous and Indian-origin) are represented in his predominantly Sinhalese-Buddhist dominated military forces? Other than having a few LTTE turncoats like V. Muralitharan (aka Karuna), S.Chandrakanthan (aka Pillaiyan) and Selvarasah Pathmanathan (aka KP), to lick his toes, has President Rajapaksa taken any remedial measures to negate the half a century old racist policy of a pro-Sinhalese army? |
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by Amnesty International, Sept. 12, 2011: UN: Truth and Justice Needed to Resolve Sri Lanka Rights Crisis |
| [ Tuesday, 13 September 2011, 07:21.38 PM | Amnesty Internaitonal ] |
 “The Secretary General’s panel of experts produced a strong, credible, well-founded report, and it is now time for the Human Rights Council to begin discussing these allegations fully with the Sri Lankan government,” Zarifi said. |
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The Economist: Nationalistic fury is good for the government, terrible for Sri Lanka |
| [ Monday, 02 May 2011, 05:50.56 PM | Media Hause ] |
| In Recent years the default mode for Sri Lankan diplomats has been a posture of affronted national dignity beneath a mask of outraged, sanctimonious innocence. This week, after the publication of a report by a panel of experts for the United Nations on the final stages of Sri Lanka’s 26-year civil war, some were recalled to Colombo for “consultations”. Maybe they are brushing up their indignant-repudiation skills. |
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| UN panel report oversteps by rejecting homeland of Eezham Tamils |
| [ Thursday, 28 April 2011, 07:02.06 PM | Tamilnet ] |
 Ezham Tamils hoodwinked by war crimes indictments that are doubtful of materialising into actions, should carefully note that the UN panel report has said nothing on the burning question of colonization of the Tamil country by Colombo in listing obstacles to ‘sustainable peace and reconciliation’. On the contrary, it advises especially the diaspora to realise that all ethnic communities in the island “share a common homeland.” Anyone could see that in the context of the island nullification of the historical homeland of Eezham Tamils amounts to dismemberment of their nation and completion of genocide. What is the mandate of the UN panel to imply a political model rejecting the territorial identity of Eezham Tamils as a ‘lasting solution’ and in the process paving way for further crisis to them, asks a Tamil politician in Jaffna.
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Latest Reports: Another war crime evidence unearthed – Dead body of imprisoned LTTE's Col Ramesh identified |
| [ Thursday, 28 April 2011, 06:54.09 PM | Media Hause ] |
| The wife of slain Batticaloa Commander of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), on Thursday verified that the dead body shown in the photo released on Wednesday was that of her husband, Col. Ramesh. On Wednesday, a former member of the LTTE identified a photo leaked in recent days by the soldiers of the SLA as that of showing the dead body of Col. Ramesh, who had come to SLA controlled territory with civilians during the final hours of Vanni war in May 2009. |
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Editorial: Besmearing and criminalising the Tamil Diasporas in the light of the UN report |
| [ Thursday, 28 April 2011, 06:47.13 PM | Eelanation ] |
| The Sri Lankan Tamils scattered the world over comprise the Sri Lankan Diasporas in the true sense of the word. They had been forced to leave their homeland on account of discrimination, repression, use of unprovoked violence against them by the State apparatus in response to democratic dissent in 1956, 1958, 1977,1979, 1981 and 1983 , the gross inequality in the manner Tamil students had to qualify to gain admission to universities, the barbaric destruction of Tamil learning and culture evinced in the burning of the library in their cultural capital in Jaffna with nearly 90,000 books including ancient documents, manuscripts and other evidences of Tamil literature, history and culture lost forever, comparable only to the destruction of the Mayan and the Incan civilizations, their culture and learning by the Spanish conquerors, a treasure lost to the world for ever. |
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SRI LANKA: The Sri Lanka Government's two-tongued response to the UN and the West |
| [ Thursday, 28 April 2011, 06:44.24 PM | Media Hause ] |
| In the wake of Moon’s report (not against Sri Lanka and its people but only against the war criminals on both sides), the Rajapakse regime’s cardboard patriots and ‘Sinhalese heroes’ have also woken up and started wearing their hypocritical masks. Meanwhile those aspiring to be the opposition’s future leaders are also making a din, opening their mouths which remained ‘closed shut’ so long. In this critical situation and climate, we think it is best we make an evaluation in the right perspective so that these traitors and foes in the guise of patriots and friends of the nation do not once again lead us and the nation up the garden path. |
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SRI LANKA: Cry from the Graves:Sivanendran |
| [ Thursday, 28 April 2011, 06:37.04 PM | Media Hause ] |
| The end of the three decade old civil war that pitted the government against the LTTE and divided the population created a reasonable expectation that Sri Lanka would be able to reach reconciliation and healing, which would pave the way for rapid economic progress. But alas the country appears to be getting more divided and polarised than ever before. |
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| Sri Lanka faces its 'Srebrenica moment' : Gordon Weiss |
| [ Thursday, 28 April 2011, 06:33.29 PM | Media Hause ] |
 THE name "Srebrenica" is synonymous both with war crimes and the long reach of international justice. The parallel is apt when I write that, with the release of a UN report, Sri Lanka has reached its "Srebrenica Moment". In August 1995, a month after the mass execution of 8000 Muslim boys and men by the Bosnian Serb army, the full proportions of this notorious crime began to break to the wider world. David Rohde, an US reporter, had hiked through frontlines to reach the outskirts of the empty town. |
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