Articles – 2008

December, 2008

  1. Indo-LTTE War, Part 12
  2. SL’s Information War
  3. New Chance for Darfur
  4. Barriers to the 13th Amendment
  5. Letter to Archbishop Gomis
  6. UN Expert Wants IDPs Protected
  7. BTF: Unspeakable Truth
  8. SL’s Ignored War
  9. Prof. Kailasapathy Evaluated
  10. TCHR: ‘Liberation’ of the East
  11. NESoHR November HR Report
  12. Never Again
  13. Maampalam Swamy Eulogy
  14. Human Rights & State Power
  15. OCHA: Muttur IDPs
  16. Manifesto of an SLA General
  17. The Tamil People’s Right to Self-Determination
  18. For Peace to Dawn
  19. Preventing Genocide
  20. IFT: On the 60th Anniversary of the UDHR
  21. When to Intervene
  22. Blood Lines
  23. The US Perspective on SL
  24. SL Deadlier than Afghanistan
  25. Child Rights on the Firing Line
  26. UDHR & Sri Lanka
  27. Poverty in Sri Lanka
  28. World Bank Strategy
  29. A Mango Tree in My Front Yard
  30. UN HR Awards
  31. UN Must Focus on Genocide Prevention
  32. War, Memory, Progress
  33. Wiseacres & Snobs
  34. NESoHR: Extra-judicial Executions Since 2002
  35. Cyclone Flooding in Jaffna
  36. Mr. Gunasingham
  37. Tiger Links with Islamist Groups
  38. SL Army Pushing to End War
  39. Documenting Atrocities in Darfur
  40. NESoHR: Shelling of Civilians
  41. Fire-Breathing Dragons
  42. Stars & Stripes
  43. Constellations of Violence
  44. Flooding Video
  45. It’s the Tamil Economy, Stupid
  46. US Integrating East with SL

November, 2008

  1. NESoHR: Education of IDP Children
  2. NESoHR October HR Report
  3. HRW: HR Deteriorating in East
  4. 2008 Heroes’ Day Speech
  5. Kalivanar NS Krishnan
  6. Barred from Zimbabwe
  7. AGM Pictures
  8. US Complex Emergency Fact Sheet
  9. IASC Situation Report
  10. Genocide Theory’s Blind Spot
  11. TRO Progress Report Nov 5
  12. Rajapakse’s Strategy
  13. 700 Jaffna University Students Need Support
  14. Indo-LTTE War, Part 11
  15. Arms Race in Sudan
  16. Rwanda’s Shadow
  17. Response to Adm Keating
  18. Response to Amb Blake
  19. Review of Sivaji Ganesan Autobiography
  20. Obama Wins & Tamils Hopeful
  21. Kilinochchi Battle, Archetypal Disaster
  22. Our Sangam’s AGM!
  23. Wrong Premise
  24. NESoHR: IDP Health
  25. NESoHR: Kilinochchi Shelling
  26. ‘Crucible of Conflict’
  27. ‘Militarizing Sri Lanka’
  28. Clips Having Impact in TN
  29. The ‘Unthinkable’ in Afghanistan
  30. Colombian Civilians in Guerrilla Toll
  31. Blue States Secede & TFO Videos
  32. N. Ram’s Naivete

October, 2008

  1. Enough is Enough
  2. NESoHR: Kili-Kumarapuram Bombing
  3. Fein Challenges Swamy on Genocide
  4. Sri Lanka’s ‘Disappeared’
  5. IDP Crisis Week Nov 2-9
  6. Caritas-HUDEC Vanni Appeal
  7. ICG: Eastern Province
  8. Advances Will Not End War
  9. SL Tsunami in Indian Politics
  10. Should Eelam Federate with India?
  11. SL a Country or an Island?
  12. Land of Deception
  13. The Alleged Booker Prize
  14. Beginning the End of War
  15. All Party Conning
  16. TCHR: Solutions Proposed
  17. TRO: Vanni Situation Critical
  18. Too Few Tamils in SL Govt Service
  19. Improving the Tamils
  20. Sangam Letter to TN Leaders
  21. ‘The Struggle’
  22. Indian Tamils Break Their Silence
  23. Call for Conference on Genocide
  24. On Malini’s Malady
  25. TN Going Eelam Way?
  26. Art of Political Murder
  27. Innocent Voices
  28. Sexual Predation by SLA Men
  29. OCHA Vanni IDP Report
  30. OCHA Batti IDP Report
  31. Is There War in Your Ur?
  32. Tamils Hurt by Fonseka’s Remarks
  33. Perpetual War
  34. El Presidente’s Newman Act
  35. Singapore Opposition Figure Jeyaratnam Passes Away
  36. SL Government Bombs Tamil Head Quarters

September, 2008

  1. Time for International Public Protest
  2. TIC: Tamil Right to Self-Determination
  3. Rudrakumar’s Rally Speech
  4. Sri-Skanda-Rajah Rally Speech
  5. NESoHR: Convoy Problems
  6. IED: Genocidal Situation
  7. Safe Havens for Civilians Needed
  8. India Global Military Power
  9. Russell, Power & the ‘Alternative Leadership’
  10. Fears as UN Leaves Conflict Zone
  11. Apply Sanctions on Sri Lanka
  12. UN Day of Peace
  13. ‘The Iliad’ & the Tamils
  14. The Black Tigers
  15. ‘Tarzan Lives’ & Tamils
  16. Fallout of Vavuniya Attack
  17. NESoHR: Destruction in Karaithiraipattu in 1 Year
  18. CPA: Underage Recruitment Status
  19. TRO: Banning Aid Workers Worsens Crisis
  20. AI: Blocking Aid Endangers Civilians
  21. Winning Hearts in the North
  22. Farmers in Vanni
  23. AFTA: Expulsion of Aid Workers
  24. NESoHR: Expelling Aid Agencies
  25. Solution, But Not for the Problem
  26. SL Diaspora Conference in KL
  27. Power Sharing as Peace
  28. NESoHR August HR Report
  29. Appeal to UN to Save Our Population
  30. Vanni Aid Workers Barred
  31. Displace or Die
  32. The Tide is Turning
  33. Shell Blasts Puthumurippu
  34. Azadi
  35. TRO: Humanitarian Crisis
  36. Amnesty: Disappearances Must End
  37. Prof Ohno, Linguist
  38. NESoHR: Puthumurippu Shelling
  39. SL Tamils Fear Security Forces
  40. ‘Great Game’ in Indian Ocean

August, 2008

  1. The Plight of the Vanni Refugees
  2. Review of ‘Horizontal Inequalities & Conflict’
  3. Numbers & Braggadocio
  4. Latest Exercise in Genocide
  5. Fickle Approval of War
  6. The Sri Lankan Solution
  7. Russia Backs Independence for Enclaves
  8. UN, Self-Determination & Terrorism
  9. Shelling of Mullaitivu General Hospital
  10. Film Review of “My Daughter…”
  11. The Indo-LTTE War, Part 10
  12. ‘Tell Me How This Ends’
  13. A Genocide Inquiry?
  14. Fishing Restrictions in Sri Lanka
  15. Where Are the Men in Batticaloa?
  16. Stalingrad at Kilinochchi?
  17. Black July Quotes
  18. NESoHR: Mullaitivu Hospital Complex Shelling
  19. Ponnambalam’s 1982 Presidential Candidacy
  20. IDPs Need Legal Framework
  21. Not Many Pluses
  22. Fragile Fictions
  23. RSF: Release Tissainayagam
  24. Is There No End to This Madness?
  25. CTC: Commemorating a Tragedy
  26. NESoHR: Displacement Update
  27. Thousands of Families Flee

July, 2008

  1. TIC: New Direction Needed
  2. Remembering Black July
  3. 25th Commemoration of Black July
  4. Waiting for Justice
  5. TCHR: SL Should be Referred to ICC
  6. A Snail’s Vision
  7. Ethir: Olympian, Bridge-builder
  8. Lest We Forget!
  9. Victims & Rascals of Black July
  10. TRO: Humanitarian Crisis in Vanni
  11. NESoHR: Meeting IDP Needs
  12. NESoHR: Siege on Healthcare
  13. Soaring Fuel Prices
  14. Colombo Closes In
  15. The Sri Lanka Situation
  16. Interview with Anita Pratap
  17. Military Pathway to Nationbuilding
  18. The Primates of the State Dept.
  19. SL’s Forgotten Conflict
  20. IDP Report
  21. Self-Determination Dilemma
  22. Why Independence?
  23. Like Myth & Mother
  24. Untold Tragedies 3
  25. Untold Tragedies 2
  26. Engaging Nepal’s Maoists
  27. Sudanese President Charged with Genocide
  28. Terrorist Turned Liberator
  29. ‘Pongu Thamizh’ Around the World
  30. SL for Beginners
  31. The Tamil Diaspora & the Struggle for Freedom
  32. Where We Are Now
  33. What If the Rain Fails?
  34. Remembering Black July
  35. India Chases the Dragon
  36. Politics of Human Rights
  37. Echoes of a Bloody Past
  38. Tennyson, Bose & ‘Do or Die’
  39. NESoHR June HR Report
  40. Saying No to Louise Arbour
  41. Black July Exhibit
  42. HRW: No IDP Internment
  43. Analysis of the Military Situation
  44. Bold Colombia Rescue
  45. Implementation, Please
  46. Is Ethnic Conflict Inevitable?
  47. An Olympic Appeal
  48. Pieter Keuneman on Black July 1983
  49. ACF: Justice for Muttur

June, 2008

  1. Fires Within
  2. IFT Denounces Criminalization of Diaspora
  3. Failed States Index 2008
  4. USCR: World Refugee Survey
  5. Fear Stalks Colombo as Mines Kill Tamils
  6. Genocide or Politicide?
  7. The Ladder
  8. US on Sudan
  9. AI: Arbitrary Detention of Tissainayagam
  10. NESoHR: Vanni Displacement
  11. Prelude to Black July
  12. NESoHR: PTK Bombing
  13. CTC: Even-handed Approach Needed
  14. CPA: UNICEF Database
  15. Letter to Stockwell Day
  16. Preserve the Core, Stimulate Progress
  17. Jaffna Report June 17
  18. Place an Arms Embargo
  19. Home, Space & the ‘Other’
  20. Untold Tragedies
  21. Barbarous Torture
  22. Response to ‘Re-Emergence of Tamil Nadu’
  23. Re-emergence of Tamil Nadu Factor
  24. Sampoor Power & Civilian Trauma
  25. CPA: Trinco Land Issues
  26. Pax Romana: Mannar IDPs
  27. Amnesty Reflections on SL’s UPR
  28. A Century of Tamil Poetry
  29. Thamizhelam Book Review
  30. NESoHR: Plight of Jaffna People
  31. Search for UN Rights Job
  32. Gone with the Wind
  33. Jaffna Report
  34. Letter to Minister of Defense Rajapakse
  35. The ‘Island’s’ Apology
  36. Tamils in Myanmar
  37. India, China Compete
  38. War and Life
  39. Lingerie and Terror
  40. Peace Fills a Vacuum
  41. Amnesty: Abduction of Humanitarian Worker
  42. NESoHR: Murukandy Claymore Attack Report

May, 2008

  1. The Indo-LTTE War, Part IX
  2. Jaffna Administration after Riviresa
  3. Reflections of a Leader
  4. Remembering Silenced Voices 1983
  5. Healing Rite
  6. Tamil Journalists Killed 2000-2007
  7. Blunted Tool
  8. The GSP+ Affair
  9. UN Recognizes De Facto States
  10. Plea for Your Evidence
  11. SL Slams Door
  12. NESoHR: People of Mannar
  13. SL’s Human Rights Review
  14. “Mounting Tragedy of Errors”
  15. Comment on PC Elections in East
  16. AI Appeal for Tissainayagam
  17. Singapore’s Opposition
  18. Kumuthini Boat Massacre
  19. Sovereignty & Self-Determination
  20. The New Cold War
  21. Tutu: No Right to Be There
  22. Sir P Arunachalam Memorial
  23. Ten Canons from Charlton Heston
  24. Develop Now, Destroy Later?
  25. SL’s Democracy Ravaged
  26. Intervention to UN Advisor on Genocide
  27. SIPRI: Arms Transfers to SL
  28. Conflict and Autonomy
  29. Malaysian State Assemblyman Still Detained
  30. Danger to Methodist Minister
  31. NESoHR: Thadchanamadhu Claymore Attack
  32. TIC: Arrest/Disappearance Hotlines
  33. CTC: Black July Commemoration
  34. Say No to SL on HR Council
  35. Cries from the Palmyra Grove 30
  36. TCHR: Dictatorial Democracy
  37. Puzzles of Premadasa’s Assassination
  38. Elections in the East
  39. Anzac Day & the Eelam Tamils
  40. AI: Veil of Secrecy in SL
  41. AHRC: Peace Secretariat
  42. Demographic Changes in the Tamil Homeland

April, 2008

  1. Destruction of the Tamil Community
  2. Growing Up Under Militarisation
  3. TIC: Killing of Civilians Must Stop
  4. Pariah Diplomacy
  5. Rajapakse’s Political Graveyard?
  6. AHRC: IIGEP Episode
  7. The Three Crows
  8. Iran Trains SL Intelligence
  9. Visions Summer Leadership Camp 2008
  10. Athulathmudali’s Scorched Earth Policy
  11. Devastation in the North
  12. SL’s Failure to Protect
  13. Save Grace Home
  14. Cries from the Palmyra Grove
  15. Another Clergy Brutally Murdered
  16. IFT: Karunaratnam Killing a War Crime
  17. AFTA: SL Silences a HR Activist
  18. Colombo Diocese on Fr. Karunaratnam
  19. TCHR on Fr. Karunaratnam
  20. NESOHR Condems Chair’s Assassination
  21. Sangam Grieves Loss of Fr. Karunaratnam
  22. TIC Mourns Fr. Karunaratnam
  23. Cries from the Palmyra Grove
  24. Arthur Clarke, Mrs. B & a Fan
  25. Born Without Hope
  26. Watchlist Report on Children in SL
  27. Indo-LTTE War, Part 8
  28. Land Cover Map
  29. Black Tiger
  30. US Shamed by Mandela Terror Link
  31. A South African Perspective on the SL Conflict
  32. Inescapable Reality
  33. Like a Tsunami That Won’t End
  34. TRO: Mannar-Madhu Report
  35. Impact of War on Health
  36. AI: Tissanayagam’s Arbitrary Detention
  37. NESoHR: March HR Report
  38. Memorandum to the Commonwealth 1974
  39. Chelvanayagam’s 110th
  40. UNICEF Database on Underage Recruits
  41. What a Joke!
  42. Spiritual Conquest of the Tamils
  43. In SL, Fear of Being Disappeared
  44. UN SAPG: Genocide Prevention
  45. TRO Report March 1-10

March, 2008

  1. Tamils’ Right to Self-Determination
  2. Being Human, Being Tamil
  3. Humanitarian Crisis or Genocide
  4. GOSL Worse than Officially Listed Sponsors of Terrorism
  5. Seeking Justice in a Racist State
  6. Buddhist Shuns Nonviolence
  7. Interfaith International at UN HR Council
  8. Tamil Genocide
  9. Anura Bandaranaike
  10. Solution Within the Present Consitution Improbable
  11. SL Economy in Doldrums
  12. Economic Lessons from Malaysia
  13. On Struggle
  14. Easter Message for a Crucified People
  15. Economy of the Conflict Regions
  16. Jaffna: Besieged by Terror
  17. Eelam Refugees & the SL Terror State
  18. Indo-LTTE War, VII
  19. Remember the TULF’s 1977 Manifesto?
  20. IED: HR Situations Requiring Attention
  21. Investment Climate in SL
  22. Sri Lanka’s Recurring Fever
  23. Economic Indicators
  24. The War in Sri Lanka
  25. Living in 3 Centuries
  26. Tigers & Elections
  27. Confronting Truth
  28. Prof. C. J. Eliezer
  29. TCHR: SL Highest in Disappearances
  30. Parts of Malaysia Roll Back Race Policy
  31. US State Dept Report on SL
  32. ‘War Journey’
  33. Bloomberg Blues
  34. Seminar on Ethnic Conflict in UK March 22-23
  35. TYONZ : Killing of MP Sivanesan
  36. IFT: Neither Freedom Nor De-Colonisation
  37. TCHR: Eelam & Kosovo
  38. NESOHR February Human Rights Report
  39. TCWA: 13th Amendment
  40. SL’s ‘Wild East ‘ Votes
  41. Kosovo: The Global Significance of Independence
  42. Taking Aid from China & a Pass on Human Rights
  43. The Endless War in Vanni
  44. ‘Siritharan’ Sunthar – Ace Cartoonist
  45. Etnic Divide Worsens as SL Conflict Escalates
  46. AI: Disappearance of Prof. Mahendrarajah
  47. Responding to Mr. Rasalingam
  48. CTC: Collapse of Rule of Law
  49. HRW: Disappearances a Crisis
  50. Kids Dream Photo Exhibit
  51. Eastern Polls & Pacification
  52. Dissecting Jayatilleka
  53. Cyprus Solution?
  54. Mills’ Nationality & Chelvanayagam
  55. The Sethu Gridlock
  56. SL’s Republican Constitution

February, 2008

  1. Enduring Power of Ethnic Nationalism
  2. UNHCR Appeals for SL Displaced
  3. Indo-LTTE War, Part VI
  4. TIC to UN Human Rights Council
  5. Because We Can
  6. Standing Up for Detainees
  7. Global Shipping Lanes
  8. GoSL Shows Little Appetite for Peace
  9. Half a Million Affected by Conflict in 2008
  10. SG: R2P ‘Profound Moral Imperative’
  11. AFTA: Kosovo’s UDI
  12. Responses to the Ambassador
  13. ICG: Return to War
  14. Tamil Studies Conference in Toronto May 15-17
  15. Killing Prabhakaran Will Not Silence the Tamils
  16. Comments on ‘Kosovo Countdown’
  17. On the Traditional Tamil Homeland
  18. Reminiscing on VC Raveendranath
  19. Independence a Farce
  20. Kosovo Before UDI
  21. HRW: Events of 2007 in SL
  22. Tamil Student Assoc. ‘Most Outstanding’
  23. An End Foreseen
  24. Who Prevents Muslim Resettlement in Jaffna?
  25. TNA Will Not ‘Touch’ the 13th Amendment
  26. Passing of US Rep. Tom Lantos
  27. CTC: Increased Civilian Deaths in SL
  28. ‘Edge of the Lagoon’
  29. Anti-Tamil Discrimination in Malaysia
  30. The Moderate Position on Eelam
  31. We Will Win! We Will Win!
  32. NESoHR January HR Report
  33. Amnesty: Right to Life Disregarded
  34. ACHR: UN Test
  35. Sixty Years to Flop
  36. Sixty Years Of Ethnic Conflict
  37. Military Stalemate?
  38. Genocide Intervention Network
  39. Economic Issues Contribute To Ethnic Conflict
  40. January ’08 Civilian Toll in NE
  41. Listening to the Grasshoppers
  42. APRC: From Hope to Despair
  43. IFT: Regaining Sovereignty
  44. Shell-Shocked Generals
  45. Sri Lanka Needs Our Leadership
  46. TCWA: Feb 4, 1948 Black Day
  47. Reaching 60 & Nowhere to Go?
  48. TIC: APRC Politics
  49. An Agreement to Fight Some More
  50. TRO: Anniversary of Execution of 7 Humanitarian Workers

January, 2008

  1. What Can I Do?
  2. SL’s Human Rights’ Void
  3. Trinco Orphanage Appeal
  4. Agriculture or Services?
  5. Genocide, the World & Us
  6. Tamil Statehood?
  7. SL Airlines Boycott Flier
  8. Anton Balasingham’s Vision
  9. Blast from Past: The PA’s Poliical Mirage
  10. On That FBI Report ‘Taming Tigers’
  11. Unsolved Mysteries of the FBI
  12. Life in Vanni Then & Now
  13. What Liberation?
  14. Will Rajapakse Hoodwink Again with the APRC?
  15. APRC: Key to Peace or Albatross?
  16. APRC: The Past Repeats
  17. We Send Them the Money VII
  18. TRO: SL Withdraws from the CFA
  19. Indo-LTTE War, Part V
  20. Maheswaran: The Forgotten Hero
  21. Bharathiar’s 125th
  22. MSF: Civilians Increasingly Under Fire in SL Conflict
  23. Amnesty Call for Protection of Civilians
  24. BTF: Boycott Sri Lanka Airlines
  25. A Letter to HC Dominic Chilcott
  26. High Definition Assassination
  27. Split Asunder
  28. TCHR: Killings of HR Defenders by Security Forces & Paramilitaries Since 2000
  29. TCHR: Paramilitary Groups Have License Against Opponents
  30. PS: Status of Schools in the NE
  31. Eyes Tight Shut
  32. Rajapakse’s Big Bet
  33. US & Germany to Recognize Kosovo
  34. Independence Daze
  35. HRW: Cover-Up in Colombo
  36. TIC: War on Civilians
  37. JVP Noose Around APRC Neck
  38. Peace Group Leaving Sri Lanka
  39. Willms Statement on CFA End
  40. TWG Letter to PM Manmohan Singh
  41. NESoHR 2007 Annual HR Report
  42. Kumar Ponnambalam’s 8th Death Anniversary
  43. Indo-LTTE War, an Anthology IV
  44. A New Year to Double Our Efforts
  45. Time to Chisel Our Own Destiny
  46. Sinhalisation of the East
  47. To Jaffna & Back