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Politics (South)

Sen. Nadesan on Language Problem

Act Fast for Reconciliation

Broken Promises

LLRC Action Plan a Bluff

Profiting from Indo-Lanka Accord

Bridging the Language Divide

War in Peace

Buddhists Behaving Badly

Civil Society Memo re Elections

Remembering Black July

Legitimacy of Self-Determination Struggle

US to 'Remain Engaged'

How Credible Troop Reduction Claims?

A Victor's Peace

Basic Math of Root Cause

Urgent Need for Accountability

Rehabilitation of Ex-Combatants

Jaffna Challenges

North Belongs to Who?

CPA: Tamil Language Rights

Tragedy of SL State

CPA: Benchmarks for Reconciliation

Devolution Questions

'Integration' of Tamil Areas

Mirror: Only Truth

Killing Balachandran, Saving Uvindu

Rise of Cultural Nationalism

Passion & SL Buddhism

Tyranny of the Majority

Nationhood: Muslim Perspective

LLRC an Inconvenient Truth?

Sinhala Nationalist History

Taking Back Democracy in SL

SL's Ghosts of War

Justice Wigneswaran Interview

Profit Motive & Natl Security

TNA Statement Dec. 3, 2011

Senate Letter re Militarization & Accountability

Fear & Loathing in SL

Continued Militarization

Language: Power, Exclusion, Inclusion

"Colonization Canard"

Principles of Good Governance

Press Freedom 2011

Animal Rights

SLMC & a Seperate Seat

Aryan Theory 3

Multilingualism & Academia

PCs White Elephants?

Sham of Lifting Emergency

Law Victimizes Tamils

Moment of Sorrow & Courage

13th Amendment: Devolution or 'Comic Opera?'

SL Replaces Emergency Powers

PSC a Delaying Tactic

Ethnic Nature of NE Must Be Changed

Role of IPKF

How Serious about Political Settlement?

Sampanthan Interview

Erasing Tamil Culture

TNA Statement on Talks re Political Solution

Muslim Identity & Tamil-Muslim Relations

Report Whitewashes Abuses

SL Army is Essentially Sinhalese

Emotional Politics

Rajapaksa's Core Poltical Constituency

'Hela Nation Not Yet Independent'

TNA Response to UN Report

Upcountry Tamils Recede

Power Devolution?

UN Panel of Experts Report

UK Foreign Office Report

Why is it Perplexing?

Look Beyond 13th Amendment

T. Sabaratnam Passes

Northern Violence

Bank Lending & Ethnicity

Death of the Tiger

Oxford Lessons

Some Reflections on J & S

US Embassy Cables: Radio Equipment

US Embassy Cables: Assessing Progress

Concern Regarding SL

Will We Ever Learn?

CJPD: '60 Years & More'

Costs of Confrontational Diplomacy

Fonseka & Democratisation

Transactions with the State

SL Judiciary & Ayodha

MP Sumanthiran's Speech on 18th Amendment

Symbols, Politics & War Crimes

SL: View from Afar

Sinhala Symbols, War & Peace

From Post-War to Political Solution

Civil War Legacy

MP Sumanthiran's Speech

MP Sritharan's Speech

Follow Victory with Political Solution

Conversation with Saravanamuttu

Commonsense for a New Era

Where Are We Headed

Politicization of Buddhism

Bring Them to Justice

Lanka's Problems Need Attention

People Power!

Caste in Modern Politics

Constitutionalism or Feudalism

Mined Road Ahead

CSIS: SL's Elections

Seeking Justice After Elections

TIC: Rajapaksa Dynasty

ICG: A Bitter Peace

TNA Statement on Election

Tamil Voters Beware

What Should Eelam Tamils Do?

Tamils & Elections 2010

State, Religion & Violence

Politics of Ethnic Deception

Camps, Elections & Resettlement

No Answer

Justice Wigneswaran's Speech

GoSL Violating Constitution

Land Sensitive Issue in NE

Conviction of Tissainayagam

Tissa's Statement to the Court

Laid Open

Critiquing Prez' Speech

Fostering Hatred

The Politics of Internment

The Way Forward

Ethnic Cleansing in SL

'Mahavamsa' Buddhism

SL's Ethnic Conundrum

ICG: SL's Judiciary

Triumphalism & Uncertainty

Internal Colonialism

Tamils Languish in Death Camps

Possible Futures Post-War

The Liberal Moment

Close the Stable Door

Durable Political Solution Key to Development

Statement by Sonali

Ideas for After the War

Save Sri Lanka

Truimphalism & Other Delusions

Clash of Nationalisms

ICG: Lessons from the East

Exit Tiger, Enter Dragon

Tamil Party Calls for Ceasefire

1991 Colombo 7 Conversation

TNA Statement on Prez's Invite for Talks

Inclusion is the Way to Real Peace

TfO: Constitutional Solution Needed

SL's Choices: Accomodation or Partition

Peace is the Way!

Politics of Solutions

Wakeley Paul's Writings on Federalism, Constitutional Reform, etc.

Farm Hounds

SL Closes In

Killing Cadres, Not the Cause

D

Before & After Kilinochchi

Military Delusions

TNA Press Release

What Next after Kilinochchi?

Barriers to the 13th Amendment

For Peace to Dawn

The US Perspective on SL

Rajapakse's Strategy

Response to Amb Blake

Wrong Premise

Enough is Enough

SL a Country or an Island?

Land of Deception

All Party Conning

TCHR: Solutions Proposed

Too Few Tamils in SL Govt Service

Improving the Tamils

Tamils Hurt by Fonseka's Remarks

Winning Hearts in the North

Solution, But Not for the Problem

Power Sharing as Peace

Appeal to UN to Save Our Population

Displace or Die

SL Tamils Fear Security Forces

Fickle Approval of War

The Sri Lankan Solution

A Genocide Inquiry?

TIC: New Direction Needed

The Sri Lanka Situation

Military Pathway to Nationbuilding

Self-Determination Dilemma

Implementation, Please

Fear Stalks Colombo as Mines Kill Tamils

Preserve the Core, Stimulate Progress

Healing Rite

SL Slams Door

Rajapakse's Political Graveyard?

Inescapable Reality

Inescapable Reality

Spiritual Conquest of the Tamils

GOSL Worse than Officially Listed Sponsors of Terrorism

Solution Within the Present Consitution Improbable

Remember the TULF's 1977 Manifesto?

Responding to Mr. Rasalingam

SL's Republican Constitution

Responses to the Ambassador

ICG: Return to War

Killing Prabhakaran Will Not Silence the Tamils

Comments on 'Kosovo Countdown'

Comments on 'Kosovo Countdown'

Independence a Farce

TNA Will Not 'Touch' the 13th Amendment

APRC: From Hope to Despair

Reaching 60 & Nowhere to Go?

TIC: APRC Politics

An Agreement to Fight Some More

Blast from Past: The PA's Poliical Mirage

APRC: Key to Peace or Albatross?

APRC: The Past Repeats

A Letter to HC Dominic Chilcott

JVP Noose Around APRC Neck

Peace Group Leaving Sri Lanka

Ethnic Cleansing of Tamils in Sri Lanka

Rebellions, Leaders & Our Future

Tamils Left Out of Tsunami Rehab

Response to HC Dominc Chilcott

Signs of the Times

What are Those Grievances of Tamils?

The Murder of Tamilchelvan

Suffering in Silence

Politics of Terror in the Devil's Playground

UN Intervention in SL?

Ganesan: GoSL Can Agree to JVP Budget Demands

KT Rajasingham, Karuna & Pres. Rajapakse

ICG: Sinhala Nationalism

'National Ideology' in a Buddhist Country

Lanka Becomes 'Sri Rajapakistan'

Letter to the UK Ambassador to the UN

Why a Federal Set-up is Unfeasible

Dialogicality, Inclusiveness & Equality in the SL Peace Process

Now What?

Sinhalaspeak

Conceptualization of an Island

Northern Operation Will Not be a Cakewalk

On Neelan's Tightrope Act

Confederation in Bosnia, Iraq & Sri Lanka

Erasing the Tamil East

Kudumbimalai into Thoppigala?

The Lessons of 1983

Beyond Federalism?

Celebrating Eastern Victory?

GoSL on a Hot Tin Roof

Conquer & Negotiate?

Why is SL's Past Hidden?

Two Tests of Government Sincerity

G.L. Pieris' Wars for Peace

When Justice Fails

Sivaram Memorial Lecture

Is Sri Lanka Falling Behind?

Et Tu Brute?

Humanitarian & Political Crisis in Sri Lanka

And Then They Came for Me

How to Tell Tamils They Don't Belong in SL

SL Accused of Ethnic Cleansing

From Democracy to Farce

Why is the West Being Sympathetic?

Weakening the LTTE Before Talks - Myth

Colombo Will Shun Peace Until No Military Option

US: No Change in Policy Towards SL

The Great Language Divide

Section 29 & the 1972 Constituent Assembly

The Great Divide

Comments on the SLFP Proposals

'The Island' & Federalism

Murder, Mayhem & Fraudulence

Preventing a Diplomatic Settlement

Sri Lanka Seeks Global Help

Super Duper Sri Lanka, Part I

Super Duper Sri Lanka, Part II

Playing God

The Power I Have, I Will Not Share

Fate of MOUs & Pacts

Report from Vanni: Political Proposals 2

Report from Vanni: Political Proposals

How War Became Possible

A Reply to Amb. Goonetilleke

Stifling the Aspirations of the Tamils

Damnable Dependent Relationship

Indo-Lanka Relations: My Memories

CFA Buried

Sri Lanka's Nightmare

Indian Re-Thinking of the Sri Lankan Situation

Rajapakse Cooking His Own Goose

Jayawardene Centenary Chuckles

De-merger: Lessons for the Future

Sri Lanka's Nonsense 'Talks'

Geneva II: Armed Armistice

Euphoria about the SLFP-UNP Agreement?

Paradox of the Southasian Welfare State

The Writing on the Wall is Red

Illiberal Democracy

No Turning Back Now

Understanding the JVP

History of Intransigence

State Terrorism: Who is to Bell the Cat?

Power without Responsibility

Fishing in Troubled Lanka

Rajapakse Heading for Deeper Waters

Reflections on Sinhala Buddhist Origin Myths

All Party Conference Just a Political Drama

Sri Lanka:A State That Has Failed

Pinching the Child While Rocking the Cradle

From Tamil Typewriters to Sinhala Helicopter Gunships

From Tamil Typewriters to Sinhala Helicopter Gunships

Outgoing US Ambassador: No Military Solution in Sri Lanka

Killer Tigers or GoSL/Paramilitary Dirty Tricks?

The Four Faces of Mahinda Rajapakse

COTANZ: Civilian Killings & Paramilitary Operations

Concerning the Bus Bombing & the Current Crisis

IFT - Sri Lanka's Readiness to Launch War on the Tamil Nation

Statement of US Ambassador-to-be Robert Blake

A Realistic Look at the Sri Lankan Problem

Symbolic Politics

Peace - The Difficult, Yet Necessary Path

Unanswered Questions Remain on Kadirgamar Killing

A Tiger Under Every Stone

Sri Lanka is Not a Failed State Yet, But...

Foundation for Co-Existence Situation Report

Foundation for Co-Existence Situation Report

Comments on Post-Geneva 1 Activity

Political Killings & Their Gains

The Betrayal of Sivaram

The Spider and the Fly - A cautionary tale

Who Cares for Kadirgamar?

Cohabitation Doesn't Work

Your Move, Mr. President

Pursuit of War by Other Means

To Bridge the Difference in Sri Lanka

Courting War

As It Happens...

Ever Heard of AFSPA, PTA, TADO & ATA?

On the Performance of Police Chief Chandra Fernando

Constitutional Council - A contrary view

Uncharted Waters

Rajapakse is Wrong!

Sinhala Constitution

The CFA Controversy

Strengths & Weaknesses of Mme Coomaraswamy

Anti-Tamil Bias

Will Sri Lanka Defeat Hostile Symbolic Politics?

Falsehood Reveals the Truth

Beyond the Obvious

The Bigger Picture

The Latest Gimmicks

War Against False Democracy

Ratwatte Acquitted and Canadian Elections

The JVP and Pol Potism

Small Change

Small Change

Rajapakse: A Prisoner of Sinhalese Nationalism

Musings on a 'Gotcha-Gotcha' Thread from a Sydney Brenner Story

Get With It, Mr. Ambassador

The US and Australia Are Turning a Blind Eye

The Problem and its Solution are in Sri Lanka, not in the US

An Open Letter to the American Ambassador to Sri Lanka

Blaming the Past in Sri Lanka

Letter to the Editor of the 'Washington Times'

Comments on H L de Silva's Oration

An Eternal Political Stalemate

Is War Imminent?

Crunch Time for Rajapakse

The Root Cause of the Conflict: The Mahavamsa Conflict

Comments on Coomaraswamy Speech

Radhika Coomaraswamy on Tamils and Human Rights

The Threat of Genuine Negotiations

Is Peace Feasible?

Mahinda Rajapakse and the Art of the Possible

Peace Process on the Ropes

Sri Lankan Reneges on the Oslo and P-TOMS Agreements

What's Next? Independence?

The Absence of Accountability

Eye of the Storm?

Elections - 2005

Peace and Economy: An Analysis of Chintana

The Sri Lankan Presidential Election and the International Community

The Sri Lankan Presidential Election: Tweedledum or Tweedledee

The South has Spoken

The LTTE Teaches a Lesson to Those Who Play Political Games

Sri Lankan Presidential Elections and the Future of the Tamils

The Presidential Election and the Tamil People

Federalism and Peace

Federalism and Peace

The Political Ideology in Sri Lanka: Anti-Tamil

Mahinda or Ranil: What Difference to the Nation?

Elite Mobilization, Symbolic Politics and Presidential Elections in Sri Lanka

Mahinda Rajapakse - The Road to Disaster

Charles Gnanakone and the Kadirgamar Killing