Articles – 2010

December, 2010

  1. Ensuring Insecurity in Tamil Areas
  2. Logic of SL Disappearances
  3. Fire Inside
  4. Tamil Buddhists
  5. Journey of Fear & Hope
  6. Boston Globe: Probe
  7. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
  8. Senewiratne: Open Letter
  9. Prof. Hoole Meets Kipling
  10. SL Tamil Struggle, Chap 19
  11. Nallur Kanthaswamy Temple
  12. TGTE: UN Panel Submission
  13. USTPAC: Boycott Rallies
  14. SL Leaders Complicit
  15. US Embassy Cables: Paramilitaries
  16. 30,000 Disabled by Shelling
  17. On a Beach in SL
  18. ‘Surrender is Out of the Question’
  19. Will We Ever Learn?
  20. What Development?
  21. US Lawmakers Urge SL Probe
  22. SL in ‘Recession’
  23. Letter to Seneviratne
  24. CJPD: ’60 Years & More’
  25. SL Tamil Struggle, Chap 18
  26. Costs of Confrontational Diplomacy
  27. TGTE Speech
  28. Waking is Another Dream
  29. AFTA: War Crimes Evidence
  30. NCCT: Towards Global Justice
  31. TfO: Useful Video Evidence
  32. What Tamils Can Expect from UN Panel
  33. SL Tamil Struggle, Chap 17
  34. Review: TIC ‘Peopling of SL’
  35. Sivanayagam: Open Letter
  36. Sivanayagam: A Tribute
  37. Sivanayagam: A Wreath
  38. Sivanayagam: Outstanding Journalist
  39. SL War Crimes Suspect at UN
  40. SingSoc Simpletons
  41. Ordinary Grief
  42. Democracy Only Way
  43. New Execution Video
  44. Did Amb Accuse SL Pres of War Crimes?
  45. Biafra Parallels
  46. SL’s Alternatives Abroad
  47. 1 Country, 2 Nations

November, 2010

  1. More on Dharmalingam
  2. A Fishy Story
  3. Lingering Reality
  4. SL Tamil Struggle, Chap 16
  5. Parameters for an Investigation
  6. War Criminal & UN
  7. Prabharakan Bibliography 2
  8. Tamizhar Sangamam Big Success
  9. US: Protection of Civilians
  10. SL Tamil Struggle, Chap 15
  11. Obama’s Speech in Parliament
  12. Obama Takes Asia
  13. Mullaithivu SL’s Srebrenica?
  14. AI, HRW, ICG
  15. Photos Allege Sri Lanka Massacre
  16. TCHR: Proposed Solutions
  17. TCHR: Failed Talks
  18. SL Tamil Struggle, Chap 14
  19. Eunuchs & Defense Analysts
  20. TCHR: UN HR Incidents Forms
  21. TCHR Report 2007
  22. Thoughts of Thondaman, Sr.
  23. Fonseka & Democratisation
  24. Enforcing Laws of War

October, 2010

  1. SL Tamil Struggle, Chap 13
  2. Indian Ocean & US Power
  3. Natural Allies
  4. Child Soldiers & US Military Aid
  5. Lost in Civil War
  6. Humanitarian Update
  7. Remembering V. Dharmalingam
  8. SL Tamil Struggle, Chap 12
  9. Rajapaksa Averse to Devolution
  10. Self-Determination & Conflict Resolution
  11. Beyond Resettlement
  12. ‘Politics of Genocide’
  13. Sirimavo in 4 Frames
  14. Reconciliation of ex-LTTEers
  15. IMDC: Difficulties for Returnees
  16. Contradictions of Capitalism
  17. US Judge: Tigers a Threat?
  18. SL Tamil Struggle, Chap 11
  19. ‘Traitor’
  20. Transactions with the State
  21. Discreet Charm of American Poodle
  22. AI: Int’l Inquiry Needed
  23. SL Judiciary & Ayodha
  24. On Mrs. Amirthalingam
  25. SL Tamil Struggle, Chap 10
  26. Blake: SA’s Unheralded Stories
  27. Boycott Momentum
  28. Kashmir: Time Has Come
  29. ICJ: Beyond Lawful Constraints
  30. US AID Map
  31. TGTE Becomes Official

September, 2010

  1. Sri Lanka Holds Tight to China
  2. Partition of Sudan Likely
  3. Sri Lankan Tamil Struggle Chapter 9: Religious Revival
  4. 18th: Wheat & Chaff
  5. Beaten but not Broken: Struggle of Tamil Women
  6. Loss of TE Leverage
  7. Who Killed Rajani?
  8. SL Tamil Struggle, Chap 8
  9. ‘Tea Time with Terrorists’
  10. MP Sumanthiran’s Speech on 18th Amendment
  11. Project Madurai
  12. Life in Detention
  13. Business from Ashes of Caste
  14. SL Still Denying Deaths
  15. SL Tamil Struggle, Chap 7
  16. CPA: Returns & Land Issues
  17. Nuda Veritas
  18. SL Tamil Struggle: Chap. 6
  19. Colonizing the North
  20. Devolution & Parachutes
  21. Review of ‘Rebel Land’
  22. Mannar Misery Continues
  23. Tamils of a Different Stripe
  24. Investing in the NE
  25. ADB Fact Sheet
  26. Notes on the Jaffna Economy
  27. Israel SL Links, part 2

August, 2010

  1. ‘Shadow of Silence’
  2. SL Tamil Struggle: Chap. 5
  3. CIA’s Fingerprints
  4. Indians Monitoring Aid
  5. ‘Worse Than War’
  6. Why Not Kill Them All?
  7. Collective Trauma in the Vanni
  8. Story of the Sun Sea
  9. US Supplies SL Air Force
  10. SL Tamil Struggle: Chap 4
  11. SL’s Telling Exodus
  12. Israel SL Links, part 1
  13. Deepening Internal Colonialism
  14. AI: ACF Still Awaiting Justice
  15. Powderkeg in Paradise
  16. Role of the Moral Police
  17. SL Tamil Struggle: Chap 3
  18. KP & Stockholm Syndrome
  19. 58 Congressmen Call for Intl Investigation
  20. Changing Demographics
  21. Duraiappah Dossier Part 2
  22. SL Tamil Struggle: Chap 2
  23. Welikade Massacre 1983
  24. Humanitarianism in SL
  25. The Elders: Global Silence
  26. OCHA: Resettlement Progress
  27. OCHA: Humanitarian Action Review
  28. Malnutrition in NE
  29. Lessons of Srebrenica

July, 2010

  1. SL Tamil Struggle: Intro
  2. SL Tamil Struggle: Chap 1
  3. USTPAC Remembers Black July
  4. Reconciliation Not Possible?
  5. TAPI Response to SL Trip
  6. Black July Revisited
  7. Collective Trauma
  8. Duraiappah Dossier Part 1
  9. Symbols, Politics & War Crimes
  10. TAPI Condemns Colombo Violence
  11. Historicity of Eelam
  12. A Critique of Robert Pape
  13. Human Rights & Development
  14. Spending for Stability
  15. Sinhalization Agenda
  16. Ending Territorial Pursuit
  17. Development & Colonization in East
  18. Boston Man Released
  19. M.I.A.’s New Album
  20. CTC Welcomes UN Panel
  21. TAPI Applauds EU Push for Human Rights

June, 2010

  1. OCHA Snapshot
  2. TAPI Commends UN Panel
  3. Police Language Hurdle
  4. Agriculture & Land Settlement
  5. Narayan’s ‘Dodu’
  6. Reconciliation Not Conciliation
  7. Means & Ends
  8. SL’s Wartime Abuses
  9. Ban Appoints Panel
  10. Bruise on First Amendment
  11. TGTE: Right of Return
  12. Mullivaikal Last Stages
  13. Myth of ‘Never Again’
  14. CPA: Eastern Recovery
  15. Akashi Interview
  16. CSIS: Consolidation, Not Reconciliation?
  17. TNA: Current Situation in Vanni
  18. Home in Oakland, CA
  19. Some Eelam Locales
  20. Cultural Campaign against Tamils
  21. Military-Buddhist Complex
  22. Records of Those Fleeing Vanni Destroyed
  23. Mass Graves Nothing New
  24. Sri Lanka Demands Justice
  25. Trade: An Old Leverage
  26. SL: View from Afar
  27. CID Picketing in Vavuniya
  28. Vanni: War Never Ended
  29. War Hero Could be Executed
  30. Sinhala Symbols, War & Peace
  31. Memory Bulldozed
  32. FeTNA 2010
  33. Dissecting the Prabhakaran Death Story
  34. ‘Son of Hamas’
  35. Alston Statement to HRC
  36. From Post-War to Political Solution

May, 2010

  1. Rajiv’s IPKF Folly
  2. Probe War Crimes in SL
  3. HRW: Evidence of Wartime Abuses
  4. Is UN Complicit in War Crimes?
  5. TfO: Things to Discuss with Pieris
  6. Killings of Tamils Ordered from Top
  7. Demolition of War Memorials
  8. Sins of the War Victory
  9. Tutu & Brahimi: One Year On
  10. Civil War Legacy
  11. NESOHR: Remembering
  12. Remembrance Day Rally in DC
  13. Land in the Eastern Province
  14. ICG: War Crimes in SL
  15. SL Forces Blamed for Most Civilian Deaths
  16. AI: UN Must Investigate HR Violations
  17. Message from Fr. Emmanuel
  18. TAPI Criticizes Slow Progress
  19. Behind Barbed Wire
  20. MP Sumanthiran’s Speech
  21. TFO: Remember the Massacre
  22. Amb. Rice Statement on SL Commission
  23. AID Fact Sheet
  24. HIU: Camps Closing, Many Still Displaced
  25. MP Sritharan’s Speech
  26. A Voice from the Ashes
  27. Why Shouldn’t We Live in Tamil Areas?
  28. Writers Remember & Speak Out
  29. Origin of Sivaram
  30. Redeveloping the North
  31. AHRC: New Commission
  32. CTC: Days of Remembrance
  33. Global Cemetery

April, 2010

  1. Response to ICG Report on Tamil Diaspora
  2. Cash for Work in Jeyapuram
  3. Luring Investors to Former War Zones
  4. Obama, Foreign Policy & Armenians
  5. ‘Unspoken Genocide’ Speech
  6. Follow Victory with Political Solution
  7. Conversation with Saravanamuttu
  8. GTF on SL Election
  9. Can Singapore Be a Model?
  10. American Ceylon Mission
  11. AI: Drop Emergency Laws
  12. Toady’s Throne in Jaffna
  13. Poet Kalyanasundaram Remembered
  14. Convention: Unspoken Genocide
  15. CTC on TGTE Elections
  16. TfO on TGTE Election
  17. AI: World’s Most Vulnerable
  18. Commonsense for a New Era
  19. Discussing Tamil Natl Interest
  20. Travails of an Ordinary Suspect
  21. ‘Tearing Apart the Land’
  22. Will Tamil Rights Be Upheld?
  23. GTF Welcomes UN Panel
  24. USTPAC Supports Advisory Panel
  25. UNICEF 2010 Plan
  26. A ‘Pragmatic Approach’
  27. At N. Ram’s Expense
  28. Archaeology Sparks New Conflict
  29. Future Bleak for Those Who Backed Tigers
  30. Making Land Safe
  31. “We Have to Move On”

March, 2010

  1. Conversation with Sachithananthan
  2. Where Are We Headed
  3. Tamils on Probation
  4. Australian FM Statement
  5. Military Occupation of NE
  6. ‘Engaging’ the Tamil Diaspora
  7. Transparency & Tamil Organizations
  8. Politicization of Buddhism
  9. Third Choice
  10. Bring Them to Justice
  11. TGTE Advisory Final Report
  12. Lanka’s Nowhere People
  13. Homecoming for Muslim IDPs
  14. Tamil Refugees in India
  15. US 2009 HR Report
  16. USTPAC Appeal to UNHCR
  17. TfO: Let Merak Refugees Proceed
  18. UN Minority Expert Report
  19. Forgotten Refugees of Lanka
  20. Map of IDPs in North
  21. Evil Chasers, Crooks & Traitors
  22. The Diaspora
  23. Aid & Trade Fuel Genocide
  24. Help Merak Refugees
  25. Re-Opening Schools Priority
  26. CTC Welcomes Proposed UN Panel
  27. USTPAC: Intl Women’s Day
  28. Arulamma Thambiraja
  29. GTF Letter to Tamils
  30. Ban Voices Concern
  31. Shaping Western Policy
  32. ICG: 3 Messages for the Diaspora
  33. Lanka’s Problems Need Attention
  34. Six Blind Women

February, 2010

  1. No Blood for Panties #1-3
  2. People Power!
  3. Sen. Casey’s Statement for GTF
  4. Milliband’s Speech to GTF
  5. Diminishing Democracy
  6. Move On
  7. Caste in Modern Politics
  8. Distancing Ourselves from India
  9. ICG: Tamil Diaspora After the LTTE
  10. War Crimes in Sri Lanka
  11. Ignoring Two Decades
  12. Crackdown on Democracy
  13. Malvana Convention of 1598
  14. Constitutionalism or Feudalism
  15. Mannaar Colonization
  16. India Worries & Hambantota
  17. ‘Operation Ellalan’ Film
  18. Footnotes in Gaza
  19. OCHA: IDPs & ‘Resettlement’
  20. Losing Sri Lanka
  21. TAPI Deplores Fonseka’s Detainment
  22. CTC: Dictatorship
  23. Free Speech & Terror
  24. MLK’s Road to Peace
  25. Jaffna HSZs
  26. A Blind Man’s Meal
  27. VOA: Independence Day
  28. Children in Armed Conflict Report
  29. Mined Road Ahead
  30. Road from Elephant Pass
  31. Up to 40,000 Tamils Killed
  32. Muffled Cry for Self-Rule
  33. CSIS: SL’s Elections
  34. Context of Eelam Struggle
  35. Scalawags & Carpetbaggers
  36. Jaffna Fort Restored
  37. Heartbreak in Jaffna
  38. HRW: End Indefinite Detention of Tiger Suspects
  39. 254 Tamil Boat Refugees
  40. ‘Massacres of Tamils 1956-2008’
  41. Principles of US Engagement
  42. UNHRC Debate on SL
  43. Election Losers
  44. 80,000 IDPs Remain in Vavuniya

January, 2010

  1. Still Over 400,000 Displaced
  2. People’s Tribunal on SL Final Report
  3. CTC: Tamils Disenfranchised
  4. Seeking Justice After Elections
  5. USTPAC: Intl Holocaust Day
  6. This is a Setback Only
  7. Suitable Awards
  8. Political Goals thru Investment
  9. Economic Investment
  10. TIC: Rajapaksa Dynasty
  11. AHRC: Repeal the PTA
  12. Space Odyssey
  13. Report on Transnational Govnt
  14. Holocaust Day & Tamils
  15. Tissa’s Bail
  16. Rebirth of Hydraulic Civilization
  17. ICG: A Bitter Peace
  18. Execution Video Authentic
  19. TNA Statement on Election
  20. No Blood for Panties
  21. Malaysia HR Report
  22. Why a Tribunal on SL?
  23. People’s Tribunal on SL
  24. What Should Eelam Tamils Do?
  25. Tamil Voters Beware
  26. TLHRC: Democracy Under Siege
  27. Cultural Genocide