Articles – 2012

August, 2012

  1. Re-reading a Saint: Review of “Interpreting Devotion”
  2. Burma’s Minority Rights
  3. Act Now to Save Lives in Syria
  4. TfO: Two Cheers for Amb. Butenis
  5. Act Fast for Reconciliation
  6. Broken Promises
  7. TESO Resolutions
  8. Subramanian Loonyswamy
  9. Census 2012
  10. Spin on Economic Growth in N
  11. LLRC Action Plan a Bluff
  12. AI: Ensure Detainees Charged or Released
  13. Amnesty India Campaign
  14. ICJ: Reconciliation at Crossroads
  15. Profiting from Indo-Lanka Accord
  16. Bridging the Language Divide
  17. OCHA Aid Appeal
  18. Mr. S. Arumugan Bio
  19. War in Peace
  20. Eastern Election & Muslim Congress
  21. Armed Groups in East?
  22. HRW: Massacre Unpunished
  23. Buddhists Behaving Badly
  24. 2012 Religious Freedom Report
  25. Census 2012
  26. Northern Province 2011
  27. Review of ‘Gota’s War’
  28. 130 Missing in Batti

July, 2012

  1. Civil Society Memo re Elections
  2. TAG et.al. Submission on Asylum Seekers
  3. War Abuse Inquiry May Take 5 Years
  4. Remembering Black July
  5. Sepala Ekanayake Story
  6. Review of ‘Crucible of Conflict’
  7. TfO: Benefit to India
  8. Land, Demography & Forced Emigration
  9. Western Influence Waning?
  10. Gota Goes Berserk
  11. Legitimacy of Self-Determination Struggle
  12. Prof. Eliezer Biography
  13. US to ‘Remain Engaged’
  14. Food Insecurity in Jaffna
  15. How Credible Troop Reduction Claims?
  16. Military Presence in Northern Province
  17. ‘Last Years of the LTTE De-Facto State’
  18. A Victor’s Peace
  19. Remembering Kovai Mahesan
  20. Army Abuse Tamil Women Say
  21. ICC Flaws
  22. AHRC: Perspectives on Torture
  23. Salem-News at FeTNA
  24. Sinhala Military Colonies
  25. How to Kill a Tiger
  26. A Threat to World Order?
  27. TIC: Brutal Attack on Political Prisoners
  28. Basic Math of Root Cause
  29. Urgent Need for Accountability
  30. US Trafficking Report 2012

June, 2012

  1. Presentation at UNHRC Session 2
  2. Rehabilitation of Ex-Combatants
  3. Remembering Mervyn de Silva
  4. Presentation at UNHRC Session
  5. ‘Still Counting the Dead’
  6. Trying to Make NZ Intelligence Services More Accountable
  7. Sharp: Dictator’s Nightmare
  8. Wikileaks: Nambiar’s Visit 2009
  9. Sumanthiran Speech on Land
  10. Resolutions Passed at ITAK Convention
  11. Surendiran Interview
  12. Deng: An Impossible Mandate
  13. Tamil Social Formation in SL
  14. Diaspora Lifeline
  15. Suu Kyi Redux
  16. Amnesty UPR Submission
  17. AI: Human Rights Situation in SL
  18. US GSP+ Risks
  19. Inspired by Father’s Day Again
  20. Military Matters in North
  21. Continuing Harassment of Bishop
  22. SL’s Troubles Drift a Long Way
  23. Jaffna Challenges
  24. Quo Vadis Karunanidhi?
  25. Traces of the Past
  26. End of War Video Footage
  27. Thiyaganur Buddha
  28. Tamil Inscriptions: Community & Caste
  29. UN Report on Children in Armed Conflict
  30. Press and Genocide Prevention
  31. Prof. AJ Wilson
  32. SL Without Chaos
  33. War & Non-violence 2
  34. Nomination Hearing for US Ambassador to SL
  35. A Good Day
  36. North Belongs to Who?
  37. Sampanthan Speech to ITAK
  38. CPA: Tamil Language Rights
  39. Valachchenai Paper Factory
  40. Tragedy of SL State
  41. CSW 2013: Violence Against Women
  42. Amnesty’s 2011 Report
  43. UNHRC & After

May, 2012

  1. CPA: Benchmarks for Reconciliation
  2. Liberia’s Taylor Sentenced
  3. Peoples of Early Sri Lanka
  4. The National Question & the Tamil Liberation Struggle
  5. Three House Floor Speeches
  6. GTF-TGTE Joint Remembrance Message
  7. UN HRC Booklet
  8. TGTE May 18 Address
  9. WTO May 18 Statement
  10. New Buddhist Stupa in Mullaivaikal
  11. Winning the Peace
  12. USTPAC: CA Remembrance Day
  13. Time for Mourning is Over
  14. War & Non-violence
  15. CTC Remembrance Days
  16. Memory of Massacred
  17. Steamy General
  18. Mass Atrocities Prevention Board
  19. NY Man Freed
  20. Drones & Human Rights
  21. Second Sunrise
  22. Caste & Nation
  23. Setting the Scene 2007
  24. No New Kurdish Strategy
  25. Post-Geneva Repairs
  26. Bad Gamble
  27. US Demining Visit
  28. Tigers & Spears 9
  29. Masacre de los Tamils
  30. Geopolitics of Peace & Conflict

April, 2012

  1. USTPAC Condemns Mosque Attack
  2. 5 Years On: Eastern Province
  3. US Military Training for SL Forces
  4. Devolution Questions
  5. UN Finds Cluster Bombs in SL
  6. TIC: Dambulla Mosque
  7. Jaffna Widows by Age
  8. Land Use in Batti
  9. S.A. David: Eyewitness to Welikade Massacre
  10. ICG:Rebuilding under the Military
  11. Paddy Cultivation Jaffna
  12. UNHCR Sri Lanka Profile
  13. Number of IDPs in SL Dec 2011
  14. Origin of People Remaining in Menik Farm
  15. TfO Calls for Referendum
  16. Hinduism’s Influence in Japan
  17. SL: Farmland Grab
  18. Caste in Tamil Diaspora
  19. Pentagon’s Southasia
  20. AI Get on the Bus 2012
  21. Lessons from S Asia
  22. UNHRC & Tamil Diaspora
  23. Indian Ocean as Zone of Peace
  24. Tigers & Spears 8
  25. ‘Spoiler & Reconciler’
  26. ‘Integration’ of Tamil Areas
  27. Analysis of US Report
  28. Fishing in Turbulent Waters
  29. SL’s Unending Conflict
  30. Sampanthan Speech on UNHRC Resolution
  31. State Dept. Report to Congress re GoSL Measures
  32. Factual Supplement to State Dept Report
  33. Of Martyrdom & Hope
  34. Mirror: Only Truth
  35. Thamarai on UN Resolution
  36. Trade Union Violations

March, 2012

  1. India’s Democratic Closet
  2. Tigers & Spears 7
  3. Killing Balachandran, Saving Uvindu
  4. UNHRC Resolution
  5. First Step Toward Accountability
  6. SL Ethnic Groups Divided over Resolution
  7. UN Votes on SL Carnage
  8. Patterns of Impunity
  9. Chronology of Attacks
  10. Incentivizing Local Government
  11. US Military Aid in SL War
  12. Tigers & Spears 6
  13. TNA: Broken Promises
  14. TNA on Land Powers
  15. TNA: Police Powers
  16. Killing Fields 2: War Crimes Unpunished
  17. TCWA: Rajapaksa Agenda
  18. Post-LLRC HR Violations
  19. CPJ: Media Restrictions, Abductions
  20. FeTNA Letter to India PM
  21. AI: SL’s Security Detainees
  22. Tigers & Spears 5
  23. Forum Asia on Land Grabbing
  24. CPA: Rhetoric & Reality
  25. Guatemala Gives 6,060 Year Sentence for Massacre
  26. Genocidio: La Masacre de los Tamils
  27. SL Against Itself
  28. Revisiting SL’s Bloody War
  29. TNA Letter to UNHRC

February, 2012

  1. Globe: Denial in SL
  2. RSF: No Progress
  3. ICG: Dead & Missing
  4. Tigers & Spears 4
  5. UNHRC Media Brief
  6. HRW: Halt Deportations
  7. Colvin & White Flag Surrender
  8. Book Release Speech
  9. Our Duty to SL & Human Rights
  10. Joint Letter on Accountability
  11. Uyghurs & the Future
  12. Guatemala’s War Years
  13. ATC: Tamils Saddened by Colvin Death
  14. Perinbanyagam & JYC
  15. A Handbook to Jaffna 1905
  16. How to Halt Butchery in Syria
  17. HR Groups Welcome Silva Removal
  18. Rise of Cultural Nationalism
  19. NGOs Call for US Action
  20. Amnesty: No Arms for Atrocities
  21. Passion & SL Buddhism
  22. The Nadhi…
  23. The Defeated
  24. Prof. Holt Responds
  25. Abdul Kalam Visit Rejoinder
  26. Tamils a Distinct People
  27. TNA Resettlement Report
  28. TNA Situation Report
  29. Prabakaran’s Tigers & Mandela’s Spears 3
  30. Tamil Insurgency in SL
  31. Poverty-Conflict Symbiosis
  32. Murky Disappearances
  33. Action, Not Mourning
  34. Black Day
  35. Tyranny of the Majority
  36. HRW: UNHRC Must Act
  37. Out of the Silence
  38. Abdul Kalam Proves
  39. USTPAC: Hold Off IMF Loan
  40. IPCS: LLRC Report
  41. SL General Admits War Crimes
  42. Fog of Uncivil War

January, 2012

  1. Tamils Await Peace Dividend
  2. ‘Uchithanai Muharnthaal’
  3. ‘STF Killed Trinco 5’
  4. Reader: ‘Biased, Prejudiced’
  5. HR Groups Against Silva’s Proposed Appt
  6. US 2012 Appropriations
  7. MP Sumanthiran on Militarization of NE
  8. Guatemalan General Accused of Atrocities
  9. Karen Parker Interview
  10. HRW: No Progress on Justice
  11. Dictator in Guatemala Court
  12. Sumanthiran Speech in Canada
  13. Hanky-panky at ‘The Hindu’
  14. Shelling the Safe Zone
  15. Watching the War by Satellite
  16. Bleak Future for Tamils
  17. SL’s Disappeared
  18. Sexual Abuse in NE
  19. Columbia’s Reparations
  20. TNA’s Response to LLRC
  21. 2011 Buchwald Awards
  22. Can Krishna Succeed?
  23. Rep. Berman Calls for Accountability
  24. Women’s Insecurity in NE
  25. Gap, Inc.
  26. Chile’s Mapuche
  27. Pioneer Americans in Jaffna
  28. Nationhood: Muslim Perspective
  29. ‘Kolaveri Di’ in Tamil?
  30. LLRC an Inconvenient Truth?
  31. Sinhala Nationalist History
  32. Taking Back Democracy in SL