Articles – 2007

December, 2007

  1. Rebellions, Leaders & Our Future
  2. Ethnic Cleansing of Tamils in Sri Lanka
  3. Tsunami Aid ‘Missing’
  4. UN IDP Expert Urges Targeted Measures
  5. IDP Resettlement & Colonization in the East
  6. CPA Policy Brief on Humanitarian Issues
  7. Tamils Left Out of Tsunami Rehab
  8. 1997 FTO Listing Revisited
  9. Tamil Diaspora & Recognition of the Natl Problem
  10. Quotes on Sri Lanka II
  11. TIC: Human Rights Commission Downgraded
  12. Tamils: Disruption to the Norm?
  13. Milennium Challenge Corporation Report
  14. A Brave and Startling Truth
  15. Aftermath of LTTE Leader’s Speech
  16. Response to HC Dominc Chilcott
  17. Reporting on Civilians & Media Filters
  18. MRG: HR Crisis for SL’s Minorities
  19. Signs of the Times
  20. UN Human Rights Council & SL
  21. Lions of the Punjab
  22. ACHR: 1000 Conflicts Now
  23. What are Those Grievances of Tamils?
  24. Indo-LTTE War Anthology III
  25. Ganesan Receives US Award
  26. Kosovo’s End Game
  27. TIC: HR Abuses & Impunity in SL
  28. We Send Them the Money VI
  29. TRO: HR & Humanitarian Situation
  30. NESoHR: Human Rights Day
  31. AI & HRW: End Abuses
  32. Oceanic World Orders
  33. ‘Internal Colonialism’
  34. NESOHR Monthly HR Report
  35. Appeal to Stop the Genocide II
  36. Appeal to Stop the Genocide
  37. Tamils: Anti-Ethnocide Campaign
  38. Amnesty Condemns Mass Arrests
  39. UN SC’s Message on Human Rights Day
  40. Flying Visit
  41. The Murder of Tamilchelvan
  42. Rebel with a Smile
  43. TCHR: Paramilitaries & a Terrorism Conference
  44. More Than a Minority Problem
  45. Suffering in Silence
  46. Indo-LTTE War: An Anthology II

November, 2007

  1. SL Charity President Responds
  2. We Send Them the Money V
  3. Terrorism, Violence & Reconciliation
  4. RSF: Bombing Radio Station a War Crime
  5. Amnesty Condemns Civilian Killings
  6. Prabakaran’s 2007 Heroes’ Day Speech
  7. Bose’s INA & Asian Independence
  8. Bush’s Best Hope
  9. Sangam Celebrates 30th Anniversary
  10. Indo-LTTE War: An Anthology
  11. Politics of Terror in the Devil’s Playground
  12. RSF: Tamil Newspaper Proofreader Missing in Jaffna
  13. UN Intervention in SL?
  14. GoSL Banning of the TRO
  15. Tamils Have Legitimate Grievances
  16. TRO Response to US Actions
  17. Pulp Fiction Writers
  18. Thamilchelvan: Tribute to a Leader
  19. We Send Them the Money IV
  20. Eelam & Indian Security
  21. SL: Search for Peace
  22. Lifting Our Lamps
  23. Tamilselvan Eulogy
  24. Ganesan: GoSL Can Agree to JVP Budget Demands
  25. KT Rajasingham, Karuna & Pres. Rajapakse
  26. GoSL Borrowing from Tamils
  27. NPC: Failure to Implement Intl HR Standards
  28. Violence Drags On in SL
  29. Recent Quotes on Sri Lanka
  30. No Choice
  31. What’s Wrong with ‘Rights?’
  32. TCHR: Tamils Killed, Disappeared 1956-2007
  33. We Send Them the Money III
  34. Dudayev & Thamilselvan
  35. HRW Letter on US Military Funding of SL
  36. Response to Article on Tamilchelvan
  37. ‘Halo 3’ & Sri Lanka
  38. The Other Crisis
  39. ICG: Sinhala Nationalism
  40. Peoples of ‘Historical Waters’
  41. Shipping Technology of the Cholas
  42. We Send Them the Money II
  43. Five Killed or Disappear Daily
  44. Assassination Demonstrates Resolution Spearheaded by Military Means
  45. We Send Them the Money
  46. Memories of Tamilselvan
  47. Tribute to Thamilselvan
  48. Sen. Leahy’s Statement on Sri Lanka
  49. Mullaitivu NGO Consortium Condemns Thamilchelvan Killing
  50. SL Airstrike Kills Tamil Political Leader
  51. Head of Political Wing Assassinated
  52. Holy Ghost on the Malabar Coast

October, 2007

  1. Are You a Civilian?
  2. ‘National Ideology’ in a Buddhist Country
  3. UN: Impunity Makes Mockery of Extrajudicial Execution Procedures
  4. UN: Torture Widely Practiced in Sri Lanka
  5. Agenda for Demographic Change in Trinco
  6. On Anandasangaree & the Air-base
  7. Tears for the Twenty-One
  8. Pseudo Operations & Counter-Insurgency
  9. Sivaram & Counter-Insurgency
  10. Sivaram & Counter-Insurgency 2
  11. Sivaram & Counter-Insurgency 3
  12. Clinton: “Can’t Lump All Terrorists Together”
  13. Tamils Are a ‘People’ – Tho a Minority
  14. IASC: NE Situation Report Oct 18, 2007
  15. Sixty Cheers for the CIA
  16. Louise Arbour’s Statement
  17. Letter to Louise Arbour, UNHCHR
  18. Sinhala Colonisation Cloaked as ‘Development’
  19. Vision of a Nation No Longer in the US
  20. 1 in 3 Kids in NJ in Immigrant Family
  21. Past Efforts & Present Needs
  22. Obstacles Faced by the Humanitarian Community in SL
  23. Sri Lanka on the Brink of All-Out War
  24. NESOHR: Threats to Tamil Media
  25. ACHR: Arbour’s Visit a Test for SL Leadership
  26. LTTE: Sept Human Rights Report
  27. The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress
  28. SL State Terrorism & the Helpless Tamil Diaspora
  29. Is That All You Got, Karuna?
  30. TRO Situation Report Sept 16 – Oct 5 2007
  31. Lanka Becomes ‘Sri Rajapakistan’
  32. Prelude to the Indo-LTTE War, Part 5
  33. Int’l Dimensions of the Conflict in SL
  34. UN OCHA: Access to IDPs
  35. USAID: Complex Emergency Fact Sheet #5
  36. Recognize the Sovereignty of the Tamil People
  37. The Roots of Civilisation
  38. Failed States Index 2007
  39. Core Issue
  40. UNP Drops Federalism
  41. TRO: Killing of 59th Humanitarian Worker

September, 2007

  1. Prelude to the Indo-LTTE War, Part IV
  2. ‘India After Gandhi’
  3. The Intimate History of Collaboration
  4. Serious Omissions in Address to the UN
  5. Eelaventhan: UN & Safety for Tamils
  6. IDMC: Displaced People in SL
  7. The Clash Within
  8. What ‘Responsibility to Protect’ Means to Tamils
  9. Letter to the UK Ambassador to the UN
  10. Prelude to the Indo-LTTE War, Part III
  11. ‘The Shock Doctrine’
  12. Humanitarian Action in the ‘Undeclared War’ in SL
  13. Colombo Tamil’s Visit to Jaffna in 2003
  14. TRO Mullaitivu Office Bombed by SLAF
  15. US Report on SL Religious Freedom
  16. Sign of the Times in Tamil Nadu
  17. Why a Federal Set-up is Unfeasible
  18. Prelude to the Indo-Lanka War, Part II (a)
  19. Prelude to the Indo – Lanka War, Part II (b)
  20. Dialogicality, Inclusiveness & Equality in the SL Peace Process
  21. TCHR Appeal to the UN Human Rights Council
  22. TCHR: Christina & Hindu Buildings Destroyed
  23. On Epic Poet Kambar
  24. TRO Mannar Report
  25. TRO Situation Report August 16-31 2007
  26. To Be Heard…Talk or Shoot?
  27. Rising Prices
  28. Foreign Ministers of Sri Lanka
  29. Amnesty: UN HRC Must Address Violations
  30. Now What?
  31. APRC ‘Dead in the Water’
  32. Amnesty: Impunity for Enforced Disappearances Must End
  33. Lee Kuan Yew on Modern Perils

August, 2007

  1. Submission to the COI on Human Rights
  2. Report on Killing, Disappearances Compiled
  3. Jaffna’s Media in the Grip of Terror
  4. TRO Situation Report August 15, 2007
  5. NESOHR: Padakuthurai Aerial Bombing
  6. NESOHR: Tamil Massacres 1956-2002, small file
  7. Edmund Samarakkody on July-August 1977
  8. Tamil Troubles & Gen. Mehta
  9. Sinhalaspeak
  10. SAHR Report on Sri Lankan IDPs
  11. The Long Way Home
  12. Remembering Mutur, 2006
  13. TCHR: 44 Humanitarian Workers Killed 2006-2007
  14. Sri Lanka’s Shame
  15. Koodankulam Goes Nuclear
  16. Conceptualization of an Island
  17. Crossing the Line in Sri Lanka
  18. Tribute to Kumar Ponnambalam
  19. Unity in a Difficult Time
  20. The War As We Saw It
  21. Civil Administration & Development Priorities in East
  22. Opportunistic Politics Never Serve a Community
  23. UN OCHA: IDPs in Batticaloa
  24. TRO Kilinochchi Situation Report
  25. East: the Lost Battle for Survival
  26. A Desire to Feed the World
  27. NESOHR Report on Sencholai Massacre
  28. TYO Australia Remembers Sencholai Bombing
  29. LTTE PS: July 2007 Human Rights Report
  30. Prelude to the Indo-LTTE War
  31. TRO: Massacre of 17 Action Contre Le Faim Staff
  32. Comment on NESOHR’s ‘Massacres of Tamils’
  33. Black July Website Launched
  34. TIC:: Premature Returns Endanger Asylum Seekers
  35. Northern Operation Will Not be a Cakewalk
  36. Families & Friends of the Disappeared
  37. On Neelan’s Tightrope Act
  38. Confederation in Bosnia, Iraq & Sri Lanka

July, 2007

  1. The 1987 Indo-Sri Lanka Accord
  2. NESOHR: Tamil Massacres 1956-2001, Part 1
  3. US Senate Freeze on Aid to SL?
  4. Steve Gilchrist’s Speech
  5. The Backstory of Black July 1983
  6. Speech from DC Rally
  7. Ethiopia Blocks Food Aid
  8. Erasing the Tamil East
  9. Kudumbimalai into Thoppigala?
  10. Memories Which Cannot Be Forgotten
  11. The Lessons of 1983
  12. A Curse for Darfur?
  13. The Deals of Dr. Neelan
  14. Beyond Federalism?
  15. Celebrating Eastern Victory?
  16. GoSL on a Hot Tin Roof
  17. Freedom is a Right, Not a Crime
  18. Mooning the ‘Washington Times’
  19. FeTNA 2007
  20. Political Prancing for Pole Positions
  21. TRO Condemns SLAF Bombing of IDPs
  22. US May Bypass UN for Kosovo Independence
  23. US on Autonomy and Indpendence in Western Sahara
  24. The Current Status of US ‘Material Support’ Laws
  25. Revealing Silence
  26. The Better Half
  27. DMK Views on the Eelam Issue in the 1990s
  28. The Latest Militarized Zone is Muthur East
  29. TRO Situation Report June 2007
  30. Confederation or a Separate State
  31. Conquer & Negotiate?
  32. Vaharai Emergency Assessment Report
  33. No Progress on Murdered Aid Workers
  34. Anointed Federalists & Anandasangaree
  35. Korakkankaddu Village
  36. Why is SL’s Past Hidden?
  37. Rate Signals
  38. Two Tests of Government Sincerity

June, 2007

  1. G.L. Pieris’ Wars for Peace
  2. When Justice Fails
  3. Open Letter to Hon. Erik Solheim
  4. The Dravidian Movement in TN
  5. Stepping Up
  6. Sivaram Memorial Lecture
  7. A Year After Massacre of 17 Aid Workers
  8. Sri Lankan Tamil Migration
  9. Is Sri Lanka Falling Behind?
  10. Briefing Paper on Sri Lanka
  11. China’s Rising Power
  12. Et Tu Brute?
  13. IDSA: India’s Options
  14. Scholarship Appeal
  15. Reflecting on Tamil Displacement Over 30 Years
  16. ‘Let My People Go’: Like Moses to Pharoah
  17. The Problems of Immunity & Impunity
  18. Humanitarian & Political Crisis in Sri Lanka
  19. The Continuing Genocidal Crisis in Sri Lanka
  20. CPA: Status of Underage Recruitment
  21. Ethnic Cleansing by Decree
  22. SL’s Scars Trace War Without End
  23. ICG: Sri Lanka’s Human Rights Crisis
  24. Amnesty: Pres. Must Invite HR Field Operation
  25. IC Holds Responisiblity for Devastation of Tamils
  26. Kick Starting Recovery in Vaharai
  27. OCHA May NE Monitoring Report
  28. And Then They Came for Me
  29. Tamil Culture: Past, Present & Future
  30. On Our Own
  31. SL Military Talks Less Tough
  32. What About These 122 Disappearances?
  33. IIGEP Faults Commission of Inquiry
  34. How to Tell Tamils They Don’t Belong in SL
  35. Evicted
  36. SL Accused of Ethnic Cleansing
  37. A War Stranger Than Fiction
  38. DFID: Development Dilemmas
  39. CTC: Sivaram Memorial Scholarship in Journalism
  40. From Democracy to Farce
  41. Nigeria: Crude Awakening
  42. Basque Separatists End Cease-Fire
  43. The British House of Commons Debate
  44. Operation Poomalai
  45. The Credibility Gap
  46. Why is the West Being Sympathetic?
  47. Muslims Caught in the Crossfire

May, 2007

  1. Weakening the LTTE Before Talks – Myth
  2. Mannar & Anuradhapura Massacres in 1984/85
  3. Lies & Damn Lies!
  4. SL’s War & US Support
  5. Archbishop’s Recent Comments on SL
  6. Colombo Will Shun Peace Until No Military Option
  7. AHRC: SL – Epidemic of Lawlessness
  8. 3 Global Financial Institutions Roles Questioned
  9. Terror Unleashed on Jaffna Students
  10. HR Charade & the Delusions of Rajan Hoole
  11. If I Die, My Death Will Be Registered
  12. Failure to Share Power
  13. US: No Change in Policy Towards SL
  14. Why Tamils Face Int’l ‘Shock & Awe’
  15. The Great Language Divide
  16. Message Not Clear!
  17. Section 29 & the 1972 Constituent Assembly
  18. Foreign Aid Cut Fears as SL Fails on Human Rights
  19. US Concerned, Halts Some Aid
  20. What a Flying Menace!
  21. Learning from Success
  22. SL Probe of Aid Workers’ Massacre ‘Flawed’
  23. Shanghaied
  24. Big Oil in Tiny Cambodia
  25. Memorial in Italy for Murdered TRO Workers
  26. The Great Divide
  27. TYONZ Letter to French Ambassador
  28. Eyewitness Account of Tamil Attack
  29. Civilizations & the Challenge for Peace
  30. The Divisions That Tighten the Purse Strings
  31. Comments on the SLFP Proposals
  32. ‘The Island’ & Federalism
  33. The Forgotten Land
  34. Politics, Not Morals
  35. Western Sahara Between Autonomy & Intifada

April, 2007

  1. US on Prabhakaran in 2002
  2. Unionist Murders in Columbia
  3. Boris Yeltsin, the LTTE & Indian Gumshoes
  4. Sovereignty, Nationality, Citizenship
  5. IFT: Protest on Action Against Tamil Diaspora
  6. Appealing the Designation
  7. Bloodbath Looms in War-Torn Sri Lanka
  8. Civil War Spares Economy
  9. On Leadership: Part II
  10. TRO Relief for Mannar IDPs
  11. US & Australia Strike Refugee Deal
  12. A Fast to End the Genocide
  13. Murder, Mayhem & Fraudulence
  14. March Civilian Toll
  15. US Foreign Policy
  16. The Mineral Industry of Sri Lanka
  17. Driving Up the Price of Blood
  18. Indigenous Peoples & Natural Resources at the UN
  19. Closing the Door After the Horses Have Bolted
  20. From Passion to Politics
  21. COTANZ: Sri Lanka Disregards Disappearances
  22. Overseas TRO to Provide Relief in the East
  23. Terrorist Lists & Humanitarian Assistance
  24. On Leadership, Part 1
  25. 3 New DVDs on SL Crisis
  26. COTANZ: France Arrests
  27. The Meaning of Terrorism
  28. A Humble Appeal
  29. Why SL Forces Won’t Attack Tiger Heartland
  30. Concrete Idea
  31. Fig Leaf
  32. Casualty Count
  33. Oil & Violence in Sudan Drilling
  34. How Donors Fail Children in Conflict-Affected Fragile States
  35. Thousands of Civilians Flee in Colombia
  36. Amnesty: Human Rights is the Issue
  37. Halt Abductions, Sri Lanka Urged
  38. SL Government Makes ‘Final Push’
  39. Tamils Have a De Jure State
  40. ACHR: Disappearances & the Collapse of the Rule of Law
  41. Sri Lanka: Endless War
  42. SL Seeks Bids for Oil Exploration
  43. Upwardly Global in NYC
  44. Jaffna Situation Report
  45. Letter from Batti on Ozanam Children’s Home
  46. IASC: Batticaloa Situation Report
  47. IASC: NorthEast Situation Report
  48. SL Troops, Rebels Renew Violence
  49. New Sri Lankan Air Defenses

March, 2007

  1. Early Warning
  2. NESOHR: UN Assist an End to Violence
  3. Amnesty: Incommunicado Detention
  4. No Education in the East
  5. The YouTube Defense
  6. Ban Ki-Moon: Testing the Tightrope
  7. UN Mediator Calls for Kosovo Independence
  8. Amnesty: Play by the Rules
  9. The Wind That Shakes the Barley
  10. Chennai 600028
  11. Engineered Catastrophe
  12. Touch Me Not
  13. DVDs on the Tamil Situation
  14. TRO: Ensure Safety of Humanitarian Workers
  15. TRO: Respect Humanitarian Workers
  16. TNA Visit To Welikade Prisoners
  17. TRO: 5 Years of Ceasefire – A Missed Opportunity
  18. Terror War Victimises World’s Minorities
  19. Impending Humanitarian Crisis in Sri Lanka
  20. Preventing a Diplomatic Settlement
  21. Sri Lanka Seeks Global Help
  22. Racism in the 21st Century
  23. Stalin’s Antipathy & a Missed Opportunity
  24. NESoHR: Humanitarian Urgency to Jaffna Land Route
  25. Trinco IDPs Used as Human Shields for Military Camps
  26. Double Exposure
  27. IFT: Human Rights Crisis in the NE
  28. Memorial Service Held for Abducted TRO Workers
  29. Caritas Fears Crisis as Violence Escalates
  30. Alternatively Able Persons
  31. Aftermath of the UN HR Council Meetings
  32. Fait Accompli?
  33. Sri Lanka’s Lost Generation
  34. AI: Armed Groups Infiltrating Refugee Camps
  35. More Than 100,000 Flee
  36. Un-Making Old Choices
  37. IED: Children & Armed Conflict
  38. Dismay Over the New UN Human Rights Council
  39. Politics of Naming: Genocide, Civil War, Insurgency
  40. False Hope
  41. Rwanda: Lessons on Genocide
  42. Australian Human Rights for the Voiceless
  43. Making the Point
  44. IASC: Fact Sheet
  45. IASC: NorthEast Situation
  46. Urgent Appeal on the Situation in the East
  47. Awards to Recognize NZ Youth in HR Work
  48. Tamilchelvan Interview
  49. ACHR: Abductions Officially Admitted
  50. UN: Ending Impunity for Violence Against Women
  51. AI: Enforced Disappearance in Jaffna
  52. Deft Dancing on the ‘D’ Word
  53. Humanitarian Access in IDP Areas
  54. Refugees Unsure of Future
  55. Tamils – a Nation Without a State
  56. The Boer Wars
  57. The Malayan Emergency
  58. Exhuming Accountability
  59. AI: Incommunicado Detention
  60. Eyewitness to Allaipiddy Shelling, August 2006
  61. A Lapse in Diplomatic Security
  62. Comment on ‘Security Lapses’
  63. Comment 2 on ‘Security Lapses’
  64. A Rounding Error
  65. ICJ: Anti-Terrorism Laws Abused in Sri Lanka
  66. On Waiting
  67. SL’s Endangered Peace Process & the Way Forward

February, 2007

  1. A Land of Milk & Honey
  2. Nuts and Bolts of Narayanan & Indian National Security
  3. The Tamil Homeland
  4. Tamil Civilians Continue to Live in Fear
  5. Tamil Americans Call for Recognition of Tamil Sovereignty
  6. India Can Play Bridge-builder, China Can’t
  7. TIC: Appointment of LTTE Spokesperson on Human Rights
  8. My War Away From War
  9. Diego Garcia’s Hidden Role in Sri Lankan Politics
  10. California Split
  11. Turks & Kurds
  12. Rising Tension Over Tamils
  13. CPA Studies the Rock Report
  14. Reform or Decline?
  15. Paris Principles
  16. IMF Help Not Wanted
  17. Super Duper Sri Lanka, Part I
  18. Super Duper Sri Lanka, Part II
  19. Playing God
  20. TIC: Abductions & the Rule of Law
  21. Learning Politics from Sivaram
  22. Ethnic Warfare in Sri Lanka & the UN Crisis
  23. The Power I Have, I Will Not Share
  24. On SP Amarasingam
  25. AHRC: Death Threats & the Trivialisation of Life
  26. Sri Lanka’s President Mindless
  27. US Lawmakers Ask Bush to Appoint Special Envoy
  28. The Muslim Insurgency in Southern Thailand
  29. TIC: Attacks on Human Rights Defenders
  30. SL State Terrorism & Tamil Children
  31. V. Navaratnam: A Man Ahead of His Time
  32. IDPs in Sri Lanka
  33. Notice: EelamNation.com Vandalized
  34. Pres. Mahinda: The Blue Dyer
  35. Medicine Ban in Vanni
  36. 10 Non-Iraqi Books for Understanding Iraq
  37. ‘Leashing the Dogs of War’
  38. History Behind the Present Ethnic Conflict

January, 2007

  1. Genocidal Crisis in Sri Lanka
  2. UN Bodies & Ending Underage Recruitment
  3. Art Buchwald & the Dangers of Political Humor
  4. India Must Stop Assistance to GoSL
  5. Ceaseless Dynamic
  6. The Utility of Force
  7. What is Needed to Prevent Mass Atrocities
  8. The Attack on Human Rights Watch
  9. The Roots of Dalit Rage
  10. ICJ Urges Sri Lanka to Ratify Convention Against Enforced Disappearances
  11. Humanitarian Petition to the UN
  12. Democracy & Lollipops
  13. Territorial Control Where Necessary
  14. An Appeal to the Sri Lanka Aid Consortium
  15. Ban’s First UN Task
  16. Fate of MOUs & Pacts
  17. US Nominates Memer for IIEP
  18. TSST Tsunami Housing Progress Report (via IOM)
  19. An Urgent Quest to the Tamil Diaspora
  20. Responsibility to Protect
  21. Edmund Samarakkody (1912-1992): Sanest Sinhalese Voice
  22. New War
  23. Sri Lanka Disasters: Natural & Man-Made
  24. New Mannar Bridge?
  25. Dude, Where’s My Country?
  26. Ending Violence Against the Girl Child
  27. Visions Update 2006
  28. New Interim Parliament in Nepal
  29. Report from Vanni: Political Proposals 2
  30. Report from Vanni: Political Proposals
  31. The ZOA & Thangavelayuthapuram
  32. How War Became Possible
  33. A Reply to Amb. Goonetilleke
  34. ‘TamilNation’s’ Comment on ‘Letter to Rajapaksa’
  35. An Open Letter to Pres. Rajapaksa
  36. An Open Letter to the US Ambassador
  37. TRO Trinco Office Attacked
  38. TRO Colombo Office Raid
  39. Passing of Mr. AYS Gnanam
  40. NESOHR: Lack of Medical Supplies at Kilinochchi Hospital
  41. Home
  42. IFT: Sri Lanka’s War Crimes
  43. TRO: Food as Weapon of War
  44. Politics of Resource Patriotism
  45. Tea & Tourism
  46. Playing Tough: Apparel Trade in 2007
  47. NESOHR: Illuppaikkadavai, Mannar Bombing Appeal
  48. Evolution of the Eelam Tamil Diaspora: A Bibliography
  49. No War in Sri Lanka
  50. South Asia’s Conflicts
  51. George Bush & Sonia Gandhi
  52. Save the Human
  53. Illiterates & Indian Music