Articles – 2009

December, 2009

  1. GTF: Sponsor a Child or a Family
  2. ITRO 5 Year Tsunami Appeal
  3. Tamils & Elections 2010
  4. Trinco HSZ & SEZ
  5. HSZ: Rights to Return & Restitution
  6. Principles for NE Reconstruction
  7. 2010 US Appropriations Bill re SL
  8. State, Religion & Violence
  9. Landmine Clearance
  10. World Bank & Rehabilitation of NE
  11. Elections a Caste Carnival
  12. US: Human Rights Essential
  13. Obama’s Nobel Speech
  14. GoSL Killed Surrendering Tigers
  15. War Crimes Video Authentic
  16. Uneasy Homecoming
  17. Politics of Ethnic Deception
  18. TAGENZ: Lies Exposed
  19. Hearing: Ongoing Humanitarian Crisis
  20. Power & Accountability
  21. Telangana State?
  22. Case for Commonwealth Suspension
  23. Children Among 11,000 ‘Fighters’
  24. Maveerar Naal 2009
  25. AIUSA Letter on IDPs
  26. Modern-Day Genocide
  27. Blood on Our Hands
  28. Most Refugees in Transit Camps
  29. Dateline 1972-2009
  30. Tamil Struggle to be Free
  31. Camps, Elections & Resettlement
  32. Tamil Genocide by SL

November, 2009

  1. Health Report on Camps June-Nov
  2. The Gentiles: A History
  3. Elders Call for Protection of Rights
  4. Humanitarian Access Map
  5. AI: Pay Attention to SL Crisis
  6. HRW: Free Unlawfully Detained
  7. Movement of Vanni IDPs
  8. Lessons from Zurich Conference
  9. Sampanthan Speech on Unlawful Occupation of State Lands
  10. Wobbly Bridge to the Diaspora
  11. TIC: Zurich Meeting of Tamil Parties
  12. On Fonseka’s Resignation Letter
  13. Speeches at AGM
  14. Amnesty USA Letter
  15. Remembering the Future
  16. Prabhakaran: a Bibliography
  17. Amnesty Action on Displaced
  18. Remembrance Day 2009
  19. Sudan: a Critical Moment
  20. Anger Over Detainees’ Fate
  21. Group Urges Tamils Not to Invest
  22. Buy & Return
  23. Mineral Sand Mining
  24. Congress Pressures SL on Refugee Camps
  25. PEARL Applauds H.Res. 711
  26. End Persecution of Tamils
  27. On KP’s Dilemma
  28. Situation Absolutely Grim
  29. Maoist Rebels Widen Reach
  30. Stop SL’s Crimes
  31. HSZ: Rights to Return & Restitution
  32. November Rain
  33. Perahera in Jaffna

October, 2009

  1. No Answer
  2. Great Power Confrontation
  3. ‘Rebuilding War-Torn States’
  4. Growth Prospects
  5. CTC: ‘Ocean Lady’ Appeal
  6. When Friends Fail
  7. Tamils in Camps Seek Escape
  8. USTPAC: State Report Call for Action
  9. CTC: Need for Independent Inquiry
  10. UNHCHR Backs War Probe
  11. US Report on Incidents during Recent Conflict
  12. YT Swap Bombs for BlackBerries
  13. AI: Rape in Custody 2002
  14. Timeline of National Conflict
  15. Bandaranaike Assassination Revisited 3
  16. Writings of K. Mylvaganam
  17. Peoples Under Threat 2009
  18. Camp Conditions Deteriorate
  19. Open Letter to UN Sec-Gen
  20. Behind the Bloodbath
  21. TfO Congratulates Obama
  22. USTPAC Supports Clinton’s Efforts
  23. AI: Displaced Trapped b’t Military & Monsoon
  24. GSP+ & Job Losses
  25. Malaysia Crackdown
  26. Applying Pecuniary Pressure
  27. Eelam Tamils After the War
  28. Tamil Inmate Info Needed
  29. The Situation in Sri Lanka
  30. Living in Menik Farm
  31. Comprehensive History of the Tamils
  32. Bandaranaike Assassination Revisited 2
  33. Review of PATRIOT Act
  34. Justice for Tamils
  35. AI: Mass Arbitrary Detention
  36. Courageous & Ethical Journalism Award to Tissa

September, 2009

  1. Wilting Laughter
  2. Bandaranaike Assassination Revisited
  3. HRW: Demand End to Detention Camps
  4. Anna Centennial, Part 4
  5. UN Rally to Unlock the Camps
  6. Justice Wigneswaran’s Speech
  7. Anna Centennial, Part 3
  8. Voice of the Forgotten
  9. Lanka’ Barbed Wire
  10. What Next?
  11. Human Cost of Conflict
  12. World Demands Attention
  13. Along the Path
  14. GoSL Violating Constitution
  15. N Ramayana
  16. USTPAC: Protests on SL Clothing Sept 12
  17. Access Denied
  18. Land Sensitive Issue in NE
  19. Boston Globe: Free Journalist
  20. Conviction of Tissainayagam
  21. Tissa’s Statement to the Court
  22. Sri Lanka & Friends
  23. GTF Paris Convention
  24. USTPAC Mourns Sen Kennedy
  25. Indpendent Investigation Urgent
  26. Laid Open
  27. UN Unmasked

August, 2009

  1. State Terrorism & Animalism
  2. Purchasing Power
  3. Indian Citizenship for Tamil Refugees
  4. BTF: Unlock the Camps
  5. Amnesty: 4 Doctors Released, 1 Still in Danger
  6. TfO: Keep War Criminals Out of US
  7. Evidence of War Crimes?
  8. Torture & Executions in SL
  9. TAG: Satellite Image Analysis
  10. New Battle for Ceylon
  11. Inspiration Generators of the Tigers
  12. Interview with CHA Executive Director
  13. CNN: Sri Lanka’s Suffering
  14. Lessons from the Polls
  15. Myanmar Troops Gain
  16. US*TPAC: KP’s Arrest
  17. Critiquing Prez’ Speech
  18. Notes from the Red Corridor
  19. US Pays for Demining
  20. TRO Humanitarian Day
  21. NESoHR: World Humanitarian Day
  22. US*TPAC: World Humanitarian Day
  23. Prabhakaran’s Dream ‘Not Out’
  24. Downpours Flood Camps
  25. Fostering Hatred
  26. The Way Ahead
  27. Who’s Most Likely to Secede?
  28. Indian Ocean: Strategic Playing Field
  29. ‘Death in the Military’
  30. Unlawful Detention Act
  31. Self-Determination Again
  32. Gaza Disproportionate?
  33. Reporting on Black July
  34. The Politics of Internment
  35. Aid & Access in SL
  36. AID Fact Sheet #15
  37. US Asst Sec Schwartz Press Conference
  38. TCHR: War Criminals Should Be Charged

July, 2009

  1. A Lankan Lament
  2. HRW: Free Civilians
  3. The Way Forward
  4. CTC: IDP Report
  5. Rally Aug 3 in NY Asking Chinese Assistance
  6. Amirthalingam Anthology
  7. 34 Journalists & Media Workers Killed 2004-9
  8. War Without End
  9. Black July Revisited
  10. Black July Testimony
  11. On That N. Ram Interview
  12. Pseudo-Historians
  13. TAG Letter re ‘Doctors’ Orders’
  14. Tamil Camps
  15. Diaspora Youths Should Lead
  16. Ethnic Cleansing in SL
  17. Thanks & All
  18. Xinjiang’s Strongman
  19. Tamils Languish in Camps
  20. Doctors’ Orders
  21. 1400 Tamils Dying at Manik Farm
  22. Sangam Release on Wiesel Statement
  23. The LTTE’s Military Debacle
  24. Health as a Weapon?
  25. ‘Mahavamsa’ Buddhism
  26. SL’s Camps…Genocide?
  27. To Catch a Tiger
  28. Making Money Thru Suffering
  29. ‘LTTE to Continue Thru Political Means’
  30. New Era for North
  31. Understanding SL’s War
  32. SL’s Ethnic Conundrum
  33. De Silva on Prabakaran
  34. New Directions in Tamil Nationalism
  35. HRLC Letter to Obama
  36. Wiesel Statement
  37. ICG: SL’s Judiciary
  38. Triumphalism & Uncertainty

June, 2009

  1. CTC & ITS: North American Resolution
  2. Sangam Press Release on PTGTE
  3. Growing Importance of Trade as Leverage
  4. Homes for Orphans Needed in Jaffna
  5. Greenland Loosens Danish Rule
  6. China Crosses the Rubicon
  7. The Tamil Buddhists
  8. Plans for Militarization & Colonization
  9. Uncivil Victory
  10. You Were Deaf to Our Cries
  11. Sweet Revenge
  12. Do I Know What It Means…?
  13. Confronting the Death of Prabakaran
  14. Provisional Transnational Government of TE
  15. DILT Statement
  16. Internal Colonialism
  17. Diaspora for Dummies
  18. Fresh Claims on Tamil Casualties
  19. Break the Silence Walk
  20. The Disappearing Act in SL
  21. Tamils Languish in Death Camps
  22. AI: 20 Years of Make-Believe
  23. Possible Futures Post-War
  24. A Gift to King Mahinda
  25. Up Close & Spineless
  26. Humanitarian Intervention
  27. UN Highlights SL Challenges
  28. HRW: End Illegal Detention of IDPs
  29. 13, 130 IDPs Missing
  30. Response to ‘Winning the Peace’ Appeal
  31. Note for Basil
  32. Michelle’s Arms Meet Refugees
  33. Plight of Vanni People
  34. Grief in the Camps
  35. Safe Harbor & the Emergency
  36. Multi-Faith Prayer Service
  37. Neglect of SL’s Tent People
  38. Trade: A New Leverage
  39. Kasi Ananthan at 70
  40. NESoHR: Safeguard the Interned
  41. We Die Before We Fall
  42. The Liberal Moment
  43. Mercy Mission for IDPs
  44. HRW: Avoid Postwar Witch Hunt
  45. Land Use Map of Batti
  46. Pillay: UN Supports War Inquiry
  47. Investigating War Crimes in SL
  48. Violations of Int’l Covenants
  49. Genocide in Sri Lanka
  50. Sen. Feingold Statement on SL
  51. TfO: UN Useless
  52. AI: UN Must Publicize Civilian Casualty Figures
  53. SL’s Rescue Story
  54. Freedom Denied
  55. High Casualties Due to Banned Arms
  56. Ban Calls for Inqiury
  57. Support University Students from Vanni
  58. Ditch the Cholas
  59. Burning of Jaffna Library
  60. Oil Search
  61. The Suffering in Lionland

May, 2009

  1. Call to Organize Picketing of Stores
  2. Up to 35,000 Civilian Casualties
  3. Comments by a Kurdish Nationalist
  4. Tamils Fear Bout of Ethnic Cleansing
  5. Close the Stable Door
  6. AID Complex Emergency
  7. OCHA IDP Map
  8. More Than 20,000 Civilian Deaths
  9. UN Hid Massacres
  10. Peace Needs More Soldiers Than War?
  11. Witness to Disaster
  12. Prabhakaran’s Soma & Prabhakaran’s Sense
  13. Unity, Not Confusion
  14. No Victory in Sri Lanka
  15. Hidden Captives
  16. UNHCHR Urges Inquiry
  17. Video Discussion: What Now for Tamils in Sri Lanka?
  18. Durable Political Solution Key to Development
  19. Lion, Tiger & Lies
  20. Brokering Surrender
  21. How the Tigers Were Beaten
  22. A Fifth of Children Missing
  23. Use of Banned Arms
  24. White House Demonstration Continues
  25. Every War Like This One?
  26. TCHR: Massacre of Civilians & Peace Emissaries
  27. A Dedication to the Heroes & Heroines
  28. A Tragic Misdiagnosis
  29. Time to Transcend & Transform
  30. Winning the Peace
  31. Reports of 15,000 Killed
  32. AI: Fears for 3 Doctors
  33. Sri Lanka’s Untold Story
  34. UN Aid Blocked
  35. Response to ICG ‘Day of Reckoning’
  36. Need to Know the Truth About Tamil Enclave
  37. Rebels Routed
  38. Pictures from 25 Years of War
  39. Open Letter to Sec. Clinton
  40. Vanangaman Mercy Mission Ship
  41. A Conflict Without Winners
  42. Tamil Civilian Deaths in Vanni by SLA
  43. Speech on Tamil Genocide at White House Rally
  44. White House Rally Letter
  45. Bloody Sri Lanka
  46. TfO: Gas Attacks on Tamil Civilians
  47. Security Council’s First Move
  48. Attacks Kill Dozens
  49. Obama: Action Required
  50. PEARL & HELP Response to Obama
  51. Distant Voices, Desperate Lives
  52. Tamil Americans Welcome Pres’ Statement
  53. AAAS: Satellite Imagery
  54. Statement by Sonali
  55. Starvation Deaths in Detention Camps
  56. India’s Responsibility Towards SL Tamils
  57. Videos of Vanni Tragedy
  58. HRW: Shelling of Hospitals a War Crime
  59. UN Tells of ‘Bloodbath’ in SL
  60. Ideas for After the War
  61. Ideas to Win the War
  62. Save Sri Lanka
  63. UN Rapporteurs: SL Needs Urgent Scrutiny
  64. Tamil Studies: A Review by Vithiananthan
  65. SL: The Challenge is Genocide
  66. Truimphalism & Other Delusions
  67. TRO’s Christy Enclave Report
  68. TRO Relief in Vanni
  69. Clash of Nationalisms
  70. Sangam Letter to Jayalalitha
  71. Act Immediately
  72. Sivaram’s 4th Memorial Anniversay
  73. Falling Down on the Job
  74. Airdrop Food Urged
  75. Should Obama Do Something?
  76. Indo-LTTE War, Part 14
  77. US Throws a Curve Ball
  78. Candlelight Vigil NYC May 8
  79. Tamils Put IC to the Test
  80. Disconnect & Mobilisation
  81. Tamils Are Subhuman
  82. SL’s Dirty War

April, 2009

  1. TCHR: DRC Report [pdf]
  2. TRO Appeal – Impending Civilian Slaughter
  3. LTTE: Unilateral Ceasefire
  4. Situation: Joint Attacks
  5. ‘Comical Alis’ of SL
  6. MSF: Casualties Stream In
  7. Murder & Silence
  8. No to Sri Lanka
  9. Comments on Raman
  10. UN: Can You Answer for Genocide?
  11. Only Possible Action
  12. Tears Taste Like Salt
  13. TN Women Fasting Against Genocide
  14. Press: Why Not?
  15. TfO: Co-Chairs’ Bias
  16. AI: Civilian Casualties Rising
  17. Day of Reckoning in SL
  18. CTC: Carnage in SL
  19. ICG: Crisis in SL
  20. ICG: Lessons from the East
  21. Speech at NY Rally
  22. R2P Centre Letter to Security Council
  23. TIC: Tamil Genocide
  24. New York City Rally
  25. Right to Intervention by the British Government
  26. Surviving in the Safe Zone
  27. TNA: Tamils Subjected to Genocide
  28. Nadesan: Ceasefire to End Genocide
  29. Crushing Victory
  30. Recent Quotes 6
  31. SLA Uses Chemical Bombs
  32. Ex-President Fujimori Convicted for War Crimes
  33. The Long Walk
  34. TRO: On the Spot Report
  35. Actions & Reactions
  36. Futile Wait
  37. Wakeley Paul: A Life
  38. TIC: War Crimes Warning
  39. Exit Tiger, Enter Dragon
  40. Home, Space, ‘Other’
  41. Poll Shows No Help Expected
  42. Explaining the SL Conflict 1
  43. Explaining the SL Conflict 2
  44. This is a Racist War
  45. Gogol & Sri Lanka

March, 2009

  1. Screening, Demining & Resettlement in Vanni
  2. Tamil Party Calls for Ceasefire
  3. Dalits in India
  4. SL Crisis: It’s the Economy
  5. TNA Statement on Prez’s Invite for Talks
  6. 1991 Colombo 7 Conversation
  7. SL Can No Longer Be Ignored
  8. UN: Humanitarian Crisis
  9. Col Hariharan Reminiscences
  10. Genocide of Tamils
  11. Civilians Killed by SL Armed Forces
  12. UN: Casualties in Vanni
  13. HRW Letter to IMF
  14. Sen Kerry Urges Protection of Civilians
  15. Why Tamils Are Upset
  16. Open Letter to Jeyaserkara
  17. Coming Out of the Chauvinist Closet
  18. Resentments Challenge to Peace
  19. Slaughter Waiting to Happen
  20. Inclusion is the Way to Real Peace
  21. Disappearances in SL
  22. TfO: Constitutional Solution Needed
  23. TfO Poll: ‘What Should be Done?’
  24. Karuna in Politics
  25. UN HR Council Statement by Pasumai Thaayagam
  26. Vanni Situation Report
  27. GA Situation Report
  28. RDHS: Non-Availability of Medicines
  29. Letter on WFP Food for Mullaitivu
  30. Famine Deaths in Vanni
  31. Food Prices in Mullaitivu
  32. Civilian Casualties in Vanni 2009
  33. Human Chain Circles Toronto Core
  34. SL’s Choices: Accomodation or Partition
  35. Peace is the Way!
  36. Colombo’s Secret War
  37. Politics of Solutions
  38. Speck
  39. But For The Grace
  40. On the Lahore Shooting
  41. US Statement on Humanitarian Situation
  42. OHCHR: Serious Violations in SL
  43. US Congress Letter to Secretary Clinton
  44. US Senate Letter to Clinton
  45. ICG: Conflict Risk Alert
  46. ‘Humanitarian’ Intervention
  47. Wakeley Paul’s Writings on Federalism, Constitutional Reform, etc.
  48. Productivity of SL Tamil Scientists
  49. Referendum Urged in NE
  50. Press Groups Call for Justice for Journalist
  51. CPJ: Media Attacks
  52. AI Condemns ‘War Without Witnesses’
  53. We Send Them the Money
  54. A Poem to Remember
  55. Roots of the Conflict
  56. China Fuels Sri Lankan War
  57. Civilian Toll Rises – Aid Workers Say
  58. War Crimes Arrest Warrant to Sudan’s Head of State
  59. Diaspora Memo on Civilian Protection
  60. Recent Discussions on Tamil Crisis
  61. Anna Centennial, Part 2

February, 2009

  1. TCHR: Civilian Casualties in NE 1958-2008
  2. Civilian Casualties in NE Jan/Feb 2009
  3. Child of a Problem
  4. Farm Hounds
  5. HR Barkers & Me
  6. RSF: Vithyatharan Arrested
  7. Responsibility to Protect Tamil Civilians
  8. The Fire
  9. Dining With Terrorists
  10. Mullaitivu Council of NGOs Appeal to UN
  11. TIC: War Crimes Warning
  12. US NGO Forum Letter to Clinton
  13. Forgotten by Intl Community
  14. War Nears End, but Peace Distant
  15. Passing of Mr. K. Mylvaganam
  16. Achieving Eelam
  17. Killing Fields
  18. Genocide in Sri Lanka
  19. Indo-LTTE War, Part 13
  20. Tamils in Concentration Camps
  21. The Barbed Wire Returns
  22. HRW: Detention Camps for the Displaced
  23. TAG Sends Model Indictment to US Attorney General
  24. Arrest Warrant for Sudanís President
  25. Collateral Damage
  26. SL Plans to Hold Refugees for 3 Years
  27. TRO: ICRC Leaves Vanni
  28. Nudist Colony
  29. SL Closes In
  30. Email from Vanni Inhabitant
  31. Killing Cadres, Not the Cause
  32. Bruce Fein’s Lecture in India
  33. TAG: Model Indictment Submission
  34. Clinton & Miliband Statement
  35. TfO: Congress Force a Solution
  36. India, India, None but India
  37. AI Urges Temporary Truce
  38. AI: Bomb Strike Despicable
  39. Tamils Against Genocide BBC Interview
  40. SL Rejects Call for Truce
  41. TNA: Co-chairs’ Stand Fails in Fundamentals
  42. Sen. Leahy Statement on SL
  43. The Anguish of Sri Lanka
  44. PUCL: Let UN Administer Camps
  45. How the Tamils are Pushed Further
  46. Rep. Berman Letter to Rajapaksa
  47. Senate Concern for Humanitarian Situation in SL
  48. Canada-wide Day of Mourning Feb 4
  49. SL Co-Opts Rebels
  50. ICRC in Hospital Hit by Shelling
  51. Tamils in Lanka Jews Under Nazis?
  52. SL Situation ‘Nightmarish’
  53. CJPCD: Stop the Human Tragedy
  54. Anna’s Centennial Anthology
  55. Video of Indian Embassy Demo
  56. When
  57. Refugees Shelled as Army Closes In

January, 2009

  1. Commission for Justice & Peace
  2. Songbird of ‘Slumdog’
  3. Save the Tigers
  4. SL Should Offer Tamils Hope
  5. UN Leads Evacuation from SL
  6. OHCHR Deplores Deteriorating Situation
  7. Respect for International Humanitarian Law
  8. Rev. Anantharaja Injured
  9. The Savaging of Humanitarian Law
  10. Migrant Mullaitivu Crane
  11. Peace Hard When Want Tamils Wiped Out
  12. UN Sec-Gen Says Civilian Protection Absolute Priority
  13. Appeal from Regional Director for Medical Services
  14. AFTA: Urgent Action to Prevent Genocide
  15. TNA Urgent Appeal
  16. How Can People Say This is Peace?
  17. Caught Between the Tigers & the Tanks
  18. Rally in Washington, DC Friday, January 23
  19. SL Presses Rebels, Mounting Cost
  20. Recent Quotes on SL V
  21. Review of ‘Love Marriage’
  22. Remembering Buchwald
  23. Tamil Existentialism
  24. TRO Situation Report Jan 17 2009
  25. The Goddess Lives in NY
  26. Sangam Letter to Thirumavalavan
  27. ‘Hunger’
  28. DÈj‡ Vu All Over Again!
  29. Thought Police & Scapegoating
  30. Recent Quotes on SL
  31. NESoHR: Victims of Bombing & Shelling
  32. NESoHR December HR Report
  33. Tamils Petitioning White House
  34. Before & After Kilinochchi
  35. Military Delusions
  36. Of Sowing & Harvests
  37. Why Conflicts Will Continue
  38. Open Letter to US Ambassador
  39. TNA Press Release
  40. What Next after Kilinochchi?
  41. SL’s Next Battle
  42. TRO Situation Report Nov. & Dec.
  43. NESoHR: Food for the Vanni People
  44. Recent Quotes on SL
  45. Dark Side of Democracy
  46. NESoHR: Shelling & Bombing Victims
  47. SL’s Grim New Year
  48. Poll: Tamils Want Separation
  49. Struggle of the People Continues…
  50. Development & the Tamils