All Articles 09/2003 – 08/2012

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

December, 2011

  1. SL’s Ghosts of War
  2. Timeline Winter/Spring 2009
  3. TNA Statement on LLRC
  4. USTPAC: LLRC Flawed, Intl Investigation Urgent
  5. No More Excuses
  6. AFTA: Refer to ICC
  7. Amnesty, HRW Response to LLRC
  8. Justice Wigneswaran Interview
  9. TCHR: Chronology
  10. Profit Motive & Natl Security
  11. Burma: Offer Minorities Cannot Refuse
  12. Prabakaran’s Tigers & Mandela’s Spears 2
  13. Land Issues in North
  14. SL & the Responsibility to Protect
  15. Asia’s New Battlefield
  16. Tsunami Recovery: Ethnic & Regional
  17. Prabakaran’s Tigers & Mandela’s Spears
  18. TNA Statement Dec. 3, 2011
  19. GoSL Gave Orders
  20. Senate Letter re Militarization & Accountability
  21. Gaza’s Food Heritage

November, 2011

  1. Pulmoddai Mineral Sands
  2. Police & Army in SL
  3. TIC: Create an Authoritative Record of Casualties
  4. ITS Statement on Tamilar Sangamam
  5. ‘Torture, Power, Democracy’
  6. ‘In My Mother’s House’
  7. ‘The Sri Lanka Reader’
  8. ‘Pathways of Dissent’
  9. Biafra’s Ojukwu Dies
  10. Real Lessons of SL War
  11. Prabakaran Bibliography 3
  12. Aryan Theory 4
  13. Fear & Loathing in SL
  14. NORAD: Pawns of Peace
  15. TIC: Political Prisoners
  16. Sampanthan Speech in Canada
  17. Sumanthiran Interview in Canada
  18. Still Torturing Tamils
  19. Freedom from Torture Report
  20. Serious Concerns in NE
  21. Critical Situation of the Tamil People
  22. Fonseka’s 2010 Programme
  23. Major Dam on Yan Oya
  24. British Demarcation of the Tamil Homeland
  25. Coast Under Threat of Climate Change
  26. Qaddafi & Uncle Sam

October, 2011

  1. Tamizhar Sangamam 2011
  2. You Want to Track Me?
  3. Continued Militarization
  4. TN Nuclear Plants
  5. Bitter Past to Prosperous Future?
  6. Land Rights in NE
  7. Language: Power, Exclusion, Inclusion
  8. Rapporteur on Right to Food
  9. Farmers Anxieties
  10. “Colonization Canard”
  11. Steve Job’s Angle
  12. Amnesty Briefing on Torture
  13. ICJ Submission on Torture
  14. Principles of Good Governance
  15. ETA Halts Campaign
  16. ‘Women Fighters’ by Adele
  17. Press Freedom 2011
  18. Detailed Land Use Maps of Vanni
  19. US Foreign Assistance to SL
  20. US AID Fact Sheet
  21. Asylum Seekers from SL 2009-11
  22. Relocation Failures in SL
  23. SL Raises Defense Spending
  24. Animal Rights
  25. Kannadasan on MGR
  26. Empire’s Children
  27. Ten Terrifying Questions
  28. UN Rally Speech
  29. IED Statement to UNHRC
  30. Remembering Poet Kannadasan

September, 2011

  1. Archeological Sites in North
  2. Concepts & Structures of a Settlement
  3. SLMC & a Seperate Seat
  4. Lawsuit Filed Against Gen. Silva
  5. Case Filed Against President
  6. Tamils in Myanmar
  7. Amb. Kunanayakam & the PTA
  8. TAPI: Report Referral Positive Step
  9. Aryan Theory 3
  10. ICG: Progress Report
  11. HRC: Enforced Disappearances
  12. Amnesty: SL’s Rights Crisis
  13. Multilingualism & Academia
  14. Detainees & Disappearances
  15. PCs White Elephants?
  16. Sham of Lifting Emergency
  17. Law Victimizes Tamils
  18. Moment of Sorrow & Courage
  19. TNA Statement for UNHRC
  20. AI: Justice for SL Rights Crisis
  21. Only Possible Solution
  22. Three Chronologies
  23. Alternative Ramayanas
  24. Terrorism Shibboleth
  25. Colonization of the East 1990
  26. 13th Amendment: Devolution or ‘Comic Opera?’
  27. Libyan Rebels Successful?
  28. Politics of Grief
  29. Ethnic Triumphalism?
  30. Greasifying State Terror
  31. SL Replaces Emergency Powers
  32. PSC a Delaying Tactic

August, 2011

  1. ‘The Cage’
  2. TIC: More Measures Necessary
  3. The Aryan Theory 2
  4. ‘Ghosts of Belfast’
  5. Trafficking in Persons Report
  6. AI: Repressive Laws Remain
  7. Al Jazeera Visit to North
  8. Equitable Rights
  9. Ethnic Nature of NE Must Be Changed
  10. What US Businesses Must Consider
  11. NZ MPs: “Killing Fields”
  12. The Aryan Theory
  13. Role of IPKF
  14. US Country Reports
  15. Phantom Menace
  16. Mystery of the VC
  17. Review of ‘Pathways of Dissent’
  18. Space-Related Identity in SL
  19. Status of War Widows
  20. How Serious about Political Settlement?
  21. Developing the NE
  22. UN on Attacks on Schools & Hospitals
  23. JAAS: Displaced Northern Muslims
  24. Prof. Sivathamby: a personal appraisal
  25. Sampanthan Interview
  26. Two Years Later, Tamils Still Suffer
  27. TNA: Mullaitivu Resettlement
  28. Erasing Tamil Culture
  29. AHRC: Innocent Man in Detention
  30. AHRC: Police Torture
  31. ‘Finish the Job’
  32. TNA Statement on Talks re Political Solution
  33. Murali Should Speak Up
  34. The Missing Element
  35. Muslim Identity & Tamil-Muslim Relations
  36. Ban’s Never Again Moment?
  37. No Justice for ACF
  38. Report Whitewashes Abuses
  39. What South Africa Can Do
  40. Krishna Statement
  41. The SBS Industry
  42. Welikada Prison Massacre 1983
  43. ‘Extremely Violent Societies’

July, 2011

  1. Tamil Parties Make Strong Showing
  2. In Memory of V. Sivasubramaniam
  3. Remembering Mass Killings
  4. 1983 Pogrom
  5. Sampanthan Statement on Local Elections
  6. Protecting Human Rights in Sri Lanka
  7. Women Still Facing Consequences of War
  8. SL Army is Essentially Sinhalese
  9. War Crimes for Wickets
  10. Emotional Politics
  11. SL’s Post-war Dilemma
  12. CTC Calls for Free Elections
  13. Recent TNA Statements
  14. WSJ: India’s SL Problem
  15. ICG: Reconciliation Harder
  16. Interview with Amnesty’s Zarifi
  17. India in the Killing Fields
  18. Overseeing the Farm
  19. Wearing Thin

June, 2011

  1. ICG: India & Sri Lanka
  2. Amrithalingam on May-June 1981 Events in Jaffna
  3. Rajapaksa’s Core Poltical Constituency
  4. Cricket & the Killing Fields
  5. TAPI: Investigation Aids Reconciliation
  6. USTPAC Commends CM Jayalalitha
  7. UN HRC Submission
  8. Empowering Diasporas
  9. The Silence of Sri Lanka
  10. Channel 4’s ‘Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields’
  11. ‘Hela Nation Not Yet Independent’
  12. IDC Handbook on Detention Prevention
  13. Petition for a Referendum
  14. An Uninvited Speech
  15. Economic Sanctions in TN
  16. Autonomy in Music
  17. Why Pick Diaspora Pockets?
  18. “The Cage”
  19. Tamil Amnesia on History
  20. ‘Genocide Unearthed’
  21. Consensus Politics

May, 2011

  1. ‘Definitive War Crimes’
  2. 11 HR Groups Letter to Clinton
  3. Confronting the Killing Fields
  4. Pakistani Paramours
  5. Kyrgyzstan Inquiry
  6. Prabhakaran’s Liberation Struggle
  7. Barking at the Moon
  8. Jayalalitha’s First Salvo
  9. Long Overdue
  10. Why Diaspora Tamils Continue Support
  11. Amnesty: Survivors Appeal for Justice
  12. Love Amongst Tamils
  13. OCHA: Joint Humanitarian Update
  14. Aftenpost Wikileaks
  15. Too Many Rajas
  16. Harassment of Former Detainees
  17. Peace a Battle
  18. TNA Response to UN Report
  19. Exposed Core
  20. ‘Smell of Death’ Book Review
  21. The Sivarasan Cover-Up
  22. India’s Southern Promises
  23. Upcountry Tamils Recede
  24. Dare Not Criticise
  25. Power Devolution?
  26. Asst Sec Blake’s Press Conference
  27. A Second Chance
  28. 1961 Satyagraha’s 50th
  29. UN Should Do More in SL
  30. Diaspora: Difficulty & Dilemma
  31. Unity, Survival, Destination
  32. TAG: UN Panel Report

April, 2011

  1. Track Record of SL Commissions
  2. USTPAC Welcomes Report
  3. TAPI Recommends Investigation
  4. CTC Urges Meaningful Action
  5. AFTA: Panel Report
  6. US Amb Rice Statement
  7. OHCHR Urges Further Investigation
  8. Credible Reports of War Crimes
  9. UN Panel of Experts Report
  10. Panel of Experts Report Extracts
  11. WP: 40,000 Civilians Killed
  12. Rebels With a Cause
  13. Breaking the Silence
  14. UN Panel on Warcrimes- Augmenting Videos
  15. AFTA: Report Finds Allegations Credible
  16. Open Letter to Pres. Obama
  17. Sri Lanka Attacked [Tamil] Civilians – UN Panel
  18. Ethnic Cleansing in SL Armed Forces
  19. UN Report on War Crimes Accountability
  20. US Law Student Accuses Sri Lankan Leaders of War Crimes
  21. HRW on War Crime Accountability in Sri Lanka
  22. UN Policy Shift on R2P
  23. Sec Blake at HFAC
  24. SL Muslims in US
  25. Equal Rights for SL Tamils
  26. TNA Statement on Election
  27. 1971 JVP Insurgency Revisited
  28. Moving Globally Against Tigers
  29. UK Foreign Office Report
  30. TE Movement

March, 2011

  1. Look Beyond 13th Amendment
  2. Why is it Perplexing?
  3. Vanquished People
  4. Reintegration of LTTE Cadres
  5. Freedom Fighters?
  6. Land Day
  7. Tamil Activist-Journalist
  8. Security for Normalcy
  9. Hindu: ’13th Amendment Plus’
  10. Libya & R2P
  11. In Memoriam: T. Sabaratnam
  12. Making Use of Tamil Struggle
  13. VOA: Lasting Peace in SL
  14. Tribes With Flags
  15. SL: Eye of the Storm
  16. LKY: China’s Might
  17. Why Biafra Lost
  18. Riding UNESCO Horse
  19. The Diaspora Factor
  20. Amnesty: LLRC Not Accountability Process
  21. India Kept Pressure Off SL
  22. Asst Sec Blake’s Remarks
  23. What is Going on in N SL?
  24. War Ends, Women Struggle On
  25. T. Sabaratnam Passes
  26. Amnesty: SL Must Release Prisoners
  27. Amnesty PTA Campaign
  28. Amnesty: Forgotten Prisoners
  29. Ponniah’s ‘1961 Satyagraha’
  30. GWTF: Plight of Tamil Women
  31. TGTE: Brazil Urged
  32. Thirunelveali YMHA
  33. Problem with Karma
  34. Challenges of Conflict Prevention
  35. Batti Farmers Affected by Floods
  36. Cash Transfers to Vanni Families
  37. Libya’s Patient Revolutionaries
  38. Senate Resolution 84
  39. Interview with Asst Sec Blake

February, 2011

  1. Military Business Model
  2. AI: Need to Address Persistent Impunity
  3. Elegy to Parvathi Amma
  4. TGTE: UN Should Not Fail in Libya
  5. SL Muslims: Ethno-nationalism & Ummah
  6. Parvathi Amma
  7. SL Tamil Nationalism, II
  8. ICC Brief re Kohona
  9. 1961 Satyagraha’s 50th
  10. Tamil Studies Conference 2011
  11. Capacity Building in Rwanda
  12. Diaspora & Future of Tamil Struggle
  13. ‘Risky Boat People’
  14. Land System in North
  15. Tomorrow Never Comes
  16. Landmines & Land Rights
  17. Playbook for Revolution
  18. US Priorities in S Asia
  19. The India Model
  20. Flooding in SL
  21. AI: Enforced Disappearance
  22. SL: The Road Ahead
  23. The Road to Peace
  24. Northern Violence
  25. Close Encounters
  26. SL Tamil Struggle, Chap 22
  27. ‘Tiger’: A Rejoinder
  28. Encouraging Crimes
  29. Taking Tea with Torturers
  30. CPA: Supreme Court’s Ruling
  31. Japan’s Leadership Test
  32. SL Tamil Struggle, Chap 21
  33. Bank Lending & Ethnicity
  34. Quest for Dignity

January, 2011

  1. SL Leader Sued in US
  2. AFTA: Refuse HC Navy Man
  3. Why I Write
  4. Hawaii Temple
  5. War Crime Investigations of Visiting Rajapaksa Urged
  6. Death of the Tiger
  7. P. Arunachalam Memorial Oration
  8. AFTA: State Terror in North
  9. Oxford Lessons
  10. Amnesty: Investigate Pres during Visit
  11. MRG: Minorities Targets of Abuse
  12. OCHA Flood Appeal
  13. Smothering Revival
  14. SL Tamil Struggle, Chap 20
  15. Some Reflections on J & S
  16. Buchwald Humor Awards 2010
  17. Freedom 2011
  18. Review of ‘Public Writing’
  19. Breaking Up Is Good
  20. Sudan Election
  21. Hu Cometh
  22. Panel Arouses Strong Emotions
  23. Vanni People Missing
  24. Mannaar Diocese Submission
  25. Northern vs Puttlam Muslims
  26. ‘Tamil Studies in Ceylon’
  27. US Embassy Cables: Remove Chief SLMM
  28. In Sudan, a Colonial Curse
  29. Death of the Tiger
  30. US Embassy Cables: Radio Equipment
  31. US Embassy Cables: Relief Funds
  32. US Embassy Cables: Doctors Recant
  33. US Embassy Cables: Assessing Progress
  34. Cases in Point
  35. Make Peace with Tamil Diaspora
  36. Convention on Disappearances Takes Effect
  37. KP Ratnam: An Appreciation
  38. AID: Fact Sheet
  39. Ending Internal Displacement
  40. Chewing Gum for Terrorists
  41. Trinco 5 Anniversary
  42. War Against the Tamils
  43. New Year Message
  44. Concern Regarding SL
  45. India Digs In Heels
  46. Sudan’s Crisis

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

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

December, 2008

  1. Indo-LTTE War, Part 12
  2. SL’s Information War
  3. New Chance for Darfur
  4. Barriers to the 13th Amendment
  5. Letter to Archbishop Gomis
  6. UN Expert Wants IDPs Protected
  7. BTF: Unspeakable Truth
  8. SL’s Ignored War
  9. Prof. Kailasapathy Evaluated
  10. TCHR: ‘Liberation’ of the East
  11. NESoHR November HR Report
  12. Never Again
  13. Maampalam Swamy Eulogy
  14. Human Rights & State Power
  15. OCHA: Muttur IDPs
  16. Manifesto of an SLA General
  17. The Tamil People’s Right to Self-Determination
  18. For Peace to Dawn
  19. Preventing Genocide
  20. IFT: On the 60th Anniversary of the UDHR
  21. When to Intervene
  22. Blood Lines
  23. The US Perspective on SL
  24. SL Deadlier than Afghanistan
  25. Child Rights on the Firing Line
  26. UDHR & Sri Lanka
  27. Poverty in Sri Lanka
  28. World Bank Strategy
  29. A Mango Tree in My Front Yard
  30. UN HR Awards
  31. UN Must Focus on Genocide Prevention
  32. War, Memory, Progress
  33. Wiseacres & Snobs
  34. NESoHR: Extra-judicial Executions Since 2002
  35. Cyclone Flooding in Jaffna
  36. Mr. Gunasingham
  37. Tiger Links with Islamist Groups
  38. SL Army Pushing to End War
  39. Documenting Atrocities in Darfur
  40. NESoHR: Shelling of Civilians
  41. Fire-Breathing Dragons
  42. Stars & Stripes
  43. Constellations of Violence
  44. Flooding Video
  45. It’s the Tamil Economy, Stupid
  46. US Integrating East with SL

November, 2008

  1. NESoHR: Education of IDP Children
  2. NESoHR October HR Report
  3. HRW: HR Deteriorating in East
  4. 2008 Heroes’ Day Speech
  5. Kalivanar NS Krishnan
  6. Barred from Zimbabwe
  7. AGM Pictures
  8. US Complex Emergency Fact Sheet
  9. IASC Situation Report
  10. Genocide Theory’s Blind Spot
  11. TRO Progress Report Nov 5
  12. Rajapakse’s Strategy
  13. 700 Jaffna University Students Need Support
  14. Indo-LTTE War, Part 11
  15. Arms Race in Sudan
  16. Rwanda’s Shadow
  17. Response to Adm Keating
  18. Response to Amb Blake
  19. Review of Sivaji Ganesan Autobiography
  20. Obama Wins & Tamils Hopeful
  21. Kilinochchi Battle, Archetypal Disaster
  22. Our Sangam’s AGM!
  23. Wrong Premise
  24. NESoHR: IDP Health
  25. NESoHR: Kilinochchi Shelling
  26. ‘Crucible of Conflict’
  27. ‘Militarizing Sri Lanka’
  28. Clips Having Impact in TN
  29. The ‘Unthinkable’ in Afghanistan
  30. Colombian Civilians in Guerrilla Toll
  31. Blue States Secede & TFO Videos
  32. N. Ram’s Naivete

October, 2008

  1. Enough is Enough
  2. NESoHR: Kili-Kumarapuram Bombing
  3. Fein Challenges Swamy on Genocide
  4. Sri Lanka’s ‘Disappeared’
  5. IDP Crisis Week Nov 2-9
  6. Caritas-HUDEC Vanni Appeal
  7. ICG: Eastern Province
  8. Advances Will Not End War
  9. SL Tsunami in Indian Politics
  10. Should Eelam Federate with India?
  11. SL a Country or an Island?
  12. Land of Deception
  13. The Alleged Booker Prize
  14. Beginning the End of War
  15. All Party Conning
  16. TCHR: Solutions Proposed
  17. TRO: Vanni Situation Critical
  18. Too Few Tamils in SL Govt Service
  19. Improving the Tamils
  20. Sangam Letter to TN Leaders
  21. ‘The Struggle’
  22. Indian Tamils Break Their Silence
  23. Call for Conference on Genocide
  24. On Malini’s Malady
  25. TN Going Eelam Way?
  26. Art of Political Murder
  27. Innocent Voices
  28. Sexual Predation by SLA Men
  29. OCHA Vanni IDP Report
  30. OCHA Batti IDP Report
  31. Is There War in Your Ur?
  32. Tamils Hurt by Fonseka’s Remarks
  33. Perpetual War
  34. El Presidente’s Newman Act
  35. Singapore Opposition Figure Jeyaratnam Passes Away
  36. SL Government Bombs Tamil Head Quarters

September, 2008

  1. Time for International Public Protest
  2. TIC: Tamil Right to Self-Determination
  3. Rudrakumar’s Rally Speech
  4. Sri-Skanda-Rajah Rally Speech
  5. NESoHR: Convoy Problems
  6. IED: Genocidal Situation
  7. Safe Havens for Civilians Needed
  8. India Global Military Power
  9. Russell, Power & the ‘Alternative Leadership’
  10. Fears as UN Leaves Conflict Zone
  11. Apply Sanctions on Sri Lanka
  12. UN Day of Peace
  13. ‘The Iliad’ & the Tamils
  14. The Black Tigers
  15. ‘Tarzan Lives’ & Tamils
  16. Fallout of Vavuniya Attack
  17. NESoHR: Destruction in Karaithiraipattu in 1 Year
  18. CPA: Underage Recruitment Status
  19. TRO: Banning Aid Workers Worsens Crisis
  20. AI: Blocking Aid Endangers Civilians
  21. Winning Hearts in the North
  22. Farmers in Vanni
  23. AFTA: Expulsion of Aid Workers
  24. NESoHR: Expelling Aid Agencies
  25. Solution, But Not for the Problem
  26. SL Diaspora Conference in KL
  27. Power Sharing as Peace
  28. NESoHR August HR Report
  29. Appeal to UN to Save Our Population
  30. Vanni Aid Workers Barred
  31. Displace or Die
  32. The Tide is Turning
  33. Shell Blasts Puthumurippu
  34. Azadi
  35. TRO: Humanitarian Crisis
  36. Amnesty: Disappearances Must End
  37. Prof Ohno, Linguist
  38. NESoHR: Puthumurippu Shelling
  39. SL Tamils Fear Security Forces
  40. ‘Great Game’ in Indian Ocean

August, 2008

  1. The Plight of the Vanni Refugees
  2. Review of ‘Horizontal Inequalities & Conflict’
  3. Numbers & Braggadocio
  4. Latest Exercise in Genocide
  5. Fickle Approval of War
  6. The Sri Lankan Solution
  7. Russia Backs Independence for Enclaves
  8. UN, Self-Determination & Terrorism
  9. Shelling of Mullaitivu General Hospital
  10. Film Review of “My Daughter…”
  11. The Indo-LTTE War, Part 10
  12. ‘Tell Me How This Ends’
  13. A Genocide Inquiry?
  14. Fishing Restrictions in Sri Lanka
  15. Where Are the Men in Batticaloa?
  16. Stalingrad at Kilinochchi?
  17. Black July Quotes
  18. NESoHR: Mullaitivu Hospital Complex Shelling
  19. Ponnambalam’s 1982 Presidential Candidacy
  20. IDPs Need Legal Framework
  21. Not Many Pluses
  22. Fragile Fictions
  23. RSF: Release Tissainayagam
  24. Is There No End to This Madness?
  25. CTC: Commemorating a Tragedy
  26. NESoHR: Displacement Update
  27. Thousands of Families Flee

July, 2008

  1. TIC: New Direction Needed
  2. Remembering Black July
  3. 25th Commemoration of Black July
  4. Waiting for Justice
  5. TCHR: SL Should be Referred to ICC
  6. A Snail’s Vision
  7. Ethir: Olympian, Bridge-builder
  8. Lest We Forget!
  9. Victims & Rascals of Black July
  10. TRO: Humanitarian Crisis in Vanni
  11. NESoHR: Meeting IDP Needs
  12. NESoHR: Siege on Healthcare
  13. Soaring Fuel Prices
  14. Colombo Closes In
  15. The Sri Lanka Situation
  16. Interview with Anita Pratap
  17. Military Pathway to Nationbuilding
  18. The Primates of the State Dept.
  19. SL’s Forgotten Conflict
  20. IDP Report
  21. Self-Determination Dilemma
  22. Why Independence?
  23. Like Myth & Mother
  24. Untold Tragedies 3
  25. Untold Tragedies 2
  26. Engaging Nepal’s Maoists
  27. Sudanese President Charged with Genocide
  28. Terrorist Turned Liberator
  29. ‘Pongu Thamizh’ Around the World
  30. SL for Beginners
  31. The Tamil Diaspora & the Struggle for Freedom
  32. Where We Are Now
  33. What If the Rain Fails?
  34. Remembering Black July
  35. India Chases the Dragon
  36. Politics of Human Rights
  37. Echoes of a Bloody Past
  38. Tennyson, Bose & ‘Do or Die’
  39. NESoHR June HR Report
  40. Saying No to Louise Arbour
  41. Black July Exhibit
  42. HRW: No IDP Internment
  43. Analysis of the Military Situation
  44. Bold Colombia Rescue
  45. Implementation, Please
  46. Is Ethnic Conflict Inevitable?
  47. An Olympic Appeal
  48. Pieter Keuneman on Black July 1983
  49. ACF: Justice for Muttur

June, 2008

  1. Fires Within
  2. IFT Denounces Criminalization of Diaspora
  3. Failed States Index 2008
  4. USCR: World Refugee Survey
  5. Fear Stalks Colombo as Mines Kill Tamils
  6. Genocide or Politicide?
  7. The Ladder
  8. US on Sudan
  9. AI: Arbitrary Detention of Tissainayagam
  10. NESoHR: Vanni Displacement
  11. Prelude to Black July
  12. NESoHR: PTK Bombing
  13. CTC: Even-handed Approach Needed
  14. CPA: UNICEF Database
  15. Letter to Stockwell Day
  16. Preserve the Core, Stimulate Progress
  17. Jaffna Report June 17
  18. Place an Arms Embargo
  19. Home, Space & the ‘Other’
  20. Untold Tragedies
  21. Barbarous Torture
  22. Response to ‘Re-Emergence of Tamil Nadu’
  23. Re-emergence of Tamil Nadu Factor
  24. Sampoor Power & Civilian Trauma
  25. CPA: Trinco Land Issues
  26. Pax Romana: Mannar IDPs
  27. Amnesty Reflections on SL’s UPR
  28. A Century of Tamil Poetry
  29. Thamizhelam Book Review
  30. NESoHR: Plight of Jaffna People
  31. Search for UN Rights Job
  32. Gone with the Wind
  33. Jaffna Report
  34. Letter to Minister of Defense Rajapakse
  35. The ‘Island’s’ Apology
  36. Tamils in Myanmar
  37. India, China Compete
  38. War and Life
  39. Lingerie and Terror
  40. Peace Fills a Vacuum
  41. Amnesty: Abduction of Humanitarian Worker
  42. NESoHR: Murukandy Claymore Attack Report

May, 2008

  1. The Indo-LTTE War, Part IX
  2. Jaffna Administration after Riviresa
  3. Reflections of a Leader
  4. Remembering Silenced Voices 1983
  5. Healing Rite
  6. Tamil Journalists Killed 2000-2007
  7. Blunted Tool
  8. The GSP+ Affair
  9. UN Recognizes De Facto States
  10. Plea for Your Evidence
  11. SL Slams Door
  12. NESoHR: People of Mannar
  13. SL’s Human Rights Review
  14. “Mounting Tragedy of Errors”
  15. Comment on PC Elections in East
  16. AI Appeal for Tissainayagam
  17. Singapore’s Opposition
  18. Kumuthini Boat Massacre
  19. Sovereignty & Self-Determination
  20. The New Cold War
  21. Tutu: No Right to Be There
  22. Sir P Arunachalam Memorial
  23. Ten Canons from Charlton Heston
  24. Develop Now, Destroy Later?
  25. SL’s Democracy Ravaged
  26. Intervention to UN Advisor on Genocide
  27. SIPRI: Arms Transfers to SL
  28. Conflict and Autonomy
  29. Malaysian State Assemblyman Still Detained
  30. Danger to Methodist Minister
  31. NESoHR: Thadchanamadhu Claymore Attack
  32. TIC: Arrest/Disappearance Hotlines
  33. CTC: Black July Commemoration
  34. Say No to SL on HR Council
  35. Cries from the Palmyra Grove 30
  36. TCHR: Dictatorial Democracy
  37. Puzzles of Premadasa’s Assassination
  38. Elections in the East
  39. Anzac Day & the Eelam Tamils
  40. AI: Veil of Secrecy in SL
  41. AHRC: Peace Secretariat
  42. Demographic Changes in the Tamil Homeland

April, 2008

  1. Destruction of the Tamil Community
  2. Growing Up Under Militarisation
  3. TIC: Killing of Civilians Must Stop
  4. Pariah Diplomacy
  5. Rajapakse’s Political Graveyard?
  6. AHRC: IIGEP Episode
  7. The Three Crows
  8. Iran Trains SL Intelligence
  9. Visions Summer Leadership Camp 2008
  10. Athulathmudali’s Scorched Earth Policy
  11. Devastation in the North
  12. SL’s Failure to Protect
  13. Save Grace Home
  14. Cries from the Palmyra Grove
  15. Another Clergy Brutally Murdered
  16. IFT: Karunaratnam Killing a War Crime
  17. AFTA: SL Silences a HR Activist
  18. Colombo Diocese on Fr. Karunaratnam
  19. TCHR on Fr. Karunaratnam
  20. NESOHR Condems Chair’s Assassination
  21. Sangam Grieves Loss of Fr. Karunaratnam
  22. TIC Mourns Fr. Karunaratnam
  23. Cries from the Palmyra Grove
  24. Arthur Clarke, Mrs. B & a Fan
  25. Born Without Hope
  26. Watchlist Report on Children in SL
  27. Indo-LTTE War, Part 8
  28. Land Cover Map
  29. Black Tiger
  30. US Shamed by Mandela Terror Link
  31. A South African Perspective on the SL Conflict
  32. Inescapable Reality
  33. Like a Tsunami That Won’t End
  34. TRO: Mannar-Madhu Report
  35. Impact of War on Health
  36. AI: Tissanayagam’s Arbitrary Detention
  37. NESoHR: March HR Report
  38. Memorandum to the Commonwealth 1974
  39. Chelvanayagam’s 110th
  40. UNICEF Database on Underage Recruits
  41. What a Joke!
  42. Spiritual Conquest of the Tamils
  43. In SL, Fear of Being Disappeared
  44. UN SAPG: Genocide Prevention
  45. TRO Report March 1-10

March, 2008

  1. Tamils’ Right to Self-Determination
  2. Being Human, Being Tamil
  3. Humanitarian Crisis or Genocide
  4. GOSL Worse than Officially Listed Sponsors of Terrorism
  5. Seeking Justice in a Racist State
  6. Buddhist Shuns Nonviolence
  7. Interfaith International at UN HR Council
  8. Tamil Genocide
  9. Anura Bandaranaike
  10. Solution Within the Present Consitution Improbable
  11. SL Economy in Doldrums
  12. Economic Lessons from Malaysia
  13. On Struggle
  14. Easter Message for a Crucified People
  15. Economy of the Conflict Regions
  16. Jaffna: Besieged by Terror
  17. Eelam Refugees & the SL Terror State
  18. Indo-LTTE War, VII
  19. Remember the TULF’s 1977 Manifesto?
  20. IED: HR Situations Requiring Attention
  21. Investment Climate in SL
  22. Sri Lanka’s Recurring Fever
  23. Economic Indicators
  24. The War in Sri Lanka
  25. Living in 3 Centuries
  26. Tigers & Elections
  27. Confronting Truth
  28. Prof. C. J. Eliezer
  29. TCHR: SL Highest in Disappearances
  30. Parts of Malaysia Roll Back Race Policy
  31. US State Dept Report on SL
  32. ‘War Journey’
  33. Bloomberg Blues
  34. Seminar on Ethnic Conflict in UK March 22-23
  35. TYONZ : Killing of MP Sivanesan
  36. IFT: Neither Freedom Nor De-Colonisation
  37. TCHR: Eelam & Kosovo
  38. NESOHR February Human Rights Report
  39. TCWA: 13th Amendment
  40. SL’s ‘Wild East ‘ Votes
  41. Kosovo: The Global Significance of Independence
  42. Taking Aid from China & a Pass on Human Rights
  43. The Endless War in Vanni
  44. ‘Siritharan’ Sunthar – Ace Cartoonist
  45. Etnic Divide Worsens as SL Conflict Escalates
  46. AI: Disappearance of Prof. Mahendrarajah
  47. Responding to Mr. Rasalingam
  48. CTC: Collapse of Rule of Law
  49. HRW: Disappearances a Crisis
  50. Kids Dream Photo Exhibit
  51. Eastern Polls & Pacification
  52. Dissecting Jayatilleka
  53. Cyprus Solution?
  54. Mills’ Nationality & Chelvanayagam
  55. The Sethu Gridlock
  56. SL’s Republican Constitution

February, 2008

  1. Enduring Power of Ethnic Nationalism
  2. UNHCR Appeals for SL Displaced
  3. Indo-LTTE War, Part VI
  4. TIC to UN Human Rights Council
  5. Because We Can
  6. Standing Up for Detainees
  7. Global Shipping Lanes
  8. GoSL Shows Little Appetite for Peace
  9. Half a Million Affected by Conflict in 2008
  10. SG: R2P ‘Profound Moral Imperative’
  11. AFTA: Kosovo’s UDI
  12. Responses to the Ambassador
  13. ICG: Return to War
  14. Tamil Studies Conference in Toronto May 15-17
  15. Killing Prabhakaran Will Not Silence the Tamils
  16. Comments on ‘Kosovo Countdown’
  17. On the Traditional Tamil Homeland
  18. Reminiscing on VC Raveendranath
  19. Independence a Farce
  20. Kosovo Before UDI
  21. HRW: Events of 2007 in SL
  22. Tamil Student Assoc. ‘Most Outstanding’
  23. An End Foreseen
  24. Who Prevents Muslim Resettlement in Jaffna?
  25. TNA Will Not ‘Touch’ the 13th Amendment
  26. Passing of US Rep. Tom Lantos
  27. CTC: Increased Civilian Deaths in SL
  28. ‘Edge of the Lagoon’
  29. Anti-Tamil Discrimination in Malaysia
  30. The Moderate Position on Eelam
  31. We Will Win! We Will Win!
  32. NESoHR January HR Report
  33. Amnesty: Right to Life Disregarded
  34. ACHR: UN Test
  35. Sixty Years to Flop
  36. Sixty Years Of Ethnic Conflict
  37. Military Stalemate?
  38. Genocide Intervention Network
  39. Economic Issues Contribute To Ethnic Conflict
  40. January ’08 Civilian Toll in NE
  41. Listening to the Grasshoppers
  42. APRC: From Hope to Despair
  43. IFT: Regaining Sovereignty
  44. Shell-Shocked Generals
  45. Sri Lanka Needs Our Leadership
  46. TCWA: Feb 4, 1948 Black Day
  47. Reaching 60 & Nowhere to Go?
  48. TIC: APRC Politics
  49. An Agreement to Fight Some More
  50. TRO: Anniversary of Execution of 7 Humanitarian Workers

January, 2008

  1. What Can I Do?
  2. SL’s Human Rights’ Void
  3. Trinco Orphanage Appeal
  4. Agriculture or Services?
  5. Genocide, the World & Us
  6. Tamil Statehood?
  7. SL Airlines Boycott Flier
  8. Anton Balasingham’s Vision
  9. Blast from Past: The PA’s Poliical Mirage
  10. On That FBI Report ‘Taming Tigers’
  11. Unsolved Mysteries of the FBI
  12. Life in Vanni Then & Now
  13. What Liberation?
  14. Will Rajapakse Hoodwink Again with the APRC?
  15. APRC: Key to Peace or Albatross?
  16. APRC: The Past Repeats
  17. We Send Them the Money VII
  18. TRO: SL Withdraws from the CFA
  19. Indo-LTTE War, Part V
  20. Maheswaran: The Forgotten Hero
  21. Bharathiar’s 125th
  22. MSF: Civilians Increasingly Under Fire in SL Conflict
  23. Amnesty Call for Protection of Civilians
  24. BTF: Boycott Sri Lanka Airlines
  25. A Letter to HC Dominic Chilcott
  26. High Definition Assassination
  27. Split Asunder
  28. TCHR: Killings of HR Defenders by Security Forces & Paramilitaries Since 2000
  29. TCHR: Paramilitary Groups Have License Against Opponents
  30. PS: Status of Schools in the NE
  31. Eyes Tight Shut
  32. Rajapakse’s Big Bet
  33. US & Germany to Recognize Kosovo
  34. Independence Daze
  35. HRW: Cover-Up in Colombo
  36. TIC: War on Civilians
  37. JVP Noose Around APRC Neck
  38. Peace Group Leaving Sri Lanka
  39. Willms Statement on CFA End
  40. TWG Letter to PM Manmohan Singh
  41. NESoHR 2007 Annual HR Report
  42. Kumar Ponnambalam’s 8th Death Anniversary
  43. Indo-LTTE War, an Anthology IV
  44. A New Year to Double Our Efforts
  45. Time to Chisel Our Own Destiny
  46. Sinhalisation of the East
  47. To Jaffna & Back

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

December, 2006

  1. Sethusamudram Canal Dredging
  2. A Gamble is a Gamble
  3. Not Emerging, but Emerged Nations
  4. Review of ‘No More Tears, Sister’
  5. Response to Dr. Hoole’s Recent Article
  6. The Boundaries of Tamil Eelam
  7. The Price of Peace in Sri Lanka
  8. A Dedication to Prof. Raveendranath
  9. Australian Professor Talks of His Experiences
  10. Depopulating Sampoor
  11. Tamil Eelam & the US Declaration of Independence
  12. Stifling the Aspirations of the Tamils
  13. Urgent IDP Needs in Manmunai North, Batticaloa
  14. On V. Navaratnam, 1910-2006
  15. Rajapakse Inc. a Barrier to Peace
  16. In Memory of MP Joseph Pararajasingham
  17. TRO: Tsunami – Two Years On [pdf]
  18. V. Navaratnam’s Last Interview
  19. Black Christmas
  20. Damnable Dependent Relationship
  21. Tsunami Funds Languish in Banks
  22. Tamil Americans Saddened at Balasingham’s Passing
  23. Amnesty Appeal on VC Raveendranath
  24. NESOHR: Appeal to the UN
  25. The Face of the TRO
  26. Sangam’s Statement on Mr. Balasingam’s Passing
  27. Bala Annai
  28. NESOHR: Forced Evacuation from Vaharai
  29. Anton Balasingham: A Life
  30. Anton Balasingham: Articulate Conductor of the Band
  31. JRS: Refugees in India
  32. NESOHR: From ‘Roofless’ to Criminals’ Prison
  33. The Killing Match
  34. Indo-Lanka Relations: My Memories
  35. A Critique of the ICG Report
  36. The Pre-eminence of State Terrorism
  37. Nalanda University
  38. TRO: IDP Camps Shelled
  39. An Assessment & Appeal to My Friends
  40. Aceh Election Tomorrow
  41. TRO Holiday Appeal
  42. One Day of Peace in Sri Lanka
  43. Banning, the PTA, etc.
  44. War of Words Over Sri Lanka Literary Festival
  45. CFA Buried
  46. Comparing Notes on Collaborators & Informers
  47. Sri Lanka’s Nightmare
  48. A Loaded Question
  49. The Final Verdict on Tamil Eelam?
  50. Sri Lanka is India’s Problem
  51. Indian Re-Thinking of the Sri Lankan Situation
  52. Reconciliation with India
  53. Triumvir Rajas

November, 2006

  1. A Glimpse into Our Apocalyptic Future
  2. It’s the Global Economy, Stupid
  3. Vaiko: SL Tamils Want a Separate Nation
  4. Kumaratunge in South Africa
  5. A Reading of the Current Situation
  6. London ‘Times’ Ad
  7. Government Clamps Down on Jaffna University
  8. Judge Strikes Down Bush on Terror Groups
  9. Maaveerar Naal
  10. Why Sri Lanka Has Sidelined India
  11. NESOHR: Two Catholic Priests Arrested for HR Work
  12. TRO Court Appeal on Freezing of Funds
  13. Prabakaran’s 2006 Heroes’ Day Speech
  14. On Heroes’ Day, Check the Label
  15. Maveerar: A Poem
  16. NESOHR: A9 Controversy
  17. TCHR Commentary on MP Raviraj’s Assassination
  18. Ugly Reality
  19. An Open Letter to the Co-Chairs
  20. On Milton Friedman, MGR & Annaism
  21. Rajapakse Cooking His Own Goose
  22. AP Venkateswaran Interview
  23. Comments on Co-Chairs’ Conference
  24. Implications of Sri Lanka’s 2007 Defense Budget
  25. The War Costs Everybody, but the Tamils More
  26. After Geneva, What?
  27. Tamil Australians Boycott Sri Lankan Goods
  28. 7 Abducted TRO Aid Workers Not Included in CoI
  29. TIC Appeals to UN Human Rights Council
  30. A Tale of Two Tamil Vice Chancellors
  31. Letter to US Under Secretary Nicholas Burns
  32. Nepal’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement
  33. Humanitarian Catastrophe in Sri Lanka
  34. War Games & Peoples’ Lives
  35. ‘Anti-insurgency’ Comparison
  36. Tamils Need Real Autonomy
  37. Karpu: Tool of Oppression?
  38. Caste, Dowry & Arranged Marriage
  39. Amnesty on GoSL’s Commission of Inquiry
  40. Nepal’s Peace Agreement
  41. TRO Vaharai Appeal
  42. Tamil Americans Condemn MP Raviraj’s Assassination
  43. HLP Letter to UNHCHR Louise Arbour
  44. Micro-states
  45. Sri Lanka Army Recruits Children: UN
  46. The Right to Kill Civilians
  47. The Future of Tamil MPs in Sri Lanka
  48. Kidnappings Haunt Long Ethnic War in Sri Lanka
  49. A Gratifying Day with Dr. Brian Senewiratne
  50. In the Aftermath of Geneva 2
  51. The Situation in Jaffna
  52. Summary of Displacement Apr-Oct, 2006
  53. Jayawardene Centenary Chuckles
  54. IFT Calls for Response to Terror
  55. The Paradox of International Policy
  56. De-merger: Lessons for the Future
  57. Geneva 2: Louder than Words
  58. Tamils Feel Marginalized, Muzzled
  59. Rajapakse: Be a True Buddhist
  60. UN: The Girl Child & Armed Conflict
  61. Don’t Support State Terrorists
  62. Sovereignty & Territorial Integrity
  63. Sri Lanka’s Nonsense ‘Talks’
  64. The Spectre of Kidnappings Returns

October, 2006

  1. TNA Petition to UNHCR & UNHCHR
  2. TNA Petition to UNHCR & UNHCHR
  3. A Society Without Compassion
  4. The Human Rights Bind
  5. Critical Mass
  6. Why Tamils Say Genocide
  7. Embargo on Sri Lanka
  8. Geneva II: Armed Armistice
  9. Euphoria about the SLFP-UNP Agreement?
  10. Reporting from Vanni III
  11. IFJ: End Attacks on the Media
  12. Checkpoint Jesus
  13. Responses to ‘A Proposal’
  14. Paradox of the Southasian Welfare State
  15. Agni Keela II
  16. The Writing on the Wall is Red
  17. US Promoting a Political Solution in SL
  18. ‘Legitimate Rights’ & the Tamil Tigers
  19. Asia’s Unending War
  20. Update on Fr. Jim Brown
  21. TIC Tsunami Report #7
  22. Some Remarks on International Involvement, etc
  23. Illiberal Democracy
  24. Swiss Media House on Destruction of VOT Tower
  25. The Sri Lankan Constitution
  26. Monitoring a Little-Noticed War
  27. Views on Current Reality
  28. Extras in Film, Politics & Diplomacy
  29. More Questions Than Answers
  30. Death by Government
  31. My Proposal for Normalcy
  32. The Tigers’ Fighter Journalist
  33. Sri Lanka Continues to Mislead the World
  34. No Turning Back Now
  35. Pres. Dr. APJ Kalam: Developed India
  36. Understanding the JVP
  37. History of Intransigence
  38. Requiem for Mahinda
  39. A Sri Lankan Turkey Roast
  40. India Takes Tamil Support for Granted
  41. Petition to Kofi Annan
  42. Terrorism & Liberation
  43. Paradoxes of Counterinsurgency
  44. Sri Lankan State Terrorism
  45. NESOHR: Sencholai Update
  46. Call for a Diaspora Boycott
  47. TCHR: Need for an Economic Embargo
  48. Debate on the Boycott of Sri Lankan Goods & Services

September, 2006

  1. Voice from the Peninsula
  2. Two Poems
  3. Reporting from Vanni I
  4. Reporting from Vanni II – Muzzling the Media
  5. The Poor Man’s Air Force
  6. In the Path of Adrian Wijemanne
  7. Rights of the Internally Displaced
  8. Recognition for Eelam
  9. Message of Sacrifice
  10. The ‘Disappeared’ in Sri Lanka
  11. Queen of Tamil Cinema No More
  12. Blackouts and Blockades
  13. Armed Conflict & Humanitarian Law: the Rajapakse Era
  14. Senator Patrick Leahy’s Statement on Sri Lanka
  15. Sri Lanka Most Militarized in South Asia
  16. AI: Commission of Inquiry Must be Independent
  17. Improving Civilian Protection in Sri Lanka
  18. The Mind of Mao
  19. Briefing Paper on Disappearances
  20. When Ceasefires Fail
  21. Taking Dance from Jaffna to Paris
  22. Senseless Words & Inappropriate Deeds
  23. Sangaree & Elections
  24. The Politics of Extrajudicial Killings
  25. Kebithigollewa Massacre
  26. Economy, Culture and Civil War in Sri Lanka
  27. Resumption of War Tests Civilians’ Endurance
  28. Supreme Court Removes SL from Intl’l Law Obligations
  29. Where to From Here for the Rajapakse Government?
  30. Cost to Civilians of the SLA Misadventure
  31. Wavering International Commitment to Human Rights in SL
  32. UN Ruling ‘Not Binding’ in Sri Lanka
  33. Citizens, Civilians, Casualties
  34. The World Ignores Sri Lankan State Terrorism
  35. Underage Recruitment & the Law
  36. HRW Protests UNESCO Prize – to Karimov
  37. HRC: 50 Tamil Youth Disappear in Jaffna in August
  38. AHRC: White Vans & Disappearances
  39. Climate Fears for Bangladesh’s Future
  40. On Reading ‘The Function of Military History’
  41. Tamil Families Take to the Sea
  42. The Sri Lankan Conflict
  43. Amnesty Update on Disappearance of Fr. Jim Brown
  44. TYO Protests Freezing of TRO Bank Accounts
  45. No Fear
  46. The Crunch
  47. India Struggles to Find a Coherent Policy on SL
  48. An Exchange Between an Uncle and His Nephew
  49. Court Case Concerning 17 Executed Aid Workers Transferred Out of the NE
  50. Sri Lankan Tamil Refugees in India
  51. IFT: The Military Annexation of Sampur & the CFA
  52. The Race to Replace Kofi Annan
  53. Understanding Patterns of Information Flow about the NE
  54. Tamil Mind and Tiger Mind: A 1994 Debate
  55. The Charge is Genocide; the Stuggle is Freedom
  56. TRO Protest on Freezing of Bank Accounts
  57. ICRC Concerned About Human Cost of Conflict
  58. State Terrorism: Who is to Bell the Cat?
  59. Power without Responsibility
  60. The BBC and its Flirtations with Sri Lankan Propaganda
  61. Fishing in Troubled Lanka
  62. Three Appeals on Disappearance of Catholic Priest
  63. NESOHR: Threats to Those Involved in Human Rights Work
  64. Threat to the NGOs
  65. Tamil ‘Terrorism’ Not So Simple

August, 2006

  1. Urgent Appeal: Rescue the Students
  2. New TRO Sponsor-a-Child Program
  3. Ten Steps to Safeguard the Ceasefire
  4. Monitors Say Troops Killed Aid Workers in Sri Lanka
  5. Despair of One Displaced Village
  6. Mullaitivu Principals’ Association Letter to UNICEF
  7. Jaffna Diocese: Letter to UN on Fr. Jim Brown’s Disappearance
  8. UNHCR & WFP Reports
  9. NESOHR: Urgent Appeal to Halt Military Activities
  10. A Pit List for the President
  11. Tamils and Tigers
  12. Henricsson: “There is No Military Solution”
  13. On Kadirgamar, Khlestakov and Kumar Ponnambalam
  14. NESOHR: Missing Allaippiddy Catholic Priest
  15. The Bombing of Tamil School Children in Sri Lanka
  16. War Backfires on Sri Lanka
  17. TRO Appeal for Affected Civilians
  18. Military Operations Against Civilians Exposed at UN
  19. On Rights, the Diaspora, HRW and the LTTE
  20. The Road to War
  21. LTTE Child Protection Authority Press Release
  22. LTTE Child Protection Authority Report Summary
  23. LTTE Child Protection Authority Report 2006
  24. Random Thoughts on K. Thurairatnam
  25. CHA Aug 6 Fact-Finding Mission to Muttur
  26. Water Gate Strategy
  27. Journey to My Motherland
  28. I Wish You Had Been Concerned…
  29. Third Parties Attempt to Undermine the Tamil National Movement
  30. In Conversation with PK Balachandran, Part 1
  31. In Conversation with PK Balachandran, Part 2
  32. In Conversation with PK Balachandran, Part 3
  33. We Have Come Full Circle
  34. UNHCR Chief Visits Sri Lanka for First Time
  35. Peredeniya U.: Precursor to Black July 1983
  36. First Foretelling of Sri Lanka’s Split
  37. COTANZ: The Mavilaru Bombing
  38. IFT: Urgent Need to Prevent Impending War
  39. Appreciation of Denmark’s & Finland’s Work on the SLMM
  40. Adrian Wijemanne: An Appreciation by a Reader
  41. Flies vs. Hammers: Asymmetric Warfare

July, 2006

  1. Adrian Wijemanne – An Appreciation
  2. Rajapakse Heading for Deeper Waters
  3. The Botched 1987 JVP Hit on Rajiv Gandhi
  4. Sri Lanka’s Week of Shame
  5. Reflections on Sinhala Buddhist Origin Myths
  6. The Failed Peace Trap
  7. Why a Solution Within a United Sri Lanka?
  8. Black July to Black Rule
  9. NESOHR: 1983 Re-enactment in the Making
  10. Civil Wars
  11. TRO Employee Assaulted by Army in Jaffna
  12. Who is Jayatilleke Advising?
  13. All Party Conference Just a Political Drama
  14. Count Ethnic Divisions, Not Bombs
  15. Fishing Piracy
  16. Keeping the Peace?
  17. Live With Death: A Black July Commemoration
  18. The Neutralisation of Tamil Moderates
  19. AHRC: JR’s Liability in Black July
  20. Dr. Ramadoss: Champion of Tamil Rights
  21. Sri Lanka:A State That Has Failed
  22. Arrested by the GoSL Army
  23. Lessons of the Mini Battle of Vakaneri
  24. Burning Bright: Remembering the 1958 Anti-Tamil Pogrom
  25. How the EU Produced a War
  26. Duplicity, Indifference & Cruelty
  27. Grow Up, UNICEF
  28. Eelam Intifada
  29. What Narasimhan Ram Should Understand
  30. Remembering Black July & the Failed State of Sri Lanka
  31. NESOHR: Appeal for Protection
  32. Nelson Mandela & Terrorism
  33. The Missing Tamils of Sri Lanka
  34. Interview with Dr. Radhika Coomaraswamy, UNSRCAC
  35. The LTTE’s Flexibility in the Current Peace Process
  36. TIC: Allaipiddy Case Report
  37. Black July 1983
  38. On Educating Robert Pape
  39. The 1987 Indo-Lanka Accord
  40. Mother India & Eelam Tamils
  41. Pinching the Child While Rocking the Cradle
  42. International Involvement: Lessons from Sri Lanka
  43. From Tamil Typewriters to Sinhala Helicopter Gunships
  44. ‘Undeclared’ Jaffna War Taking Toll
  45. The CRC. Optional Protocol, Child Soldiers & the LTTE
  46. Martin McGuinness Meets Tiger Leadership
  47. Outgoing US Ambassador: No Military Solution in Sri Lanka
  48. Taming the Tamil Tigers
  49. The Prisoners of New York
  50. M.A.D.

June, 2006

  1. India and the LTTE: ‘Out of the Box’
  2. An Eelam Apologist on the ‘Lanka Guardian’
  3. Boston Globe: Sri Lanka’s Uncivil War
  4. Justice Surmounts Freedom Struggles
  5. Killer Tigers or GoSL/Paramilitary Dirty Tricks?
  6. TSVP Speaker at U Toronto June 30
  7. Rsponse to Col. Hariharan’s “LTTE Strategies”
  8. Tamils Need a Homeland
  9. Tamil Refugees Reach India
  10. TIC – The Quest for Human Dignity: Summary
  11. TIC – Tamils of Sri Lanka: The Quest for Human Dignity
  12. Violence Begets Violence
  13. Pennies, Pen-pals Make International Connections
  14. New UN Peacebuilding Commission
  15. The Lion Flag & State Terrorism
  16. The Four Faces of Mahinda Rajapakse
  17. Sinhala Military Occupation & Tamileelam
  18. Mutur Under Siege by Many Parties
  19. Pesalai Church Attack Pictures
  20. AFTA: International Community Must Condemn Dirty War
  21. COTANZ: Civilian Killings & Paramilitary Operations
  22. Concerning the Bus Bombing & the Current Crisis
  23. Catalonian Voters Approve Autonomy Plan
  24. Quo Vadis Karunanidhi?
  25. Letter to Amb. Lunstead on Mannar Church Bombing
  26. IFT – Sri Lanka’s Readiness to Launch War on the Tamil Nation
  27. Dead End
  28. Statement of US Ambassador-to-be Robert Blake
  29. Barbaric Massacre of Innocent Sinhalese Civilians
  30. Bishop of Colombo: The Killing of Innocent Villagers
  31. Amnesty Condemns Attack on Civilian Bus
  32. The Tamils’ Right to Self-Determination
  33. For Kosovo, Hope for Independence from Serbia
  34. People Terrorized After Massacre of Tamil Family
  35. TCHR: Defense Ministry Pays for Killings of Civilians
  36. ‘The Forsaken Land’
  37. Tamileelam is the Only Feasible Solution Left
  38. Refugees in Muthur East
  39. Amnesty: Manthuvil Disappearances
  40. Oslo Talks
  41. The Tamil Homeland is No Longer ‘Mythical’
  42. More on Mr. Idaikadar’s Fast
  43. Tamil Australian Resolutions
  44. COTANZ: Civilian Killings in Batticaloa
  45. COTANZ: Sri Lankan Attacks on the Media
  46. Arrests and Other Abuses
  47. Targeting Tamils in Sri Lanka
  48. A Realistic Look at the Sri Lankan Problem
  49. Sri Lanka Lost
  50. Branding the LTTE as Terrorists
  51. Key Elements of Darfur’s Peace Agreement
  52. Children Killed, Disappeared & Injured During the CFA in GoSL Areas
  53. Mr. Idaikadar’s Fast
  54. Torching of Jaffna, Part 1
  55. Torching of Jaffna, Part II
  56. Torching of Jaffna, Part III
  57. Torching of Jaffna, Part IV
  58. The Problem is Implementation, Not Talks

May, 2006

  1. TCHR: Civilian Deaths Since Mahinda’s Election
  2. Extrajudicial Killings of Tamil Civilians Since the Ceasefire
  3. Press Release: Stop GOSL Atrocities
  4. An Appeal to Prevent Civil War
  5. Symbolic Politics
  6. Peace – The Difficult, Yet Necessary Path
  7. UNHCHR Concerned Over Increased Number of Civilian Killings
  8. Unanswered Questions Remain on Kadirgamar Killing
  9. Iran Shuts Down Newspaper Over Cartoon
  10. US, EU Blacken Hopes for Tamils
  11. What Next for the International Community?
  12. The Sinhala Nationalist Quagmire & the Tamil National Question
  13. A Tiger Under Every Stone
  14. Sri Lanka is Not a Failed State Yet, But…
  15. Sri Lankan City Mired in Ethnic Violence
  16. The Sea Rights of States in Formation
  17. The Situation in Muthur
  18. Peace without Rights, or Rights without Peace
  19. Any Questions?
  20. LTTE Refutes SLMM Statement on Sea Rights
  21. Condolence Letter re Maj. General Furuhovde
  22. Injustice in Justice
  23. Medical Report from Muthur
  24. Call for Immediate Action on Trincomalee Situation
  25. Foundation for Co-Existence Situation Report
  26. ACTS Press Release
  27. Amnesty: No Place Like Home
  28. A Deepening Ethnic Violence
  29. Identity and Violence
  30. Sri Lanka’s Human Rights Pledges
  31. Letter on Sri Lanka’s Human Rights Pledges
  32. Lacking Conviction
  33. Sri Lankan Tamil Demography
  34. Celebrating the LTTE’s 30th Anniversary
  35. ‘Uthayan’ Attack: Selections from the press
  36. Peace Deal Signed in Darfur
  37. Tamils in Independent Ceylon
  38. Appeal for Indian Economic Sanctions Against Sri Lanka
  39. Background on Female Tamil Journalist Arrested
  40. Death Threats in Trinco
  41. Comments on Post-Geneva 1 Activity
  42. Political Killings & Their Gains
  43. Civil War in the Jungle
  44. Sri Lankan Trying to Build a Life
  45. The Politics of Pipelines
  46. ‘Buddhism, Conflict & Violence in Modern Sri Lanka’
  47. Dignity – a poem
  48. What Do the Terms ‘Eelam’ & ‘Ilankai’ Mean?
  49. Getting to Know Sri Lankan Tamils
  50. Consolidated Report on the Trincomalee Displacement
  51. A Request for Help from Tamil Expatriates
  52. The Killing of Innocents in Sri Lanka – April 2006
  53. What Questions Are Worth Asking?
  54. The Betrayal of Sivaram
  55. Remembering Sivaram
  56. Unity Through Autonomy in Iraq

April, 2006

  1. Guns in the American Revolution
  2. Taraki: The Larger Picture
  3. RSF: Sivaram’s Death Still Unpunished
  4. UNHCR Assessing Needs of Newly Displaced
  5. Nonviolent Peace Force Report
  6. Amnesty Calls for Respect of Human Rights
  7. Trinco Report by Colombo NGOs
  8. NESOHR: Puthur Killings Case Report
  9. PEARL: Attacks Against Sri Lanka’s Minority
  10. Letter to the EU
  11. A Call to Condemn & Stop Government Actions Against Civilians
  12. TRO Urgent Appeal
  13. SL Strikes, Thousands Flee Homes
  14. The Right of Self-Determination
  15. What Negotiations?
  16. Tamil Nadu Assembly Elections
  17. When Does Rights Advocacy Fail?
  18. Born With A Plastic Spoon
  19. Trinco Conspiracy
  20. US Court Ruling for Ahilan Nadarajah
  21. TCHR Response to 2 HRW Reports
  22. NESOHR: Puliyankulam Murders
  23. TRO Appeal for Trinco Refugees
  24. On the Killing of Nishanthan (17)
  25. What Happened in Canada
  26. NESOHR: Civilian deaths since Geneva 1 (Feb. 23, 2006)
  27. On Academic Politics & Religious Zealotry
  28. Regrettable, Counterproductive
  29. Tayi
  30. NESOHR: Fishermen’s Right to Livelihood
  31. Tamilchelvam Letter to Amb. Bratskar
  32. TWA: Deep Concern Over Trinco Riots
  33. S Nagalingam’s Passing
  34. Tamil Studies Conference May 11-14 in Toronto
  35. AHRC: No Sri Lanka on UN Human Rights Council
  36. Zip-a-dee-doo-dah
  37. TNA Press Release
  38. TCHR Appeal on UN Human Rights Council
  39. Hope Outreach UK April 2006 Report
  40. Sinhala State Terrorism & Western Foreign Policy
  41. A Campaign of Bloodshed
  42. The Spider and the Fly – A cautionary tale
  43. Speeches at Nedumaran’s Book Release
  44. Who Cares for Kadirgamar?
  45. Sir Ponnambalam Ramanathan
  46. The Eight Stages of Genocide
  47. IMHO’s Annual Meeting April 15 in Baltimore, MD
  48. Three Mules & Sister Rajani – A Rejoinder
  49. Road Map to Change 1.3B Lives
  50. Democracy? Good Government More Vital
  51. The Situation in Tamil Nadu and Eelam Politics
  52. COTANZ Condems Vigneswaran Assassination
  53. Canadian Tamils Disappointed by LTTE Listing
  54. Oviar Pugazhenthi Book Release
  55. The LTTE Are Freedom Fighters
  56. Open Letter to the American Red Cross
  57. Cohabitation Doesn’t Work
  58. TIC: Acquittal of Agni Subramaniam
  59. Your Move, Mr. President
  60. The Elephant in the Room
  61. Negotiation with Armed Groups: Sri Lanka and Beyond
  62. Mourning Mr. V Vigneswaran
  63. Powersharing or Partition?
  64. War is a Complex Disease
  65. Palacingham Pre-Conditions for Talks
  66. NESOHR Condemns Mr. Vigneswaran’s Killing
  67. NESOHR: Challenge to Justice and the Rule of Law
  68. Does Sri Lanka Need a Muslim Infantry Battalion?
  69. Pursuit of War by Other Means
  70. FAQs on the Sri Lankan National Conflict
  71. Three Month Anniversary for Mr. Pararajasingam, MP
  72. To Bridge the Difference in Sri Lanka
  73. Paramilitaries and the Ever-Receding Peace
  74. Roar of Tamil Rights
  75. TCHR: Child Rights in Sri Lanka
  76. End of the Sri Lankan Human Rights Commission?

March, 2006

  1. Response to the HRW Report
  2. Ayurvedic Exhibition in London
  3. Letter on TRO Abductions
  4. HRW: False Alarm!
  5. Federalism or Partition?
  6. NESOHR: Attack on Sampoor Village
  7. New UN Human Rights Council
  8. Drying Out the Insurgency
  9. Congressional Hearing on Unrest in Sri Lanka II
  10. Congressional Hearing on Unrest in Sri Lanka
  11. Non-States and Non-Entities
  12. Dissecting the HRW Report
  13. IFT Response to HRW Report
  14. The HRW Report & the Foreign Minister
  15. COTANZ Response to HRW Report
  16. Courting War
  17. As It Happens…
  18. How to be Ignored
  19. Independent Expert on Minority Issues
  20. Real Injustice
  21. AFTA Statement on HRW Report
  22. Ever Heard of AFSPA, PTA, TADO & ATA?
  23. Wonderful World?
  24. Britain’s Answer to Separatism
  25. Open Letter to John Cushnahan
  26. On the Performance of Police Chief Chandra Fernando
  27. HRW Backtracks on Extortion Charge
  28. Stark Choices for Sri Lanka
  29. Constitutional Council – A contrary view
  30. Hue and Cry about Child Soldiers
  31. HRW Missing an Opportunity
  32. CTC Response to HRW Allegations on Extortion
  33. Negotiating Peace in Nepal
  34. No Hope of Enduring Peace
  35. Global English
  36. UNICEF and Underage Recruitment
  37. Amnesty on TRO Abductions
  38. A Sinhala Perspective on the EU Contribution to the Peace Process
  39. MP Ponnambalam: The EU’s Contribution
  40. TCHR – The EU Contribution
  41. Stumbling Peace Talks
  42. Shattered Dreams
  43. General Accused of Illegal Operations Against Kurds
  44. Letter to the ICJ
  45. The Tamil Perspective on Negotiating Peace in Sri Lanka
  46. Dishny Restaurant in Paris
  47. Geneva Talks: a turning point?
  48. First Deal, First Hurdle
  49. Disarming Karuna
  50. UN Plays Politics with Jaffna Displaced
  51. What is Terrorism?
  52. Peace Talks – Again?!
  53. Three Mules and Sister Rajani
  54. Tamil Rulers of the Kandyan Kingdom
  55. Uncharted Waters
  56. Rajapakse is Wrong!
  57. Sinhala Constitution
  58. Lessons from Another Insurgency
  59. Looking for Loopholes
  60. The CFA Controversy
  61. Strengths & Weaknesses of Mme Coomaraswamy
  62. Anti-Tamil Bias
  63. Rights of the Child
  64. Develpment as a Precursor to Conflict Resolution

February, 2006

  1. Peace Talks That Have Gone Nowhere
  2. Ibn Battuta’s Visit to Kingdom of Jaffna in 1344
  3. Kasi Ananthan’s Poesy & the Eelam Liberation Struggle
  4. Ballad of the Sea and the Land
  5. Will Sri Lanka Defeat Hostile Symbolic Politics?
  6. Talks, Talks and More Talks
  7. Socio-economic Inequality & Ethno-political Conflict
  8. Imperial Reckoning: Kenyan Gulag
  9. Negotiating Peace in Sri Lanka: Efforts, Failures & Lessons
  10. Rethinking Sovereignty
  11. Genocide Continues With Negotiations
  12. TRO Preschools [pdf]
  13. TRO Children’s Homes [pdf]
  14. Silent Lessons: So Much for Free Speech
  15. Letter from a Tamil
  16. Sri Lanka’s Only Hope for Peace
  17. Tamils Not to Reason Why
  18. Aceh Bill Slammed
  19. US Role in Sri Lanka
  20. Send in the State Department
  21. Fighting Sri Lankan State Terrorism
  22. Cease-Fire Talks
  23. Mallikai
  24. People, Principles, Policies
  25. Too Few Tamil Speakers in Government Service
  26. Letter to Rajapakse: States Smaller than Sri Lanka
  27. A Mirage of Equality
  28. The Tamil Struggle
  29. Response to Coomaraswamy
  30. Falsehood Reveals the Truth
  31. Profiles of Abducted TRO Staffers [pdf]
  32. TRO Cooperation with Police on Abductions [pdf]
  33. The Limited Scope of the CFA
  34. Thamizhar Martial Arts
  35. NESOHR: Abduction of Rajaratnam Thevachandran [pdf]
  36. Coomaraswamy Replies
  37. Tamil Diaspora Politics [pdf]
  38. India Acquired Language, Not Genes From the West
  39. Democratic Sri Lanka? A Parody
  40. The Essence of the Geneva Talks
  41. TRO’s Speech to Consortium of Humanitarian Agencies [pdf]
  42. Mr. De Chickera’s Fantasy
  43. Valentine for Anandasangaree
  44. TRO Abductions: Who Did It?
  45. Police in Darfur
  46. Interview with Prof. Sivathamby
  47. Archeology and Cultural Belonging for Minorities
  48. Sri Lankan Abductions Require Intervention
  49. Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor Urges New Push for Peace
  50. Abduction of NGO Workers
  51. US Lends Sri Lanka More for Arms
  52. The Land That Has So Much
  53. Preferring Patience
  54. Beyond the Obvious
  55. Sinhala-Muslim Romancing and Rift
  56. NESOHR: Abduction of TRO Employees
  57. Violence Falls, but Peril Remains

January, 2006

  1. Another 5 TRO Staff Reported Missing
  2. Update to TRO Kidnapping
  3. TIC Condemns Abduction of TRO Workers
  4. TRO Workers Kidnapped
  5. The Bigger Picture
  6. A Mischievious Game
  7. Self-Defense
  8. Truth in Sri Lanka
  9. Collective Punishment for the Tamils
  10. Preparing Lessons for Orphans
  11. The Future of Preemption
  12. The Latest Gimmicks
  13. War Against False Democracy
  14. Ratwatte Acquitted and Canadian Elections
  15. US Setting the Clock Back on Peace
  16. Child Recruitment
  17. State Terrorism in Sri Lanka
  18. Comments on the 2006 HRW Report
  19. Memorandum to Secretary Rice
  20. Letter to Ambassador Lunstead
  21. Letter to Cardinal Murphy O’Connor
  22. Somaliland and International Recognition
  23. East Timor Report to UN
  24. The JVP and Pol Potism
  25. Small Change
  26. TRO’s Media Response [pdf]
  27. TRO and the Sunera Foundation [pdf]
  28. Rajapakse: A Prisoner of Sinhalese Nationalism
  29. Musings on a ‘Gotcha-Gotcha’ Thread from a Sydney Brenner Story
  30. Back to War
  31. Interests, Not Values
  32. TRO: Urgent Appeal for Humanitarian Assistance – Jaffna Conflict Internally Displaced Persons [pdf]
  33. Sri Lankan First Lady Breaks Guruvayur Tradition
  34. The ëBirth-Soil Bondí of MGR: An 89th Birth Anniversary Note
  35. Get With It, Mr. Ambassador
  36. The US and Australia Are Turning a Blind Eye
  37. Shifting the Balance of Power, Capturing the Power of Leverage
  38. The Problem and its Solution are in Sri Lanka, not in the US
  39. First Tamil Class at University of Toronto Inauguration
  40. An Open Letter to the American Ambassador to Sri Lanka
  41. Music is the Food of Love
  42. Accept the Reality of a Separate State for Tamils
  43. Pongal Greetings!
  44. NESOHR: Pesalai Incident [pdf]
  45. NESOHR: Kandeepan Case Report [pdf]
  46. AHRC: 20 Forced Disappearances in December, 2005
  47. Amnesty Appeal re Four Disappearances
  48. Amnesty Concerned About Escalation of Violence
  49. The Dilemma of the US, the LTTE and the Buddhist Ayatollahs
  50. The TRO
  51. Response is Called For
  52. Tamil Film History and Its Achievements
  53. Primary Sources for the History of the Sri Lankan Tamils
  54. Vaiko’s “Letters from Prison” Book Release
  55. Relief & Rehabilitation First Anniversary Report of St. John’s Church
  56. NESOHR: Civilian Attacks, Nov 20, 2005 to Jan 9, 2006 [pdf]
  57. NESOHR: Abduction of B. Rajeevmohan [pdf]
  58. NESOHR: Tharshini Case Report [pdf]
  59. NESOHR: Forced Evictions – Jaffna [pdf]
  60. NESOHR: Statistics on Civilians Affected by War [pdf]
  61. Letter from Jaffna University Medical Students Union
  62. Blaming the Past in Sri Lanka
  63. The Conflict in Sri Lanka: Ground Realities [pdf]
  64. Letter to the Editor of the ‘Washington Times’
  65. The Tamil-Muslim Question – Again
  66. IFT – Tamil Civilians Need Protection Against a Vindictive Armed State
  67. Letter to the Co-Chairs from the Association of Tamil Americans
  68. Too Much Talk
  69. The Pararajasingam Murder – the Fall-Out
  70. Comments on H L de Silva’s Oration
  71. People’s Struggle is the Only Option
  72. SAARC and the Sovereignty Bargain
  73. The Real Reasons Behind the Murder in the Cathedral
  74. The Low-Down on Narasimhan Ram, the Ignoramus
  75. Involuntary Disappearances in Sri Lanka on the Increase

December, 2005

  1. An Eternal Political Stalemate
  2. Hypocrisy of the West Exposed
  3. Continued Restrictions on Travel
  4. The Tsunami One Year Later: One Million Still Homeless
  5. Rajapakse’s Military Agenda Commenced
  6. Armed Groups and Resolution 1612
  7. Lessons for Negotiating with Armed Groups for an End to the Use of Child Soldiers
  8. Drawing Circles in the Sand
  9. If India Gets Involved, Tamil Nadu Will Turn Out to Be Another Kashmir – Vaiko
  10. What Lara Croft Would Look Like if She Carried Rice Bags
  11. A Call to Impose Sanctions on the Government of Sri Lanka
  12. Is War Imminent?
  13. Crunch Time for Rajapakse
  14. Tsunami One Year On ñ Reality Check
  15. TRO 12 Month Tsunami Update [PDF]
  16. Tsunami’s Legacy: Extraordinary Giving and Unending Strife
  17. The Rumours of Peace
  18. Reign of Blind Terror
  19. Tsunami-hit Orphanage Rebuilt
  20. M.I.A.: Guerrilla Goddess
  21. The Restless Children of the Dalai Lama
  22. The Root Causes of Tragedy
  23. The Root Cause of the Conflict: The Mahavamsa Conflict
  24. Don’t Support Sinhala Terrorism
  25. Old Prejudices Keep Tsunami Aid From Tamils
  26. Jakarta to Submit Draft Laws on Aceh
  27. SLTMA Condemns Arrest of Tamil Journalist
  28. Lessons in Gratitude from Movie Maestro Sivaji Ganesan
  29. Healing and Awareness through Theater
  30. NESOHR – International Human Rights Day Celebrations
  31. Coomaraswamy Must be Sued for Hate Speech
  32. Dhanapala Touts Ability to Lead the UN
  33. Comments on Coomaraswamy Speech
  34. Appeal for Eelam Flood Victims in Tamil Nadu
  35. Toronto Vigil December 26
  36. Expulsion of Jaffna Muslims: The Logic of Cultural Genocide
  37. Required: Paradigm Shifts
  38. Shadow War in Sri Lanka
  39. Radhika Coomaraswamy on Tamils and Human Rights
  40. Sri Lanka Elections and Tamil Participation
  41. Karuna and Kalkudah
  42. Sow the Wind and Reap the Whirlwind
  43. The Threat of Genuine Negotiations
  44. Archbisop of Westminister to Visit Sri Lanka on Christmas
  45. Expulsion of Jaffna Muslims: A Response to the Claim of Cultural Genocide
  46. Is Peace Feasible?
  47. War by Other Means
  48. Sri Lanka Report to the UN Committee Against Torture
  49. UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions Sri Lanka Statement
  50. Congress Advocates Review of US Tsunami Relief Effort
  51. Sudan’s Interim Power-sharing and Peace in Sri Lanka
  52. The Graceful Guru
  53. Amnesty – Act Now to Prevent Escalation
  54. NPR Investigates US Immigration Detention Centers
  55. Was Hinduism Invented?
  56. A Hole in the Head
  57. Mahinda Rajapakse and the Art of the Possible
  58. Some Thoughts on the 2005 Heroes’ Day Speech
  59. Spies, the Poor and Unconnected
  60. Short Fuse in Sri Lanka
  61. No ‘Peace’ Rice in an Empty Pot
  62. Wait and Observe
  63. Peace Process on the Ropes
  64. Oh! International Community! What is Your Response?

November, 2005

  1. A Flashback to Pirabhakaran’s 1995 Interview
  2. Sri Lankan Reneges on the Oslo and P-TOMS Agreements
  3. Clinton Visits Kinniya
  4. Comments on the Expulsion of the Jaffna Muslims
  5. Tripartite Strategic Considerations
  6. K Alvapillai: Silent Axle
  7. Bangalore Trial of Tamil Separatists
  8. Human Rights Day December 10
  9. What’s Next? Independence?
  10. The Absence of Accountability
  11. A Book to Honor Pirabhakaran
  12. Pirapaharan’s 2005 Heroes’ Day Speech
  13. Eye of the Storm?
  14. Elections – 2005
  15. Peace and Economy: An Analysis of Chintana
  16. Expulsion of Jaffna Muslims: Cultural Genocide or Battlefield Strategy?
  17. Sri Lankan Muslims and a Military Career
  18. Australia’a Remembrance Day
  19. Vanni Preparing for Heroes’ Day
  20. The Addiction Trade Wars
  21. Anandasangaree and the 1977 Assault on Amirthalingam
  22. Pictures of IDPs from the Jaffna HSZs Now in Alvai
  23. Tamil Bishops Urge Vote for Peace
  24. The Sri Lankan Presidential Election and the International Community
  25. The European Union and the Tamil Struggle
  26. The Sri Lankan Presidential Election: Tweedledum or Tweedledee
  27. The South has Spoken
  28. The LTTE Teaches a Lesson to Those Who Play Political Games
  29. Sri Lankan Presidential Elections and the Future of the Tamils
  30. Passing of Mr. Kandiah Nagendrar
  31. Action Alert from TAPJ
  32. A Piece of Advice to Prof. Jayatilleke
  33. Judge Weeramantry’s Perspective Misses Reality
  34. The Presidential Election and the Tamil People
  35. Federalism and Peace
  36. Tales from Volunteer Nurses
  37. The Political Ideology in Sri Lanka: Anti-Tamil
  38. Mahinda or Ranil: What Difference to the Nation?
  39. Expulsion of the Muslims: The Motive
  40. Dutch Built
  41. Black Gold Aplenty
  42. The Tiger’s Claw
  43. Prof. V. Arunasalam’s Biographical Profile
  44. India as Mediator
  45. What is the LTTE up to?
  46. Towards a Peaceful Settlement
  47. A Unitary Unit, Federalism or Independence
  48. Brussels Rally Asserts Tamil Rights
  49. Passing of Prof. V. Arunasalam
  50. Expulsion of the Muslims – The Context
  51. 2005 US Report on Religious Freedom
  52. On Checking the Pockets of Presidential Contenders
  53. Tribute to the Late Mr. Thamotheram
  54. The Thamoderam Funeral: A Sinhala Tribute
  55. Sangam’s 2005 AGM
  56. The Shadow War and the Culture of Killing
  57. Expulsion of the Muslims – The Numbers
  58. Mahinda — the Man and his Mission
  59. Jeyam Thamotheam: An Untiring Servant in the Cause of Freedom
  60. C.J.T. Thamotheram – A Tribute
  61. Ten Years Since Exodus and Military Occupation of Jaffna
  62. Elite Mobilization, Symbolic Politics and Presidential Elections in Sri Lanka
  63. Competing Geopolitical Monologues on Sri Lanka
  64. The World is Within You
  65. Mahinda Rajapakse – The Road to Disaster
  66. Charles Gnanakone and the Kadirgamar Killing

October, 2005

  1. Democracy and the NorthEast
  2. Another Old Study by Ameer Ali on the Sri Lankan Muslims
  3. The MOU Between the UNP and the SLMC
  4. The Fall of the UAV is a Mystery
  5. Mahinda’s Hypocrisy
  6. The Muslim Factor in the Sri Lankan Ethnic Crisis
  7. It’s Not Like Tamils in Other Places: I’m a Citizen!
  8. The EU Moratorium: Its Impact on the Peace Process
  9. In the Name of Peace
  10. Asian Centre for Human Rights on Bindunuwewa Massacre
  11. EU Credibility on the Line
  12. Refugees International’s Visit to the East
  13. Property Investments in Vanni
  14. Et Tu, EU: The Betrayal of Tamil Trust
  15. Power Struggle and Extremism
  16. TAGOT: Keeping the Family Enterprise Afloat
  17. UN Tsunami Sham Exposed by Auditor-General
  18. A Chronicle of Consequence
  19. High Profile Human Rights Abuses of Tamils
  20. A Brief History: Colonial Period to 1983
  21. EU Travel Prohibition
  22. The Ceasefire This Time
  23. European Union – the Mask Slips
  24. Petition to the EU by the European Tamils Initiative for Peace
  25. AFTA Statement on EU Action
  26. Simple Notations within the Margins
  27. EU & LTTE – Thinakural
  28. The Presidential Race
  29. The Ban on Travel
  30. Bygones Can’t Be Bygones if the Pain Is Raw
  31. TRO Six Month Post-Tsunami Report (PDF; 5.6MB)
  32. Symbols Are Important
  33. Two Masterpieces of the Mahatma
  34. An Open Appeal to the Leaders of the EU
  35. Sanctioning Violence
  36. The EU Declaration and the Humanitarian Situation in the NE
  37. The European Travel Embargo: Causes & Consequences
  38. First Female President of the University of Alberta
  39. Taking the Wind Out of the Rumour Mill
  40. Tamils and Christians Short-Changed Again?
  41. Pongu Tamil in Jaffna
  42. The Vavuniya Declaration
  43. Tamil Resurgence Meetings: How They Have Changed!
  44. Tamil Rights Unique

September, 2005

  1. Tipping in Kilinochchi
  2. Nirvana in Reverse
  3. A Vitiated Moderation
  4. Mr. Doolittle & the Tamil Diaspora Seek Help
  5. Development Won’t End War
  6. TNA Press Release
  7. Rising Challenge
  8. 2005 World Summit Outcome
  9. The US in the Backwaters
  10. Democracy Dance in Diapers
  11. TamilNation’s Commentary on Dhanapala’s Speech
  12. Dhanapala: Defending the Indefensible
  13. Role of Diaspora in the Peace Process
  14. Recognizing the Sri Lankan Peace Process
  15. Speech by Australian MP After Visit to NE
  16. Security Imbalances, Not Violence, Threaten Truce
  17. Ethnicity, Aid & Peace in Fragile States
  18. Open Letter to Jayantha Dhanapala
  19. Violations of Int’l Covenants by the SLG
  20. 34 Years of Emergency: 29 to Suppress Tamil Rights
  21. Trinco TECH Celebrates Computer Students Graduation
  22. Was it a Multi-Purpose Assassination?
  23. Forum on Upcoming New Zealand Elections
  24. The Nitty-Gritty of ‘Hit Lists’
  25. I Played Chess with a Terrorist
  26. WTACS Vasantha Vila in Queens Sept 24
  27. Report 9 on Relief from the Tsunami
  28. Will the Tamils Be Deceived Yet Again?
  29. India May Pull Troops from Kashmir
  30. Terrorists & the National Guard
  31. Is it Crisis Management or Conflict Resolution?
  32. Deja Vu? Tamils Fear Return to War
  33. A Man of Straw
  34. TRO USA’s Katrina Appeal
  35. The Construction of Kadirgamar
  36. FeTNA’s Katrina Relief Fund
  37. Pride & Prejudice
  38. The Spin & Swing of RAW’s Orchestra
  39. An Anniversary, a Proverb & a Hypocrite
  40. Sangam: US Must Stand by the Peace Process

August, 2005

  1. NESOHR Appeal on the Sethusamudran Project
  2. NESOHR – Withdraw the ER & the PTA
  3. Divided They Stand
  4. Negotiating with ‘Illiberal’ Forces
  5. Sri Lanka in Crisis Again
  6. US Can Learn from Unrest in Sri Lanka
  7. Comment on Kadirgamar
  8. Burgher Emigration
  9. Reply to an Offensive Tribute
  10. US State Dept on ‘Communal Crisis’
  11. A Disaster’s Peace Dividend
  12. Fresh Promise
  13. Farewell to Laksman Kadirgamar
  14. Letter to the ‘National Post’ 2
  15. Letter to the ‘Hindustan Times’
  16. Portrait of the Novelist as Social Reformer
  17. Bodies in Motion
  18. Murder of Foreign Minister Spotlights Crisis
  19. Kadirgamar & the Tamils
  20. The Fate of Sri Lanka
  21. Letter to ‘National Post’ on Assassination
  22. Violence Escalates in Sri Lanka’s East
  23. Assassination Threatens to End Cease-fire
  24. Turkey’s PM on Reforms for Kurds
  25. Sri Lanka Tense After Sniper Kills Kadirgamar
  26. Mervyn de Silva on Black July, 1983
  27. Behind the Headlines
  28. Aceh Peace Pact
  29. Tides of War IV
  30. Encounter with a Tamil Tigress
  31. Report to UN’s Subcommission on Human Rights
  32. Remembering a Martyr
  33. Tides of War III
  34. Tamils & Sovereignty
  35. The LTTE & the IRA’s Proposed Disarmament
  36. Pilgrimage to a Sacred City
  37. Failure of the Joint Mechanism: Lessons to be Learnt
  38. Pigs Are Flying in Batticaloa
  39. Images of the Divine, NY
  40. TAGOT: Tamil National Question: The Next 5 Years
  41. Who Needs a Constitutional Council?
  42. Child Soldier Issue in Sri Lanka
  43. Boston Kalai Vizha Aug. 6
  44. Rep. Davis’ Statement at Human Rights Hearing
  45. AFTA Calls for Recognition of Right to Self-Determination
  46. Tides of War II
  47. Action, Not Words
  48. US Strategic Interests in Sri Lanka
  49. The Tides of War
  50. US Judge Says Patriot Act Too Vague

July, 2005

  1. Hindutva vs India’s Energy Security
  2. Sri Lanka’s Peace Efforts: The View from a Distance
  3. NESOHR Annual Report 2005
  4. Asymmetries in the Peace Process
  5. Tamil MPs Visit New Zealand
  6. New Institute to Boost NE Tamil Education
  7. TRO Inaugurates Vallipunam Children’s Facility
  8. Theravada Buddhism in America
  9. Canada Will Bear the Consequences
  10. July, 1983: A Review
  11. Niggardly Negotiations
  12. Review of ‘Sri Lanka’s Iron Lady’
  13. Sri Lanka’s Iron Lady
  14. Aceh Peace, Still Many Hurdles
  15. The Lesson from the High Court Decision
  16. Caste in D.P. Sivaram’s ‘On Tamil Militarism’
  17. Crackdown Reopens Debate on US Military Aid
  18. Three Essential Matters for Resuming Peace Talks
  19. Thiruvasagam Symphony
  20. The American Supreme Court
  21. Schaffer Suggests US Make Contact with Tigers
  22. Onetime Enemies Join Forces in Sudan
  23. NESOHR Celebrates First Anniversary
  24. Maryland Declares Thirukkural Week
  25. British Methodist Conference Releases Statement
  26. Kadirgamar Talks to his President
  27. WTACO Queens Sports Event Pictures
  28. Sudan’s Parliament Approves Draft Interim Constitution
  29. Starting Over in Sri Lanka
  30. Managing Compassion
  31. UN Smokescreen on Tsunami Custodial Role
  32. Letter re ISGA
  33. Buddha & Sinhalese Buddhists
  34. Eelam Encounters 6: The Threat of Resurrection
  35. Monitor Duty: Donors Must Scrutinize Implementation
  36. The ISGA Proposals: The Course to Take
  37. July Events in the USA

June, 2005

  1. Autonomy for Iraqi South?
  2. IFT – Ceasefire in Jeopardy
  3. India & Singapore Sign Free Trade Agreement
  4. Sinhala Chauvinism Will Never Permit a Just Approach
  5. Don’t Treat Asylum Seekers like Criminals
  6. P-TOMS and its Implications
  7. Better Late than Never
  8. Appeal to UNESCO re Trinco Statue
  9. Amidst Uncertainty, Rebel Territory Rebuilds
  10. MOU for Establishment of P-TOMS
  11. Consequences of a Permanent Majority
  12. On Tamil Militarism: The Legend of Cheran Senguttuvan
  13. Letter re ‘On Tamil Militarism’
  14. Letter re ‘Something is Rotten in Sri Lanka’
  15. Silicon Valley’s Gift to Motivated Students
  16. Clinton: Six Months After
  17. Personal Effort to Aid Homeland
  18. Sivaram Memorial Booklet
  19. Eelam Encounters – 5: The Master & the Author
  20. Tamil Olympics June 25, Queens, NY
  21. Opposition to the Joint Mechanism
  22. Second Tsunami
  23. TCHR: Justice Delayed is Justice Denied
  24. Int’l Association of Democratic Lawyers Conference
  25. Dr. Laksman Gunaratnam: Rising from Adversity
  26. Agent Orange: Breach in Buddhist Hegemony
  27. China’s Great Armada in Sri Lanka
  28. AFTA Press Release: Little Hope for Tamils
  29. The Fast-to-Death Farce
  30. TRO Condemns Attack on its Batticaloa Office
  31. Buddhist Monks & Ethnic Politics
  32. Something is Rotten in the State of Sri Lanka
  33. Eulogy for D. Sivaram
  34. On Tamil Militarism: Warrior Sons & Mothers
  35. On Tamil Militarism: Bharathy & the Legitimation of Militarism
  36. NESOHR Appeal to the UN Human Rights Commission
  37. ‘Sri Lanka First’ – Get Your Million People Out Now!
  38. Tamils in Independent Ceylon
  39. Leading Characters in the 1915 Pogrom
  40. June 11 World Refugee Day
  41. Eelam Encounters 4: The Pain & the Passion
  42. Locals Fear Government Land Grab
  43. Why Do They Oppose? What Can You Do?
  44. Shadow War Comes to Colombo
  45. Questions Behind the News
  46. Sinhalese-Muslim Riots of 1915: A Synopsis
  47. Bindunuwewa: Miscarriage of Justice
  48. Belligerence Mounts as Kumaratunge Procrastinates
  49. Legal & Political Obstacles to Equality
  50. Alec Guiness Anecdote on Elephant Dung
  51. Launch of World Refugee Survey 2005

May, 2005

  1. Sivaram: A Profile
  2. Vanni Tech Wish List
  3. Sri Lanka’s Shame
  4. Tribute to Wijemanne on his 80th
  5. Has the President Become a Political Prisoner?
  6. NESOHR – Eliminate All Circumstances Aiding Resumption of War
  7. NZ Letter to UNHCHR
  8. Review of Sachi’s Autobiography
  9. Eelam Encounters – 3 : Relations with the West
  10. Memorial Service for Sivaram June 5 in NJ
  11. On Tamil Militarism: Twin Naratives of Tamil Nationalism
  12. On Tamil Militarism: The Tamil Soldier & the Dravidian Diaspora
  13. Good Wishes for Adrian Wijemanne
  14. Eelam Encounters – 2 : The Legal System
  15. Hope, Faith & Charity: Will Kumaratunge Deliver?
  16. Living in Vanni
  17. US Aid Not Reaching Tamils
  18. Rocca Bowls a Doosra
  19. First Eelam Tamil Receives Ellis Island Medal
  20. Blowing Up an Assumption
  21. Violent Muslim Mobilization: Some Questions
  22. On Tamil Militarism: Bishop Caldwell & the Tamil Dravidians
  23. On Tamil Militarism: The Suppression of Tamil Military Castes
  24. Sivaram Memorial June 5, New Jersey
  25. FeTNA Convention July 2-4, Dallas, TX
  26. Lessons from the Vietnam War for Tamils
  27. Summary of Problems in the NE
  28. Accountability for the Tsunami Billions
  29. Incompetent Leadership
  30. NESOHR – Remembering the ‘Kumuthini’ Massacre
  31. ACLU Testimony on Material Support of Terrorism
  32. Statement by Rapporteur on Religious Freedom
  33. Lack of Normalcy in NE Eclipsed by Joint Mechanism Debate -Thamilchelvan
  34. Peace Activists Threatened
  35. NESOHR Condemns Valaichenai Shooting
  36. Tamil Tigers Warn Over Aid Delay
  37. Scholarship on Fools
  38. Petition re D. Sivaram
  39. Whither a Community of Principled Men & Women?
  40. Sri Lankan Maids Pay Dearly
  41. TRO News: Participatory Meeting in Vavuniya
  42. On Tamil Militarism: Militarism & Caste in Jaffna
  43. On Tamil Militarism: The Code of Suicide
  44. Notice re Pirapaharan Biography
  45. Asian Human Rights Commission on Sivaram’s Murder
  46. They Can Take Sivaram Away From Us…
  47. Taraki on Sethusamudram Oct. 2004
  48. Eelam Encounters – 1: Women in Tamil Society
  49. Taraki’s Assassination & Press Freedom
  50. On Tamil Militarism: Tamil Military Castes
  51. On Tamil Militarism: Introduction
  52. Gruesome Murder of Journalist
  53. The Worthy Life of D. Sivaram
  54. Poetic Eulogy for Sivaram
  55. Sivaram – Death of a Warrior
  56. GOSL Accountable for Sivaram’s Murder – Press Release

April, 2005

  1. In Memoriam – D. Sivaram
  2. NESOHR Appalled by Sivaram’s Murder
  3. Framing the Discourse on Child Soldiers
  4. Sec. Rocca in Sri Lanka
  5. Sangam Youth Event Nov. 4 – 6
  6. Kumaratunga & the JVP Menace
  7. Share Aid, Boost Peace
  8. Pirapaharan 2, Chap 42: Massacres Continue
  9. Goodwill & God’s Will
  10. Queens South Asian Music Festival
  11. MA Fundraiser for Kallapadu Community Center April 29
  12. When is the Tamil New Year?
  13. Pirapaharan 2, Chap. 41: The Massacres
  14. Mr. Bush, Take a Look at MTV
  15. Our Ultimate Answer
  16. Faith, Hope & Humanity in East
  17. Update from Sri Lanka
  18. Puthaandu Vaalthukal!
  19. Aid for Sudan’s Peace Settlement
  20. First Test of Sharing Power
  21. Asia Society Panel on Conflict & Tsunami
  22. Our Present Plight & Obligations
  23. Pirapaharan 2, Chap 40: Operation Green Arrow
  24. Rep. Davis Greeted by Tamil Americans
  25. A Pin-Point Action
  26. Jeyaraj & The Sunday Leader
  27. Relief Slow in Coming
  28. Scarecrow Song
  29. Chandramukhi
  30. The Foreign Minister’s Foibles
  31. Tamil Children Orphaned by War & Tsunami
  32. Relief Groups Can Create Chaos
  33. Masters of Indian Cinema in NYC
  34. South Asia Human Rights Festival in NYC
  35. US Congressman Visits Kilinochchi
  36. The Poor Can be Helped
  37. International Pressure & the Conflict in Sri Lanka
  38. Amendment of the Consitution & Federalism
  39. Federalism, Tamils & the Referendum Trap
  40. TCHR Reports to the UN Human Rights Commission
  41. Preschools in Tamil Eelam
  42. A Visit to Sri Lanka after the Tsunami
  43. When Fear Stalks a Community
  44. A Prayer for Adrian Wijemanne
  45. Tide Turning Against Aceh Militants
  46. Three Years After the Ceasefire
  47. Foreigners Have the Answer to the Ethnic Problem
  48. Pirapaharan 2, Chap 39: Pirabha Meets Rajiv
  49. NC Medical Relief Still Held by SL Customs

March, 2005

  1. Crying Wolf about the LTTE Air Force
  2. Are the Tigers Militarily Weak?
  3. UN Intervention re Mission to Sri Lanka
  4. Condolences to Family of Beatrice Mathasinghe
  5. Humanity Ashore
  6. British Methodists Urge Action
  7. Gossip-mining Gods of the Mass Media
  8. Pirapaharan 2, Chap 38: Deportation Emboldens Jayewardene
  9. Access to Health Care for Immigrants, Flushing, NY
  10. Limbo in Sri Lanka? Not if One Acts!
  11. Shaken by a Life Swept Away
  12. Lanka Customs Confiscates Relief Medical Supplies
  13. Democracy Hijacked
  14. An Elite Dedicated to Serving
  15. US Decision Principled, Courageous
  16. Long Island Tsunami Relief Show March 26
  17. Queens South Asian Festival March 26, 27
  18. The Politics of Ibrahim Parlak
  19. Three Years After the Ceasefire
  20. Pirapaharan 2, Chap 37: Thimpu Talks Collapse
  21. UN Commission on Human Rights
  22. Equitable Aid: A Litmus Test
  23. Double Standards on Underage Recruitment
  24. Pirapaharan 2, Chap 36-2: Thimpu Talks – 2nd Round
  25. True to Form
  26. Why this Needs Assessment…?
  27. Ceylon Chronology
  28. Distribution of Tsunami Relief in Sri Lanka
  29. Use of Child Soldiers
  30. Anti-Slavery Testimony by Lankan before US Congress
  31. Child Soldiers and the Law: A Survey
  32. Serruppu – a Short Film
  33. Tuticorin Files HC Writ re Sethusamudran
  34. Refugee Babies: Effects of Tsunami Aid
  35. What is Navak Arivuk Kudam?
  36. Agriculture on Our Shorelines
  37. Review of ‘Sri Lanka: Witness to History’
  38. Magical Flight Through Modern India
  39. LTTE’s ‘Hearts & Minds’ in the East
  40. Sixth Report of Grace Care Center
  41. Pirapaharan 2, Chap 36-1: Thimpu Talks – 2nd Round
  42. Wary of Aid
  43. NESOHR Condolences on Passing of Amnesty Founder
  44. ‘Baby 81’ Arrives in New York

February, 2005

  1. Pirapaharan 2, Chapter 35: Thimpu Talks-First Round
  2. UN Forum on Water & Energy
  3. Report on the News of Ragging at Jaffna U.
  4. Disaster Management – An Unmitigated Disaster?
  5. Let’s Face It
  6. A Tsunami Psalm
  7. Emergency Regulations Once Again
  8. Sri Lanka Unwilling to Meet Legitimate Rights
  9. War Remains an Option
  10. An Inhuman Logjam
  11. Planning, Protecting & Precautionary Measures Against Tsunamis
  12. Wave of Hope for Tsunami Victims
  13. Tamil Official Language Only on Paper
  14. Assessment of Psychosocial Issues Following the Tsunami
  15. Haran Returns Home from Sri Lanka
  16. On Kousalyan’s Killing
  17. Report from the NorthEast
  18. Tsunami Relief Gala
  19. Sri Lanka: Witness to History
  20. Basic Rights Must Cross All Boundaries
  21. Pirapaharan 2, Chap 35: Thimpu Talks – First Round
  22. Issues with HRW’s ‘Living in Fear’ Reportbr>
  23. Bharathanatyam Benefit Feb. 19 in New Jersey
  24. From Ethnic Outbidding to Ethnic Conflict
  25. Native Doctors Return, Roll Up Their Sleeves
  26. NESOHR Records the Murder of a Fearless Human Rights Activist
  27. Review of ‘Thamilichy’
  28. Direct Contact with Children’s Homes
  29. TRO Inaugurates Construction of Temporary Shelters
  30. Response to HRW: Killings Highlight Ceasefire Weakness
  31. Pirapaharan 2 Chap 34: From Ceasefire to Talks
  32. Proposal for rebuilding ‘Sivananda Thapovanam’
  33. Chandra Nehru Killing a Blow to Human Rights
  34. Eastern Tiger Leader’s Killing Setback for Peace
  35. MPH Student Comes through Tsunami
  36. TRO Memorial Service in Queens, NY
  37. US Asylum Seekers Treated Poorly
  38. Confluence Interview with MP Andy Love
  39. Release of S. Sivanayagam’s New Book
  40. Even Tsunami Cannot Wash Away Ethnic Rivalry
  41. Baltimore Man Helps Tsunami Aftermath
  42. Decade of Education for Sustainable Development
  43. Operation USA Water Purification
  44. Sri Lanka’s Coral Shield
  45. Pirapaharan 2, Chapter 33: Frog-Marched to Thimpu (cont.)
  46. Kathiravelupillai’s 1973 Eelam Statement Revisited
  47. Pres. Clinton Special Tsunami Envoy for UN
  48. Talk on Tsunami’s Aftermath at Columbia U. Feb. 3
  49. Letter to the Washington Times
  50. Strangers No Longer
  51. Deportation 101
  52. Foes Will Need to Be Friends in Rebuilding Sri Lanka
  53. Death, Destruction & Discrimination
  54. As Iraqis Celebrate, the Kurds Hesitate
  55. Diary of Disaster

January, 2005

  1. Mine-Affected Areas of Sri Lanka
  2. Kaiser Permanente in Batti
  3. Rotary Lists Needs in SL
  4. Funds Help Victims Only, Haran Says
  5. Human Rights for Immigrants conference Feb. 19 in NJ
  6. Growing Buzz on India & China
  7. Relief Hampered by GOSL Bureaucracy
  8. Eastern University Website on Tsunami
  9. Desperately Seeking Intelligence
  10. Doctor Went Home to Help with Tsunami Relief
  11. Correction re Ilam Thalir Illam
  12. Pirapaharan 2, Chapter 32: Frog-Marched to Thimpu
  13. Inadvertent or Intentional Misdirection?
  14. Immediate Relief and Long Term Aid
  15. Interesting Websites About the Tsunami
  16. Morristown Doctor Sees Extent of Need
  17. Seig Heil, Satty!
  18. Sri Lankan Government Tries to Deceive World
  19. Report from the Ground – Operation USA
  20. Boca Doctor in Thirukkovil
  21. Death & Rumor-mongering
  22. Press Statement by IFT
  23. Bharathanatyam Fundraiser Feb. 19 in New Jersey
  24. Tamil Media Tsunami Relief Fund
  25. How Dec 26 Changed My Life
  26. Pirapaharan 2, Chapter 31: Unity Moves
  27. Response to TAFREN Request for Proposals
  28. Loss of Children Has Shaken Us – Thamilini
  29. Jamaica Lutherans Donate to Tsunami
  30. UN Satellite Images of Tsunami Disaster
  31. Search for the Destroyed Church and Collapsed Bunker
  32. Here, Too, Sri Lankans Observe the Divide
  33. Will the Tsunami Raise the Hope of Unity?
  34. Visit to the Kids of Ilam Thalir Illam
  35. Despite Rebel Ties, Aid Group Earns High Marks
  36. Was Poompuhar Swallowed by a Tsunami?
  37. Colombo’s MGM Complex
  38. A Country in Need
  39. NorthEast Looks for Indian Tents
  40. Closure, Now Billions for the Rebirth
  41. The Real Name of Amparai
  42. Prof. and Mrs. Sundaralingam Obituary
  43. A Grief Observed
  44. Doctor’s Report from Amparai (PDF)
  45. New TRO USA Phone Line and Brochure (PDF)
  46. Students Respond to Crisis
  47. Pongal Greetings!
  48. WHO Report on Tsunami Damage 1/13/05
  49. Tsunami Stirs Fear, Need to Help in Kids
  50. My Trip to Sri Lanka
  51. The Tsunami & Sri Lanka: Emerging Realities
  52. Engaging Rebels in Reconstruction Efforts
  53. Response to ‘Pirabhakaran Mystery’
  54. Raise Adopted Child as a Proud Tamil
  55. Maps of Tsunami-Affected Areas
  56. Vultures Seen in the Sky
  57. Fragile State
  58. When Nature’s Way Spells Destruction
  59. NorthEast Takes a Battering
  60. Callousness of the Chandrika Government
  61. For Honduras & Iran, World ‘s Aid Evaporated
  62. How the ‘Evening Standard’ Article Happened
  63. Sri Lanka: Worse than War
  64. Letter to Kofi Annan on Visit to NE
  65. Region’s Tamils Fear Aid Not Reaching Homeland
  66. The Tsunami & Sri Lanka: Emerging Realities
  67. Basque Talk of Secession
  68. Aid Must Swamp Politics
  69. Grace Centers – Report #3
  70. Tamil Rehabilitation Organization’s New Website
  71. Give Me a Boat, I Will Rebuild My Life
  72. Sri Lanka Natives Face Danger of Pestilence
  73. TRO DMU Report 06/01/05
  74. Donate to TRO thru AOL & Network for Good
  75. Tsunami’s Cruelest Toll: Sons & Daughters Lost
  76. Lone Psychiatrist Works to Ease Mental Devastation
  77. Letter to the American Red Cross
  78. JVP – Communists or Communalists?
  79. Open Letter to S. Nagarajah
  80. Local Indians, Sri Lankans Launch Drives
  81. Loss of Innocence in the Politics of Aid
  82. Aid Reaches Marooned Sri Lankan Village
  83. Sri Lanka Rebels Take Up Aid Effort
  84. Shared in Sri Lanka
  85. Possible Tax Break for Tsunami Donors
  86. Kumar Ponnambalam’s 5th Death Anniversary
  87. All Ceylon Hindu Congress: Urgent Appeal
  88. NZ Tamil Trust Press Release
  89. Tamil Tiger Guerrillas Directing Relief Effort
  90. TRO – Relief Items Not Received in NE
  91. Logistics of Distributing Relief
  92. Tsunami Toll in Tiger-Controlled Areas of Eastern Belt
  93. Using Aid-Giving NGOs to Undermine the LTTE
  94. Tsunami Relief & Chaos
  95. Kilinochchi Medical Association
  96. Urgent Need for Medical Help in the East
  97. Tragedies of Tsunami
  98. Low-Tech Tsunami Barriers
  99. Used Clothing Collection in New Jersey
  100. How Nature Changes History
  101. Tamil Rebels Bring Discipline to Disaster
  102. LTTE Opts Out of CBK’s Task Force
  103. Long Wait for Help in East Sri Lanka
  104. Forgotten Tamils at Nature’s Mercy
  105. Impact of Tsunami in NorthEast as of January 1, 2005
  106. Appeal from NESOHR
  107. Grace Care Center Reports

December, 2004

  1. Floods, Floods, Floods
  2. Tidal Wave Damage & Relief
  3. American Student in Eelam
  4. Australian Student Volunteer for TRO in Kilinochchi
  5. Photos of NorthEast Tsunami
  6. Tamils Fighting for Fair Share of Disaster Aid
  7. In a Corner of Sri Lanka, Devastation & Divisions
  8. Predicament of the Tamil Tsunami Victims
  9. Monster Tsunami’s Fiendish Dance of Death
  10. New Zealand Tamil Associations Appeal for Non-Discriminatory Aid
  11. TCHR Press Release 12/30/04
  12. Village Destroyed, the Count Goes On
  13. An Appeal to the International News Media
  14. Amid Chaos, Sri Lankans Struggling to Survive
  15. Pirapaharan’s Statement
  16. TRO USA Press Release 12/29/04
  17. Tamil Emergency Medical Service Press Release
  18. Asian Disaster May Affect Two Civil Wars
  19. TRO Urgent Appeal 12/28/04
  20. Sangam Members Get the Word Out
  21. Prof. Sundaralingam Killed by Tsunami
  22. NorthEast Needs Urgent Aid
  23. Tsunami Relief Funds: Where to Contribute
  24. FeTNA Convention in Dallas, Texas in July
  25. Pirapaharan 2, Chapter 30: Jaffna Police Station Attack
  26. All the World’s a University
  27. Stranglehold on Peace: Kumaratunge Will Not Sacrifice Power for Peace
  28. Amnesty Human Rights Scholarships for Student Projects
  29. Human Rights Advocates Program at Columbia University
  30. Notes on Political Instability in Divided Societies
  31. Grace Learning Center
  32. Brief History of the Stalled Peace Talks
  33. Hotel Rwanda
  34. Helping Flood Victims
  35. Rebuilding Mullaitivu
  36. Going Nowhere
  37. War Drums in the South
  38. Rendering Unto Caesar: A Book Review
  39. Human Rights Watch and Tamil Children
  40. Talking with Tigers
  41. Pirapaharan 2, Chap 29: JR’s Trap for Rajiv’s Backtracking
  42. India’s Sri Lanka Policy: Need for a Review
  43. Reminiscences of Directing M.S.
  44. IFT Dec. 10 Press Release
  45. Child Soldiers & Sunny Beaches
  46. Contempt of Court
  47. The International Community & Tamils
  48. Mourning M S Subbulakshmi
  49. Pirapaharan, Chapter 28: The First Interview
  50. Seminar on The Indian Subcontinent: The Global Perspective, Dec. 11
  51. The Bandaranaike Contribution to a Divided Nation
  52. A Rigged Dialogue with Civil Society
  53. Symposium on Tamil Language in Chennai Dec. 11
  54. America and Sri Lanka
  55. Pirapaharan, Chapter 27: MGR’s Role in the Tamil Struggle
  56. Interview with Graham Allen, British MP
  57. Sethusamuderam Project: Reasons for Construction & Impact
  58. Tamils in Independent Ceylon, Chapter 1

November, 2004

  1. Tamils in Independent Ceylon: Contents & Preface
  2. Tamils in Independent Ceylon: Cover
  3. Score One Again for Karma
  4. R Shanmugalingam Obituary
  5. Letter from a Youth to the LTTE
  6. I in ISGA is for Interim
  7. Hope Dawns in the Vanni – October, 2004
  8. We Have to Live a Language to Use It
  9. Jeyendra Saraswathi: Brahmin Reformer or Murderer?
  10. Response to Reuters Article on Prabakaran Turning 50
  11. Annual Heroes’ Day Speech 2004
  12. Maveerar Naal in the US
  13. Velupillai Pirapaharan Turns Fifty Today
  14. For Pirabhakaran, the Future Begins at Fifty
  15. Letter from Singapore
  16. Boston Tamil Association Christmas Party Dec. 4
  17. ‘In the Name of the Buddha’ in New York Dec. 5
  18. Pirapaharan 2, Chapter 26: Foundation for Tamil Eelam
  19. Happy Thanksgiving!
  20. Sri Lankan Writes for Canada’s Memory Project
  21. Asylum Seekers Allowed to Sue Private Firms for Human Rights Abuses
  22. Guru Paramarta Story: Falling from the Horse
  23. Plantation Tamils – Oppressed People of Sri Lanka
  24. Maveerar Naal in the US
  25. Maya Arulpragasam’s World
  26. Open Letter to the International Community
  27. A Set of Killings in the East
  28. No Peace Without Justice
  29. Conflict over ‘Rights’
  30. Pirabhakaran’s Critics
  31. Pirapaharan 2, Chapter 25: Militants Acquire Territory
  32. A Victory, But Little Is Gained
  33. All Lankan Eggs in Indian Basket?
  34. The Kalveddu
  35. Parting Ways for Want of a Southern Consensus?
  36. Peace Puzzle
  37. The SL Peace Talks and the ISGA
  38. Pirapaharan 2, Chapter 24: The Country Turns into a Killing Field
  39. Conflict Resolution: The Mirage of Power Sharing
  40. Gen. Pirabhakaran in the Footsteps of Gen. Washington
  41. Think , Madam, Think
  42. Happy Deepavali!
  43. Pirapaharan 2, Chapter 23: Manal Aru Becomes Weli Oya
  44. Twenty Books on Eelam Tamils

October, 2004

  1. Sangam’s Nov 6 Annual General Meeting Program
  2. The Discipline of Honor
  3. Reclaiming the Rights of Cyclists
  4. Power to the Minority
  5. Pirapaharan 2, Chapter 22: JR’s Third Track
  6. LTTE Rationale for Talks Based on ISGA Alone
  7. Will Karuna Pose a Serious Threat to the LTTE?
  8. Karuna: A Voice from the Past
  9. Implications of a Kerry Win for Sri Lanka
  10. ilam – sihala?: An Assessment of an Argument
  11. Sangam’s Nov 6 AGM Program
  12. Pirapaharan, Chapter 21: Sustained Guerrilla Campaign
  13. Christmas in Vanni
  14. Youth Event at Sangam AGM Nov. 6
  15. The Meaning of Empathy
  16. An Endless War with No Corners
  17. Inventor of Yellow Fever Vaccine & Jaffna
  18. Re ‘An Indictment of the SLG’
  19. Of Cranky Letters & Political Knaves
  20. Benefit Basketball Tournament in San Diego
  21. A Short Biography of Pirapaharan
  22. Let the Tamils Go 2
  23. Memories of My Jaffna Days
  24. The ISGA: An Exile’s View
  25. The Game of Sound Bites
  26. A Melancholy Episode
  27. Ethnic Routes to Becoming American
  28. Hindi-English Bhai Bhai
  29. Appreciation of Unsculptured Thought
  30. Pirapaharan, Chapter 20: Violence Brought to the Fore
  31. Tamil Genocide
  32. Indictment of the Sri Lankan Government
  33. Sri Lanka Problem-Solving Project
  34. Why We Needn’t Feel Insulted
  35. The ISGA Proposals: The Course to Take
  36. Fear of the Demand for One Country, Two States
  37. Let the Tamils Go
  38. US Youths Reflect on Pongu Tamil
  39. Tamil Eelam Women’s Day October 10
  40. What is the Relationship of Rama and Sita?
  41. Attempts to Explain Our Problems to the Sinhalas Useless
  42. Nampungal Tamil Eelam Nallai Pirakum
  43. TRO’s Annual Event in NJ Oct. 23
  44. Pirapaharan 2, Chapter 19: Burying the TULF
  45. Only Inflicting Pain Pays
  46. Tamil Diaspora
  47. Reporting from Vanni, Part 1
  48. by a former child soldier – a Poem
  49. Do Not Cry – a Poem
  50. President’s Address at the Asia Society
  51. Inspiration & Hope: The Youth of Sri Lanka
  52. Back to Basics for Sri Lanka’s ‘Minesweepers’
  53. Gandhi’s 135th Birthday
  54. Analysis of SLFP Objections to the ISGA
  55. Response to President Kumaratunge’s UN Address
  56. Pirapaharan 2, Chapter 18: Tamils Lose Faith in Talks
  57. Responses to ‘I Got Trapped in the NFL’
  58. The Worst Weapon of Mass Destruction

September, 2004

  1. TNA Press Release on President’s Speech
  2. Political Chaos in Sri Lanka
  3. Tide or Ivory Snow? Public Power in the Age of Empire
  4. THO Doctors Work in Vanni This Summer
  5. Sixth Guru Paramarta Story
  6. The Persecuted, in Chains
  7. Pongu Tamil Speech by Elagupillai
  8. American Policy of Disengagement
  9. Pirapaharan 2, Chapter 17: All Party Conference
  10. A to Z of Conflict Resolution in Sri Lanka
  11. International Community Can Help Forge Peace
  12. ISGA: Legitimate, Practical & with Precedence
  13. Jaffna Cookery
  14. Views of Tamilchelvan the JVP Must Consider
  15. Peace in Sri Lanka, Part 3: Power Sharing
  16. Peace in Sri Lanka, Part 2: Fear of Secession
  17. Peace in Sri Lanka, Part 1: Equality
  18. Endless Struggle
  19. Sri Lanka Economy in Shambles
  20. Pirapaharan 2, Chapter 16: JR’s Second Track
  21. Report on International Religious Freedom/a>
  22. Warped Aryans Against Peace
  23. Sri Lanka Scene: Stabilizing the CFA
  24. Mishandling Suicide ‘Terrorism’
  25. US Assistance to Lanka Against ‘Terrorism’
  26. ISGA: Deadend or Historic Opportunity
  27. First a State, Then a Nation
  28. Thondaman Supports the Government
  29. Children’s Computer Centre in Kilinochchi
  30. Thoughts on the Political Tovil
  31. The Sinhala Nation & Foreign Military Involvement
  32. International Community Sharpens Its Knives Against Tamils
  33. Pictures from a Doctor in Post-conflict Northern Sri Lanka
  34. Pirapaharan, Chapter 15: JR Visits China & the US
  35. Give Chechens a Land of Their Own
  36. LTTE Critics Argue Against Ceasefire
  37. Global Pressure on the LTTE
  38. Thoughts on Ethnic Reconciliation
  39. Pongu Tamil in Toronto Sept. 25
  40. Weekaroon Says LTTE May Not Have Killed Premadasa
  41. Twenty-five Types of Government
  42. Working in Post-conflict Northern Sri Lanka
  43. A Global War: Many Fronts, Little Unity
  44. Countering Terror
  45. Pirapaharan 2, Chapter 14: JR’s Three Track Policy
  46. Self-Righteous Democracies
  47. Sri Lanka Scene: JVP’s Assault on Tamil Nationalism
  48. I Got Trapped in the Secret ‘No Fly List’ of the Transportation Security Administration
  49. Diaspora Circulation and Transnationalism
  50. Collective Rights and the ISGA
  51. Is the XIII Amendment the Roadblock to Peace?

August, 2004

  1. Tamils Alone in Hostile World
  2. Won’t Sri Lankan Leadership Reform?
  3. Ending Regional Drift
  4. Good Government: You Can Put a Value on It
  5. Pathirana Group Aids Tamil Students in ’83
  6. Pirapaharan 2, Chapter 13: The Love Story
  7. Sri Lanka Scene: Ceasefire Under Severe Strain
  8. ISGA Bashing: Much Ado About Nothing
  9. Letter to RSF on Nimalarajan’s Killer
  10. Review of The Road from Elephant Pass
  11. Vaiko Reiterates Support to LTTE, Not to Seek Bail
  12. Thoughts on Creation of a Federal State
  13. Pirapaharan 2, Chapter 12: Conflicting Objectives
  14. Topless Dance of a Transmuted Karuna
  15. Sri Lankan Attack on Norway’s Peace Effort
  16. Why the ISGA is the LTTE’s Irreducible Minimum
  17. Sri Lanka Scene: Southern Conflicts Hinder Talks
  18. What is All This Fuss About?
  19. WAPS’ Activities Expose the SLG
  20. Vignettes on Three Black Tiger Heroes
  21. A Way Out?
  22. Third Batch of TSVP Interns
  23. Singapore Must Not Alienate Its Brightest
  24. Kelsen’s Theory of Necessity
  25. A Jarring Summer
  26. Sri Lanka Scene: Talks Again About Talks
  27. Pirapaharan 2, Chapter 11: Indira Gandhi’s Covert Track
  28. Indians in Chile Struggle to Take Back Forests
  29. The Right Environment for the Peace Process
  30. It is a Matter of Trust
  31. Conversations and Comparisons
  32. Shameless Somersault on POTA by The Hindu
  33. Sangam Press Release
  34. Computer Training Center in Chavakachcheri
  35. Vanni Tech Convocation
  36. Politics of Dissension and Divergence
  37. The Americanization of Chennai
  38. Election Observers’ Agenda
  39. Book Review: Triumph of Truth (Rajiv Gandhi)
  40. “56-Years” of Journey To End
  41. Sri Lanka Scene: Norwegian Efforts Fail
  42. Black July – High Profile Massacres

July, 2004

  1. Black July – Ghosts of Chemmani
  2. Black July – Riots That Led to War
  3. Black July – Culture of Silence
  4. Black July – Politics of Apology
  5. Black July – Editorials on Black July
  6. Black July – JULY Never Again
  7. Black July – Vision of the Massacred Detainees
  8. Black July – Exodus to Homeland
  9. Black July – Eyes of Kuttimani
  10. Black July – Prison Massacres
  11. Black July – Pogrom in a Divided Country
  12. Black July – A Colombo Student Recollects
  13. Black July – Revisited
  14. Black July – Commemoration 1983
  15. Sri Lanka Scene: Preparing the ground for talks
  16. Patterns and Realities of Elections
  17. Pirapaharan, Chapter 10: Indira’s Double Track Policy
  18. International Community and the Proxy War
  19. Greasing Up to the Power
  20. Sri Lanka Scene: War Fear Returns to Sri Lanka
  21. Minister Devananda’s Major Dance in Terrorism
  22. The Presidential Ploy: War for Peace Again ?
  23. Current Impasse in the Peace Process
  24. Sri Lanka Scene: The Kollupitiya Blast
  25. Building Peace on Shifting Sands!
  26. The Present Crisis: A Way Out
  27. Covert Military Activities in Maddakalappu
  28. Dissecting Jaffna Election Coverage
  29. Pirapaharan, Chapter 9: The Indira Doctrine
  30. TNA’s Thrust in Parliament
  31. Karuna Quartered
  32. Sri Lanka Scene: Sinhala Chauvinism Raises its Head

June, 2004

  1. Pirapaharan 2, Chapter 8: The Cover Up
  2. Kumaratunge goads the Tigers
  3. Sri Lanka Scene: Truce holds, talks recede
  4. The Pursuit of Peace
  5. ‘Sooriya Puthalvargal 2003’
  6. Slow ebb of peace
  7. Pirapaharan 2, Chapter 7: JR Seeks Arms
  8. More reader participation on 1983 riots
  9. Fifth Guru Paramarta story
  10. Crooked ‘Lines’
  11. Reader participation
  12. Congrats to Dr. Indira Samarasekera
  13. India looks East
  14. Thiru. Vaiko in Chicago June 19
  15. Go your way!
  16. Kumaratunge prepares to unleash army
  17. ‘Fragments of Grace’
  18. Playing with Indian fire
  19. 48 years for the wheel to turn full circle!
  20. FeTNA in Baltimore the Fourth of July!
  21. Pirapaharan 2, Chapter 6: Indira’s Telephone Call
  22. The time has come to ‘lock horns’
  23. Audio of book release function
  24. Trauma Studies Program at NYU
  25. Kurds Win Round on Constitution
  26. THO Health Fair in NYC June 26
  27. Sri Lanka scene: parliamentary terrorism
  28. Reel Peace: six short films on Sri Lanka
  29. World Refugee Day: June 20
  30. A bridge to Sri Lanka
  31. Defection of a RAW agent from India
  32. 17th Annual FeTNA National Convention
  33. A funny old world
  34. Selected Writings by Gunasegaram
  35. Ethnic crisis: wishful thinking in the South
  36. Don’t know, should care
  37. Malacca Straits 2
  38. Children’s homes of Tamil Eelam
  39. Pirapaharan 2, Chapter 5
    The Second Massacre
  40. Hope in the face of adversity
  41. Karuna Facing Defector’s Dilemma
  42. Oh, What a Tangled Web
  43. Sri Lanka Scene
    Killings Unite Tamils
  44. Invitation from Thamiz Kulam Pathipalayam
  45. Hypocrisy Today
  46. To Be Democratic and Rich

May, 2004

  1. Pirapaharan 2, Chapter 4
    Massacre of Prisoners
  2. Can Asia Provide Global Leadership?
  3. Sangam’s AGM Nov. 6, 2004 in New Jersey
  4. Centre for Health Care
  5. Will Sri Lanka Become Another Cyprus?
  6. Red Herring
  7. Are They Trying to Take Us for a Ride?
  8. American Gulag
  9. Malacca Straits
  10. UN Crop Mission to Sri Lanka
  11. The Sycophant
  12. Beware of RAW, not Sonia
  13. Sinhala Political Enmity Will Thwart Peace
  14. Will the Poor be With Us Always?
  15. Pirapaharan 2, Chapter 3
    The Final Solution
  16. Sri Lanka Scene
    Sex Scandal, Blackmail & Kidnap
  17. Sonia’s Slap to the Roof-top Barkers
  18. Forced Migration
  19. CSIS: Election Shake-up
  20. 28th Anniversary of Vaddukoddai Resolution
  21. Miffed with the LTTE’s Military Muscle
  22. Are the People Sending a Message?
  23. ISGA: Chance for a United Sri Lanka
  24. Tamil Children’s Endowment Fund
  25. Ecumenical Center in Trinco Orphanage
  26. 12 Steps for Recent Asylees
  27. NY Music Concert Photos
  28. Review of At the Water’s Edge
  29. Rajiv Assassination Investigation
  30. Sri Lanka Scene
    Kumaratunga’s Strategy Fails
  31. Peace Talks Wrecked Before Resumption
  32. FeTNA Convention July 2-5 in Baltimore
  33. The Only Possible Solution
  34. Tamil to be Taught at Yale
  35. Remembering Malgudi’s Creator
  36. Thinking the Unthinkable
  37. Pirapaharan 2, Chapter 2
    The Jaffna Massacre
  38. Open Appeal re Sivaram
  39. Sri Lanka Scene
    Peace Talks to Resume Soon
  40. Fourth Guru Paramarta Story
  41. Music Concert in NY May 8
  42. ANZAC Day and the Eelam Tamil
  43. Selling to the Poor
  44. Security Council Resolution 1539
  45. The Economic Consultancy House (TECH)
  46. Tibetan Hunger Strike

April, 2004

  1. Pirapaharan 2, Chapter 1
    Thirunelveli Attack
  2. VanniTech Trip Report
  3. THO-USA AGM May 1
  4. UNHCR Urges More Help for Displaced
  5. Are Tamils to be Fooled Again?
  6. Center for Women’s Development & Rehabilitation
  7. Sri Lanka Scene
    Eelam Has Come to the House
  8. Power, Terror, Peace, and War
  9. Trip to Vanni, Section V Part II
  10. Tamils Rehabilitation Organization
  11. Chelvanayakam’s 27th Death Anniversary
  12. Third Story of Guru Parmarta
  13. ‘The Indian Theatre’
  14. What the IC Cannot Ignore
  15. Restored Deadlock
  16. UN Intervention on Ponnambalam
  17. What Does This ‘Peace’ Mean?
  18. Pirapaharan, Vol.2,
    Introduction
  19. FeTNA Convention in Baltimore July 2-5
  20. Sri Lanka Scene
    Tamils United to Talk Peace
  21. The Constitution is Illegal
  22. Buddhists Take Off Lotus Gloves
  23. Are We Getting Anywhere?
  24. On the Colombo Run
  25. NGOs in the Tamil Homeland
  26. ‘No Legal Basis for a Constituent Assembly’
  27. The US & Sri Lanka’s Muslims
  28. In Search of Peace
  29. Foreign Intervention, Part 2
  30. Foreign Intervention, Part 1
  31. Another Pirabhakaran Knockout
  32. Pirapaharan, Chapter 37
    Heroic Death of Seelan
  33. Where to, Sri Lanka?
  34. Tamil Studies, NZ, Press Release
  35. Straw Man
  36. SWOT Analysis
  37. Brigitte Morgenthaler Subramaniam
  38. Sri Lanka Scene
    Revolt Strengthens Pirapaharan
  39. TNA MPs Pushed Around by SLA
  40. Collapse of Col. Karuna’s Chariot
  41. Vanni Trip, Section V, Part I
  42. ‘Another Fine Job, Well Done’
  43. Tribute to M.K. Eelaventhan
  44. Easter Message
  45. Geopolitics of South Asia
  46. Sinister Stratagems, Part 2
  47. Sinister Stratagems, Part 1
  48. Guru Paramarta: Second Story
  49. Vaiko Clean!
  50. Pirapaharan, Chapter 36
    Breaking Heads
  51. Guru Paramarta; First Story
  52. Sri Lanka Scene
    Peace Talks May Suffer
  53. What’s Next
  54. Meaning of the Election Results
  55. Sour Grapes Sangaree
  56. Our Political Clown
  57. Vox Populi, Vox Dei
  58. Tamil People’s Duty
  59. Tamils’ Health: The Diaspora’s Role
  60. FeTNA July 4 ,2004 in Baltimore
  61. The RAW Factor
  62. Pirapaharan Chapter 35
    Tamil Blood Boils

March, 2004

  1. FTAUK Press Release
  2. ‘Silent Waters’ in NYC & SF
  3. Sri Lanka Scene
    Close Fight in the South
  4. Need of the Hour
  5. After the April ’04 Elections
  6. Life After Former Col. Karuna
  7. Venugopal Master: 60th Birthday Tribute
  8. The On-Coming Elections
  9. Pandora’s Box
  10. Terrorism Refined & Distinguished
  11. Resume Database for Immigrants
  12. Pirapaharan, Chapter 34
    Tamils Follow Militant Leadership
  13. An Appeal to Eelam Tamils
  14. Sri Lanka Scene
    Revolt Against Regionalism
  15. UN Commission on Human Rights
  16. The April Fools Election
  17. Tamil Cogs of Harkara System
  18. IMF 2003 Consultation with Sri Lanka
  19. Tamil Homeland is Part of Tamil Identity
  20. Northern & Southern Blocks Divided
  21. Paradise Lost?
  22. Tamil Hero Turned into a Zero
  23. ISGA Not For Separation
  24. A Tool For Sinhala Chauvinism
  25. Tamileelam Bank
  26. Pirapaharan, Chapter 33
    Knocking Out the Base
  27. Will Tamils Be Disenfranchised?
  28. Brothers in Arms
  29. Iraq & Sri Lanka: Compared, Contrasted
  30. Email Campaigning
  31. CPJ on Sri Lanka
  32. Wedding & Law Convocation in Vanni
  33. Amnesty’s Concerns re Sri Lanka
  34. Crossing the Laugh Line
  35. Sri Lanka Scene
    South Reacts with Restraint
  36. FeTNA Convention in Washington, DC
  37. Facts & Opinions About American Elections
  38. Pay Any Price?
  39. Iraq Shiites Fail to Sign Charter
  40. Franchise Denied
  41. Lions vs. Tigers
  42. Pirapaharan, Chapter 32
    The Return of Pirapaharan
  43. Election Cartoon
  44. Leadership Training for Immigrant Women
  45. Sri Lanka Scene
    Peace Cry to Win Votes
  46. Tamil Language Summer Camp
  47. Tamil Radio from Central New Jersey
  48. Dynasty Strikes
  49. Letter to the International Community

February, 2004

  1. 76 Tamil Political Prisoners
  2. Political Bifurcation Inevitable
  3. The Macartney Maneuver
  4. The Lion & His Shadow
  5. You Are What You Speak
  6. Mind Your Own Business
  7. Will the Election Solve the Impasse?
  8. Kurds Demand Vote on Independence
  9. Pirapaharan, Chapter 31
    The Death of the First Hero
  10. Tamil Aspirations and Traitors
  11. Special General Meeting
  12. Sri Lanka Scene
    Strengthening the Tamil Bargaining Position
  13. Bob Dylan Stares at Sri Lankans
  14. The “new world order” and Tamils – a comment.
  15. Open Letter to President & PM
  16. Call to Increased Action for War-Affected Children
  17. Some Reflections on Terrorism
  18. Sinhala Buddhist Vote
  19. Blood Bank of Jaffna Hospital
  20. A Sri Lankan’s Role in the Leak of Nuclear Secrets
  21. Tigers’ Bloodless Coup
  22. Sri Lanka Scene: Election Jockeying
  23. Pirapaharan, Chapter 30
    LTTE Guerrillas in Action
  24. Looking for the Pony
  25. Letter to Jehan Perera
  26. Tamil Parties Cannot Play Coy in a Corner
  27. Sri Lanka Scene:
    An Opportunity Tamils Should Not Miss
  28. Getting the Education & Credentials to Advance Your Career in the US
  29. The Enduring Power of Traditional Art
  30. The People’s Sovereignty
  31. Projects Needed for Vanni Tech Graduates
  32. War or Recognition of Realities on the Ground?
  33. Open Letter to US Secretary of State
  34. Barriers to Equality of Educational Opportunity in Sri Lanka
  35. Batticaloa Summer Camp Seeks Volunteers
  36. Pirapaharan, Chapter 29
    The Indian Interest
  37. Is She Truly Sovereign?
  38. Sri Lanka Scene
    India to Delay Signing
  39. Help US Asylum Seekers: 4 things you can do
  40. P. Ramanathan
  41. Britain Puts UN Child Soldier Plan on Hold
  42. Thinakural Cartoon

January, 2004

  1. An Ayodhya in the Making in Lanka
  2. Lessons to be Learnt from the LTTE
  3. Primary Trauma Course in Jaffna Teaching Hospital
  4. Pirapaharan, Chapter 28
    RAW Meets Pirapaharan
  5. A Reply to ‘India’s Interest in a JVP Sri Lanka’
  6. Parity of Military Status
  7. Sri Lanka Scene
    The World Figures Out
  8. Judge Voids Part of Anti-Terror Act
  9. The Destructors
  10. Caste in Transition
  11. India’s Interest in a JVP Sri Lanka
  12. An Indian Takeover of Sri Lanka?
  13. Pirapaharan, Chapter 27
    Amirthalingam Taken for a Ride
  14. Sri Lanka Scene
    Sinhala Chauvinism on the War Path
  15. Tolstoy & Pirabhakaran Parallels
  16. New Alliance Set to Precipitate War
  17. Still Time Left to Revive Peace
  18. Tamilchelvan’s Statement to Intl Officials & Organizations
  19. The Case for Direct Economic Assistance to the NorthEast
  20. Tribute to MGR
  21. ‘Chasing Freedom’ on Court TV Monday
  22. Think, India, Think
  23. Fait Accompli!?
  24. Pirapaharan, Chapter 26
    The First Attack on the Army
  25. Indo-Lanka Defence Cooperation
  26. Terms & Conditions
  27. Sri Lanka Scene
    Political Chess Goes On
  28. Professor Nagl’s War
  29. Review of ‘Tamils in Independent Ceylon’
  30. Global Myths and Realities
  31. George Washington & Prabhakaran
  32. Review of ‘Elusive Mind’
  33. Pirapaharan, Chapter 25
    Parliament Discusses Ways to Kill Amir
  34. Fiscal Federalism
  35. Film on US Detention of Asylum Seekers
  36. Kumar’s Calling to Tamil Intellectuals
  37. The Sri Lanka Scene
  38. Re-evaluating Concepts of Sovereignty
  39. US Presidential election 2004
  40. Indonesia’s Secret War
  41. Aiding the Devila>
  42. First Canadian Tamil Film Festival Jan. 2 & 3
  43. Tamil Folktales in Oral Tradition

December, 2003

  1. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
  2. Pirapaharan, Chapter 24
    Tamils Still Back Moderates
  3. The Sri Lanka Scene
    Buddhist Fundamentalism Raises its Head
  4. Celebration of a ‘Death’
  5. Queens Immigrants
  6. ISGA Proposals and Precedence
  7. Federal Solutions Amidst Chaos
  8. Christmas Message from Father Emmanuel
  9. Asian Balance & the Subcontinent
  10. Good Cop, Bad Cop
  11. Bloody Past
  12. Pirapaharan, Chapter 23
    Who Gave the Order?
  13. The Sri Lankan Scene
    Peace Talks on Hold
  14. Status of Healthcare in the Vanni
  15. ‘The Swineherd’
  16. Winter Tamil Classes
  17. Pirapaharan
    Chapter 22
    The Burning of the Jaffna Library
  18. A Reply to ‘TE Proposals and Beyond’
  19. Examining the ISGA Proposal
  20. What is a Refugee?
  21. The Commonwealth Secretariat – On Thin Ice
  22. Celebrate Human Rights Day Dec. 10
  23. Worldwide Comments on the ISGA
  24. The Sri Lankan Scene
    Will There Be Consensus?
  25. Reaction to Kataragama’s Commonwealth Bid
  26. Buddhism and Violence
  27. USIP Classroom Simulation re Sri Lanka
  28. Does the ISGA Violate the Oslo Agreement?
  29. Center for Consititutional Rights press release
  30. Neutral Position
  31. Part of 1996 Anti-Terror Law Overturned
  32. To all Commonwealth heads of state
  33. Pirapaharan, Chapter 21
    The Split of the LTTE
  34. Review of ‘Elusive Mind’
  35. Translator jobs
  36. The Sri Lankan Scene
    The Bazaar Drama Goes On
  37. Appeal to Commonwealth Governments
  38. Maveerar Day Around the US

November, 2003

  1. Non-violent Peace Force in Sri Lanka
  2. New Tamil School in Cranbury, NJ
  3. Cracks in a Strategic Jewel
  4. Next Phase of Negotiations
  5. “We Are Not Making Preparations for War”
  6. The Three-State Solution
  7. The “Wisdom” of Mr. H.L. de Silva
  8. Appeal to President and Prime Minister
  9. Maveerar Day Around the US
  10. Playboy Interview with Nehru
  11. Indictment Against Sri Lanka
  12. A Truce is Not Enough
  13. Pirapaharan, Chapter 20
    Jaffna Turned Torture Chamber
  14. EU Resolution on Sri Lanka
  15. It’s the Constitution, Stupid
  16. Power Unchecked
  17. Promises to Keep
  18. The ISGA Compared to the B-C Pact
  19. LTTE’s Counterproposals
  20. Workshop on Environmental Management
  21. Tamil Student Volunteer Program
  22. Chandrika’s Coup and its Impact
  23. Pirapaharan, Chapter 19
    Balasingam Enters the Scene
  24. A Reply to ‘A Case Against Federalism’
  25. THO-USA Flyer
  26. Observations of the UN HRC re Sri Lanka
  27. Maveerar Day around the USA
  28. TVI USA
  29. A (un) Constitutional Coup d’Etat in Sri Lanka
  30. President & Premier Play a Traditional Sinhala Game
  31. Tamil Place Names Outside the NE
  32. Pirapaharan, Chapter 18
    Tamils Lose Faith in Commissions
  33. Open Letter to SL President
  34. A Debate on the Ethnic Identity of Tamils
  35. The Present Call to American Tamils
  36. Kumaratunge’s Coup and the Peace Process
  37. AFTA Media Release
  38. A Nudge for Sri Lanka Peace
  39. Interim Self-Governing Authority Proposal
  40. The LTTE’s Proposals for an Interim Self-Governing Authority
  41. …And It Is Time for Action in Colombo
  42. Pirapaharan, Chapter 17
    Sinhala-Tamil Tension Mounts
  43. Vanni Trip, Section IV Part III
  44. The 1978 Jayawardene Constitution is Unconstitutional
  45. Vanni Trip, Section III Part III
  46. Lessons from the Sudanese Experience
  47. Threats & Talks, Latent Bias
  48. Pirapaharan, Chapter 16:
    Wresting Weapons from the Enemy
  49. Detention Summit in Rutgers Law School, NJ, Nov. 8
  50. USIP Dissertation Fellowships

October, 2003

  1. Computer Center Opened in Vaddakkachchi
  2. Sudan’s Peace Talks
  3. Pirapaharan,
    Chapter 15: The Ban, J.R.’s Gift
  4. Expatriate Tamil contribution to the development of the Northeast
  5. Tamil techies master Blaster worm
  6. Trip to Vanni, Section II of Part III
  7. Trip To Vanni – Section I of Part III
  8. Civil War and Poverty
  9. NJ Refugee & Asylee Healthy Families Conference, Oct. 24
  10. What Future the UN?
  11. Pirapaharan
    Chapter 14. The LTTE Comes into the Open
  12. The Myth of Kannaki: The Concept of Chastity and Power
  13. Shared Sovereignty May Be Answer to Kashmir Problem
  14. How War on Terror Hits Charity
  15. Joint Computer Center Opens in Jaffna
  16. Pirapaharan
    Chapter 13. Militants come to the Fore
  17. The Tamil Roots of Bharatha Natyam (Sathir)
  18. A Series of Moments
  19. Cole, Chang lead US Patriot Act challenge by Tamils
  20. Does (or When is) History Going to Repeat Itself in Sri Lanka?
  21. ‘Discussion Paper’: Sinhalese Politicians Learn Nothing and Forget Nothing

September, 2003

  1. Imperialism – A Different Perspective
  2. Demythologizing the National Security Concept: The Case of Turkey
  3. Lessons from Resistance/Terrorism and Stalemate in Sri Lanka
  4. Review of ‘In the Name of the Buddha’
  5. Lessons Learned
  6. Russia’s Chechen Plan: Pick a Leader and Leave
  7. Cashing in on the Carnage
  8. On Rohan Gunaratna: the ‘Temple Drum’ of Terrorism Industry
  9. Talks in Themselves Are Not the Point
  10. Taking Responsibility for Disappearances
  11. Commemorating Krishanti’s Murder
  12. Open Letter to Jehan Perera
  13. The Federal State of Mind
  14. Is Federalism Unconstitutional?