Posts Categorized: Politics

Bose: How Tamil Nadu Keeps the Fire for Tamil Eelam Burning

Sixteen years after Mullivaikkal by Subash Chandra Bose, South First, Hyderabad, India, May 16, 2025 While the international community has not formally recognised the May 2009 events in Sri Lanka as genocide, Tamil diaspora groups and Eelam supporters firmly assert that it was a planned extermination of Tamils. Synopsis: Tens of thousands of Sri Lankan Tamils… Read more »

Operation Sindoor

And the Evolution of India’s Military Strategy Against Pakistan by Arzan Tarapore, War on the Rocks, Washington, DC, May 19, 2025 Once more unto the breach, India struck inside Pakistan in response to a terrorist attack. Once more, the two sides escalated — again to unprecedented levels — before agreeing to a ceasefire. It is… Read more »

TG: Tamil Resistance at the Polls

Tamil Guardian editorial, May 9, 2025 Sri Lanka’s recent local government elections illustrated a sharp decline in support for the National People’s Power (NPP), a fall most pronounced in the Tamil North-East. Less than a year since it swept into both presidential and parliamentary power on a platform of anti-corruption and political reform, the coalition… Read more »

The Hindu: A Sri Lankan Anti-Terror Law That Needs Repeal

The Sri Lankan government must translate its pre-election rhetoric into reality, and end the Prevention of Terrorism Act by The Hindu, Chennai, April 30, 2025 In the many cycles of violence in Sri Lanka’s troubled history, “terror” has been a running theme. While the state — that has repeatedly demonstrated a majoritarian tendency — has… Read more »

ARED: Letter to Sri Lanka Core Group

by Association for Relatives of the Enforced Disappearances, Kilinochchi, May 12, 2025 Letter from Association for Relatives of the Enforced Disappearances to Sri Lanka Core Group May 12 2025 Chairperson and Committee Members Core Group on Sri Lanka United Nations Human Rights Council Geneva Dear Sirs/Madams, We, the relatives of those who were forcibly disappeared… Read more »

SLC: Mullivaikkal Remembrance Day 2025

Memory, Mourning and the Long Struggle for Justice by Sri Lanka Campaign, London, May 16, 2025 Sixteen years after the end of Sri Lanka’s civil war, Tamil survivors and families of the disappeared are still fighting for one of the fundamental human rights: the right to mourn. Every May 18, Mullivaikkal Day serves as both… Read more »

MK Stalin Interview in Deccan Herald

The Tuesday Interview | BJP and its ideology should be opposed beyond elections: Stalin In an interview with DH’s E.T.B. Sivapriyan, Stalin criticized the AIADMK-BJP alliance as detrimental to Tamil Nadu, accused Governor R N Ravi of acting as a puppet of the Union Government, undermining democracy, and disregarding judicial verdicts. by ETB Sivapriyan, Deccan… Read more »

What is India’s Long-Awaited Caste Census?

and why has it sparked outcry from Modi’s followers? by Alisha Rahaman Sarkar, The Independent, London, May 2, 2025 The Indian government will collect caste details in its next population census in a policy U-turn that could have sweeping socioeconomic and political ramifications. Information minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced on Wednesday that the census would count the populations… Read more »

Why Are Journalists’ Murder Investigations Being Avoided?

Media Freedom In Sri Lanka by Amirthanayagam Nixon, Colombo Telegraph, May3, 2024 It is an obvious fact that investigations into the killing of journalists and threats to the media are not being conducted against the backdrop of non-resolution of political rights issues of Tamils and cover-up of corruption and abuse of power by political leaders…. Read more »

What’s Legally Allowed in War

How U.S. military lawyers see Israel’s invasion of Gaza—and the public’s reaction to it—as a dress rehearsal for a potential conflict with a foreign power like China. by Colin Jones, The New Yorker, April 25, 2025 This past July, Geoffrey Corn, a law professor at Texas Tech and a former judge advocate general in the… Read more »

Nixon’s Cold-War Call On Colombo

by Vinod Moonesinghe, Roar Media, October 22, 2021 On 27 November 1953, after a month touring 15 Asian countries, US Vice President Richard M Nixon, accompanied by his wife Pat, arrived at Ratmalana Airport on a three-day visit to Sri Lanka, then known officially as “Ceylon”. It was the first visit by a US holder of… Read more »

Open Letter to Sri Lankan President Anura K. Dissanayake

Since 1948 SL Heads of State have ‘relayed’ on the Ethnic conflict! by S. V. Kirubaharan, General Secretary, TCHR – Tamil Centre for Human Rights, France, May 7, 2025  William Shakespeare: “Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends”. Dear Mr President: First of all, our congratulations to you and the NPP – National People’s Power… Read more »

PM Harini: Govt Committed to Ensuring Justice for Enforced Disappearances

by Adaderana, Colombo, April 10, 2025 Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya stated that the government is committed to ensuring justice for the victims affected by the injustices related to enforced disappearances. The Prime Minister made these remarks on Wednesday (09) in Parliament while responding to a question raised by Member of Parliament Shanakiyan Rasamanickam, the… Read more »

Understanding Modern Sri Lanka — Interview with Journalist Mark Salter

A Crisis of Governance and the Fluidity of Ethnic Identity by Pitasanna Shanmugathas, University of Windsor Faculty of Law, Canada, Jurist.org. April 25, 2025 Edited by: Alanah Vargas | JURIST Staff, US Mark Salter, a journalist, analyst, and writer with over 25 years of professional experience in democratization, governance, and post-conflict peacebuilding, speaks to JURIST’s Senior… Read more »

Richard Armitage Obituary

Richard Armitage has notoriety among Tamils for arming one side – the Sri Lankan government – which fatally destabilized the 2002 ceasefire between the LTTE & the government. – ED Richard L. Armitage, 79, Dies; State Department Official in a Turbulent Era While serving as Colin Powell’s deputy during the Iraq war, he found himself… Read more »

Selective Justice is Not Justice

Tamil Guardian editorial, London, March 16, 2025 Selective justice is not justice Mar 16, 2025 The aftermath of former Sri Lankan president’s Ranil Wickremesinghe disastrous Al Jazeera interview continued to reverberate across the island this week, after Colombo announced the tabling of the Batalanda Commission Report in Parliament. For decades, the report, which details the use of… Read more »