by TamilNet, 5 October, 2003, originally published October 5, 2003 Professor David Cole of Georgetown University and Nancy Chang, Senior attorney at Center for Constitutional Rights, New York, will lead the legal challenge against the provision of the USA Patriot Act that criminalizes the provision of “expert advice and assistance” to proscribed organizations. Plaintiffs in… Read more »
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Does (or When is) History Going to Repeat Itself in Sri Lanka?
by Dr. Victor Rajakulendran, Sydney, Australia; published October 1, 2003 From the time Britain started to negotiate with the Sri Lankan (former Ceylonese) legislators to hand over the governance of the country to them, Tamil legislators have been negotiating first with the British authorities, and later with the Singhalese authorities, to get parity of status for… Read more »
‘Discussion Paper’: Sinhalese Politicians Learn Nothing and Forget Nothing
by TAGOT Press Release, Sept. 2, 2003; originally published October 1, 2003 THE ACTION GROUP OF TAMILS (TAGOT) Kotte, Sri Lanka Email:
Nirvana in Reverse
by V Gunaratnam, September 28, 2005 That is what is happening in Sri Lanka today. Everything is moving backwards. It is as if the country is being sucked into a black hole by racial and religious intolerance, lawlessness, and political deception, dragging it through a tenuous ceasefire to confront the perils of war again. Jayantha… Read more »