By Prof. Hudson McLean

Devolution, Discrimination be damned!
The Terrorist LTTE is no more. However the Real Troublemakers who are sitting in their high chairs in Europe, USA, Canada, Australia are still going on pumping their bellows.
Its about time, the Tamils who wish to continue being Sri Lankans stand up and tell their Diaspora, “Either Put-up or [...]

- by Dayan Jayatilleka

These closing climactic weeks of the conventional war have been accompanied by tremendous external pressure on the Sri Lankan state. This has its upside because it illuminates. It reveals to us the world as it is and how it might be. It tells us who our friends are. It tells us also who [...]

- By Malinda Seneviratne
David Miliband and Bernard Kouchner, the foreign minister of Britain and France, respectively, may be rather ignorant.  Their bullishness can perhaps be attributed to this; they are out of tune with global realities and probably still believe they are living in the 18th century.  They came.  Sorry, they strutted in.  They saw. [...]

 
LTTE mobs during a protest demonstration have turned violent and smashed the windows of the Indian and Sri Lankan High Commission buildings in London today (April 27). By stone throwing two Metropolitan police officers have been injured at the Sri Lanka High Commission premises and admitted to hospital.
An LTTE mob engaged in a demonstration in [...]

Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha
With my adoration of things British, I had always thought of British Parliamentarians as splendid creatures. And I suppose they are, in a way, in that the latest set of effusions puts any exaggerations our Parliamentarians can manage in the shade.
Of course the poor creatures are suffering from that well known disease of [...]

 
A London court convicted a man described as the head of the Tigers in Britain on two terror-linked charges yesterday, including supplying bomb-making equipment to the Sri Lankan group.
Arunachalam Chrishanthakumar, 52, was found guilty of coordinating supplies of material to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
He was also convicted of receiving documents for the [...]

The government has acted wisely by rejecting Britain’s call for an extension of the humanitarian pause declared in view of the traditional New Year on April 13 and 14. The kneejerk reaction of the LTTE to the government’s gesture was to spurn the truce offer contemptuously out of hand and step up attacks on the [...]

Protesting Sri Lankan Tamils are being blamed for beheading the statue of Jawaharlal Nehru outside India House in London this morning.
Indian diplomats were informed of the statue’s desecration when they arrived at the premises of the High Commission in Aldwych this morning. The remains of the statue have been bound in a white sheet and [...]

 
The Metropolitan Police of London have made four arrests, one for violent disorder, two for public order and one for the breach for peace when the British Tamil Forum (BTF), the front organization for the banned Liberation tigers of Tamil Eelam organized a protest by blocking the Westminster bridge in front of the British parliament [...]

Given my deep affection for all things British, I had been wondering for some time whether we had not been unfair to Des Browne, in refusing to accept him as the Prime Minister’s Special Envoy to Sri Lanka. The poor man might have been hurt and I had been told by someone who had worked [...]