There seems to be no end to foreign do-gooders visiting here purportedly to help resolve the conflict. Now it is a British delegation! For the past three decades or so, neither foreigners nor successive Sri Lankan governments have succeeded in finding a solution. It is a foregone conclusion that the visiting British dignitaries are wasting [...]

Once an organisation has been banned by any government, many sorts of dealings with the organisation or its assets become criminal offences. As far as the law is concerned, there seems to be no ambiguity about this provision.
But when it comes to practice, it is one law for the rich and another for the poor. [...]

Last week Britain published a report on a new “Anti-terrorism strategy” highlighting the risks posed by terrorists. According to this, Al Qaida would fragment over time but its ideology will survive giving rise to more terror groups.
It has also referred to other countries which would garner terrorism. The 174 page report warns Britain of growing [...]

Those who may have naively thought bribery and corruption and abuse of power were endemic to the developing world stand corrected. Although the self-appointed champions of good governance, transparency etc are flaying only the politicians of the global South––they deserve to be horsewhipped, no doubt––that the situation is equally bad anywhere else is only too [...]

by Prof Rajiva Wijesinha
Secretary General
Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process
British parliament held one and a half hour debate on Sri Lanka on 5 February 2009 and members of all parties demanded a ceasefire in Vanni, demanded justice for the Tamil people, and demanded that humanitarian assistance be allowed through. They emphatically stated that there cannot [...]

By Ru Freeman,
A few hours ago, two aircraft flown by a terrorist group, LTTE, recognized as such by the US, were foiled in their attempt to attack the Sri Lankan capitol of Colombo. Thought both planes were shot down, two civilians were killed and forty-six others injured.
In an article in the New Yorker, (Jane Mayer, [...]

Two Tamil electronics experts living in Newport, South Wales, allegedly aided Arunachalam Chrishanthakumar, 52, known as “Shanthan,” to decide what components to acquire for the LTTE.
Shanthan was also close to Anton Balasingham, the Tigers’ chief political negotiator, who moved to London in 1999 and died three years ago.
Jonathan Laidlaw (QC) prosecuting, said the men [...]

By Dr. Raju Selva
I make this humble appeal to the Tamil Diaspora to stop financing, promoting, lobbying propagating LTTE thro their fronts spread right around the world. I made the same mistake almost two decades ago by supporting financially and promoting LTTE without seeing the real face of LTTE. In that respect I feel that [...]