Sinhala Politicians of All Hues Realise Importance of Tamil and Muslim Votes

by Gomin Dayasri

General Fonseka was deservingly afforded facilities hitherto not provided to a previous Commander since no other Commander had won a war. [TC]

Five Tamil refugees arrive at Mukundarayar Chathiram

Five Sri Lankan Tamil refugees, including three children, arrived at Mukundarayar Chathiram near Dhanushkodi on Thursday, Dec 30th. This was reportedly the first since the end of the war between LTTE and Sri Lankan armed forces in May this year. [TC]

Sri Lankans need to  defeat  present anti-people rule and  build people power

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Pointing out that members of the Police,armed forces and public officials are being deployed to engage in propaganda activity the report also spotlights the $ 790,000 dollar advertising campaign conducted by the President's son Namal Rajapakse for which public funds are being solicited.[TC]

Education in Sri Lanka: A casualty of nationalism

By Marshal Fernando and Santasilan Kadirgamar

Among the colonies of the British Empire, Ceylon, as it was then known, was far ahead of its neighbours with regard to its primary and secondary school systems.[TC]

Not Quite Paradise:An American Sojourn in Sri Lanka

by Terry Hong

Three weeks after 9/11, University of Arizona professor Adele Barker arrived in Sri Lanka as a senior Fulbright Scholar to teach Russian literature, feminist literary theory, and American literature to select students at the University of Peradeniya [TC]

Why did LTTE come to being and who really created it?

by Chaminda Weerawardhana

Now, the SL government and a strongly Sinhala nationalist leadership (with a Sinhala supremacist discourse, coated in the false and dis-orienting stance of 'patriots' and 'non-patriots') has militarily defeated and decimated its own 'bete noire'. [TC]

If the Tamils vote for the General he may win

by D.B.S. Jeyaraj

Moves underfoot to "attract" MP's from opposition ranks to govt side as retaliatory measure for crossing over by CWC stalwarts [TC]

Mano Ganesan taken by surprise at CWC stalwarts crossover

by D.B.S. Jeyaraj

Ramiah Yogarajan and Murugan Satchithanandam of Ceylon Workers Congress cross over from Govt ranks to opposition & join UNP [TC]

Presidential aspirants must reveal where the beef is and how they would cook it

by Dr. Packiyasothy Saravanamuttu

Two thousand and nine will be a year to remember and with relief, regret, sadness, hope and joy or a mix thereof depending on one’s political sympathies and affiliations.[TC]

Desecration of Tiger war memorials deserve condemnation

By Prof. Michael Roberts

That was then in 2004. Now, in mid-late 2009, after the LTTE was vanquished, these tuyilam illam are no more.

TULF President's 15 point proposals for urgent consideration of all Presidential candidates

The Tamil United Liberation Front having very carefully considered all the aspects of the present political situation, decided to place before his Excellency the President and all the other Presidential Candidates, a set of proposals for implementation in the event of any one of them getting elected as the President of Sri Lanka. [TC]

LTTE leaders who surrendered were killed by Army Special Forces

by D.B.S. Jeyaraj

The LTTE’s political commissar Balasingham Mahendran alias Nadesan and head of tiger peace secretariat Seevaratham Prabhakaran alias Pulidevan and some other tiger leaders and members had allegedly been executed in cold blood after surrendering with white flags. [dbsj]

Election not about is Army Commander unfit to lead the nation nor is President unsuitable for second term

by Harim Peiris

There are huge social and economic challenges before us as a nation. Namely to heal a deeply divided society and to ensure equitable and sustainable economic growth. This has to be done in the context of an external environment where the Tamil Diaspora remain hostile to the Sri Lankan State and a global economy that is fundamentally reshaping after the financial meltdown and global slowdown of 2008/09. [TC]

Track record of Tamil Nationalist politics is repeated failure capped by defeat

by Dayan Jayatilleka

When in the individual sphere there is a long continuity of failure, a rational human being re-examines his/her life, while an irrational one blames everyone else.[TC]

Both Mahinda and Sarath playing the lyre like Nero

By Uvindu Kurukulasuriya

Today, we need not listen to rumours as we can see Rajapaksha for ourselves who has got on to his private stage at “Temple Trees” and is comparing the new calamities with the old. [TC]

Sri Lanka Conducting Its Own  ‘war-crimes’ investigation Is Becoming Imperative

"Review and deliberation of Tsunami recovery process important in the context of current development of North and East Sri Lanka," Transparency International Sri Lanka (TISL), said in a statement marking the fifth anniversary of the 2004 tsunami. [TC]

Land without checkpoints feels free to Tamil refugees

by Farah Farouque

''IT FEELS like freedom, now,'' says Sanmugam Sarpatheepan. [TC]

"War has brought misery and barbarism to all people of Lanka"

by Dr.Vickramabahu Karunaratne

The local “bourgeois democracy” including Lakthilaka, Victor Ivan and the rump of platform for freedom has decided to save democracy by getting General Sarath Fonseka elected. [TC]

Notebook of a Photojournalist: The wave of killer, and the wave of compassion

by K.T. Kumaran

The aftermath of the Dec 26th 2004 tsunami and the continuing devastating impact on all affected communities in Sri Lanka’s North, South and Eastern provinces have been brought via pictorial journals on HumanityAshore.org since January 2005. No other journal has covered all areas of Sri Lanka in this extensive manner. [TC]

Political wranglings overshadow conscience and concerns of ordinary people