TNA teams up with Solheim in Oslo |

One-time Norwegian peace envoy, ex-minister Erik Solheim and TNA MP Suresh Premachandran are teaming up in Oslo tomorrow (May 15), for a fresh attack on Sri Lanka.
External Affairs Ministry sources told The Island that the LTTE rump and some of its supporters among various political parties abroad had been working overtime to undermine ongoing efforts to resume negotiations between the government and the TNA……. read more
TMVP To Contest With UPFA |
The Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pullikal (TMVP) says it will contest the provincial council elections in the east with the government.
TMVP spokesman Azad Maulana told The Sunday Leader that even if the council is dissolved before the due date and elections are held in September the TMVP will contest with the government. Elections for the Eastern Provincial Council is due to be held in March 2013, but there are moves to dissolve the Council this year and hold elections in September…………….. read more
Public mourning must be permitted to take place in the north |

The third anniversary of the end of the war will be celebrated in the coming week. In the past two years this has taken place with victory parades and with public commemorations of war heroes by the Government although many people would say it was not appropriate after a civil war when citizens of the country were killed in large numbers. It is also necessary to remember that the government is being accused of war crimes and violations of humanitarian laws…………… read more
We have mourned enough for Mullivaikaal. Mourning can unite people and give them a sense of identity in abstract. But for concrete identity politics, there is no substitute for using the moment to convey a consensus of a political position. So let the occasion not just be a time to shed tears for those butchered, but also a time when we try to live up to the standards of those who fought till the end for what they believed in, for what is our right. Let the month of May be a time we undertake a ruthless analysis of where we stand and why, a cold assessment of who our friends are and who our enemies are, and frame a strategy that will deliver the primary political goal of Tamil Eelam……………..
The unprecedented invitation extended by South Africa to a top GTF representative to deliver a speech last
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“People want to rebuild their lives and they want democratic space to express themselves. We need to facilitate this
The government was not genuine or sincere in its efforts to either ensure a civilian administration, or totally move out the military from the province.
“On the political solution, from our past experience the bilateral talks will not carry us anywhere. The two major parties – the UNP and SLFP – should reach a consensus. You can never solve the problem if there is going to be confrontation between the major parties,” he added…………….
Clinton is now certain to raise what Washignton calls “accountability issues not addressed by the LLRC.” The US is not in favour of the military investigating itself and holds the view that it “should be credibly investigated” by a “centralised mechanism.” However, the US has not made clear what such a mechanism is. This is notwithstanding the visit to Colombo by Stephen J. Rapp, Ambassador-at-Large heading the Office of Global Criminal Justice in the U.S. Department of State. It is also in favour of cash payments for those affected though Washington is reluctant to call it “compensation.”…………
The District Court of Eastern District Court of New York Friday freed Kandasamy Karunakaran who was arrested five years ago and charged with providing material support to Liberation Tigers designated as a “Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO)” in the U.S. Judge Raymond Dearie noting that “this is not a garden variety terrorism case,” and adding that “[w]e have to pull back that emblazoned banner of terrorism and look at the case specifically,” ……….
The occupying Sri Lankan military in Ki’linochchi is making every effort to cover up the culprits of the brutal killing of Canadian Tamil citizen who was struggling to get his 


External Affairs Minister Peiris and his entourage will have the unenviable task of not only talking to top US officials about the March UN Human Rights Council resolution on Sri Lanka. In fact, his talks which are to mend fences with the United States would naturally persuade his delegation to present a new image of the government. Elsewhere, that image is getting clouded by rising prices, public discontent and the absence of austerity measures. Politicians seem to continue to be in a celebratory mood………….
What happened in Dambulla and its fallout is yet another reflection of the growing chaos unleashed by the chauvinist regime. Having unleashed, fuelled, nurtured and protected Sinhala Buddhist chauvinist forces to the maximum, this regime has no other way to handle the growing resentment except by using such barbaric pogroms. It will mobilize its most ardent and passionate supporters. The regime’s Sinhala Buddhist chauvinism is the main factor that is providing it with some militant mass support at the moment. Any indication that it is not willing to stand by its racist credentials will complete the growing disillusionment and anger that is growing against the regime. The false aggressiveness of the regime only shows that its downfall is near…………..