Day: 24 January 2016

A new narrative for the Tamil people in Sri Lanka by Dr. K. Mukunthan Sri Lanka appears to be a country in transition. Some amongst us question the sincerity of the government or the impact these purported changes will have on the Tamil community. How far and deep these changes are to address the long-standing Tamil national question? Considering the historic trust deficit the Tamil community has on the governments or even the State of Sri Lanka, such questions appear reasonable. But an objective analysis of the present reality in…

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Find our loved ones – People urge TNA BY Mirudhula Thambiah A statement made by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe at a Thai Pongal event in Jaffna recently, seems to have enraged the relatives and friends of missing persons, and motivated them to agitate more towards pressurizing the government to find their loved ones. The Prime Minister said the majority of the missing persons should be considered deceased. There was widespread condemnation of the remark by the relatives, and they turned their anger towards the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), which received…

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Confident compromise mechanism to investigate war crimes can be worked out Minority communities’ human rights to be protected Ra’ad Zeid Al-Hussein by Zacki  Jabbar In the run up to the UN Human Rights Commissioner Ra’ad Zeid Al-Hussein’s scheduled visit to Sri Lanka prior to the June deadline that  his organization has set for Sri Lanka  to  establish an independent domestic mechanism to investigate war crimes allegations, the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe government has launched a diplomatic offensive aimed at both the local and international community. The local initiative came in the form of…

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