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Carnatic journey crosses Palk Strait
[ Times of India ] [ 09 May 2018 01:45 GMT ]
A quiet cultural interaction between Tamils in India and Sri Lanka has been taking place for a long time, but it was only in the beginning of the 19th century that it was documented.
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The resounding rebirth of Sri Lanka
[ Honolulu Star-Advertiser ] [ 07 May 2018 03:42 GMT ]
The Portuguese arrived in 1505, followed by the Dutch in 1658, then the British in 1796. Independence came peacefully in 1948 but did not last.
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Old Kachcheri
[ Atlas Obscura ] [ 05 May 2018 02:05 GMT ]
Vines and plants now look like integral parts of this beautiful example of Neo-Renaissance architecture, and moss adorns the Roman arches wrapping around the central yard.
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In wondrous Lanka
[ The News ] [ 21 Apr 2018 00:04 GMT ]
On a connecting note, I immensely enjoyed the local tracks the buses would be playing. Up-beat, melodious and plain incomprehensible, they added to the experience of the country.
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World Tamil conference on May 19, 20
[ The Hindu ] [ 15 Apr 2018 23:06 GMT ]
The Federation of International Tamizh Association (FITA) is organising World Tamizh Conference 2018 at Angkor Wat in Cambodia on May 19 and 20.
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The Origin of Others
[ Ground Views ] [ 29 Mar 2018 04:39 GMT ]
There is only one race, the human race; there are no foreigners but only different versions of ourselves .
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SRI LANKA - Split island
[ The Week ] [ 27 Mar 2018 01:08 GMT ]
There are certain entrenched socio-economic, historic and political factors behind the Sinhala-Muslim conflict.
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Sri Lanka Bans Cluster Munitions
[ Human Rights Watch ] [ 18 Mar 2018 00:29 GMT ]
Officials have denied the armed forces ever used these weapons, although there were allegations of use during Sri Lanka’s civil war which ended in 2009.
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State of Emergency Declared in Sri Lanka
[ Human Rights Watch ] [ 13 Mar 2018 00:09 GMT ]
The government needs to protect the human rights of all ethnic groups to ensure that the ugly communal violence that presaged Sri Lanka’s long civil war does not return.
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Blooming Errors In Sampanthan’s Eelam-Bud Thesis–A Rejoinder
[ CT ] [ 02 Mar 2018 02:05 GMT ]
It is the Sinhalese people, not the Tamil people who should decide whether they are prepared to share power with the Tamils within and undivided and indivisible country or force the Tamil people to invoke the principle to the right to self-determination.
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Amnesty International Report - SRI LANKA 2017/2018
[ Amnesty International ] [ 24 Feb 2018 00:49 GMT ]
Sri Lanka continued to pursue its 2015 commitments to deliver justice, truth, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence for alleged crimes under international law, but progress slowed and there was evidence of backsliding.
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Back to The Chess Board
[ The Hindu ] [ 23 Feb 2018 01:26 GMT ]
Worse still, the much-valued programme of constitutional and political reform, peace building, inter-ethnic reconciliation and democratic consolidation will enter an extended state of stalemate.
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The Banality Of Evil
[ Outlook India ] [ 22 Feb 2018 02:05 GMT ]
The original sin of the Sri Lankan state was its origin itself. A structure that depended on a permanent suspicion of the Tamil Other – all leading to a policy of assimilating or annihilating the Other.
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Editorial: Tamil Spring
[ TWG ] [ 19 Feb 2018 01:57 GMT ]
We must confer to both the UN and its co-sponsors in the strongest possible way that the exercise of getting any Sri Lankan government to grant any meaningful autonomy that will protect Tamils from harm's way or any future repetition of the past is a futile exercise.
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70 TOO MANY
[ TSIMT ] [ 18 Feb 2018 00:51 GMT ]
Voices are heard in the North, weeping. A thousand women weeping for their children, refusing to be comforted, for they do not know if they live or have died.
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Editorial: Fault Line
[ Tamil Guardian ] [ 15 Feb 2018 00:01 GMT ]
Through Sri Lanka’s 70 years of independence Sinhala ethno-nationalist parties have been voted into power whenever any possibility of power sharing with Tamils drew near, and governments who oppressed Tamils have been consistently rewarded by Sinhala voters.
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The fear inside us: Confronting Sri Lanka's past
[ Al Jazeera ] [ 10 Feb 2018 00:02 GMT ]
Once political parties dominated by the Sinhalese majority got entrenched, they pushed through certain policies that had an effect on the everyday life of Tamils and made them feel marginalised.
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TNA wants solution on par with Oslo Declaration
[ Daily Mirror ] [ 06 Feb 2018 02:55 GMT ]
The TNA in its manifesto for the forthcoming local government election said that that the solution it seeks with regard to the ethnic problem in Sri Lanka was similar to what was in the Oslo Declaration.
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Sri Lanka: Caged Independence
[ SL Guardian ] [ 04 Feb 2018 03:55 GMT ]
Sri Lanka, in its current state, evolved from an aristocratic democracy to a militarised ethnocracy, leaving limited space for minority rights to prosper, let alone integrating all communities to be part of one nation.
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Is Sri Lanka on course for a lost decade?
[ East Asia Forum ] [ 02 Feb 2018 02:10 GMT ]
Should the government abandon constitutional reform, the TNA may begin to lose ground to their previously electorally unsuccessful and more strongly Tamil nationalist rivals.
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Reality check in Sri Lanka
[ The Hindu ] [ 01 Feb 2018 03:57 GMT ]
In the last three years, the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe administration has left the people of Sri Lanka, including Tamils, with fewer reasons to remain hopeful.
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Sri Lanka: Repeal Draconian Security Law
[ Human Rights Watch ] [ 29 Jan 2018 04:51 GMT ]
For decades, the PTA has been used to arbitrarily detain suspects for months and often years without charge or trial, facilitating torture, and other abuse.
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Banker, tea-boy, librarian, intellectual
[ The Hindu ] [ 10 Jan 2018 01:59 GMT ]
Best known for his political essays and his novel When Memory Dies, Mr. Sivanandan made original contributions to understanding communities of resistance in Britain.
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JAFFNA FISHERMEN - Sri Lanka
[ Ada Derana ] [ 30 Dec 2017 02:45 GMT ]
At the time of educating the Sinhalese of the truth to establish reconciliation, a false propaganda claims Jaffna Kingdom was ruled by Aryan lords whilst exploiting the fishing crisis.
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Sri Lanka Joins Global Landmine Ban
[ Human Rights Watch ] [ 16 Dec 2017 00:03 GMT ]
'After deliberating for almost two decades, Sri Lanka ultimately decided to get on the right side of history by relinquishing antipersonnel mines,' Goose said.
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Sri Lanka At The Crossroads
[ CT ] [ 11 Dec 2017 00:37 GMT ]
Taking advantage of the Westminster-type constitution, Sinhala-Buddhist nationalists now claim, in the name of the state, to rule the whole country, unilaterally deciding the fate of Tamils and Muslims in the North and East.
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Thousands of British Tamils commemorate Maaveerar Naal
[ Tamil Guardian ] [ 28 Nov 2017 00:05 GMT ]
The British parliamentarian added that the parliamentary group will continue to work to increase international pressure on Sri Lanka to hold them accountable for mass atrocities committed against the Tamil people.
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The Constitution conundrum
[ The Hindu ] [ 26 Nov 2017 01:20 GMT ]
The 19th Amendment to the Constitution created a system of diarchy in the structure of government, the two centres of power managed to function in a spirit of cooperation.
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Sri Lanka: Adopt Timeline for Action
[ Human Rights Watch ] [ 16 Nov 2017 00:05 GMT ]
'UN members need to look beyond the increasingly hollow promises of reform, and insist that the government present an action plan and timeline for honoring its commitments.'
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The forgotten people
[ The Hindu ] [ 15 Nov 2017 02:11 GMT ]
The plight of Sri Lankan refugees, who have been here for nearly 35 years, appears to have gone out of the public consciousness.
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Reid has found a new life
[ Shepparton News ] [ 22 Oct 2017 03:08 GMT ]
His story is filled with fear, discrimination and injustice, but also a desire to represent and create a better life for his people.
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Demographic future of Sri Lanka
[ SL Guardian ] [ 10 Oct 2017 02:55 GMT ]
With 89,000 war widows among Tamils, 25,000 of whom are from Batticaloa and 4000 women under the age of 40, there was a marriage squeeze of Tamil women.
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Just Back From...Sri Lanka
[ Harpers BAZAAR ] [ 04 Oct 2017 03:01 GMT ]
Buddhist culture was one of my personal favorite takeaways that it can be broken down into one simple rule of being a good person, and with that in mind, being good to the Earth and the people that inhabit it.
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Jaffna yet to over come trauma of war
[ Millinium Post ] [ 07 Sep 2017 00:57 GMT ]
Kumaratunga believes this is a 'golden opportunity' for Sri Lanka to address the Tamil question, for both the major parties of the country are in government together.
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'Fearless' Indian journalist shot dead
[ BBC ] [ 05 Sep 2017 23:45 GMT ]
The Editors Guild of India released a statement calling her murder an 'ominous portent for dissent in democracy and a brutal assault on the freedom of the press'.
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The Killing Fields
[ Modern Farmer ] [ 12 Aug 2017 00:09 GMT ]
A mysterious kidney disease afflicts an estimated 400,000 people in the province, representing about a third of its population.
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GATHERING EVIDENCE - UNSTOPPED
[ ITJP ] [ 17 July 2017 03:32 GMT ]
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has made it clear another domestic mechanism will not have the trust of victims after so many have failed to deliver justice.
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Sri Lanka’s Difficulty With Truth
[ Human Rights Watch ] [ 14 July 2017 03:05 GMT ]
Foreign governments watching Sri Lanka’s progress on the resolution need to ask tough questions about why yet another Sri Lankan Government report is banished into silence.
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Changing perceptions in South Asia
[ The Kathmandu Post ] [ 25 Jun 2017 02:27 GMT ]
Countries in South Asia seem to be embroiled in a never-ending display of confusion, suspicion, misconception and a lack of understanding about each other.
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Limits of exclusivism
[ The Hindu ] [ 23 Jun 2017 03:05 GMT ]
The Centre also aggravates the dire state of the Tamil community with a terribly flawed reconstruction programme, with no meaningful investment in the local economy or job creation.
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Sri Lanka’s elusive housing logic
[ The Hindu ] [ 17 Jun 2017 01:25 GMT ]
Activists and a section of northern residents are worried that the proposal to build steel homes will neither regenerate local economy nor employ local labour in the war-torn areas.
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The cost of a cup of tea
[ Church Times ] [ 16 Jun 2017 03:55 GMT ]
'Tea-pickers are considered the lowest of the low, despite being the backbone of the Sri Lankan economy,'
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Sri Lanka’s missing people
[ The Daily Star ] [ 27 May 2017 04:44 GMT ]
As many as 65,000 people, mostly from the ethnic Tamil minority, are still missing in the country.
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Sri Lanka's Transition to Nowhere
[ International Crisis Group ] [ 17 May 2017 01:25 GMT ]
If current dynamics continue, the country will likely lose a real opportunity to address the roots of its decades of political turmoil. The chances of an eventual return to violence would then grow considerably.
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Upcountry Tamils set to welcome Modi
[ The Hindu ] [ 11 May 2017 01:02 GMT ]
Senior upcountry leaders deemed the Prime Minister's visit 'historic', after Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru's visits in the pre-Independence era.
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Feasting on Tamil performing arts
[ The Jakarta Post ] [ 27 Apr 2017 02:45 GMT ]
The event is an annual signature event organized by ITS to showcase cuisine, traditional games and performing arts from the Tamil-speaking community.
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Bend It Like Granny
[ BBC ] [ 26 Apr 2017 00:10 GMT ]
Nanammal is 98 years old and an expert yoga instructor from the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
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SRI LANKA: 'ONLY JUSTICE CAN HEAL OUR WOUNDS'
[ Amnesty International ] [ 19 Apr 2017 01:05 GMT ]
Amnesty International urges Sri Lanka to seek and accept international assistance where it is needed to ensure the most effective and rigorous process possible, so that all Sri Lankans can finally learn the truth.
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Sri Lanka’s slow dance on transitional justice
[ Lowy Institute for International Policy ] [ 15 Apr 2017 01:53 GMT ]
The suppression of Tamil rights in a range of areas – including language, education, employment and land – led to the rise of Tamil militancy in the 1970s.
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Why Sri Lanka's past refuses to be forgotten
[ Amnesty International ] [ 09 Apr 2017 03:02 GMT ]
They must commit to a public timeline in order to restore the people’s confidence that justice is on track and assure them that they are serious about taking action.
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Whither human rights in Sri Lanka?
[ The Hindu ] [ 28 Mar 2017 20:17 GMT ]
The state is at the core of the historical problems, whether it is repressive militarisation, the reinforcement of majoritarian interests or the centralisation of state power in Colombo.
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Martin McGuinness 'was freedom fighter, not terrorist'
[ BBC ] [ 24 Mar 2017 00:05 GMT ]
'We spent a lot of time together when I was President and I wanted to honour him for what he did, for changing from war to peace and to emphasise that, its' one thing to make a peace, another thing to make it work and that's an endless process' - President Clinton.
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Sri Lanka: Ballot Vs Bullet
[ SL Guardian ] [ 20 Mar 2017 05:11 GMT ]
It is the mode and the manner of Governance that decides the Choice between the Ballot and the Bullet.
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Sri Lanka: Many misunderstood our advocacy
[ SL Guardian ] [ 16 Mar 2017 05:47 GMT ]
Former President Chandrika, whom I earlier criticised for her 'War for Peace' as now having the potential to become the mother of a united rainbow nation of three ethnic groups and four religions.
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Return land, restore dignity
[ Tamil Guardian ] [ 14 Mar 2017 06:22 GMT ]
Forcible appropriation of land not only attacks the socio-economic well-being and livelihoods of the people to whom it belongs.
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Editorial: Elusive reconciliation
[ The Hindu ] [ 08 Mar 2017 02:02 GMT ]
The Sirisena-Wikremesinghe government should seize the moment and start addressing the core issues, keeping reconciliation and the future of Sri Lanka in mind.
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Sri Lanka: UN Human Rights Council
[ UK PARLIAMENT ] [ 03 Mar 2017 02:07 GMT ]
Many of the key promises made by the Government of Sri Lanka in 2015 - justice, accountability, human rights protections, reconciliation - have not been fulfilled.
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Key elements for a follow-up resolution on Sri Lanka
[ Human Rights Watch ] [ 27 Feb 2017 05:17 GMT ]
Anything less would fall substantially short of the expectations of victims, and risk undermining faith in the process long before the promises of reconciliation, justice and reform have been translated into reality.
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Are Tamil leaders losing patience?
[ The Hindu ] [ 25 Feb 2017 01:24 GMT ]
The tone and content of his address, moving an adjournment motion, signalled a possible shift in the Tamil leader's engagement with the government.
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Sri Lanka's constitution making process is in the doldrums
[ The New Indian Express] [ 18 Feb 2017 02:44 GMT ]
Samaraweera said that priority will be given to drafting a new constitution because the new constitution will be the ultimate guarantor of equality, justice, and non-recurrences of the ugly inter-ethnic incidents of the past.
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Sustained Concerns About Torture in Sri Lanka
[ The Huffington Post ] [ 17 Feb 2017 04:14 GMT ]
The obligation to prevent torture is that of the state; if they don’t tackle institutional reform and security sector reform seriously then the international community must start to put them on terms.'
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Treasures of the Indus - Of Gods and Men
[ BBC iPlayer ] [ 13 Feb 2017 01:02 GMT ]
In a journey across the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Sona Datta traces the development of the Hindu religion from its origins as an amalgamation of local faith traditions to its dominant position today.
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Lankan Tamils want a political settlement
[ Daily News & Analysis ] [ 12 Feb 2017 02:25 GMT ]
Wigneswaran alleged that President Maithripala Sirisena had misled the opposition and Tamil National Alliance (TNA) leader R Sampanthan by not settling the Tamil question as pledged by him in 2016.
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Maithripala Sirisena And Sri Lanka's False Dawn
[ Forbes ] [ 04 Feb 2017 00:33 GMT ]
The transitional justice process has been marred by opacity, an absence of leadership, a lack of inclusivity and a reneging of previous commitments pertaining to robust international participation.
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SRI LANKA: REFUSING TO DISAPPEAR
[ Amnesty International ] [ 31 Jan 2017 00:03 GMT ]
Until parents, wives, siblings, and children know the truth about the fate of a missing family member, they can find it almost impossible to seek justice and reparation for crimes they have suffered.
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Sri Lanka: Justice is paramount
[ SL Guardian ] [ 27 Jan 2017 03:11 GMT ]
With a backlog of over 100,000 alleged enforced disappearances since the late 1980s, there is no shortage of examples of frustrated justice.
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Why did no one see the bull hit?
[ The Tribune ] [ 26 Jan 2017 04:28 GMT ]
Many believe that one of the images unearthed during excavations of the Indus Valley civilization is an image of a person fighting a bull during Jallikattu.
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Sri Lanka braces for trouble ahead
[ The Manila Times ] [ 21 Jan 2017 15:02 GMT ]
Signs of growing grassroots opposition to the central government are cropping up in Tamil areas, mostly in response to the enduring presence of Sri Lankan forces there and their continued occupation of land.
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Sri Lanka: Adopt Task Force's Justice Proposals
[ Human Right Watch ] [ 12 Jan 2017 01:55 GMT ]
The government should recognize that its commitments were not only to concerned governments in Geneva, but to its own citizens seeking justice and reconciliation after a terrible war.'
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Time for a political solution
[ The Hindu ] [ 11 Jan 2017 01:00 GMT ]
For lakhs of Tamils still struggling to rebuild their lives since the island's brutal war that ended seven years ago, the wait has been long and painful.
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Had We But World Enough, and Time
[ The Indian Express ] [ 22 Dec 2016 01:15 GMT ]
'When you have the consciousness to understand that you belong to a culture and a history that is being destroyed, you realise it is your duty to be an embodiment of that history and culture.
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EU: Don't turn a blind eye to torture in Sri Lanka
[ The Sri Lanka Campaign ] [ 18 Dec 2016 02:14 GMT ]
The EU Commission must remain mindful of the role that GSP+ will surely play in the much broader effort, to ensure that Sri Lanka effectively deals with the legacy of the war through a credible justice and reconciliation process.
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Remembering and rebuilding
[ Tamil Guardian ] [ 11 Dec 2016 03:39 GMT ]
Sri Lanka's faltering approach over the last year does not bode well for those who wish to see a genuine peace on the island.
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Sri Lanka's UN Fiasco
[ Huffington Post ] [ 19 Nov 2016 02:44 GMT ]
Sri Lanka was recently under the microscope of the committee and, to put it mildly, things did not go smoothly.
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UN probe sought on torture by Sri Lankan security forces
[ The Indian Express ] [ 18 Nov 2016 00:02 GMT ]
'The international community, including the UN is under an obligation to ensure that the Government of Sri Lanka honours its commitments made in the Human Rights Council in regard to the transitional justice programme in Sri Lanka.
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The Lankan example
[ Dawn ] [ 28 Oct 2016 00:23 GMT ]
Sri Lanka is realising that ending a war doesn't equal peace. It only represents a window of opportunity.
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Sri Lanka: Separatists or Minorities?
[ The Diplomat ] [ 27 Oct 2016 03:44 GMT ]
The government has done little to credibly identify and address the root causes of the conflict, despite calls by local minority political parties and many foreign governments for a political settlement.
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Travails of a war-torn people
[ The Hindu ] [ 23 Sep 2016 02:42 GMT ]
The need of the hour is a movement for social justice combining calls to address the grievances of minorities with demands for decent economic life for the citizenry at large.
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Sri Lanka's Fleeing Tamils
[ World Policy ] [ 21 Sep 2016 04:24 GMT ]
Fear or experience of severe persecution, in addition to a de facto military occupation in the northern, predominantly Tamil parts of Sri Lanka, appear to be key push factors in the latest waves of emigration.
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Sri Lanka: Still Counting the Wounds
[ The Indian Express ] [ 01 Sep 2016 00:05 GMT ]
Scholars argue that the sprouting of Buddhist shrines and icons in the north will inevitably be seen as cultural colonisation and will hamper reconciliation efforts.
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Caught by the tiger
[ The Hindu ] [ 29 Aug 2016 02:07 GMT ]
Engaging not only for its thrilling description about war, captivity and freedom, but also for its moral courage in imagining the possible future of a reconciled republic.
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Why Sri Lanka Doesn't Trust the UN
[ The Diplomat ] [ 28 Aug 2016 00:15 GMT ]
Supranational bodies shall have the authority to take decisive action on matters of human rights if a state party is either unable or unwilling to promote, protect, incorporate, and disseminate international human rights principles.
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US Commends Sri Lanka's Reconciliation Measures
[ Voice of America ] [ 24 July 2016 01:02 GMT ]
According to U.N. estimates, up to 100,000 people were killed in the 26-year war, but many more are feared dead, including up to 40,000 civilians in the final months of the fighting.
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EU links aid to reconciliation in Sri Lanka
[ The Hindu ] [ 23 July 2016 03:05 GMT ]
The European Union (EU), one of leading trading partners of Sri Lanka, has urged the latter to include reconciliation and good governance under its €210-million development programme.
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When Mirrors Are Windows
[ Oxford University Press ] [ 15 July 2016 02:29 GMT ]
Scholarly writings sourced from the A.K. Ramanujan Papers archived at the University of Chicago - are studied to illuminate the influence of classical Tamil, medieval bhakti, and oral folk aesthetics and literature on his work.
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Sri Lanka must stay the course
[ The Hindu ] [ 09 July 2016 02:45 GMT ]
Having set in motion the process for a new Constitution and measures for reconciliation and reform, any loss of momentum now on the part of the government will result in a loss of credibility.
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Sri Lanka government consulted us on OMP bill: TNA
[ The Hindu ] [ 02 July 2016 05:10 GMT ]
The Tamil National Alliance (TNA), on Friday acknowledged that the Sri Lanka government had consulted the alliance during the preparation of the draft bill on the Office on Missing Persons (OMP).
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Sri Lanka: Broken promises again at the UN?
[ Asian Correspondent ] [ 22 June 2016 00:10 GMT ]
The international community should insist on course correction by Colombo through both a strong oral update by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights later this month and by the co-sponsors of Resolution 30/1.
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Sri Lanka: Enforce Commission Directives on Terror Detainees
[ Human Rights Watch ] [ 13 June 2016 05:51 GMT ]
The government has still not put forward a plan to provide redress for those unjustly detained under the PTA, or addressed the issue of detainees charged and prosecuted solely on the basis of coerced confessions obtained during detention.
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A tale of two languages
[ The Himal Southasia ] [ 09 June 2016 05:29 GMT ]
Will the new Constitution mend the deep scars left behind after the conflict?
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Time to seize the moment in Sri Lanka
[ International Crisis Group ] [ 26 May 2016 01:50 GMT ]
There is no better place to start than by acknowledging the suffering and injustice experienced by all communities - and the equal right to remember and mourn.
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Sri Lanka: Jumpstarting the Reform Process
[ International Crisis Group ] [ 24 May 2016 03:10 GMT ]
To rebuild confidence among Tamil communities in the north and east, the government must quickly release detainees and military-occupied land, begin credible inquiries into the fate of the disappeared, investigate and end abuses and repeal the Prevention of Terrorism Act.
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Preventing Post-LTTE Violence in Sri Lanka
[ Economic and Political Weekly ] [ 14 May 2016 18:11 GMT ]
If political violence is to be averted, the state ought to provide a package of reforms that addresses the core grievances of the Tamil population.
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Sri Lanka's path to peace
[ Sri Lanka Campaign ] [ 07 May 2016 02:57 GMT ]
For many in the north and east of Sri Lanka the conflict has not ended and structural violence continues to be a part of their daily lives.
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Rampant militarisation across the North-East - Report
[ Tamil Guardian ] [ 21 Apr 2016 03:02 GMT ]
'Sri Lanka's continuing lack of progress on key issues such as accountability and demilitarization throws into question the government's sincerity and political will to implement the pledges it has made,'
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Post-war Sri Lanka
[ RisingKashmir ] [ 20 Apr 2016 01:55 GMT ]
Fundamental issues when left unaddressed can lead to violent uprising at any time.
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Sri Lanka Tamils Look for Federal Solution
[ The New Indian Express ] [ 17 Apr 2016 03:08 GMT ]
Sri Lanka's main Tamil party TNA is seeking a federal solution to resolve the long-pending issue of political independence for the counry's minority Tamil community.
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Stand with Survivors
[ Sri Lanka Campaign ] [ 15 Apr 2016 02:17 GMT ]
The survivors of Sri Lanka's civil war have been ignored for too long.
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A bridge too far?
[ The Asian Age ] [ 08 Apr 2016 02:09 GMT ]
The DMK had pulled out in protest over India's reticence over the wording of a UN resolution against Sri Lanka for alleged human rights violations during the 30-year long civil war.
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Treasures of the Indus
[ BBC iPlayer ] [ 25 Mar 2016 01:26 GMT ]
This is the story of the Indian subcontinent told through the treasures of three very different people, places and dynasties that have shaped the modern Indian world.
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The Continuing Need For International Presence
[ CT ] [ 14 Mar 2016 05:44 GMT ]
The issue of international participation should not become or be seen as foreign interference that erodes national sovereignty. On the contrary, it is to strengthen the confidence of the Tamil polity in the transition process.
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Tamil Chair at Harvard University
[ Generosity ] [ 04 Mar 2016 02:15 GMT ]
The creation of a permanent Tamil Chair at Harvard University is vital for the longevity and health of the Tamil language in the western hemisphere.
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