Saturday, December 30, 2006

Sri Lanka Update: December 21-30, 2006

At the end of the year, a review of events in Sri Lanka.
Dayan Jayatilleka, 2007: The Road Ahead, Asian Tribune, December 28, 2006.

Sri Lanka's North and East to be administrated separately, ColomboPage, December 26, 2006.
B. Muralidhar Reddy, Sri Lanka: uncertainty as de-merger nears, The Hindu, December 29, 2006.

Seeking peace:

Sri Lankan Tamil MPs meet Sri Sri Ravishankar, The Hindu, December 30, 2006.
Jehan Perera, International pressure on 17th Amendment can make a difference ...by persuading the SLFP and the UNP for its implementation, Daily Mirror, December 26, 2006.
Tissa Balasuriya, For Peace with Justice in 2007 An Islandwide Petition, Daily Mirror, December 23, 2006.

Amal Jayasinghe, Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka acused of piracy by Jordanian ship crew, AFP/ Lanka Business Online, December 26, 2006. But, We rescued the sailors: LTTE, The Nation on Sunday, December 24, 2006.
Master left without his voice, The Nation on Sunday, December 24, 2006.

From Tamil Nadu:
Commentary: Moves and counter moves on Tamil chess board, Asian Tribune, December 24, 2006.
Sakthy Edamaruku, PM voices concern over Lanka issue, CNN-IBN, December 23, 2006.
And elsewhere in the region:
M Rama Rao, Pakistan makes a killing in arms supplies to desperate Sri Lanka, Asian Tribune, December 28, 2006.

Meanwhile, the human security crisis continues.

Ammu Joseph, Life in an open prison, Himal Southasian, January 2007.
Tim Sullivan, Emptiness of trauma, Standard Weekend, December 30, 2006.
Twenty-three percent of women in Sri Lanka's IDP camps are breadwinners, LankaPage, December 29, 2006.
Shelter or survival: a dilemma for the displaced in Sri Lanka, PeaceJournalism.com, December 26, 2006.

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