Wednesday, November 22, 2006

On the Road: Sri Lanka's A9 Highway, November 22, 2006

If the opening of the A9 Highway was one of the reasons the last round of negotiations in Geneva failed, the conditional reopening of the highway proposed by the government this week has proven as contentious.

Sri Lanka to open road to Jaffna, BBC News, November 20, 2006.
Rebels reject Sri Lanka President aid convoy plan, Reuters Alert, November 20, 2006

Rohan Samarajiva, If Only………… Choices: Going North or Going South? Lanka Business Online, November 22, 2006.
Opening A9 imperative to avoid humanitarian crisis, Bishop tells Envoys, TamilNet, November 21, 2006.
Positive Action is Required in Both Humanitarian and Human Rights Spheres, National Peace Council of Sri Lanka, November 21, 2006.
Jehan Perera, Internally Generated Approach is Better for Conflict Resolution, November 20, 2006.

See also The Road To Peace: Life along the A9, a National Peace Council project.

On the question of recruitment of children:

Wilson Gnanadass, ‘We fully support Rock’s statements’- Helen [Olafsdottir], The Nation on Sunday, November 19, 2006.

Worth reading:

Nira Wickramasinghe, Sri Lanka: the politics of purity, Open Democracy, November 17, 2006.

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