Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Sri Lanka Update, December 20, 2006

The Sri Lankan ceasefire, observed more in the breach, is five years old this Christmas Eve. News about Sri Lanka continues largely to be news about the conflict.

Radhika Giri, Cry, beloved Tamil country (Interview with Tamil poet Jayapalan) The Statesman, December 17, 2006.
Peace and the Tamil Tigers? (Editorial) Washington Times, December 17, 2006.
Ayesha Zuhair, The Muslims of Mutur: A community at crossroads, Daily Mirror, December 18, 2006.
Jehan Perera, Government needs to keep majority report on table, December 19, 2006.
Dayan Jayatilleka, A Realist Critique Of The Lankan Crisis, Asian Tribune, December 19, 2006.

Reactions to Balasingham's death are still coming in.
V.S. Sambandan, LTTE and Sri Lanka after Balasingham, The Hindu, December 19, 2006.
It is still not too late Prabhakaran (Editorial) Daily News, December 18, 2006.
Vijay Bharath, Remembering Anton Balasingham, TamilCanadian.com, December 17, 2006.
Champica Liyanaarachchi, Balasingham: the ‘silenced’ Voice of Tigers? Daily Mirror, December 20, 2006.

One of Sri Lanka's prominent civil rights organizations, the University Teachers for Human Rights (Jaffna) has published two reports on the situation in the north.
Bulletin No.42– a note on current developments: Disillusionment with the State and the Perils of Unity in Grievance, December 13, 2006.
Bulletin 43 : Laying the Siege of Jaffna- behind the singular assault on the poorest of women, December 13, 2006.
This was UTHR's response to the killing of Kethesh Loganathan:
Ketheeswaran Loganathan and the Tamil Dissidents’ Dilemma, University Teachers for Human Rights (Jaffna), August 15, 2006.
Earlier in November, UTHR(J) released a special report, The Choice between Anarchy and International Law with Monitoring, to which they have now added a supplement.

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