Photo courtesy of Abdul Khaleq “And home isn’t here and home isn’t there” – Deborah Landau, The Last Usable Hour Every story of ethnic cleansing…
Photo Courtesy of Selvaraja Rajasegar On 18 May 2009, this mother traveled to the army-controlled area via Mullivaikkal Vattuvakal. There she handed over her 33-year-old…
Photo courtesy of Aleena Cader It was a dramatic moment: a tall, well-built young man dressed in white with a black band tied across his forehead…
Today is International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances. “I am the luckiest mother in Sri Lanka. I got my son’s body back. There…
Photo courtesy of People for Equality and Relief in Sri Lanka Until recently, the Office on Missing Persons (OMP) was housed in a magnificent colonial…
Photo Credits: Munira Mutaher It has been 37 years since the anti-Tamil pogrom of July 1983, a riot that set the country ablaze and sparked…
Photo courtesy of Sangam.org July. Referred to as Black July to mark the pogrom against Tamils in 1983 carried out by Sinhala mobs. Pogrom is…
Photo courtesy of themorning.lk I was a PhD student in London when the carnage of July 1983 erupted and thank God for the bravery and…
Image courtesy of srilankatwo.wordpress.com In July 1995 the St. Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Navaly, Jaffna, was filled with displaced Tamils seeking refuge and…
The Catholic Church in the tiny village of Iranapalei in the Mullaitheevu district was lit up with 1000 lamps yesterday, 18th May. The thousand lamps…
Book Review – Phil Miller, Keenie Meenie: The British Mercenaries Who got away with War Crimes, (Pluto Press, 2020) Eleven years ago, in May 2009,…
Although the war ended a decade ago, the ethno-political and social fractures from violent conflict endure. On no other day are they more apparent than…
Although the war ended a decade ago, the ethno-political and social fractures from conflict endure. On no other day are they more apparent than on…
Photo courtesy Towards Data Science This month Institute of Economics and Peace released the 2019 Global Terrorism Index (GTI). The report measures the direct and indirect impact of…
Photo courtesy Foreign Policy In the aftermath of the 2019 Presidential Elections which concluded another era of the Sri Lankan political journey, it is necessary to…