"A republic, if you can keep it." Defeat MAGA
"A republic, if you can keep it." Defeat MAGA
Given the position of Sri Lanka’s Tamils as a minority on the island and a pawn in the struggle between competing groups of the majority Sinhalese, the Tamils have legitimate grievances against the government. But despite its claims, the LTTE’s…
The most troubling aspect of Sri Lanka’s Sinhala-Tamil conflict is that it’s a secondary conflict, and there is no possibility of peace until the primary conflict is identified and understood. The primary conflict actually has nothing to do with the Tamils–…
AFP photo: Troops capture an almost-deserted city of Mullaitivu. Groups including the UN, Care, and local organization Sarvodaya have now been accused of being “pro-war” because they’ve pressured the Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) to respect human rights. Care was the only group…
(AP photo.) Recently, I posted here about the current slaughter in Sri Lanka– tens of thousands of civilians killed because neither side will let them leave the battlefield. In response, one reader called my “evenhandedness” “insipid.” He ascribes to the party…
(Reuters photo: A Tamil refugee prepares to bathe alongside the fence inside a refugee camp.) “UN human rights chief Navi Pillay said Friday she feared both sides could be guilty of war crimes in the Sri Lanka conflict and that more than…