Category: LTTE Diaspora
South Asian Spring: Why Expats Should Not Get Digital Vote in Sri Lanka
The Government of Sri Lanka’s recent announcement on granting voting rights to expats is a gamble with sovereignty. Handing the ballot to millions who neither live under Sri Lanka’s laws, nor share its...
Sri Lanka’s Peace won at home: 30+ years of UN and Foreign efforts failed Sri Lankans
For over 30 years, Sri Lanka faced the LTTE’s terror. In response, the international community recommended peace talks, ceasefires, foreign mediation, and even deployed troops to “solve” the conflict. Yet every foreign-led...
Sri Lankans Say: “No Need for a Truth Commission – The Truth is already known”
Sri Lanka suffered a three-decade conflict led by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The LTTE remains a proscribed terrorist movement in 32 countries. For 30 years, the Sri Lankan state...
Sri Lanka does not need a Truth & Reconciliation Commission — Terrorists need to reconcile with us, not the other way around
The recent statement by Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister at the UN Human Rights Council outlined the government’s commitment to domestic reforms in human rights, justice, and reconciliation. While many of these initiatives — anti-corruption...
What International Media must ask the UNHRC on Resolutions against Sri Lanka
For over sixteen years, the international media has largely abandoned its role as a global watchdog. Instead of questioning bias or demanding accountability from the UNHRC, it has allowed one-sided narratives to dominate...
Why India must Stop Sri Lanka from implementing 13th Amendment
The demand for full implementation of Sri Lanka’s 13th Amendment has once again surfaced — but it is important for India to pause and examine who is really making this demand, and why. This...
If the LTTE had not been defeated in 2009: Sri Lanka in 2025
Let us look at the “what if” scenario based on pattern of LTTE terror – where they killed, who they targeted, Tamil children kidnapped, impact on tourism & investment, people’s peace of mind...
Sri Lanka’s Rebuttal to OHCHR 2025 Report A/HRC/60/21
The OHCHR Report A/HRC/60/21 is illegitimate, selective, and legally void. For 30 years of LTTE terror — assassinations, suicide bombings, ethnic cleansing — the UNHRC and its High Commissioners remained silent. Only when terrorism...
Sri Lanka’s 2015 Yahapalana Government turned non-binding UNHRC Resolutions into National Law
Although UNHRC resolutions are non-binding, since 2009 the Council has effectively acted as a mouthpiece formalizing overseas LTTE lobbyist demands into intrusive resolutions. A Council that failed to act against LTTE over...
