Category: Sri Lanka Politics

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LTTE Diaspora honour Prabhakaran today — But they abandoned him in Death – not even claiming his dead body or performing funeral rites.

    Today, sections of the LTTE diaspora are proudly honouring Velupillai Prabhakaran., the leader of an internationally proscribed terrorist organization – the LTTE. They display his photographs, commemorate his birth anniversary, hold martyr’s...

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The Zaharan Trail: How years of Radicalisation, Warnings and Missed Intervention Challenge the “Mastermind” Theory promoted by Cardinal & Church Elements

  Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith and certain elements within the Church, particularly after 2021, have advanced the position that Easter Sunday was not solely the result of Islamist extremism but involved an external political actor...

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50 years of Vaddukoddai separatist politics and 3 decades of LTTE terrorism, time to stop fooling the Tamil people

  Fifty years after the Vaddukoddai Resolution and seventeen years after the defeat of the LTTE, it is time for an honest assessment. While separatist politicians, their supporters, promoters and beneficiaries continue to commemorate...

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Claiming Persecution Internationally While Practicing Religious Intolerance Against Buddhists in Sri Lanka: The Jaffna University Vesak Attack

  For Buddhists the Vesak holds an emotionally significant place. It is an event looked forward to and celebrated. The destruction of Vesak decorations erected by Buddhist students at Jaffna University is not a...

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17 Years After the Defeat of the LTTE: How the LTTE Destroyed Tamil Democracy & Outsourced Tamil Politics

  Before the LTTE came into the picture, it is good to go back in time to the manner in which American, British evangelical movements set up missionary schools where the Sinhala Buddhist majority...

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17 Years After the Defeat of the LTTE: The Overseas LTTE Networks that kept the Conflict Alive & continues to prevent Tamils living in peace

  While ordinary Sri Lankans buried their dead and tried to rebuild their lives, others thousands of miles away kept the conflict politically alive and continue to do so for their selfish ends. Seventeen...