On 2 January, the Sri Lanka armed forces brought the town of Kilinochchi, the administrative capital of the Tamil Tigers, back under government control. The win was not entirely unexpected,
Friend and foe alike will grant that, since his election in November 2005, President Mahinda Rajapakse has proven adroit at strengthening his grip on power, be it by means fair
The fall of Kilinochchi and Elephant Pass over the past month signals the end of the LTTE as a player whose conventional military capacity had helped it to win some
On the morning of 28 January 1754, an exceptional Englishman sat down at the desk in the library of his gothic mansion, Strawberry Hill, to attend to his correspondence. It
AK: How do you understand the 'national question'?
JW: In a country where you have different communities – whether you call them peoples or nations or national minorities – every
Even though all of Southasia is blighted by official corruption, over the years corruption has reached pandemic proportions in Sri Lanka, when multi-million-dollar scandals regularly rock the society and economy.
If past experiences are anything to go by, the increase in violence over the last several months in Sri Lanka will not have surprised many observers. All previous attempts at
June, 1990. Following the publication of an article in the Sri Lanka daily The Island about the parliamentary elections of the Maldives that had taken place the previous year, the
Editorial note: S P Thamilselvan, the 40-year-old leader of the political wing of the LTTE, was killed on 2 November 2007, adding another figure to the bitter separatist war that
