Sri Lanka - Himal Southasian (Page 24)

THE CONVERGENCE FOR PEACE

So far both peace and anti-peace activities outside the conflict areas of Sri Lanka's North and East have been small. A demonstration for peace in early March saw

By Jehan Perera

/ 1 Apr 2002

Contours of a ceasefire draft

The ceasefire brokered by the Oslo diplomats is a practical document that seeks to learn from the specific Sri Lankan experience of the past, and it provides the best chance

By DBS Jeyaraj

/ 1 Mar 2002

The main feature in the Norwegian-drafted Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and LTTE leader Velupillai Prabakaran in March is the indefinite ceasefire agreement. It calls

By Jehan Perera

/ 1 Mar 2002

SANITY STAKES ITS CLAIM

We hadn't seen the leader of the Tamil Tigers, Prabhakaran, since 1989 when we watched him at a Jaffna football field addressing a large crowd euphoric about impending

By Kunda Dixit

/ 1 Mar 2002

PEACE AFTER ELECTIONS?

The installation of a new government in Sri Lanka after a bruising general election last month offers a measure of hope to a war weary nation. The election pitted the

By Jehan Perera

/ 1 Jan 2002

SAD COUNTRY

Beautiful but tragic places make for good poetry. This is Ondaatje country in Colombo's Welawatte neighbourhood, where a small river meets the sea, where Pablo Neruda stayed for

By The Editors

/ 1 Aug 2001

PREPARING AGAINST LOCALISED BREAKDOWN

The extension of the month long ceasefires by the LTTE and the Colombo government was expected, and there was no reason for it to be other-wise. So far, the ceasefires

By Jehan Perera

/ 1 Feb 2001

Meeting Prabhakaran

Will the combined efforts of the good Samaritans of the Western world to bring the Sri Lanka government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), locked in a civil

By Manik de Silva

/ 1 Dec 2000

Opening old wounds

A Decade of Confrontation: Sri Lanka and India in the 1980s by John Gooneratne Stamford Lake Publication Sri Lanka, 2000 Sri Lanka's side of the story on the

By Ashok K. Mehta

/ 1 Nov 2000

AUCTION HOUSE

Sri Lanka's just concluded general election has proved, if any proof was necessary, that as Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew once told then president J.R. Jayewardene,

By Manik de Silva

/ 1 Nov 2000

Wishing for a Hung Parliament

Can a hung Parliament that is widely predicted in the run-up to Sri Lanka's 10 October general elections, be the troubled country's great opportunity to abandon

By Manik de Silva

/ 1 Oct 2000

Bye Bye Mrs. B

Like the Nehrus in India, ruling Sri Lanka has been the family business of the Bandaranaikes. It was curtains for Sri Lanka´s mother-daughter political act when Sirima Bandaranaike who

By Manik de Silva

/ 1 Sep 2000