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Addressing Greg Sheridan’s Review of the Tamil Lobby and Australia
Greg Sheridan’s articles on the Tamil lobby in Australia and the workings of the Australian state are something of a breakthrough because the media coverage of the Sri Lankan conflict has been...
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Niromi 2009 versus Niromi Tigress 2011
Niromi de Soyza’s so-called autobiography, Tamil Tigress, has received extensive coverage in Australia and has traversed the world now because of critical reviews by several personnel and devoted...
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Clouds of Deception: Jeyaraj anoints and cloaks Niromi Tigress
Writing from a Tamil nationalist position which occasionally earned the LTTE monster’s ire, David Jeyaraj has provided the world with invaluable service over the years. He had considerable information...
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Mahinda Rajapaksa as a Modern Mahāvāsala and Font of Clemency? The Roots of...
On 4th December 2011 the Sunday Island carried a headline: “Mahinda ready to meet General Fonseka’s family over pardon” — with a picture alongside showing President Mahinda Rajapaksa seated in an...
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The Disappeared in Sri Lanka’s War in the Recent Past: What is missing in...
IRIN has recently highlighted the fact that “thousands of people are still missing” in Sri Lanka and presented an UNOHCR report that states that there are “5,671 reported cases of wartime-related...
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Where brevity cripples and distorts reportage
Image courtesy eHow Once upon a time, after I presented a public talk in Oslo courtesy of Kumar Rupesinghe, a Norwegian journalist provided me with a refreshing insight into the difference between...
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Swimming against the tide: Australia’s new asylum-seeker package
Photo courtesy Sydney Morning Herald Though launched with much fanfare and media acclaim, Australia’s new raft of proposals embodied in the Houston package to handle the surge in asylum-seekers is...
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Mixed Messages and Bland Oversimplification in President Rajapaksa’s...
In a significant act of outreach the Independence Day ceremonies were held in Trincomalee, a provincial city with a pronounced ethnic mix; while President Rajapaksa presented one part of his message in...
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A Missing Person in Sri Lanka: Heartfelt Issues & Ground Realities
Image courtesy Salon / AP Photo by Eranga Jayawardena When I was in Sri Lanka from mid-April to early June 2009 I was on holiday with my wife and not able to pursue investigations in any depth. In...
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ABC, Gordon Weiss and authoress Niromi de Soyza
Like many people I used to think that such agencies as the BBC and ABC provided balanced reviews and were relatively unbiased. No more. Further confirmation: a recent panel presentation by ABC in...
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Medical Administration and Relief within the Vanni Pocket, January to mid-May...
Image from author’s blog Beyond Imagination in Service to Humankind: Medical Administration and Relief within the Vanni Pocket, January to mid-May 2009 Amidst the obfuscations and cumulus clouds of...
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Generating Calamity, 2008-2014: An Overview of Tamil Nationalist Operations...
Summarising previous essays (see bibliography below) this article proceeds in point-form with an eye on greater impact via succinctness. A. During the last phase of Eelam War IV in 2008/09 the LTTE...
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The lover of books and ecumenical Sri Lankan patriot: Ananda Chittambalam
Photo courtesy Foreign Correspondents Association Sri Lanka Way back in the 1980s when I was on research work in Sri Lankan and based at my sister’s place in Wellawatte I received a phone call from a...
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Ideological Cancers within the Sinhala Universe: Roadblocks in the Path of...
Photo by REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte via Channel 4 Way back in the 1970s the manner in which Anagārika Dharmapāla conflated the concepts of “Ceylonese” and “Sinhalese” in one of his public exhortations...
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Where In-fighting generates Fervour & Power: ISIS Today, LTTE yesterday
Image courtesy NBC News “Division and in-fighting will sap and weaken any organisation or ideological current.” This formulation (mine) may seem a common-sense dictum. Let me challenge this notion...
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The war in Sri Lanka and propaganda debates: An analysis for the OHCHR in Geneva
Photography courtesy Worldvision Dear Sandra Beidas and OISL Team As a Sri Lankan Australian and academic I have been collecting and analysing the material on the last phase of the war in Sri Lanka...
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Review of ‘Nation, Constitutionalism and Buddhism in Sri Lanka’
Photo courtesy Ingulfed Review of Nation, Constitutionalism and Buddhism in Sri Lanka by Roshan de Silva Wijeyeratne , Rouledge, London, 2014, ISBN 978-0-415-46266-2,250pp ### This treatise...
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Targeting Lanka: Playing Ball with Tamil Extremism 2008-14
This essay was presented at the 9th International Convention of Asian Scholars held in Adelaide from 5-9th July 2015 and was therefore designed as a 15-minute presentation. Hyperlinks, maps, citations...
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