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  • Sri Lanka: Lions, Tigers and an Elephant
    N Manoharan.    ·   08 Jun, 2000    ·    #360    ·    Commentary    
    New Mahout     With the fall of Elephant Pass (EP) rapidly and surprisingly on April 22, the LTTE stands to achieve victory over the Sri Lankan army. Its fall was imminent since December 1999, when government troops started lo ...
  • The Uniqueness of LTTE's Suicide Bombers
    Sabil Francis.    ·   02 Feb, 2000    ·    #321    ·    Commentary    
    It is an irony that those on death row for the Rajiv Gandhi assassination had a peripheral role in the act. It was carried out by the Black Tigers, the suicide squads of the LTTE, a shadowy group within the terrorist organisation. Other organisations ...
  • Sri Lanka: Elections, Human Bombs and the LTTE
    D. Azhagarsu.    ·   20 Dec, 1999    ·    #298    ·    Commentary    
    On December 18, the last evening of campaigning, when everything seemed to be under control, there were two human bombings in Colombo to assasinate both the leading Presidential candidates of the People's Alliance (PA) and the United National Par ...
  • Prabhakaran: Key to the LTTE
    Sabil Francis.    ·   29 Nov, 1999    ·    #291    ·    Commentary    
    November 26, 1999. Velupillai Prabhakaran becomes 45 years old today – a day that the LTTE commemorates as “Great Heroes Day”. It will remember the 50,000 martyrs who have died for Tamil Eelam and Prabhakaran will speak to the Tamil ...
  • No Compromise in Sri Lanka
    Sabil Francis.    ·   26 Nov, 1999    ·    #290    ·    Commentary    
    No matter who comes to power there is little chance of peace in Sri Lanka . What is happening in Sri Lanka is a war of the races. The LTTE began its struggle against the Sri Lankan state with the aim of creating a one-party socialist E ...
  • LTTE's Human Wave Tactics Redefine Guerrilla Warfare
    Sabil Francis.    ·   19 Nov, 1999    ·    #289    ·    Commentary    
    Two years after Operation Jaya Sekuri ("Sure Victory!"), Sri Lanka 's bloodiest and longest military operation (May 1997-November 1998), the Sri Lankan army has lost almost all the territory it had captured to the LTTE. Next in l ...
  • The LTTE: Waiting to Strike?
    .    ·   04 Nov, 1999    ·    #282    ·    Commentary    
    Since November 1998, except for occassional incidents, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has been strangely silent. This is all the more worrying as the Sri Lankan Tamil militant organization has a way of striking just when it is written of ...
  • Sri Lankan Peace Process: Problems and Prospects
    Zarein Ahmed.    ·   23 Sep, 1999    ·    #264    ·    Commentary    
    Sixteen years of protracted violence has torn apart the very fabric of Sri Lankan state and society. As the conflict becomes more deeply entrenched, solutions seem all the more elusive. Sri Lanka is now a war-weary society, and people feel a ...
  • Sri Lanka: An Assassination and its Implications
    .    ·   19 Aug, 1999    ·    #246    ·    Commentary    
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  • IDP's in Sri Lanka
    Zarein Ahmed.    ·   17 Aug, 1999    ·    #245    ·    Commentary    
    One of the world’s most acute and growing problems is the increasing number of  internally displaced persons (IDPs) or internal refugees. What is more alarming is the fact that the number of IDPs now exceeds that of refugees. In 1990 there ...
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