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  • Sri Lanka: South Asia's Forgotten War?
    Rahul Bhonsle.    ·   20 Sep, 2006    ·    #2119    ·    Commentary    
    Sri Lanka's human development index is the highest in the region. However, it continues to be wracked by the longest and bloodiest conflict in South Asia. The death toll during 2006 is estimated between 3,000 - 5,000 and the total count since t ...
  • Sri Lanka: Donors' Co-Chairs Meeting
    N Manoharan.    ·   20 Sep, 2006    ·    #2118    ·    Commentary    
    Representatives of the United States, European Union, Japan and Norway, the Co-chairs of Sri Lanka donors, met in Brussels on 12 September 2006 to discuss the prevailing situation in Sri Lanka. The statement issued after the meeting is worth analyz ...
  • Mission Impossible: Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission in Crisis
    N Manoharan.    ·   24 Aug, 2006    ·    #2099    ·    Commentary    
    The Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM), established to monitor the ceasefire agreement (CFA) signed on 22 February 2002, is in a deep crisis. The CFA is being violated in every way by the two signatories - the Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) an ...
  • LTTE's Confession and its Implications
    RR Vinod.    ·   14 Aug, 2006    ·    #2093    ·    Commentary    
    Anton Balasingham, the LTTE's ideologue, in an interview to the NDTV in London recently, regretted the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi as a historical, monumental tragedy. 'What has happened is, since we rejected the Sri Lankan accord there w ...
  • Mavilaru Crisis: Implications for Ceasefire Agreement in Sri Lanka
    N Manoharan.    ·   06 Aug, 2006    ·    #2088    ·    Commentary    
    The Crisis and its Escalation Sri Lanka witnesses worst fighting since the signing of ceasefire agreement (CFA) on 22 February 2002. The fighting was sparked by blocking of Mavilaru reservoir in Trincomalee district by the LTTE and the governm ...
  • China's Growing Influence in Sri Lanka: Implications for India
    .    ·   26 Jul, 2006    ·    #2079    ·    Commentary    
    China is determined to enhance its strategic and economic cooperation with India's neighbours and in areas traditionally under India's influence. After Pakistan, Myanmar and Bangladesh, China is getting closer with Sri Lanka. Its recent ent ...
  • LTTE Operations and Attacks: A method to the madness
    RR Vinod.    ·   26 Jun, 2006    ·    #2051    ·    Commentary    
      An analysis of the violent attacks involving the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) of Sri Lanka clearly brings out a pattern, be it in eliminating Tamil political leaders, militant opponents, Sri Lankan leaders or security p ...
  • What Next in Sri Lanka: Five Questions and Two Sets of Responses
    N Manoharan.    ·   24 Jun, 2006    ·    #2050    ·    Commentary    
    As the Oslo talks did not succeed, Norway was forced to 'go back to the basics' by asking the Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) and the LTTE on 8 June 2006 to respond to five questions in 15 days: Will the parties stand committed t ...
  • Oslo Meetings and the Future of Ceasefire Monitoring in Sri Lanka
    N Manoharan.    ·   15 Jun, 2006    ·    #2036    ·    Commentary    
    Despite the presence of delegates at the venue of the talks in Oslo, their inability to meet each other, and particularly the stand taken by the LTTE has put the future of ceasefire monitoring in Sri Lanka in serious doubt. The hopes of a peace pro ...
  • Sri Lanka: Co-Chairs Conference & Peace Efforts
    N Manoharan.    ·   07 Jun, 2006    ·    #2033    ·    Commentary    
    The Co-chairs of Sri Lanka's donors - the European Union, Norway, Japan and United States - met in Tokyo on 30 May 2006 to reinvigorate the stalled peace process in Sri Lanka. The comprehensive statement by the 'Gang of Four', issued at ...
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