Sri Lanka - Himal Southasian (Page 29)

PICKING UP THE PEACES

In his annual address marking Heroes' Day in late November LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran spoke of the need to solve the Sri Lankan conflict in a civilised manner. His

By Jehan Perera

/ 1 Jan 1999

BUGLE CALL

For the past two months the Sri Lankan government, using the state media, has been trying to pull off the impossible. They have been projecting the terrible losses suffered by

By Jehan Perera

/ 1 Nov 1998

Kid stuff

There is no doubt that children are great fighters. They are easy to indoctrinate and will follow blindly where their heroes lead. When children fight in a war, it is

By The Editors

/ 1 Nov 1998

Law of the seas

Forgotten fishermen of the Palk Strait are caught in the crossfire between the Indian Navy, the Sri Lankan Navy and the Tamil Tigers. As the experience of Kashmir indicates, borders

By The Editors

/ 1 Nov 1998

KILLING FIELDS OF KILINOCHCHI

Twenty seven lorries flying Red Cross flags wended their way on 30 September through the thick Tamil Tiger-held Vanni jungles of northern Sri Lanka into government military territory. The

By The Editors

/ 1 Oct 1998

South Asia’s sex trade myths

Nepal Nepal was the original maker of the myth of trafficking in the regional and international community. Gita and her drugged Frooti established the precedent in South Asia for heart-

By John Frederick

/ 1 Oct 1998

Host as hostage

The torrential rain in Colombo preceding the SAARC summit and the gloomy skies visible through it reflected the general mood. Colombo was host to the summit but was not a

By The Editors

/ 1 Sep 1998

Extremely Irritated in Colombo

Already, three or four days before the SAARC Summit on 29-31 July, Colombo residents were experiencing grave disruption in their lives as the traffic police went about practising the

By Sasanka Perera

/ 1 Sep 1998

Age of aquarius

When Saturn moved to the house of Aries after 30 years at 1.27 pm on 17 April 1998, some politicians from both the ruling and opposition parties in Sri

By The Editors

/ 1 May 1998

Television for conflict resolution

Afdhel Aziz proposes a television programme which may help relieve the ethnic tension in Sri Lanka. The apathy among many Sri Lankans towards the country´s ethnic conflict is obvious.

By Afdhel Aziz

/ 1 Apr 1998

Absurd survival

A war that has been too long in the waging gets whittled down to cold statistics about the dead. Over 50,000 killed in 15 years: that´s the Tamil-

By The Editors

/ 1 Apr 1998

50 Something

Sri Lanka´s best-known cartoonist, Wijesoma, neatly encapsulated what 50 years of Independence has meant for his homeland in a savagely effective cartoon published in the run-up to

By The Editors

/ 1 Mar 1998