May 18, 2022
there is neither sea nor wind for us to dissolve the ashes proclaim an end and close our eyes. -Poem by Cheran Rudhramoorthy from In a Time of Burning 13 years ago, the Sri Lankan civil war came to an end following a brutal offensive launched by the government’s armed...
Nov 14, 2019
This Saturday, Sri Lankans will head to the polls to select a new President: the culmination of a high-stakes election battle dominated by questions of national security and economic development. Strikingly absent from the campaign trail has been any meaningful...
Jun 18, 2015
Exactly one month ago, on 18th May, a member of the Sri Lanka Campaign for Peace and Justice participated in a war remembrance service at a church on the fringes of Mullivaikal beach. Situated on the North Eastern coast of Sri Lanka, Mullivaikal is an area that...
Feb 6, 2013
Frances Harrison recently wrote for the Times of India about how the Government of Sri Lanka is turning the site of the final battles of the civil war, where tens of thousands of civilians were killed, into a tourist attraction. The article unfortunately did not...
