Going for broke

The Rajapaksas are viscerally opposed to sharing power with anyone, including Sinhalese and even fellow SLFPers. They want to keep all power within the Family. That is the main impediment to devolution in post-war Sri Lanka.

by Tisaranee Gunasekara

“For both Prabhakaran’s war of national liberation and Rajapaksa’s war for national sovereignty, one unstated motive assumed the greatest significance – the entrenchment of unchallenged personal power”. UTHR-J (Special Report No 34 – 13.12.2009)

(August 21, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Sri Lanka is to buy 14 Mi-171 military helicopters from Russia, two+ years after the war was won.                          Read More

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Devil of a problem

Women are traumatised and communities are going paranoid as the ‘grease yaka’ fear psychosis spreads.

Chris Kamalendran and Saradha Mohan Kumar report

At 3.00 in the afternoon last Monday, a married woman in Akkaraipattu, who was alone at home with her one-year-old daughter, was heading to the toilet when someone seized her from behind in a powerful grip. A man’s hand closed over her mouth. She tried to struggle and scream, but could not. She tried kicking, when she realised there was another man in the room.

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Batticaloa residents make fiery statement in protest against Police inaction.