100,000 strong demonstration calling for an end to the war in the north of Sri Lanka , photo Paul Mattsson

11 May 2011

UN report on Sri Lanka war crimes

How can justice and democratic rights be secured?: A United Nations (UN) report published on 29 April on the final phase of Sri Lanka's civil war in 2009 reveals "credible allegations" of war crimes perpetrated by the ruling regime of president Mahinda Rajapaksa...

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7 May 2008

Sri Lanka: 25 years of war and conflict

THE SRI Lankan government is engaged in a war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the north of the country, writes Srinath Perera, United Socialist Party, (USP - CWI, Sri Lanka).

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26 October 2006

Sri Lanka: Is peace possible?

THE DESCRIPTION of Sri Lanka as 'tear-shaped' has never been more apt than it is today...

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24 November 2005

Big gains for United Socialist Party

SRI LANKA'S presidential election was held against the backdrop of a faltering three-year ceasefire between the government and separatist Tamil Tigers (LTTE), a badly performing economy, and a population sti...

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