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‘India should pressure Sri Lanka for a political solution’

22 October 2008


It can be the first step in solving the ethnic crisis: Siritunga Jayasuriya

This article appeared in the Hindu on 22 October, 2008. Siritunga Jayasurya, General Secretary – United Socialist Party (CWI – Sri Lanka) spoke in a seminar organized by New Socialist Alternative (CWI – India) in Bangalore on the nationality question in Sri Lanka

The Indian Government should take the responsibility of bringing pressure on Colombo to accord provincial autonomy to north and east Sri Lanka under the Indo-Sri Lankan deal of 1983, said Siritunga Jayasuriya, general secretary of the United Socialist Party — Sri Lanka. read more

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Elections in the teeth of violence.

20 May 2008

The Provincial Council election in the East will enter history as one of the most rigged elections in Sri Lanka.

From the day of nominations up to the 10th May – the day of the election – there was a full scale terror campaign of intimidation and fear launched by the armed groups which are supported by the Sri Lankan government. read more

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Tamil MP killed for speaking out

13 November 2006

High profile assassination demands massive response

socialistworld.net

On Friday morning, 10 November, a prominent Tamil MP in Sri Lanka, Nadarajah Raviraj, was killed . He was shot outside his home in Colombo soon after he had appeared on a breakfast-time TV programme. One of his four bodyguards was also killed. The assassins arrived in a three-wheeler ‘taxi’, fired the fatal shots as the MP was getting into his car and left on a motorbike. read more

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Sri Lanka

Fourth Eelam War under way

16 July 2006

Government isolated; workers need solutions

Sri Lanka is now most certainly experiencing its ’Fourth Eelam War’. But neither side – the Sri Lankan Government nor the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) – is prepared to accept this. According to the Sri Lanka Monitoring mission (SLMM), over 4,000 people were killed in the 15 months after president Mahinda Rajapakse came to power up to February 2007. This shows that the undeclared war between the Sri Lankan government and the LTTE has escalated to the skies. read more

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Analysis

India: A disaster made worse by poverty

8 January 2005

INDIA SAW more than 15,000 killed as the tidal wave pounded southern fishing villages with Tamil Nadu and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands the worst hit. Thousands are still missing. In Andhra Pradesh alone, 400 fishermen were missing immediately after the first strikes.

The Hindu newspaper, published in southern India, reported that 40 children playing cricket on a beach in Cuddalore drowned when a massive wave pulled them out to sea. One local man, who lost two sons playing on the beach, said: “I suddenly saw waves 30 to 40ft high. People just froze, they didn’t know what to do.” read more