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Sri Lanka Guardian: Five years on!

Resilience is our survival!!

(COLOMBO/LONDON/NEW DELHI/HOUSTON) - ‘Sri Lanka Guardian’ is celebrating its five years of existence this month as a proud web media on Sri Lanka news and views and is pulling through fearlessly despite the state machinery of Sri Lanka and its apologists are hell-bent on closing it down at any cost.

The five years that saw Sri Lanka jumping from one end to another to cover up its ignoramus deeds that has bastardised the beautiful homeland...

The Broken Survivors of Sri Lanka`s Civil War

It is a story of atrocities that was not fully told at the time - journalists and aid workers were barred from the war zone.

(LONDON) - The Sri Lankan civil war - which claimed 100,000 lives - ended in 2009 when government forces finally crushed a near-40-year-long insurgency by the Tamil Tiger rebel group.

The final months were especially brutal and survivors will not easily forget what happened to them.

My Daughter, The Terrorist

“It’s better that my daughter dies with a gun in her hand than is killed or raped”

(NEW YORK NOUSE) - Destroyed women or monstrous and crazed terrorists? For Beate Arnstead these suicide bombers are victims of war. Women from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) fought since the 1970s for an independent Tamil state.

In Sri Lanka’s devastating civil war, these rebel women were prepared to sacrifice their lives as suicide bombers.

Action Against Hunger Demands Justice for Muttur Murders

We urge the public to sign our petition for an independent investigation, so the United Nations can end the impunity in Sri Lanka.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Action Against Hunger is calling on the United Nations to launch an independent investigation to finally bring those responsible for the murders of 17 aid workers in Sri Lanka in 2006 to justice.

Six years after the humanitarian organisation’s team were executed at their offices in the town of Muttur, investigations in Sri Lanka have been hindered and obstructed, with the perpetrators still not been held to account.

Attack on Sri Lankan Judge Allegedly by a Deputy Minister

The persons who had attacked Thilekaratne had even taken his mobile phone.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka Guardian) - The attack on the Judicial Services Commission (JSC) Secretary Manjula Thilekaratne by four persons this morning had been carried out with the intervention of a higher political office, government sources said.

The JSC Secretary who was injured in the attack is being treated at the Colombo National Hospital.

Eye Witness to Lasantha`s Murder Abducted in White Van?

Man had to escape from the abductors after he was tortured repeatedly.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka ) - An eye witness to the January 8, 2009 murder of newspaper editor Lasantha Wickrematunge says attempts have been made to abduct him and he is unable to return to Sri Lanka.

Mr. K Mudalige claims he witnessed part of the elaborate process that finally took Lasantha Wickrematunge’s life and for that he is now in grave danger.

Still Counting The Dead

Author raises a clear voice reporting on the violence that took place on both sides of the divide.

(LONDON) - Frances Harrison’s important new book on Sri Lanka, Still Counting The Dead is published this week. It was sent to me at its proof stage, to read. Such was the elegance of the prose that I read it voraciously in one sitting.

I did not know its author, but I recognised the passionate commitment that this slight, energetic Englishwoman had for the vanished dead of Sri Lanka’s killing fields.

There Are No Half-Hearted Dictators

The dictatorship that predominates in the guise of the Executive Presidency is characterized by a singular inability to tolerate even the barest squeak of collective protest.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka Sunday Times) - Dictators do not believe in half hearted measures. This is an essential lesson that Sri Lanka is now learning at a painful cost.

We were immeasurably too ignorant, too consumed by self interest or too stubborn to realize this until it was too late.

Tamil Militants in Prison in Sri Lanka - Are They Still Alive?

Sri Lanka's Controversial Menik Farm IDP Camp Closes- As POW's Remain Missing

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - Very serious questions about captured Tamil Tiger fighters linger in the wake of the violent end of Sri Lanka's long-running civil war.

While it may never be possible to determine an accurate assessment of Tamil casualties, it may not be too late to save many who languish today in prison camps located in secured areas inaccessible to family or media.

I Dream of a Country

[Inspired by Meena Kandasamy’s ;  “I Dream Of An English”]