Category: Sri Lanka

  • Lankan leader seeks SAARC’s intervention

    This article appeared in The Hindu. Siritunga Jayasurya, General Secretary – United socialist Party (CWI – Sri Lanka) spoke at meeting jointly organized by New socialist Alternative on ongoing war against Tamils in Sri Lanka. Group urged to send a fact-finding mission to Sri Lanka. ‘2,50,000 civilians still trapped in the northern part’ Expressing concern…

  • ‘India should pressure Sri Lanka for a political solution’

    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…

  • Elections in the teeth of violence.

    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…

  • Tamil MP killed for speaking out

    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…

  • Fourth Eelam War under way

    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…

  • India: A disaster made worse by poverty

    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…