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Baghdadi Is Alive — and so is the ISIS Narrative
The group’s caliphate may be crumbled, but the political conditions that gave rise to it haven’t improved at all.
Pressing the Case for Reconciliation in Sri Lanka
In March 2012, the United States led a resolution calling on the government of Sri Lanka to implement the recommendations of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC), which examined the breakdown of the truce between the country’s warring factions, and “to take all necessary additional steps” to “ensure justice, equity, accountability and reconciliation for all Sri Lankans.” But is the U.S. more interested in military cooperation than human rights?
The S Word
A nation is like a marriage, or so Lenin imagined it to be, with each partner or province having a right to get out if things go horribly wrong. The Soviet constitution of 1918 provided this right to each of the republics. It wasn’t an innovation that many other countries followed. And yet, constitutional provisions or not, the S word – secession – has occasionally brought nations to the brink of dissolution.
WikiLeaks XI: Release of Sri Lankan Cables Timed to Shine Light on Government and Tamil Tigers Savagery
A cable by U.S. ambassador to Sri Lanka reveals that neither government nor Tamil Tigers seek an investigation into civilian casualties resulting from Tiger’s last stand.
Sri Lanka’s Wartime Abuses
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa was in India earlier this month making promises to resettle the war-displaced Sri Lankan Tamil minority one year after his government’s forces won a crippling victory over the Tamil Tiger insurgency. But can he deliver on his pledge and begin the healing of Sri Lanka’s deep ethinc wounds?
War Crimes in Sri Lanka
This week, Sri Lankan voters go to the polls to elect a new president. No matter the victor, neither of the two main candidates is likely to provide the justice and closure that Sri Lanka’s thousands of war victims deserve.
Legacy of Abuse in Sri Lanka
The Sri Lankan government has brushed aside Western criticism of its abusive practices. But that might be about to change.
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Postcard from Sri Lanka
The mother of an abducted child in Sri Lanka holds a photo of her missing son. ©Fred Abrahams/Human Rights Watch 2006
When Ceasefires Fail
ÂThe war has returned with a vengeance, a Sri Lankan human rights activist sadly told me. After four years of a shaky ceasefire between the government and the armed secessionist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), better known as the Tamil Tigers, the ugliness that characterized the nearly two decades of fighting prior to 2002 is back.