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View Article  A Preface to peace in Sri Lanka Part 1

A Preface to Peace in Sri Lanka: Tamil Self-Rule? Part І

                                                           by ~ BJ Alexander

                     “All I have is a voice, to undo the folded lie” WH Auden

 

Introductory                                                     

We live in a world in which the imperium is constantly suppressing the emergence of multi-polarity.  The terms, if not clichés like ...   more »

View Article  A Preface to Peace in Sri Lanka Part 2

       A Preface to Peace in Sri Lanka: Tamil Self-Rule? Part ІІ

                                                              by ~ BJ Alexander

        "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" George Orwell

There are always two sides to a story they say. Perhaps there is more than two sides.  In a conflict truth ...   more »

View Article  MEDIA CONTROL - CHOMSKY

                        Media Control

                                                           Noam Chomsky
                                   Massachusetts Institute of Technology, March 17, 1991
                                  Excerpted from the Alternative Press Review, Fall 1993

...Let me begin by counter-posing two different conceptions of democracy. One conception of democracy has it that a democratic society is one in which the public has the means to participate in some meaningful way in ...   more »

View Article  THE SCREAM
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View Article  Genocidal Democracy
                       Genocidal Democracy

                                 by: Chandi Sinnathurai, 07/02/07

 Some things never change.  There are some fatal flaws in the Sri Lankan policy of 'recovering the hearts and minds' of the Tamils adopted by the Rajapaksha regime post the fall of Vaharai in the east.  In fact, this policy has all the nail-marks of an extended ...   more »

View Article  'Peace release me; let me go...'

                  ‘PEACE release me; let me go…’

       Return to Sanity, Human Dignity and Freedom

            Fr Chandi Sinnathurai, February 5, 2007

VARIOUS reports coming out of Sri Lanka are both dark and depressing.  Conversations over telephone calls are often punctuated by sighs and choking silences.  There is an urgent desperation.  People want normality and peace.  ...   more »

View Article  Remembering a Martyr- by Revd BJ Alexander.

Remembering a Martyr who Died in the Defense of Justice

by Rev B.J. Alexander

THE DISAPPEARANCE of Fr. Herbert happened on August 15, 1990.  As in the cases of a multitude of disappearances in the NorthEast Tamil areas, Fr. Herbert's remains still an unsolved mystery!

Eugene John Herbert, S.J. was born in Jennings, Louisiana, USA, on October 9, 1923.  He ...   more »

View Article  One year since Humanitarian workers' abduction. Where are they Now?

THE SRI LANKA PRESIDENT IS ANSWERABLE TO THIS APPALING CRIME!

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