Sri Lanka Civil War – People for Equality and Relief in Lanka

Tamil anger at army’s influence in Sri Lanka

By pearlaction | August 19, 2011 |

[Al Jazeera] Two years after the end of Sri Lanka’s civil war, many minority Tamils in the north say the military retains too strong a hold over their daily lives. [Full Story]

Sri Lanka’s post-war struggle

By pearlaction | August 15, 2011 |

[Al Jazeera] The Sri Lankan civil war, which began in 1983, saw the Tamil Tigers fighting government forces to create an independent Tamil state named Tamil Eelam in the north and the east of the island. After a 26-year-long military campaign, the Sri Lankan military defeated the Tamil Tigers in May 2009. The civil war caused significant hardships for…

Is This Ban’s ‘Never Again’ Moment?

By pearlaction | August 1, 2011 |

[Huffington Post] We failed to prevent a massacre in Sri Lanka. We must not fail to seek justice for it. ‘Never again’ is the promise that has followed the Holocaust, Cambodia, Rwanda and Srebrenica; issued each time with outrage and contrition, and, in recent years, a report on the failure of the international community to…