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“Post-War Systemic Breakdown Blamed For Jaffna Rape and Mayhem” by...
COLOMBO: Dr.Daya Somasundaram, Professor of Psychiatry at Jaffna University, blames the breakdown of traditional social and administrative structures for the gang rape and murder of 18 year old school...
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“Families of IDPs to receive resettlement allowance” by T. Ramakrishnan
As many as 2,175 internally displaced Tamil families in Jaffna and Trincomalee districts are set to receive a financial assistance of Rs. 38,000 per family for resettlement with the Cabinet of the Sri...
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“Army releases more land to civilians” by Deepal Warnakulasuriya
Jaffna is the capital city of the Northern Province, and it is also the administrative headquarters of the Jaffna District located on a peninsula of the same name. At one time Jaffna’s population...
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“Sri Lanka returns land confiscated by military during decades-long war” by...
ELLIPALLAI, 19 June 2015 (IRIN) – As a young girl, Kasthuri Udayakumaran’s grandmother would tell her of a house where birds chirped as the morning sunlight streamed through the thick foliage of a...
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“Sri Lankan soldier gets death penalty for killing 8 Tamil civilians in...
A Sri Lankan soldier was on Thursday sentenced to death for killing eight Tamil civilians, including four minors, by slitting their throats in Jaffna nearly 15 years ago, in a rare case of the...
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“Ghosts Of War Give Way to Development in Sri Lanka” by Amantha Perera
JAFFNA, Sri Lanka, Jun 26 2015 (IPS) – It is an oasis from the scorching heat outside. The three-storey, centrally air-conditioned Cargills Square, a major mall in Sri Lanka’s northern Jaffna town, is...
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“Peace and justice: a timely reminder” by Meera Srinivasan
In April this year, when Rajani’s colleague Rajan Hoole was about to launch his book ‘Palmyra Fallen: From Rajani to war’s end’ and tried holding a discussion around it, a similar response came from...
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“No military administration in Jaffna: Sri Lanka Army” by Zee News
Colombo: The Sri Lankan Army has said there was no military administration in Tamil-dominated Jaffna and denied allegations by Chief Minister of the Northern Province C V Wigneswaran that more troops...
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“Sri Lanka’s war widows pin hopes on new president” by Amal Jayasinghe
Shunned, destitute and pushed into prostitution in some cases, Sri Lanka’s Tamil widows have returned to northern Jaffna since the end of the separatist war only to discover they are not welcome even...
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“Jaffna sees sharp fall in number of voters” by T. Ramakrishnan
The Jaffna electoral district in the Northern Province has witnessed a sharp drop of over 25 per cent in the number of voters via:...
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” North awakens to adulthood sans a childhood it never had” by Chris...
Ordinary folk such as S. Sivanesan, a teacher in a government school in Jaffna, says, “We will vote for candidates who are willing to speak on behalf of the Tamil people and their causes. They should...
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“Tigers as Spiders! Ex – LTTE Cadres Contesting as Independent Group in...
6,151 Candidates from 21 registered political parties and 201 independent groups are contesting the Sri Lankan Parliamentary elections scheduled for August 17th 2015. Of these 3, 653 are from the 21...
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“Sri Lankan ice-cream parlour gains fame after surviving brutal conflict” by...
After the end of decades of armed conflict, an ice-cream parlour in war-torn Jaffna has gained popularity among Sri Lankans, thanks to its persistence in remaining open despite the violence. see:...
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“The Burmese Indians who never went home” by Anbarasan Ethirajan
A story on Burmese Tamil refugees who were displaced to Manipur, India, following a coup in the 1960s that led to race riots against ‘Indians’. Hundreds of Jaffna Tamils, who were brought to Burma as...
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“Vanishing Hope in Sri Lanka: Amrita Chandradas on Remembering”
Editor’s Note: Amrita Chandradas is a documentary photographer currently based in Singapore and working across Southeast Asia. In 2014 she won the prestigious “Top 30 Under 30” award by Magnum...
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« Sri Lanka’s elusive housing logic » by Meera Srinivasan
Recently, Sri Lanka’s cabinet cleared a proposal to build 6,000 prefabricated houses for war-affected families in the island’s Tamil-majority north and east. What ought to have been a basic,...
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« Caste in a Tamil Family On Purity and Pollution in Post-war Jaffna » by...
Written using the voice of Zehra Hashmi, an ethnographic narrative examines caste in transition in Jaffna, centred around a Vel.l.āl.ar family that lived in the peninsula throughout the duration of the...
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« Friday et Friday » de Antonythasan Jesuthasan alias Shobasakthi, en...
« Friday et Friday » de Antonythasan Jesuthasan alias Shobasakthi. Nouvelles traduites du tamoul (Sri Lanka) par Faustine Imbert-Vier, Élisabeth Sethupathy, et Farhaan Wahab Une enfance à Allaipiddy,...
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« Demons in Paradise : thèmes et controverses autour d’un travail de mémoire...
Le beau film de Jude Ratnam, actuellement en salle à Paris (à l’Espace Saint Michel), propose au spectateur, à travers une vision personnelle de la montée du militantisme séparatiste tamoul et des...
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“Flights soon from Sri Lanka’s Jaffna to 4 Indian cities but not Chennai....
Since the end of its three-decade long civil war in 2009 and with the help of India, Sri Lanka has been upgrading the Jaffna peninsula’s Kankesanthurai harbour and the adjacent air field Palali, which...
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