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Behind Closed Walls: How Beijing Conceals the Xinjiang Detention System
There is a particular cruelty in disappearing someone and then denying they were ever taken. It leaves families suspended in a kind of unresolvable grief — unable to mourn, unable to hope, unable to act. Across Xinjiang, this has been the experience of countless Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, and Hui families since the mid-2010s, as China’s…
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From Black July to Easter Sunday: Sri Lanka’s Tragedy of Collective Amnesia and Majority Rule over Minorities
Sri Lanka’s modern history from Black July in 1983 to the Easter Sunday bombings in 2019 is a story of a country that bled lives and wealth while refusing to confront the structures that made violence possible. Between pogrom, war and terror attacks, well over a hundred thousand people were killed and the economy lost…
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Balancing Security Operations with Civil Liberties
Baloch Culture Day on March 2 is a reminder that identity and dignity do not disappear simply because a state tries to silence them. Yet in Pakistan’s Balochistan province, cultural celebration coexists with enforced disappearances, collective punishment, and a security paradigm that treats an entire population as suspect in the name of counterinsurgency. A Fractured…
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The Intelligence Nexus and the Shadow of the Easter Sunday Bombings: A Critical Analysis of the Arrest of Major General Suresh Sallay and the Pursuit of the Alleged Masterminds
The apprehension of Major General Suresh Sallay on February 25, 2026, represents a seismic shift in the long-deferred quest for accountability regarding the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings. As the former Director of the State Intelligence Service (SIS), Sallay is the highest-ranking military intelligence official to be taken into custody in connection with the coordinated suicide…
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Canada dispatch: Human Rights Tribunal limits government delay tactics in national security cases
This news bulletin was originally published by JURIST News on November 14, 2025. Pitasanna Shanmugathas | U. Windsor Faculty of Law, CA November 14, 2025 08:10:22 pm Pitasanna Shanmugathas is a third-year student at the University of Windsor Faculty of Law. He has been actively following developments in this discrimination case before the Canadian Human…
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The Chemmani Mass Grave: My Witness to War Crimes in Jaffna
I have lived many lives inside one body. I was a child soldier, a spy, a prisoner, an informant, and at times a ghost moving between two worlds—Tamil and Sinhalese, enemy and ally, victim and accomplice. But of all the shadows that haunt me, none is as heavy as the one buried beneath the soil…
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Seeds of Influence: Iran’s Subtle War on Western Democracy Through Student Engagement
The Islamic Republic of Iran has long employed a layered and deliberate strategy to expand its global ideological influence. Central to this ambition is the state’s investment in Muslim students studying in the West. At first glance, these educational and cultural exchange initiatives may appear benign or even altruistic. However, upon deeper examination, they reveal…
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A Crisis of Governance and the Fluidity of Ethnic Identity: Understanding Modern Sri Lanka — Interview with journalist Mark Salter
This interview was originally published by JURIST News on April 25, 2025 Written by: Pitasanna Shanmugathas | University of Windsor Faculty of Law, CA Edited by: Alanah Vargas | JURIST Staff, US Mark Salter, a journalist, analyst, and writer with over 25 years of professional experience in democratization, governance, and post-conflict peacebuilding, speaks to JURIST’s…