• Sri Lankan War Wounds Still Not Healed

    Sri Lankan War Wounds Still Not Healed

    After more than 25 years of tense, protracted, and bloody civil war, the guns fell silent in Sri Lanka. In May of 2009 the military defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), commonly known as Tamil Tigers, gave Sri Lanka the golden opportunity to unite the divided island nation. Unfortunately, this never happened.…

  • U.N. ban on Sri Lanka’s peacekeepers led by alleged war criminal is the tip of the iceberg

    U.N. ban on Sri Lanka’s peacekeepers led by alleged war criminal is the tip of the iceberg

    This article was originally published by “NATO Association of Canada” on October 1, 2019. The U.N. peacekeeping department last week banned the deployment of non-essential Sri Lankan army troops in U.N. peacekeeping missions, citing the country’s appointment of an alleged war criminal to a top military post. The appointment of Sri Lanka’s new army chief,…