The Murugappans have been fighting to stay in Australia for years. All the while, Sri Lanka has one of the worst records of state-perpetrated violence against civilians in the early 21st century.
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Articles on Tamil Tigers
Displaying all articles
As the Sri Lankan Tamil family from Biloela prepares to learn their fate tomorrow, Scott Morrison and Peter Dutton can’t avoid looking threadbare in terms of humanity.
This spring marks the 25th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide and the 10th year since the Tamil genocide in Sri Lanka. The world knows what happened in Rwanda. What about Sri Lanka?
The deadly Sri Lanka attacks show a return to the coordinated, sophisticated strikes employed by al-Qaeda in the 2000s, focusing on soft targets with vulnerable institutions.
Sri Lanka’s president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, has been defeated in the country’s historic presidential elections. Sri Lankans are shocked at the scale and manner of Rajapaksa’s defeat, which has brought his…
The Sri Lankan government is on the defensive again over human rights. It is hoping to ride out a diplomatic storm after failing to thwart a UN Human Rights Council vote approving an international investigation…
When delegates assemble in Colombo later this month for the Commonwealth Heads of Government (CHOGM), much of the talk at the summit will be of “moving forward” and of “reconciliation”. The government…
Top contributors
-
Lecturer, School of Humanities, Griffith University
-
Professor, International Politics, University of Exeter
-
Senior Lecturer in International Development, University of Bath
-
Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
-
Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
-
Associate Professor, University of Windsor
-
Associate Professor of Law, Queen's University, Ontario
-
Lecturer in History, University of Sydney
