Terrorism

Accountability cannot be established in the absence of credible and verifiable data says security expert Prof.Rohan Gunaratna

LTTE sharp shooters were using the fleet-footed blackbucks for target practice, says Lt.Gen.Baljeet Singh in as tetonly requested to stop their criminal act and, mercifully, they stopped.

A better approach to curb on-line extremism is to match regulations with concerted efforts to grow civil, positive activist communities online.

"Service Uninterrupted": Memoirs of Chief Secretary M.M.Rajendran reveals how how in 1989-90 the DMK allowed the LTTE to strike roots in the South Indian State and carry out assassinations.

The course material is designed with the needs of the Lankan police in mind

The Sunday Times report indicates that the destruction and re-erection of the war memorial were due to a lack of administrative coherence.

Jonah Blank, a researcher and political analyst for the Rand Corporation, said that the Easter Sunday attack was a result of political negligence more than intelligence failure. "The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) did not choose Sri Lanka, but the Sri Lankan extremists chose ISIS,” he said.

Lanka should base its case on International Humanitarian Law as it applies to a conflict with a group like the LTTE and thus legitimize its conduct and close the accountability issue, says Neville Ladduwahettfy d

The sectarian LTTE did not regard others as fallen heroes. Only LTTE cadres were given that recognition. Families of dead cadres belonging to other movements were not allowed to mourn their loved ones publicly. They could only mourn in secret, says DBS Jeyaraj in Daily Mirror

He wanted the Northern Province for the Tamils only, says Sugeeeswara Senadhira