By Michael Roberts Article from Frontline, 6-19 June 2009 “One can win the War, but lose the Peace.” Cliché this may be, but it also a hoary truism that looms over the post-war scenario in Sri Lanka. The triumphant Sri Lankan government now has to address the human terrain rather than the fields of battle. In facing this challenge both government and concerned people must attend to another...

A visit to the Madhu Church as a little boy still remains faintly in my thoughts. This is nothing compared to the experiences my parents had when they were young. My mother still recalls how my grandfather used to take them on the Dragon Rapide as little children to Jaffna and the how my uncle thought the Rassum dish was the finger bowl and nearly washed his hands in it. The last visit during peaceful...

Prof. Rohan Gunaratna Singapore, 18 April, (Asiantribune.com): “Sri Lanka has become a living laboratory on how to and how not to fight terrorism. Governments from around the world have started to study the Sri Lankan case. Western and other military, law enforcement security and intelligence services are today consulting the Sri Lankan government on how they reduced the LTTE power from a formidable...

PRABAKARAN IS SEEN AS A MEGALOMANIAC WHO HIJACKED THE GRIEVANCES OF THE TAMILS TO GRATIFY HIMSELF. THE SWITCH FROM GUERRILLA TO CONVENTIONAL WARFARE WAS DISASTROUS THE TAMIL ‘STATE’ Prabakaran’s moment of triumph in ejecting the IPKF (March 1990) out of his domain, powered him with greater confidence. He felt vindicated in his belief that Eelam was a reality within his grasp. His surviving boys...

This an amazing article I found from Tehelka which gives in-site to one of the ruthless terrorist in the world. Prabakaran had everything: territory, international support and committed fighters. Senior journalist SHYAM TEKWANI, who has covered the LTTE and Sri Lanka for almost three decades tracks the alarming rise and astonishing fall of a man who sought to live to fight another day, but found only...