Floods, earthquakes, landslides: 2011 is a year of disasters. Bill McKibben asks: are we to blame? Plus, survivors tell their tales At least since Noah, and likely long before, we’ve stared in horror at catastrophe and tried to suss out deeper meaning – it was but weeks ago that the Tokyo governor, Shintaro Ishihara, [...]

Fuente: In These Times Traducción: María Valdés, CEPRID por Arundhati Roy 18 de enero, 2010 Las colinas bajas del sur de Orissa han sido el hogar de la kondh Dongria mucho antes de que hubiese un país llamado India o en un estado llamado Orissa. Las colinas vigilaban a los kondh. Los kondh adoraban las deidades que viven en [...]

by Matt Wade October 26, 2009 FEARS over declining media freedoms in Sri Lanka have intensified after a newspaper editor was held by police and questioned about a report alleging tension between military officials and the Government. Chandana Srimalwatte, editor of the popular Sinhalese-language newspaper Lanka Irida Sangrahaya, was detained by armed police and questioned for publishing a [...]

by Riaz Hassan September 11, 2009 Suicide bombing attacks have become a weapon of choice among terrorist groups because of their lethality and ability to cause mayhem and fear. Though they are depressing, the almost-daily news reports of deaths caused by suicide attacks rarely explain what motivates the attackers. Between 1981 and 2006, 1,200 suicide attacks made [...]

by Randeep Ramesh in Trincomalee September 13, 2009 Living by a palm-fringed golden beach on the edge of the Indian Ocean, Suganthinhi Thesamanikam considers herself lucky to be alive after living through the hell of war. Caught between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Sri Lankan army, she dodged bullets and shells for two years [...]

By Mahir Ali May 19, 2009 NOT long after President Mahinda Rajapaksa declared victory on Sunday, a spokesman for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) indirectly admitted defeat. Events in Sri Lanka have for months been moving inexorably towards a denouement along these lines, amid repeated warnings of a massacres. With the media long barred from [...]

Ongoing news: Sri Lanka authorities say Tamil Tigers (one of the world’s most enduring insurgencies) defeated and leader killed. Rebels respond that they will fight on. Nirmala Rajasingam May 18, 2009 “What has happened to this country? Will the rivers of blood stop? Will not the long shadow of the guns leave us? Life is much more worth than [...]

February 20, 2009 Summary After 25 years, the armed conflict between the Sri Lankan government and the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) may be nearing its conclusion. But for the quarter of a million civilians trapped or displaced by the fighting, the tragedy has intensified. Since the fall of the LTTE’s administrative center, Kilinochchi, in [...]