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• Unfinished Business of the 5 Students and ACF Cases - A Time to Call the Bluff : 1st Apr 2008

• The Second Facist Front in Sri Lanka -Towards Crushing the Minorities and Disenfranchising the Sinhalese: 21st Feb2008

• Slow Strangulation of Jaffna: Trashing General Wijeratne's Legacy and Enthroning Barbarism: 4th Dec 2007

• A Bullet for a Fig Leaf : Verbal Bludgeoning to Subvert International Monitoring: 17th Sep 2007

• Can the East be won through Human Culling?: Special Economic Zones - An Ideological Journey Back to 1983: 3rd Aug 2007

• From Welikade to Mutur and Pottuvil: A Generation of Moral Denudation and the Rise of Heroes with Feet of Clay : 31st May 2007

• Supplement to Special ReportNo 25 : 31st May 2007

• The Five Students Case in Trincomalee : 19th April 2007

• Sri Lanka's Humanitarian Crisis or the Crisis of a Majoritarian Polity?: 27th March 2007

• The Race for Infamy in Sri Lanka's North-East : 13th March 2007

• The Human Rights and Humanitarian Fallout from the Sri Lankan Government's Eastern Agenda and the LTTE's Obduracy :22nd January 2007

• Bulletins No.42, 43 and Supplement to SpR.23 October 2006:13th December 2006

• The Choice between Anarchy and International Law with Monitoring : 7th November 2006

• The Wider implications of the Human Rights and Humanitarian Crisis in Jaffna : 14th September 2006

• Hubris and Humanitarian Catastrophe : 23rd August 2006

• Ketheeswaran Loganathan and the Tamil Dissidents’ Dilemma : 15th August 2006

• Flight, Displacement and the Two-fold Reign of Terror : 15th June 2006

• When Indignation is Past and the Dust Settles-  - Reckoning Incompatible Agendas : 15th May 2006

• Terrorism, Counterterrrorism and Challenges to Human Rights Advocacy: 2nd April 2006

• Wider Significance of the Incidents in Pesalai and the University of Jaffna: 27th Dec. 2005

• The Meaning of the Killing Spree: 1st Nov. 2005

• The Curse of Impunity : Part II: Defiance, Hope & Betrayal: Times of Sivaram:9th September 2005

• Supplement to SP No 19: Part II : University of Peradeniya - May 1983: When Majesty Stoops to Folly :9th September 2005

• Impunity in the Name of Peace: Norway's Appeasement Strategy Claims Another Victim: 17th Aug 2005

• Political Killings and Rituals of Unreality: 21st July 2005

• The Curse of Impunity : Part I : Bindunuwewa, the Thin End of the Wedge of Impunity: 12th June 2005

• Release of a Film on Rajani: No more Tears Sister: 21st May 2005

• Political Killings and Sri Lanka's Stalled peace: 28th March 2005

• A Tale of two Disasters and the Fickleness of Terror Politics: 10th January 2005

• 15 Years After Rajani:The Continuing Cost of Dissent : 21st September 2004

• The Batticaloa Fiasco & the Tragedy of Missed Opportunities: 29th May 2004

• Averting a Blood Spill in Batticaloa: 30th March 2004

• The Worm Turns and Elections Where the People Will Not Count: 8th March 2004

• Tiger Manipulation of Tamil-Muslim Releations and the Creeping Siege of Kinniya and Muthur: 21st December 2003

• Rituals of Words without Substance : 14th December 2003

• Rewarding Tyranny: Undermining the Democratic Potential for Peace : 07th October 2003

• UTHR(J) Up Date :New Twists in East’s Continuing Tragedy:  20th July 2003

• The Murder of T.Subathiran: Sri Lanka's End Game: 15th June, 2003
• The North – East: Democracy on Death Row: 2nd May, 2003

• Child Conscription and Peace: A Tragedy of Contradictions: 18th March, 2003

• The Gathering Storm in the East: 13th January, 2003

• The Cost of 'Peace' and the Dividends of Terror: Sri Lanka's Nordic Winter?:3rd December 2002

• The Meaning of "People's Action" and the Consequences of Prolonged Negotiations: 26th October,2002

• In the Shadows of Sattahip : The Many Faces of Peace: 04th October,2002

• The Plight of Child Conscripts, Social Degradation & Anti-Muslim Frenzy : 20th July, 2002

• Various Local and International Civil society Voices Regarding the Peace Process in Sri Lanka : May 10th, 2003. {This link is updated continuously}.

• Towards Totalitarian Peace: The Human Rights Dilemma : 9th May, 2002.

• Failing the test: LTTE extortion continues unchecked : 30th April, 2002

• The News items concerning our Bulletin No 28 and related issues

• No 28: In the Name of "Peace": Terror stalks the North-East: 01^st February 2002

• Briefing No. 4: Peace activism, suicidal politics and civil society: 4th December 2001

• A Statement in Response to President Kumaratunge’s CNN Interview (10/31/2001)

• SRI LANKA:THE ARROGANCE OF POWER: Myths, Decadence & Murder

By Rajan Hoole

reviews:

Sri Lanka's Decades of Divide, Janaury 04, 2003, Lakshman Sabaratnam, EPW,

Hounded but Defiant, T N Gopalan, New Indpress,

RAJAN HOOLE'S 'SRI LANKA'
An impassioned indictment of terror

By Jeff Kingston, The Japan Times: July 14, 2002




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In USA and other countries abroad you could purchase from the web site South Asia Books. Use the search facility with author's name or ISBN no. Sri Lanka: The Arrogance of Power: Myths, Decadence and Murder.pa. Author(s): Hoole, Rajan. ISBN: 9559447041. Edition: 1. Pages: 504. Binding: TP. Pub.Date: 02052001. Summary: Major new work on violence, ideology, recent political history of Sri Lanka. on Indian role, nature of Tamil unrest a thoughtful, creative overview, strongly recommended. List Price: $32.00

Written by a co-author of The Broken Palmyra, the focus of which was inwards - within Tamil society - the present volume examines primarily the Sri Lankan State. Sri Lanka: The Arrogance of Power - Myths, Decadence and Murder is the story of how the State, its ideology and inherent violence spawned the LTTE as its mirror image, a violently obscurantist JVP within Sinhalese society itself, and continues to suffocate in that legacy.

The book traces the connections between major events in post-independence Sri Lanka. It elucidates crucial aspects of the 1977 violence that have been papered over. The central sections deal with the July 1983 holocaust and the Welikade prison massacres that still form an elusive watershed in this country's political history. Both published and unpublished materials have been collated in giving an account of the JVP insurgency of 1987-90. A key chapter deals with the dirty war of the mid-1980s, where the UNP government's attempt at demographic transformation, with covert Western and Israeli assistance, plunged the crisis to a point of no return and irrevocably internationalised it. Other chapters deal with demoralisation in the security forces, political assassinations and the fascist drift among Tamils. A final chapter tackles the question of peace. Although written for the general reader wanting to probe below official and partisan obfuscation, the student of contemporary Sri Lanka will find the book compulsory reading.] 500p.

Published by University Teachers for Human Rights (Jaffna), Sri Lanka.


For local purchases in Sri Lanka:

At Rs. 800/- per copy, the book is priced at the lowest compatible with covering production costs. Its available for sale at study institutes and booksellers in Colombo. You could purchase from the following places:

RCCG Book Center, 66, Dutugamunu Street, Kohuwala, Dehiwala, Sri Lanka ( e-mail to rccg@slt.lk),

Suriya Book Shop, SSA, 425/15, Thimbrigasaya Rd, Colombo 5

Barefoot, Galle Road, Colombo 3

Book Land, 432, Galle Road, Colombo 3

ICES No.8, Kynsey Terrace, Colombo 8


Marga Institute, 91/10,Dutugamunu Street, Kohuwala, Dehiwala


In this web site you could view the content page. Forward and Chapter1 , 2, 4, 9 & 10 have been uploaded. 19th October 2001]

• Broken Palmyra : co-authored by Dr.Rajan Hoole, Dr. Rajani Thiranagama, Dr. D.Somasundaram & Dr. K. Sritharan was published in 1988. Its an inside account about the Tamil struggle. (cover , back cover)

   

   

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