Rajapakse: Now the most popular surname in Sri Lanka? - http://www.groundviews.org/2009/11/18/rajapakse-now-the-most-popular-surname-in-sri-lanka/
180 days after end of war, the much anticipated return of IDPs: An eyewitness account - http://www.groundviews.org/2009/11/18/180-days-after-end-of-war-the-much-anticipated-return-of-idps-an-eyewitness-account/
1,000 posts on Groundviews: Bearing witness, shaping peace - http://www.groundviews.org/2009/11/06/1000-posts-on-groundviews-bearing-witness-shaping-peace/
Historians say that the Kaffirs of Sri Lanka started arriving from the eastern shores of Africa in the 1500s with the Portuguese, and later in more waves with the different colonizers of Sri Lanka. 'Kaffir culture' is a video portrait of one such community of Kaffirs and the struggle to keep their culture alive in the face of falling numbers. Read more on Groundviews here - http://www.groundviews.org/2009/10/27/an-african-connection-kaffir-culture-in-sri-lanka/
The President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives in an exclusive interview with Nalaka Gunawardene on Groundviews. Full story here http://www.groundviews.org/2009/10/23/dont-be-stupid-the-climate-deed-is-done-so-lets-move-on-to-solutions-–-president-mohamed-nasheed-of-the-maldives/
What do you get for being the President of a country that is illegally occupying two sovereign countries, and has just recently killed 90 civilians in an airstrike? Answer: a Nobel Peace Prize! Read http://www.groundviews.org/2009/10/10/the-nobel-peace-farce-president-obama/
Two testimonies from families released from Menik Camp - http://www.groundviews.org/2009/09/30/two-testimonies-from-families-released-from-menik-camp/
The lie that Sri Lanka is a Gulag state. Join the debate between Dayan Jayatilleka and Basil Fernando here - http://www.groundviews.org/2009/09/27/a-response-to-basil-fernando-sri-lanka-is-not-a-gulag-island/
Dayan Jayatilleka notes, "It seems to me now, just as it did at the time, that Rajani at her best, in her courage and concern about democracy within the revolutionary movement and process, was a descendant of women revolutionaries of an old type" Read http://www.groundviews.org/2009/09/27/rajani-commemoration-an-absence-of-actuality/
"We cannot keep going back to the future. The war ended. The LTTE was defeated. If it must be the case, that war alone sustains and underpins our current governance, can it be waged against the culture of impunity in respect of human rights violations? And can the weapons be the Rule of Law and international human rights standards." Read A Continuation of War by Other Means?, http://www.groundviews.org/2009/09/23/a-continuation-of-war-by-other-means/