Lanka Links

News

Dancing With The Enemy -- performance bringing together those who have suffered -- http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/story/0%2C3604%2C482096%2C00.html

• LankaPage -- mainstream web news -- http://www.lankapage.com/
• TamilNet -- objective Tamil news -- http://www.tamilnet.com/

Organizations in Lanka

National Peace Council -- press releases urging all sides toward peaceful strategies -- http://www.fpsl.org.au/npc.htm

• Sarvodaya -- biggest NGO on the island --http://www.sarvodaya.org/
  • Interview with Ariyaratne (founder) -- http://www.sarvodaya.org/Library/Interviews/LMD_Ari.htm
• ICES Kandy (ICES = International Culture for Ethnic Studies) -- http://payson.tulane.edu/ices/about.htm
• ICES Colombo (ICES = same, but the orgs are not directly related?) -- http://www.icescmb.slt.lk/
• Marga Institute -- http://www.lanka.net/marga/
  • current monographs on the conflict) -- http://www.fpsl.org.au/marga.htm
• UTHR(J) University Teachers for Human Rights (Jaffna) report 24 -- http://laf.cioe.com/~lanka/uthr_24.html

• Official Sri Lanka government site -- http://www.gov.lk/
• Sri Lanka Consulate General (in Los Angeles) -- http://sl.manilasites.com/
• LTTE press releases -- http://eelam.com/

OfERR -- Organization for Eelam Refugees Rehabilitation -- largely refugee-staffed organization serving refugee population in India -- http://www.oferr.org/

Friends for Peace in Sri Lanka (FPSL, Sinhalese & Tamils in Australia) -- http://www.fpsl.org.au/

FPSL hosts the NPC site, and this statement on an anti-war campaign (doesn't list signatories besides NSSP -- http://www.fpsl.org.au/nssp.htm#270301

names/missions sound good but?

• LankaForum? -- http://www.lankaforum.org/
• SPUR -- http://www.spur.asn.au/current.htm

General

(maybe we can get the following to list more peace/justice-oriented resources, NPC, etc.)

The Open Directory (a free directory like Yahoo -- http://dmoz.org/) has a whole set of categories for:

• Sri Lanka the nation/island -- http://dmoz.org/Regional/Asia/Sri_Lanka/
  • including society and culture -- http://dmoz.org/Regional/Asia/Sri_Lanka/Society_and_Culture/
• schools -- http://dmoz.org/Reference/Education/Colleges_and_Universities/Asia/Sri_Lanka/
• Tamil culture -- http://dmoz.org/Society/Ethnicity/Tamil/
  • language -- http://dmoz.org/Science/Social_Sciences/Language_and_Linguistics/Natural_Languages/Dravidian_Languages/Tamil/
  • in Tamil (what font?!) -- http://dmoz.org/World/Tamil/
  • (some pages in other languages as well)

• Yahoo- Regional Information:Countries:Sri Lanka (they have a poor page on the conflict itself) -- http://www.yahoo.com/Regional_Information/Countries/Sri_Lanka/
• Yahoo- Regional Information:Countries:India:Tamil nadu -- http://www.yahoo.com/Regional_Information/Countries/India/Tamilnadu/
• Rediff has a list of Lanka resources -- http://www.rediff.com/dirsrch/temp/srilanka.htm
• Sri Lanka page of the WwwVirtualLibrary page -- http://www.lankalibrary.com/
  • Asian Studies page -- http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html

• The native peoples on the island (before Tamils or Sinhalese) are the Wanniyala-Aetto --http://www.global-vision.org/srilanka/
• Vedda or veddah is a Sinhalese term but also see http://www.vedda.org/
• There's a Norwegian woman, Wiveca Stegeborn, who speaks their language and has lived with them for a long time -- mailto:wiveca_stegeborn@hotmail.com

news:misc.news.southasia, news:soc.culture.tamil & news:soc.culture.sri-lanka

Other (on the conflict and in general)

INCORE has an extensive (1997, but updated 2001!) page of links on the conflict in Sri Lanka -- http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/cds/countries/srilanka.html

Accord magazine issue on Sri Lanka peace (July 1998 ) -- http://www.c-r.org/acc_sri/index.htm

SriLanka? FAQ - Old (1995) monthly posting to news:soc.culture.sri-lanka -- http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/sri-lanka-faq/faq.html

Humor: Ethniklashistan -- http://www.theonion.com/onion3723/west_bank.html