Ethnic War

[MONDAY TALK]Altan Tan: Kurds’ love affair with AK Party ending

Kurdish intellectual and writer Altan Tan has said that the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) is not the same AK Party that the Kurds fell in love with and that sooner or later there will be alternatives to it.

AFRICOM future unclear under Obama

In the streets, there were celebrations. From his father's native land of Kenya, to Botswana and South Africa, many Africans seemed to welcome the election of Barack Obama as U.S. president as if he were one of their own.

Nigeria: Eleme-Okrika Boundary Dispute And Other Crisis

Inter ethnic violence in the Niger Delta is another window to diagnose the genesis of ethnic militia in Rivers State. Part of the problem emanates from creation of states and local government areas with a logic that negates the...

Mr. Kurtz's curse

What has brought the latest crisis in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo to international attention is straightforward enough. The conflict there is the cause of untold human suffering: daily killings of civilians,...

Karunanidhi again demands Indian intervention in Sri Lanka!

Chennai, Nov 14: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi Friday insisted on a political road map to end Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict, saying India needed to take pro-active measures to end the strife. The chief minister also...

Orissa Bishops Warn State Leader of “Master Plan” to Wipe Out Christianity

Denouncing what they called a “master plan” to wipe out Christianity, the bishops of India’s troubled Orissa region have written a letter to the state’s Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik concerning the persecution of Christians at...

Karunanidhi again demands Indian intervention in Sri Lanka

New Delhi News.Net Friday 14th November, 2008 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi Friday insisted on a political road map to end Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict, saying India needed to take pro-active measures to end...

'Solution from outside is Sri Lankan reality'

The traditional civil-military division of labour has now been altered by the war in Sri Lanka. Military is a leading stakeholder. Sri Lanka no longer is an exceptional ‘third world democracy’. It is now a full-blown ‘national...

PM Manmohan Singh tells Rajapaksa to ensure welfare of Tamils!

Manmohan Singh today told President Mahinda Rajapaksa to ensure safety and welfare of ethnic Tamils as he met the Sri Lankan leader for the first time since the recent uproar over their condition in the island nation.

Conflict Filter

Nov 13, 2008 (LBO) - The World Bank said one of the aims of its new aid programme for Sri Lanka was to help achieve ethnic harmony through bilingual education and mixed schooling of the island's two main communities. World Bank...