News stories by Tisaranee Gunasekara

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Nov 03 (IPS) - During her 2013 visit to Sri Lanka, then UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay wanted to lay a wreath to commemorate the war-dead. "When I go to a country, I like to honour the victims, all victims, victims of LTTE, soldiers, families,” she explained.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Apr 30 (IPS) - Tisaranee Gunasekara is a political commentator based in Colombo*

"Unmindful are the walking dead
The known way is an impasse."
-- Heraclitus (The Fragments)

We have been here before. This blooded precipice is familiar, this looming abyss. What is unfamiliar, what renders the Easter Sunday massacre most vile and truly nightmarish is the total absence of any knowable rationality.