On AlterNet: sri lanka

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Single Women Begin to Rebuild

Amantha Perera, IPS News. September 25, 2011.

Sri Lankan women band together to rebuild their lives.

Is MIA the Julian Assange of Pop Music?

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, AlterNet. January 22, 2011.

With her new Vicki Leakx mixtape, Maya Arulpragrasm reiterates her case as America’s most important, politically savvy young popstar.

Why Wiping Out Insurgents Won't Bring Peace to Sri Lanka

Mitu Sengupta, AlterNet. May 5, 2009.

The Tamil Tigers are the product, not the cause, of Sri Lanka’s deadly politics.

Killings and Concentration Camps: A Colossal Humanitarian Tragedy is Underway in Sri Lanka and No One is Saying a Word

Arundhati Roy, Comment Is Free. April 1, 2009.

What is happening right now in Sri Lanka, and what is being so effectively hidden from public scrutiny, is a brazen, openly racist war.

Suicide Terrorism: Why Are Sri Lanka's Women Blowing Themselves Up?

Shenali Waduge, The Wip. October 14, 2008.

Why do women in Sri Lanka feel they need to choose death over life to assert their power?

What Makes Female Suicide Bombers Different?

Courtney E. Martin, Huffington Post. August 6, 2008.

The media portrays female suicide bombers as coerced, but the factors that drive women to strap on explosives are often the same that drive men.