Guest Column

By Abbi Kanthasamy There is something almost majestic about the confidence of a retired general sitting beneath the medals of a victorious war and asking, “Tell me what I have done wrong.” Not prove it in court. Not the reports are mistaken. Just a full theatrical reboot: new interview, old uniform, memory wiped cleaner than a parade-ground rifle. General Shavendra Silva, former commander of Sri Lanka’s Army and former Chief of Defence Staff, has returned to the microphone to complain that t

By: Jeevan Thiyagaraja The recent public statement by PLOTE leader Dharmalingam Siddharthan perfectly illustrates the central tragedy of the Tamil militant struggle in Sri Lanka: the transition from armed groups that eliminated their own people. Speaking at a memorial for his father, V. Dharmalingam, a former Member of Parliament, Siddharthan publicly accused the Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization (TELO)—a group that now sits in the same political alliance as his own—of carrying out the assass

By Mahesh Nirmalan, MD, FRCA, PhD, FFICM, and Jared Mecha, MD, MPH Mahesh Nirmalan is Professor of Medical Education and Associate Vice President at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom. Jared Mecha is a Lecturer, Consultant Physician and Global Health Specialist at the University of Nairobi, Kenya. International development agencies, philanthropy, and health research funding agencies largely approach health outcomes in less developed countries (LDCs) as a problem to be solved within