The Conflict in Sri Lanka: Ground Realities - Ilankai Tamil Sangam

The Contributors
Rajan Sriskandarajah is a retired physician and US citizen of
Tamil origin. Rajan has lived in the US since 1977, having left Sri
Lanka for England in 1974 in the wake of the Police attack on the
International Tamil Conference in Jaffna. He intended to return.
He was unable to return as violence against the Tamil people
escalated and erupted into war in 1983. Rajan was formerly
on the Editorial Board of the ‘Tamil Nation’ fortnightly and has
written widely on the conflict in the Island of Sri Lanka.
Wakeley Paul is a graduate of Cambridge University and an LLM
Master of Laws from Stanford. He is a Barrister at Law, Middle
Temple, London, a former Crown Counsel, Ceylon for 11 years and
a Criminal Defence Attorney in New Jersey for 33 years. Wakely
was a former President, Thamil Sangam USA, an Association of
Tamils living in the US.
J. S. Tissainayagam has a M.A in International Relations from
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He edits the monthly
journal The North-eastern Monthly, and is at present employed by
Sri Lanka One-Text Initiative, an organisation involved in the Sri
Lankan peace process.
Sachithanandam Sathananthan is a filmmaker. He read for the
Ph D degree at the University of Cambridge. He was Coordinator of
research in South Asian regional co-operation at the Marga Institute,
Colombo. His publications and research interests cover national
movements, nation-building and governance in South Asia. He
was Visiting Research Scholar at the Jawaharlal Nehru University
School of International Studies, New Delhi, 1999/2000.
Ana Pararajasingham is an Australia based management
consultant who worked in Asia, the Middle East and Africa before
migrating to Australia in 1983. He completed his postgraduate
studies (MBA) in Australia. Ana is the Chairman of the Australasian
Federation of Tamil Associations - an umbrella organisation of
Tamil Associations. He was formerly on the Editorial Board of the
‘Tamil Nation’ fortnightly and has written extensively on the conflict
in the island of Sri Lanka and on related human rights issues.
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