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Peace and Reconciliation in Sri Lanka: Is there a way.
On 19 May 2009, President of Sri Lanka claimed military victory over the LTTE... The international pressure exerted on the Sri Lankan political leadership through diplomatic and economic measures does not seem to have worked, mainly due to the military collaboration between the Sri Lankan.. In that story all the wives, ministers and noble men of the kings court appreciated the beauty and the all the good and fine qualities embedded in the kings new cloth.
SRI LANKA and TAMIL SELF-DETERMINATION | Groundviews
All peoples are entitled to it, and the Tamils in Sri Lanka cannot be denied it merely because LTTE also used that claim. Oppressed Peoples are everywhere, and it will not be possible to compare and pronounce that a��.
A Year of Anniversaries ��� From Puran Appu to the Hartal.
However it does not explain why a new generation of anti-imperialists, the late emerging Sri Lankan left movement, did not actively rekindle his memory and that of the 1848 rebellion. A reverse class prejudice could be one. It is faddish to regard our first post independence administration as something of a golden age, when our citizens inhabited a Garden of Eden from which the fall from grace occurred with Bandaranaike and 1956. The briefest glance at the record��.
Deepavali Dilemma: Reflections from the Diaspora.
�� The truth, I knew, was that I had loved celebrating Deepavali in Colombo �������� lighting those clay lamps, drawing kolams on the ground, going to temple, eating and handing out lots of good food, wearing new clothes, lighting. �� Did my sense of anger and betrayal run so deep that I was willing to subsume myself into the Indian Hindu identity, with which I could barely find three things in common, rejecting my life in Sri Lanka?.. Feels like the impossible sometimes.
Dayan Jayatillekas Arguments For Supporting Mahinda.
As Dayan puts it, ���Maithripala Sirisena will occupy a shrunken Presidency and therefore wield reduced authority and power will be shifted to Parliament and the Cabinet.. It is clearly impossible to predict what could happen on the 8th night.. apart from a new face and a new electoral system, there will be a fundamental change in policies and programmes ��� domestic and foreign ��� that will finally and genuinely address the concerns of the Sri Lankan masses, and by��.
Sri Lankas new Prez Maithripala Sirisena: Man who did the impossible
In an outcome that many would have seemed impossible until a few weeks ago, Sri Lankas united opposition candidate Maithripala Sirisena defeated incumbent Mahinda Rajapaksa in the countrys presidential polls. I wish to thank the thousands of Sri .
Sri Lankas new Prez Maithripala Sirisena: Man who did the.
Firstpost In an outcome that many would have seemed impossible until a few weeks ago, Sri Lankas united opposition candidate Maithripala Sirisena defeated incumbent Mahinda Rajapaksa in the countrys presidential polls��.
Akon and Buddhism in Sri Lanka | Groundviews
We do not want any man black or white to come to our shore and display his male chuvinism calling ���Sexy Bitch��� in a public performance.with or without Buddhas statue. They also have a lot of four letter words in their raps��.
���General��� trends in the politics of the General | dbsjeyaraj.com
Cannot be his trip to New York to get his Green Card a plot planned by International conspirators against Sri Lanka and also put Gotabaya Rajapaksa on war crime charges?.. As the a section of the UNP, with strange allies such as Mangala Samaraweera, and Chandrika Kumaratunga too, in what seems to be an impossible campaign to get Sarath Fonseka elected President, the vast majority of.. we seem to have gotten no where ever since the first post.
Mera bhai Mahinda: Salman shills for SL president Rajapaksa, gets slammed
Mahinda Rajapaksa is pulling out the big guns in Sri Lanka. Faced with the possibility that he may just lose his bid for an unprecedented third term as President of the country, he has decided to add some Bhai power to his arsenal by bringing in Salman.
The Tamil In The Room At The Wars End | Groundviews
Some may argue, with a great deal of reason, that Groundviews represent only a miniscule portion of public opinion on Sri Lanka and even that the opinions of those who can write reasonably well in English. Those who do��.
A review of The Cage: The Fight for Sri Lankan and The Last.
Last year, the President proclaimed that the armed forces did not kill a single civilian and that they ���carried a gun in one hand and a copy of the human rights charter in the other���.. Just as much as I observed that Blackers work intersperses the real with the fictional, many sections of government, the armed forces and even the UN in Sri Lanka and New York will see Weiss as a talented but tainted author of a... The first will be hard to do, and the second impossible. 2.
Exceptional responses to questions from media | Groundviews
Karins visa and media accreditation to cover the Sri Lankan presidential election was revoked after she asked several questions from government representatives at an official press briefing... You claim to state the man in the audio is attached to the PRU. Simon. Truth will come out soon. They are going to submit the pettition as I heard it. I wish all gods could be on the side of right people to see the matter fairly so that many (almost of 50% of the nation) who never��.
Notes on Possibilities after the UN Report: Including.
Political philosopher Judith Butler wrote after 9/11 and the attacks on the twin towers in New York City in a book titled: Precarious Life: ���that we can be injured, that others can be injured, that we are subject to death at the whim of the other, are all. Now, two years after the end of war, it is clear that Sri Lanka as a multicultural country will not be able to ���move on��� and achieve lasting and substantive peace, until ALL its communities have put to rest the ghosts of violence.
The transformation of Buddhism in Sri Lanka | Groundviews
Prof Obeyesekere argues in a similar way new Buddshist ethics introduced by Anagarika Dharmapala promoted nationalism in Sri Lanka during independence movement and he defines that code of ethics as Protestant Buddism... The difference between the Christianity and Buddhism and (other religions are not exempted) is Christianity worship the CREATOR of the universe, where as Buddhists worship CREATION (that include man worship, and all kind of idols).
Sri Lanka Guardian: Whose country is it anyway?
Maithripala Sirisena: An Excellent Choice. Trending.. (December 02, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) When Imthiaz extended this invitation to me, it was impossible for me to refuse for three reasons.. It had a President who was a Muslim.. However, we can win it because there are many young Sri Lankans, Sinhalese, Tamils, Muslims, men and women, who do not believe in separatism (like Imthiazs son at the LSE, a boy we can proud of).. New Book. New Book��.
Breaking News: IDPs in Zone 3 and 4 in Menik Camp.
With more rain forecast, these horrific conditions of internment for IDPs will get worse. Is this really the best we can do? Is this peace? If you are on the ground in Vavuniya, or have access to new information on the flooding,��.
An open letter to the Remote Control Diaspora | Groundviews
��������������two men caught while trying to buy missiles and hundreds of AK-47 automatics rifles for the now routed Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka were jailed for 14 to 26 years by a US court.. Same as those diasporas do in their new homelands, the second or the third mother land... The APRC, now everyone realises, was a time buying exercise, and its final decision was vetoed by the president, who now says that he will give his own solution whatever that means.
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See Your Home Featured on Curbed. Photo via Patricia Chang Last month we launched House Calls, a new series of home tours devoted to the way Bay Area folk live behind closed doors. So far weve toured a hidden apartment at Grace Cathedral and a .
