Category: Colonial & Neo colonial

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WHY DOES CHEMMANI GET PROCESSIONS BUT THUNUKKAI DOES NOT? WHY IS INTERNATIONAL ATTENTION ON CHEMMANI — BUT NOT THUNUKKAI?

  Justice, we presume, is for all victims. That is why it is necessary to ask whether we are witnessing a change in the status quo — where some victims are receiving unprecedented mobilisation,...

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IF MUSLIM NATIONS ARE NOT ACCEPTING ROHINGYA REFUGEES, WHY SHOULD SRI LANKA?

  A Rohingya refugee living in Sri Lanka addressed the UN Human Rights Council by video through Pax Romana and called, among other things, for Sri Lanka to consider granting citizenship or permanent residency...

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ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාමය අයිතියක් කඩදාසියට පමණක් සීමා වූ විට: උතුරු ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ සිංහල භාෂාව කතා කරන පුරවැසියන් – ජාතික භාෂාවෙන් අධ්‍යාපනය, පරිපාලනය සහ රාජ්‍ය සේවා ලබා ගැනීමේදී පවතින අසමානතාව.

  ජාතික භාෂාවක් පවතී – නමුත් උතුරු ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ සිංහල පුරවැසියන්ට සමානව ප්‍රවේශ විය හැකි අයිතියක් නොවේ. 1987 ඉන්දු-ලංකා ගිවිසුම සහ 13 වන සංශෝධනයෙන් පසුව ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාව සිංහල සහ දෙමළ ජාතික භාෂා...

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Sri Lanka’s Historical Weaknesses: Lessons from Invasions, Colonial Rule, and Modern Interventions

  Sri Lanka’s history is not a relic of the past — it is the strategic memory of a civilization. To distort, suppress, dilute, or rewrite it is not academic freedom; it is civilizational...

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Colonial Divide & Rule in Sri Lanka — How the British Weaponized Race, Education & Political Engineering

British Entry into Sri Lanka — Strategic Context (1795–1796) The British did not enter Sri Lanka as liberators or protectors of indigenous sovereignty.   They entered as a hostile imperial power exploiting European war dynamics,...

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Colonial Divide & Rule in Sri Lanka — How the Dutch Legalized Racial Separation & Institutionalized Communal Fragmentation

    Before European intervention, Sri Lanka’s people lived under a civilizational order that was not structured around rigid racial majorities and minorities. Indigenous social organization was shaped by: Buddhist cultural traditions Buddhist-based royal rule Agrarian...

Colonial Divide & Rule in Sri Lanka – How Portuguese divided Sinhalese against Malabars (Tamils) & Muslims 0

Colonial Divide & Rule in Sri Lanka – How Portuguese divided Sinhalese against Malabars (Tamils) & Muslims

Before European intervention, Sri Lanka’s people lived under a  civilizational order that was not structured around rigid racial majorities and minorities. Indigenous social organization was shaped by: Buddhist cultural traditions Buddhist-based royal rule Agrarian economy...