Sri Lanka: Race & Racial Prejudice
The subject of race & racial prejudice in Sri Lanka will not be understood unless we have a clear idea of how race & racial prejudiced traveled through history & time to be...
Category: Lessons for Sri Lanka
Chronology of Tamils taking firearms since 1950s
1956 – Tamil youth fire at army camp in Batticoloa. Sinhalese civilians shot at in Kalmunai 1961 – Tamil youth attack Sri Lankan soldiers in Jaffna 1961 – Tamil youth forms Pulip Padai (...
Kosovo found out too late ‘You cannot EAT independence’ Lesson for Sri Lankan Tamils
There are striking resemblances in Kosovo & Sri Lanka and though many Sri Lankans may be clueless about the fate of Kosovo, it is something everyone in particular the Tamils & even the Tamil...
Will Sri Lanka be cut to create another Kosovo
Kosovo was cut up from a balkanised Yugoslavia & given independence in 2008. Kosovo’s status is governed by U.N. Security Council Resolution 1244 which envisages self-government for Kosovo, but acknowledges the sovereignty and territorial...
Lessons for Sri Lanka: How West used Social Media for Arab Spring
Countries that indulge in regime change to remove nationalist/populist leaders & replace with pro-western puppet leaders have found a new tool – the social media. Social media means people’s voice, people’s sentiment but these...
Regime-changing the Regime change in Sri Lanka
Governments come & governments go – that is clear evidence of a vibrant democracy. People go for elections – they bring governments to power & they can bring down governments too. We have seen...
Land-Resource Sell-Out: Companies becoming more powerful than Countries
The winners of globalization, international trade agreements, privatization, neo-liberal economic capitalism are none other than the multinational corporations. They are least bothered about religion, ethnicity, culture, or preservation of history or heritage. Everything is...
Sri Lanka take lessons from failed federal solutions!
Only about 15% of the world’s countries are federal. The notion that the UN or the International Community have fixed templates for conflicts has proved an absolute sham. All of the countries the UN...
Minister Amunugama – Promote the Alliance of Buddhist Nations while acknowledging Senaka Weeraratne who conceived the idea
On 9th July 2018 the ‘Island’ Newspaper carried a report titled Minister Amunugama proposes alliance of Buddhist countries in the region”. Minister Sarath Amunugama declared that he would initiate the alliance while attending...
Federal constitutions are for large countries – Small Sri Lanka doesn’t need federalism or asymmetrical federation
Federal constitutions exist in 26 countries including US, Canada, Russia, Australia, India, Brazil & federal features also prevail in China. What do these countries all have in common? Their size. It is because of...
