Posts Categorized: Politics

Does (or When is) History Going to Repeat Itself in Sri Lanka?

by Dr. Victor Rajakulendran, Sydney, Australia; published October 1, 2003 From the time Britain started to negotiate with the Sri Lankan (former Ceylonese) legislators to hand over the governance of the country to them, Tamil legislators have been negotiating first with the British authorities, and later with the Singhalese authorities, to get parity of status for… Read more »

Nirvana in Reverse

by V Gunaratnam, September 28, 2005 That is what is happening in Sri Lanka today.  Everything is moving backwards.  It is as if the country is being sucked into a black hole by racial and religious intolerance, lawlessness, and political deception, dragging it through a tenuous ceasefire to confront the perils of war again. Jayantha… Read more »