Forging global consensus to combat terrorism
In May this year, Sri Lanka was successful in
defeating the scourge of brutal terrorism after almost three decades
of conflict inflicted on us by the LTTE, one of the most ruthless
terrorist organizations known to the international community. Our
recent anti-terrorist operations cost us only 2.8 billion dollars in
all, compared with other anti-terrorist operations elsewhere.
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On the ‘reasonable use of Tamil’
I am all for identity assertion. I do not think
that submerging culture associated with language, custom, faith etc
in an overall mishmash that is even more amorphous is necessarily
good or better. Make no mistake, I am not against anyone wanting to
be Sri Lankan and feeling that his/her overall national identity
(Sri Lankan) overrides other identities (Sinhala, Tamil, Moor or
Burgher; Buddhist, Hindu, Islamic, Catholic); but I sense that if we
are not Sinhala or Tamil in the first instance, for example, our
being Sri Lankan becomes less meaningful.
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