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 We must become the change we want to see
- Mahatma Gandhi

 

Sri Lanka: the State of Nation and relations with India

Today, with the end of terrorism that plagued Sri Lanka for 30 years, and the rise of India on the world stage, we have a historic opportunity to once again go back to building our traditional friendships and restore our age-old ties. And this is a path that our two nations have already embarked upon,

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Goodbye Emergency, hello again constitutional flaw

We lived through a time of check-points and barricades, routine security checks and general unease about one another and each unexplained parcel as we moved from place to place, in and out of buses and trains, and other crowded places. We saw, post-LTTE, the barricades disappearing one by one, fewer and fewer checks, less and less traffic-stops to facilitate movement of VVIPs in convoys of anything between 10-75 vehicles, and a gradual easing of the military presence in and around the city. That phasing out, I believe, was a gradual and necessary,

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Lifting of Emergency and the end to impunity

Thirty four years ago, the country entered a dark tunnel. In 1977, JR Jayewardene’s UNP won by a landslide at the general election. So far so good, the democratic right of the people to elect a government of their choice was vindicated. However, it was what happened afterwards that was the problem. The Police were given a holiday. A generalised assault was launched by UNP blackshirts on the supporters of the Opposition. This degenerated (as if it were not degenerate enough) into an anti-Tamil pogrom,

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