Sri Lanka: an unsung model for post- conflict security

Sri Lanka’s military has remained fully funded, intact and even expanded in crucial areas

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The Human Dimension

Into a time of humility and self-retrospect…

The beauty of Lent enables us to re-arrange our priorities. It helps us to re-focus ourselves, enabling us to keep the most important ones in sight and let go of the others. It empowers us to actually stand up and take note of the less fortunate around us. And to do whatever we can to ease their burdens. It may not always be monetary driven but may be time that we can spend talking to elders left forgotten in a home for the elders. It maybe the family that is struggling to make ends meet. This Lent, we are called to do something out of the ordinary for someone who is not able to do that something on his own,

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‘Patriotic political parties should stand together’

It is not only amusing, but also hilarious that the UNP talks of so-called positive effects the CFA had on Sri Lanka’s economy. It is an accepted fact that the LTTE exploited the cease-fire period to increase its military strength. The Ministry of Defence in its publication titled, ‘Humanitarian Operation - Factual Analysis (July 2006 - May 2009)’, (p37) states, that there is documented evidence to the effect that the LTTE built “stockpiles of weapons and ammunitions, engaged in a large-scale recruitment drive to markedly increase its strength”

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