DEAL WITH THE PAST CONSTRUCTIVELY
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- Friday, 07 December 2012
Media Release
DEAL WITH THE PAST CONSTRUCTIVELY
The events surrounding the attempts by students of Jaffna University to commemorate those who died in the war, unless speedily corrected, has the potential to inflame ethnic tensions and obstruct the post war reconciliation process. The students were lighting lamps on November27, the date formerly commemorated by the LTTE as their Heroes Day. This was broken up by the security forces who also arrested some of the students.
Don’t the defeated have a right to mourn their dead?
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- Tuesday, 04 December 2012
According to the statement of the Editors Guild the Editor Thevananth was covering events connected with a commemoration meeting held by Jaffna University students in memory of those who had died during the three-decade long northern insurgency when there was an attack on them by armed men.
REINTEGRATING PEOPLE IN NORTHERN DEVELOPMENT By Dr.Jehan Perera
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- Wednesday, 28 November 2012
The landscape in the more densely populated parts of the once war ravaged North is a rapidly changing one. The government focus on investing in physical infrastructure such as public buildings and roads is showing visible results. Suddenly the skeletal structures of buildings get filled out and transform the appearance of an entire area. When we passed the town of Kilinochchi, the onetime administrative capital of the LTTE, it was lighted up even though the hour was late in the night. It looked like a model town. The challenge for the government will be to make this external change an internal one as well, in which the people who meant to be the beneficiaries also rejoice in the transformation and feel that justice is being done to them.
Why devolution of power should be on linguistic basis by R.M.B Senanayake
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- Monday, 19 November 2012
Sinhala nationalists who deny that the Tamils have any grievances are now campaigning for the abolition of the Provincial Councils under the 13th Amendment. But S.W.R.D the western educated liberal who introduced the Sinhala Only Law realized that an injustice was done to the Tamil people for it was not only an instrument to discriminate against Tamils in State employment but also to force them to deal with the State and its agencies only in Sinhala which the large majority of Tamil people did not know. How could the Tamil people give voice to their problems to the powers that be unless they learn Sinhala for, given the Sinhala as the only medium of education, future political leaders would know only Sinhala. ?
