Reconciliation is a process and depends on national identity
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- Wednesday, 19 December 2012
1. Reconciliation is necessary to preserve one country and the State within it. Reconciliation is a process. It involves how Sinhalese, Tamils and Muslims perceive their future to be. It requires more than a set of proposals to reconcile marginalized communities.
2. Many Sinhalese see reconciliation as simply coexistence; others regard it as respect; and still others as mutual forgiveness. All intractable conflicts that actually end must go through some reconciliation process if the parties are going to co-exist in the future. If they do not, conflict is likely to recur, even after a victory or peace settlement, if disputes escalate. Without reconciliation it is difficult to visualize the other side agreeing to be part of the same state.
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.
NPC Annual Report 2012
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- Friday, 05 July 2013
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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. ?
People’s Response To Setting Up TJ Mechanisms
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- Saturday, 02 April 2016
One of NPC’s main areas of work this year has been to spread awareness on Transitional Justice (TJ) at the grassroots level. NPC is supporting the government’s measures to go ahead with establishing the best mechanisms to implement TJ in Sri Lanka to move the country from a post-war situation to one where people of different religions and ethnicities live in unity and harmony.
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