Reconciliation in Sri Lanka:Breaking the Myth and Bringing the Truth

This article has written on the 11th of August 2010, in order to mark two hundred days of journalist Prageeth Ekneligoda disappearance and the birthday of assassinated senior journalist Dharmeratnam Sivaram. 


Both journalists came from a different background and polarized communities in Sri Lanka, but both are / were seen as a threat against autocratic government of Sri Lanka.


Meanwhile, this is the government saying that they are working on reconciliation process. 


This article will analysis the real meaning of reconciliation, ground reality, government moves and international community role in the reconciliation process.


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Searching for Peace in a Kingdom of Vultures

(From my archives 2009 September)

“Peace is the wholeness created by right relationships with oneself, other persons, other cultures, other life, Earth, and the larger whole of which all are a part”



The armed conflict in Sri Lanka came to an end by mid May 2009 - after more than three decades - with a ‘military victory’ of the Sri Lankan government. The Rajapakse regime won the Eelam War – IV, but a Tamil spirit for autonomy remains - as it occurred - due to misrule, an identity-based state patronage, exclusion, mismanagement of scarce natural resources, underdevelopment, and violation of human rights. The Tamil people’s political aspirations were once again proved through the recent Jaffna Municipality and Vavuniya Urban Council elections (both districts are in the Northern part of Sri Lanka). Even though the government has won their battles, it has failed in the resettlement, reconciliation and reconstruction process so far. Whether nonviolent or violent, the struggle of Tamils is closely related to the denial of their basic human needs.

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