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Kenguru commenting on Feature: Historical roots and contemporary causes of conflict in Sri Lanka
Never speak to people about the problems, 80 % aren’t interested in them, the others of 20 % are glad that they at you are!…

Think Again commenting on 11 May 2008
Perhaps they should just give people who want a different country a different country….

PACT team commenting on October 1990
The citizen journalism site Groundviews has this commentary on the recent establishment of a Citizen’s Commission, set up by The Law & Society Trust (LST) together with the Community Trust…

prashan commenting on 1953
Hemaka, I think the point you responded to, and your response speak to the purpose of creating this timeline of encouraging debate on various contested historical events. Some do indeed…

hemaka dissanayake commenting on 1953
While I have no doubt that their were genuine cases of discrimination against tamils in Sri Lanka, I find this ‘colonization mania’ of Tamil politicians unjust. Firstly, there is overwhelming…

Namil commenting on 1888
What do the modern intellectuals say about the ethnic difference among Tamil speaking Muslims and Tamil speaking Hindu/Christians? I mean, do Muslims belong to the Tamil minority or not?…

Sunil Bastian commenting on 3 October 2001
I am not that enthusiastic about talk of resurrecting the Constitutional Council because it amounts to tinkering with the presidential system, instead of questioning it fundamentally. When such powerful institutions…

pact team commenting on Feature: Historical roots and contemporary causes of conflict in Sri Lanka
In the final part of our interview with Sunil Bastian, he comments on the continuing relevance of Tamil grievances that date back to the 60s and 70s, on engaging with…

pact team commenting on Feature: Historical roots and contemporary causes of conflict in Sri Lanka
In the third installment of our interview with Sunil Bastian, he talks about the impact of intra-ethnic divisions and elite politics on finding a resolution to the conflict in Sri…

PACT team commenting on Feature: Historical roots and contemporary causes of conflict in Sri Lanka
In the second part of our interview with Sunil Bastian, he responds to the idea that conflict between Tamils and Sinhalese was inevitable and that British colonialism precipitated it. When people…

prashan commenting on 28 May 2009
The resolution at the UN Human Rights Council, absolving the Sri Lankan government of any complicity in human rights abuses during the final stages of the war, the confirmation of…

pact team commenting on Feature: Historical roots and contemporary causes of conflict in Sri Lanka
In the first part of our interview with Sunil Bastian, he introduces his ideas on the nature of the state as the central question when examining Sri Lanka’s conflict, and…

Kannan Arunasalam commenting on Feature: Historical roots and contemporary causes of conflict in Sri Lanka
In the third installment of our interview with Dr. Pradeep Jeganathan, he discusses the need for constitutional change, including a brief assessment of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, and…

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