Comments on: November 1948 http://pact.lk/november-1948/ The interactive timeline of conflict in Sri Lanka Sun, 03 Apr 2011 21:52:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: unionblack http://pact.lk/november-1948/comment-page-1/#comment-31 unionblack Mon, 28 Jan 2008 04:49:19 +0000 http://pact.lk/2008/03/24/november-1948/#comment-31 Ten years before G.G. Ponnambalam's famous 'request' or 'demand', Leonard Woolf, who had served 7 years in Jaffna and Hambanthota districts as a member of the Ceylon Civil Service, included this suggestion in his memorandum to the Labour Party: <blockquote>"Consideration should be given to the possibility of ensuring a large measure of devolution or even of introducing a federal system on the Swiss model." </blockquote> The Swiss model is tripartite in character, and Woolf took the view that Sri Lanka's Muslims also deserved to have their rights protected. Source: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1932756,00.html" rel="nofollow">Failure can aid the science of comparative peace,</a> The Guardian, 27 October 2006 Ten years before G.G. Ponnambalam’s famous ‘request’ or ‘demand’, Leonard Woolf, who had served 7 years in Jaffna and Hambanthota districts as a member of the Ceylon Civil Service, included this suggestion in his memorandum to the Labour Party:

“Consideration should be given to the possibility of ensuring a large measure of devolution or even of introducing a federal system on the Swiss model.”

The Swiss model is tripartite in character, and Woolf took the view that Sri Lanka’s Muslims also deserved to have their rights protected. Source: Failure can aid the science of comparative peace, The Guardian, 27 October 2006

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