Presidential Elections and Prospects for Reconciliation

Our weakness, however, has been our size or impact. We couldn’t reach out as we wanted to. We couldn’t reach out for the broader sections of the Tamils or the Sinhalese. We couldn’t reach out to the Muslims. Of course we have physical or human limitations as we are mostly working people, but I am not talking about that.

by Laksiri Fernando

( February 9, 2015, Sydney, Sri Lanka Guardian) I am not speaking as an outsider. I am an insider to the Sri Lanka Reconciliation Forum, Sydney (SLRF). However, here I express my personal views and they are not necessarily the views of the Forum. Let me first begin on some common premises.

Presidential Elections and Prospects for Reconciliation.odt by Thavam Ratna