Sri Lanka’s memory wars thwart reconciliation

Past leaders: Former Sri Lankan President Mahindra Rajapaksa meets with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo in 2013. | AFP-JIJI

BY JEFF KINGSTON-JUN 27, 2015

Six years after the end of the civil war that claimed at least 70,000 lives between 1983 and 2009, Sri Lanka appears to have made little progress on reconciliation between its ethnic Tamils and Sinhalese majority.

Sri Lanka’s Memory Wars Thwart Reconciliation by Thavam Ratna