A Brief Colonial History Of Ceylon(SriLanka)
Sri Lanka: One Island Two Nations
A Brief Colonial History Of Ceylon(SriLanka)
Sri Lanka: One Island Two Nations
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Thiranjala Weerasinghe sj.- One Island Two Nations
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Sri Lanka’s Transition to Nowhere
Fragile
hopes for lasting peace and cooperation across party and ethnic lines
are imperilled. To avoid leaders of the corrupt and violent former
regime taking back control of the country, President Sirisena’s
two-year-old “unity government” should put aside short-term calculations
and return to reform.
Executive Summary
Two years into President Maithripala Sirisena’s term, Sri Lanka’s
fragile hopes for lasting peace and cooperation across party and ethnic
lines are imperilled. Despite significant achievements in the coalition
government’s first nine months, progress on most of its reform agenda
has slowed to a crawl or been reversed. As social tensions rise and the
coalition slowly fractures, it is unclear whether it can push its
signature new constitution through parliament and to a national
referendum. Neither the president nor prime minister has made a serious
attempt to win support for a more inclusive polity or to reform the
national security state to tackle the institutionalised impunity that
has fed ethnic unrest and harmed all communities. To protect democratic
gains, enable lasting reforms and reduce risks of social and political
conflict, the “unity government” should put aside short-term party and
individual political calculations and return to a politics of reform and
openness.
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