Occasional Stories: A Velvet Revolution?

by Laksiri Fernando-Aug 11, 2017

( August 11, 2017, Sydney, Sri Lanka Guardian) I am not imagining the future, but relating an experience of the past, in 1989. It was not in Sri Lanka, where things were quite rough or violent. It was in Czechoslovakia. The change was so smooth, it was called the ‘velvet revolution.’ It started on the 17^th November and by the 27^th, the ruling communist party gracefully agreed to step down and hold multiparty elections.

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