A Brief Colonial History Of Ceylon(SriLanka)
Sri Lanka: One Island Two Nations
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Sri Lanka: One Island Two Nations
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Thiranjala Weerasinghe sj.- One Island Two Nations
?????????????????????????????????????????????????Friday, July 6, 2018
Contextualising Minister’s Tiger Bomb
State Minister Vijayakala Maheswaran
State Minister Vijayakala Maheswaran’s emotional outburst in welcoming the return of LTTE has
obviously and legitimately provoked condemnation both inside and
outside the parliament. This writer is equally disturbed by her
thoughtless reference to a group of megalomaniacs who knew how to take
up the gun but did not know when to put it down. Yet, Vijayakala’s
verbal bomb blast must be contextualised.
The nation is nearing a decade since LTTE was defeated and civil war
came to an end. Jaffna has been rebuilt partly due to infrastructure
development undertaken by the MR regime and partly due to massive inflow
of funds from expatriate Tamils. Jaffna has changed its skyline so
rapidly that it is difficult for an outsider to detect any visual
evidence of a twenty-five year civil war fought in that territory. No wonder that MR is fondly remembered in some parts of the peninsula. So far so good.