Building National Unity á la JVP

By Mandana Ismail Abeywickrema - Picture by Saman Kariyawasam

• A stepping stone towards building national unity

 Sunday, July 28, 2013

The continuous debate on the national question and attempts to find solutions to the issue throughout the past three decades has failed to build national unity in the country.

The JVP that has refrained from participating in various attempts by successive governments to find “solutions”, last week released a set of proposals that the party states would address the national question in an effective manner.

JVP Propaganda Secretary Vijitha Herath delivering the welcome address at the event held at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute (SLFI) last week said that the party presented a set of proposals to build national unity soon after the end of the war.

However, he said the government failed to implement the proposals resulting in persons like Navi Pillay from the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) being given the opportunity to intervene in Sri Lankan affairs.

“The government has now managed to create new problems in the country with the Northern Provincial Council elections that have been called four years after the end of the war. The JVP, since 1987, has been saying that the Provincial Council system would not be the solution to the national question. The government is once again trying to push the country towards a separatist agenda instead of working towards building national unity,” Herath said.     Read More »