Understanding obstacles in structuring people’s struggle for self-determination

Mr Saba Navalan addressing the ‘Conference on Democracy, Self-Determination and Liberation of Peoples’ held at the European Parliament complex in Brussels on 23 September, 2013.

[TamilNet, Monday, 30 September 2013, 18:07 GMT]
How do we save national struggles from decimation and structure these struggles as people-centric? This is the uppermost question we have to address in right earnest, observed, Mr Saba Navalan, the editor of inioru.com in the UK, in reading a paper on Sri Lanka’s case study in the 21st century’s movements for self-determination, at an EU-level conference convened by IBON International that took place in the European Parliament last Monday. According to Mr Navalan’s observations, an obstacle in the realization of self-determination is that the upper layer of each ethnic group is held by pro-imperial forces and despite having fundamental contradiction, the upper middle class, in the absence of national capitalism, is comfortable about its association with the pro-imperial class. 

• Saba Navalan's paper on the Sri Lankan case study of 21st century's movements for self-determination

• Details of the Conference on Democracy, Self-Determination and Liberation of Peoples

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