Postwar Sri Lanka’s Awkward Peace

 Wednesday, 31 December 2014

Sri Lanka — Two men were riding the train known as the Queen of Jaffna as it rattled through the haunted battlegrounds of Sri Lanka’s civil war.

One of them, Nisal Kavinda, a 20-year-old man from the Sinhalese ethnic group, was jubilant. He had wanted to ride this train since 2009, when President Mahinda Rajapaksa declared victory over separatist rebels in the Tamil north, an event he called “the most happiest thing in our lifetime.”

                                                                                                  Coutesy - http://www.nytimes.com

Postwar Sri Lanka’s Awkward Peace by Thavam Ratna