`I hope we will have sense to deliver a political solution, because without the political solution, we will continuously face tensions. And it will be very discriminatory towards minority community, mainly the Tamils and the Muslims of this country. For people to begin to think that this country belongs to them, the Tamil people Sinhala and the Muslim people to be united to create a new governance in Sri Lanka. Its time WE END THIS DEPENDENCY ON INDIA, CHINA and PAKISTAN.

There needs to be a total transformation in political thinking and technically how can we initiate it, abolish the executive presidency, go back to the parliamemtary system and then we begin to change the electoral system.

And let`s have a viable democracy that is responsible for the people. Power sharing to the North and East where we equally begin to share the natural wealth of this country.`

Nimalka Fernando is an attorney-at-law and women`s rights activist from Sri Lanka. She is a member of the Democratic People`s Movement in Sri Lanka, which is a coalition of people`s movements, NGOs and trade unions initiating action and dialogue for alternative development paradigms. She is President of the International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism (IMADR) and the Women`s Forum for Peace in Sri Lanka. Nimalka is a founding member of Asian Regional Exchange for New Alternatives or ARENA and was a member of the ARENA Executive Board 1994 1997.