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SRI LANKA: The state of denial and the descent to silliness
Thursday, 5 August 2010 - 11:09 PM SL Time
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For several decades now the Sri Lankan people have been exposed to extraordinary acts of separation, large scale forced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, torture, illegal arrest and detention. This and large scale displacement of people from their homes by way of internal displacement or by leaving the country altogether and the disappearance of even elementary forms of protection available to people within the legal and social sphere are among the many issues that have caused massive forms of trauma in the population as a whole.
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Rajapaksa dynasty doing as they please in Sri Lanka
Saturday, 7 August 2010 - 3:40 AM SL Time
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Colombo, Politics and Governance | by Samanmalee Unanthenna
The story about Minister Mervyn Silva tying a Samurdhi Officer to a tree as punishment for not participating in a dengue prevention programme in the Kelaniya district was bad enough. The statement made by the UPFA General Secretary, Susil Premajayantha that the party or the government is not responsible for the actions of Minister Mervyn Silva opens up far more serious issues. What we can infer from what the UPFA General Secretary said, is that neither the UPFA nor the government has any control over its Ministers. The pertinent question then is: who is in control? Surely, we not are supposed to believe that the Cabinet of Ministers act as individuals and are not accountable to anyone in the government?
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Footprints In The Sands - by Fr Derrick Mendis SJ, Colombo 4.
Sunday, 15 August 2010 - 4:23 AM SL Time
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Politics in Lanka is a dirty game
Sans sense of honesty, honour or shame.
On election-campaigns that squander millions,
When in power, make illicit billions.
Full of corruption, nepotism, crime,
They leave no footprints in the sands of time,
Self-seeking, self-serving, power-drunk quacks,
Cover up their crab-like, crooked tracks.
Parliament`s pack of jokers, jerks,
Abuse their power for self and perks,
Goons and buffoons, men of straw,
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How soon we forget by John Moore, Special to the National Post
Wednesday, 18 August 2010 - 9:56 PM SL Time
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You`re shivering in the sharp cold of a winter`s night outside of the hottest club in town. You try your hardest to attract the attention of the doorman. You smile and say clever things to your friends in a raised voice to look more deserving than everyone else in line. Eventually -- if you`re lucky -- he unclips the velvet rope, the door swings open and you`re swept into the party. He refastens the rope. Now everyone behind you is a sucker.
Every immigrant to Canada thinks he`s the last good newcomer. It`s been like that since the arrival of the first settlers. The natives thought little of the French. After the conquest, the English were reviled as inferior, maladroit rubes. As the countries of origin of our newcomers became more diverse, each new wave was regarded as lazy, grasping, unwashed and unwanted. Trace your family`s roots and not only are you guaranteed to find an immigrant but also likely an ethnic or cultural community that was denigrated in its time.
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Definitions of racism on the Web with Examples from Sri Lankan History.
Saturday, 21 August 2010 - 3:33 PM SL Time
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[the prejudice that members of one race are intrinsically superior to members of other races ]
*Examples: Imposition of Sinhala Only Act on Tamil speaking communities, election of leaders solely from only one ethnic community (one race), making statements such as Sri Lanka is only for Sinhala Buddhists etc.
[discriminatory or abusive behavior towards members of another race]
*Examples: arousing racial riots (1915 (Anti-Muslim riots), 1956, 1958, 1977, 1983 (Anti-Tamil riots) with the purpose of killing or chasing them to their provinces North/East, destruction of their properties and cultural reassures, bombing and shelling with the intention of causing bodily harm especially deaths and maiming and keeping them within barbed wires against their will.
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