Sri Lanka’s ongoing offensive has been prepared openly over two years.
The pogrom against Tamils in July 1983 was supported by deeply held ideological assumptions that still inform the political logic of the Sinhala people and their leaders.
The 1983 violence effectively laid the foundation for a widespread conflict that is yet to be resolved.
It is a block to achieving peace or communal harmony in the country as it would bars fulfilment of any political aspirations of the Tamils.
Calls to send troops back into Lebanon beggar belief. We should dispatch the Red Cross, not the aircraft carriers
The international community has - again - put the Sinhala establishment in charge of the Tamils’ future.
Given that EU always had leverage over the Colombo government, it is surprising that things have gotten so bad.
What the international community have not quite grasped yet is that this is a Sri Lankan Government like none before.
Theacknowledgment of a Tamil right to self-rule in their own homeland marks a welcome evolution in US policy.