Rohan Edrisinha, Senior Lecturer of the University of Colombo and the Head of the Legal Unit CPA, talks in detail about and through three key points, critiques the flaccid proposals submitted recently to the President by the APRC. Also read APRC: The Year of the Rat has begun.
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Hello Rohan,
Glad to know you are as sharp and consistent from the first time we met twelve years ago. Tamils aprpreciate your integrity and concerns. Much blood has gone under the bridge. Too much to put Humpty Dumpty back together again.
Good points. Though the crux of the problem is simply and most importantly, will.
It is not a question of what needs to be done. I think it is painfully apparent that only devolution of power and so on…that will really lead to proper equality and proper representation. However, there has and is no will on the part of the Govt and most of the Sinhalese to accommodate equality.
I find it laughable but mostly heartbreaking how so much time and money is wasted on solutions that have been screaming at us for decades now. I’m no, expert, this war started even before I was born…yet even I see that it’s chauvinism, corruption and greed that keeps this monstrous war going. The solution(s) have always been there and always will be…it’s just a matter if any Govt. is really willing to be brave and declare that we are a nation tired of bloodshed and putrid Chauvinism.
What a sham the APRC is. You either want to integrate minorities as equal members or you don’t …if you don’t then wage war forever more….our ancestors will be proud…lions and all. Having lived overseas for much of my life…it always amuses me how Sri Lankans , particularly the Sinhalese are so timid and prone to hurt when given the “racist” treatment oversees. They chatter in little houses and gatherings about it all….but in “their” own country they are far worse…