Sinhala, Tamil, .. all races.. all are equal, created in the image of God.We are all made of one Blood aren’t we?

Keep up the great work and may The Lord be with you all.
‘Blessed are the Peace makers.. for they shall be called the children of God.’

Why have you taken a Sinhala name? Do you wish that you were Sinhala?

If they had g iven self rule to the TAmils they would have prospered on their own !! It is better than killing thousands of Tamil civilians and making them paupers and destroying all their possesions. Sinhalese have the dog in the manger attitude!!!!

This posting may be late, but nothing changed regarding the “freedom of the Tamils” for that matter the life of the poor sinhalese!!!IDPS are dumped far away from the world’s eyes and allowed to rot!!! While the politicians pocket the money donated for them by other governments!!!!!

please do understand that sri lanka unites does not have enough time for ARMCHAIR CRITICS.

1.”freedom” in these sentences = freedom from LTTE violence.
To a section of the population.
2.A section of the population has been afflicted with structural violence of government institutions i. in the 36 years before the ”25 years” , ii. during the ”25 years” and iii. in the 4 months after the ”25 years”, the structural violence escalating deeper and faster in the three successive stages. Now Sinhalese, Muslims, Tamils, Burghers,… …. lawyers, journalists, human rights activists,…. all live in fear and NOT ”freedom.”
I hate to have to post this comment. I hate violence in any form- (stimulating)structural and (responding) visible.
We are talking about the most vicious intrastate conflict of our times lasting more than six decades. About a ”textbook example”(according to researchers of ethnic conflicts). About the destruction of the socio-economic-environmental destruction of a nation in six decades when the rest of the country and the rest of the world has seen progress(as a result of science and technology and evolution of social science) much more than in the previous six centuries.
Prashan is not a baby.
Pluribus Unum, thank you for writing this very fine analysis. For writing a Must.

What village people are you referring to, dude? The only “village people” I know of are those guys who sang “Y.M.C.A”. Sound familiar? You have a right to diss the disco era, but, the “village people” are not by any means ignorant and small-minded as the people living out in the suburbs.

It seems like you have been tutored by a memsahib who wanted you to diss your own people; I learnt about what these pathetic people did in India when I took a course on Malcolm X.

Why do you put up a link that others cannot decipher? How arrogant! Do you think we all read that language? The “village people” have more heart and soul – something a suburban hick like you will never understand!

Being unilingual is better than being a jackass with multiple tongues.

Power to the people!!!

Maybe THAT’s why so many in the government have their green cards and foreign visas…

How many IMF loans and GSP+ concessions will you need, exactly…

Tragedy is a norm in Sri Lankan Concentration camps….

A malnourished IDP child slowly dying..
http://transcurrents.com/tc/2009/09/govt_violates_constitution_by.html

When this nightmare is going to end?

A malnourished IDP child slowly dying..
http://transcurrents.com/tc/2009/09/govt_violates_constitution_by.html

When this nightmare is going to end?

Although I agree with some of the criticisms made regarding the programme, not least about the lack of visibility and awareness in some aspects of it, I do agree with Rosebud that it is commendable. I am reminded of the slogan of a local NGO – it is better to light a candle than curse the darkness!

I do feel that as Rosebud points out, it is far more imperative that SL Unites works in the villages where people are exposed to nothing but their local ideology and the national TV. We all know the trend of national tv and the news it presents, so one can hardly blame people for holding the views they do. This is not to insinuate that the villagers are less intelligent but merely to point out that it is far more insular and definitely less interactive with other races or cultures of this nation.

However, being “friendly” and accepting of one another in terms of race, religion and culture, is not as easy as you might assume, especially when this government and many nationalist buddhist groups are promoting exactly the reverse. The Sinhala Buddhist fervour is heightened after the end of the war. The racism of this nation is far more evident now than it has ever been before. Is this not a strange and significant fact about the trajectory that these nation and the govt is now choosing?

Sgoon – is nothing short of a joke!

Susan Goon – the transparent straw man/woman – is once again used as a cheap theatrical prop to antagonize communities.

Susan Goon is a juvenile creation of some of the participants on GroundViews–created to get rid of dissenting voices on GroundViews with a vengeance!
And here is the most hilarious part, the creator(s) of Susan Goon sound like rejects of the side that conceded total defeat a few months back: absolute losers in every shape and form. Not surprisingly, looks like Susan Goon has plenty of groupies on GroundViews, eh?

Your pathological hatred of Sinhala Buddhists reveals an immediate need for intervention, preferably some sort of exorcism. Shall I call Father Karras, and/or some Bali/Thovil karaya from the deep South? By the way, they don’t come cheap, so, please, have your Master Card/Visa ready.

“After 25 years, terror, war, and violence have lost their grip, and freedom has finally made itself known”

Is it the position of the team that the Sri Lankan government, which now enjoys a monopoly over violence in the country, is not at least partially the source of, and continues to be an agent of terror and violence? If what we have now, with the crackdown on dissent; the internment of hundreds of thousands of Tamils and a culture of impunity is ‘freedom’, then I’m not sure what they mean by ‘justice’ and ‘equality’ either. I don’t doubt the bona fides of the organisers for a moment, but I do think they need to think through what they are doing and face issues head on.