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Long Read: Creating Social Reconciliation or Social Implosion?
Photo from The Struggle for Justice blog Introduction Lankan society in its post-1948 history has undergone many violent conflicts in...
Continue reading »National Reconciliation, Transitional Justice, Rights and Accountability in Sri Lanka
Image credit Steve Chao, via Al Jazeera Good Afternoon; Esteemed and Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen; Dear friends Thank you...
Continue reading »The Role of Writers and Artists during Turbulent Political Times
I was requested to speak about the important role writers and artists play in the struggle against oppression and in...
Continue reading »Peace and Reconciliation in Sri Lanka: Is there a way forward?
Good Afternoon, Ladies and Gentlemen and dear friends I want to start my talk by bringing to the fore the...
Continue reading »Post-War Sri Lanka: Way Forward or More of the Same?
Without peace, there is no development; without development there is no peace, President Rajapaksa has said. Yet, for the overwhelming...
Continue reading »Sri Lanka awaits a change
The present President of Sri Lanka, who consolidated his power after defeating the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) militarily,...
Continue reading »Feature article: The JVP’s campaign among the Tamils, 1977-1982
[Editors note: Lionel Bopage was a former General Secretary of the JVP and was involved with the party since 1968...
Continue reading »General Sarath Fonseka and politics
“For the development of the country, for the security of the country if there are any steps that need be...
Continue reading »Sinusoidal nature of the JVP Policy on the National Question
The recent interview the JVP leader, comrade Somawansa Amarsinghe, conducted with Sanjana Hattotuwa and published on Groundviews clearly demonstrates the...
Continue reading »Last comment on Sri Lanka: Is the war really over?
[Editors note: This is Lionel Bopage's second detailed response to the points brought up in his article Sri Lanka: Is...
Continue reading »Responses and clarifications on Sri Lanka: Is the war really over?
[Editors note: This is a detailed response to over 30 comments left on Sri Lanka: Is the war really over?...
Continue reading »Sri Lanka: Is the war really over?
The end of the conventional war in the north and the east of Sri Lanka witnessed the almost total annihilation...
Continue reading »National flags and the symbolism of accomodating minorities
This is a reaction to Saman’s comment on the article The Needs of the Hour by Professor Michael Roberts. Saman...
Continue reading »Where We Are and Where To?
“War is the highest form of struggle for resolving contradictions, when they have developed to a certain stage, between classes,...
Continue reading »The LTTE – A Spent Force?
A side issue arising from Professor Michael Roberts’s Dilemmas at War’s End: Clarifications & Counter-Offensive According to Professor Roberts, dissident...
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