True, but then why claim it was the foundation of the SLFP proposals? I have even heard of MCGs instead of the UN’s MDGs!

“Secondly, implementation will bear a high cost, given the ‘culture of impunity’, Donor dependence, distrubution of wealth and integration of communities outside of colombo into the formal economy, escalating conflict and increased stress this will place on the administration to fuel a sustainable offensive.”

The Government is doing what they want. This argument does not hold water. Inflation is on the rise, but do the voters care? See http://www.asiantribune.com/index.php?q=node/5702

“Also, the language of the document does not really address the issue of devolution to the north directly, which will not bode well with the North.”

Lots of articles here on the SLFP proposals. Looks like war without any political process to me.

Secondly, implementation will bear a high cost, given the ‘culture of impunity’, Donor dependence, distrubution of wealth and integration of communities outside of colombo into the formal economy, escalating conflict and increased stress this will place on the administration to fuel a sustainable offensive.

Monitors are needed, but they won’t catalyze conflict transformation. Mahinda and Prabha, seem buckled down for war.

Also, the language of the document does not really address the issue of devolution to the north directly, which will not bode well with the North.

There is no trust between the parties, and the recent TAF strikes and SLFP proposals, don’t make matters any better.

Are you reading news papers and do you watch TV news programmes in Sri Lanka or on what planet are you living. Nothing what I wrote has not been reported in the media. May be that the media is wrong? In that case I rest my case.

5 boys sitting on the beach shot death. Families make a police entry. They receive death threats. Familie has to move, become refugees in fear. Case transferred to another court in another city.

Women arrested and kept without charge

Man, and another, and another and yet more kidnapped in Colombo, never heard of since.

Must I go on?

Rule of law, judiciary, police improvements are all part of Mahinda’s Chinthana it is a serious document. It is the leading document for the present government and for its interactions with the people of Sri Lanka and with the donor community. A monitoring mechanisms needs to be in place in order to make sure the the promise of this document become reality. We will not get there by calling each other names.

The point is simple – if all you wish to do is to “respond with what I think of her/his/its opinions”, there is no problem. The issue was with your previous comment was that only (seemed to) deride his / her / its name, with no effort made to engage with the opinions expressed.

Sittingnut’s response, which I have not published, would have taken this discussion into a wholly personal debate, without engaging with the post above.

Kindly note that this is a space governed by the Submission Guidelines (http://www.groundviews.org/submission-guidelines), put in place to avoid the hate speech, personal diatribes and bitter invective that have killed many online forums before, both in Sri Lanka and elsewhere.

Same goes for ‘sittingnut’. However, I reserve the right to respond with what I think of her/his/its opinions.

A pity that Groundgviews cannot handle that.

Your point is noted, but please keep in mind the submission guidelines here – http://www.groundviews.org/submission-guidelines – that call you. inter alia, to engage with the issues debated and not the monicker of the person, or his / her mercurial use of language, in comments on Groundviews.

This is with a view to avoid, as much as possible, the personal insults and diatribes that killed the early promise of initiatives such as Moju (www.moju.lk).

Thank you.

for instance it would have been great to know the actual particulars of
“These underground dons were, however, not arrested but illegally eliminated while strengthening those underworld figures favourably to the present regime.”
–

as for the east he misses the most important thing. that large number of people there are now free of ltte. but may be he /she thinks that as a regression instead of a relief?

lets hope author improves the details in his/her posts in the future.