recently for cricket captain arjuna rana thunga said, The Tamils & Singhlese naver had any problem or fighting ,among them,

this been created by the politicians for the winning the majority votes and to get powers.

( yes it is fact, all started by SWRD Bandaranayaka, and Oxford, London educated english speaking, ( half singhala) non Budist man who took the beautifulocountry for ride for tha war & division.,

Let us now thing all are human, eityher tamil or singhala, all are from Indiaincluding us & our religion.

Let us live equaly, all sri lankans, have the equall rights in education, employment, all three landuages are equal, let us respect each others language & religion. any one can study in medium either tamil, singhala, English. it takes only24 hours to settle this issue- as like singapore.

BUT THE POLITICIANS DON’T WANT TO DO THIS, AND THEY WILL NOT DO THIS FOR THE THEIR OWN GAIN ,???? UNTIL THEN SRI LANKA WILL NEVER DELVALOP BY ITS OWN “””””

PRESIDENT CAN YOU HEAR THIS , w.J. SRIMANI, SINGHAPORE

How will inclusiveness be strong enough to really guarantee education for all?

Is the lack of a ‘politically conscientious and active populace with power’ solely because of outside influence or because the populace has been apathetic due to several internal reasons as well and not taken enough responsibility for their own democracy and to solve their own problems? What about the other ‘pillars’ or democracy such as separation of powers, an independent judiciary, free media, etc.?

Well said.

But is it fair to hold the elections when
a.hundreds of thousands of
i. physically and psychologically bruised people have been forbidden from the help of aid agencies inside the camps and inside the open prisons all over the Northeast and unable to start their lives all over again
ii.polling cards are in the post offices?
b.paramilitaries are breathing down the necks of residents in the highly militarised Northeast that refuses free access for journalists whose freedom of reporting can deter, at least to certain extent, ongoing election malpractice
c.I read in a Colombo newspaper about one or two years ago the elections in the upcountry when tens of thousands of Tamils COULD NOT vote due to lack of ”documents”?
d.people talk about unity among different ethnicities. But that needs to be facilitated by ”ground realities”.

My humble appeal to civil societies in the South: Please take about ten people from various vertical and horizontal social levels from each district outside Northeast for a trip of a few weeks all over the Northeast. This would remove a lot of block in the path to peace with justice for all.

Indeed, first post war elections receive much of attention from the media and human rights activists from all over the world, as they reflect the level of reconciliation and democratic maturity of the people.Whatever the scenario that can be found, they tell the world about where we stand.

Lat year journalist Nebi Qena form ASSOCIATED PRESS reported Kosovo’s first elections since independence from Serbia. The reports said that those elections ended peacefully with some minority Serbs ignoring a call to boycott and casting ballots alongside ethnic Albanians.
Qena informed that though results were not expected for hours after polls closed, everybody was celebrating across Kosovo with people honking their car horns, waving party flags and setting off fire crackers.
No major instances of unrest or fraud allegations were reported in relation to that election although there were tensions between rival ethnic Albanian parties, as well as the possibility of a boycott from the Serbian minority.
“This is the best of democracy, and I will do my duty as a citizen,” reportedly said Zoje Bujupi, an ethnic Albanian.
Experiences from Peru, Guatemala and other countries also show the same importance given to the elections conduct in relation to its effect on democracy and governance.
Rafael Lopez Pintor, professor of the University of Madrid in his article on Measures to encourage Participation, reminds us that “In fact, post-conflict elections are frequently envisaged as a first step toward democracy, and as an exit strategy from armed conflict….”.Efforts have been made to eliminate hate speech, through media development projects (funded mainly by the UN, OSCE and USAID) and media monitoring.
Lopez Pintor mentions that different projects have been able to develop local media, support international media operations, mainly radio and television, or support media monitoring, using standard methodologies and publicizing the results. Monitoring, he says, ” involves systematic quantitative and qualitative daily analysis of print, TV and radio content through statistical sampling and automatic data processing. Periodic public reports feed open debate on the issues. Simply exposing certain information in a professional manner can have beneficial effects. Media monitoring exercises have been implemented in almost all the countries mentioned in this article, and this practice should be considered both generally informative and strategically useful as a tool to control hate speech and expenses during campaigns, among other uses”.
In relation to electoral monitoring, Lopez Pintor affirms that there are areas where democratic and electoral assistance has proved effective. One is the building of a professional electoral administration and helping it become sustainable; another is supporting civic education campaigns alongside the electoral process. These are among the few areas of democratic assistance where observers have unanimously reported positive results.

Our country is being observed from every corner of the world. It is time to show that we are able to build a long lasting peace for each of us no matter our political differences and strength our democratic spirit built in the need to preserve the life of our future generations. The society is going through a process of deep transformation where new actors and new powers have emerged. Nevertheless civic education must be preserved and look after in order to achieve a real social development.