https://groundviews.org/2010/12/01/interview-with-bradman-weerakoon/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=interview-with-bradman-weerakoon Journalism for Citizens Tue, 20 Aug 2013 21:50:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.1 https://groundviews.org/2010/12/01/interview-with-bradman-weerakoon/#comment-55405 Tue, 20 Aug 2013 21:50:12 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=4625#comment-55405 […] both of whom have been featured on Groundviews previously writing or speaking about Black July (see here and here). This is the very first time they are appearing together to talk about their unique […]

]]> https://groundviews.org/2010/12/01/interview-with-bradman-weerakoon/#comment-25691 Wed, 15 Dec 2010 07:24:44 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=4625#comment-25691 Excellent interview. Enjoyed that very much. Need to go out and get those two books. I hope they are available in the bookshops.

]]> https://groundviews.org/2010/12/01/interview-with-bradman-weerakoon/#comment-25202 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 16:35:23 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=4625#comment-25202 but he in his book says that he thought LTTE could not be defeated? and that a war solution was not possible? just imagine, if we had a better presidential advisor, the LTTE would have been defeated much earlier? imagine the lives that could have been saved?

]]> https://groundviews.org/2010/12/01/interview-with-bradman-weerakoon/#comment-25201 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 15:44:15 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=4625#comment-25201 He mentions the “Kokkadicholai Massacre” and refers to the 1983 Tamil Pogrom when he was able to alleviate much misery by virtue of powers he was given at that time.
These instances are only two of many massacres of tamils, the memories of which are seared into the psyche of tamils of sri lanka.
http://nesohr.org/files/Lest_We_Forget.pdf
He was a civil servant of a bygone era who moulded the thinking of many heads of state by telling them the truth rather than what they would have liked to hear.
The death of the old Civil Service and its replacement by a new Administrative Service may have been unavoidable but today’s administrative service officers
are mainly ‘yes’ men, and have to be such, to survive.

]]> https://groundviews.org/2010/12/01/interview-with-bradman-weerakoon/#comment-25200 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 08:11:55 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=4625#comment-25200 great subject. Mr. Weerakoon is an extremely intelligent man. i just wished there were more of him speaking and less of the interviewer (even though the amount of research that has been done by him, was commendable).

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