Good epitaph don’t you think to the LLRC – and to us all in this society?

I feel the LLRC will be the icing on the cake of the ultimate civilizational achievement of the post irrigation (post 1236) sinhalese society – the complete separation of theory and practice in such a way that they are both maintained in their purity albeit in a state of separation.

This society which began with a “drift to the south west” and is still to all intents and purposes drifting, seems to have a congenital weakness – the inability to learn.

Along with this inability we have mastered the art of imitation – and how not to learn. The LLRC was a perfect device to avoid learning.

We need to ask ourselves – how do we learn?; why do we learn? and what is the result of our learning?

we basically learn to survive/get ahead in life/compete and win – beyond this we do not learn. we have perfected the art of “avijja charana sampanno” that is the opposite of praxis – the absolute separation of theory and practice/self and others/mind and heart etc etc

Our best brains must contend with this challenge…..

”The war between the Sri Lankan government & the Tamil Tigers has ended”

True.

You don’t know that state terrorism continues to terrify the Northeast ??

If you cannot get the reports by journalists, UN, ICRC, etc at least read the regular press releases of National Peace Council:
http://www.peace-srilanka.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=1&Itemid=121

http://www.himalmag.com/component/content/article/4684-the-road-north.html
The road north: Journeys in post-war Sri Lanka, Charles Haviland,30 September 2011:

”…. During the second week of September the government brought about 500 alleged former LTTE cadres to the deep south of the island on a tour conducted as part of their ‘rehabilitation’ process…. Pictures of the large crowd of Tamil ‘visitors’ show them streaming through the streets of Matara, the town at the southern tip of the island, wearing yellow T-shirts, which the government says are ‘symbolic of their desire to get back to normal life’. ….”

Remember Welikade massacre of July 1983, Bindunuwewa massacre of October 2000, ….

Dayan

What would any Youth Commission say to the parading of ”released” suspected cadres being made to march in the streets of Matara in the second week of September – in the context of what has been going on post-May2009 thirty months and pre-May2009 61years ?

Psychologically, sociologically and thus morally oppressive monument along which people are asked to build their lives after 63 yrs of oppression.

1. http://www.srilankaguardian.org/2011/09/two-tamils-two-perspectives-3.html
Two Tamils – Two perspectives ( 3), 24 September 2011:
In the Communique issued by the TNA on 14/09/2011 – contradicting Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe’s statement at the UN in Geneva – they rubbish government claims. No State worth its salt would have liked what the TNA charged “the Govt has been engaged in a constant flow of misinformation to the Int’l community….We urge the Govt to be more forthright and honest in its representations of the situation in Sri Lanka to the international community” So far the government has remained silent to the TNA’s damaging rejection.

http://www.srilankaguardian.org/2011/10/why-president-rajapaksas-remarks-at-un.html
Why President Rajapaksa’s Remarks at UN General Assembly Were Flawed and Biased ?, 3 October 2011: ‘’Although his remarks were filled with affirmations of progress and reconciliation, evidence gathered in the last two years by the US, European Union, a United Nations Panel of Experts, and leading human rights organizations, including Amnesty International, International Crisis Group, and Human Rights Watch, paints a completely different picture.’’

2. What the head of Sri Lankan delegation spoke(http://transcurrents. com/news-views/archives/4026# more-4026) on the opening day(12 September 2011) at UNHRC session is not true, for example:
http://transcurrents.com/ news-views/archives/4048
TNA: Experience of the Tamil people in Sri Lanka does not support claims made by Hon. Minister Samarasinghe at UNHRC, 13 September 2011:
” LLRC made very modest interim recommendations to the government. Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe claimed that measures have been taken to implement these recommendations ‘without delay’. Significantly, this claim comes exactly one year since the interim recommendations were made on 13 September 2010. Yet, not one of the above recommendations has been implemented.”

i.“President: ”If I make any devolutionary concessions to the Tamils, it will be curtains for me” – Sri Lanka: Indian Delegates go Home Empty Handed, Kumar David, 15 June 2011 ( http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers46/paper4558.html)
ii.”NW: Will your government ever produce a political solution? Basil Rajapakse: This Constitution of Sri Lanka is far more advanced than any other Constitution in the world. … It’s all there in the book but practical things have to be done” – Namini Wijedasa interviews Basil Rajapakse, 30 July 2011, http://www.lakbimanews.lk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2333%3Atna-stoked-hatred-ballot-papers-taken-away-were-ours&Itemid=56
‘’Q:The Tamil National Alliance(TNA) which secured 18 local councils yesterday insists on the devolution of police and land powers..
Basil rajapakse: Then the President has a bigger mandate not to give these powers’’- 28July2011, http://print.dailymirror.lk/opinion1/51370.html
iii.“The existing constitution is more than enough for us to live together. I don’t think there is any issue on this more than that. I mean this was given as a solution for the whole thing with the discussion of these people. I mean now the LTTE is gone, I don’t think there is any requirement. I mean what can you do more than this?” – Video: Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa speaks to ‘HeadlinesToday’, 8 August 2011, http://transcurrents.com/news-views/archives/2921

http://transcurrents.com/ news-views/archives/2586#more- 2586
Economic development alone will not satisfy minority grievances – An Interview with Jayantha Dhanapala, 30 July 2011:
”In the interim report of the LLRC, recommendations were made which were eminently sensible and humane, and which would have been a step in the process of reconciliation that the government talks about, but we have still not heard about implementation. This, itself, is going to cut at the root of the credibility of the LLRC! What guarantee have we got that a) the report will be published b) that it will be implemented if the interim recommendations, which were very, very simple, are not implemented.’’