”………… Another cause of concern is the educational system, to which the government of Colombo responded closing universities after the failure of negotiations. The Catholic UCANEWS agency reports that teachers have been on a strike for over two months. Unions, religious figures and students are taking the streets against budget cuts that undercut the public education sector: it went from 0.52% in 2005 to a current 0.27%. “The government must deal with the issues raised by the professors without delay because Sri Lanka’s young people are paying the price”, warns the CBCSL” – Sri Lanka: Bishops Denounce Human Rights Violations And Education Void, 8 September 2012,
http://www.eurasiareview.com/08092012-sri-lanka-bishops-denounce-human-rights-violations-and-education-void/

The youth of this country need to be given a fair deal. Not only those sons of politicians but the children of all Sri Lankans. Nowadays even the Foreign Govt Schols are not advertised and are being grabbed by our politikkas. Local universities sre for the hoi poloi while politicians send their children abroad to the best universities.

Local universities and schools are used to brainwash children to become mindless subserviant zombies who will prostrate and lick the boots of our politikkas. Thats what this leadership training is all about. Discipline them, Tear gas them, lock them up and thrash them into submission seems to be the attitude of our Ministers.

In the absence of Democracy and Rule of Law, how can our children and grandchildren have prosperity:

An Ideology of Reconciliation Cannot be Built Without Basic Ingredients of Democracy and Rule of Law, Dr. Deepika Udagama (Head, Department of Law, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka), 15 August 2012, http://dbsjeyaraj.com/dbsj/archives/9627#more-9627

We all want the youth to have a good future – different from what we’ve been having in the last 64 yrs. Surely the ongoing conflict is a reflection of the unchanging mindset and a block to that goal. Hence we need to resolve the conflict. The conflict is the result of bad governance. So we need to change the governance to resolve the conflict so that the youth can have a good future.

Present day development is making the rich richer ignoring the poor thus making them poorer.

But the recent PC election results show that the people including the poor made poorer and the youth deprived of education do support the policies of the Government.

So where does the country stand in terms of Youth Development?

2. the article is not concerned about the past conflict instead it focuses on the future; lack of development NOW will lead to conflict in the future as (youth become more frustrated) but perhaps not ethnic or may be? that may be in the hands of the government?… 🙂
thank you for the feedback

If the adults stop lying, the youth are very likely to find a way out of the mess.

”both the ignition of the ethnic conflict and the JVP insurrections stemming from Universities. It is therefore a hotbed”.

2. There seems to be a misunderstanding that lack of development is the cause of the conflict