I think the substance of the following article runs deep into the roots of political crises we are facing in societies of the world today. The article has deviated from convenient and pleasurable thinking and it levels a search light to the neglected dark areas of the issue disregarding the popular and most common parameters, convenience, pleasure of accepting an ideology. Please read;

http://www.2baware.net/world-peace/individualism-good-or-bad/

Thanks!

“Economic dvelopment of North-East”; which is not self determined by the people of NE but imported and imposed in a manner the colonialists did in the last century”:

That is called internal colonialism:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/108540808/Anthropologists-on-Sri-Lanka

‘’The macro-economic decisions that the government makes in terms of developments in the north are not made with the participation of the people or their representatives. This is a major problem and cause for resentment. There is often no consultation with the people. Where there is consultation, the decisions made can benefit the people even more, and be more fully accepted by the people. An example would be the Presidential Task Force for Northern Development. This governmental regulatory body is located in Colombo and is virtually all Sinhalese in its ethnic composition, even though most of the people in the north are Tamil. Several of its members are retired military officers” – DISPELLING PERCEPTIONS OF UNCARING GOVERNMENT IN THE NORTH, National Peace Council of Sri Lanka, 26 July 2012, http://www.peace-srilanka.org/media-centre/political-analysis/518-dispelling-perceptions-of-uncaring-government-in-the-north

Thanks for the link. Please post the transcript when you find it – I’m ”audibly-challenged”

Because of their vulnerability, women are granted “Womens’ rights” and any child is entitled to the “Rights of a child” as prescribed by the UN.

In Sri Lanka(SL), these individual rights have been grossly violated by the GOSL in the North-East(NE) for more than 50 years, leading to economic destruction and the genocide of Tamils by the Sri Lankan state.

And now, the GOSL is trumpeting to the International Community about its “Economic dvelopment of North-East”; which is not self determined by the people of NE but imported and imposed in a manner the colonialists did in the last century.

The former president Franklin D. Roosewelt of the United States of America, who is adored by the current presdident Barack Obama, said ” True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence”.

Obviously, it is only the independence of Tamil Eelam(TE) that can produce development geared by its citizens, that can also provide economic security and individual freedoms to the people of TE.

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