Comments on: Sri Lanka: Where Free Market Wouldn’t Sell Reform & Reconciliation

By: PunaniDeSilva

PunaniDeSilva — Mon, 23 May 2016 11:45:00 +0000

Kusal Perera confused. Central planning is necessary for All forms of Socialist programs. Free-market dictates a minimal government. This is the real fight. Fight to minimize the size and scope of the state, to increase the space available for civil society and entrepreneurship. Investors need not have centralized favours if the economy in general is also free. Sri Lanka does not have a free-market, it desperately needs to move in that direction.

By: puniselva

puniselva — Tue, 10 May 2016 18:29:00 +0000

Non-existent ”Reconciliation” is unasamedly used to promote Tourism:
Govt. to hold an international conference on tourism sector showcasing national reconciliation process, 09/05/2016, http://www.news.lk/news/business/item/13262-govt-to-hold-an-international-conference-on-tourism-sector-showcasing-national-reconciliation-process
If the govt is genuinely interested in reconciliation, they would first stop trampling the ethnic minorities in the North and the Eastand elsewhere in the country.

By: puniselva

puniselva — Tue, 10 May 2016 06:06:00 +0000

This is steering well away from reconciliation and who is reporting it other than tamilnet:
http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=38250
SL Governor condemned for justifying military-run preschools in Vanni
[TamilNet, Sunday, 08 May 2016, 22:55 GMT]
This is distilled ethnocide.

By: puniselva

puniselva — Mon, 09 May 2016 13:27:00 +0000

1.What parliamentarians cannot do to bring about reconciliation is expected of school children:
Reconciliation program for school children, 6 May 2016,
http://www.news.lk/news/politics/item/13235-reconciliation-program-for-school-children-commenced
2.While the Tamil farmers and fishermen are suffering at the hands of the army, navy, ordinary citizens and Buddhist clergy, the govt proposes to hold an elaborate conference in the East:
”Tourism: A Catalyst for Development Peace and Reconciliation” – http://www.news.lk/news/business/item/13262-govt-to-hold-an-international-conference-on-tourism-sector-showcasing-national-reconciliation-process

By: puniselva

puniselva — Mon, 09 May 2016 09:42:00 +0000

This author always hits the nail on its head: just now the visiting UNSR sand EU statement on GSP+ (indirectly) confirm what he says.

By: puniselva

puniselva — Fri, 06 May 2016 08:56:00 +0000

Please translate this into Sinhala and Tamil and circulate.

By: puniselva

puniselva — Fri, 06 May 2016 01:56:00 +0000

In reply to puniselva. This article must be translated into Sinhala and circulated through Sinhala media.

By: puniselva

puniselva — Thu, 05 May 2016 06:16:00 +0000

We badly need many more authors like Kusal Perera to open the eyes of Sri Lankans.

By: puniselva

puniselva — Thu, 05 May 2016 02:49:00 +0000

In reply to puniselva.

There is some news with pleasant surprise: news that has more potential for reconciliation than a Ministry for Reconciliation:

”A group of minor political party leaders who recently staged a demonstration outside the Opposition Leader’s Office, met with Opposition Leader R. Sampanthan yesterday.
The group had demonstrated against Sampanthan’s alleged forcible entry into a military camp in Kilinochchi last month. Sampanthan had briefed the party leaders on the incident, his office said in a statement. “Party leaders thanked the honorable opposition leader for briefing them on this issue and requested him to organise a visit for them to see the places in North and East where the Military has occupied private lands,” the statement from the Opposition Leader’s Office said.
Sampanthan had assured the politicians that a visit would be organised in the future for them to see the ground situation in both the north and east.
TNA Spokesperson and Parliamentarian M. A. Sumanthiran was also present at the meeting.”
– Sampanthan meets protesting politicos on Kilinochchi incident, 4 May 2016,
http://www.ft.lk/article/539755/Sampanthan-meets-protesting-politicos-on-Kilinochchi-incident

Hope there will be visits in the opposite direction too >>>>> many more visits in both directions.

By: puniselva

puniselva — Wed, 04 May 2016 13:14:00 +0000

Nobody is seriously looking for reconciliation:
1.Tamils want Justice&Equality(=Fairplay) which they think will be followed naturally by reconciliation.
2.The government speaks of ”reconciliation” to get ”rewards” from international community and to dodge Fairplay and to damage the Tamil community as much as possible:
Sri Lanka military enrol pre-school Tamil children in Vanni, 2 May 2016, http://www.tamilguardian.com/article.asp?articleid=17840