Comments on: The Danger in Distorted Education: Sri Lanka’s History Curriculum

By: Real_Peace

Real_Peace — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 04:39:00 +0000

In reply to puniselva. Puniselva, no problem. I'm sure someone will step up. Thanks.

By: puniselva

puniselva — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 02:16:00 +0000

In reply to puniselva. Groundviews Pl tell Real_Peace that I wish to get in touch with him or her and pass my email address. Thanks.

By: puniselva

puniselva — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 08:32:00 +0000

In reply to Real_Peace.

Real_Peace
Pl use the links(which are in the public domain) yourself – I’m sorry I’m occupied otherwise.

By: puniselva

puniselva — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 08:26:00 +0000

In reply to Anpu. Furthermore when they travel on the road, people will know that they are working at the Army-run schools.

By: Real_Peace

Real_Peace — Sat, 05 Nov 2016 16:51:00 +0000

Question for any readers:

How about the books in libraries outside Sri Lanka? Apparently there are few books that present the Facts in a balanced way? Any suggestions?

Here are fewI found to be helpful, through, Groundviews and other sources
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5a5114c4aee7c3f84fa02890a452090213b700887ee8c54f416678ca96f04fc8.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d7d4406ffa2c18f805959cebcf5dc915fbb11be4e31f1393c8a69d5e5286d773.jpg

By: Real_Peace

Real_Peace — Sat, 05 Nov 2016 16:46:00 +0000

Thank you, Puniselva, for the valuable links.

Documenting Truth is important bec even Wikipedia articles have been vandalized to ‘erase Truth’. I learned this thru a Tweet a friend shared with me.

Maybe you can help fix it? 🙂 https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/7fdf484bc81207dd9c8788d73b0df8ee2bd109a355978de99d9ad4c6822b3f02.png

By: Anpu

Anpu — Fri, 04 Nov 2016 09:57:00 +0000

The Chief Minister of the Tamil-majority Northern Province, C.V.Wigneswaran, has complained to the European Union (EU) human rights inspection team that the Sri Lankan army is running hundreds of schools in his province when it has no right to do so under the 13th amendment of the constitution. According to the Tamil daily Thinakkural Wigneswaran complained that in Vavuniya, Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu districts, the army’s Civil Defense Unit is running 344 primary schools, employing 689 Tamil women as teachers at good salaries, when as per the constitution, school education is a devolved subject and schools in the province are to be run by the provincial ministry of education.

The number of teachers in the army-run primary schools is the same as the number of teachers working in the provincial council-run primary schools, the Chief Minister pointed out in his interaction with the EU headed by Jean Lambert MEP last Saturday. He also said that in the schools run by the army, teachers are made to wear a uniform which has raised concerns among the people as to whether they are being recruited to the army.

By: Suresh

Suresh — Fri, 04 Nov 2016 04:38:00 +0000

In reply to Real_Peace.

Shamara
I must congratulate you on focussing on the festering sore that has ruined this country especially since Independence!
You are spot-on! The History books have been deliberately falsified by interested parties to promulgate the myth of Sinhala Buddhist supremacy. Its so unfortunate that this has happened.
I propose that at least now the Education Dept appoints a committee of historians from all communities, and agree on one version of our TRUE History – or as close as we can get to it.
We need to start reconcilliation in schools. Its pointless preaching reconcilliation to adults who have been brain-washed to believe in the superiority of one race and religion – exactly the opposite of what the Buddha preached!
There’s enough well-documented research out there to dispute what’s said in our so-called History books!
Kids in International Schools are privileged that they study in English. Some “local” schools now allow kids from any race to study in English.
If we segregate kids based on race and religion at such a young age, what hope does this country have of re-uniting its people.
Thanks once again for bringing up a topic many people choose to ignore!

By: puniselva

puniselva — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 13:04:00 +0000

This reminds me of what the President told the visiting IFRC Chief:
”It is people in the North and East who suffered most due to the protracted conflict and reconciliation should originate from the people in the South. It is those people who have to cultivate reconciliation to live peacefully with the victims of the war. It is the mindset of the people that requires to be transformed to acquire reconciliation and healing the wounds inflicted by the conflict.” – Reconciliation must come from the people and not through foreign inducement – President, 3 March 2016, http://www.colombopage.com/archive_16A/Mar03_1457014215CH.php

By: Upali Wickramasinghe

Upali Wickramasinghe — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 06:32:00 +0000

In reply to Upali Wickramasinghe. I also suspect that the Ruwan weliseya was a pennace of his sin over killing Elara.Remember how inquired whether he had committed a serious crime - killing millions of people- and the priests told him that only one human being was killed and the others were animals.