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Year: 2022

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#GoHomeGota, #GotaGoHome, Colombo, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

The Need of the Hour: A Nelson Mandela

Sri Lanka’s economic meltdown requires urgent remedial measures and the political impasse created by a president and his administration, which both refuse to either take responsibility or credibly effect corrective policy measures,…

Harim Peiris Harim Peiris on 05/11/202205/11/2022
#GoHomeGota, #GotaGoHome, Colombo, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

When Peaceful Protests Turn Sour

Until Monday afternoon, the protests at Galle Face Green were overwhelmingly peaceful. Even when demonstrators stormed into the outer precincts of the Presidential Secretariat, it was to engage in symbolic resistance epitomised…

Uditha Devapriya and Binara Anthony Uditha Devapriya and Binara Anthony on 05/11/202205/11/2022
Colombo, Economy, Politics and Governance, Polls

Consumer Confidence Drops to New Depths

Consumer confidence in Sri Lanka continued drop in April to reach a new low. Economic pessimism was widespread across all segments and public was resigned to likelihood that conditions will worsen in…

Ravi P. Rannan-Eliya, Ahthiga Selvaratnam, Thimani Dananjana, Niroshani Wisidagama, Yasodhara Kapuge and Nethmi Weerawardena Ravi P. Rannan-Eliya, Ahthiga Selvaratnam, Thimani Dananjana, Niroshani Wisidagama, Yasodhara Kapuge and Nethmi Weerawardena on 05/11/202205/11/2022
Colombo, Constitutional Reform, Economy, Human Rights, justice, Politics and Governance

People’s Uprising for System Change

April and May 2022 will be remembered as the most important months in the post-independence era. During this short period the much hoped for people’s awakening expressed itself powerfully. People who wielded…

Basil Fernando Basil Fernando on 05/11/2022
#GoHomeGota, #GotaGoHome, Colombo, Peace and Conflict, Poetry, Politics and Governance

Won’t Go Yet

Thugs, goondas, thousands of them, gathered in villages and towns in the interior and boarded buses to the capital– their purpose, to break up the tents set up outside the Prime Minister’s…

Indran Amirthanayagam Indran Amirthanayagam on 05/10/202205/10/2022
#GoHomeGota, #GotaGoHome, Colombo, Human Rights, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

The End?

“We must love one another or die,” wrote Auden in September 1, 1939 as the world slid into calamity. Gotagogama and the nationwide anti-Rajapaksa struggle it pioneered and symbolized seemed to be…

Tisaranee Gunasekara Tisaranee Gunasekara on 05/10/202205/10/2022
#GoHomeGota, #GotaGoHome, Colombo, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Thugs Attack Peaceful Protesters, GotaGoGama Destroyed

After 30 days of peaceful protests, the Rajapaksa regime unleashed its thugs on the protesters outside Temple Trees. After demolishing the tents and assaulting the people gathered there, the thugs proceeded to…

Groundviews Groundviews on 05/09/202205/09/2022
#GoHomeGota, #GotaGoHome, Colombo, Gender, Human Rights, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

To the Sisters of My Motherland

My beautiful motherland, ravaged by invaders and damaged by internal conflict over the centuries, is now drowning in the depths of economic despair. There is no respite in sight for the people…

Sharmila Gamlath Sharmila Gamlath on 05/09/2022
#GoHomeGota, #GotaGoHome, Colombo, Human Rights, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Sri Lanka Under the Jackboot

The Rajapaksa regime has declared a state of emergency amid ongoing protests including a general strike on May 6. This gives the government drastic powers to crack down on dissidents. The move…

Savitri Hensman Savitri Hensman on 05/08/202205/08/2022
#GoHomeGota, #GotaGoHome, Colombo, Politics and Governance

People’s Protest, Public Space and the Public Interest

People’s protests today occupy the public space as the people clamour to create and occupy democratic space. This receives public attention and worries the oppressor. Today’s protests demand change. The sovereignty of…

Bishop Duleep de Chickera Bishop Duleep de Chickera on 05/07/202205/07/2022
#GoHomeGota, #GotaGoHome, Colombo, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Youth

Proud to be Sri Lankan and a Youth

Groups of people, mostly young, stand in clusters chanting slogans, singing songs, making speeches. Others distribute food – buns, biscuits and fish buns – and others go about collecting litter. Children carry…

Oneli Perera Oneli Perera on 05/06/2022
Colombo, Constitutional Reform, Politics and Governance

The Need to Restore Judicial Review

Many discussions are taking place concerning the issue of restoring democracy by way of undoing the executive presidential system. As a way of achieving this, the suggestion is for the abolition of…

Basil Fernando Basil Fernando on 05/05/202205/05/2022
#GoHomeGota, #GotaGoHome, Colombo, Culture, Education, Politics and Governance

Popular Struggles and Education

Following the token general strike last week against the backdrop of the ongoing protests to oust President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s authoritarian regime, a few school principals have been grumbling about students being deprived of…

Brian Jeganathan Brian Jeganathan on 05/05/2022
#GoHomeGota, #GotaGoHome, Colombo, Constitutional Reform, Human Rights, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Why Minorities Must Support the Struggle

The current political and economic crisis in Sri Lanka calls for a new strategy in the political course of the Tamils and other minorities. People have been provoked to revolt against the…

Godwin Constantine Godwin Constantine on 05/05/202205/05/2022
Colombo, Environment, Politics and Governance

The Horror Of Horowpathana: Starving Elephants to Death

Right now, and understandably, the media is consumed by the political events of the day, matters of such magnitude that the very future of Sri Lanka is at stake; the wrong decisions…

Rohan Wijesinha Rohan Wijesinha on 05/04/202205/05/2022

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