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Author: Global Citizen

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Colombo, Jaffna, Peace and Conflict, Vavuniya

Let this be the moment that defines us

For over three decades, we have bombed and shot each other, split our tears and shed them only for ‘our own’, split our joys and celebrated as ‘their’ mothers, wives and children…

Global Citizen Global Citizen on 04/24/2009
Colombo, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

My vision for Our country

We have been conditioned by war for three decades, to accept violence as a means of resolving conflict. As heinous as the events that took place in July 1983 are, they do…

Global Citizen Global Citizen on 04/01/200904/02/2009
Colombo, Media and Communications, Peace and Conflict

Bridging comedy and conscience

Violence does not make me laugh. Yet humour has not only survived nearly two and a half decades of exposure to violence, brutality, intolerance, discrimination, corruption and abuses of power, it has…

Global Citizen Global Citizen on 03/26/2009
Colombo, Religion and faith

A Matter of faith

By Citizen Throughout history, there have been good men who did good things and bad men who did bad things. But it has taken an unquestioning acceptance of religious doctrines or preaching…

Global Citizen Global Citizen on 02/02/200902/02/2009

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