Last comment on Sri Lanka: Is the war really over?
[Editors note: This is Lionel Bopage’s second detailed response to the points brought up in his article The first response and resulting comments can be read here.] I doubt that a solution…
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Responses and clarifications on Sri Lanka: Is the war really over?
[Editors note: This is a detailed response to over 30 comments left on and read over 2,500 times to date.] Though several comments made on my article were not directly related to the…
Sri Lanka: Is the war really over?
The end of the conventional war in the north and the east of Sri Lanka witnessed the almost total annihilation of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) including its leadership. However,…
National flags and the symbolism of accomodating minorities
This is a reaction to Saman’s comment on the article by Professor Michael Roberts. Saman says that Sri Lanka flag has accommodated minorities, and asks: “looking at other world flags, interesting to…
Where We Are and Where To?
“War is the highest form of struggle for resolving contradictions, when they have developed to a certain stage, between classes, nations, states, or political groups, and it has existed ever since the…
The LTTE – A Spent Force?
A side issue arising from Professor Michael Roberts’s According to Professor Roberts, dissident SL Tamils are of the view that the LTTE has passed its use-by date and a new leadership is…
Resonating the interests of chauvinism? – My response to the two articles by Prof. Michael Roberts
I would like to preface my response to Professor Michael Robert’s two articles (). By writing this, I have no wish to devalue my friendship with Professor Roberts. For at the end…
A response to Michael Robert’s Dilemma at Wars End: Thoughts on Hard Realities
This is a response to Michael Robert’s article published on Groundviews recently titled. I am disappointed that a historian of Dr Michael Roberts’ stature and humanitarian sensibility is seduced by the triumphalist…
Killing dissent: Lasantha, violence and impunity
In a country where, it seems, shooting the messenger has become the norm, yet another journalist who sought to highlight everything that is wrong with Sri Lanka today, has been brutally gunned…