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Author: Michael Cooke

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Colombo, Development, Economy, Politics and Governance

Hiding the Sins of the Elite

Therein lies the rub. At the heart of most of the crises that have beset the nation of Sri Lanka is a corrupt, inequitable and underdeveloped economic structure of colonial origin. Attention…

Michael Cooke Michael Cooke on 06/13/2022
Long Reads, Peace and Conflict, Post-War, War Crimes

War Crimes in Sri Lanka: Stain or slander?

-Darshan Weerasekera[2] Whether or not the actions of the government and the guardians of the nation during the last stage of the civil war (2006-2009) were a stain on the country’s national…

Michael Cooke Michael Cooke on 09/16/201809/16/2018
Colombo, Identity, Peace and Conflict

Review of ‘In My Mother’s House: Civil War in Sri Lanka’

Photograph courtesy Al Jazeera John Berger[1] The dominant discourse of post-independence Lanka is that of Sinhala-Buddhist nationalism, with a counter-narrative of Tamil nationalism. This debilitating scenario has blotted out a multitude of…

Michael Cooke Michael Cooke on 11/18/201611/18/2016

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