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

The Future of the Aragalaya

Lenin once remarked that there are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen. Much more than a decade passed last week at Galle Face. Beginning with Mahinda Rajapaksa’s desperate and…

Uditha Devapriya Uditha Devapriya on 05/22/202205/24/2022
#GoHomeGota, #GotaGoHome, Colombo, Human Rights, justice, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Reconciliation, Transitional Justice

Questions of Justice and Accountability

As videos of helicopters taking off in the early hours of Tuesday May 10 appeared on social media, rumours swirled that some members of the Rajapaksa family had fled Colombo. While the…

Mirak Raheem Mirak Raheem on 05/21/202205/21/2022
#GoHomeGota, #GotaGoHome, Colombo, Politics and Governance

In Search of a National Government

My favourite politician, Dr. Harini Amarasuriya, tweeted a few days ago on her preferred course of action for the way out of the present mess we find ourselves in. “Ok, let’s talk…

Alvin Sallay Alvin Sallay on 05/15/2022
#GoHomeGota, #GotaGoHome, Colombo, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

GotaGoGama, Galle Face and the Youth

“Country is facing one of the most difficult and challenging economic, political and socially decisive times in its history…Government has erred by banning use of chemical fertilizer and not going for a…

Chandrasena Maliyadde Chandrasena Maliyadde on 05/14/2022
#GoHomeGota, #GotaGoHome, Colombo, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

The Difference We Long For

A few days ago, a Buddhist monk and two Christian priests were beaten up opposite the official residence of the prime minister of the country. They were among more than 30 peaceful…

Bishop Duleep de Chickera Bishop Duleep de Chickera on 05/14/202205/14/2022
#GoHomeGota, #GotaGoHome, Colombo, Politics and Governance

The Inverted October Coup

The president of Sri Lanka, sensing the serious frustration of the electorate at non-performance, sacks his prime minister and swears in another prime minister. The former prime minister was reinstated but even…

Harim Peiris Harim Peiris on 05/14/2022
#GoHomeGota, #GotaGoHome, Colombo, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Is the Aragalaya Checkmated?

Ranil Wickremesinghe, in his first interview as the new prime minister, said he would protect the GotaGoGama site while Army Commander Shavendra Silva said that if the protesters were not violent they…

Shreen Saroor Shreen Saroor on 05/13/202205/13/2022
#GoHomeGota, #GotaGoHome, Colombo, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Sri Lanka’s People, Parliament and President

May 9, 2022 will be remembered as one of the darkest days in post war Sri Lankan history. The country, already teetering on the brink of economic collapse due to incomprehensible levels…

Amal de Chickera and Ruwanthie de Chickera Amal de Chickera and Ruwanthie de Chickera on 05/13/202205/13/2022
#GoHomeGota, #GotaGoHome, Colombo, Human Rights, justice, Politics and Governance

People’s Tribunal Hears Evidence Against My Father’s Killers

Today the People’s Tribunal on the Murder of Journalists in the Hague will commence hearing evidence in the assassination of my father Lasantha Wickrematunge. The indictment alleges the Sri Lankan government’s complicity…

Ahimsa Wickrematunge Ahimsa Wickrematunge on 05/12/202205/30/2022
#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 05/11/202205/12/2022
#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 05/11/202205/30/2022
#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 05/10/202205/30/2022
#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

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