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

The Future of the Aragalaya

Hettige 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…

Uditha Devapriya Uditha Devapriya on 05/22/202205/22/2022
#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
Colombo, Human Rights, justice, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

PTA Amendment Bill: A Facade for Backdoor Human Right Violations?

Counterterrorism and protecting human rights has been a long standing dichotomy on a global scale. The same fate was experienced in the Sri Lankan context with the civil war and internal insurrections.…

Sajini Wickramasinghe Sajini Wickramasinghe on 05/20/202205/20/2022
Colombo, Memorialisation, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Transitional Justice, War Crimes

From Mullivaikkal to Nakba and Ballymurphy, Truth is the First Victim

Sri Lanka is grappling with its worst economic crisis since its independence in 1948. But amid this serious economic situation, Tamils on the island and around there world are going to commemorate…

Thamil Ananthavinayagan Thamil Ananthavinayagan on 05/18/202205/18/2022
Colombo, Human Rights, IDPs and Refugees, Peace and Conflict, Reconciliation

Building Bridges with Stories

Unsalted Porridge “Where do you suppose they must be serving porridge today?” Most of their mornings dawn with this question. Waking early, standing in line, pot in hand – that steaming hot…

Anojitha Sivaskaran Anojitha Sivaskaran on 05/17/202205/17/2022
Colombo, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

SWRD and The Poisoned Well Of Nationalism

I was introduced to the existence of a publicly shared negative attitude towards S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike for the first time at a book launch in Colombo several years ago. The author had decided…

Devika Brendon Devika Brendon on 05/15/202205/15/2022
Colombo, Human Rights, justice, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, War Crimes

The Tamil Struggle, the Aragalaya and Sri Lankan Identity

May 18, 2009. The end of the war. Of the many horrific visuals of the end of the war the one that is etched in my memory is of people crossing the…

Ambika Satkunanathan Ambika Satkunanathan on 05/15/202205/15/2022
#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
Colombo, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

A Schizoid Political Culture

Attackers roaring obscenities, screams of victims, the thunk of metal poles on defenceless humans and the crack of smashed protester shelters all combined to almost drown out the Bhikkus’ serene chanting of…

Lakshman Gunasekara Lakshman Gunasekara on 05/14/202205/14/2022
#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
Colombo, Human Rights, International, justice, Media and Communications, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Challenging Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists

The Permanent People’s Tribunal in The Hague (Netherlands) has commenced hearings into murder of journalist and editor Lasantha Wickrematunge based on an indictment presented by a coalition of international press freedom organizations.…

Ruki Fernando Ruki Fernando 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, 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 05/11/202205/11/2022

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