Category: Ethno-Religious Issues

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Ethno-Religious Issues / Islamic Terrorism - Fundamentalism / Political Parties / Sri Lanka Politics

WHEN ENTIRE FAMILIES CHOOSE MARTYRDOM Understanding the Easter Sunday Attackers and Their Will to Die

  The persistence of the Church’s demand for a maha molakaru or mastermind essentially takes us to a bigger question surrounding suicide terrorism. A mastermind can indoctrinate a single person but when entire families...

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Colonial & Neo colonial / Crimes of the West / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / Ethno-Religious Issues / LTTE Diaspora

WHY DOES CHEMMANI GET PROCESSIONS BUT THUNUKKAI DOES NOT? WHY IS INTERNATIONAL ATTENTION ON CHEMMANI — BUT NOT THUNUKKAI?

  Justice, we presume, is for all victims. That is why it is necessary to ask whether we are witnessing a change in the status quo — where some victims are receiving unprecedented mobilisation,...

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Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / Ethno-Religious Issues

ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාමය අයිතියක් කඩදාසියට පමණක් සීමා වූ විට: උතුරු ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ සිංහල භාෂාව කතා කරන පුරවැසියන් – ජාතික භාෂාවෙන් අධ්‍යාපනය, පරිපාලනය සහ රාජ්‍ය සේවා ලබා ගැනීමේදී පවතින අසමානතාව.

  ජාතික භාෂාවක් පවතී – නමුත් උතුරු ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ සිංහල පුරවැසියන්ට සමානව ප්‍රවේශ විය හැකි අයිතියක් නොවේ. 1987 ඉන්දු-ලංකා ගිවිසුම සහ 13 වන සංශෝධනයෙන් පසුව ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාව සිංහල සහ දෙමළ ජාතික භාෂා...

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Chartering Our Future / Ethno-Religious Issues

WHEN A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT EXISTS ONLY ON PAPER. Sinhala-Speaking Citizens in Northern Sri Lanka: Unequal Access to National-Language Education, Administration and Public Services

  A NATIONAL LANGUAGE EXISTS— BUT IS NOT AN EQUALLY ACCESSIBLE RIGHT FOR SINHALESE CITIZENS IN NORTH SRI LANKA. Sri Lanka’s Constitution recognises Sinhala and Tamil as National Languages subsequent to 1987 Indo-Lanka Accord &...

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Chartering Our Future / Ethno-Religious Issues / Islamic Terrorism - Fundamentalism

Former MP Udaya Gammanpila’s Post-TID Press Conference: What does Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith & Fr. Cyril Gamini Say About Public Warnings on Extremist Networks?

Former Member of Parliament Udaya Gammanpila addressed the media after providing a statement to the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID), outlining a series of claims connected to investigative material arising from the Easter Sunday terror investigations. What...

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Constitution Related / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / Ethno-Religious Issues / Islamic Terrorism - Fundamentalism

Can Fr. Cyril prove his 2021 allegation of Zaharan-Suresh Sallay link & motive for all suicide bombers to be political not ideological

    Since May 2021, a sequence of public statements has attempted to reshape the understanding of the Easter Sunday attacks and promote a new narrative burying a critical factor that may contribute to...