Image courtesy of Hindustan Times. It is now public knowledge and GR himself has accepted that his victory last year was entirely made possible by the overwhelming support he received from Sinhala Buddhists. However, behind this mass of Sinhala Buddhists was an army of supremacist foot soldiers under the command of militant members of the […]
Sinhala Buddhist nationalism
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Pardoning Gnanasara is an act of extreme leniency to a Buddhist monk & it sends a wrong message to the country.- TNA
The Tamil National Alliance unequivocally condemns the President’s act of pardoning Ven. Gnanasara Thero by abusing the Constitutional powers vested in the Head of State. He was jailed by the Court of Appeal for committing the offence of contempt against the Magistrate’s Court of Homagama. The conviction and sentencing happened after the learned Magistrate complained […]
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Sri Lanka: From Aluthgama to Teldeniya: Fearful continuities, fruitless government change
Image: On the night of 10th March a eatery in Anamaduwa, NWP was set on fire, but Sinhalese helped to repair it and eatery was opened in 18 hours. Rajan Philips. Teldeniya is the last straw, if one was needed, to break the last strand of credibility of the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe government. Most people took for granted […]
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Sri Lanka: Priests, medicine men, professional politicians and the State
Siri Hettige, Professor Emeritus of SociologyUniversity of Colombo. Media headlines in recent months in Sri Lanka have concentrated heavily on the political role of Buddhist monks, agitations of government medical officers against the establishment of a private medical college and the increasing failure of the State to address many pressing social issues. These three matters […]
