by Sulochana Ramiah Mohan You have been called the ‘Controversial Bishop’ and recently Minister of Industry and Commerce Rishad Bathiudeen claimed that you were the ‘cause’ for the clash in Mannar where Muslims attacked the magistrate and the Tamil fishermen in Uppukkulam? What is your explanation? UK’s High Commissioner John Rankin in discussion with Mannar [...]
Archive of entries posted on 5th August 2012
‘Rajapaksas in their Dynastic Interest Encourage and Foster Ethno-Religious Extremism and Extremists of all Communities’
By Tisaranee Gunasekara “Have you learned nothing from history?” – Sigmund Freud (The Failure of an Illusion) The exodus began a few years after the independence. The first to leave were the Burghers. Realising that the equation of Sinhala with national (desheeya) in the politico-cultural sphere rendered precarious their place in independent Ceylon, most of [...]
