16 Years After A Pyrrhic Victory: It's Time For Reflection, Not Only Celebration - Colombo Telegraph

16 Years After A Pyrrhic Victory: It's Time For Reflection, Not Only Celebration - Colombo Telegraph

By Lionel Bopage – Dr. Lionel Bopage Since the end of the 30-year-long armed conflict in Sri Lanka in May 2009, whether it should be celebrated as a victory or allowed to be mourned by the war victims has been a matter of debate almost every year. Since 1949, the government of Sri Lanka and the nationalist forces denied a political demand by the Tamils of the North and East for a degree of autonomy. The national question turned into an armed con…

A Missing Path Towards Unity and Reconciliation - Groundviews

Photo courtesy of AFP May is a month of deep reflection and complex emotions in Sri Lanka. It marks two significant and contrasting commemorations: Mullivaikal Remembrance Day on May and Sri Lanka’s Victory Day on May 19. These dates mark the end of a 26 year civil war in 2009 between government forces and the