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GTF Commemorates the Sixteenth Anniversary of the End of the Civil War in Sri Lanka - LNW Lanka News Web
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Regaining Trust of Minorities Requires More Than Symbolic Actions - Colombo Telegraph
By Jehan Perera – Jehan Perera The dates May 18-19 highlight a continuing divide in the country with few willing to look at the losses on the other side though they were all Sri Lankans. These two days in particular surface the uncomfortable truth that the country’s people have different memories, including the manner in which the three decade long war ended. The Tamil people have commemorated May 18 as the day on which many of them, including L…
The program organized by the Governing Board of the Office for National Unity and Reconciliation to mark the sixteenth anniversary of the end of the armed conflict in Sri Lanka was held at the Office yesterday (19). Arrangements were made to disseminate the statement prepared and presented by the Governing Board of the Office in all three languages. In parallel with this program, a pledge for a healthy society and a healthy world was made by lig…
Sixteen Years On, it’s Time for Reflection, Not Only Celebration - Groundviews
Photo by Mia Abeyawardene Since the end of the 26 year armed conflict 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 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 conflict, later termed separatist terrorism a…
16 Years After a Pyrrhic Victory: It's Time for Reflection, Not Only Celebration - Lionel Bopage • Sri Lanka Brief
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 conflict, later termed ‘separatist terro…
GTF commemorates the sixteenth anniversary of the end of the civil war in Sri Lanka - LNW Lanka News Web
The Global Tamil Forum (GTF) joins Tamils worldwide in commemorating the 16th anniversary of the end of the civil war in Sri Lanka. The final phase of the war is one of the most brutal in recent history, with the estimated deaths of over 40,000 Tamil civilians in the final months alone. This constitutes only a fraction of the total deaths, destruction and displacement suffered by the Tamil community during its 70-year political struggle for equa…
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