Sri Lankans have fought for their freedom, rights and equal opportunities as citizens of a single nation since the time the country lost its independence in 1815. Former Chief Minister of Sri Lanka Northern Province, C V Vigneswaran, described it as “the best of times as there was a cordial relationship between the two communities”. Last Friday, during Prime Minister …
When a handful of individuals convened near the Borella Cemetery in Colombo on July 23, to mark the 40th anniversary of Sri Lanka’s anti-Tamil pogrom in 1983, a few angry young men disrupted the proceedings despite heavy police presence. “I couldn’t follow everything at the time, but I understood that the Tamils were in danger.” And very soon, the danger …
