By Parameswaran Wigneshwaran in Daily FT, June 6, 2023*Former MP Chandrasegar says JVP aims to ensure unity rather than division while addressing demands for autonomy in North and East **Claims concepts of autonomy and self-determination emerged from Marxist ideologies but have now been exploited by capitalists ***Says new constitution enacted when NPP comes to power will encompass the demands and aspirations of Tamil people The leftist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) yesterday expressed the party’s willingness…
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by Shihar Aneez in Economy Next online, June 2, 2023A new draft on Sri Lanka’s Truth Reconciliation Commission (TRC) has failed to meet minimum expectations in addressing the concerns of ethnic minority Tamils who have lost their loved ones in what they allege as forced disappeared, in the final stage of the war, the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) legislator M A Sumanthiran said. Thousands of people, mostly Tamils in Sri Lanka’s north and east, went…
By P K Balachandran in Daily Mirror online, Jan 10, 2023Positive moves are being made by both President Ranil Wickremesinghe and the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) to resolve the seven decades-long ethnic issue. Following Wickremesinghe’s declared resolve to secure an agreement on the broad contours of a settlement by Sri Lanka’s Independence Day on February 4, the two sides have agreed on an agenda in which priority is given to issues on which decisions could…