Listened to the excellent Crossing Continents on #r4 focusing on Sri Lanka
Listened to the excellent Crossing Continents on #r4 focusing on Sri
Lanka and asking if the Sinhalese nationalists and Buddhist monks are
winning the ‘peace’. We meet Tamil Tigers who are creepily being
rehabilitated.
A word in use in places such as Saudi Arabia but feels less benign and Orwellian double talk when applied to politics not crime.
As the Sinhalese go about what is seen as colonisation in Tamil areas but to
them it is merely islanders having freedom of movement. What comes across are
what we could construe as the beginning of a situation not dissimilar to that
of the Palestinians.
Their is a religious element as the majority Sinhalese of which Buddhism cannot be unbundled from nationalism. I hope the peace holds with the military defeat of the Tamils being so decisive we cannot expect a threat from them. However simmering resentment from Tamils coupled with injustice bodes badly.
