Word: jehan
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...places like Darfur, the renewal of hostilities in Sri Lanka offers some lessons as to why civil wars are so hard to end. Part of the problem is that fratricidal disputes are often personal and heartfelt. "Both sides see themselves as being locked in a fight against evil," Jehan Perera, executive director of the National Peace Council of Sri Lanka, wrote in a recent appraisal of his country's war. This fight is part ethnic, part religious and wholly vicious. "It is the belief in the unchanging nature of the other that often leads to violence. Both think the other...
...survivor of a murdered spouse who is innocent could do anything so grotesque. Can you imagine Daniel Pearl's widow writing a book about how she would have conducted the beheading of her husband? Or Jehan Sadat going on television to describe how she would have engineered her husband's assassination? Such things are impossible. The mere act of engaging in so unimaginably repulsive an exercise is the ultimate proof of Simpson's guilt...
...sure, Sri Lanka has had it worse. At the height of the conflict, which has claimed some 65,000 lives, up to 1,000 people occasionally perished in a single day. Jehan Perera, director of the National Peace Council, an independent Colombo think tank, reckons that, in Sri Lankan terms, both sides are showing restraint-neither has launched all-out assaults. "The government knows the only way to stop the L.T.T.E. from killing more soldiers is to meet them at the negotiating table," says Perera. The Tigers, he adds, are keen to shore up their battered reputation with the international...
...Jeremy Clarke, who heads the International Monetary Fund's Sri Lankan operations. Last week, she found she had insufficient authority to install her choice for Prime Minister, former Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar, and was forced to accept his rival Mahinda Rajapakse. As for resuming peace negotiations with the Tigers, Jehan Perera of the National Peace Council says the most the President can now do is "talk about talks...
...made initial peace moves in the 1980s and 1990s, from any role in the negotiations. "At most times, I came to know of decisions on defense matters after they were taken and only from the media," complained Kumaratunga in her second national address. "Ranil is also very selfish," says Jehan Perera of the National Peace Council, a Colombo-based independent NGO. "He didn't support her when she tried to make some good changes when her government was in power. He also wants power for himself...