Word: lanka
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...election results send a more alarming signal to the Tamils, and to the civilized world at large, that a rural voter in a ‘Democracy by Ethnicity’ like Sri Lanka cannot not go beyond the policy of communal intoxication and anti-western sentiment. Another example of this reality was the conduct of state media during the polls—they continued to depict the ruler as a pious and pure soul offering prayers in the temples, thus not allowing the average voter to think past the Sinhala-Buddhist chauvinism. These are the exact types of policies...
...hapless as they are breathless, the intellectual elite in the Sinhalese community are deeply frustrated now with the direction of the country. Sri Lanka did not need a presidential election for reconciliation with Tamils. The post-electoral violence, intimidation, and disenfranchisement of Tamils are seen as a precursor for what the Tamils can expect from the present rulers in the days to come. The anti-democratic excesses of the current regime are likely to increase during the parliamentary election season...
Today, the Tamils in Sri Lanka are a nanion of widows, orphans, and maimed, with many families horribly devastated from the loss of their loved ones...
...Lanka is a clear example of a democracy by ethnicity that isn’t working in a culture where the vulnerable members are not protected...
...political pundits and experts on international law must find a way out of the existing system in Sri Lanka if the country’s minorities are to live with security and human dignity...