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...chief Archbishop Desmond Tutu, offered possible amnesty for perpetrators willing to divulge all they knew, and dignity and reparations for victims. The trc is often hailed by non?South Africans as an unmitigated success. "It's almost embarrassing," says Meiring, who has traveled to places such as Rwanda and Sri Lanka to talk about his country's experience. "It seems that people think we found the perfect solution." Archbishop Tutu has recently been applying the lessons to the fractured society of Northern Ireland, where he hopes bringing victims and killers face-to-face in unofficial meetings shown on television...
...Western readers are barely aware of. China's Tiananmen Square is such a great place, the entrance to the magnificent Forbidden City. Why do Westerners prefer to see the tanks on the street? Feng Wang Brussels Trade Pessimism for Peace "An island on the edge" [Feb. 20] reported that Sri Lanka is drifting back into civil war between the Sinhalese government and the Tamil Tigers after a four-year cease-fire. Your story recounted the amazement of former Johns Hopkins visiting scholar Dayan Jayatilleka as he witnessed soldiers' donating blood for Tamils in the days after the tsunami. He said...
...their places in jeopardy. Ponting can't be held responsible for everything his teammates say and do. But he could try to foster a more generous attitude to those outside the sanctum. He could, for example, have done more to dissociate his players from local crowds' relentless heckling of Sri Lankan spinner Muttiah Muralitharan. Perhaps Ponting could have pleaded with the mob to stop, directly or through the press: what better way to use the power of captaincy for the greater good...
Priya Rajdev ’07 is a government concentrator in Eliot House. Her work has appeared in such publications as the Sri Lankan Daily News, Austria’s Die Presse, and The Winnipeg Sun. She would also like to point out that while none of the above is actually true, wouldn’t it be cool if it were? Priya would like to give a brief shout-out to GWB: “G-Dubs—you’re the best friend a cartoonist could ever have—keep up the good work...
...Should war return, its impact will be severe?but probably less so on the southern beaches that are Sri Lanka's main attraction. Foreign aid and investment will fall, as will tourist numbers. But Sri Lanka's economy kept growing during the earlier years of war, and is in better shape today than it was, now that a collection of boutique hotels has made the island the favored destination of the long-haul travel crowd. Although tourists may continue to enjoy Sri Lanka, if war is renewed, those who live there year-round will continue to have their aspirations...