Hostage to the Past
Mervyn's response to Black July 83 and his
understanding of Sri Lanka's ethnic issue are encapsulated in the
article we reproduce here, which appeared six months after July 83,
originally entitled 'Paradise - and Hostage to the Past' in the Far
Eastern Economic Review, January 26, 1984, pp.22-23.
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Peace as Legal Fiction: International aid and the return to
violence in Lanka
Peace in Sri Lanka is increasingly an
international legal fiction; an assumption contrary to ground
realities. The country's four year old 'peace process' brokered by
Norwegian mediators has waned. The ebb of peace in the palm-fringed,
tourist-friendly island is indexed in the return of 'dirty war', a
rising body count, and trickle of refugees to South India, as well
as suicide bombings and barricades in the capital [E1], Colombo.
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The Rajpal Abeynayake Column: Welcome to the Adidas version of
the global community
Three weeks of soccer would come to a close
shortly, and Iran will go back to being a global pariah at the end
of all that. It's too bad that the closest thing to a global
paradise arises from a very basic affair - a kick in the grass.
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