Sri Lanka: Reconciliation comes by accepting nations are different
The South and its Sinhala polity talked of themselves as Sri Lanka and Sri Lankans. Those who opposed the war, but still wanted to be part of the warring Sinhala ideology, thus said the common meeting point of all Sinhala, Tamil and Muslim people is the Sri Lankan identity. But this Sri Lankan identity is essentially a Southern Sinhala identity, points out veteran Sinhala journalist Kusal Perera ...