Nous attirons votre attention sur un article du professeur Jayadeva Uyangoda, qui fait le point sur la situation à Sri Lanka et sur les implications politiques de la crise sanitaire, que vous pourrez télécharger ci-dessous
(courtesy Sri Lanka Brief)
Given a choice between living in a camp for displaced persons and in a home of his own, Dinesh Kumar would have chosen the latter any day. But nothing prepared him for the daily battle at his new house.
“I go to the sea to fish, but the catch has fallen drastically in the years we were displaced. I do some home gardening with my wife, we barely manage,” said the 30-year-old, standing in front of his small, Army-built house in Tellippalai, in Jaffna peninsula. Authorities have named the colony ‘Nallinakkapuram’ (colony of reconciliation). But for residents here, concerns over finding livelihood and drinking water have trumped the relief of being back on their land.
via: https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/sri-lanka-awaiting-justice-for-a-decade/article27165855.ece?fbclid=IwAR1fWR9I23DqWcJtvJz3-W8hm3w1oAT6ugs6zTR5S-4EY4P4hhBxJYJDQPQ
La victoire de l’armée sri-lankaise en mai 2009 a mis fin à plusieurs décennies de guerre opposant l’Etat central sri-lankais aux séparatistes du Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Si officiellement, la population civile tamoule a été libérée et l’unité nationale restaurée, il n’en reste pas moins que le traitement réservé aux civils tamouls a soulevé des questions.
source: Eglises d’Asie
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Lawyers, academics and activists hit out at the growing militarisation of every aspect of society at a forum organised by the BASL to analyse the implications of a gazette vesting police powers in the armed forces.
via: http://www.sundaytimes.lk/140330/news/is-this-a-govt-of-laws-or-a-govt-of-men-91039.html
source: www.sundaytimes.lk
The heavy militarisation of Sri Lanka’s northern province after the civil war’s bloody end in 2009 has been the subject of growing domestic and international concern. The large numbers of military personnel in the north, and the deep involvement of the military in the province’s governance, endanger the re-establishment of democratic institutions that is necessary to lasting peace (see our Nov 2013 report Sri Lanka’s Potemkin Peace: Democracy Under Fire).
source: www.crisisgroupblogs.org
Before getting into the main thrust of my argument, I want to be clear about the lost opportunity in post-war Sri Lanka. I am echoing here the words of the insightful Tamil intellectual Kethesh Loganathan, who critiqued the attempts to resolve the ethnic conflict during the first five decades after Independence, in his book Sri Lanka: Lost Opportunities. Tragically, the great opening that came with the end of the war has been squandered by the ruling Rajapaksa regime in the interest of consolidating power.
In the current situation, authoritarianism with centralised state power and militarisation characterises the state of affairs in the country. Militarisation is doubly oppressive in the war-torn North and East. There has been no serious movement towards a political solution. The reconstruction process has failed, particularly in relation to livelihoods, and a food security crisis is looming over the North.
Via http://himalmag.com/component/content/article/1-web-exclusive/5232-reconstructing-the-north.html
source: www.himalmag.com
Elaborating on the challenges, he pointed to militarisation as a major impediment to governance. Many families that were internally displaced during the war were yet to be resettled. The Sri Lankan army, he said, had taken over private land and in some cases even agriculture. “Locals have to purchase produce from their own land cultivated by the army,” he said, adding that women and children suffered periodic intimidation by the army.
source: www.thehindu.com
The meeting of Commonwealth heads of government has started in Sri Lanka. But the summit’s attendance list has already narrowed. Leaders of Canada, India and Mauritius have boycotted the gathering. The reason stems from concern over the Human Rights record of the Sri Lanka government, particularly with the regard to the last few months of the end of the civil war in 2009. Coverage on Impact included an in-depth report on the issues underlying the controversy by George Alagiah, followed by a studio discussion by Impact presenter Lucy Hockings with Sri Lankan Democracy Activist Nirmala Rajasingam, and Dushy Ranatunge, a London based journalist for the Sri Lankan newspaper, The Island.
via: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn31CUxh_mk
source: BBC World News (via Youtube)
The Economic and Political Weekly carries a section on Militarisation in Sri Lanka in issue no 48, February 2013, and th elink is given below.
MILITARISATION IN SRI LANKA
http://www.epw.in/ejournal/
Modalities of an Emergent Dictatorship
Kumar David
Militarisation, Lankan Style
Tisaranee Gunasekara
The Military Expansion into Education
Shamala Kumar
The Question of Militarisation in Post-war Sri Lanka
Ahilan Kadirgamar
