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15 years ago @ Groundviews - 14 years ago: Memories... · 0 replies · +1 points
15 years ago @ Groundviews - 14 years ago: Memories... · 0 replies · +1 points
15 years ago @ Groundviews - 14 years ago: Memories... · 0 replies · +1 points
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15 years ago @ Groundviews - 14 years ago: Memories... · 1 reply · +1 points
You contradict yourself in the last paragraph, but given that you coined an entirely new English word to begin with, I didn't expect too much.
15 years ago @ Groundviews - 14 years ago: Memories... · 2 replies · +1 points
15 years ago @ Groundviews - 14 years ago: Memories... · 2 replies · +1 points
The failure of comprehension is not limited to those points, but never mind, I'll take you for your word that you are not educated enough to comment. But since this realisation does not prevent you from going on to do so, I was pointing to the qualitative difference in the militarisation of polity and society. You weren't for example questioned by the CDF or arrested by the Police if you took photos outside a school. There weren't barricades around the entrances. There wasn't a sense of being garrisoned. The reasons for the emergence of security runs parallel to the increase in violence leading to an all consuming war at present. But this only qualifies the point that Thomians in and entering College today would face - literally and metaphorically - very different circumstances than when I was in College.
15 years ago @ Groundviews - WINNING LOCALLY, WINNI... · 0 replies · +1 points
I have noted earlier that:
"Dayan has published a number of articles on this site since July 2008 and all of them have been pro-war. Groundviews is the ONLY website where a senior diplomat of the Rajapakse administration can be interrogated. Further, Dayan himself, unlike others in government and the foreign service today, is open to serious and sustained questioning on a range of issues, including the war, as can be seen by the long comment threads on any one of his articles here.
If we believe in and are to promote peace through peaceful means, we must continuously engage with and be prepared to accept the merits of counter-arguments. Sadly, the pro-peace movement and the pro-war movement in Sri Lanka operate in self-referential spheres. Dayan's articles are published here to break that trend. His sustained engagement with interlocutors on this site is appreciated also for this reason."
(Under MULLAITIVU: CLOSING TIME, http://www.groundviews.org/2009/01/28/mullaitivu-...
15 years ago @ Groundviews - It's not cricket · 0 replies · +1 points
1. Could you tell me from where in my article or subsequent comments you base the first assumption you attribute to me?
2. Fine. Say Western media is a bitch (for the record, does this include Al Jazeera too?). Let's get three media workers - one state journo, one private, one blogger - all armed with same equipment to do exactly what I wanted Sites to do. Place them in three camps. Or in the same camp. Non-western, endogenous eye balls whose bias can cancel each other out. The more the merrier, yes?
And lest this veers off into a debate on authenticity and identity, the issue is that with an atrocious track record of freedom of expression (don't even try to defend this one) the GoSL looks at public scrutiny with as much love as you have for the LTTE. This isn't about Western or Non-Western - it is simply about bearing witness to the humanitarian fall-out of war independently. However, I agree this may be a tall order for a regime that does not quite understand, in general, why independent media is important.
3. I have never been convinced that foreign / UN intervention is forthcoming or possible, even if desirable.
Fidel's spot on - what's fueling, inter alia, the hugely partial web campaigns by or in favour of the LTTE today, giving them more attention, traction and credibility than they deserve, is the obduracy and actions of the Government vis-a-vis human security. I refer you to Sara's article (Unending End Game) which points to aspects of Holmes' report to the SC that were conveniently ignored by the Government and State media reportage. These are concerns echoed by the recent ICG report, and to see them all as hegemonistic - interventionist discourses based on wild imaginings is an inadequate response.
But you know that.
Sanj
15 years ago @ Groundviews - It's not cricket · 1 reply · +1 points