Sunday February 5, 2012By Victor Ivan
The political outlook of our country has not kept pace with the unprecedented changes that have swept across the modern world today. It still stagnates at an unprogressive level where the ideological backwardness of politicians reigns supreme. Although, Prabakaran had been removed from the political scene of the country, the various schools of political ideologies do not seem to have changed their perception on the issue commonly referred to as the Sinhala Tamil problem. They still look at this problem the way they used to see it when Prabakaran was alive. Those who look at this issue from the point of view of the Tamil people believe that, at the least the provisions enshrined in the 13th amendment should be implemented while those representing the point of view of the Sinhala people are against the indiscriminate grant of all the provisions of the 13th amendment. However, those representing Marxist or liberal points of view are of the view that provisions in the 13th amendment should be granted in toto if a lasting solution is to be found for the problem.Read More »