Extremism, Ethnic Cleansing And Nationalist Rhetoric In Sri Lanka

May 1, 2012

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By Terence Bunch -

Rhetoric₁ derives from a long standing enquiry into the power of oral persuasion. It is linked to the combined use of language, symbology, mutually derived identity and relations between peoples and nations. Rhetoric when used by a skilled orator can be used in service to persuasion of a given argument, to elucidate a given or perceived truth, or can be used to obscure or obfuscate an argument or the truth. In any given environment, either political or cultural, rhetoric can be used to steer public opinion toward, or away from, a particular subject of enquiry. Rhetoric has been classified as particular to oral persuasion in the field of politics, but has also been cited as having liberated form in any area in which large scale mass persuasion is required.

In the post 9/11 phase, the domestic rhetoric of the United States has been voluntarily adopted by a number of nations in pursuit of their own ideologies and political aims and motifs. This has accrued in tandem with large-scale funding₂ from the United States into the criminal justice systems of those nations which in turn has migrated into their political systems…and as a result of this, an increase in nationalist violence has taken place with the external funding of the United States facilitating the domestic enmities of various extremists regimes in pursuit of their own agenda’s.

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