Sri Lanka: Tamil Politics and the Quest for a Political Solution
Tuesday November 27, 2012
The
Agenda has done several on-air
and online segments about Sri Lanka. The country suffered from a brutal,
decades-long civil war driven by ethnic conflict between the majority Sinhalese
and the minority Tamil populations.
The
war ended in 2009. But while the Sri Lankan government tries to put on as
positive a face as possible, many unresolved issues remain between the island's
Sinhalese and Tamils.
International Crisis Group has just
published a report, "Sri
Lanka: Tamil Politics and the Quest for a Political Solution." It looks into
how well both the government and Tamil opposition politicians have done in
trying to resolve differences in the aftermath of the war. And it offers advice
on what the government, Tamil leaders, the international community, and the
large Tamil diaspora outside Sri Lanka should do to move the yardsticks forward
on a long-term solution to the Sinhalese-Tamil question.
I
spoke with Alan Keenan, Senior Analyst and Sri Lanka Project Director of
the International Crisis Group about the report. You can watch that interview in
the video window above.
