Good women and bad women of the post-war nation
Photo by Anushka Wijesinha, 2011, via IPS
Since the end of war in May 2009, the United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA) government has sought to forge a new overarching Sri Lanka identity inclusive of all ethnic and religious communities. As articulated by the President himself in his first post-war speech to parliament: “the word minorities have been removed from our vocabulary” and “no longer are the Tamils, Muslims, Burghers, Malays and any others minorities.