Against Majoritarian anti-Democracy
by Izeth Hussain-December 12, 2014
A plague on both your houses
– Shakespeare
There is much glib talk nowadays about the formation of a national Government after the January elections. It is based on the facile assumption that the coming together of the two major parties, the UNP and the SLFP, together with some minority ethnic parties, would amount to a national Government. But most Tamils don’t accept either of our two major parties as national parties: they see them rather as Sinhalese ethnic parties in all but name.
