europeus - harinda_ranura_vidanage

APPARITION OF THE PREDATOR

noreply@blogspirit.com (EUROPEUS.ORG, FIRST EUROPEAN INTERACTIVE MEDIA) — Tue, 02 May 2006 12:35:00 +0200

“Never before have so many people assumed that war was an institution has outlived its usefulness.”

Chris Hables Gray: Post Modern War

You Say you got a real solution
Well you know
we'd all love to see the plan
You ask me for a contribution
Well you know
We're doing what we can
But when you want money for people with minds that hate
All I can tell you is brother you have to wait

John Lennon

Understanding the Paradigm Shift.
Sri Lanka heads for civil war!, War looms over Island nation …., these are the new media reports that scream on all media wires and the high potential online news spaces. The country at the dawn of its rising from the destruction from the Tsunami is slowly, painfully and horrifically being drawn to a vortex of violence, death and chaos. This is all summed up by many as the backdrop for the fourth episode of Prabhaharans eelam war. The writer looks at the crisis that has evoked the Sri Lankan state and its political institutions. The regressive ideologies of human agency within the political structures will too be scrutinized. The present reality is that we have entered a political crisis in the form of the destabilizing politics of North and East of Sri Lanka with a circulating effect on South. Stressing on the current ‘ground reality’ the crisis can be seen in the lights of strategic misguidance and misleading political leadership. The strategic failing comes with the changes that have taken place in the forms and approaches on handling conflicts both militarily and in broad public spheres, as the conflicts has evolved with time and their shapes and forms have become radically different from where they earlier were. Military sciences have become a discipline with ongoing dynamic changes and adoptions. So has to be the political leadership which has to make decisions on the operationalization of the military in this current context. No longer is the war, a war between trained individuals bearing arms and having access to the best military hardware there is. War has become a multi level theatre, while maintaining the traditional military vigor the dynamics of new internal conflict formation has to be absorbed in strategy.

SRI LANKAN PEACE PROCESS: THOUGHTS IN ABSTRACTION

noreply@blogspirit.com (EUROPEUS.ORG, FIRST EUROPEAN INTERACTIVE MEDIA) — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 12:35:00 +0100

The Sri Lankan conflict remained one of the few so called internal wars which erupted during the mid 80’s at the verge of the end of cold war and died out soon after. The geo political axis on conflict has taken a new turn, as new frontiers are drawn and illusive non comprehendible conflicts emerging beyond the rubric of internal conflicts. It took post 9/11 war on terror to internationally weaken the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). They were fighting for a separate Tamil homeland in Sri Lanka to enter peace talks with the Sri Lankan government. For a state which was tipped by the former Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yoo as the model state for development, these talks were a welcome breather. Now thriving Singapore economy is a giant compared to Sri Lanka with its economy eternally hooked up to a life support in the form of international aid. Lee Kuan Yoo saw the potential of this great state but internal ethnic strife shattered all hopes. The conflict raged for more than two decades. More than 60,00 people have lost their lives. Peace was sought in many forms, negotiations, limited devolution of power, Indian intervention. None did have an impact till mid nineties. The mid nineties efforts were good but the international pressure was insufficient to keep the rebels at bay. Only 2002 saw the sufficient pressure and national effort to forge a peace deal.

OPERATION: FEBRUARY DELTA

noreply@blogspirit.com (EUROPEUS.ORG, FIRST EUROPEAN INTERACTIVE MEDIA) — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 12:40:00 +0100

People feel that they are curtailed in their possible developments in a variety of directions and they create an imaginary of transcending these limitations and that is what the place of hope could have been. Now I think there is in some sense an end of hope if by hope we understand something which is transcending all possible human conditions in terms of the fulfillment of a perfect state of liberation, emancipation etc. But, on the other hand, there is a proliferation of new hopes, new demands, and these demands can be put together to create some kind of more cessable social imaginary. This is not to say that our expectations are any less than in the past, but that at any moment in time we have to construct partial social imaginaries of transformation that can push emancipatory politics in many directions. But we no longer have these eschatological notions of hope yet hope is something which is very much populating our dreams, present in our struggles and so on.”

Ernesto Laclau

Independence day, many question what one can put to his/her pen on our ritualistic celebration of the independence day. Symbolically celebrated with all the political vanity at Galle Face and formally celebrated in few governmental agencies. What does the common man feel about it? Oh great its just a holiday where we can take some rest, or if the day falls on a Friday or Monday it will be the coolest retreat one can get. This was a rapidly deployed probe to scan the un-conscience of the Sri Lankan mind. Irrespective of whether it’s a serious study on the attitudes of Sri Lankans to February 4th the above will be the general response. The trouble is that as a nation we have lost control predominantly the ideological attachment to the most significant day of our time. The painfully silent, as some critiques say lame national movement in Sri Lanka has never given any meaning to the independence day that we celebrate today.. Few Sri Lankans passionately celebrate the Independence Day Vis a Vis there neighbors India. India fought a significant liberation struggle against the colonial rule and the essence of the Independence day is a spiritual presence. The writer is not concerned about focusing on the historical significance of this event. But for a country which is desperately struggling to forge an alliance of diverse cultures and simultaneously arrest the state from withering away from fault lines appearing among all ethnicities and religious groups, 4th of February is a date to be repositioned as a day of national integration and the day we struggle against all our internal foes.