Sri Lankan Crisis And Regime Change – Analysis
Sri Lanka’s economic crisis instigated a people’s protest against the government. The stated objective was a system change. The protest
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Author: Dr. S. I. Keethaponcalan
Dr. S. I. Keethaponcalan is a Professor of Conflict Resolution at Salisbury University, Maryland. Formerly, he was a Professor of Political Science at the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Articles by Dr. S. I. Keethaponcalan :
The Sri Lankan Crisis: Dilemmas Of The Protester – OpEd
Sri Lanka slipped into an economic crisis with socio-political implications in March 2022. I have explained the crux of the
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The Sri Lankan Crisis: A Sinhala Civil War? – OpEd
Sri Lanka is in an unprecedented crisis. People are literally on the street for two reasons. One, they are queuing
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Sri Lanka Tamil Party Letter To Modi: Anomalies And Absurdities – OpEd
Sri Lanka’s Tamil political parties, namely the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), the Ilankai Thamil Arasu Katchi (ITAK), the Tamil Makkal
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Why The Tamils Should Stay Away From Sri Lanka’s New Constitution – OpEd
The Sri Lankan government headed by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is in the process of enacting a new constitution. The idea
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Sri Lanka’s 13th Amendment: Doomed With The New Constitution? – OpEd
As expected, the government is gearing up to enact a new constitution. In his first policy-statement delivered on August 20,
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Sri Lanka’s General Election Results: Ready For A Structural Change? – OpEd
The 1977 general election was transformative. It provided J. R. Jayewardene’s United National Party (UNP) more than a two-thirds majority
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Sri Lanka’s Tamil National Alliance In Transition? – OpEd
The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) was formed in 2001. At its inception, it was an umbrella organization consisting of the
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Sri Lanka: Weaponizing Archaeology? – OpEd
By a Gazette notification, the Sri Lankan government appointed a Presidential Task Force for Archaeological Heritage Management in the Eastern
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Sri Lanka: TNA’s Sumanthiran, Half-Truths, And Alternatives – OpEd
Last week, the de facto leader of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), M.A. Sumanthiran, gave an interview to a Sinhala
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