02/01/2005 - The Sunday Leader
Peace process takes back seat
While the tsunami devastation has pushed back the urgency to recommence peace negotiations, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) expects the government to implement its ISGA proposal for the commencement of rehabilitation work in the north and east...
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02/01/2005 - The Sunday Leader
Politics of 'Operation Relief' Inside Politics
The devastating tsunami not only visited death and destruction on a massive scale in Sri Lanka, but left in its wake an entirely new political landscape...
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02/01/2005 - Sunday Island
Towards new era: an interim administration for reconstruction
(by K. Godage)
…Moragoda has stuck a responsive chord in the hearts and minds of the people when he has called for a government of “reconstruction and reconciliation… stated that the people have made the supreme sacrifice with thousands of lives lost and a million rendered homeless: and now it is the time for… the political leaders of this country to make a sacrifice themselves… He has called upon political parties to transcend traditional parochial interests but warned that politicians of all hues should come with sincerity, conviction and a pure heart...
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07/01/2005 - Daily Mirror
A small country but not a country of small minds
We have often been the victim of generalizations being made on the basis of exceptions. We saw this in 1983 when the whole Sinhala race was stigmatised as a result of what a small minority of political goons did to innocent Tamil people...
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09/01/2005 - The Sunday Leader
Human disaster and international power play
In the wake of the world's worst natural disaster in living history, the Indian Ocean has become an area of geopolitical strategy and power posturing...
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09/01/2005 - The Sunday Island
A better Sri Lanka is possible
Adapting a slogan from the World Social Forum, originally derived from Fidel Castro who said 'a better world is possible', I'd say 'Another Sri Lanka, a Better Sri Lanka is possible'. But it is not inevitable, and cannot even be said to be probable (which is why I balance between hope and scepticism). What is needed to make it come true is determination allied to New Thinking...
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09/01/2005 - The Sunday Island
Political gossip on All Party Government of Reconstruction, UNP disinterested
Political circles are gossiping about the possibility of an all-party government of re-construction being set up in the wake of the Boxing Day disaster, a proposal first made public by the UNP's Milinda Moragoda in the aftermath of the tidal wave...
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09/01/2005 - The Sunday Island
Getting things right
Just as much as many things were right, most so the wellspring of domestic and global sympathy, goodwill and unstinted generosity demonstrated in the disaster response, others have admittedly gone wrong. There is no purpose in finger pointing and witch hunting in this context...
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11/01/2005 - Daily Mirror
Unexpected unity in Matara
Minister and government spokesman Mangala Samaraweera, UNP frontliner and former Minister Milinda Moragoda and JHU spokesman and parliamentarian Athureliye Ratana Thera -- three stalwarts from the country's leading parties -- who happened to be in Matara for different purposes yesterday met at the Matara...
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12/01/2005 - Asiantribune.com
Sri Lanka: Milinda and Mangala to join hands together to rebuild our country.
Leaders of the political parties in Sri Lanka, unmindful of their petty political differences have come forward to build the nation affected by the worst human catastrophe and as an experimental measure UNP’s Milinda Moragoda, Minister Mangala Samaraweera and many other leaders has come forward to work together...
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