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1 " The main element of true reconciliation is the public education system. "
― Nilantha Ilangamuwa
2 " The Chilcot report is a revelation of injustice under the cloak of Aid. The Chilcot report is a sorry report on the current state of humanity. So the ultimate question here is – what are we going to achieve out of the sorry reports when “sorry” has no meaning in action? "
3 " Reconciliation without truth is nothing but a smokescreen "
4 " Nothing can be changed in the system when the system itself is revolting against those who opposed violence. "
5 " How can you cry for others’ struggles when you are facilitating mayhem in your own land? "
6 " A society is driven by “social fear” always produces the seeds of doubt and unhappiness. "
7 " The era of revolution by military means produced a greater degree of desperation and frustration. This was brought to an end by the people. "
8 " The most fundamental problem is not that we don’t have a system to run but those with knowledge are cynically manipulating the system for petty personal desires. "
9 " When the day to day life is suppressing you, how could you put your moral values and will power to the realm of life? "
10 " History has taught us that the idea of superpower is for a political maniac to design the art of control over other countries. "
11 " Foremost, step one could take is avoiding the cheap behaviour of compromising principles with decorated lies which assails the moral power of common sense. "
12 " The victory is not only the pathway of celebration but also to take the greater degree of responsibility for those who were victimised. "
13 " Peace without truth is nothing but an illusion – a deceptive misguidance which generates opportunities and problems to chew the sweet and bitter tastes of evil respectively. "
14 " Fear has become normal and is covered by the idea of “patriotism”. "
15 " Patriotism, currently, is nothing but the deadly evolution of narrow minded politics which has distorted language. "
16 " Social systems are neither a consumer product that we can buy or rent from the market nor a material that we can import from another country. It is not a creation of the almighty gifted from the heavens. A social system is a creation of mankind. That is a reflection of our responsibilities. In other words, the social system is the result of our behavior and the decisions we take in our way of life. "
17 " Ladies and gentlemen, it is time for us to change the mindset which has tended to create ad hoc solutions for the political madness and social farce. In fact, our age of tragedy which has been represented by the so-called “Marxists” in the Sinhalese community and “liberalists” in Tamil community since the 70s to the late 90s, has been replaced by the age of farce. "
18 " It is a smokescreen if someone believes that they can make change without identifying the root causes which influence social disorder. "
― Nilantha Ilangamuwa , The Conflation: Politics and Politrics Beyond the Ecstasy
19 " True, the US Government does not have moral authority to ask for an independent investigation into alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity that occurred in final stages of the civil war in Sri Lanka. This is so not just because of what they have done in Sri Lanka, but what they do all around the world. Certainly, the US enhanced their assistance in many ways during last decades to fight against the Tamil Tiger rebels. But does the Government of Sri Lanka have moral authority to deny an international investigation? The answer is no. "
20 " What unified the Balochis in their quest to regain self-determination, which resulted in the ‘existing state’? On the one hand, authoritarianism, militarization, and conquest has robbed them of their history and put them into the do or die situation. On the other hand, natural resources which would allow the citizens at large to achieve a respectable existence have been controlled by the military or political elites, well connected to feudal political elites in Pakistan. "
