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*** 7-Mar-18 World View -- Sri Lanka declares state of emergency after Buddhist-Muslim violence
This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
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**** Sri Lanka declares state of emergency after Buddhist-Muslim violence
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Sri Lanka government troops enforce curfew in Kandy district on Tuesday (Reuters)
Sri Lanka's government declared a state of emergency on Tuesday, after
violent clashes between ethnic Sinhalese and ethnic Tamils began to
spread, eight years after the end of an extremely violence civil war
between the two ethnic groups.
The sequence of events is as follows:
There has been growing tension and violence between the Sinhalese and
Tamil communities, with some hardline Buddhist groups accusing Muslims
of forcing people to convert to Islam and vandalizing Buddhist
archaeological sites. The Buddhists have also accused the Muslims of
refusing to use condoms, so they can have more babies.
It also appears that Buddhist hardliners in Sri Lanka are being
influenced by the genocide by Myanmar (Burma) against Rohingya
Muslims. That genocide is being led by Buddhist monks, particularly
Ashin Wirathu, a Buddhist monk who turned "969" from a Buddhist sign
of peace and happiness into a sign of bloody genocide and ethnic
cleansing.
Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka are mimicking the genocidal incitement in
Burma by using racist hate speech to target Sri Lanka Tamils
-- most of whom are Hindu. India Today and The Island (Sri Lanka) and UPI
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**** Growing violence by Sri Lankan Buddhist hardliners against Tamils
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It's only been eight years since the end of the civil war, but we're
seeing the very early stages of something that I've described as
occurring sooner or later in every country following the end of a
generational crisis civil war between two ethnic groups.
Among generational crisis wars, an external war is fundamentally
different than an internal civil war between two ethnic groups. In an
external war, one country's army invades another country. When the
war ends, the invading army leaves, and the two countries continue
relations through the United Nations or international or bilateral
treaties.
But when an internal civil war between two ethnic or tribal groups
occurs and then ends, then the people who killed, tortured, mutilated
and raped each other still have to live with each other, often in the
same villages, sometimes on the same street. And so the extreme
trauma and bitterness of war continues, even though the war has ended.
That's clearly what we're seeing in Sri Lanka. Furthermore, as the
young babies and children who weren't really aware of the war grow
older, they become aware of how much they hate each other, and the
violence only grows.
I've written articles about what happens to such countries as the
decades pass and new generations grow up during generational Awakening
and Unraveling eras. The leaders of the winning side refuse to step
down, and start using violence and atrocities against civilians to
stay in power. These include Paul Biya in Cameroon, Pierre Nkurunziza
in Burundi, Paul Kagame in Rwanda, Yoweri Museveni in Uganda, Robert
Mugabe in Zimbabwe, Joseph Kabila in DRC, or, outside of Africa,
Bashar al-Assad in Syria and Hun Sen in Cambodia.
This has already started in Sri Lanka. Mahinda Rajapaksa was elected
president in 2005, but lost the election in 2015. He tried to get the
army to overturn the election results, but didn't succeed in that.
But we can certainly expect to see more of that in the future.
It's too early for that to be happening in Sri Lanka, because the
civil war ended only eight years ago. But it's pretty clear that Sri
Lanka is on that path. The current violence will fizzle quickly, but
as the young post-war generation grows up, the violence between Tamils
and Sinhalese will grow, and the Sinhalese government will begin using
violence and atrocities to control the Tamils in the name of national
security. Indian Express
Related Articles
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**** North Korea says it will denuclearize if the regime is 'secure'
****
The media are all agog about the sensational statement that came out
on Tuesday, as a South Korean delegation returned from its meeting
with North Korea's child dictator Kim Jong-un on Monday. According to
South Korea's chief delegator Chung Eui-yong:
<QUOTE>"North Korea made clear its willingness to
denuclearize the Korean peninsula and the fact there is no reason
for it to have a nuclear program if military threats against the
North are resolved and its regime is secure."<END QUOTE>
So North Korean officials have thought about nothing else but nuclear
weapons and ballistic missiles for decades, but now they're willing to
give them up for some promise of security? I don't think so.
There's nothing that the US could do to guarantee that would cause the
North to say: "OK, now I agree that the military threats are resolved,
and the regime is secure." The North Koreans could make demands --
withdraw all troops from South Korea, withdraw all ships from the
region, close all military bases around the world, etc., etc., but
there would always be new demands. So the whole promise is a scam.
So let's see where this goes next. Daily Telegraph (Australia)
Related Articles:
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Sri Lanka, Digana, Kandy,
Buddhist, Sinhalese, Muslims, Hindus, Tamils,
Maithripala Sirisena, Myanmar, Burma, Rohingyas,
North Korea, Kim Jong-un, South Korea, Chung Eui-yong
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This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
- Sri Lanka declares state of emergency after Buddhist-Muslim violence
- Growing violence by Sri Lankan Buddhist hardliners against Tamils
- North Korea says it will denuclearize if the regime is 'secure'
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**** Sri Lanka declares state of emergency after Buddhist-Muslim violence
****
Sri Lanka government troops enforce curfew in Kandy district on Tuesday (Reuters)
Sri Lanka's government declared a state of emergency on Tuesday, after
violent clashes between ethnic Sinhalese and ethnic Tamils began to
spread, eight years after the end of an extremely violence civil war
between the two ethnic groups.
The sequence of events is as follows:
- On February 22, a (Buddhist) Sinhalese truck driver was
assaulted by four (Muslim) Tamil youths at a filling station in
Digana, Kandy, in Sri Lanka. The truck driver died on Saturday.
- The funeral was held in Digana on Sunday. During the funeral
procession, the Sinhalese began attacking Tamil-owned shops and
properties, setting some shops on fire. More than 30 shops and houses
were damaged, and dozens of mosques were attacked.
- Clashes between Tamils and Sinhalese erupted all over the region
on Monday, and in other Sri Lankan cities as well. The police imposed
a curfew on Monday evening.
- On Tuesday, Sri Lanka's president Maithripala Sirisena declared a
nationwide state of emergency for seven days. Under the emergency,
security forces can carry out searches without warrant and detain
suspects without charges.
There has been growing tension and violence between the Sinhalese and
Tamil communities, with some hardline Buddhist groups accusing Muslims
of forcing people to convert to Islam and vandalizing Buddhist
archaeological sites. The Buddhists have also accused the Muslims of
refusing to use condoms, so they can have more babies.
It also appears that Buddhist hardliners in Sri Lanka are being
influenced by the genocide by Myanmar (Burma) against Rohingya
Muslims. That genocide is being led by Buddhist monks, particularly
Ashin Wirathu, a Buddhist monk who turned "969" from a Buddhist sign
of peace and happiness into a sign of bloody genocide and ethnic
cleansing.
Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka are mimicking the genocidal incitement in
Burma by using racist hate speech to target Sri Lanka Tamils
-- most of whom are Hindu. India Today and The Island (Sri Lanka) and UPI
****
**** Growing violence by Sri Lankan Buddhist hardliners against Tamils
****
It's only been eight years since the end of the civil war, but we're
seeing the very early stages of something that I've described as
occurring sooner or later in every country following the end of a
generational crisis civil war between two ethnic groups.
Among generational crisis wars, an external war is fundamentally
different than an internal civil war between two ethnic groups. In an
external war, one country's army invades another country. When the
war ends, the invading army leaves, and the two countries continue
relations through the United Nations or international or bilateral
treaties.
But when an internal civil war between two ethnic or tribal groups
occurs and then ends, then the people who killed, tortured, mutilated
and raped each other still have to live with each other, often in the
same villages, sometimes on the same street. And so the extreme
trauma and bitterness of war continues, even though the war has ended.
That's clearly what we're seeing in Sri Lanka. Furthermore, as the
young babies and children who weren't really aware of the war grow
older, they become aware of how much they hate each other, and the
violence only grows.
I've written articles about what happens to such countries as the
decades pass and new generations grow up during generational Awakening
and Unraveling eras. The leaders of the winning side refuse to step
down, and start using violence and atrocities against civilians to
stay in power. These include Paul Biya in Cameroon, Pierre Nkurunziza
in Burundi, Paul Kagame in Rwanda, Yoweri Museveni in Uganda, Robert
Mugabe in Zimbabwe, Joseph Kabila in DRC, or, outside of Africa,
Bashar al-Assad in Syria and Hun Sen in Cambodia.
This has already started in Sri Lanka. Mahinda Rajapaksa was elected
president in 2005, but lost the election in 2015. He tried to get the
army to overturn the election results, but didn't succeed in that.
But we can certainly expect to see more of that in the future.
It's too early for that to be happening in Sri Lanka, because the
civil war ended only eight years ago. But it's pretty clear that Sri
Lanka is on that path. The current violence will fizzle quickly, but
as the young post-war generation grows up, the violence between Tamils
and Sinhalese will grow, and the Sinhalese government will begin using
violence and atrocities to control the Tamils in the name of national
security. Indian Express
Related Articles
- Sri Lanka has deep split with U.N. on war crimes report (23-Apr-2011)
- Britain threatens Sri Lanka with war crimes investigation (17-Nov-2013)
- Sri Lanka follows a predictable pattern after its civil war (15-Jan-2015)
- Sri Lanka Sinhalese Buddhist monks accused of racist hate speech against Hindu Tamils (20-Nov-2016)
- Report: Sri Lankan government repeatedly torturing and raping Tamils (14-Jan-2016)
- Sri Lanka targets radical nationalist Buddhists in Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) (12-Jun-2017)
****
**** North Korea says it will denuclearize if the regime is 'secure'
****
The media are all agog about the sensational statement that came out
on Tuesday, as a South Korean delegation returned from its meeting
with North Korea's child dictator Kim Jong-un on Monday. According to
South Korea's chief delegator Chung Eui-yong:
<QUOTE>"North Korea made clear its willingness to
denuclearize the Korean peninsula and the fact there is no reason
for it to have a nuclear program if military threats against the
North are resolved and its regime is secure."<END QUOTE>
So North Korean officials have thought about nothing else but nuclear
weapons and ballistic missiles for decades, but now they're willing to
give them up for some promise of security? I don't think so.
There's nothing that the US could do to guarantee that would cause the
North to say: "OK, now I agree that the military threats are resolved,
and the regime is secure." The North Koreans could make demands --
withdraw all troops from South Korea, withdraw all ships from the
region, close all military bases around the world, etc., etc., but
there would always be new demands. So the whole promise is a scam.
So let's see where this goes next. Daily Telegraph (Australia)
Related Articles:
- China angrily demands that the US retract the new North Korea sanctions (25-Feb-2018)
- US considers military options as North Korea continues nuclear weapons development during Olympics (21-Feb-2018)
- US officials plan for military strike on North Korea and war (05-Dec-2017)
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Sri Lanka, Digana, Kandy,
Buddhist, Sinhalese, Muslims, Hindus, Tamils,
Maithripala Sirisena, Myanmar, Burma, Rohingyas,
North Korea, Kim Jong-un, South Korea, Chung Eui-yong
Permanent web link to this article
Receive daily World View columns by e-mail
Contribute to Generational Dynamics via PayPal
John J. Xenakis
100 Memorial Drive Apt 8-13A
Cambridge, MA 02142
Phone: 617-864-0010
E-mail: john@GenerationalDynamics.com
Web site: http://www.GenerationalDynamics.com
Forum: http://www.gdxforum.com/forum
Subscribe to World View: http://generationaldynamics.com/subscribe
