Christmas in Sri Lanka  

 

Again web62.com is sending out best wishes for peace and prosperity from Sri Lanka, where the fear of a return to civil war has been increased drastically in recent hours.

In the past over 60.000 people have become victims of a political conflict between the Sinhalese majority and the Tamil minority which is seeking their own separate state.

A confederational solution like in other parts of the world has so far not been able to convince the fighting tribes, whose exchange of atrocities has now a long tradition that seems to make a constructive dialogue almost impossible.

Just recently the aggressive new President Mahinda Rajapaksa has been elected even by the support of the Tamil population, which had not supported the peace orientated Ranil Wickramasinghe, who one had been able to establish the meanwhile fragile truce.