Sri Lanka’s crisis: Ethnonationalism and the legacy of the civil war with Dr. Mythri Jegathesan

1. Power to people…. Hope for democracy for sri lanka.

2. 58 minutes of vague irrelevant word salad nonsense with little or no real knowledge diceminated about Sri Lanka. Mostly a promotional interview for her new book. Don't waste your time.

3. Sri Lanka was a prosperous country until it's neewly elected leader decided to go green, and ban synthetic fertilizers. Which led to 40 percent reduction in crop yeilds and widespread poverty and near starvation for most of its population. All in the name of reducing green house gasses. As if ANY amount of green house gasses little Sri Lanka could produce could have any impact whatsoever. This is the same strategy being used by the Dutch to drive their farmers into bankruptcy ad forcing them off their land, by banning synthetic fertilizers, creating food shortages and imposing a communist gov in service of our new globalist overlords. This is more or less the same strategy they are using in every country.

4. Prayers for the workers and needy in Sri Lanka.

5. The CIA is expert at overthrowing foreign governments and doubly expert at overthrowing the ole 🇺🇸

6. CLICK BAIT. The “expert” does not command enough political and historical data necessary to give clear explanations of Sri Lanka political situation. Her explanation is so full of generalities one can replace “Sri Lanka” with any developing country with a large impoverished population experiencing bad government with leaders who steal from their people and now the people are angry.

   If the host wishes to have a discussion on female Sri Lankans and their sufferings throughout history, then he should entitle it appropriately. Frankly, this feels like a bad intern version of an NPR interview where the reporter is so swept away by “the humanity” he completely forgot to address the issue in question.

7. Sri-Lanka has a long history of divisive politics and violence.

   The seed of Sri-Lanka’s destruction was planted soon after independence in 1948 by the introduction of the Ceylon Citizenship Act and the Sinhala Only Act.

   All the conflicts in Sri-Lanka since 1948 happened because of the power-hungry Sinhalese politicians. They are incompetent and lack vision.

   Divisive politics wins elections and divert attention away from economic and social problems. Demonizing Tamils and Muslims is a vote winner.

   Successive Sri-Lankan regimes have organized race riots, for example 1983 Riots (Black July) was organized by JR Jayewardene’s government.

   Just two years ago, the vast majority of the Sinhalese voted for the Rajapaksa brothers knowing their records of corruption and violence, when they were in power from 2005 to 2015. The Rajapaksa brothers were elected primarily because of Sinhala ethno-nationalism.

   This is what the former Prime Minister of Singapore, the late Lee Kuan Yew said in his book, From Third World to First:

   In 1965, we had 20 years of examples of failed states. So, we knew what to avoid — racial conflict, linguistic strife, religious conflict. We saw Ceylon.

   S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike’s promise to make Sinhala the national language and Buddhism the national religion was the start of the unraveling of Ceylon.

   I was surprised when, three years later, he was assassinated by a Buddhist monk. I thought it ironic that a Buddhist monk, dissatisfied with the country's slow rate of progress in making Buddhism the national religion, should have done it.

   Over the years, I watched a promising country go to waste.

   Sri-Lanka has failed because it had weak or wrong leaders.

8. This format is finished … Calling a local expert to repeatl known cliches and or facts… Sri Lanka is a class fxxked inequality just like India, Pakistan, Burmq etc etc. And theres practically nothing left to fight over (in terms of resources). Decades of bad leadrership and bad economics is now showing it's true colors. End of Story

9. Thank You , , ,

10. Agency – no hurry.

11. just pausing after the intro to comment on the intro. although there are people who won't be happy with ranil w because there wasn't a complete eradication of all existing politicians (people seem to know what the problems are but don't understand the idea of successfully implementing solutions), the intro is conflating a couple of less-related things, while skipping the main event. Simply put, the president and prime ministers were brothers. The people got rid of one, but it was more difficult to get rid of the other. That is, the first protests got rid of Gota as the PM and then subsequent protests eventually got rid of his president brother. they had nothing to do with Ranil.

12. Max: you mentioned Mexico has been your area of research. I would like more info on Mexico. You are the only reporter to even mention labor movements there, something I have read only teeny bits about. Thank you.

13. U either go full revolution or you ll never see change. 1 day miracles never worked. Also nationalism is never a good thing. I feel for the minorities of Sri Lanka. Racism is humanity 's downfall.

14. Another great woman speaking, great listening to this conversation, intelligence. Thank you both. ❤️

15. Courageous poor people standing up to their super rich oppressors, they are all comrades of mine all power to them, love the U.K.

16. all about the World economic forum's agenda (New world Order) nothing will change until you get a leader opposed to the Globalist agenda

17. America needs to grow a pair of balls like Sri Lanka people.

18. Patriots around the World 🌎
    are Rising..
    Globalists are Crumbling..👍 👍

19. MAGA Movement had Spread around the World.. 🌎

20. WEF shills. Take them down.

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