We need to remove #injustice in order to make #peace and #reconciliation.

So do GlobalUnites and SriLankaUnites.

a.Their President, Prashan De Visser, misinforms/misleads them:

i.‘’....... Sri Lanka is a beautiful island and it had brutal violence in 54, 72, 83, 88, 96, 2009, 2012, 2019. ......’’
-  Conflict Transformation and Reconciliation, 11/12/2019, Global Unites Summit 2019, 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ptjz4uykbU&feature=youtu.be
 ii. ''....... We had cycles of violence:1954, 1972, 1983, 1988, 1996, 2009, 2012, 2019. ........'' - Panel
Discussion: How does Sri Lanka treat our minorities? 
27/06/2020 - https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=268164887622322&ref=watch_permalink
 
b. It is very tragic that he failed to mention the state violence which created the armed rebels, JVP in the
South and LTTE in the North. Conscientious Sinhalese(top civil servants, lawyers, academics, etc) told
Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission(LLRC) in 2010 that discrimination and inequality of
opportunity created the armed rebels: https://www.scribd.com/doc/104705097/Conscientious-Sinhalese-
Tell-LLRC  Two of them(Jayaratne and Dhanapala) are members of  the Board of Trustees of SriLankaUnites
– Dhanapala is a member of the Advisory Board of Global Unites too).

Sri Lanka obtained Independence from Britain in February 1948. 

1948/9 - Tamil workers  in tea/rubber plantations were made voteless and stateless by laws passed ln
1948/1949.
1956 -  ''Sinhala Only'' Official Language Act was passed in the parliament on 5 June 1956.
 Tamil parliamentarians and Tamils numbering about 200 protested by Gandhian-style non-violent sit-in
opposite the parliament. Sinhala thugs attacked them, while the police stood by without restraining
the attackers as ordered by Sinhala parliamentarians. Two of the protestors were even pushed into Beira
Lake) Violence spread around mainly Colombo and GalOya killing about 150 Tamils and many more
attacked with looting and burning of shops and houses belonging to Tamils.
1957 – Concession for Tamil Language usage was ithdrwn by Buddhist monks' opposition.
1958 - a pogrom was unleashed on Tamils- hundreds of Tamils were killed and houses and shops were
burnt - the Tamils who were worried about their safety were shipped to the North and the East by the
government (North and East are historically areas of Tamils. 
1959 - Prime Minister S.W.R.D.Bandaranaike was shot dead by a Buddhist monk.
1961 - Gandhian-style non-violent sit-in protest in Jaffna against ''Sinhala Only''  from February onwards
when the army was sent in April to crush the protest and to put Tamil parliamentarians and local-level
leaders under arrest in an Army cantonment for six months. Several peaceful protesters were attacked and
some were hospitalised.
Militarisation of the North began with Military camps in Mannar, Jaffna, Mullaitivu and Trincomalee
districts(Appendix - *) because the Prime Minister's Secretary thought that the Tamil protest would turn
into armed rebellion after 25yrs.
1965 - Concession for Tamil Language usage was opposed by Buddhist monks in a protest when a monk
was accidentally shot dead.
1972 – A new Constitution was made with the removal of the protective Clause(29c) for minorities from
the Constitution handed over by the British in 1948.
1976 – Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam was formed
1977 - post-election pogrom was unleashed onTamils killing hundreds of Tamils in many parts of Sri Lanka
1979 – 11 July – 31 December Emergency declared and in JaffnaTamil boys were arrested - Public Security
Ordinance gave the police and armed forces the power to dispose of dead bodies without an
inquest. Some bodies were never seen again.
1981 - Jaffna Public Library was burnt followed by the burning of Jaffna market, houses and some offices
including a newspaper printing office. A few policemen and several Tamils got killed. The library with
irreplaceable manuscripts were burnt by the Police at the instigation of two government Ministers.
2014 - 2018 - anti-Muslim riots by Buddhists and Buddhist monks. There ware attacks on Muslim shops,
houses, hotels and mosques and some Muslims were killed.
 
c. This mentions most of the incidents given in b.:
Lest we forget: the anti-Tamil pogroms, http://www.ft.lk/article/630359/Lest-we-forget--The-anti-Tamil-
pogroms 

d. Thus the President of Sri Lanka Unites hides the state violence and distorts the picture and makes a
bombastic lecture on Youth Radicalisation which is actually a response to state violence (=Bad
Governance). So Sri Lanka Unites does not wish to press the Sri Lankan government for Good Governance
but actually protects it by harping on Youth Radicalisation without mentioning the structural violence that
caused it:
Examples of his public addresses here he refrains from mentioning structural violence:
I'm my brother's healer, 02 Jul 2019, 
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2284259571659683&id=118464538239208?
sfnsn=wa&d=w&vh=e
Counter Radicalisation of Youth, 18 Mar 2015,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pCH-zG3c3s

e.Unacceptable consequence:
Sri Lanka Unites went round to several schools in the North and the East in early 2017.
In one school in the East:

i. pic.twitter.com/ZNNgXvbq3f
Sri Lanka Unites
@SriLankaUnites
Jan 17, 2017
Students of KM/VipulanandaCentralCollege vow to avoid creating conflicts in the future #DreamTeam6
#SLU #SRT #Day14 https://pic.twitter.com/ZNNgXvbq3f

The picture shows students with their right arms crossed on their chests - facial expression speaks
volumes. They could have been about 7or8yrs old when the war ended. 
How could they have been asked to vow ''to avoid creating conflicts in the future'' ?
Who created the conflict please – see: Conscientious Sinhalese told LLRC,
https://www.scribd.com/doc/104705097/Conscientious-Sinhalese-Tell-LLRC

ii. pic.twitter.com/VI1z4PCzS3
Sri Lanka Unites
@SriLankaUnites
Jan 17, 2017
When students' responses are accurate, we have been
http://productive.Km/St/VipulanandaMahaVidyalayam… #SLU #STR #DreamTeam6
https://pic.twitter.com/VI1z4PCzS3

What is accurate? What is productive? 

f. Prashan De Visser has never commented on post-war hyper-militarisation of the North for PsyOps on the
war-ravaged people: http://cimicjaffna.lk/features-news and
https://www.scribd.com/document/440612550/Sri-Lanka-21C-PsyOps-on-the-War-ravaged-People-in-the-
North-East
How should an organisation be called ''Sri Lanka Unites'' behave? (*until November 2019)
g. UNICEF has been asking countries inflicted with conflicts to teach their school children the causes of the
conflict for more than a few decades but Sri Lanka has been evading that till today. . In fact the school
textbooks speak about the conflicts in other countries.
Sinhala politicians have been talking about the ‘’Tamil terrorist problem’’ but not about the causes, viz. the
discrimination of ethno-religious minorities, leading to the armed conflict. In fact the school textbooks speak
about the conflicts in other countries. This is termed negative war education by education specialists.
Chapter 5, Conflict Resolution in a Democratic Society, in Grade 10 textbook* on Civic Education,
mentions reasons for conflicts in eight countries but not about the one in Sri Lanka. In fact the chapter does
not mention the word Sri Lanka even once: http://www.edupub.gov.lk/Administrator/English/10/civic
%20G-10%20E/civic%20G-10%20E.pdf (printed in 2014 and reprinted in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2019)