http://www.sibernews.com/20090104917.html Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:46:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.sibernews.com/20090104917.html/comment-page-1#comment-375 Tharsan Sun, 04 Jan 2009 11:13:34 +0000 http://www.sibernews.com/20090104917/#comment-375 It is definitely a failed state. Why Tamils can see this so clearly, and yet Sinhalese continue to remain denial, is beyond me. Did all the Sinhalese expatriates who left the island do so because they were threatened by the LTTE? Now that the LTTE has supposedly been "defeated", as per the logic of MR, are these Sinhalese going to come back and rebuild the country? Let me answer with a resounding NO. The failure here is on the part of GOSL, and that is the reality. GOSL, and by extension, most other civil institutions in the country, are corrupt to the core. The educational model is becoming rapidly outdated. Whatever economic opportunities may be there pale in comparison to those found in India and the West. I would say that 99.9% of all people who left the island, who have experienced the beauty of Western democracy, will never come back to raise their children in such a petrifying environment. They have no incentive to do so. All of which implies that the country is indeed a failed state. It is definitely a failed state. Why Tamils can see this so clearly, and yet Sinhalese continue to remain denial, is beyond me. Did all the Sinhalese expatriates who left the island do so because they were threatened by the LTTE? Now that the LTTE has supposedly been “defeated”, as per the logic of MR, are these Sinhalese going to come back and rebuild the country? Let me answer with a resounding NO. The failure here is on the part of GOSL, and that is the reality. GOSL, and by extension, most other civil institutions in the country, are corrupt to the core. The educational model is becoming rapidly outdated. Whatever economic opportunities may be there pale in comparison to those found in India and the West. I would say that 99.9% of all people who left the island, who have experienced the beauty of Western democracy, will never come back to raise their children in such a petrifying environment. They have no incentive to do so. All of which implies that the country is indeed a failed state.

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