Jayadeva Uyangoda is an eminent personality in the academic society in Sri Lanka. He is the head of Department of Political Science and Public Policy, University of Colombo and founded the Centre for Policy Research and Analysis in Colombo.
He has written extensively on ethnic politics, political violence, human rights, and conflict resolution. Earlier, he had assisted government authority for conflict resolution, peace negotiations and constitutional reform. He was also in the drafting committee of the model constitution in 1999, the rise of LTTE and continuous failure of the government to control that, the challenge before the present government is to initiate the new peace process.
You may find here the interview in which he explained the ground reality of Sri Lankan politics.
He says on LTTE that,
it’s vision of political settlement will be one that would be defined within the framework of extensive regional autonomy. The present Constitution makes Sri Lanka as a unitary state, while the LTTE’s vision of a solution is even more than the traditional federalism.
The LTTE vision is to form Central government, but they also want the North-East regional entity to have conventional regional autonomy. The LTTE wants that the regional entity should have the right to maintain their military institutions and establishments.
I would like to comment on the functioning of the LTTE that this is no longer the entity as it was in 1987 or 1990. LTTE seriously wants to transform it as the nation building and State-building organization. They are reluctant to be the oraganisation of political and military suicide such as Al Qaeda.
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