Col R. Hariharan VSM Retd

“Neelan Tiruchelvam stood in the narrow and dangerous space between two extremes. He rejected Sinhala majoritarianism, which had denied Tamils equal rights since independence, and he rejected Tamil separatism, which he believed would only bring endless war. Instead, he championed a third path: a power-sharing arrangement within a united Sri Lanka in which Sinhalese, Tamils, Up-Country Tamils, Muslims, Burghers, and every other community could live with equal rights and constitutional protection.” pulseline.lk/news-feature/un… #PowerSharing #Federalism #MinorityRights #SriLanka

In this interview, Pitasanna Shanmugathas, the filmmaker behind ‘Neelan: Unsilenced,’ reflects on the nine-year journey of bringing Tiruchelvam’s life and ideas back into public consciousness. “The more I read about Dr. Tiruchelvam, the more I wanted to understand why someone who had offered such a serious plan for peacefully ending the war was no longer being talked about… One of the things that compelled me to make this film was learning about the injustice of how Neelan had been treated, both in life and in death,” he said, speaking to Pulse Line.