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Which political position should be indicated in the Free Democratic Party's infobox?
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Is the current title <s>N</s>POV? (<small>Edit, change to POV from NPOV since all the answers are the other way about</small>) If not, what would be an appropriate title? [[User:Selfstudier|Selfstudier]] ([[User talk:Selfstudier|talk]]) 17:52, 20 April 2024 (UTC)}}
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Should the alternative spelling ''Sulayman Beg'' and the mention of the presence of a Turkmen minority be included in the article?--[[User:Ermanarich|Ermanarich]] ([[User talk:Ermanarich|talk]]) 12:32, 20 April 2024 (UTC)}}
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[[Sir Charles Trevelyan, 1st Baronet]] as shown in difference
[[Sir Charles Trevelyan, 1st Baronet]] as shown in difference
[[Special:Diff/1215143082]]. [[User:Edmund Patrick|Edmund Patrick]] &ndash;<small> [[User talk:Edmund Patrick|'''confer''']]</small> 08:33, 26 March 2024 (UTC)}}
[[Special:Diff/1215143082]]. [[User:Edmund Patrick|Edmund Patrick]] &ndash;<small> [[User talk:Edmund Patrick|'''confer''']]</small> 08:33, 26 March 2024 (UTC)}}
'''[[Talk:1977 anti-Tamil pogrom#rfc_D09A041|Talk:1977 anti-Tamil pogrom]]'''
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The last paragraph on the [[1977_anti-Tamil_pogrom#Presidential_Commission_of_Inquiry|Presidential Commission of Inquiry]] currently reads:

{{tqb|Following his inquiry, Justice Sansoni submitted his report, which was known as the "Sansoni Report" to President Jayewardene in July 1980.<ref name="presidential commission" /> The riots were explained in the Sansoni Report in terms of "Sinhalese reaction to Tamil separatist demands, terrorist acts committed in the name of separatism, and anti-Sinhalese statements allegedly made by Tamil politicians in the course of the 1977 general election campaign".<ref name="Kearney">{{cite journal |last1=Kearney |first1=Robert N. |date=March 1986 |title=Tension and Conflict in Sri Lanka |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/45315688 |journal=Current History |volume=85 |issue=509 |pages=110}}</ref> The Sansoni Report has been criticized for pro-government bias,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hoole |first=Rajan |url=https://www.uthr.org/Book/CHA02.htm#_Toc527947390 |title=Sri Lanka: The Arrogance of Power : Myths, Decadence & Murder |publisher=University Teachers for Human Rights (Jaffna) |year=2001 |chapter=Chapter 2: Antecedents of July 1983 and the Foundations of Impunity}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Sabaratnam |first=T. |date=23 November 2003 |title=Pirapaharan: Vol.1, Chap. 18 Tamils Lose Faith in Commissions |url=https://sangam.org/pirapaharan-vol-1-chap-18-tamils-lose-faith-in-commissions/ |website=Ilankai Tamil Sangam}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Sivanayagam |first=S. |title=Sri Lanka: Witness to History - A Journalist's Memoirs, 1930-2004 |date=2005 |publisher=Sivayogam |isbn=978-0-9549647-0-2 |location=London |page=283}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Manoharan |first=N. |title=Democratic Dilemma: Ethnic Violence and Human Rights in Sri Lanka |date=2008 |publisher=Samskriti |isbn=9788187374503 |location=New Delhi |page=90}}</ref> being hampered by political interference<ref>Amnesty International, June 11, 2009 Index Number: ASA 37/005/2009
Sri Lanka: Twenty years of make-believe. Sri Lanka’s Commissions of Inquiry, p.9, https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/asa370052009eng.pdf</ref><ref>Kishali Pinto Jayawardena, Sunday Times, Feb 17th 2008, Focus on Rights, Further reflections on commission inquiries and rights violations - Part Three, https://www.sundaytimes.lk/080217/Columns/focus.html</ref><ref>Kishali Pinto Jayawardena, Sunday Times, Oct 28th 2007, Discussing mock turtles and commissions of inquiry, https://www.sundaytimes.lk/080217/Columns/focus.html</ref> and for "[[victim blaming]]" Tamils.<ref>{{Citation |last=de Silva |first=Premakumara |title=Ethnicity and Violence in Sri Lanka: An Ethnohistorical Narrative |date=2019 |work=The Palgrave Handbook of Ethnicity |page=16 |editor-last=Ratuva |editor-first=Steven |url=https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-981-13-0242-8_47-1 |access-date=2024-03-12 |place=Singapore |publisher=Springer |language=en |last2=Haniffa |first2=Farzana |last3=Bastin |first3=Rohan}}</ref>}}

One editor wants the last paragraph to be changed to the following, as he believes both the Kearney and Manogaran sources have "accepted" the reasons attributed by Sansoni for the riots, whereas other editors believe that those sources are merely summarising Sansoni's reasons, and are not personal approvals. Do you agree with the proposed change below?

{{tqb|Following his inquiry, Justice Sansoni submitted his report, which was known as the "Sansoni Report" to President Jayewardene in July 1980.<ref name="presidential commission" />

Over the years the Sansoni Report has been recived diffrent reviews. Robert N. Kearney found that the Sansoni Report explained the riots in terms of "Sinhalese reaction to Tamil separatist demands, terrorist acts committed in the name of separatism, and anti-Sinhalese statements allegedly made by Tamil politicians in the course of the 1977 general election campaign".<ref name="Kearney">{{cite journal |last1=Kearney |first1=Robert N. |date=March 1986 |title=Tension and Conflict in Sri Lanka |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/45315688 |journal=Current History |volume=85 |issue=509 |pages=110}}</ref> According to Chelvadurai Manogaran, the Sansoni Report attributed many factors as the cause of the riots, including "TULFs anti-Sinhalese proganda advocating separatism, Sinhalese extremists' statements claiming that Tamils intended to wipe out the Sinhalese and acts of violence committed by the liberation Tigers". The immediate cause of the violence Manogaran finds is rumor of Sinhalese policemen been attacked in Jaffna by Tamil militants. He further states that due to the violance (in Augest 1977) and events that followed many Tamils both extreme and moderate were convinced the need to establish a separate state<ref name="Chelvadurai">{{cite book |last1=Manogaran |first1=Chelvadurai |title=Ethnic Conflict and Reconciliation in Sri Lanka |date=1987 |publisher=University of Hawaii Press |location=Honolulu |pages=63-65 |url=https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/4f3811e7-1962-495d-bad0-12f31e6754d9/content |access-date=12 March 2024}}</ref>

The Sansoni Report has been criticized for pro-government bias by [[Rajan Hoole]] of the [[University Teachers for Human Rights]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hoole |first=Rajan |url=https://www.uthr.org/Book/CHA02.htm#_Toc527947390 |title=Sri Lanka: The Arrogance of Power : Myths, Decadence & Murder |publisher=University Teachers for Human Rights (Jaffna) |year=2001 |chapter=Chapter 2: Antecedents of July 1983 and the Foundations of Impunity}}</ref> and T. Sabaratnam in his biography of [[Velupillai Prabhakaran]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sabaratnam |first=T. |date=23 November 2003 |title=Pirapaharan: Vol.1, Chap. 18 Tamils Lose Faith in Commissions |url=https://sangam.org/pirapaharan-vol-1-chap-18-tamils-lose-faith-in-commissions/ |website=Ilankai Tamil Sangam}}</ref>}}
[[User:Oz346|Oz346]] ([[User talk:Oz346|talk]]) 00:54, 19 March 2024 (UTC)}}
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