This focuses on four major aspects of the post-colonial violence in Sri Lanka: 1) how the perceived favors to Tamils during the British colonial rule transpired in a struggle for social and political power among Sinhalese and how its over-reactions underpinned the present rebellious uprising; 2) how the nature of the rebel uprising affected opportunities for wide constitutional reforms for power devolution 3) how the perceived mistrust of European mediators and their flawed approaches undermined peace efforts; 4) how electoral reforms brought in by post-colonial Governments to provide a political solution to the conflict worked counter to forming a Southern consensus on a political solution to the present conflict. Source: Post-Colonial Violence in Sri Lanka