(August 13, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) President Rajapakse addressing the SAARC Summit had stressed that there is no good or bad terrorism anywhere in the world. Terrorism is terrorism he had emphasised, jubilantly inviting all to cooperate to wipe it out from the face of the earth.
He must have perhaps forgotten to mention about the human rights situation in Sri Lanka under his administration, as stated in the UN agency records which other world leaders are well aware of.
The continued white van abductions, headless corpses, blindfolded bullet ridden bodies of Tamil youth found thrown on roadsides, killing of 17 aid workers in Muttur and five students in Trincomalee murdered in areas occupied by government forces, terrorising and killing Tamil civilians by aerial bombings, cardboard hero Vermin terrorising citizens with his gang of underworld goons, abduction of media personnel who expose government corruption, murder of Tamil political leaders in churches and kovils and that too in broad daylight, may not have been classified as acts of terrorism in the dictionaries of the President.
Before S.W.R.D Bandaranaike exploited Sinhala Buddhist extremist racism for him to win elections and grab power selfishly with his ‘Sinhala Only in 24 hours’ policy, the word terrorism was not in use in Sri Lanka. Even an occasional homicide shocked many.
Then, there was a truly tranquil religious atmosphere in which everyone lived a peaceful and contended life in this blessed land. It was the selfish politician who gradually speeded up the degradation of social life cornering Tamil people’s sentiment expressed peacefully at every election demanding some devolution of power to develop their areas free of interference.
During the past 50 years every government in power took advantage of racism to win elections, widening the rift between the Sinhala and Tamil communities. Unlike in India which offered the premiership to an Italian born lady, Sonia Gandhi, Sri Lanka’s majority Sinhala Buddhist racism rejected Amirthalingam becoming the opposition leader in parliament as a constitutionally elected Tamil people’s representative.
Under these sad circumstances it is natural for the frustrated Tamil youth to revolt, resorting to becoming terrorists and suicide bombers, prepared to sacrifice their lives rather than live under intolerable pressure of social injustice.
Although the President said that there was no good or bad terrorism in the world, certainly there is ‘good and bad’ in it for those who create it for self gain.
Look at the millions found hidden in the safety locker of a powerful politician, high rise towers being built on the earnings from commissions of arms deals, hotels and apartments said to be owned by politicians in the Middle East and other world capitals, perks, Pajeros and other luxuries including world tours all at tax payers’ and Middle East housemaids’ expense, enjoyed by ministers. These are the fruits of our purported good governance — state terrorism.
The bad side of it is — there are thousands of deaths of innocents, malnutrition, creation of widows and orphans, those maimed for life — and all of them have become sacrificial goats for politicians.’
So who is the politician who would be foolish enough to kill the ‘golden egg’ laying hen that is ‘racism’ in Sri Lanka which has become a blessing to them, but a curse to the whole country and the future generations yet to be born.
( From concerned citizen )
- Sri Lanka Guardian
Before S.W.R.D Bandaranaike exploited Sinhala Buddhist extremist racism for him to win elections and grab power selfishly with his ‘Sinhala Only in 24 hours’ policy, the word terrorism was not in use in Sri Lanka. Even an occasional homicide shocked many.
Then, there was a truly tranquil religious atmosphere in which everyone lived a peaceful and contended life in this blessed land. It was the selfish politician who gradually speeded up the degradation of social life cornering Tamil people’s sentiment expressed peacefully at every election demanding some devolution of power to develop their areas free of interference.
During the past 50 years every government in power took advantage of racism to win elections, widening the rift between the Sinhala and Tamil communities. Unlike in India which offered the premiership to an Italian born lady, Sonia Gandhi, Sri Lanka’s majority Sinhala Buddhist racism rejected Amirthalingam becoming the opposition leader in parliament as a constitutionally elected Tamil people’s representative.
Under these sad circumstances it is natural for the frustrated Tamil youth to revolt, resorting to becoming terrorists and suicide bombers, prepared to sacrifice their lives rather than live under intolerable pressure of social injustice.
Although the President said that there was no good or bad terrorism in the world, certainly there is ‘good and bad’ in it for those who create it for self gain.
Look at the millions found hidden in the safety locker of a powerful politician, high rise towers being built on the earnings from commissions of arms deals, hotels and apartments said to be owned by politicians in the Middle East and other world capitals, perks, Pajeros and other luxuries including world tours all at tax payers’ and Middle East housemaids’ expense, enjoyed by ministers. These are the fruits of our purported good governance — state terrorism.
The bad side of it is — there are thousands of deaths of innocents, malnutrition, creation of widows and orphans, those maimed for life — and all of them have become sacrificial goats for politicians.’
So who is the politician who would be foolish enough to kill the ‘golden egg’ laying hen that is ‘racism’ in Sri Lanka which has become a blessing to them, but a curse to the whole country and the future generations yet to be born.
( From concerned citizen )
- Sri Lanka Guardian
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