by Mallika[December 10, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardain]
The understandings of peace in today’s world are many
It is the absence of war and harmony
Abolishing or overcoming violence
And also overpowering rebellions
How it is achieved is immaterial
But establishing silence is important!
Being rebellious is to protect
Ones right to life as I put it
When self respect is damaged
And self- determination is denied
When selfishness destroys others
The tendency to rebel emerges!
Manifestations of the rebellious action
Are the non-violent civil disobedience
Non-co-operation and resistance
‘Cause they are counted as violations’
And ‘cause they are counteracted by violence!
They metamorphose into war situation.
The suggestions by the ‘neutrals’ to attain peace
Is submission, passiveness, non-resistance
Compliance, obsequiousness and obeisance
It is to ‘kiss the rod’, and to ‘lick the dust’
Which are regarded as the only options
Taken to attain peace with out ‘blood shed’
The ‘cycle of violence’ will continue
Until the root cause is attended to
With repentance on the part of the oppressor
And accommodation on the part of the victim!
However justice should be done to the affected ones
If lasting peace is to prevail on earth!
- Sri Lanka Guardian
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