Unsolicited advice to the President of Sri Lanka and the UN Chief

“As a patriotic Sri Lankan who believes in the wellbeing of the human being, I appeal to the President of Sri Lanka and the United Nations Secretary General to spend their annual holiday for a week in these appalling tin sheet tents and experience the suffering inflicted on these unfortunate people in the baking ovens."
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By A patriot

(September 27, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) The government claims its soldiers scarified their lives to defeat the LTTE and liberate the Tamil civilian population from the terror of the Tamil Tigers.

It is over four months, these liberated Tamil civilians are held in the open barbed-wire prisons under the pretext of clearing the landmines. The modus operandi of the government to hold them into captivity has come into question and the government is determinedly continuing with the detention. One concern is that the government is endeavouring to erase all traces of war crimes in the prohibited war torn areas using the mine clearance operations as an excuse has not been debated, evidenced and traced either to justify or arrest the concerns.

Leaving the war crimes and appalling inhuman treatment of the interned Tamils to a side, photographs of the accommodations provided by the government to these vulnerable people invited me to give my honest suggestion to the President of Sri Lanka Mahinda Percy Rajapakse and the UN Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon.

The photographs displays tin sheet built tents provided to these interned people. In the open field sun heat of over 80 degrees Fahrenheit, these tin sheet tents are baking ovens for these poor victims of the war. Living inside will be worse than staying in the open, as the heat inside the tents will be greater than the outside due to heat generated by the tin sheets.

Many officials, (local and international) have gone on flying visits and failed report the horrendous nature of the tin sheet tents provided to the interned. When the UN General Secretary went on a flying visit to a camp for ten minutes, he was welcome by innocent interned Tamil children who were made to hold the Sri Lankan flags in the presence of the army.

As a patriotic Sri Lankan who believes in the wellbeing of the human being, I appeal to the President of Sri Lanka and the United Nations Secretary General to spend their annual holiday for a week in these appalling tin sheet tents and experience the suffering inflicted on these unfortunate people in the baking ovens.

My advice forcefully goes to the President of Sri Lanka further. He may relocate his Presidential and Ministerial offices to the tin sheeted tents in the internalised Manik farm and then make decisions affecting these people. Free meal and food rations too can be used to experience the hardship faced by the people. They also can be accompanied by their Manike’s (wife’s and girlfriends), without them the masters will not get the additional roasting arising from the baking heat.

Special treatment must be given to the diehard blabbers like the Minister Yapa, Rambukawella and Wijesinghe who should be made to join the queues for rations and secreting sheds carrying buckets of water.

-Sri Lanka Guardian