(June 15, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Point scoring is the present government’s exciting agenda. In order to digress from the real issues facing the country - post war, it is continuing to play trivial games to keep the momentum going.
Necessity may be mother of invention, but fun is the father.’(Alex Osborne- US Author1886-1966). As the quote aptly states, it is fun with violence that is dictating the progress of this government. In order to get maximum mileage and sidetrack the real issues facing the country, these little Thamasha’s give pretty satisfaction to the government.
Recent mass wedding of 53 Tamil couples in captivity in the presence of military, Indian film star and the southern politicians is a point scoring fun-fare for the government.
This is hit news for international consumption after the arrests of kissing couples in the seaside and parks last week. What is next? Another mass wedding of homosexuals, to prove to the world that Sri Lanka is a real tolerant country?
These tantalising thamasha’s are not permitting real political debate on the issues ruining Sri Lanka. The Presidential election took place on the 26 January 2010. President holds the Finance Minister portfolio. Parliamentary election was held on the 8 April 2010. The government has still not presented the budget even after the general election. Without the budget, the government is going around with the beggar bowl and international community too is stuffing the pathetic beggar with high interest loans than doling out money.
President Mahinda Rajapaksa appointed a eight member ‘Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation’ Commission on the 2nd June 2010 to report on the lessons to be learnt from the events in the period, Feb 2002 to May 2009, to consider the concerns and to recommend measures to ensure that there will be no recurrence of such a situation. But this committee has still not started to function and one wonders whether it will be another Alice in Wonderland story of Mahinda to keep Ban Ki-moon, Hillary Clinton and the international community at a bay.The government’s failures and mischief’s are endless and one must acknowledge that the present situation is very much conducive now for Mahinda to play his ping pong in an acrobatic style.
The mass arrest of love birds in the South and the mass wedding ceremony of former Tigers are interesting contrasting events (Thamashas?) for the international consumption. If one considers the wider political meaning for these two events, conflicting assertions can be made. Arrest of love bird couples gives the signal that there won’t be serious political love making between the Tamil speaking people and the Sinhalese and that sheer force will be used to deal with any effort of political love making.
On the other hand mass wedding gives a different meaning that if progressed it will pave the way a political marriage between the Tamil speaking people and the Singhalese with the Magul bera’s and Nadaswaram and a marriage certificate like acceptable constitutional amendments being incorporated for the majority and the minorities to live cordially like husband and wife.
Whether the latter is possible is a million dollar question. Of course, the treatment to love birds will be the historical answer that will prevail with the mighty military machinery of Sri Lanka.
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