Tuesday, April 21, 2009
The war in Sri Lanka is nearing its end and the Tigers will be finally wiped out. No doubt the Sri Lankan government will celebrate but now should be the time to seriously help the Tamil community. Winning one war will only abate the problem for the time being if the Tamil people feel they are victimised and neglected by the majority. This will be the golden moment when in the full flush of victory over the murderous Tigers that the Sinhala leaders should show their generosity and friendship for the Tamils. For a start they must decouple religion from the state and send Buddhist monks back into their monasteries. The battered and humiliated Tamils should be helped to return to their homes and financial help given to help them rebuild their homes and lives. Instititutions such as police and judiciary should be fair and sympathetic. That is not to say that Tigers should be dealt with lightly. Any Tiger caught must be tried and put away for long periods. Prabhakaran deserves to be hanged. It will be interesting to see how brave he is when confronted by the hangman's noose. Stupid Indian politicians should keep their mouths shut and not show solidarity towards cowardly terrorists who were responsible for the deaths of thousands of their own people because they would not allow them to escape and used them as human shields. I would advise Indian politicians to concentrate on protecting Indians from crime, naxals, Paki and Bangladeshi terrorists not to mention the cannibal Chinese. So many innocent deaths, all because of third rate politicians.
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"Democratic" institutions and measures are often mere eyewash, and a guise for the real operation of power...
The true test of Sinhalese will come about in how well they put these insitutions in place as well as how many Tamils are made part of the "new" establishment as well as the larger Sri Lankan society... of course, sadly, I am not very hopeful of any such development and of they do, it'll be a welcome and pleasant change to the distrust in the subcontinent...
O and as for Jayalalita, she'll say anything just to oppose the DMK... The DMK's initial stand was to keep silent, but naturally as the Fat Amma went rabble-rousing and painting the DMK as anti-Tamil(!) they had to join in as well...
and people are just SO jobless these days... (my personal opinion is that if you continue to see people only as cogs and potential cogs in the industrial machine, the tasks you assign them - on the lure of "money" - will neither fill their time, nor fulfil them... an answer needs to be found.. and the industrial beast, and the arrogant self-portrait that man has so lovingly created and that he gives gives pride-of-place in his living room, the natural world, HAS to be TORN DOWN.)
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