Comments on: Regarding the two types of srilankans ; the ones that love Sri Lanka and the ones that do not. http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2009/08/12/regarding-the-two-types-of-srilankans-the-ones-that-love-sri-lanka-and-the-ones-that-do-not/ Lankaweb.com Sun, 21 Mar 2010 14:05:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Priyantha Abeywickrama http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2009/08/12/regarding-the-two-types-of-srilankans-the-ones-that-love-sri-lanka-and-the-ones-that-do-not/comment-page-1/#comment-352 Priyantha Abeywickrama Thu, 13 Aug 2009 06:16:43 +0000 http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/?p=2833#comment-352 Regarding the two types of Sri Lankans, I feel it like a load of rubbish churned out by little Americans spin doctoring the politics in Sinhale' (Lanka). The truth is that there is none called Sri Lankans who could speak Sri Lankan. Who are they trying to fool by following the footsteps of English colonisers that carry funny statehood names to hide the true nature of their ill-gotten lands? It could have been right to say that clueless and rootless politicians are trying to create an identity for themselves to justify their own existence in the country. Sinhala people should understand that there is a bunch of political animals in the ruling coalition who pretend to love the country to deceive you and the same type in the opposition who openly display their hate towards the country. Can anybody tell the difference in their thinking and actions? Both types are from the same lot who betrayed our people to English occupiers that continue their legacy wearing local clown-like costumes. I doubt very much they can fool us that long. Referring to behaviour of migrant menace festering in the country, I can assure that they even do not know what “love towards a country” means because they are bloody migrants. Having spent two decades of my life as a migrant mingling among all sorts of migrants carrying many ethnic baggages, I like to warn Sinhala people to stay away from associating with these migrants (the most dangerous type of pestilence that should be eradicated) to save future for their children. Regarding the two types of Sri Lankans, I feel it like a load of rubbish churned out by little Americans spin doctoring the politics in Sinhale’ (Lanka). The truth is that there is none called Sri Lankans who could speak Sri Lankan. Who are they trying to fool by following the footsteps of English colonisers that carry funny statehood names to hide the true nature of their ill-gotten lands? It could have been right to say that clueless and rootless politicians are trying to create an identity for themselves to justify their own existence in the country. Sinhala people should understand that there is a bunch of political animals in the ruling coalition who pretend to love the country to deceive you and the same type in the opposition who openly display their hate towards the country. Can anybody tell the difference in their thinking and actions? Both types are from the same lot who betrayed our people to English occupiers that continue their legacy wearing local clown-like costumes. I doubt very much they can fool us that long. Referring to behaviour of migrant menace festering in the country, I can assure that they even do not know what “love towards a country” means because they are bloody migrants. Having spent two decades of my life as a migrant mingling among all sorts of migrants carrying many ethnic baggages, I like to warn Sinhala people to stay away from associating with these migrants (the most dangerous type of pestilence that should be eradicated) to save future for their children.

]]> By: nuwans http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2009/08/12/regarding-the-two-types-of-srilankans-the-ones-that-love-sri-lanka-and-the-ones-that-do-not/comment-page-1/#comment-350 nuwans Thu, 13 Aug 2009 02:08:23 +0000 http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/?p=2833#comment-350 This two types as president identified after defeating LTTE is in my opinion is not right at all. I believe that it is purely a political stunt to sideline those who oppose to his party and brand them as people who does not love Sri Lanka. The election in the north may have been influenced by different factors. For one, they are Tamils and I believe they would rather vote for a Tamil party. That is how we sinhalese would vote too, if the situations were reversed. Secondly, people in those area, still suffer immensly even though LTTE is gone. A lot of IDP's. Their hope is gone and many live like hell. I do not think in that backdrop, government can expect an olive branch from them. This government follow the same failed mentality that last American president Bush had in regard to war on terror and Iraq. He tried to brand all those who opposed to the war and his policies as non patriots and he was successful for a while doing that and democratic party was scared and hesitated to oppose him because people supported that view. Secondly, in Iraq, he assumed that American troops will be welcomed as liberators after removing Sadam. That was a grave mistake. A parellel can be drawn if we compare Bush strategy with MR strategy. Northern Tamils have suffered immensly from LTTE, still LTTE were Tamils. And their is a wide rift and distrust among Sinhalese and Tamils in these areas due to this decad old conflict. So it is very not pragmatic for this government to assume that just because we defeated LTTE that those Tamils would welcome the Sinhalese govt. with open hands. I think the govt. did a grave miscalculation. There is a big wound that will take a long time to heal. Same as Sinhalese take pride about its race, Tamils have the same pride and for whatever reason many of those Tamils supported LTTE and saw them as liberators. And we should not expect a suddent change of heart from them. I think it is dangerous to try to brand Sri Lankans into two; those who love and those does not according to the political vision of the current government. For one, I do not agree with the current government at all when it comes to economy and human rights and many other things. But no one should dare to tell me, I do not love my country. I have done a lot to my country and still doing that. But according to MR's measuring stick, I may belong to the catagory of "does not love Sri Lanka" because I have dissenting views to his politcs. So this branding is very wrong. We as a democracy must accept that people have difference in opinion. And especially dealing with the Tamils in the north, we must consider the background and the current mentality before trying to draw lines branding people for their views. Otherwise we will only end up in a divided country with never ending problems. Finally, government shouldn't have had elections in those areas. It was too soon. I think they tried to show that they have the support of Tamils too. But their miscalculations gave them a shock at the end. At this point in time, government should focus on settling people and fixing the problems in the country instead of thinking about elections and how to prolonge their power base. It is unfortunate that all they can think is about how to stay in power longer and how to conquer more of Sri Lanka to their party. This two types as president identified after defeating LTTE is in my opinion is not right at all. I believe that it is purely a political stunt to sideline those who oppose to his party and brand them as people who does not love Sri Lanka. The election in the north may have been influenced by different factors. For one, they are Tamils and I believe they would rather vote for a Tamil party. That is how we sinhalese would vote too, if the situations were reversed. Secondly, people in those area, still suffer immensly even though LTTE is gone. A lot of IDP’s. Their hope is gone and many live like hell. I do not think in that backdrop, government can expect an olive branch from them.

This government follow the same failed mentality that last American president Bush had in regard to war on terror and Iraq. He tried to brand all those who opposed to the war and his policies as non patriots and he was successful for a while doing that and democratic party was scared and hesitated to oppose him because people supported that view. Secondly, in Iraq, he assumed that American troops will be welcomed as liberators after removing Sadam. That was a grave mistake. A parellel can be drawn if we compare Bush strategy with MR strategy. Northern Tamils have suffered immensly from LTTE, still LTTE were Tamils. And their is a wide rift and distrust among Sinhalese and Tamils in these areas due to this decad old conflict. So it is very not pragmatic for this government to assume that just because we defeated LTTE that those Tamils would welcome the Sinhalese govt. with open hands. I think the govt. did a grave miscalculation. There is a big wound that will take a long time to heal. Same as Sinhalese take pride about its race, Tamils have the same pride and for whatever reason many of those Tamils supported LTTE and saw them as liberators. And we should not expect a suddent change of heart from them.

I think it is dangerous to try to brand Sri Lankans into two; those who love and those does not according to the political vision of the current government. For one, I do not agree with the current government at all when it comes to economy and human rights and many other things. But no one should dare to tell me, I do not love my country. I have done a lot to my country and still doing that. But according to MR’s measuring stick, I may belong to the catagory of “does not love Sri Lanka” because I have dissenting views to his politcs. So this branding is very wrong. We as a democracy must accept that people have difference in opinion. And especially dealing with the Tamils in the north, we must consider the background and the current mentality before trying to draw lines branding people for their views. Otherwise we will only end up in a divided country with never ending problems.

Finally, government shouldn’t have had elections in those areas. It was too soon. I think they tried to show that they have the support of Tamils too. But their miscalculations gave them a shock at the end. At this point in time, government should focus on settling people and fixing the problems in the country instead of thinking about elections and how to prolonge their power base. It is unfortunate that all they can think is about how to stay in power longer and how to conquer more of Sri Lanka to their party.

]]>