{"id":43981,"date":"2015-05-19T02:30:28","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T09:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=43981"},"modified":"2015-05-19T02:30:28","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T09:30:28","slug":"my-response-to-say-sorry-to-tamils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/05\/19\/my-response-to-say-sorry-to-tamils\/","title":{"rendered":"My response to say “Sorry to Tamils”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Asoka Weerasinghe\u00a0Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

18 May 2015<\/p>\n

Dear Don Suraweera:<\/p>\n

To continue with my response of 13th<\/sup> May to your Hello Friends: I just wanted to let you know about a great event that is organized in relation to reconciliation or ask forgiveness from the Tamil people.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let me ask a favour from you, not that I want to rain on yours and the organizing Christian Community of the Risen Lords\u2019<\/em><\/strong> (CRL) Parade.<\/p>\n

Since the \u2018Great Event\u2019<\/strong> of yours doesn\u2019t seem to be kosher\u00a0with me, and not cricket to many of us Sinhalese around the world, I tried to understand what the heck this great event<\/strong>\u201d was all about!\u00a0 The main thrust seems to be To ask forgiveness from the Tamil people.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0 For what I wondered!\u00a0 Is it a crock, or is it a fraudulent act, deceptive, pretentious, problematic, suspect, suspicious, won\u2019t fly, queer, hoax and perhaps fishy?\u00a0\u00a0 After much thought I came to the conclusion that yours and that of the Risen Lords<\/em><\/strong> Great Event\u201d<\/strong> were all of the above.\u00a0\u00a0 Hmmm\u2026..doesn\u2019t say much for your Great<\/strong> Event\u201d<\/strong>, does it now, Don Suraweera!<\/p>\n

My response to this as a Sinhalese-Buddhist, is to tell you and the Community of the Risen Lords<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 is by requesting you to display my concerns in a poster on the evening of the Vigil.\u00a0 To carry my poster with my words on one hand and the other holding on to the lit candle to show the Sinhalese like me the wisdom of asking forgiveness from the Tamils.\u00a0 Make my words written in the poster with visible and readable, sans-serif Helvetica 60 point letters..<\/p>\n

These are my words, my message to all of you who will participate and those who will stop by to figure out what the heck you bleeding hearts are up to.<\/p>\n

This is the message of mine to be shown in the poster.\u00a0\u00a0 Make it bold.\u00a0 Make it attractive.\u00a0 Make it eye-catching.<\/p>\n

MESSAGE<\/strong><\/p>\n

TO ALL SRI LANKAN-TAMIL SEPARATISTS OR OTHERWISE\u00a0 AROUND THE WORLD.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Asoka Weerasinghe a Sinhalese-Buddhist domiciled \u00a0 in\u00a0 Ottawa, Canada, has rejected our call to say\u00a0 Sorry to Tamils<\/strong><\/strong>\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 and join us in vigil today, and he says:<\/p>\n

I will never, ever say sorry to Tamils until they say sorry to the crying chest-thumping Sinhalese-Mother\u2019s whose sons and daughters, adults, children and infants who were killed by your ruthless Tamil Tiger terrorists with exploding claymore mines, grenades, by bullets shot from AK47s, burning them alive and watch them die, and killed with machetes and chopped like a bleeding animal carcass in a butcher\u2019s shop.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0 Why Mother\u2019s you may ask? Because they nurtured all those who you killed for 9 months in their wombs. They are life givers, they are amazing human beings, tender in their hearts, loving and adorable like my Mother, each one of them. They were the most who got hurt by the Tamil Tiger serial killings. That is why.\u00a0\u00a0 I demand that all you Tamil Tiger separatist-Tamils say Sorry\u201d to my Sinhalese Mothers, as my knife cuts both ways, nor can I clap with one hand.\u00a0 And that is the rub!\u00a0 And that is how the organizing Risen Lord\u2019s cookies crumble at my feet.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Asoka Weerasinghe.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Don Suraweera, perhaps you may want to convince one of the bleeding heart leaders of the evangelical Risen Lords<\/em><\/strong> wearing a white starched collar pointing towards heaven to do that favour for me.\u00a0\u00a0 Let me know if someone had obliged.\u00a0 Let me know his name and you bet, I will thank him profusely, with my face turned towards the heavenly-sky with palms together and say in a loud voice,<\/p>\n

Halleluiah \u2018?Father John,\u00a0 Jesus Loves You\u201d.<\/p>\n

Don\u00a0 Suraweera, will you be honest with yourself and do this favour for me?<\/p>\n

Sincerely,<\/p>\n

Asoka Weerasinghe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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