{"id":44027,"date":"2015-05-20T22:52:29","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T04:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=44027"},"modified":"2015-05-20T15:49:49","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T22:49:49","slug":"victory-day-and-remembrance-day-are-two-different-occasions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/05\/20\/victory-day-and-remembrance-day-are-two-different-occasions\/","title":{"rendered":"Victory Day and Remembrance Day are two different occasions!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ratanapala<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

20 May 15<\/strong><\/p>\n

The recently commemorated ANZAC day is a remembrance day – in fact a day to remember an ignominious and yet honorable defeat of the allied forces \u2013 mainly Australian and New Zealanders in Turkey. On the other hand Victory Day or VE Day\u00a0 8-9 May were celebrated throughout Russia, Europe and US to remember and commemorate the victory over Nazism in Europe.<\/p>\n

We can have every day of the year as Remembrance Days for all those who died during 30 years of Tamil Racist Terrorist inspired war that was unleashed on the Sri Lankan people. We all can have different days for personal reasons\u00a0 – indeed in many homes in Sri Lanka there will be such days \u00a0spread throughout the year. \u00a0There are families who have more than one day a year. We can also have one day for collective remembrance, but that should not be 19 May!<\/p>\n

There can only be one Victory Day that is – 19 May. This is the day when LTTE terrorists were vanquished in toto, in the battle field\u00a0 on the banks of the Nanthi Kadal lagoon on 19 May 2009.\u00a0 A tired nation breathed a sigh of relief in the belief after 30 unfortunate years the spectre of Terrorism is finally over. From this day onwards people of Sri Lanka whether – Sinhala, Tamil, Muslim or other have enjoyed the freedom of being able to walk the length and breadth of their motherland without fear or favor.<\/p>\n

It is a shame that those who enjoy the fruits of that victory failed to commemorate the day with due reverence and left it for the unpatriotic politicians to vilify and call it\u00a0 – Remembrance Day.<\/p>\n

The following is how one such excuse for a human being of the United Christian Party remembered the Victory Day.<\/p>\n

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What this man says or mostly not say speaks volumes for the Colombians who now administer the government.<\/p>\n

What can we expect from the likes of Ranil Wickramasinghe, Mangala Samaraweera, Rajitha Senaratne, Chandrika Kumaranatunge, Maithripala Sirisena\u00a0 and from the ruling United Christian Party aka UNP. What right have these imposters to take the salute of the victorious Armed Forces of Sri Lanka on 19 May? These are the traitor \u00a0who called Killinochchi \u2013 Madawachchiya, Alimankada \u2013 Pamankada and Thoppigala a mere stretch of jungle! Victory Day is not a day for those who cannot distinguish between a man and woman, nor for those who are confused as to who\u00a0 are heroes, patriots and traitors.<\/p>\n

The traitors are working 24\/7 in collusion with Western Powers to transform our Armed Forces to be once again a ceremonial force. This will make their handlers in India and the Christian West happy and pave way for the dismemberment and balkanization of Sri Lanka. High Security Zones are being dismantled and increasingly our Armed Forces are told to restrict themselves to their barracks. They are also advocating that our Armed Forces should be sent around the world to be used as cannon fodder into their former conflict zones.<\/p>\n

It is not right to think that Nanthi Kadal was the end of LTTE threat nor the attempts by the Western Christian nations to dismember Sri Lanka.\u00a0 The LTTE terrorist moneymaking machine is still active in Western Countries, despite the fact that LTTE is deemed banned in these countries.<\/p>\n

Sri Lankans must celebrate the Victory Day again on 19 May 2016 with due reverence. All right thinking Sri Lankans must work towards that day from now onwards. People have seen the farce of Yaha Palanaya even before the 100 days were over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ratanapala 20 May 15 The recently commemorated ANZAC day is a remembrance day – in fact a day to remember an ignominious and yet honorable defeat of the allied forces \u2013 mainly Australian and New Zealanders in Turkey. On the other hand Victory Day or VE Day\u00a0 8-9 May were celebrated throughout Russia, Europe and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ratanapala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}