{"id":44722,"date":"2015-06-15T13:39:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T20:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=44722"},"modified":"2015-06-15T13:39:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T20:39:00","slug":"reconciliation-or-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/06\/15\/reconciliation-or-is-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Reconciliation? Or is it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>C.Fernando<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The dictionary defines the word reconciliation\u201d as the restoration of friendly relations. It is assumed that initially, one party already had friendly relations with another in order to restore that relationship. So, my question is how can the Foreign Minister travel all the way to the UK to have reconciliation talks with the Pro-LTTE Diaspora, when the country had no friendly relations with this group? Wasn\u2019t this the very group that condoned violence against the citizens of this country? Is this an addition to the faux pas the Honorable Minister made while speaking to Secretary Kerry about the thirty y-ear war?<\/p>\n<p>The Foreign Minister has been partial to this group whose members and sympathizers live mainly in Western countries. It seems he does not realize that being partial to these Tiger sympathizers may be at the cost of losing the support of the Sinhalese Diaspora. Why does he <strong>not<\/strong> want to meet with the Sinhalese? Is it because he takes their support for granted? Is it because they don\u2019t have the level of finances the former group has? Or is it because the US, and UK are dictating terms to the Foreign Minister?<\/p>\n<p>Recently, a well known Senator and supporter of the Pro-LTTE Diaspora addressed the US Senate in words verbatim to those of the US Secretary of State and more strangely, to the propaganda of the Pro-LTTE Diaspora. Looking at these comments closely, one sees the Foreign Minister\u2019s sauce on the meat! What a twisted web he weaves!<\/p>\n<p>The Sinhalese Diaspora cannot be fooled, Mr. Foreign Minister! As you mentioned a couple of times sir, the Sri Lankan Diaspora is made up of many intelligent, educated, patriotic individuals of both sexes which you failed to add. They are not just the Tamil Diaspora or the Pro-LTTE Diaspora. This group is made up of many <strong>Sinhalese<\/strong> individuals as well. You have totally ignored the Sinhalese and Muslims to the exclusivity of the Pro-LTTE Diaspora in the US and UK. We are not fooled by these shenanigans!<\/p>\n<p>As the Foreign Minister of the whole of Sri Lanka, you need to be sensitive to the feelings of the Sinhalese too. You have not had meetings with any Sinhalese Diaspora. You don\u2019t speak about the horrible trauma they have suffered because of the terrorists. You don\u2019t mention the Sinhalese and Muslim kids killed by those terrorists. You do not mention the damage to an important UNESCO cultural site they destroyed. I can go on and on\u2026. Now you want to have reconciliation with a terrorist group?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C.Fernando The dictionary defines the word reconciliation\u201d as the restoration of friendly relations. It is assumed that initially, one party already had friendly relations with another in order to restore that relationship. So, my question is how can the Foreign Minister travel all the way to the UK to have reconciliation talks with the Pro-LTTE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44722","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=44722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}