{"id":95758,"date":"2019-11-28T17:42:10","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T00:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=95758"},"modified":"2019-11-28T17:42:10","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T00:42:10","slug":"a-new-start-for-sri-lanaka-should-not-be-disrupted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/11\/28\/a-new-start-for-sri-lanaka-should-not-be-disrupted\/","title":{"rendered":"A NEW START FOR SRI LANAKA SHOULD NOT BE DISRUPTED"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Anjalika Silva\u00a0USA<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>We need to do all we can to preserve our hard-won Peace from\nthe disruption of miscreants who have sunk so low there is no place lower to\ngo.&nbsp; It is not about party politics.&nbsp; It is about the country \u2013 SRI LANKA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I wrote this piece of music for Peace, in my mind I\nbelieved our Peace had come to stay.&nbsp; WHY\nCAN\u2019T PEOPLE GIVE UP HATE?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Video   Lets Join Our Hands\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VjAJ3yN1EtY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>However, from time to time it became necessary to revive and\nstir up short memories and the value of Peace. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After an enthusiastic election with an unprecedented record\nvoter turnout of over 80% beating records of bigger democracies, tactics\nstarted again.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barely a day after a new President sworn in, the BBC got\nactive providing a platform for hate mongers to talk Genocide\u201d without knowing\nwhat it really means.&nbsp; What\nGenocide?&nbsp; If it was Genocide, we would\nnot have seen a single Tamil good or bad survive.&nbsp; Diaspora in their safe heavens are talking\nfor those who don\u2019t need their representation.&nbsp;\nIf there was Genocide they are going back and forth to Sri Lanka and\nenjoying freedom far from Genocidal treatment.&nbsp;\nThe ground situation is that &#8220;we the people live in harmony\naccepting all people the same&#8221;.&nbsp; The\nfear psychosis is planted by a few to ruin the lives of many.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These folks may want to see real Genocide because they don\u2019t\nknow the meaning.&nbsp; Well, the Genocide\nthat took place a few weeks ago when Turks hunted down Kurdish people and\nstopped cars pulling Kurds out of cars and shooting them execution style.&nbsp; Men women and Children had no escape.&nbsp; That is real Genocide.&nbsp; Not the fake one where the use of the word\nhas became a convenience for some.&nbsp; It is\na joke how they pop out with the Genocide<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These captains of Genocide fame have dual citizenship with\nSri Lanka, they go back freely, purchase prime property in the&nbsp; best parts of the country and no one is\nhunting them down!!!! Why now?&nbsp;&nbsp; They\ncall out the Genocide very conveniently.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But fail to look at their own failings.&nbsp; We have had enough of you lot!&nbsp;&nbsp; This song is not for Utopia but we want to\nembrace all ethnicities and faiths with respect and live together as humans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anjalika Silva\u00a0USA We need to do all we can to preserve our hard-won Peace from the disruption of miscreants who have sunk so low there is no place lower to go.&nbsp; It is not about party politics.&nbsp; It is about the country \u2013 SRI LANKA When I wrote this piece of music for Peace, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95758","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=95758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}