A Snail�s vision

A Snail�s vision

26 July 2008

The government�s effort to cover up the bodies that scatter the landscape and create the impression of a polished city ready to host invitees to an international conference is feckless. The lower middle and lower classes starve while the nation is poised to explode, but Dictators are masters at creating stage sets. While there is no food or mneyto feed the people, they have ample sums for pomp and ceremony.

Democracy is a dictators enemy; a denial of democracy is a dictator�s disaster, lessons the President and his brothers are blind to. Pretending to be a sphinx while their zig zag decisions turn the legs of the nation to water raises serious questions about their ability to pull the trigger to shoot the nation out of its sustained destruction. The President and his brothers appear as if cement has solidified their joints

The inability to realize that Democracy in SL was a raw experiment; a nation patched together which was ready to split apart is the essence of our troubles. This has resulted in a major ethnic group to endure a destiny they had to submit to. As one Tamil aptly summarized it �They handed us a stick and a sheet of canvas and asked us to build a tent as our permanant abode� We were treated like children overwhelmed by an adults logic who expected us to suffer whatever they expected us to endure. The government pleaded while we could only rebut such ineffective pleas; the government made proposals which we could only reject. Our homeland became a place of abatement, desperation and despair. All our citizens can do is disown the past and seek a future. Seperation is part of that inevitable future. The GOSL refuses to retreat any further from any accomodation with the Tamils. The incessant use of the idea that terrorism lurks behind every Tamil move is the cowboy diplomacy they boringly cling to, for want of anythiing better to say. Their irrational exubereance has lost its sheen. They shut their eyes to the fact that peaceful people prone to non violent protest become fierce when turned to anger when tortured instinctively with irrational justification. July 83 was a horror beyond comprehension

Claims of military victories with continuing extensions for the conclusion of the war are but indications of the callous boasts of uncertain heroes. They may convince their supporters but not their doubters. Nazi style propaganda succeeded and failed with the passage of time, a lesson our snail vision rulers should absorb and digest.