Walk the line- by Mahinda R supported by the 19 million orchestra

This are a few thoughts in response to this post , where there was debate as to whether Buddhist flags were used in celebrating the military victory. One of my friends said at Keg, that it’s time for the moderate Tamil voice to be heard. I don’t know if I am Tamil enough or moderate enough, but this tries to be one.

It is hard to find a family in the north whose children have not been killed and replaced with some lame piece of paper that gives directions to their heroic resting place. Such was how the LTTE treated the people it protected. It was the classic case where the sheep dog was worse than the wolf.

Not content with having killed near thousands of the poor and middle class of the rest of Sri Lanka, the LTTE even rejected the country's less than perfect, but desperate attempts at peace.

There is no doubt the LTTE got what it asked for.

When the miliary victory came, even if many did celebrate with the Buddhist flag as well, as i personally believe they did, I do not think this is an important sign of doom, a view that the tamils in colombo, and outside sri lanka are fearing. One of my friends pointed out quite reasonably they couldhave been put up earlier for Vesak. Maybe, maybe not.


I am both non-Buddhist and half Tamil, and have spoken to some in the conflict areas as well as the Tamils who live, and work here.

This in my opinion is all GOOD. But to say that anyone questioning the government or military is unpatriotic, is to make the tamils' fears come true. No?. The fears of a future where they (the tamils) will not be protected by the majority.

Remember how the Germans didn't actually want the Jews to be killed, but they somehow seemed to just be swept in with the reforms that Hitler brought in?We cannot let the good the government does make us overlook its faults.

On the other hand, we have to make sure we give it the patience and the support it deserves.

How well we walk this line, all of us as sri lankans, is what will show ten years from now. All the best to us!