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A Lankan Sinhala's lament
by Elmo Dias on Aug 01, 2006 09:28 PM

I am happy that Yogendran does see the brutality of the LTTE as much as he sees the extremist and racist policies of SL governments.

Today, the world is moving away from labelling as "freedom fighters" those who perpetrate the so called "justified" violence. Their violent acts are also called terrorism today. If you kill with vengeance innocent civilians, men, women and children, if you train and send children for battle with a gun, if you murder all those who oppose you, if you donot allow the people to exercise their universal francise, if your daughters celebrate 21st birthdays in the western capitals, while the daughters of innocent Tamil girls and are sent "pregnant" with explosives as human bombs, that is called terrorism. One can hide in a jungle, but the jungle cannot hide the monstrosity of
ones action.
All SL leaders have erred so far.They have failed to make every citizen: equal before the law, provide with equal opportunities,respect and honour, develop all areas without discrimination.
If some leader or an accord can assure in word and deed the above and guarantee the basic human rights of all there is a hope. Hope that springs from assurance of equality.

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