I have posted a Blog on the harassment of Muslims in Sri Lanka by the Government and the necessity for the Muslims to join hands with the Tamils who shared a common Homeland in India.
Normally, I do not trash a comment, in fact I have not so till date.
I did it recently for a comment for the above post from Sri Lanka , which said simply’what the *** you know about anything?’
I would have published this even, but the sender’s email ID was such a bad one in Tamil(it was spelled in English),I thrashed it.
May be it is from a Sinhala or even a Muslim of Tamil Origin.
Now I have come across a news item,post that hurts humans and exposes the brutality of the Sri Lanka Government.
I leave the commenting to my readers.
There are to stories.
Story:
I am not a lawyer, a journalist, an academic or an activist. I am just an ordinary citizen who is sick of being intimidated by the forces that are empowered by us to protect us. I am tired of our short sighted, nepotistic governments, our corrupt politicians, our arrogant law enforcement officers, our extremist religious leaders, and our ignorant, complacent citizenry. I am just plain tired.
This evening I walked onto Havelock Road with my husband and two children to join my sister, her husband and some friends in gathering with the many who had come to symbolically light a candle in the darkness of our land, to protest through a silent vigil, the extremist politics of the now notorious Bodu Bala Senawho were at that moment in a meeting at their headquarters in theSambuddhatva Jayanthi Building. I was almost immediately flung into a flurry of aggressive policemen, chasing us off, shouting at us to get rid of our candles, threatening us with arrest if we did not immediately obey and disperse! Across the street two Bhikkhus were shouting and inciting the Police. Some thugs appeared to be with them, yelling and gesturing wildly at us all. We were stunned. We had expected police and Bhikkhus, but not hatred; not violence; not such flagrant abuse of power, of position.
In a minute my sister received a call from her husband, still across the street near the petrol shed. He had been arrested for standing there holding a candle in his hand! He had just walked up Lauries Road and joined the crowd. Before he could figure out what was happening, he was in the jeep with a couple of others. No one would listen to him. They took him to the Bambalapitiya Police Station. An hour later he was released, but not before my husband was accused by a Policeman whom he went to talk to regarding my brother in law’s arrest, of being, because of his rather confusing name, wait for it – a Muslim!
At one time being Tamil was pretty unsafe to say the least, now it is being Muslim! Others who had come earlier for the vigil had already been dispersed, threatened, a few arrested and later released. I am terribly sad, angry, above all tired. My dear fellow citizens, if you have not realized this already, let me tell you, democracy is dead in our land…..
The Middle Path by Arundathi Kurukulasuriya
Dear all
Today my son suddenly said “Ammi will you join me, some people are going to stand vigil and read the Buddha’s words of wisdom of speaking words that do not incite anger but generate kindness and compassion” I asked him to show me what this organisation was and he showed me what they were about on facebook..and the stanza they were going to read.
So despite Ven dhammjiva’s words ringing in my head ” Mind your own business” I thought it was time to stand by what the enlightened one taught us. There were tons of policeman and a few mostly young people 20-early 30s. There were very angry men and some Buddhist monks(BBS members) they were yelling at the peaceful group of people about “That it was the BBS who protects the sinhala women who get raped by muslim men in our villages” I was in black pants and this man says “These women are not sinhala buddhist women,look at how they are dressed.They work for the UN and NGOs” and I thought given the chance he would physically throttle us.
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