Thousands of people in the North are shedding tears while people in the South are celebrating the war today (19) from a country that was devastated by the inability to save the country that was saved from war.
The Sri Lankan Sinhalese people, divided by party and color, still kill each other with hatred and anger because there is no victory in the war. In the war-torn country, the parliament, which represents the Sri Lankan majority, has not been able to bring about at least the Sinhala nation, national unity, national identity or nationalism.
During the war, the people of this country did not really have any problems. They were divided into parties of color but lived as a people. Exactly 10 days before the war victory, the south of Sri Lanka was engulfed. But the North did not catch fire. Today, Sri Lankans are experiencing the effects of the physical development that was given to the people instead of much that needed to be done after the war victory.
People who went after politicians in search of jobs, people who demanded highways, buildings and other major administrative developments are enjoying them today.
Large crowds flocked to Mullivaikkal to commemorate their children who died in the fires of the Southern Economy. The parents and children of the Sinhalese people who died in the war back then are shedding tears for them today.
In the past, it has been said that the ethnic war was the fault of the Sinhala leaders who tried to achieve their narrow goals without being able to live as one nation in one country. It is clear to us today that there would not have been an ethnic war in this country if Tamil had been named as the lingua franca, especially when Sinhala was declared the national language.
The Sinhala leaders who started the ethnic war in the past have caused a huge economic and social breakdown in the country today. Only the Sinhala nation has collapsed. Tamils in the North are living happily.
After the war, the Mahinda Rajapaksa government failed to win the hearts of the people of the North. But it is no secret that they spread racism as well as religiosity. The Rajapaksa faction led by Mahinda Rajapaksa, which was active only for narrow political objectives as well as to achieve its own narrow aims, has now set fire to the country. But still the majority groups in the PA have failed to present a vision of nation building.
President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa also stirred up racism by making a racist speech during his swearing in as President. In the wake of all these political ideologies, the President, as well as the Rajapaksa family, and all 225 members of parliament, including themselves, are united in their struggle against racism and religious bigotry at the Galle Face. The religious festival of the Muslims, the third year commemoration of the Easter attack and the Vesak festival were held in this battle ground which lasted for nearly two months. While the government and its members are misleading the people through racial and religious differences, the people themselves have achieved national unity without the patronage of the state.
Those who died in the North and those who died in the South are our own people. Children in the North lost fathers, mothers, wives and children. The same goes for the south. We must move forward as a country as citizens of the same country. The motherland of Sri Lanka, which was destroyed by narrow-minded politics as well as parasitic rulers without personality, must be rebuilt. By uniting as that unique country. The country must be rebuilt by expelling the parasites.
We do not have a war victory to celebrate with great pride. Even after 13 years, the Sinhala leaders in this country have not been able to unite. The Sinhala leaders in the country still could not believe that the people who died in the North were also the people of this country. For 33 years the Tamil people in the North saw the North as one country and the ruling class failed to do the real things needed to change their minds after the war. When celebrating war in the South, it was necessary to recognize the heartbeat of the people of the North and to commemorate their mourning on the same day with state patronage. But the rulers who divided the people into different fates in the same country failed to change the people for the same fate
G. P. Nissanka
Retired Warrant Officer, Sri Lanka Air Force (Instructor)