ONLY IF YOU HAVE A MEMBER OF YOUR FAMILY
WHO HAS BEEN MISSING WITHOUT A TRACE WILL YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT IT IS LIKE!
The office of missing persons has now
been established after we have needed it for nearly 50 years, since people
disappeared without trace. It started with the JVP uprising in 1971, when many
people disappeared and people in power in Sri Lanka, then and now conveniently
forget it. Many a mother has gone to her grave, with no knowledge of what happened
to her son or daughter and many of them mind you were MINORS at the time they
went missing.
ARE THE JO JOKERS HEARTLESS and the likes
of cretins like Vasudeva Nanayakkara. He was a left wing firebrand in his
youth, and though pretending to be one now lives a life of luxury and pays
homage to words of heartless ness! WHY OH WHY?
Just read the article in today’s Daily
Mirror and you many understand why it is needed. There are just to many people
who have gone missing in the last 50 years and I will put the figure at about
100,000, with NO TRACE and it is probably the highest percentage for a population
of our size and with the exception of the Genocide in Ruwanda we come a close
second.
While Ruwanda has passed that stage and
made progress on that score we are still wollowing in self pity, not wanting to
do the right thing, OSTENSIBLY to spare the blushes of a few renegade soldiers
in the Armed Forces who may be protected when investigations are prevented! So
for a few soldiers, about 20 we have to hold 500,000 living Sri Lankans who
have lost relatives, with no knowledge of what happened to them to ransom.
Are 500,000 Sri Lankan citizens less
important than protecting about 20 soldiers against whom war crimes allegations
are out? NO NO NO
It is time the shameful animals in the
JO who are preventing this from taking place, and are using it for political
purposes by lying about what it is, as being some foreign conspiracy to put our
soldiers on trial, I say please don’t fool our pathetic public, simply unable
still to sift truth from fiction and give the benefit of the doubt to those
Sinhala and Tamil and Muslim mothers to find out, please.
Let us see if Mahinda Rajapakse is a statesman who cares for his people and let us hear what he has to say about this, and why? He needs to rise from being less than human to nearly human for once. That is if he has any humanity in him.
you've nailed it in one. Why can't it be explained like this so foolish people can understand why it is necessary? Perhaps we have fools in the media, and bigger fools in power.
ReplyDeleteIt is a shame that this OMP was imposed on us. That was because we did not have a civilized mentality to have set one up over four decades ago, as it has been an ongoing problem.
ReplyDeleteHad this OMP been established by an enlightened leadership, I bet we may have been able to save 100,000 unnecessary deaths of Sri Lankan citizens, you never know.
So what kind of people are there in Sri Lanka who do not want such a means for people to find closure? Are they humans or animals? Even animals are far kinder, so they are simply inhuman.
Let us name and shame all these inhuman individuals who have opposed this office, then the public will understand who they are up against and what kind of people they look up to. Interesting to see what these so called leaders will be labeled as then!