Sri LankaDecember 4, 2007 4:48 am
When I heard about the bomb in Nugegoda my heart skipped a beat, actually truth be told it skipped a few beats. Not only do I have some of my closest family living in the area but most of my friends live there as well. It was the usual litany of text messages, calls and browsing the web to find the latest news. Thankfully everybody I knew was safe, but this war has claimed more innocents, as it has been for the last quarter decade. As news filtered in and the blogs took up the news I became quite bewildered. Reading some of the entries it seemed that a Kfir had dropped a bunker buster in Colombo directly on the mustachioed idiot’s orders.
The posts ranged from hysterically blaming the government for the blasts to equally ridiculous postings that the country has reached a morality level of lunacy. To the people who seem to think the sky has fallen…well…it hasn’t. Yes these blasts are terribly but there is a context to these attacks. Either these people do not remember the late eighties and nineties or just weren’t in existence then. For fuck’s sakes we had an insurgency in the south, a terrorist group in the north and an invading army from India in the country and we are still in one piece. Sri Lanka has endured worse, much worse. And to those who say I say this while being comfortably out of the country…fuck you. Almost all my loved ones are still in Sri Lanka as is all my heart and most of my head. It is a matter of time until I come back for good and I would like to have a country to come back to.
As for blaming Mahinda, it seems a bit strange to me. Are those same people wiling to point fingers at Ranil about the bomb blast that happened in 2004? Or have they forgotten that already? I think Mahinda is an idiot; I am under no delusion about his and his cohorts’ inherent corruption. But Ranil is an equal idiot. They are all fucking idiots and have always been. To the people who blame Mahinda, please do explain your reasoning. The way I see it we don’t really have a choice but to fight this war. Granted it’s easy for me to say that when I don’t really have to fight it but I can have an opinion.
No peace is possible with Prabhakaran. He is not simply the leader of the LTTE he is the poor delusional fools’ God, the Sun God. With him alive, you can negotiate until you are blue in the face, but all that will happen is you will die of asphyxiation.
Feel free to blame Mahinda for the rising cost of living, blame him for the blunders of our foreign service, for the waste and corruption, the lack of a coherent political package for the minorities. Blame him for all that, because he deserves that…and more. To blame him for the blasts however is ridiculous. There is only one man to blame for that, Prabhaharan. His obstinacy, his delusions of divinity, his inability to comprehend a life without bloodshed, an existence without bloodshed is what caused those 20 odd innocent people to lose their lives in Colombo. It is what makes negotiations impossible and every day of his existence causes more death and destruction.
