A Response to Dinindu De Alwis

This is in response to the original post by Dinindu De Alwis on his blog. I would have posted this as a comment on his blog. But then again I thought, since he posted his original article as a response to one of my earlier posts; it's better to go as a new post.

My dear Dinidu; the 3 years old small kid,

Your blog posts, and anger against Rajapakshe's reminds me nothing, but my own "childhood" where I was fallen to the traps laid by people like Sunanda Deshapriya, Victor Ivon and Sunil Madava Premathilake, during early 90's where Premadasa was ruling. The people I mentioned above, used their pens to project a "dictator" profile over Premadasa, and we as little kids those days fallen to their traps. We lighted fire crackers, when we heard the news of Premadasa's death. But today, we know premadasa wasn't involved in Kobbekaduwa killing. He wasn't involved in Ethulathmudali killing. He wasn't involved in Clancy Fernendo killing. And of course he was not involved in his own assassination. We now know what was the invisible hand behind these killings, and who supported it.

Today, I don't blame you. You think this country was a heavan, before you were born 3 years ago. You are just a little kid (3 years old! Born in 2005), who is just blindly following the death traps laid by people like Sunanda Deshapriya, Kumar Rupasinghe, Pakayasoththi Saravanamuttu, and of course the invisible hand V P Prabhakaran. I don't blame you for your stupidity. You inherit your stupidity, from the social class you were born in. The class which believed the independence in 1948 was the worst thing ever happened to Sri Lanka. The class that still believe, it is a shamed to be ruled under a "sarong man" president coming from a southern rural village (Likes of Premadasa and Mahinda). The class which, Kumar Rupasinghe, Ranil Wickramasinghe, Sunanda Deshapriya, and Pakayasoththi Saravanamuththu belongs to. It's all in your ego! You still can't digest the fact that, Sri Lanka's power has shifted out of Colombo 7. You are in a "natural battle" to regain that power. You believe, it's still worth to regain that power, even at the cost of giving a part of this country to Prabhakaran.

I don't blame you. You are still a little kid. 3 years old as I said before.

You people are frustrated now. You can't go to western countries and settle there, because the white men treat you as second class citizens. You don't have a backbone to fight against them, for your fundamental rights there. That's why some "half Canadians" have settled back in Colombo, while still blaming this country as a "cursed land". If this is a cursed land, why don't they use their PR in Canada? Because, in Canada, they are treated as second class citizens. Now, when they come here; their social class has lost the powers they used to enjoy under JRJ and CBK. So they have a right to be frustrated.

For people like you, who never stepped out of Colombo, and catch a public train or a bus to see what's happening around in rest of Sri Lanka, these things cannot be understood. Colombo is not Sri Lanka. I'm just another voice in Colombo. Difference between you and me, is I know the big picture about Sri Lanka. You don't know. Because you are only 3 years old. You were born on 17th November 2005. You haven't had a time learn the history of this country! poor child. God bless you.

P.S.
I don't want to drag this debate any further :-) If you have any follow up comments, you can leave a comment here or write to me at voiceincolombo@gmail.com

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