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Monday, May 5, 2014
Electioneering With Firearms – How great?
By Austin Fernando -May 4, 2014
Austin Fernando
When the media reported Minister of Wild Life Conservation
Vijithamuni de Zoysa as stating “I also won the elections in 2001 by
showing a toy pistol”, I was reminded of the past, not for his boast or
the poor humor created by Eraj Fernando, Mayor of Hamabntota, on
pistols; but, because it is an eternal experience, stemming from abuse
of power, irrespective of political parties.
One may suspect whether the Minister’s statement is delayed evidence to
confirm instigated terrorism by all political parties to win elections
(e.g. Referendum 1982, shameful North-Western Province elections where a
woman was chased on roads in the nude). Since ‘pistol games’ had been
almost always initiated by governing parties did not it exhibit the
manner in which those governments vandalized democratic rights of the
people?
Alas, the Wildlife Minister confirms the wild animals’ attitude (i.e.
Strength wins). Sometimes, his statement may be to summarily trivialize
the recent Hambantota incident.
The Story Of An Other Woman
Prof. Mahesan Niranjan
If, like me, you were a Sri Lankan Tamil — in that order — the approach of the Eighteenth of May does
to your system unpleasant things that you find difficult to deal with,
or to even put in words. Those with excessive imagination use
sophisticated language to describe the events leading up to that day: “Structured Genocide” and “Humanitarian Operation”
are the two ends of the scale. Not in that league, my best summary of
the Eighteenth of May is in the form of a question posed in an email
from a friend that day, five years ago:
“I did not fight; nor did I support the fight. Yet I have lost. Why?”
But the Eighteenth of May is a distraction. The story I am about to tell
you happened on the Fourteenth of April, the auspicious New Year day
for both Sinhala and Tamil tribes of our country. It was a beautiful
spring day in England. Sunshine and occasional showers were forecast. My
drinking partner, the Sri Lankan Tamil fellow Sivapuranam Thevaram, his
wife Manimekalai and little son Senguttu were driving from Bridgetown
to London for a family visit. Thevaram was highly excited about it being
the Sinhala-Tamil New Year, and had chosen a Sri Lankan T-shirt to wear
that day. “Bought in Odel, no,” Senguttu teased, stretching the “no” with appropriate Sri Lankan intonation.
