Self-Inflicted Wounds, Chandrika’s Sorrows And Other Tidbits

Chandrika | File photo

By Malinda Seneviratne -July 4, 2014 

Malinda Seneviratne

Self-infliction 

There’s penance.  Self-flagellation.  People do all kinds of masochistic things.  But is it only Ven Watareka Wijitha Thera who is self-inflicting cuts and blows?  Isn’t it true that the Government cooks its own goose? Isn’t it true that it is because the Opposition cooks its goose that it cannot make capital of goose-cooking indulged in by the Government?  Isn’t the entire country shooting itself in the proverbial foot, one way or the other, all the time?  Isn’t it true that we don’t need any enemies because we do the work of the enemy ourselves (for free)?

Chandrika’s sorrow

The lady is upset.  She’s upset over religious intolerance. She’s upset about ‘Aluthgama‘.  The lady abhors violence, she would have us believe.  Well, 15 years is a long time, true, but not long enough for anyone to forget the Wayamba Provincial Council election, least of all the person who was in charge of all that at the time, a person who didn’t shed one tear!

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