You may have heard of “Poetic Justice.” What goes around comes around. We the silent minorities (and I don’t mean just the Tamils) believe that bad characters should be punished and good characters should be rewarded. For the time being things are going the other way. Saddam, Prabha, Bin Ladan, Gaddafi, Marcos, Mubarak to name just a few…all had their time in the sun. Rajapaksa and his GOAT brother will get theirs (someday soon) we hope. Nobody lives forever….ha..ha…ha..not even Sai Baba…like we found out recently!

‘UN asks Sri Lanka to answer new war crime charges’
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j-Ve7ZwMMduQLC88El9Pmercyg7g

We did lot of dirty things during the war and we can bring all of them to open as Indi suggest. If we do, what is your plan to address the awkwardness it creates? There are three ways I can think of top of my head.

1) Violently and voluntarily doing the correct thing, so we can still accept the concept people have to be good. We can find all the war criminals still alive and punish them. Since the nature of the war only leave victors live, declare war is null and void or something similar to that and starts a new conflict. Don’t you think it bit costly? Even for UNP? Even for Tamils in Sri Lanka?

2). Bring everything to open and stopping the correct thing happening violently. Sort of like in Zimbabwe. That will creates what I call, Mervin Silva situation (I killed him, so what), you get to be openly bad and continue bad things openly.

3) Third option is going back to glorified mutual sincere lie call forgiveness and still maintains the concept people have to be good. But this is impossible since entities involved in the conflict have no legal or emotional capacity for such.

Absolute truth is so fragile. Anything more than a whisper can make that vanish forver.

No one cares about SL. The only thing that SL is good for, from an international perspective, is that it can be used to destabilize India.

And finally, I know that terrible things were done during the war, by both sides. For instance, the mother of a friend of mine was caught in mortar fire, and has little metal pieces embedded in her body.

“Wars are bloody. But it’s over. Now we all have a place to put our feet on and work for the future of the country. (Isn’t that why you came down for in first place?) If what ever we do or say helps to worsen the situation. that’s a shame.”

Maybe what betters the situation for those people whose families got killed, is the truth. It may be better for the majority to bury their heads in the sand, but aren’t the people in camps citizens too.

What is needed is for:

1. Someone to uncover what really happened. And probably get killed in the process.
2. Convince the govt to issue a comprehensive report. Which is going to be hard, to say the least.

As for hundreds of innocent people being killed, by both sides, during the war, can any sensible person doubt the veracity of this.

BTW has anyone noticed that Mahinda’s campaign has stepped up a notch… with web advertisements on The Island, Daily Mirror, The Lanka Academic, Lanka Sri News websites.

War is a terrible thing and many terrible things happen in wars but at the end if it is going to create a peaceful environment for generations to come it can be justified on that ground. That is the lesson we can learn from the Second World War.

They did it, therefore we can do it. Lovely.

Lets take the logic a step further and do what Hitler did next, no problem no? Get rid of the buggers for good.

“Don’t know, don’t assume”?

or

“Prefer not to know”?

or

“Lets pretend we don’t know”?

Its not that this says anything to the outside world. Its says something about us, and perhaps why we don’t understand the outside world?

Also, the point I wanted to make was that you start off by saying it’s probably true and ends by saying it is true. The distinction is large, is all I’m saying.

Aren’t the Tamil people also our own people? I think it’s pretty pathetic when people just try to brush it all under the carpet and say “Oh war is bloody, but let’s move on now”. I’d like to see if even a single one of these commentators would be of the same opinion if it was their family members who were bombed,killed and imprisoned in camps.

Like Indi said, you can’t build a mansion of peace and prosperity on the foundations of misery and heartache of others. Eventually the whole edifice will come tumbling down around our ears. This denial of the truth will always come back to haunt us, if not now, in generations to come.