2015 Presidential Election Fever
The day the election results were released, on 9th of January, racist/hate posts started to appear that the "country has been betrayed, Sri Lanka is going to be destroyed, Tamils and Muslims voted out the Mahinda Rajapaksha, Sinhalese are going to be extinct in this country, Tamils and Muslims are taking revenge". I am disgusted, distressed and worried of these posts on social media. I hoped there would be a new beginning for the ethnic minorities with the new president but we are compelled to fight these racist ideas even though it is in social media. Even when Tamils and Muslims are taking the most possible democratic way to express their opinion, these racist posts are appearing on social media. They voted as Sri Lankans, for the leader of unified Sri Lanka. They voted MR out because he failed in reconciliation in the past 5 years not because MS had addressed the ethnic issue adequately in his election manifesto. I would say Tamils and Muslims are taking a leap of faith