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Post-election, Post-war Thoughts

There are two moments in my life, in which I was ashamed of being born in this country due to events occurring in my lifetime. The first is on 19th of May, 2009, the first of post-war days, in which people were celebrating the victory of the bloody war in the streets, amidst thousands of fellow citizens were stranded homeless affected by war. No one cared to remember the civilian casualties and at least pray for them, nor the political leaders claimed to care about those people both dead and alive. That was the first moment, I strongly felt that Tamils were alienated from this country, though during war times, Tamils had to be searched for a long time at check points. The second moment is on 9th of January, 2015, the day the Presidential elections were released and the social media were flooded with those statuses yet again separating the minorities from the country. All the hopes, I had for this country got shattered when I saw some of my friends had shared those statuses. It reinfo