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 on MS. Because hope is the only thing left for the Tamil people.
Do they consider Tamils and Muslims as citizens of this country, who have their democratic right of voting their representatives? If they can't understand and accept the simple fact as Sri Lankans they voted out the MR, I feel it is better to divide the country and have separate elections for those regions and separate leaders. Sri Lanka does not have separate leaders for Sinhalese, Tamils or Muslims, there is only one sovereign of Sri Lanka.
They also have to bear in mind because the North and East could not vote in 2005 election due to decision taken by LTTE based on some unknown reasons, MR came into power and defeated the LTTE. But there is always the other alternative if North and East had their right to vote in 2005, definitely Ranil would have been elected and we possibly would have been able to find a different solution in which innocent lives were not sacrificed. What MR has achieved of many possibilities to defeat LTTE, the country is put into a negative peace/ victor's peace which could have been turned into positive peace but he failed to do so.
The only occasion where the ethnic problem was partly addressed was when the 13th amendment was introduced to the constitution. But that amendment one which was imposed by Sri Lanka. If we wait for the majority to give us a solution, I sincerely think that we would be waiting for the eternity or until the day where there are no Tamils left in this country.
I have a dream, in which a Sri Lankan who is a Tamil/ Muslim becoming the sovereign of this land at least once in my life as it is happening in USA now. Considering what has been going on, it is a just a day dream, even thinking about that dream is considered blasphemy by the majority of majority in this land. But in a democratic country it should be a reality.
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 on MS. Because hope is the only thing left for the Tamil people.
Do they consider Tamils and Muslims as citizens of this country, who have their democratic right of voting their representatives? If they can't understand and accept the simple fact as Sri Lankans they voted out the MR, I feel it is better to divide the country and have separate elections for those regions and separate leaders. Sri Lanka does not have separate leaders for Sinhalese, Tamils or Muslims, there is only one sovereign of Sri Lanka.
They also have to bear in mind because the North and East could not vote in 2005 election due to decision taken by LTTE based on some unknown reasons, MR came into power and defeated the LTTE. But there is always the other alternative if North and East had their right to vote in 2005, definitely Ranil would have been elected and we possibly would have been able to find a different solution in which innocent lives were not sacrificed. What MR has achieved of many possibilities to defeat LTTE, the country is put into a negative peace/ victor's peace which could have been turned into positive peace but he failed to do so.
The only occasion where the ethnic problem was partly addressed was when the 13th amendment was introduced to the constitution. But that amendment one which was imposed by Sri Lanka. If we wait for the majority to give us a solution, I sincerely think that we would be waiting for the eternity or until the day where there are no Tamils left in this country.
I have a dream, in which a Sri Lankan who is a Tamil/ Muslim becoming the sovereign of this land at least once in my life as it is happening in USA now. Considering what has been going on, it is a just a day dream, even thinking about that dream is considered blasphemy by the majority of majority in this land. But in a democratic country it should be a reality.
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