A bomb blast… And another… And I’m tired of hearing the same news in an almost recycled fashion every other week.
It’s that much worse not being at home and that initial moment when your rampant thoughts wander into forbidden territory- family and friends… Even if you heard the same thing last week and the month before- it’s still awful. Many of us have simply become numb to this insanity of war which we don’t understand any more. Whose war is this? Why has it been a vicious stalemate for nearly 25 years now? It’s not a war of ethnicity but a war of corrupt politics that has claimed the lives of over 70,000 people to date and yet we still don’t take a stand and say enough.
There are no winners in war and although the government sees it appropriate to have a frickin’ fiesta when they get something right, they forget that the LTTE doesn’t forgive or forget. Then a few weeks and several hundred fire crackers later we see innocent people- mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters and children being swept up in death in a war that is not theirs. In a nation where the Sinhalese and Tamils essentially have no conflict between them- what are they the government and the LTTE fighting for? A plot of land? Independence? Does it matter how it ends, if it means that it will be the end of all these pointless deaths of innocent victims? Why hold on to a piece of land? I’m not saying we need to divide Sri Lanka for us to achieve peace, but what is the point of all this killing? They’re traitors both groups, profiting from dealing in death by continuing with a war that has lost its meaning to the very people they claim to be fighting for. The government’s stance on the matter is simply advocating terrorism by proxy. The LTTE claim to fight for the Tamil nation but those who care for their people wouldn’t call for sacrifice or use children to achieve their cowardly means.
What confuses me the most is why we the people, don’t take a stand against war and death? We’re fighting a ceaseless battle- waiting for a festering wound to heal. It’ll only be a matter of weeks before the band-aid is ripped out and and the wound bleeds again. Why do we wait for it to become someone else’s problem or wait for politicians to continue to do nothing and line their pockets in the process?
We need to stop waiting on the situation in Sri Lanka to fix itself. We need to take a stand. We need to say NO to war… We need to become the change before we lose all hope…
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