tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2468613367801394261.post8022503188797467527..comments2024-03-13T21:38:21.872+05:30Comments on Sri Lanka Guardian: We need inter-ethnic, inter-religious bridge building, not the political pie-cutting pretext of "devolution"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2468613367801394261.post-22580207188511747242009-09-11T22:00:40.561+05:302009-09-11T22:00:40.561+05:30Great Article from Mr. Rasalingam. We need more m...Great Article from Mr. Rasalingam. We need more moderates like you to come forward and speak the truth. As a Sinhalese Buddhist, I agree with you and part of the problem with the Tamils who complain is that they don't want to participate in the mainstream and choose to blame it on discrimination. The British given privileges for the elite Tamils has never left. They do not have the strength of character to ever admit that they and the extremist Tamil separation and segregation, the need to be exclusive has contributed to all of this mess in no small measure. Being Sinhalese Buddhist is not a crime. In fact, Sinhalese Buddhists saved many Tamil lives, they feed the poor and now take care of the IDPs. It must be a two way street to pass in peace.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01013736890060721411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2468613367801394261.post-79238286325146306072009-05-12T23:27:00.000+05:302009-05-12T23:27:00.000+05:30The moral failue of the Chruch is a historical fac...The moral failue of the Chruch is a historical fact. The chruch opposed free education, free health, trade unionism and even independence.bodhi Dhanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15313799811904183535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2468613367801394261.post-90231561433588859112009-05-12T15:49:00.000+05:302009-05-12T15:49:00.000+05:30Sebastian should be congratulated for rational thi...Sebastian should be congratulated for rational thinking as well as for the lucid presentation. <br /><br />The convincing of the various interacting parties with their own selfish agendas would be the most difficult part.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12942679964528698825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2468613367801394261.post-18623862477829622842009-05-11T20:15:00.000+05:302009-05-11T20:15:00.000+05:30This article expresses, at long last, the importan...This article expresses, at long last, the important message that the church has failed to give moral leadership. or morally mislead its flock. Holding people hostage, and using hospitals and Churches as the shield for shelling were things the Tigers did in Vakarai, Madhu and many other places. The Madhu incident is a shameful blot on the catholic Church which made no clear denouncement. The church collaborated with the LTTE. But the real canker began long ago. As this writer has pointed out, the concept of "exclusive Tamil homelands", worked out by Chelvanayagam and others is as odious as the "apartheid" concept of the Afrikaanar separate ethnic- villages. The church system could not condemn it as people like Chelvanayagam were the candle bearers of the church. WE were young people when the Sinhala students who were at the newly opened Jaffna University (1974) were assaulted and thrown out, together with one of the registrars (the sinhalese one). There was no revange attack in Colombo or Peradeniya etc. Perhaps all that anger seethed underneath and came out in later race riots. Ethnic cleansing by the Tamil nationalists started long before the LTTE, but there was never a word of condemnation uttered by the church. Today I live in Mt. Lavinia, and thankfully enough, there has been no significant attack on the Tamils by the Sinhalese during my adult life, in spite of attempts by the LTTE to create back-lash attacks. This attempt to create exclusive Tamil areas under the label of "devolution" or "political packages" is bound to misfire, once again creating anti-Tamil sentiments where the Tamils living in the south will have to face the cry "Tamils, go to your Tamil homelands". Bishop Chikera has to pray (or pay) for averting catastrophe in the whole country<br />But will God listen to the prayers of a morally mis-gotten church?jean-pierrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16801141652787406058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2468613367801394261.post-1442584155489927322009-05-11T16:45:00.000+05:302009-05-11T16:45:00.000+05:30Well done! A heroic deed indded in writing this ar...Well done! A heroic deed indded in writing this article in the present climate, and going against the grain of vulture politics of the TTTs.Ram Munihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03668197863547565070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2468613367801394261.post-59162989423114767992009-05-11T14:57:00.000+05:302009-05-11T14:57:00.000+05:30Sebastian Rasalingam, thank you, sir, for saying i...Sebastian Rasalingam, thank you, sir, for saying it like it is. Let those who have ears to hear listen. The platitudes of hypocrites never did any good.Seshahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04174831893231277348noreply@blogger.com