Sri Lanka ‘can’t see the wood for the trees’ – Post incident?

Excerpts and link to article written by a classmate of mine a former Senior Intelligence Officer in the Army.
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he 1998 bomb attacks in Coimbatore, India have been the base for this research. Why? The attacks took place under similar circumstances and still holds water. Coimbatore, for some time, had been a hotbed of Islamic fundamentalism.

February 14, 1998 saw the group killing 58 people and injuring more than 200 people by carrying out 12 bomb attacks within an area of 12 sq km.

Suddenly, he (Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ) appeared on April 29 and surprised the world. His message was loud and clear. He said: “Your brothers in Sri Lanka have healed the hearts of the monotheists, with their suicide bombings, which shook the beds of the crusaders during Easter…

“The attacks would continue… We will be everywhere, in different places…

“Our battle today is a war of attrition to harm the enemy and they should know that Jihad will continue until doomsday… There will be more to come…”

The US involvement to raise the Mujahideen (Bin Laden) and the Indian involvement to raise the LTTE are all but similar. The damage they did to the core of society in the respective countries and the lessons learnt are difficult to ignore.

The saying “it’s not the gun that wins the battle, but the soldier behind it”, cannot be more true. It’s not the State but the people who will be decisive in winning this battle for the nation.

http://www.sundaytimes.lk/190512/sunday-times-2/sri-lanka-cant-see-the-wood-for-the-trees-post-incident-348919.html?

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I am 3/4ths Sri Lankan (Jaffna) Tamil, 1/8th Sinhalese and 1/8th Irish; a proper mutt. Maternal: Grandfather a Govt Surveyor married my grandmother of Sinhalese/Irish descent from the deep south, in the early 1900’s. They lived in the deep South, are generally considered Sinhalese and look Eurasian (common among upper class Sinhalese). They were Anglicans (Church of England), became Evangelical Christians (AOG) in 1940's, and built the first Evangelical church in the South. Paternal: Sri Lanka (Jaffna Tamil). Paternal ancestors converted to Catholicism during Portuguese rule (1500's), went back to being Hindu and then became Methodists (and Anglicans) around 1850 (ggfather). They were Administrators and translators to the British, poets and writers in Tamil and English. Grandfathers sister was the first female Tamil novelist of modern times I was brought up as an Evangelical even attending Bible study till about the age of 13. Agnostic and later atheist. I studied in Sinhala, did a Bachelor in Chemistry and Physics in Sri Lanka. Then did Oceanography graduate stuff and research in the US. I am about 60 years old, no kids, widower. Sri Lankan citizen (no dual) and been back in SL since 2012. Live in small village near a National Park, run a very small budget guest house and try to do some agriculture that can survive the Elephants, monkeys and wild boar incursions. I am not really anonymous, a little digging and you can find my identity.

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Siva
Siva
4 years ago

“The damage they did to the core of society in the respective countries and the lessons learnt are difficult to ignore”

Sinhalese are really anti-Tamil. They rape and murder in their thousands (1956, 1958, 1977, 1981, 1983 Anti Tamil pogroms and violence) and then they have the gall to blame India for creating Tamil militancy.

It’s as if they are selectively blind to the crimes their people have committed against Tamils well before the LTTE even killed a single Sinhala civilian. A coping mechanism perhaps to protect their ego as ‘good guys’ under threat from ‘Tamil invaders’.

The danger of this mentality is that they will continue to commit atrocities with impunity against Tamils. And their standard response will be ‘it never happened’. Like the tens of thousands who got slaughtered in 2009. And the thousands who got raped, i know survivors from 2009 who are raising army rape babies both in vanni and the diaspora. And it makes my blood boil. Evil people.

It is really sickening that this Barr kumar who claims to be Tamil despite never living in a Tamil community, or being able to speak Tamil peddles pro-army and govt views. Disgusting.

At least have some integrity and admit you are sri lankan of mixed heritage who identifies more with the Sinhalese (you learnt in Sinhalese medium, mixed more with Sinhalese people etc.) Rather than try and pull the wool over peoples eyes as If tamils sympathise with these abhorrent views.

Saurav
Saurav
4 years ago

Man the animosity is reminiscent of what we have in the North vis-v Indo-Pak

Curious
Curious
4 years ago

The Muslim council of Sri Lanka issued guidelines to promote common Sri Lankan identity and reduce Arabization of SL muslims; these include restriction on Azan, urging Muslims to avoid veils, removal of Arabic sign boards and restrictions on building new mosques.

https://imgur.com/a/g7QTEBW

Can India learn from this?

leopard
leopard
4 years ago
Reply to  Curious

I doubt BJP has the guts to even attempt this.

Saurav
Saurav
4 years ago
Reply to  leopard

Why should the BJP attempt that? Why don’t the respective State Govt “try” to attempt that and face the shitshow.

AnAn
4 years ago
Reply to  Curious

Many Indian muslims are already pretty moderate and eastern in culture Curious.

Do you think Asian muslims should unite to resist Arabist and Islamist philosophy?

Curious
Curious
4 years ago
Reply to  AnAn

Anan, gulf money is directly (though not exclusively) responsible for Arabization of South Asian Muslims. I wish the Muslim community can resist this and self-police on this issue, that would be the ideal way to go about it, but if not governments should step in to keep the peace by preventing this trend.

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