So keep writing. voice of the unheard will be the music of tomorrow.

After subduing Terrorism, I’m sure all the problems of inflation, drug usage, poor education, terrible health care, corruption, nepotism will just magically disappear!

http://www.madinpursuit.com/pakistan/paki_13b.htm

“I reflect on the fact that the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka which gets all the attention is only one element in the matrix of social contradictions that are contributing to the war situation. Caste, class, gender, employment, poverty, resources and land issues are also involved…”

While no-one should pretend that the racial (let’s call a spade a spade) division isn’t the most salient one operating in our society, it’s well worth pointing out that there are other fissures, too.

Sri Lanka is a nation in fragments. It was ever thus. We don’t need a Prabhakaran to divide our nation-state for us; we have already done that for ourselves, far more comprehensively and successfully than he ever could.

In essence the leftists made the South a rebel country with a rebel constitution in 1972. Since then we have been a rebel state nurturing rebellion.

Rebellion….. rebellion….. rebellion every where. When and how do we become disciplined?

We cannot do it ourselves. We desperately need outside help.

Unloading a T56 can be done by pressing one button on the receiver and is the first thing you’re taught when given one. A 6-year-old can do it — and in fact they do. I have watched the little son of a Polonnaruwa homeguard dismantle and clean his father’s T56.

I have also never seen or even heard of policemen using homemade copies of T56s, nor of any local gunsmiths capable of making anything beyond single-shot smooth-bore weapons.

Mr Ratnayake, please don’t lie. Why don’t you actually get out from behind your desk and go and see what you’re allegedly writing about. There are many worrying things happening due to the militarization of our society, and it would be great if you could write about them instead of making up stuff.