By a frustrated thrice registered Tamil citizen living in Colombo
This is about www.citizens.lk.
I am concerned as I am sure you are about the racial profiling (in addition to a whole load of things that are problematic about this registration drive) this regime seeks to do through the registration process.
We should consider a campaign to ask people to ignore this registration drive.
An alternative is to ask people to register all Sinhala speaking people as ‘Tamils’ since there is no criteria as to how you decide on how someone belongs to a particular ethnicity and not the other.
I confess that i am typing this email wondering whether this will be accessible by someone who wont like its contents. Committing to a campaign asking people not to register or to distort it is without saying will put those involved in danger.
So what are we to do? Let this go by as well?