Comments on: A Letter to Basheer Segu Dawood: The Blind Shepherd https://groundviews.org/2016/02/25/a-letter-to-basheer-segu-dawood-the-blind-shepherd/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-letter-to-basheer-segu-dawood-the-blind-shepherd Journalism for Citizens Fri, 26 Feb 2016 04:18:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: puniselva https://groundviews.org/2016/02/25/a-letter-to-basheer-segu-dawood-the-blind-shepherd/#comment-60644 Fri, 26 Feb 2016 04:18:00 +0000 http://groundviews.org/?p=19130#comment-60644 In reply to puniselva.

Many Muslims and Tamils cannot thank the author enough.
This is a very critical time for them.
Segu Dawoods are going to continue to help Sinhala extremists in denying a dialogue for a political solution tothe ethnic problem.

]]> By: puniselva https://groundviews.org/2016/02/25/a-letter-to-basheer-segu-dawood-the-blind-shepherd/#comment-60642 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 10:08:00 +0000 http://groundviews.org/?p=19130#comment-60642 Thanks – this applies to all communities around the world.

]]> By: Justin https://groundviews.org/2016/02/25/a-letter-to-basheer-segu-dawood-the-blind-shepherd/#comment-60641 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 09:58:00 +0000 http://groundviews.org/?p=19130#comment-60641 The problem is not Basheer Dawood but the apartheid poi9cy practiced by Sri Lanka. Dawood is a messenger. so don’t kill the message.

The roots of the conflict are language and Land.

The experience of past 68 years is that the Sinhalese were greedy for
the land in the North and East, in spite of plenty of land available in
the South. The intent was racist, to marginalise the Tamil speaking
people in their traditional homeland.

It is political like the Apartheiod regime, chasing away “Blacks” to
make them “Whites” areas.

For the Tamil speaking people, because of the past experience, not
controlling their own land is something they cannot live with in the
future

They are not interested in the land in the South..The Sinhalese can keep
them.

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