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By Dr C P Thiagarajah
An Indian news reported that a Stupa (a dome) made of empty cartridge shells and remnants of weaponry left behind from Sri Lanka's long civil war had become a major tourist attraction in Mahabodhi Temple at Bodhgaya, in India’s Bihar State. This monumental piece of work by Sri-Lankan was donated this February by a military group from Sri Lanka, apparently to spread a message of peace among world citizens.
The statistic of civilian disfigured or whose body parts were amputated in the war was disclosed by the award-winning French charity Handicap International (HI) that works with victims of war throughout the world. HI’s Sri Lanka director Satish Misra said the number of maimed could be "about 25,000 to 30,000 people". Amanda Hodge, a UK based independent journalist also wrote in the web that up to 30,000 civilians trapped in the last days of Sri Lanka's civil war had been left seriously disabled with lost limbs or paralysis. Mr Satish Mishra further said the group had delivered more than 1000 sets of crutches, wheelchairs and other devices to civilians in refugee camps in the country's north and east. All 30,000 people will require these types of aids to maintain mobility.
This was not the bloodless liberation of Tamils that Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse claimed to have brought about by prosecuting this war unilaterally with help from the International Community. Having banned journalists, international non governmental organisations and neutral observers from the conflict zone, this war had been fought without any witnesses to support his claims except the biased Sinhalese communalists.
Though the GSL master minded to keep the genocide away from the world attention by press, other media gag and banning foreign NGOs into the war front/zone the watchful eye of the bulwark of democracy America had caught the holocaust in its satellite photographs. Here is the evidence.
The war was in fact a massacre of the innocents; the annihilation of the Vanni population. Mr Gordon Weiss the resident representative of the UN at the time of the war had told the media that nearly 40000 Tamil civilians were sacrificed/martyred in the war at Mullivaikal and the ‘No Fire Zones’.
Sinhala people who total only about 18 million in the world think themselves to be ideologist but they exhibited their foolishness in erecting this sinister symbol at Buddha Gaya. Weapons of Mass Destructions (WMD) representing peace was never heard of in the history of any religion. The Buddha himself was clear on politics as well as on war and peace. Buddhism advocates and preaches non-violence and peace as its universal message. It does not approve any kind of violence or destruction of life. According to Buddhism there is nothing that can be called a just war. The term is a façade behind which hide hatred, cruelty, violence, and massacre.
The present day Buddhist monk in Sri-Lanka give strange interpretation to Buddhist philosophy probably because they are frogs in a well and because they a community confined to only 18 million and do not interact with other Buddhists. The first sermon of the Buddha in the Deer Park at Isipatana (the resort of the seers) near Benares to his five bhikkhu disciples was on the Middle path. Middle path is the path between two ways of life that are at two extremes. One is the devotion to the indulgence of sense of pleasures which is painful and unworthy and the other is self mortification which is also painful and unworthy. The middle path is the Noble Eightfold Path namely right view, right thought, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration.
The Buddha even prescribed the duties of a head of a government in his teaching of the ‘Ten duties of a King’. They are dana (charity or generosity), sila ( High moral character), pariccaga (sacrifice for the good of the people), ajjava (Honesty and integrity), maddava (Kindness), tapa (austerity in habits), akkodha (free from hatred), avihimsa (non-violence), kbanti (tolerance) and avirodha (non opposition). The Buddhist government of MR broke all these rules preached by Lord Buddha.
The Tamil Diaspora is exposing all these tyranny because they love their place of origin. Lord Byron said “He who loves not his country, can love nothing”. Tamils love peace and love freedom and want self rule for themselves in their traditional homeland of the North and East of Sri-lanka. They want to die for their homeland as prompted by Lord Macaulay in his poem. “And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his gods”.
Dr C P Thiagarajah
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