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Gaja
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 5 Jan 2009 00:02:58 GMT Report for Abuse
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Pharoah,
Tamil parents I noticed wanted their children to only speak English and be good Englishmen.
I guess this is what you would say about my children whose first langauge was English when they were in Sri Lanka. That was my way of not limiting myself to the Suwa Basha system that developed after Sinhala only legislation was introduced by SWRD.
In terms of substance - my children are connected to my core values of democracy and independence more than any other children known to me. This is because I truly practice them at all times. That's the best heritage my children have from me. I left Sri Lanka before the war because I did not contribute to the division by downsizing but made up to become more international.
My children respect the values of both sides and accept my feelings of faith. They do not know directly - any Tamils or Sinhalese outside our family circles. Hence they are not likely to express hatred like AB does even though he has not been directly affected. When one is not directly affected or when one has not shared the experience with one who has been directly affected one has to produce both sides through intellectual analysis - or limit one's expressions to completing the physical picture painted by the opposition. That is good practice of democracy. Under autocracy - AB would be confined to process work and would not have been allowed to represent his side at the public level. |
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5 Jan 2009 00:05:49 GMT Report for Abuse
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I rarely visit LNP simply because I do not grow as a Tamil
Even if you identify one international participant that ought to have been enough for you to visit LNP regularly. I find that international participant by consolidating and not by dividing. Then that other person is in our mind. It's like saying one memory through five senses. |
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 5 Jan 2009 00:06:31 GMT Report for Abuse
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Gaja,
I have suffered immensely by the SF in SL. But, at my professional level I found everything normal in SL. I have not shared much with my kids re the SF treatment that I received but, I have shared the fallacies of both communities. It is indeed sad that we belong to a community where killings are as natural as daily vitamins.
I hope we can just separate and start again. i know I will be crucified for this thought. But, I really do believe that the division is too great to be patched now. |
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5 Jan 2009 00:09:14 GMT Report for Abuse
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Kiwilankan,
I am sometimes forced to defend my ethnicity and sometimes I have to prove that I am a Tamil but, not an LTTE member.
I thought you said LTTE were an essential part of Tamils.
I am accused of terrorism by those who are hasty to find any Tamil to show their opposition to LTTE. Unless therefore you are fearful of losing status - what does it matter - whether they think you are LTTE or Not LTTE? They do not deny you are a Tamil. Just use it to represent Tamils genuinely from your heart. You will always feel right about it and would not need their endorsement. |
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As you all know NZ has a very small SL community compared to most western nations. This is true for both Tamil and Singhalese. I speak of the North island where the Tamil community is a replica of what goes on in SL and the Singhalese community is exactly like what they are in SL.
I recently met a couple of people who could converse, read and write each others languages. It amazed me. For the first time I felt proud that I was born in SL. I have not felt this way since SL won the world cup in 96. |
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Kiwilankan,
This frustrates me based on the fact that this is what is happening in reality in SL.
It is my belief that to those who are outside Sri Lanka, the Sri Lankan war ought to be a process through which they discover higher global values. When they 'show' local outcomes - they are acting in breach of the laws of democracy - which requires you to stay within the local borders of time and space for that purpose only - as in project basis. But then even our governments do not bind themselves and hence Australia's direct involvement in 9/11 and we had Bali bombing as return karma. |
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5 Jan 2009 00:16:48 GMT Report for Abuse
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Gaja,
Yes, Tamils do consider LTTE as part of their identity in my opinion. However, that does not mean that all tamils are Trained and ready to take up arms or for that matter ready to be a black tiger. That is what I meant. There is a definite difference. I am sure you will agree that there are the VP types and there will be the Ponnambalam types and so on... |
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5 Jan 2009 00:20:46 GMT Report for Abuse
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Kiwilankan,
I have not shared much with my kids re the SF treatment that I received
Then you have not completed the picture for them. I shared as it happened - my experiences with the armed forces here in Australia. Truth empowers as. Unless therefore there is a higher level through which your kids would complete the picture of reality - it would be good to share that with them.
Kiwilankan, when I went to work in Papua New Guinea - as a single mother with three kids - aged 4 to 8 - I faced many problems due to displacement and life in a land that had different legal system to Sri Lanka. Not many of my relatives were concerned for my safety then. Hence I do not give much weight to their current concerns about my safety when I go to Sri Lanka - especially to North and East. I take it as their own fears based on their experiences within their local borders.
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5 Jan 2009 00:21:01 GMT Report for Abuse
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| I do not believe that the Bali Bombing was return Karma...It looked very orchestrated to me...then again it is my opinion. Then again I am very sceptical of many things....I still believe that Diana's death was not an accident....it looked orchestrated by the Royal Family...What can I do...Maybe my Sri lankan upbringing has made me mistrust everything... |
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| I think there are elements of our own experiences that we leave out so that Children do not become biased towards any community....My daughter's class has two singhala girls. She walks home with them...I do not want to change her thinking in any way. My own brides maid was singhalese and many other examples that are good...so I will let them die with me... |
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