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| Sunday, 19 February 2006 |
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Please forward your letters to [email protected] in plain text format within the e-mail message, since as a policy we do not open any attachments. S. B. and protest marches Almost everyday we were shown news on TV regarding the satyagraha conducted by the UNP, Leftist politicians who have lost all credibility in this country, so much so that they have to enter Parliament through the back door and one or two misguided Buddhist priests, all clamoured to have S. B. Dissanayake released from jail. A Buddhist priest has questioned why the President cannot talk about the release of SB when he (the President) has time to talk to the Tigers. Venerable Sir, the latter is a national issue, affecting the lives of millions of innocent people, whereas SB is only the concern of a handful of people trying to come into power and distract the country from other issues. I would like to ask all those who had participated in this campaign for freedom, whether they have ever led protest marches, strikes, fast unto death, satyagraha, satyakriya and whatever else may be coined, to protest against the murderer Prabhakaran, when he abducts innocent people, murders political opponents, recruits underage children. Did you people protest when three police officers were taken into custody by the Tigers and imprisoned? Have you asked the Tigers to release them? Have you protested when officers of the Intelligence Corps were gunned down brutally? You people, led by the Leader of the Opposition are hypocrites. It is a shame that you do not show the same compassion for the ordinary people who have suffered greater injustice than SB, both in Courts and outside, and these have been documented by international human rights institutions. Please send letters/postcards to the President demanding that he gets the policemen who are in Tiger custody released and send similar letters and protest against the Tigers for violating the ceasefire thousands of time. Show unity to the Tigers, so that the present government can go with the backing of all people to find a peaceful solution to the ethnic issue. Please think of the thousands of tsunami victims who are homeless, who do not have basic facilities, hardly any food, in spite of the millions of dollars sent for their relief. Venerable Buddhist priest, you should be in the forefront of this movement and you will surely attain Nibbana! - Lakshman Perera
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