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Tuesday, January 11, 2005

Scavenging on the misery

There are various organizations trying to help the tsunami victims. One is called the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna Sahana Seva (JVP relief service) which is a part of the JVP political party which is part of the government. Earlier there were allegations that donations made by others were being distributed by the JVP pretending that the aid was from JVP. Now these people are pretending to help the victims. I saw one group wearing smart sleeveless jackets custom made for this even with JVP logo and other propaganda printed at work. They were wearing nice jackets. They had put up a lot of banners all over the place. They had a three wheeler with a loud speaker and they were hard at work telling the people that they were working. But the funny thing was more than 75% of their workers didn't even have a shovel or any other tool. What they were doing was taking one cement block at a time and taking it from one place and putting it on another 5 meters away. I saw some of them picking up 10 or 15 bread fruit leaves by hand and taking it to a rubbish heap. You may ask what's wrong with putting rubbish on a rubbish heap. Well, the entire place was full of rubbish. The entire area is destroyed. How long do you think it would take if everybody collected 10 leaves at a time? It may take 15 years or more. This was just a show. But their loud speaker kept on blasting. They were warning the people not to get tricked by people who pretended to be helping the victims. (Or in other words, don't get tricked by anybody other than the JVP themselves.)

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