Imaginary World
I watched a political discussion on TV. I think that was on TNL last Monday. When I changed to that channel, there was a Buddhist monk (most probably a member of JHU) talking. He was saying that by looking at the history, it was evident that the LTTE eliminated its political opponents during times of ceasefire. He was accusing Mr. Ranil Wickramasinghe of letting the LTTE get an upper hand by declaring a ceasefire. I don't know history of which planet he was talking about. May be Mars. If you look at the history, was Mr. Doreappa (I don't know whether I am spelling this correctly) killed during a ceasefire? Was President Premadasa killed during a ceasefire with the Sri Lankan government? Was Mr. Rajiv Gandhi killed during a ceasefire with India? Was Mr. Thiruchelvam of TULF killed during any kind of ceasefire? Were the two consecutive mayers of Jafna killed during any kind of ceasefire? Did the LTTE try to kill President Kumarathunga during a ceasefire with the Sri Lankan government? There have been killings during certain times of ceasefire. But that number is much less than the number of political opponents killed during war. The JHU is living in an imaginary world. They are against any ceasefire agreement. (Like the blood thirsty Taliban.) They try to blame all the problems on the ceasefire agreement. I don't think they are lying. I think these kind of people create their own imaginary world to support their own theories that they have come up with, due to the hatred they have in their minds. The reality is no matter who signed the ceasefire agreement, it saved hundreds if not thousands of lives and also billions of rupees and the Sri Lankan economy. I had to change the channel because I didn't want to spend half an hour cleaning my own vomit in my living room.



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