When will we ever learn?

The government is carrying out search operations in Colombo and its suburbs these days. The man in charge is said to be former policeman Mr. Kotakadeniya. He is the adviser to the defense ministry about Police affairs or some thing. This guy is a member of the racist political party JHU. So I can assume that he is a racist himself. Now the TNA or Tamil National Alliance members of parliament are accusing the government of harassing innocent Tamil civilians in Colombo through these operations. TNA is the unofficial political front of the LTTE. So they are massing support for LTTE using these allegations. So is the police really harassing innocent civilians? If the police drag people from their houses at midnight and hold them in police stations for hours if not days just because they have a Tamil name, I think that is harassment. The guy in charge is a known racist. So the average Tamil civilian will tend to think that the government is being racist and harassing them. So they are pushed towards the LTTE. This is the same thing that happened in 1983 when 13 soldiers were killed by LTTE in the north and then president J. R. Jayawardene encouraged the Sinhala mobs to attack Tamil civilians in the south. This was the most barbaric episode of Sri Lankan history after independence in 1948. LTTE whose membership were not more than a couple of hundred at that time, received immense support after this Black July incident of 1983. So when the government is being extremist or when it looks like racist, the other extreme gets the benefit. So now the government is doing it again by assigning a known racist to a sensitive post. This is exactly what the LTTE wanted. This shows the immaturity of Mr. Rajapakse. I am not a fan of former president Mrs. Kumarathunga but she was much more tactful. I am not saying that the government should not carry out search operations but there are ways to do it without alienating the Tamil population. When will we ever learn?