THE BAND MEMBERS are a French Bernard playing the drums, an American Rodham playing the trumpet, a Viennese Legger playing the violin and the bandmaster mini David playing the mouth like a grinding organ. This silly band has only one boring tune that is truly very flat and repetitious. "Ceasefire", "negotiation", "human rights" "humanitarian law", "R2P" are among their constant irritating refrains. Little Sri Lanka heard them all without flinching. Yet refused to pay or play their tune when the hat went round for the collection with robust demands for it to comply. Little Lanka knew that the falsetto voices of these egocentric grandees were not genuine and accompanying music was merely a lullaby to appease the Tiger in his den of iniquity and his acolytes in the western capitals. That Tiger is dead as a dodo and only the foolish will still back him now.
Bandmaster David probably does not know that his ancestors did not conquer this country. They could not defeat our valiant soldiers, some of whom had only bows and arrows to defend themselves against the British army. They obtained Sri Lanka fraudulently by signing a piece of paper wherein they obligated themselves to perform many duties. They reneged on their promises, and subjugated this country and imposed their rule on Sri Lankans. Little Sri Lanka has had first hand experience of the trickery, duplicity and deceptions practiced by the foreign usurpers of power in our country. So our mini David should not be surprised or angry that his music was unappreciated and discarded in this country. This will continue to be the case until such time that he and his band stop their ceaseless, meaningless tune and listen to the new music emanating from all over this island.
This land is a free land, it is truly a sovereign country, it has defeated comprehensively a terrorist group groomed and secretly supported by some western countries. It is now one country with one flag and one democratic government. Though many races live here, there is in reality only one people-Sri Lankans. They live by the laws passed by their elected representatives in Parliament. They are determined to sort out the differences and disagreements among them by discussion and compromises and to oppose all foreign impositions. They are friends of all countries even the lands of the Mini-Silly-Band.
Of course there is at the moment a huge humanitarian problem of displaced people due to the activities of a megalomaniac terrorist. It was on behalf of these people that the western world as well as the Mini-Silly-Band was singing dirges and lamentations with copious tears. Well, as genuine supporters of these hapless people, they should now open their purse-strings and help these people to get back to their homesteads and earn their living and live like other Sri Lankans. This is the new Sri Lanka and the chorus emanating is sentimentally that from Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana "Ecce gratum et optatum ver reducit gaudia: purpuratum floret pratum, sol serenat omnia, iam iam cedant tristia! (behold the pleasant and longed for spring brings back joyfulness, violet flowers fill the meadows, the sun brightens everything, sadness is now at an end!). May all those who slander this country stand condemned.
Open letter to David MilibandI wrote to you personally over a month ago under registered cover and also sent you an Email, but did not receive even an acknowledgement, which should not have surprised me, considering your actions and statements in recent days. Tell me, what have you got against this country? You seem to be steeped in hate and prejudice, unbecoming of a person holding your office; this has been evident from the day you assumed duties. We in this country recall your message on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of our independence; it was in such poor taste that it was a disgrace to your country and to your gracious Queen, whom we too respect, and the British people. We wondered then as to whether you were fit to hold this important post.
You appear to be so self-righteous, it is quite unbelievable. This is perhaps because of your immaturity, which you yourself admitted to, when you visited India not so long ago. Yes your learning curve can be vertical but it should not be at the expense of the British people, for it is they who, to put it mildly, are acutely embarrassed by your stupidity. The extent of your prejudice was evident by the fact that you never asked the LTTE (I presume I do not need to recount their horrendous acts of terrorism) to surrender. Does that not speak for itself? This itself proved your motive, which was not to save those who were being held hostage, as a human shield but to save Prabhakaran. Such was your ‘Humanitarian concern’, which was and is, absolutely bogus.
You have been indulging in a cheap political stunts, having prostituted yourself for the money bags of the pro-LTTE lobby in the UK, who appear to have bought up Siohhain Mc Donoagh representing Mitchum and Joan Ryan of Enfield North, Simpson of Mid Norfolk Davy MP for Enfield, Simon Hughes, and MP Andrew Dismore amongst others, to support their cause. All of you have been cheating the British taxpayer and have been caught with your hands in the public till. But you have the gumption to accuse the government of Sri Lanka of using Cluster bombs and indiscriminate shelling, (not once did they or you refer to the cowardly LTTE holding civilians as a human shield nor ask them to surrender). You continued your call for the government to immediately call a ceasefire. You and your friends also threatened that if Sri Lanka did not do so, Britain would take the initiative to have Sri Lanka suspended from the Commonwealth. Miliband, are you not aware that there is no ‘British Commonwealth anymore? And further, you took the issue to the UN Security Council, claiming stupidly that this internal conflict was a threat to international peace and security and came within Chapter 07 of the UN Charter.
There is indeed much justifiable anger against you in this country; the British High Commission was attacked as a result of your actions, I would seriously advise you not to return to this country ever again for I doubt that the government could protect you from the anger of the people.
I am making this letter public as you did not respond to my earlier letter.
(Those were selected from the Opinion page of “The Island” Newspaper)
