What can best be described as a strategic and political movie, the ruling party decided to show one of my favourite films on KTV this evening...Kannathil Muthamittal
I have seen this film many times before, but with all that is being reported in the press in recent times, it was as if I was watching the film for the very first time!
A couple of days ago, the front page of all the major dailies showed a photo of tens and thousands of civilans fleeing the No Fire Zone. In the movie too, there's a scene of many people fleeing a town called Mangala. Honest to God, the picture splashed on the dailies could have been a still from this movie..
Throughout the film, I kept annoying my dad asking him several times, "Is it really like this", "Do they really do that", "Does all this happen". Scenes of LTTE training camps, women cadets being taught the nuances of machine guns, cyanide necklaces disturbed me no end!
Switch over to NDTV a couple of hours later and the big fight was all about the war in sri lanka! You had representatives from the congress, dmk, aidmk, senior journalists, pro-ltte activitists etc. The big fight lacked a punch, turning into a yelling contest with each panelist trying to out-do each other without even listening to what the other had to say...debate aside, you also had a very sweaty vikram chandra who could barely control the panel and the audience.
As a tamilian, and a proud one at that, the plight of tamilian civilians in lanka does greatly disturb me. However, setting myself on fire or calling a state wide bandh in another country will hardly achieve anything to help their cause.
its a pity that political parties are using this unfortunate situation as fodder for their election manifesto...while it is easy for me to pass remarks without first hand experiencing the problem, an educated solution would be to .............??!!??!!
Saturday, April 25, 2009
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...hope that all these MORONS see the light.
Wouldn't be educated?
'Hope' is too strong and impossible too. I'd go with 'wish'.
:D
"its a pity that political parties are using this unfortunate situation as fodder for their election manifesto"
What else did you expect? in politics, every tragedy is an opportunity to be milked...
and for some situations, there are no easy solutions... educated or otherwise...
plight of civilians in any conflict is bad. Innocent civilians always get screwed. (That is the best reason to join the army....Join the army, don't be an innocent civilian any longer)
What I find unfortunate is the support many parties voice, for something that is essentially a Terrorist organization. Imagine some characters in Sri Lanka speaking in favour of LeT or JeM or whatever acronym is doing the rounds these days.
What happens in Sri Lanka happens in our very own country too - Muslim separatists in J&K, Naxal/ Maoist groups in the North East/ Central India, Mizo/Naga separatists in the North east can all sing a song just as sad. Guerrilla warfare is one thing, but when part of the strategy of an organization is to raise terror in a civilian population, whether it be the enemies' or it's own, we have a problem. LTTE is guilty of both. The best case scenario in Sri Lanka is that once the LTTE is overthrown, Rajapakse hands over a newly formed "Tamil autonomous region" to a UN administered (non-Indian/non-Paki/non-Bangla/non-Chinese) force while an autonomous Ealam government is formed, a la Hong Kong.
@vivek - amen to that..
@srk - ideally that should not be the scenario...seems a bit ridiculous when u have one party blaming the other party for the atrocities committed in another country!!!
@austra - as long as there are fanatics, even among the educated..there will always be support for these extreme organisations.
@idling - i guess peacefully co-existing is completely ruled out?? :(
"one death is a tragedy, a 100 is just statistics"
I read this somewhere and I don't remember who said these words... But it is true..isn't it? its all just politics and statistics... nobody really cares enough to do anything about it!
We can just hope that the vellai pookal blossom fast !
I dont know why the rest of the world is so numb to the situation in SL.. Except for India(or indian political parties) no one in the world seem to be bothered !!
my 2 paise.
Forgetting and forgiving the past and working towards peaceful co-existence is probably the most challenging thing for SL to achieve in the next few years.
With the demise of LTTE, I hope there are more avenues of discussions between Tamils and SL govt and hopefully agreements which brings peace. Violence beget violence not peace! LTTE found out the hard way.
Lets hope for peace!
I think the town name is Maangulam.
Its all about the LAND and ethnic identity !
Fortunately our generation and Indians in particular haven't seen how it is to be a large-scale war victim, esp. during WW-II (word war) days... Jews and concentration camps !
Its all about survival :-(
Sottai going on unnaviradam was ultimate. He fasted from 7.30 to 12.30. 5 hours! Apdi patha all of us are on unnaviradams daily
Political issues rarely have a simple, straight-forward solution as a lot of factors interplay.
Even an educated mind will not easily be able to come up with a solution for problems like this.
an educated solution would be to .............suspend educated thoughts, use common sense and resort to the world's oldest cliche/truth -
Do unto others as you would have others to do unto you.
@perplexed - i agree with the quote..but not entirely with your sentiment...there are ppl out there who are genuinely concerned and are attempting to better the situation...several countries have sent aid supplies over being a prime example
@vinod - once again i disagree...like i said to perplexed..many countries have sent over food supplies, medicines, clothes...
@sriram - my bad! ur right..it is maangulam...and as far as ur 2paise goes...i think its worth some more :)
@balu - hmmm...and im kinda glad for tat...on a lighter note...i dont think i would do too well as a war victim or in a concentration camp!!
@coconut - lol!!! ur absolutely right...
@anjana - educated or otherwise, there is somethin which can and should be done...
@satish - that will be never ending then...you killed someone in my community...now il kill someone in yours..someone has to be the bigger person!
It might sound stupid, but if these leaders really feel for the fellow tamils, why not call them back to tamil heartland - tamil nadu and provide them freedom and independence.
Instead of channeling funds from all over the world to arm the LTTE, why not spend on the education infrastructure of these relocated people.
India is already a billion plus population a few million added to it won't make a difference. If lankans dont want to acknowledge the ethnic tamil population, I say we call them back home!!!
Better still, lets deport our genuinely concerned leaders to SL!!!
If we could step forward to share our land i am sure we would be robbing the news channels of trp ratings and our leaders a manifesto without the war being there any longer.
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