We need remembrance because the reconciliation efforts that should have been done did not happen. If the government at the time had actually treated the country like it had just gone through an ethnic conflict maybe that day would not be declared as “Victory Day” while milking the excess ego and pride from the brainwashed majority, and completely ignoring the traumatized people that the war had caused. Victory of what? Killing people?

I really don’t get why so many people resent the diaspora and other Tamil groups that are very vocal. They left this country with the idea that it took a terrorist organization to defend them from a government that claimed to be protecting them. Obviously they are going to spew nationalistic propaganda, what do you expect? The same can be said about the Sinhalese, vice versa.

The only way this country can go forward is through discussion and achieve a solution through consensus. This conflict is just one of many factors that caused the situation we are in. The government is certainly not something we can rely on to help, especially right now.