From Weliweriya to Grandpass
by Tisaranee Gunasekara-August 11, 2013
“Fanatics are picturesque; mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reason…”
Nietzsche (The Anti-Christ)
( August 11, 2013, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) For the regime, Weliweriya was an unexpected, unwelcome and an ominous digression. With the mob-attack on the Grandpass mosque, Sri Lanka is back in the familiar Rajapaksa-groove.
In Weliweriya, the police felt unable to deal with a group of peaceful demonstrators. The army stepped into the breach, ready for war, and led by a Brigadier, no less. The peaceful demonstrators were shot at and assaulted.
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"A new anti-minority phobia can take the Sinhala-Buddhist mind away from really existing problems. When one is blinded by the fear of the ‘Other’ one has little time or inclination to care about prices or pollution, bad governance or despotism. One is too obsessed with halal or conversions, Sharia or the 13th Amendment to care about real problems."
