The New Opium And Its Addicts
| by Tisaranee Gunasekara
“…people’s stupidity and people’s good intentions influence events no less than do the necessities of the economic struggle.”
Czeslaw Miloz (The Captive Mind)
( June 1, 2014, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Defence authorities have suspended paying disabled soldiers their salaries .
These soldiers became disabled – and therefore unemployable - because they fought in the Eelam Wars. According to Rajapaksa logic, these are ‘War Heroes” and ‘Patriots’. And they have been deprived of their monthly salaries, on which many of them – and their families – would have been dependent.
