July ’83 and June ‘14 SL Muslims at the
cross roads – 6
By Izeth Hussain-July 4, 2014, 9:19 pm
Whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first drive mad. – Greek saying
There has been much thinking, writing, and discussion on the Aluthgama/Beruwela outrages, so that we can now try to draw conclusions with some measure of confidence about what those outrages really signify. There seems to be a fairly widespread notion that July ’83 and June ’14 constitute two great divides in Sinhalese/minority relations, with the difference that that in 1983 the outrages were of course much worse. Both divides had behind them two common factors: an excess of drunken power compounded by ethnolunacy in the two Governments of the time.
