For my countrymen from Dr. Brian Seneviratne in Brisbane.
December 24, 2010 5 Comments
For my countrymen
http://www.tamildaily.net/2010/12/24/mock-indictment-of-the-rajapakses-via-oxford-union-by-dr-brian-seniviratne/
On this Christmas Eve, as a genetically half-Christian (the other half being Buddhist), I will cite a popular hymn about bringing “Glad Tidings of Great Joy” to members of my ethnic group, the (patriotic) Sinhalese in your country, who are shedding unnecessary tears because of Rajapaksa’s humiliation. As your famous bard would have said,
“Friends, Sinhalese, Countrymen, lend me your ears. I come not to bury Rajapaksa, but to praise him, for everyone says he is an honourable man. I come not to disillusion and upset you, but to comfort you. Weep not, for he will return as sure as day follows night, in one form or another, and will reappear somewhere, sometime, and destroy the ‘Tamil Tiger Diaspora’, as he did to the Tamil Tigers and the Tamil civilians, men, women and children, born and unborn, in the North and East of Sri Lanka. I give thee my troth. I have complete faith in him, and so should you. That is what patriotism is all about – to believe in tyrants even if they are proven murderers.
Stand close to the National Flag, even if it has a ferocious Lion with a menacing sword with his tail up, even if it is drenched with the blood of innocents. The person who said that “flags are bits of coloured cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead ”, and went on to rub this in, “when independent thinking people blindly yoke their art to the service of the nation, it’s time for all of us to sit up and worry”, is a traitor, like as the writer of this letter. He deserves execution, at the very least. That is what Mother Lanka expects of you. May the blessings of the Buddhist Triple Gem be on you, even if this is not what Lord Buddha taught, because Buddha got it wrong. Who says so? Our National Leader who is never wrong.”
Wishing you and your Union a more informed and responsible New Year in 2011
Brian Senewiratne
MA (Cantab), MBBChir(Cantab). MBBS (Hons) (Lond),
MD(Lond), FRCP(Lond). FRACP
December 24, 2010 5 Comments
For my countrymenhttp://www.tamildaily.net/2010/12/24/mock-indictment-of-the-rajapakses-via-oxford-union-by-dr-brian-seniviratne/
On this Christmas Eve, as a genetically half-Christian (the other half being Buddhist), I will cite a popular hymn about bringing “Glad Tidings of Great Joy” to members of my ethnic group, the (patriotic) Sinhalese in your country, who are shedding unnecessary tears because of Rajapaksa’s humiliation. As your famous bard would have said,
“Friends, Sinhalese, Countrymen, lend me your ears. I come not to bury Rajapaksa, but to praise him, for everyone says he is an honourable man. I come not to disillusion and upset you, but to comfort you. Weep not, for he will return as sure as day follows night, in one form or another, and will reappear somewhere, sometime, and destroy the ‘Tamil Tiger Diaspora’, as he did to the Tamil Tigers and the Tamil civilians, men, women and children, born and unborn, in the North and East of Sri Lanka. I give thee my troth. I have complete faith in him, and so should you. That is what patriotism is all about – to believe in tyrants even if they are proven murderers.
Stand close to the National Flag, even if it has a ferocious Lion with a menacing sword with his tail up, even if it is drenched with the blood of innocents. The person who said that “flags are bits of coloured cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead ”, and went on to rub this in, “when independent thinking people blindly yoke their art to the service of the nation, it’s time for all of us to sit up and worry”, is a traitor, like as the writer of this letter. He deserves execution, at the very least. That is what Mother Lanka expects of you. May the blessings of the Buddhist Triple Gem be on you, even if this is not what Lord Buddha taught, because Buddha got it wrong. Who says so? Our National Leader who is never wrong.”
Wishing you and your Union a more informed and responsible New Year in 2011
Brian Senewiratne
MA (Cantab), MBBChir(Cantab). MBBS (Hons) (Lond),
MD(Lond), FRCP(Lond). FRACP
