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The Editor
Globe and Mail
444 Front Street West
Toronto, Ontario
Dear Editor,
I refer to the article titled ‘Let’s help Sri Lanka win the peace’ by Lakdhar Brahimi and Edward Mortimer published in your edition of September 17, 2009.
Firstly, I would like to strongly object to the depiction of a distorted version of Sri Lanka’s national flag placed above the article, wherein you have substituted a baseball bat in place of the sword held by the lion adorning the main body of the flag which is the emblem representing the Sinhalese people with a recorded history of over 2500 years, to which was added two stripes of green and orange at the time of independence from Britain in 1948 to represent the minority communities of Moors (Muslims) and Tamils respectively who subsequently arrived and became part of the ethnic mosaic of the people of this island homeland. Here too, you have distorted the flag by running additional lines vertically in these two strips to make it appear like the steel bars of a prison cell and inserted figures of a female carrying a child and another of a male person who have been incarcerated in this segment of the flag.
Sri Lanka’s national flag with the added green and orange stripes was adopted by the first national parliament of Sri Lanka as recommended by a multi-ethnic committee representing all communities. It is the flag of a sovereign nation of 21 million people with a rich culture and extraordinary heritage. Your vulgar attempt to denigrate the national flag of a sovereign people and insult that country only reflects on the utter lack of culture, norms and decency that one would expect of the editorial staff of a national newspaper in the first world.
I am aware that the people of this country were greatly disturbed when Canada’s national flag was displayed upside down on an important occasion. How will they react if someone were to draw figures of Native Canadians and Black Slaves being bled and their blood turning the colour of the Maple Leaf to its red hue? I call on you to apologise for this act of denigration to all Sri Lankans, and refrain from such demeaning acts in future.mun meka karala thiyenne eeye pereda....munwa ula thiyala aayeth ula thiyanna ooni...
