When will Prabhakaran understand human sorrow?
Rajarathnem Radeeswaran
M. Wasantha faints ... murmurs ...cries and looks at the main door. She
does not care about fla****ng cameras or microphones and journalists or
TV crews, who time to time try to get her views. She is in the news. Her
son who was her pet has made her prominent at the cost of his life.
Still unable to believe that her son is no more, she waits untill he
comes running asking for his favourite dish which he did not eat that
Friday, the day he wor****pped and hugged her last.
Wasantha's 17-year-old son Rajarathnem Radeeswaran did not know any
difference between Sinhalese and Tamils but knew that both were having
red blood. Being the only Tamil member of the D.S. Senanayake baseball
team he knew the warmth of friend****p but not the enmity.
On that fateful day, this s****tsman who brought to the family many hopes
of a better future, breath his last when a suicide female bomber blew
herself in front of him and his base ball buddies, at the Colombo
railway station last Sunday. Proving that there are no differences
between humanity, Radeeswaran played together with the Sinhala dominated
base ball team of the school while so-called saviours of his own
nationality blast bombs, attacking innocent children and also using
children younger to him as human ****elds and soldiers in a desperate
attempt to fence a piece of land in this country.
The LTTE terrorists, yes of course, do not care for their own people,
whom they claim that the outfit is taking care of. Radeeswaran's family
which mourns with their Sinhalese friends poses a question where the
whole conflict will take a new dimension if the LTTE Leader Vellupillai
Prabakaran can understand.
Students of D.S. Senanayake College hold a banner at the cemetery
Pix by Ranjith Jayaweera and Sudath Silva
"Why are we fighting and for what? We can live together with Sinhala
people", that is the question that, Radeeswaran's father poses. Who can
answer his question which is asked by many who lost their parents,
children, relatives and friends. The unanswered question for many
decades, we know lies, somewhere in Wanni.The innocent young base ball
players, who played without cast, race or creed.
The seven of the base ball players and their talented young coach who
travelled in the same deadly train to Colombo from Kandy after a club
match did not smell the danger. Each and everyone had their own dreams
about a bright future. Apart from excelling in baseball they had dreams
to do their higher studies abroad. Some wanted to be doctors but all of
them wanted to continue their s****ts.
Radeeswaran, whose brothers had passed exams well, wanted to get through
maths which he failed last time to pursue higher studies. Eranga
Chathuranga whose parents are abroad to make the lives of their two
children more comfortable had thought to study well.
Kolitha Mahamudalige was planning to study in the Commerce stream. Sajan
Thevarapperuma who was a gifted s****tsman in swimming and basketball
always wanted to be a doctor to follow his parents. Dinuth who lost her
mother three-years ago, had a dream of becoming a pilot.
Thivanka Tisera had plans to do higher studies abroad next year. Supun
Halalla a good s****tsman was studying hard to get through the Advanced
Level Examination.
And their coach Malinda Aramadura had hopes to bring the college base
ball team to the next level, and achive more as a newly married husband
and a happy and proud father of a one year old daughter Risindi.But...
but... they are no more and also their dreams. The D.S. Senanayake
College still cannot mend the irreparable loss to their team which the
dreadful sucide attack snatched away six team players and their coach.
The last journey...
Mothers, fathers and all who love them and also others whose lives were
blown into pieces that fateful Sunday will cry... will mourn and will
curse until this bloody thirst ends.There can not be any exception to
tear drops gu****ng from Radeeswarns-mother's eyes and the mother's of
others.
"Inda thukkattai vera enda thaikkum kodukka vendem" (Do not give this
sorrow to any mother) Wasanthi cries.
"Ane me duka katawath denna epa" (Please do not give this agony to any
mother) mourns Kolitha's mother.
No cast or creed for sorrow. All want to stop the killing of innocent
children who want to bloom.
Wasanthi, who refuses to eat meals since she heard the most nightmaric
news in her life, still waits to share Radeeswaran's lunch which he
refused to eat last Friday as he was in a hurry to go on his last journey.
Radeeswaran's father, and his two brothers know that he is no more and
he sacrificed his life for a dream that will never come true. So their
one and only hope and wish is to see that this blood shedding will come
to an end and Radeeswaran, his buddies and others who were killed will
be the last.
Courtesy : Sunday Observer
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For genuine Situation Re****t visit:
http://www.nationalsecurity.lk
http://www.defence.lk/
http://www.army.lk/index1.php
http://www.nmatnet.com/
http://www.sinhalaya.info/index-EN.php
Worth to look following to see how brutal Tamil Tiger Terrorists are
Child Soldiers of LTTE Tamil Tiger Terrorists in Sri Lanka
http://www.spur.asn.au/childwar.htm
Ethnic Cleansing in Sri Lanka
http://www.spur.asn.au/ethnic_cleansing_in_sri_lanka.htm
LTTE TAMIL TIGER ATROCITIES
http://www.spur.asn.au/ltteatrp.htm
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