Amazing news of cessation of three decades of war, but I can't help feeling some degree of cynicism. Is it really over? Have the most passionate of people really laid down their arms uncinditionally? And regardless of the immediate outcome, what of the cost to Sri Lanka and her people?
And where to from here? I've heard the cries of 'One Nation, One People' but who gets to decide? Will the Tamil (and Moor) minorities actually get a voice in the decisions to come? And what future is there for the thousands of displaced people - those Sinhalese and Tamil people who fought to live and in the process lost homes, family and friends.
In the sprint to create a nation who watches out for the citizens that won't matter?
I don't pretend to understand the complexities that inform a thirty year war. But there are some that have benefitted from the ongoing fighting, there are some that have made their reputation: but I do not believe that it is over for thousands who were, and will be, used as pawns in an essentially greedy and ugly grab for power.
