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SOLO-U - What is it up to?

Businessmen get bright ideas - sometimes to become rich; sometimes to become famous; sometimes to cheat people; sometimes to get honoured. Very natural.

But, what is a businessman up to with his SOLO-U with the helplessness of the families of captured or missing members of the security forces?

If somebody listened to him in the SOLO-U program on TNL on December 7, what he said would be the best joke connected with the LTTE. He said something to this effect "In P'karan's Hero's Day speech, did he say anything about Eelam? He said that he has no enmity towards the Sinhalese. Did he say he will cut or kill Sinhalese? What do our politicians utter here?"

To many people and organizations who jump up on the peace bandwagon, what this mad killer utters is gospel truth. He once a year reads a speech someone in the West prepares for him after weighing the world opinion. Only he will know whether he understands or is ready to do what he reads. But, our people here eagerly wait for this speech and try to analyse it and see what a humane person this beast is and to prepare our strategy to suit his.

One father once said in a SOLO-U program that his son joined the Army to fight foreign forces not the LTTE. Can he do any bigger insult to his son. We understand their position, but nobody should use their agony to their benefit. And a shrewd killer like P'karan cannot be deceived by these and he also uses their helplessness to his benefit - to tell to the world what a reasonable human being he is and how justifiable his war and killings are.

It is true that the Government and every one of us should take every possible step to get these heroic men out of the clutches of the LTTE, but we never should insult them or let somebody to insult them and use them to achieve somebody's hidden aims.

Except a few who wants this war to continue for them to acquire wealth, everybody wants Peace. There is no necessity to shout or cry about it. But we should at least now, after so many years of bungling and playing to the tune of the enemy and to the hands of the enemy, take the correct path to achieve it.

DESHAPRIYA RAJAPAKSHA
COLOMBO 6.

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