Constitutional medicine for a blighted nation

Satchi Sithananthan

SOLUTION: Subidcham presents a feature forwarded to us by a kindly source. We are grateful for this gesture and to Dr Rajasingham Narendran, the author. We feel privileged to publish this as an impassioned voice of concern and reason, and thoughts well presented and appropriate at a moment when President Mahinda Rajapaksa has launched on a mission to seek a solution to the ethnic crisis.

This particular effort is timely and crucial to the whole country, not just to the Tamils alone; virtually the final hope for redemption.

While at a time when a number of Tamil tabloids, media agencies and some groups among the Tamil Diaspora are making everything possible to view this effort negatively, even with extreme cynicism and distrust, possibly to rekindle hatred and anger among the Tamils by resurrecting some terrible tragedies of the past, and many of them without even reading or understanding President Rajapaksa's address, Dr Rajasingham Narendran has focused on an enormous extent of hope that has been opened up by the President.

We have to stop people who want to derail and destroy this effort.

The ineffectiveness of the so-called tabloids and media agencies to rise up and be positive is largely dictated by two factors: their motives are laden on the premise the LTTE wants a mafia state and not a solution to the ethnic problem, and two, these media people do not have the skill, expertise and the vision to manage such agencies let alone their capacity to be journalists.

A factor that dominates them is blind faith and fanaticism in the movement that is destroying the will and backbone of the Tamils in Sri Lanka while the Tamil Diaspora that controls the minds and thoughts of the Tamils overseas is ingrained in the 1983 tragedy and is seeking revenge. They are possessed of the devils of anger, hatred and revenge and this is the tragic lot of the Tamils. Editors, www.subidcham.de
