Aranthalawa , 21 years ago ..And LTTE ethnic cleansing of Sinhalese of the East

Twenty-one years ago, 45-member group of Buddhist monks, headed by Ven Hegoda Indasara Nayaka Thero were cold-bloodedly butchered by Tamil Tiger rebels of the LTTE in one of the planned campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Sinhalese population of the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka. Many monks were very young novice monks aged between 12-16 years old, sons of very poor families of Ampara, Monaragala and Batticaloa Districts.

Today the mastermind of that campaign, the LTTE Leader V.Prabakaran is hiding under a deep cave some where in the Vanni jungles, still carrying out cold blooded killings, sacrificing young lives of Tamils in the name of a separate state, while his conies who carried the actual attack have de-camped him, with 'Col' Karuna Amman in custody in a UK immigration detention center and his deputy Pillian ,soon to be Chief Minister of Eastern Province.

We have moved on with our lives, we are trying hard to give space to the LTTE and its sympathizers or least people who renounced the LTTEs path of violence like Pillian, but we have not forgotten that day and we will not.

No so called 'Civil Society Organizations' in Colombo lights candles in the name of the victims and the families of the Aranthalawa attack , for the so called 'Civil Society' its taboo or too nationalistic to talk about it. Sunila Abesekara will not make public statements on this day about the rights of the victims, nor will Jehan Perera organize a candle light vigil.

some day Prabakaran will pay for it and so are the rest of the dark hearts that fed him and his clan of killers.