Revisiting the horror days of july 1983

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Visva posted March 08, 2001 10:19 AM
I was on my way to work at Hotel Lanka Oberoi around 6 am from Nugegoda.I saw plenty of SL army trucks going back and forth.When I got to the hotel allmost every one I saw didnt want to say good morning to me.Later on I learned there were violence against Tamils in Colombo.Around noon my manager asked me to serve lunch on the 10th floor.When I went there I was able to see allmost 50 percent of Colombo on fire and smoke.The government had curfew for 2days and the intensity of the smoke and fire became only intense.When the curfew got lifted my brother in law came to the hotel and broke the good news and the bad news.All the members in our family is safe but they are in a camp at Ratmalana airport only with their clothes on their back.I joined them at at the airfield there.There were atleast about 100,000 of us.Nothing above our heads.no food.Right outside the camp A Sinhalla businessman opened up a tea boutique.A cup of tea with no milk was sold 10 rupees which is 20 times the average price then in and around Colombo.A bottle of Coca cola was also sold at 20 times the normal price.I bet the man made enough money to feed 10 generations of his family.We were there for few days and then bused to Colombo Harbor.I will never ever forget the young and old Sinhala faces who were lining up to get a final glimpse of us.They all were in a festive mood with a sense of accomplishement.These are the same Sinhalese now complaining about LTTE terror when more than 3,000 Tamil men,woman and childrem were burned,hacked,stabbed,neglected at the Sinhalla hospitals and departed the from this face of the earth.I dont believe the Sinhalla law went after a single murderer.Even the foreign journalist were afraid for their lives and got the hell out of Sri Lanka.90 percent of the Sinhalla Sri Lanka initially profitted from that ethinic cleansing by the buddha worshipping hypocrates.Tamils sold their houses,tvs,refreigerators at bargain prices and got the hell out of of the hell hole.UK initially opened its arms to the refugees.I believe so many other countries did too.I just felt like sharing mine

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