A Dream – A Reality
I want to keep this note on this historic day of May the 17th of 2009. My dream of living in a united country, free from war is not anymore a dream. Today it became a reality. Throughout last night I was looking at my mobile screen to see any news update about the situation in the country, I was virtually sleepless like most of the Sri Lankans I know of. Early in the morning today entire country was filled with the sounds of fire crackers for the historic moment of HE Mahinda Rajapakse, beloved president of Peoples Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka arriving to country from G11 summit. As he promised, he stepped in to a country which is free from terrorism and united after 500 years.
From the day I was born, I was hearing horror stories about the war and lived in fear. When I was small I remember how nervous I was when we knew there was a bomb blast in Colombo. We used to pray till my father came home from work. I know many people died in the trains and buses and on roads due to the bomb blasts. Among those died there were Sinhalese, Muslims and Tamils. Of course the bomb did not know to target only people it wanted. I know many people died for the motherland in SL Army. Although I know most of them by their name and most of them I know personally very well, Raja Ayya is one of the closest to my heart. He is the one used to take me to the school when I was small and he loved me very much. Later he joined army. He visited my place and he liked food cooked by my mother a lot. He made the ultimate sacrifice for the motherland after helping some of the wounded in the battle field. I wish today the nation paid him the due respect. I feel very sad for all the Tamil youth died too, although they were fighting an unnecessary war. Probably they might not had any choice.
As most of my close friends would know, I wanted to see the change in this country and wanted to be an eye witness for that change. This with some other reasons I refused most of the offers came to me from all over the world. I am proud today to achieve what I wanted to achieve.
I must Thank the HE the president, Secretary of Defense and Commanders of Army, Head of Police and each and every soldier fighting, fought and made the ultimate sacrifice.
Lets work together and make the country proud. Sinhalese, Muslims, Tamils all are children of mother Sri Lanka. We are one nation.
