Humanity of Sri lankans lets lead by example

Sri Lankans have an outpouring humanity



Five years ago on 26th of December Sri Lanka faced the worst ever tragedy in the contemporary history .The tsunami wave which originated near the sea of Banda-ache province in Indonesia lashed at the coastal belt of Sri Lanka .leaving approximately 30,196 people confirmed dead and close to 15,000 people missing with apx.1.5 million people displaced.

No amount of planning or preparedness would have allow any institution or government to handle a situation of this nature .The government of Sri Lanka immediately mobilized its troops for relief operations but given the magnitude this is not adequate at all .the initial assessments revealed that Sri Lanka is the 02nd worst affected countries by the tsunami.

The immediate problems at hand was feeding 1.5 million people and providing them basic necessities like water, clothing and shelter and sanitation facilities. this is the dilemma the government faced. The rest is history the common people of Sri Lanka rallied around the government and religious and other reputed organizations took the lead and people came in their thousands and donated what ever they can .we cancelled our office trips and parties and bought what ever we could from the money we had and gave for the people who were displaced. Some people worked day and night to provide a meal for the affected. The promptness, generosity, kindness and above all the outpouring humanity of the Sri Lankan people allowed us to get through the immediate aftermath of the disaster. While the other countries struggled to cope up Sri Lanka came through and none of the epidemics or diseases which were the norm in a situation like this were spread among the displaced people. By the time the aid from friendly countries were mobilized Sri Lanka has stabilized the situation

Later on we remember how US being a developed nation and having dedicated institutes like FEMA( Federal Emergency Management Agency) struggled during new orealens floods which is insignificant compared to the devastation Sri Lanka faced.

The relevance of this historical analysis is the current situation with the Northern people who were held hostage by the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam).The Sri Lankan military has shown the entire world what they are capable of by executing what it termed as the biggest hostage release operation and the result was an inflow of over 100,000 people to the government held areas .The situation facing these people are not that different to the people after the tsunami.These people have also lost all their belongings and have only the cloths they are wearing

We the Sri Lankans have handled 1.5 Mn people before it is no Herculean task for us to handle 100,000 people so while the so called advanced western countries and relief organizations struggle to mobilize their relief & aid lets show them once again what we the Sri Lankans are capable of by taking care of our northern brothers & sisters .Im glad as I write the wheels are already set in motion to assist these displaced civilians so as Sri Lankan we can do this and it is the best answer we could give to the bogus human rights crusaders and Tamil Diaspora donkeys who shed crocodile tears for these people while they were trapped organizing protest after protest and have gone dead silence now.

Lets show to the outside world that Sri Lankans have an outpouring humanity and demonstrate that people in the south Sinhalese, Muslims and other communities and look after their Tamil brothers & sisters



References

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