Let us never allow racism to rise again….! Let us share our humanity with a coconut shell full of “Saw Kanji”

This heartfelt message calls for unity, remembrance, and an end to racism and violence. It reflects on the shared suffering of Tamil and Sinhala communities during war, the pain of grieving mothers, and the right to commemorate the dead as a sacred, universal human value rooted in compassion and civilization.

Let us never allow racism to rise again….! Let us share our humanity with a coconut shell full of “Saw Kanji”
“The final chapter of the war” If we truly agreed in our hearts, setting aside all divisions, then it was also the final moment of humanity.
From the coast of Mullivaikkal, where LTTE fighters stood, and from the landward side, where military forces gathered, in between were thousands of unarmed Tamil civilians. It was those innocent lives that were caught in the crossfire from both directions. In those final days, with nothing to eat, children starving, the gunfire heard on TV was nothing like the thunder of gunfire on the battlefield, brother! As they tried to feed their children, they boiled the last handful of rice and ate it with salt – and with tears. Even as they lost each other, not even the gods looked their way.
JR, Ranil, Premadasa, Chandrika, Mahinda, Gota – To maintain power, they didn’t care about race when it came to killing or disappearing people. Let’s not forget that more than 60,000 fighters who were disappeared in the 87-89 period in the south were Sinhala rural youth.
In both the North and the South, it was our own people who were killed and made disappeared.
Today, in both the North and the South, the tears of grieving mothers are the same. What difference, what separation is there in those tears?
Wherever they died, they were all children, mother – wherever they were killed, they were all children, mother.
We are still living in a country where Chandare, who wrote the above verse was made, disappeared.
Let us not allow brotherhood and humanity to disappear!
Commemorating lost loved ones is a right of everyone!
Let us understand that this is a sacred element of human civilization – a value of humanity and decency that has been upheld by people for people since the beginning of the civilization.