Rajiva Wijesinha

“ Furious perhaps that their predictions of a bloodbath were not fuilfilled, they are determined now to make those who escaped suffer by limiting assistance with food, by making them live in tiny tents, by providing them with squalid toilets. And then, with glee, when people fall ill, they can claim that the epidemic their wishful thinking predicted every month last year has finally arrived.
How can people be so wicked? How can people treat others simply as objects, and use them for their own political priorities while pretending to consider only their welfare? ”

“ Kalin himself has always made it clear that security concerns cannot be ignored. His point is that, while maintaining its vigilance, government should ensure that it does not engage in blanket protracted prohibitions, and that it should develop a road map for action that explains the rationale for any measures taken.
All this makes sense and he would be delighted I think at the steady exodus of the elderly from the camps, while encouraging us to send out other vulnerable and innocuous individuals. ”

“ The Europeans did not conquer vast tracts of other continents out of altruism, but they did manage regularly to convince themselves that their actions were for the benefit of the conquered. The saving grace of their religion, the peace they bestowed by the sheer genius of their ruling class, the economic development they promoted with some of the profits being allowed to trickle down to the producers of the commodities they traded in, all this justified their controls. ”