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"The military has encroached into everything else. Why won’t it leave grief alone?If that woman in Anuradhapura wanted to honour her dead son, she could mobilise her entire village to do so and nobody would bat an eyelid. They could gather at the playground, at the cemetery, at the temple, at the school, anywhere they wished. They could light lamps, scatter flowers, hold religious ceremonies or invoke blessing upon any number of Sinhalese men or women who had died in the war.Why can’t Tamils do the same?"via: http://naminiwijedasa.wordpress.com/2014/05/22/grief-is-not-sinhala-tamil-or-muslim/source: http://naminiwijedasa.wordpress.com