Demanding Justice for Easter Victims While Trying to Stay Positive

Lehan Edirisinghe

The day begins with outrage that powerful men are acting as if paying Easter victims is optional, then widens into budgets for religious protection, foreign-ministry reshuffling, music, and a tentative effort to stop living inside pure revenge and admit that some people still tried their best.

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Anger Over Compensation for the April 21 Attack Victims

10:15 a.m.

████████ makes me very angry. ████████████████████████████████████████ ██████████████████████████████████████████████ ████████████████ He's worked for Rajapaksa.

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359 died.

That's Rs 278,551 per victim.

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He's buddies with Deepa Edirisinghe and Thilanga uncle. My Sumathipala family's by far the richest in Sri Lanka. ███████████ He has more than enough money to pay these fines. His assets should be sold at auction to pay.

This isn't justice. It's a mockery of justice.

As President, for 4 to 6 years. He presided over the entire cabinet budget. He has managed close to $12b for 5 years. Because those ministries all ran big losses, show no transparency or evidence of performance.

You can multiply $295m by 365

Or his budget portfolios by 365

Or by 200 then

He can't be involved in politics if he hasn't got money to pay for elections.

████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ ███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ His jewellery, watches, luxury goods, jeep or vehicles for instance, cost close to Rs 100m combined in value. He's showing disrespect. It's just to add insult to injury.

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This will stop repeat failures.

I actually went to protestant church every week in the UK. Never visited a temple; not even in Singapore. I would often go to All Saints Church next to our home with Asita Amarasinghe and his mom. I feel safe and calm and happy.

██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ I think generally on holidays, like Easter, I get chocolate eggs from my friends. Alex for instance, sent Cadbury Chocolate Eggs, huge one, once. I often visit churches to honor them on their special days. █████████████████████████████████████████████████ I also go for holiday meal plans or special offers regularly. ████████

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I have allocated a $240m budget for Buddhist ministry. This is proportional to demographics. So only 70% or less goes to us, Buddhists, to build up Buddhism, pay for monks, for temple construction or development. I want the Tripitaka published like King James the 1st and 6th, who was a fellow craft Freemason.

I think that we will allocate 1% to Jews, Parsi Zoroastrians, Sikhs, Bahai faith and identified minorities and atheists from our Buddhist allocation because we're the majority.

From Catholic and Hindu and Sunni Islam distribution, we will help build up churches, kovils and mosques. Beautifying them. Catholics at 5% get $12m which is a lot per year. █████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ Or else nobody feels safe. Religious leaders must know what's happening in their own sites and direct traffic.

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Hidden

Rejecting Phil and Choosing Patrick Mendis for Foreign Minister

8:30 p.m. (c)

Who is this guy? ███████████████████ Patrick Mendis and some clever capable white people like Kissinger hopefully in State Department can be my Foreign Minister.

I don't need these people like Phil. I don't really want to stay in touch with the guy. █████████████████████

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Hehehe

Story

“Purple Rain”

10:30 p.m. (b)

Purple Rain

Hidden

A Brief Media-Name Reference

10:30 p.m. (c)

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Story

Prince Rogers Nelson

10:45 p.m.

Prince Rogers Nelson

Story

Phil Collins, Celebrating Daminda and Choosing Not to Retaliate

11:00 p.m.

Phil Collins

You know I love you

But I just can't take this

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I think I'm happy Daminda Niroshana, some small guy here got all that recognition, I'm proud of him, and I'm happy with this

It's better for me that these simple, cool and kind people are celebrated

Had things worked out with even ████, she'd probably still be around

I should be positive

Even Lal, I guess, that it's not his fault court cases are delayed by bad courts

I shouldn't really do anything to them even though I can

Because it's just better.

I think in all the world, the most free place is right here, on Facebook, in my mind

Story

Quoting “Sailing” About Freedom

11:00 p.m. (b)

Sailing!

Takes me away to where I've always knew it could be

Just a dream and the wind to carry me

Soon I will be free

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Sailing

Takes me away to where I've always heard* it could be

Just a dream and the wind to carry me

Soon I will be free

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