BETA

A collection of thoughts by Uma Kumaran

I am in a state of despair and utter helplessness as I write this article. Merely a week ago I raved about the success of the TYO march in Hyde Park. It seemed to be a turning point for Tamils around the world; we felt a heightened sense of unity and truly believed that the decades of suffering that our race has endured will finally be resolved peacefully and politically. Alas the violence of the last week in Sri Lanka illustrates the nature of the world today, unstable, tempestuous and hasty. I for one feel like Britain as a whole are treading on egg shells, with the closure of Heathrow and a terrorist attack set to be ‘immanent’ in the UK our country of residence, what hope is there for sri lanka? A land thousands of miles away, out of sight and out of reach. What a poor little island, what seems like seconds after recovering from the tsunami it appears that it is on the brink of war once again.