Now You’ve Got Something To Die For
We, the activist community group, who are the sole implementers of this act, are a group of 150 families, who inhabit Thotalanga (Henamulla, Nawanivasa,
Colombo 14) with most intolerable living conditions, which were created by the local and global “guardians” of humanity, existing exclusively within the District of Colombo, even not in the exiled world of paradise. Unlike regular slum dwellers in Colombo, we live in tattered tents along side a massive garbage dump of the glorified super class, which is maintained by the “highly regarded” and “well-organized” Colombo Municipality, since 1993.
In the year 1993, due to a military operation carried out by the Government Forces, we were “evacuated” from our home-place in Modara, and ultimately to the place in which we now grow mouldy. Our previous dwellings (which were also slums) were completely demolished by the Government since the authorities believed that LTTE carders had occupied the place to plan and attack the
Colombo
Harbour during that time.
We were given 48 hours of the tormenter’s expensive time, to “evacuate” from our dwellings with no alternative shelters provided prior to our eradication, with the soul meaning of the word, it was our eradication, is this not Government plus Globally integrated terrorism? Where were UN and the Human Rights Commission? Are they the agents who safe guard every parasitic act against the human kind? Are they the solitary owners, the advocates of this system, which scavenge on human demise? The Omerta/s.
We were forced to stay with no shelter or food for three days with our little ones and elders shivering on the high-priced roads of Colombo, with a nail driven for each and every one. Since it was the vacation period of the schools we were able to find shelter in the Madya Maha Vidyalaya, Colombo 14 for a few weeks, and ultimately we were thrown in to the garbage land of the rich by the
Colombo
Municipality, in which we now dwell with no end in sight.
In such a world as this does one dare to think for himself?Bound by greed the nation enslaved as corporate toolsCan the plague within you be bled out?Or do you think I am better left unspoken?For you will live to lie another dayThis is what has been brought for 30 pieces of silverThe tongues of men and angels bought by a beloved betrayer
For more than 13 years we have inhabited this agony at any cost. Our children are forced to renounce their childhood and education from early stages of life. This is due to the appalling economic crisis, the unjust exploitation of our labour, the social segregation and rejection committed by the local and international power merchants and by the condomized colonial society of Sri Lanka.
To tell me a lie with best of intentionsFor it is mute in the age of mass communicationA slip of the tongue, a slit of the throatSix feet under with no markerKeep my name from your mouth, forever…….
The photos and the articles published herewith are by our community, which would represent the whole of the slum community of 77,612 families within the Colombo District, the district of death and global perjury.
- League of Slum Dwellers
- ColomboNorthGallows@gmail.com
