Life's Realisation

  Can children or adults truly escape the snares of abusers or past trauma? Is there light at the end of the tunnel for such victims? When children are abused physically and/or mentally at a very young age they will end up with invisible scares that cannot be healed. It will haunt them for life. For example, it was nothing short of disturbing to watch the News1st video related to the above news article on Newswire (Police hunt for man caught on video assaulting toddler) , which was also widely shared on social media. It was like a clip from a horror movie. This so-called father calls his toddler to eat. He feeds the child some food and in the same go punches this little child in the face with a closed fist and the toddler falls to the ground. After a few minutes the father calls the child again to eat. This child obeys his father and goes to be fed with tears streaming down his face, only this time to be brutally assaulted even harder and to go flying to the ground like a paper ro...

I read in the “Sunday Times” newspaper last week (26th Nov 2006) that some Sri Lankan students out of a group of fellow students were refused visas to UK on flimsy grounds. Apparently they had applied for visas in order to attend their convocation in UK. It’s really disgusting to see how we Sri Lankan’s are treated with little or No respect at every side we turn. Well, I am not oblivious to the fact that there are quite a number of illegal immigrants from Sir Lanka. But then again it’s not fair to measure everyone with the same yard stick…. I really don’t understand how on earth the real culprits wriggle their way through the embassy while the genuine people get rejected. Money sure talks in today’s world and the innocent just get steam rolled….. In fact I know a person who applied for a Schengen visa at the French Embassy, in order to travel to Spain on a holiday to visit her uncle but was rejected on both occasions that she applied. When it comes to the French Embassy no reason is gi...