Post war Sri Lanka has been vigorously
concentrating efforts of marketing the country as a safer destination for the
tourism and the investments, targeting at attracting a large number of tourists
and foreign Direct Investments (FDI). Obviously, these were two prerequisite
for the boost of post war economy. Understandably, these targets were unlikely
to materialize unless the long term economic stability is ensured and the post
war reconciliation efforts were completed.
Building up investor, tourist and employee
confidence takes a long term. When there is a sudden disrupt, it takes time for
the recovery and ends up in the potential barrier for the post war economy to
boost. Recent attacks on Muslims in Beruwala and Aluthgama have done similar
damages for the image of the country internationally, for which the racist
groups should take responsibility. However, still not having any idea of
accepting their mistakes, they accuse the victims, the Muslim community, for
the international publicity, which is very much justifiable given that the
racial campaign against the Muslim minority community for the last three years
is endangering their very own existence without any reasonable official
interference.
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