Everything’s Alright, Yes, Everything’s Fine!
First they came for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me.
- Martin Niemöller, German theologian
ABDUCTIONS or should I say “disappearances”…now there’s a scary word if ever there was one, especially in the current Sri Lanka context. Child abductions, youth abductions, businessmen abducted and held for ransom, and of course how could we leave out the ever so “infamous” ‘white van’ abductions! Okay, so why am I talking about such a hackneyed, stale topic (even though admittedly we can never speak enough about it)? Well…because it has a new twist now. Or new, at least as far as I’m concerned.
