Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka)

Sri Lanka will bounce back

- D.WEERATUNGA NUGEGODA.

After the terrorist attack on Easter Sunday, Sri Lanka has to face many difficult situations. tourist industry has collapsed. Our economy has gone down.the people are shocked at what happened. Social life is in a mess. Schools are closed. Universiti­es are closed. exams are cancelled.all functions are indefinite­ly postponed.

Tourists are not coming. Most of the countries advise their citizens not to come to Sri Lanka till the situation is well under control. about 70 per cent of hotel bookings are cancelled. there are millions of people depending on the hotel industry or tourism. these people will have to face a lot of difficulti­es. Money circulatio­n of the country will go down. this will affect the economy in a negative way. But there is a silver lining in every dark cloud. We can bounce back. This is not the first time that we faced tragedies. We had two terrorist problems earlier. Schools were closed. Universiti­es were closed. Sometimes all the government offices were closed. It was not safe for our children to stay at home at that time. Our tourist industry was destroyed.

Then we had the civil war. there were bomb blasts everywhere. So many hotels were attacked. Our economy was put to a very low level. Thousands and thousands of innocent people were killed. temples were attacked.our leaders were killed. there was a campaign to tarnish our image. However with all that we were able to bounce back.we had good leaders who came forward and restored normalcy in the country. We have forgotten all that. We can bounce back again. We want our leaders to fight back and make things normal as early as possible.to do this all of us should get involved. It is the duty of every citizen. We must do whatever possible to bring our country back to normal. We must support the security forces.

We must not allow anybody to harm our country.we must guide the politician­s in the right direction. If any politician is trying to harm the country, we must get rid of him or her as early as possible. We must also encourage good politician­s. We must not allow government officials to harm our country.

We are sure that we can bounce back with in a very short time. What is necessary is the courage, patience and positive attitude.

This will affect the economy in a negative way. But there is a silver lining in every dark cloud. We can bounce back. This is not the first time that we faced tragedies

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