Before those cardinals came, we looked up to you as a Catholic priest. Because of the active interventions for human rights, even in the midst of that terrible war. You will never forget the North and the East when you went to the people on the fringes carrying the cross while decorating the walls of the bedrooms of the church and temple administrators.
You may have been the only religious leader who stood by the Tamil oppressed during the 30 year long war over the rivers of blood and stood up fearlessly for the war victims displaced and disappeared due to the war. You stood firm on the side of unconditional humanity, on the side of defending human rights, on the cross of human love. Although mortars were able to drop artillery shells and palm trees kissing the sky, neither side was able to break your preemptive intervention on behalf of humanity. Maybe it’s because you took the love and cooled the people on the edge like a cactus on the desert battlefield.
Because of this you will not forget the North, the East and the South. Goodbye