“I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace.” – Helen Keller
My dear sister Sri Lanka, It is with the greatest sadness that I write to you today, while being a spectator to one of the biggest human catastrophes on our mother earth, where a group of my own children, let me call them “Baanis”, are killing their brothers and sisters in the name of a supreme power. Another group of my children, let me call them “Ghanis”, who promised me to take care of me and the whole family had just left me without even kissing me goodbye.
It has been twenty years since our sister America came to assist me in rehabilitating my children saying that the Baanis were responsible in killing some of her children on the 11th of September 2001.
America promised to help us to be a peace-loving family which in turn will bring peace to our mother earth too. Though they bombarded us from the heavens even before a single human touched my soil, I had to tolerate losing thousands of my children since they said that it is the best way, they can save me and the rest of our sisters from all the atrocities of Baanis and all other unruly children of mine.
I do not know whether you remember that these same unruly children of mine were cajoled by them when our other sister Russia was harassing me in the 80s. After almost ten years, I was able to free our family from that iron fist with the help of these unruly children armed and funded by sister America. All my unruly children were heralded as heroes at that time, especially by our sisters America and UK. I almost forgot to tell you that some of my other unruly children, let me call them “Lords”, are enjoying the goodwill of America and UK at the moment since they were giving their fullest support by destabilising our family which apparently is part of the strategy of establishing peace.
I never understood that. Do you? Even after all this, just yesterday I heard one of the intelligent children of America say: “we did not lose in Afghanistan, we accomplished what we set out to do. That was to destroy Al-Qaida.
West pitting brother against brother
Though we are evacuating now we can still keep our grandmother Earth protected from any of the Baanis since the Lords are working with us providing all the gossip.
Can you believe that? Can’t they see that pitting brother against brother is destroying our family? Would they like it if you or I did the same with their children say like trumpet players against others or albinos against others in the name of color-blind people? (Little that they know, Baanis, Qaidas and Isays...etc. are the same group of children. Some are, of course, mine but the others, as you probably know, are children of some of our other sisters like Pakistan, Syria, and Arabia.
They change their name time to time just to get presents from our sisters like America. UK, France, and Germany so that those sisters can fool majority of their children when they want to funnel tax-payers’ money to certain businesses through the defense budget in the name of national security. Just between you and me, I strongly believe that these names and faces are even changed under the instructions of our rich sisters.)
I know you are also going through a very tough period battling Covid-19 these days. Therefore, I certainly wouldn’t want to trouble you with my problems. I wanted to share my experience and knowledge with you so that you can try to raise the awareness of your children about these money games some of our sisters are playing at the expense of weaker siblings like you and me. Besides, we have been going through similar experiences, especially dealing with our more powerful and rich sisters.
You also went through almost a thirty-year period where some of your children were trying to tattoo a line on your body and claim ownership to one part giving the rest of the body to the other siblings.
I think you also lost hundreds of thousands of your children in conflicts where both sides were supported by some of our rich sisters. You had insurgencies time to time in 1970s, 80s some even supported by our sister Russia in the name of social justice and equality. You have not been able to find out who was the mastermind of the Easter bombing in 2019, though some of our rich sisters tried to pin it on some of my children.
How conflicts are made
You have also seen, firsthand, how such conflicts can make even some of your own children richer and more powerful irrespective of the group they pledged allegiance to.
You know, the funny thing is that my son, a Ghani, who oversaw all my children until last week was adopted by my sister America and he was a Professor in Anthropology teaching in a top rank university in her territory.
He came back to me and gave up his allegiance to my sister in order to become the leader of my children, of course, with the blessings of my sister. Some of our other sisters even warned me that he was a puppet planted by America, so that they can have their way with my children and my belongings, which I now tend to believe.
But when America’s son who wrote the book: “Art of the Deal”, took charge of the family, they started making deals with Baanis behind the back of Ghanis. I wouldn’t be surprised if I find out some day that everything Bannis are doing now also have the blessings of all our rich sisters because that is the nature of the games they play.
Though it may be a bit too late for hundreds of thousands of our children, yours, mine and all other sisters of ours, who had to sacrifice their lives in the name of a supreme power, or in the name of the boundaries we draw around our bodies, or the resources we dearly harbor within our bodies, or simply because they were not speaking the same language or practising the same religion, I can very well understand now what our niece Helen Keller had said as I have quoted at the top of this letter.
Puppets of powerful nations
This may be the last letter I write to you before I am forced to change my name to “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan”. What I mainly wanted to tell you is to learn from what is happening to me and some of our other sisters around us and teach your children well, especially since you are enjoying the sisterly love of both America and China at the moment. Tell your children to study well what our sisters, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, are going through too, under the iron fist of the big sister China.
Without such understanding about our family your children will not be able to select the type of siblings they should have as their leaders.
Try not to become puppets of these bigger sisters, especially due to selfish motives of a handful of your children who may be ready to sell the family off to the highest bidder and flee when the times are tough, leaving their “not so well to do” siblings fetch for themselves. I wish you all the very best in the balancing game between our two biggest sisters in the East and the West.
Your loving sister,
Afghanistan.
The writer has served in the higher education sector as an academic over twenty years in the USA and fourteen years in Sri Lanka and he can be contacted at [email protected] )