She came, she was blind and she could
not conquer. Ms. Navaneethan (some call her Navaninthana) Pillay’s arrogance,
anti Sinhala Buddhist attitude, anti government stance could be seen from what
she did and spoke while she was in Sri Lanka. Of course one’s judgment of Ms.
Pillay would depend on one’s political and other alliances but unfortunately
most of what is being circulated is that of anti Sinhala Buddhists, anti government
lobby and many people who read some of the newspapers, log into the websites,
listen to and watch electronic media would come to the conclusion that the Sri
Lankans in their vast majority approve what Ms. Pillay had to say in her final
statement. These “watchers” of Sri Lanka affairs, who contribute to media if
they are honest would have to eat humble pie when the election results are
announced on the 22nd of this month. However, as they are
prejudicial like Ms. Pillay they would most probably celebrate a TNA victory in
the Northern Province ignoring the results of the other two provincial council
elections. Even in the Northern Province the UPFA would not badly and the
“watchers” will have to cook up theories at least to satisfy themselves.
I do not want to go into a detailed
analysis of the vices of the self appointed viceroy as I want to return to the
series on “Let them die to maintain the hegemony of western science” as soon as
possible. There is much in common between that series and the present article
as both are against the hegemony of western Greek Judaic Christian Chinthanaya.
I do not have a so called open mind and I look at or construct the world
according to Sinhala Buddhist Chinthanaya and I am proud that though I was
exposed to western education and learning I was able to depart my motto being
learn and depart. In any event there is nobody with an open mind, and I presume
that Ms. Pillay is a human being. We all have constructed our different worlds
and all those worlds including morals are relative. I am a relativist and my
anti colonialism is in the final analysis against the dominance and the
hegemony of western Judaic Christian culture that includes their knowledge. Much
has been said about the Tamil ethnicity of Ms. Pillay and though I do not know
whether she is a Vellala I am aware that in Natal in South Africa there are
descendants of Vellala people who were settled there by the Dutch. She has not
forgotten her Tamil identity as she is clad in sari on occasions and I am glad
about it. However, when she said that she was proud of being a South African I
was not comfortable as South Africa even under Mandela has not been able to
give the Tamil Language and culture their due place. Ms. Pillay is interested
in the Sri Lankan Tamils though not of South African Tamils. It may be that the
South African Tamils are a vanishing ethnic group and it is suggested that a
commission be appointed to look into the human rights of the South African
Tamils. After all the most basic human right of a group is the right to survive
and we should do everything possible to
make sure that South Africa protects this basic human right of the South
African Tamils. Would the TNA and the Tamil Nadu politicians agree to this
suggestion?
It is clear that those in Sri Lanka who
are responsible for the agenda of the visit of Ms. Pillay had made a blunder by
letting her meet Mr. Rauf Hakim and Mr. Vasudeva Nanayakkara. Probably the
former wanted to please Ms. Pillay and thought that the two ministers would be
able to come out with some nice stories. It was pathetic to see the servile
manner in which Mr. Nanayakkara, an ardent nationalist before he became a
Marxist, welcomed the self appointed viceroy (SAV) and to read in the
newspapers the answers they had for the aggressive lady. Ms. Pillay had no
business to ask Mr. Hakim as to why the Department of Police did not come under
the Ministry of Justice. Does the President have to consult the SAV before he
appoints the cabinet ministers and/or creating ministries and departments? The
SAV is only a paid labourer, though not an Agricultural Labourer like the
Vellalas, of the US controlled UNHCR and Mr. Hakim did not defend the honour of
the President of the country. However, these incidents only exposed the
uncivilized undemocratic SAV and in that sense I am glad about them. When she
complained about the behaviour of the journalists who asked her questions it
spoke volumes of the lady who pretends to be a champion of freedom of
expression. Thank God she is not the viceroy representing Obama in our country
as nobody would have been able to ask any questions on her policies.
When apparently Mr. Gotabhaya Rajapakse
questioned her whether she would query Obama’s policies, understandably she had
been silent. No viceroy would question or challenge the sovereign he or she
represents. Compared to what USA has done since Hiroshima and Nagasaki the
allegations against the Sri Lankan government during the last stages of the
humanitarian operations pale into insignificance. The SAV Pillay has ordered
the government to appoint a local commission to inquire into the violations of human
rights during the last week of the humanitarian operations and threatened the
government to face the consequences of an international inquiry if the
government does not comply with her order. What can she or any other individual
or any organization could do if the government does not comply with it? There
is absolutely nothing that they could do and the USA would be taught a good
lesson if Obama the defender of the Judaic Christian culture against all the
other cultures decides to attack Syria under the pretext that the government of
Syria had engaged in Chemical warfare. It is true that the west wants the blood
of Rajapakses for defeating their darling the LTTE, and let Syria teach them a
good lesson before Sri Lanka does. The Sri Lankans, apart from the cyber space
people would not be deterred by economic sanctions and a threat of a NATO
attack would only raise the moral of the vast majority of the country. Only
those who have been brainwashed incorrigibly by the western education and/or bought
by their money could be fooled by the threats.
The government should not comply with
the order of the SAV but should appoint five commissions to look into the human
rights lost by all Sri Lankans. Three should cover the so called Portuguese,
Dutch and English periods and one the period from 1948 to the present day excluding
the LTTE terrors. The fifth should be on LTTE terrorism and the operations
against the LTTE. The fifth should never be confined to the last week of
humanitarian operations and the government should warn the west that it would
ignore any so called international inquiry. As the President has told the SAV,
according to newspaper reports, the majority of the people in the country are
of the opinion that the UN is biased, and that her report had been drafted
before she arrived in Sri Lanka. The President unlike some “revolutionary”
ministers did not mince his words when he said in Belarus that UN is being used
against countries such as Sri Lanka and Belarus. The President has to be
commended for the stand he has taken and especially for giving Visa to the SAV
knowing what she and the UNCHR were up to. The government should not be fooled
by the statement of the SAV that the LTTE is a murderous organization. If it is
so why should she talk to the TNA that includes leaders such as Premacandran
who advocate the use of arms to win the so called rights of the Tamil people?
It should be noted that Wigneswaran who wore the Wig has also spoken good of
the LTTE and Prabhakaran. According to the former the latter is not a terrorist
and is a hero. It is the Vellalas together with the Dutch and the English who
are responsible for the violation of human rights not only of the Sinhalas but
of the Muslims and the Tamils as well. It is also reported that the SAV wanted
to find out why the Buddhist flag is hoisted in the Independence Square. She
should be reminded that even the English recognized that Buddhism should be
given prominence and protected, and that Sri Lanka is Sinhala Buddhist country
in the sense that Sinhala Buddhist culture is the significant culture of the
country, though it is not the dominant culture as Judaic Anglican Christian
culture in US and UK. Even in South Africa the dominant culture is a variety of
Judaic Christian culture and whatever the origin of Ms. Pillay she is also a
servant of that culture. People such as Mr. Gomin Dayasiri have recommended
that the report of the LLRC should be implemented. This is not the view of most
of the Sinhala Buddhists and I wonder whether Mr. Dayasiri could justify his
stand. The LLRC report is not a report of the government and no government is
bound to implement the report of a committee merely because the government
appointed it. The Sinhala people will lose many things if the LLRC report is
implemented and implementation of this report would erode the mass base of the
SLFP. In any event implementation of the report is detrimental to the Sinhala
people.
Ms. Pillay the SAV has also wanted to
make a floral tribute the murderous LTTE members and this also reveals the
hypocrisy of the lady when she called the LTTE a murderous organization. The
meeting with a Jesuit priest “in camera” outside the scheduled agenda, and
allowing only foreign media personnel on certain occasions also reveal the
attitude of the UN High Commissioner for human rights. She is definitely blind
to the grievances of the Sinhalas, especially of the Sinhala Buddhists and no
wonder that she failed to conquer the minds of most of the people except
perhaps that of the minister Mervin Silva and those of NGO and assorted pundits.
Nalin De Silva
04-09-2013
