England wants the Sri Lankan government
to appoint a commission to investigate into the crimes during the last two
weeks of the humanitarian operations. Both the English Prime Minister Cameron
and the opposition leaders the Miliband brothers, sons of the late “socialist”
Ralph Miliband compete among themselves to help the “innocent Tamils” to punish
the war criminals, who are none other than the President, the Defense Secretary
and of course the officers and the soldiers of the Sri Lankan armed forces, in
the eyes of those enlightened by an English education. As has been emphasized
it is the education that has been received not the medium of instruction nor
the schools attended that matters in this regard. Those who have received this
“balanced” education whether at Royal, Ananda, St. Joseph’s, Visaka, Ladies,
Jaffna Hindu or Galahitiyawa Central,
free or otherwise in English, Sinhala or Tamil medium, in general think alike,
and are of the opinion that the Tamils have been discriminated by the Sinhala
hoi polloi, referring mainly to the SLFP led coalitions elected by the latter
after 1956. They also think that Camerons and Milibands are competing with each
other for the vote of the Tamils of Sri Lankan origin in England. Even the
Prime Minister of Sri Lanka thinks so according to a press conference he has
had recently. We will examine the origin of the Tamil problem in a later
installment.
However, let us first turn to the
commission that Cameron wants. He has threatened to get an “international”
committee to inquire into the “war crimes” of both the government and the LTTE
(this is the usual balancing act of the English- in their hearts they want to
send the Rajapakses to the guillotine and certainly not Sambanthan who makes
racist speeches to outdo Sritharan and Premachandran) if the Sri Lankan
government fails to hold a domestic inquiry. Cameron speaks as if he is the
village headman of the so called global village, as far as Sri Lankan affairs
are concerned reminding us of the colonial times, though Obama is the overall
village headman. Now the government has already appointed the LLRC and is in
the process of implementing most of the recommendations of the commission. The
Secretary to the President is looking after the implementation of the
recommendations, and a three member committee has been appointed to look into
some aspects, while the Department of Census and Statistics is conducting a
survey on the loss of lives and property after 1982, not confining to the last
two weeks of the humanitarian operations.
Before we proceed further two matters
have to be mentioned of the LLRC.
Firstly it consisted of those ladies and gentlemen who had received a
“balanced” education and were prejudiced with the so called discriminations
against the Tamils. After I finished my
oral submissions before the commission one of the commissioners said though my
presentation to the effect that the Tamil problem in Sri Lanka was not due to
discriminations against the Tamils, but was a problem created by the English
was logical, they had to give something to the Tamils. Thus the recommendations
by the LLRC have to be taken with a pinch of salt. Secondly the LLRC is only a
committee appointed by the government and its report is not a report of the
government. The government is not bound to implement the LLRC report in its
entirety, and only those recommendations approved by the government have to be
implemented. That is the lesson we learn from the committees appointed by the
governments in England who taught us of commissions with the infamous Colebrook
Commission that made recommendations to break coldly the Sinhala administration
and economy breaching the Sinhala English agreement aka the Kandyan Convention,
signed in 1815. If Cameron is suffering from dementia we have to tell him that
those days are gone and the Sri Lankan government should implement those
sections of the LLRC report approved by the Sri Lankan government and not by
the government of Cameron. For example though the LLRC has recommended the
national anthem should not be sung in Tamil as well.
There is no need to appoint any more commissions
to look into so called war crimes. The innocent Tamils in May 2009 have already
given a testimonial to the Sri Lankan armed forces that the latter were not
involved in any intentional killings. The fact that the LTTE terrorists used
the Tamils as a human shield is well known and it is also well established the
men and women who were used in the human shield came towards the armed forces
with their kith and kin without any fear of being killed. People do not rush
towards killers unless they are insane and they only run away from the
assassins. It was the LTTE that killed those in the human shield and what has
happened is that those innocent people had run towards the armed forces to
escape from Prabhakaran and his murderers. The Tamils who constituted the human
shield by their action have told the world that the armed forces were their
saviours and not killers. It is not necessary to have any more commissions and
this may be the first time in modern history that people have gone towards the
“enemy” on their own to escape from death by the “saviours”.
Cameron who came for the CHOGM and went
back to London before one could say Chilcot should be asked whether he has experienced
any such event in the European history from the ancient times. It is not
recorded that the Jews ran towards the Nazi
forces nor that the Irish came to the
English army in order to escape death. Of course some of the Tamils who
ran away from the LTTE terrorists to the Sri Lankan armed forces would now tell
a different story under “instructions” from the members of the TNA. The Tamil
leaders with the connivance of the English, as they have done for more than one
hundred and fifty years, would go to any length to discredit the Sinhala people
and the government. Recently Sampanthan when he was disturbed by the government
MPs in the Parliament wanted to use that as an example for having no freedom to
express and also to tell the world the world the Tamils are treated shabbily
even in the Parliament. His intention was to tell the world that the Tamils are
not free to speak even in the Parliament. What he and England would very
conveniently forget is that Sampanthan is not the only MP who is disturbed, and
that the Sinhala MPs are all the time disturbed when they get up to speak.
Who arrived at the figure of 40,000
killed during the last two weeks in the humanitarian operations? It amounts to
about 3000 killings per day and it would have been a daunting task to bury so
much bodies on a daily basis. If we assume as the TNA Mps do that there were
400,000 people in Prabhakaran’s human shield then subtracting 280,000 who have
escaped to the armed forces one arrives at
the figure of 120,000 for the number killed during the last two weeks. The TNA
can raise this figure as had been done from time to time beginning with the so
called Dasrusman report by assuming that say 500, 000 people constituted the
human shield at the commencement of the last two weeks. The TNA is trying to
play with numbers and blame the government for the killings when it is clear
that people would have died as result of indiscriminating killings of the LTTE
terrorists when they attempted to cross over to the armed forces.
The educated can be misled easily by the
English who are responsible for their education as to the origin of the Tamil
problem. Before we come to that we should think why Camerons and Milibands are
helping the Tamil terrorists in England. It cannot be the vote of the Tamils of
Sri Lankan origin as the English are not concerned of the vote of the Muslims
living in England. The English politicians do not speak for Palestine or Al
Qaeda in order to win the vote of the Muslims in England. It should be
emphasized that there are more Muslims in England than Tamils of Sri Lankan
origin. (To be continued)
Nalin De Silva
04-12-2013