There are so many things we have to
learn from England in dealing with the Tamil problem in Sri Lanka. It is not so
much connected to acts such as destroying the documents related to wars and
appointing commissions then sending one or two “war criminals” to the prison
with all the facilities (luxuries), and giving them a pardon after a few
months. Sri Lanka has not committed any
war crimes and there is nothing to learn from England in this regard. As we
have already said it appears that Darusman’s figures of 40,000 killed in the
last two weeks of humanitarian operations stem from a myth not substantiated by
any evidence. The type of argument used to arrive at this magic figure of
40,000 was revealed by Sampanthan recently.
The TNA leader Sampanthan has stated in
the parliament that there were 360,000 in the Mullavaikkal region in Vanni east
during the last two weeks of the operations. Of this, 280,000 have come over to
the camps of the armed forces surprisingly in spite of the fact that the army
was involved in apparent mass killings or genocide as described by the Tamil
racists, though a vast number of Tamils are still living in Sri Lanka. The
Tamil racists should explain how so many Tamils continue to live after genocide.
The Tamils were used as a human shield by Prabhakaran, a fact that Sampanthan wants to ignore, and
it is strange that they came over to the mass killers in order to escape from
the sole representative of the Tamils as admitted by the leadership of the TNA
that was proxy to the terrorist organization.
Sampanthan continuing has stated that if
280,000 of 360,000 escaped then 80,000 would have been killed, implying that
nobody was in Mullavaikkal after the end of the operations. Of the 80,000 even
if 40,000 were LTTE terrorists, as Sampanthan states, it implies that at least
40,000 civilians would have been killed during the last two weeks of the
operations. The arithmetic is not bad but the assumptions behind the simple
calculation are questionable to say the least. Who gave those figures to
Sampanthan? It is clear that the 360,000 Sampanthan is talking about is a
figment of imagination of the Tamil racists. There was no survey or any head
count statistical or otherwise and anybody can quote any figure in these
circumstances.
However, this implies that there were
80,000 dead bodies and the interesting question is who was responsible for
burying them? As far as we are aware neither any NGO nor Channel 4 was engaged
in burying the bodies, and unless the dead themselves buried the bodies it
remains an unsolved problem as far as death is concerned. If the bodies were
not buried the stink from them would have been unbearable and it is nothing but
a surprise that the stinking Darusman report or the equally stinking reports by
Navi Pillai do not refer to this stink. If a Tamil racist wants he could
increase these figures merely by adding a few thousands to the number held by
the LTTE as a human shield and subtracting from the number of LTTE terrorists
killed. The fact that these civilians came running to the armed forces to get
killed, if Sampanthan is correct, is the best evidence against mass killings by
the armed forces, which makes any further inquiry on charges of war crimes
redundant.
There may be so called eye witnesses who
would give “evidence” in England and other places before so called independent
international committees appointed to look into the “war crimes” of the Sri
Lankan armed forces. Most of them are asylum seekers and people seek “asylum” for
various reasons including jobs and schools for their offspring in the
“affluent” societies. One cannot rule out the possibility that some of the
witnesses are paid by those with vested interests. In this regard it is
interesting to find that Sarath Fonseka has volunteered to go to Geneva to
clear the name of the Army with respect to charges on “war crimes”. He is the
last person to be sent to Geneva as he was the first person to come with “war
crime” charges with his white flag story (sudu kodi kathava). It is clear that
he has ulterior motives other than collecting some preferential votes (manape)
at the forthcoming western province provincial council elections. Undoubtedly
he did an enormous service to the country as the commander of the Army, but unfortunately
his track record after leaving the Army is not something to be emulated by any
retired general.
What we have to learn from England is on
telling the world something and doing the exact opposite in actions. The Tamil
racists in connivance with the English rulers have been trying to present a
wrong picture of the Sinhala Buddhists from the nineteenth century. It is not
only the English and the Tamil racists who are responsible for this propaganda
but some Sinhala Buddhists themselves. How did the members of the latter
category who were born into Sinhala Buddhist families turn against Sinhala
Buddhists? They did not do that on their own by following any so called
scientific method. It is nothing but the education given by the English, which
“converted” the Sinhala Buddhists to call themselves “enlightened”
“prabuddhayas” instead of Sinhala Buddhists.
What these “prabuuddhayas” do not understand is that they are willingly
or unwillingly have become Judaic Christians by culture through their education.
Unfortunately for the Sri Lankans, and Asians and Africans in general their so
called educated are not good at all in abstract thinking and they are incapable
of coming out with new concepts or theories created within the Greek Judaic
Christian (GJC) Chinthanaya. Though they may call themselves scientists and
thinkers they cannot think within the GJC Chinthanaya and all that they can do
is to imitate their western masters and mistresses. Recently I was amused to
read a news item with the title when Scientists do not agree. When there are no
scientists they as scientists cannot either agree or disagree.
At least a few books and articles have
been written on the communal politics during the latter part of the nineteenth
century and the first half of the twentieth century. However, the authours fail
to realize that it is these communal politics maneuvered by the English
governors that have led to the present Tamil problem in Sri Lanka. The English
used the educated Tamils as a force against the Sinhala people who continued to
fight against English colonialism and the English were determined to make the
educated Tamils the leaders of the country. However, their miscalculation to
give universal franchise in 1931 upset the apple cart and the educated Tamils
were gradually displaced of their leadership and the privileges that they
enjoyed until that year. It is this loss of leadership and privileges that were
interpreted as discrimination against the Tamils. The Tamil racist leaders even
before 1947 had spoken of separation and with the establishment of the Illankai
Thamil Arasu Kadchi or the so called Federal Party in 1949 they formally began
to agitate for a separate state. However there is a fallacy in their argument
as they speak of discrimination against all the Tamils, very often the Tamil
speaking people in the country, but as a solution of the problem want to
establish an Eelam in the Northern and Eastern provinces only, the so called
traditional homeland of the Tamils, which have been demarcated by the English
only as late as 1889.
The English continue to take revenge
from the Sinhala people for all their defeats at the hands of the latter right
up to Nandikadal and would do everything possible to punish their elected
leaders, and the armed forces by any means including Geneva human rights
commissions and other so called international fora. The dispersed Tamils in
western countries are now being used by England, Canada and USA, mainly the
Anglo Saxon Christian countries, and England being the prominent country
against the Sinhala people allows the front organizations of the LTTE to
continue to operate while proscribing the LTTE for pseudo democratic reasons.
It is not the vote of the Tamils of Sri Lankan origin that England is after, as
it does not do anything to win the votes of the Muslims in England who
outnumber the former category, though the Sri Lankan imitators continue to
believe their masters Camerons and Milibands.
Nalin De Silva
11-12-2013