Geneva has now become an annual event as
the Avurudda, Vesak, Deepavali, Christmas, Ramadan etc., or even the school big
matches and other such events, and we have to prepare in advance for the
occasion. However, there is a difference. Geneva is a match played on a turf
prepared by the western countries according to their rules that may be changed
at any time even during the match to suit the organizers. Geneva is another
weapon in the armoury of the west, which is used to maintain the hegemony of
Greek Judaic Christian (GJC) Chinthanaya and Judaic Christian culture. The
umpires and the scorers are drawn by the organizers from their team and in
order to survive we have to get as much support as from those who are not with
the organizers.
It is the “human rights” that is bowled by
the organizers with a ball tampered by the umpires. The human rights is a
concept of the present western rulers (if one insists the bourgeoisie) first
formulated against the western feudalist states to “protect” the individual
from the state. The west can think in terms of dichotomies only and the GJC
Chinthanaya promoted the individual against the society (collectiveness) of the
Catholic Chinthanaya. However, as far as human rights were concerned the
individual was not any ordinary person found in the streets but belonged to the
rising bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie was based on the GJC Chinthanaya while the
feudalistic rulers were emerged in the Catholic Chinthanaya. Having come to
power the bourgeoisie adopted human rights to suit them and the Afro Asians did
not have any human rights as such. In Sri Lanka we are reminded of English
governors such as Brownrigg who rigged the western concept of human rights and
Torrington who tortured the Sinhala Bhikkus and lay persons not necessarily in the
battle field.
It should be mentioned that the GJC
Chinthanaya is older than the bourgeoisie having incepted towards the end of
the fifteenth century in Southern Europe, especially in Italy. Renaissance,
Reformation, Western Science, Technology, Art, Industrial Revolution, Capitalism,
French Revolution, Enlightenment etc., are all products of the GJC Chinthanaya
that is now declining though it still maintains its hegemony. The GJC
Chinthanaya at present is so bankrupt that it cannot identify phenomena. The
use of the word “post” to identify events is a case in point in this regard. In
its heyday the GJC Chinthanaya did not identify capitalism as post feudalism,
but now there is a plethora of terms such as post modernism, post cubism, and
even post conflict Sri Lanka. The use of the term post stems from the inability
of the thinkers in the west in GJC Chinthanaya to identify phenomena. The other
term used by the western thinkers is neo–something, in order to hide certain
aspects of the phenomena. Thus we have concepts such as neo - colonialism, and
very soon we will have neo-human beings. In Sri Lanka we do not have thinkers
but only tinkers who mess around with the western concepts.
In Geneva the organizers including the
umpires and scorers will be discussing the human rights of “post conflict” Sri
Lanka, however post conflict referring to the last two weeks of the “conflict”
as well. It is mainly the last two weeks of the “conflict” that they would be
interested though we are interested in the whole of the colonial period, which
extends even up to the present “neo-colonialism”. The human rights as far as
Sri Lanka is concerned can be divided into two categories. The two categories
being those associated with the Tamils and that are applicable to the country
in general. So called freedom of expression, independence of the judiciary,
independence of media belong to the second category. However, there would not
have been a second category if not for the first category. As far as the west
is concerned the human rights violation in this country exist simply because
the present government does not adhere to the dictates of the west in certain
matters, especially in connection with the Tamil problem created, nurtured,
nourished and maintained by the English. If Prabhakaran was given the
opportunity to escape in the ship that Nambiar tried to organize on behalf of
the west there would not have been any human rights problem in Sri Lanka,
though an Eelam in exile would have been established to the satisfaction of
England and recognized by most of the western countries.
The present government with all its problems,
does not bow down to GJC Chinthanaya on certain aspects of the sovereignty of
the people and territorial integrity of the nation. This is what the west does
not like and the human rights violations as interpreted by them will be made or
the tampered ball will be bowled at us in Geneva. In 1989 -92 period human
rights issue was not taken up by the west against the governments of J R
Jayawardhane and Premadasa and one cannot say that they were the best democrats
found in the world. Premadasa may have declared Gladstone persona non gratia
but he was prepared to bow down to the England vis a vis India and went to the
extent of supplying arms to the LTTE against India. The IPKF had to be sent
back, but giving arms to the LTTE cannot be justified, and the west did not
have anything against Premadasa on this count. Perhaps when the Sinhala youth
are slaughtered it is all right as it was the Sinhala people who fought the
English colonialism right throughout. The question remains as to whether the
armed forces killed the Tamils indiscriminately as they did in the case of the
Sinhala youth who were sometimes not even associated with the JVP. As far as
the GJC Chinthanaya is concerned it is clear that the Sinhala people, except
those paid by the NGOs, do not have human rights as interpreted by the west.
As we get ready for Geneva all the
familiar arguments by the Sri Lanka NGO tinkers, could be heard. We are told that in order to win in Geneva it
is essential that we implement the 13 A plus, implement the LLRC report etc.
Similar arguments were heard during the thirty year “war” period and the Sri
Lankans were told that the so called discrimination of the Tamils must be
stopped. However, nobody has defined what these discriminations are, and what
the west says amounts to that the sovereignty and territorial integrity should
be given up by Sri Lanka. The loss of privileges of the English educated Tamils
under the English colonial rulers is interpreted as discrimination against the
Tamils in general. The solution for the so called discrimination as proposed by
the Tamil leaders is nothing but continuation of their dominance at least in
the Eastern Province and the northern Province as demarcated by the English, leaving
the Tamils in the other provinces to be continued to be discriminated! The “solution”
itself suggests that there is no discrimination of the Tamils in this country. It
should be clear that there is no so called genocide against the Tamils in Sri
Lanka, and the fact that the Tamils came over to the armed forces during the
last two weeks of the humanitarian operations running away from the LTTE and that
about 280,000 of the human shield was rescued by the armed forces speak volumes
much more than the bogus reports by Darusmann, Navi Pillai and others. The
40,000 killed during the last two weeks stem from false assumptions regarding
the numbers in the human shield as assumed by Samapanthan and others, and it is
not a difficult task to expose their calculations.
Nalin De Silva
We should not agree to any so called
international investigations for the simple reason international is only a
substitute for the England led west. These “internationals” are biased and what
the government has done so far in connection with the missing people, lost
property is more than enough. The LLRC was a committee appointed by the
government and not a committee whose recommendations in its entirety have to be
implemented. It is the government that decides what recommendations have to be
implemented, and in that connection the Sinhala opinion should not be
disregarded. If we “won” in Geneva in previous years giving false promises by
those who represented Sri Lanka then those representatives have to be reprimanded.
We are not bound by false promises given by representatives who are biased
against Sinhala people, especially against Sinhala Buddhists, with vested
interests, and think that the Tamils have been discriminated against and devolution
of powers to the Northern and Eastern Provinces is the only solution to the
Tamil problem. Let us campaign among our friends in the world exposing the
hypocrisy of the English led west, which uses the dispersed Tamils in their
countries against Sri Lanka. We should expect more acts such as attempted visits
by Wigneshwaran to high security zones, sathyagrahas by some TNA members in
order to “attract” the attention of the western media and also of video footage
by channel 4 but we should be able to expose these gimmicks of the Tamil
leaders and the west to our friends.
22-12-2013