The Northern Province provincial council
is threatening and challenging the government of Sri Lanka and the Sri Lankan
state over sovereignty of the country. The Provincial Council that includes some
LTTE sympathizers and a widow of a terrorist leader has passed number of
resolutions revealing their intentions. The Provincial Council does not want an
internal investigation into so called human rights violations in the country
during the last two weeks of the humanitarian operations and wants an
international investigation that is nothing but an investigation by western
countries and their cronies. The Council does not believe in the statistics
that would be supplied by the Department of Census and Statistics on the
missing and dead people during the terrorist active period. They also want to
erect monuments commemorating the terrorists in Mullavaikkal.
It is clear that the Northern Province
Provincial Council wants to act on its own disregarding the state. They have
already come to their own “conclusions”, and with the assistance of Bishops
such as Rayappu Joseph of Mannar and Saundranayagam of Jaffna they are
inventing “evidence” to justify the “conclusions”. If the Provincial Councils
had more powers we would have seen more acts against the state, and finally the
Northern Province deciding to recede away from the state of Sri Lanka. The
Northern Province Provincial Council should realize at least now that the
Eastern Province is not with them and that the latter have gone a long way in
reconciling with the other provinces, not according to South African or any
other model but in the Sri Lankan manner. The behaviour of the Northern
Provincial Council tells the state and the people of the country that the
powers given under the thirteenth amendment are too much, and police and land
powers should be with the government of Sri Lanka and not with any provincial
council.
The Provincial Council of the Northern
Province behaves this way not because of any strength of Ananthi or
Wigneshwaran but that of the western powers. It is very often said by the UNP
and opposition parties who opposed the humanitarian operations against the LTTE
terrorists that the government may have won the “war” but not peace. As we have
said on many occasions the government won peace as well, but the western
countries are determined not to allow the government to maintain peace as they
want to punish both the government and the people for defeating the LTTE. If
not for the western powers the TNA would collapse like a paper house if not as
a paper tiger. Once the tiger was defeated there could not be room for any
paper tigers of the TNA, but the TNA is being maintained by the western
countries through the dispersed Tamils in the west.
If we summarize what has happened in the
history we find that the problem started with Dutch importing the vellalas from
present South India for their tobacco cultivation, vellala meaning agricultural
labour, after 1650. The Dutch wanted to use the imported Vellala against the Sinhala
King and commissioned a Tamil Mudliyar to
write a history of Sri Lanka depriving the king the present eastern province so
that they could posses it with the harbours. The Vellalas with the help of
colonial powers became the majority of the Jaffna peninsula absorbing the
Sinhala majority into the Tamil culture as people of “low” cast. This was the
first step in a minority becoming the majority dominant force with the help of
the colonial powers in this case the Dutch. What happened in the Jaffna
peninsula is not much different from what took place in South Africa with the
whites becoming the dominant force though not numerically they were not the
majority.
The next step was taken by the English
who cultivated the English educated Vellalas to become the leaders of the
country again following the South African model. The English always hated the
common Sinhala people who were the only community to rise against them in the
history of the country. The English educated Sinhalas were prepared to accept
the leadership of the English educated vellalas and petition the English rulers
to handover limited autonomy to them. They wanted to prove that they were more
English than the English themselves in speech, manners and education. However,
the English from their standpoint made the cardinal sin of giving universal
franchise to Sri Lanka, thus making the Tamil elite vellalas becoming the
leaders of the country a remote possibility.
The Vellalas became aware of this
development and it was left to SJV Chelvanayakam to formally agitate for
separation so that the English educated Vellala Tamils could try their hands at
becoming the rulers of the combined Northern and Eastern Provinces. The
Vellalas came out with “theories” such as homeland, federalism to justify their
concealed objective of separation, and the western social scientists and their
imitators were readily available for justification of the claims of the English
educated Tamils. The climax of their agitation was the Vadukkodai Resolution of
1976 when all the so called Tamil speaking leaders united with the Vellalas.
However, the other leaders gradually
realized what the Vellalas were up to with connivance of the England led west,
and the Vellala leadership had to give way to the Karaivar Prabhakaran who
resorted to terrorist activities instigated by Chelvanayakam. Prabhakaran and
his terrorist tigers were defeated by the heroic “ranaviruvan” under the
political leadership of the President and the direction of the Defense Secretary,
against the wish of the western countries who wanted to rescue Prabhakaran and
his cohorts even at the last minute.
After the defeat of the terrorist tigers
the west wanted to make the Tamils the dominant community again using the South
African model of reconciliation where the white still rule the country though
nominally the blacks have the political power. The west uses the dispersed
Tamils in their countries against the Sinhala people and in this regard the
west is helped by the western intellectuals, their imitators in Sri Lanka, the
NGO vallas, some clergy of Christian and Catholic Churches, as before. The UNP,
JVP also support the west in order to topple what they call the Rajapakse
regime. The common denominator of all these sects is the removal of the
Rajapakse “regime” and punishing of the ordinary Sinhala people who are the
only community who have fought and are fighting against the colonials. These
sects are not interested in the human rights of anybody but of removing the
“regime” and punishing the Sinhala people. The west that used the English
educated vellalas first are now using the dispersed Tamils whether they are
educated or not. The TNA is divided along these lines, Wigneshwaran
representing mainly the Colombo based elite English educated vellalas and
Ananthi representing the other anti Sinhala Tamils. The dispersed Tamils used
by the western forces represent mainly the non Vellala anti Sinhala elements,
and what Wigneshwaran and his friends do not realize is that the English
educated elite vellalas have been on the decline as a political force.
In any event both these groups are only
paper tigers who cannot survive without the support of the west that favours
the Ananthi group as they know that the elite have no attraction in Jaffna
after Prabhakaran. English Prime Minister Cameron who has blocked the
publication of a report on how Blair and his American counterpart violated the
human rights of Iraq people is now getting the help of Obama to canvass against
so called human rights violations by the Sri Lankan armed forces, in order to
topple the “regime”, punish the Sinhala people and finally to establish a
separate state that Ranil Wickremesinghe who wanted to celebrate the 500th
anniversary of Portuguese coming to Sri Lanka and destroying Buddhist temples
would give on a platter to his masters in England. When Ranil Wickremesinghe
recently said that the “Rajapakse regime” is worse than the Portuguese, Dutch
and the English he made clear where he stands.
The Provincial Council of the Northern
Province led unofficially by Ananthi is influenced by the west and especially
the American ambassador who acts as if she is the Viceroy of the Northern
Province. If not for the intervention by these anti Sinhala forces the Ananthi
faction would have no power at all, and the Northern Province Provincial
Council would not become a threat to the sovereignty of the country. This may
not be the best time to do so but the government should seriously consider
“awarding” persona non grata status to the lady from America, who is definitely
a threat to the sovereignty of Sri Lanka.
Nalin De Silva
31-01-2014
