There is only one way to defeat England
and the other western countries who would attempt in Geneva to rap Sri Lanka
for alleged war crimes during the last two weeks of the humanitarian operations,
and that is by organizing the other countries. Stephen Rapp is coming to Sri
Lanka followed by Nisha Desai Biswal, to find out ways and means to rap Sri
Lanka in connection with so called war crimes. Let them write their reports,
then come to have a chat with some members of the government, NGO personalities
known as peace vendors, TNA members, may be some clergy in certain denominations,
and go back and issue the report that had been already written with a change of
a comma or a full stop here and there. The Sri Lankans, especially the Sinhala
Buddhists are used to these exercises and they know that their views are never
represented in these reports. How many Rapps have met representatives of the
Sinhala Buddhists on their visits to the country? It is clear that as far as
these Rapps coming to rap Sri Lanka are concerned there is nothing to be learnt
from the Sinhala Buddhist Chauvinists who are neither objective nor open
minded, whatever these words may mean.
Why don’t the westerners consult the
Sinhala Buddhist opinion not only on the alleged violations of the human rights
during the last two weeks of the humanitarian operations but also on the Tamil problem
in general? Who have been discriminated against during the last three hundred
and fifty years or so? The Portuguese destroyed Buddhist temples and violated
human rights of the Sinhala Buddhists but they were not discriminatory. They
“treated” the Sinhala Buddhists, the Tamil Hindus and Muslims alike, and did
not use any community against another. They were interested in spreading
Catholicism among the “heathens” and used very cruel methods against all the
people living in the country in converting them. However, they were not
successful and only a very small percentage of Sinhala people became Catholics
during that period. Ironically more Sinhalas have converted to Catholicism when
the Dutch were here. The Portuguese were most unsuccessful among the Muslims
who in general supported the Sinhala people and the kings. The Sinhalas had
never tried to convert Muslims to Buddhism as the latter is not a missionary religion,
though some pundits attempt to project Arhat Mahinda Thera as a missionary. It
is history that the Muslims were protected by the Sinhala kings from the
Portuguese, and the present Muslim population in the eastern province consists
of descendents of those harassed Muslims who were settled in those areas by the
Sinhala Buddhist kings.
The Muslims worldwide are fighting a
battle against cultural domination by the Judaic Christian culture, and in Sri
Lanka despite some Muslim leaders who act only in their personal interests
should not attempt to support the westerners by acting against the Sinhala
people. When I travelled in the eastern province few months ago, I found that
some Muslims are trying to convert those areas to a little Arabia artificially.
Muslims at present are undoubtedly aggressive vis-à-vis the Judaic Christian
culture but that is not a reason for them to be belligerent against the Sinhala
people. The Muslims were not forced by the Sinhala people to change their
customs and it will remain the same, and the Muslims have protected their
identity all these years living among the Sinhalas. Thus it is not desirable
for the Muslims in Sri Lanka to make their identity present forcefully in a way
that is not found in Pakistan, Bangladesh or Maldives.
Unity of not only among the Muslims and
Sinhalas but with the Tamil Hindus is desirable in the fight against the
cultural political and economic domination of the Greek Judaic Christian
Chinthanaya. When the Chief Minister of the Northern Province claims that Sri
Lanka is not a Buddhist country, then it implies that we are a Christian
culture as Christian is the default culture in the world. There are no so
called secular countries in the world, contrary to what the pundits say, and as
Christian culture is the hegemonic culture in the world, any country that is
not identified with any other culture is Christian by default. The western
pundits encourage their imitators in our countries to call ourselves a secular
nation, knowing very well by their strategy we would become Christian in
practice.
The Dutch and the English, unlike the
Portuguese discriminated against the Sinhala Buddhists especially with respect
to the Tamils and wanted the latter to give leadership to the country. We are
still to rectify matters arising out of this discrimination and the Tamil
problem has arisen as a result of educated Tamils not wanting to lose the
privileges that they enjoyed first under the Dutch and then under the English.
England is all out to see that the Sinhala Buddhists are discriminated against
even the Muslims though the latter are hated by those belonging to the
Christian culture in the west in general.
The English and the other westerners did
not want the LTTE to be defeated by the Sri Lanka armed forces and wanted to
rescue Prabhakaran and his gang even at the last minute so that at least an
Eelam in exile could be established. It is the failure by the west to achieve
this ambition that has led the England led west to frame charges of war crimes
against the president, the Defense Secretary and the Armed forces. It is a case
of rapping of Sinhalas by the Rapps and is nothing but taking revenge for the
defeat of the west. It was not only the LTTE that was defeated in Nandikadal
but the west as well.
The west is bound to come up with false
statistics claiming genocide of Tamils, though there are millions of Tamils
living in Sri Lanka, and the claims that so many thousands of Tamils were
killed during the last two weeks of the humanitarian operations are based on
nothing but assumptions as to the number of Tamils who were confined to a human
shield by Prabhakaran. There is no evidence in the form of dead bodies of so
many thousands killed. Though the west and the Tamil leaders claim that there
were no witnesses to the humanitarian operations at least two Indian
journalists Reddy and Kanchan Prasad had been in the relevant areas during the
last two weeks, but the Rapps, Pillais not to mention Sitsabaisens are not prepared
to talk to them on what happened during the “crucial” two weeks of the
operations. As they say there are lies, damn lies and statistics.
There is no point in trying to convince
the west that there were no war crimes or trying to win them by promising to
implement thirteen plus or even beyond that. The west will not be satisfied by
thirteen plus as what they want is a separate country, and as during the
humanitarian operations they will threaten us with actions similar to withdrawing
GSP plus, and imposing of economic sanctions. We should not get scared by the
“gonibillas” and should try to win the other countries in the human rights
council to defeat the plans of England, USA and other western countries.
It is in this connection that the
efforts by the President to cultivate friendships with other countries and to
strengthen friendships already established have to be commended. The west is
not the world and we would not be isolated merely because England does not like
the face of Rajapaksas. We should work to isolate the west in Geneva in March,
and we should remember that there are so many countries in the world that do
not like the bullies in the west who somehow or other try to maintain
colonialism through other means. It is not neo colonialism, but colonialism and
the President, as we have said very often could play a leading role in organizing
the countries that do not follow the west into a strong association.
Nalin De Silva
08-01-2014