David Cameron, the Prime Minister of
England has a second job. It is not a part time spring job as he is supposed to
be active in the second job as well during his tenure as the Prime Minister of
England. He has assumed duties as the de facto leader of opposition of Sri
Lanka operating from Westminster and number 10, Downing Street, as the so
called opposition in Sri Lanka is not effective the way he wants. He is a
single issue leader of opposition ostensibly preoccupied with human rights of
Tamils, the media people, NGO wallas, and of course leaders of anti nationalist
political parties that submit “hora” (bogus) lists to the commissioner of
elections having failed to find the required number of people to contest even
at a Provincial Council election, and last but not least single issue
candidates at Presidential elections concentrating on abolition of executive Presidency.
The politics of Sri Lanka is between the UPFA and the conservative – labour
alliance in England assisted by Obama and his colleagues in USA. As far as Sri
Lanka is concerned all these people have formed an alliance under the
leadership of Cameron. The objective of the alliance is the removal of the
Rajapakse “Regime” but they pretend to be obsessed with the human rights issue
in Sri Lanka. Geneva, London and Washington and not Colombo of western province
or Galle of the southern province are the centers of Sri Lankan politics with
people such as Navi Pillai and American State Department officials together
with those from Whitehall in London working as paid servants for the combined
opposition mentioned above.
The leading theoretician as far as the
west is concerned is neither a so called postmodernist, a post Marxist,
Fukuyama who wrote “The end of history”, a Keynesian, a Monetarist nor an “intellectual”
from Peradeniya, but Samuel Huntington. His Clash of Civilizations is the new
Bible of the west and what we experience all over the world is a clash between
the cultures and Chinthanayas though not strictly according to Huntington. His
book may have created initially a self congratulatory feeling among some
nationalists thinking that the former had appreciated their views, but it was
soon explained that the authour was only warning the western leaders of the
struggle after the collapse of the Berlin wall. However, what had not been
realized by Huntington was that at least since the commencement of Greek Judaic
Christian (GJC) Chinthanaya towards the end of the fifteenth century, it had
been a clash between Chinthanayas and cultures, and we are experiencing the
phase where GJC Chinthanaya is being challenged by the Islamic Chinthanaya and
(Theravada) Buddhist Chinthanaya. The GJC Chinthanaya is in its last stages of
existence and has a mortal fear of the two Chinthanayas mentioned above. The
Islamic Chinthanaya has the military power while the (Theravada) Buddhist
Chinthanaya has the spiritual strength to defeat the nature destructing
economics of the GJC Chinthanaya. The Sinhala Buddhist Chinthanaya, which is older
than and not exactly the same as scholastic Theravada Buddhist Chinthanaya to
the dismay of those imitative sociologists and others who for example write on
Buddhism Betrayed, Protestant Buddhism, Dutugemunu the tyrant, is capable of
defeating in Sri Lanka the GJC Chinthanaya sponsored military outfits betraying
Buddhism Betrayed, through warfare, yes warfare, in spite of “panathipatha”, as
has been shown from 1506 to 2009. We in Chinthana Parshadaya are prepared for a
second Panadura vadaya (Panadura debate) on “warfare” in Sinhala Buddhist
Chinthanaya if a sociologist (emeritus or otherwise) of the academia from here
or abroad is interested in an open public debate conducted at a place such as
the public library auditorium in Colombo.
In Sri Lanka the Sinhala Buddhists have
defeated the western countries militarily as well, as the Portuguese, the Dutch
and the English know through experience. If not for the Sinhala English Pact of
1815, named the Kandyan Convention by the English “intellectuals” with their
imitators echoing it, the English would not have been able to conquer the whole
country. As we have said often the English wanted the English educated Tamil
Vellalas to be the leaders of the country instead of the Sinhalas, especially
the Sinhala Buddhists, but their plans came to naught with the cardinal sin
committed by the former from their point of view, when they introduced
universal franchise in 1931. The English then began to concentrate on
establishing an eelam with the help of the English educated Tamil vellalas but
the latter proved ineffective and soon the Karaivar Prabhakaran took the
leadership. The English now use the dispersed Tamils in their countries to
defeat the Sinhala Buddhist Chinthanaya, through the TNA and the adjunct
organizations of the UN. The aim and the objective of the English with respect
to Sri Lanka is to mortally defeat Sinhala Buddhist Chinthanaya that also has
the military strength to defeat in Sri Lanka the outfits based on GJC
Chinthanaya as has been proved by the defeat of the LTTE in 2009 in Nandikadal.
Though there are other countries including England and USA with horrible
records on violation of human rights records it is Sri Lanka that comes to
limelight in Geneva. The Sri Lankan media is also responsible for the state of
affairs, in a way, as they give unnecessary publicity to the “Geneva gilmaat”. It is a “gilmaat” in more than one way as what
the west is interested in is changing the government or a “regime change” in
their language and not in the violation of human rights of anybody in the
country. The west has indicated that they are prepared to drop charges on human
rights violation if the Sri Lankan government betrays the sovereignty of the
people. It has to be recorded that the GJC Chinthanaya while using the TNA to
defeat the Sinhala Buddhist Chinthanaya, is working against the Tamil Hindu
Chinthanaya as well through the money of the dispersed Tamils in the west. This
has been going on for some time, even before the days of Chelvanayakam, and
especially through the LTTE using other means, and it appears that the Chief
Minister of the Northern Province has begun to realize it now though not
exactly the way we see it. It is time for ordinary Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims,
Christians, Catholics and others in Sri Lanka to get together against the
hegemony of the GJC Chinthanaya.
The west wanted to use various springs
following the Arab experience but there is no effective opposition in Sri Lanka
to lead such a spring. The political parties and the NGOs failed with the so
called springs of the fishermen, the pensioners, the university academics and
finally the UNP and the NGOs learning a lesson with the “Aluthkade” spring. None
of these organizations has any nationalistic inclinations and they have no place
in Sri Lankan politics at present. The west is unable to use any of these
parties or groups to “change the regime” and as a last resort some of the
imitators in Sri Lanka appear to have turned towards a well known Bhikku as the
so called common candidate at the Presidential elections, having failed with
past Presidents, past Chief Judges, past Army commanders. What the NGOs, the
Tamil intellectuals, the Marxists and the others who have no understanding of
the Sinhala mind do not realize is that a Bhikku who has lost touch with the
Sinhala Buddhist Chinthanaya would poll less than one third of the votes that Mahinda
Rajapakse would poll at the next presidential elections.
The Sinhala Buddhists incidentally refer
to a new Nikaya called Palli Nikaya to categorize the Bhikkus who do not
subscribe to the Sinhala Buddhist Chinthanaya, and Palli Nikaya Bhikkus nor the
associated “dayakas” have no impact on Sri Lankan politics. The leader of the
UNP is only a bystander while the new leader of the JVP can organize the last
rites of the party. The western politicians unlike their imitating
“intellectuals” in Sri Lanka realize that “Palli Nikaya” Bhikkus and lay people
who talk of LLRC report, now with a plus, and international investigations are
incapable of defeating Mahinda Rajapakse that itself is a phenomenon that they
cannot understand. Mahinda Rajapakse phenomenon cannot be understood with
concepts such as populist politics or Sinhala Chauvinism echoed by simpletons.
The west has only the Ananthi -
Premachandran faction of the TNA to depend on in Sri Lanka, as they do not have
much sympathy for the India sponsored Sampanthan – Wigneshwaran faction.
However, the west cannot change “the regime” solely through the Ananthi –
Premachandran faction and realizing the incapability of the Sri Lankan
opposition Cameron has decided to intervene directly in order to achieve what
the west wants. We have, from the beginning, told that the English politicians
are not after the Tamil vote in some suburbs in London, but it is the former
who use the dispersed Tamils in England and other western countries such as
Canada, to defeat the Sinhala Buddhist Chinthanaya if possible. The Geneva
meeting in March cannot impose economic sanctions officially but the England
led west would apply pressure on Sri Lanka through other economic means.
However, the average person, though not the “educated” city wallas, is prepared
to face any consequences to protect the sovereignty of the country as has been
done for thousands of years, and what Cameron in his capacity as the de facto
leader of opposition of Sri Lanka does not understand is the spiritual strength
of Sinhala nationalism.
Nalin De Silva
14-02-2014
