Who won the so called second world war? Nobody
would claim that it was Japan, Germany or Italy and nobody wanted Churchill to
discuss with the rump Nazis or the Japanese emperor and divide the world
Germans and the Japanese wanted. There were no human rights groups that wanted
the Nazis to be freed from all the inhuman activities they were involved with.
No human rights group charged Churchill or anybody else in the western
governments of human rights violations during the war, though it is known that
the Americans decided to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki AFTER the war had been won
by the Anglo Saxon countries and Soviet Union. It is also said that England
killed hundred thousands to end the war quickly without prolonging it.
If there was any discussion it was
between those who won the war, namely the Anglo Saxon countries and the Soviet
Union, on the division of the world between them. There was a clear winner of
the war and to date England or USA has not been accused of abusing powers.
England may have had to give independence to some Asian countries as a result
of the second world war but the USA and England still rule the world including
the said Asian countries.
Leave alone the wars of others what
about the “wars” we had in Sri Lanka. The invaders starting with Elara, Dhatiya
Pheetiya during the Dhathusena days, then the Maghas, Cholas, the Portuguese,
the Dutch and worse the English had been involved with destruction of lives property
and more importantly the way of life of the people by force, as in the case of
conversions by force or by giving bribes in the form of privileges, jobs in the
professions but no charges of human
rights violations have been brought against any of them. Though some countries
have successfully claimed compensation from the colonials, Sri Lankan
governments have not taken any action at least against the European countries
as there is enough evidence of such destruction against those countries. I am more
interested in the knowledge we possessed and stored in the ola leaf books, and
other artifacts as stored in the British Museum and other places.
Now I do not consider there was a war in
Sri Lanka in the seventies, eighties or later in the twenty-first century.
There was no war between the Sri Lankan government and the JVP or a war between
the former and the LTTE. The JVP had taken up arms against the state on two
occasions in the name of Marxism relative to that party and they were
interested in establishing socialism whatever it meant to them. They were not
agents of any foreign power, though there were stories on North Korea
supporting them in 1971. However North Korea did not take up the issue of human
rights of the JVPers after the Sri Lankan government was able to defeat the
“revolution” with the support of the western countries. In 1989-92, as well,
there were no human rights issues against the Sri Lankan government or the
armed forces, and it cannot be said in the seventies it was due to the government
taking up the Manmperi murder. It should be emphasised that in the seventies
Sri Lanka had a SLFP led coalition as now, and the west was interested in their
way of life continuing in the country.
The west most probably considered the
JVP revolt as a threat against their system and as such supported the Sri
Lankan government to suppress it. I am not condoning the actions of the JVP
either in the seventies or the eighties, but it can be said that the government
won the “war” without leaving any residues in the form of human rights in the
eyes of the westerners nor the human rights people all over the world. It has
to be mentioned that as far as the revolts of the JVP were concerned no pundit
here or abroad referred to a war between the Sri Lankan government and the JVP.
There were no discussions, discourses on post war or post conflict situation
and no American state department personnel or English Prime Ministers came to
Sri Lanka for the specific purpose of discussing human rights issues.
The non aligned summit was held in
Colombo few years after the first JVP revolt and the Indian leaders were more
than willing to participate in the proceedings. No leader of any country
behaved as a bull in a China shop, the way David Cameron put up a “show” last
year, this time a few years after the defeat of the LTTE, and Mrs. Bandaranaike
and the SLFP though not liked by the western countries was a lesser threat to
the western system than the JVP at least in the eyes of the west. The JVP did
not challenge the sovereignty of the nation and all that they wanted was a
change in the system whether we agreed with them or not. Even if the leadership
of the “Marxist” JVP may not agree more than ninety five percent of the JVP
members were Sinhala Buddhists, and for the west it was the Sinhala Buddhism in
the JVP that was a bigger threat to them than the Sinhala Buddhism in the SLFP.
None of the pundits wanted the government to have any discussion with the JVP
leaders on what should be given to the JVP as a reconciliation. There were no
discussions on reconciliation and truth commissions, LLRC reports not to
mention Darusman and Pillai reports or on implementations of certain proposals
to meet the demands of the JVP. The SLFP led coalition in the true Sinhala Buddhist
tradition on their own had implemented a rehabilitation programme without any
support of the human rights people who in the final analysis work for a fee.
However with the defeat of the LTTE
everything has changed. The LTTE terrorism is projected as a liberation
movement and the humanitarian operations are now considered to be a war between
the Sri Lankan government and the LTTE. Though the LTTE was defeated
convincingly in the Nandikaddal Lagoon in 2009 it is not considered as a
defeat. Human rights activists are having a field day both literally and
literary, and the pundits are engaged in a never ending discussion, sorry
discourse, on post war situation. Recently a few ministers known for “leftist”
ideas and few Tamil racists and “intellectuals” (there are no intellectuals in
Sri Lanka) got together to request the Sri Lankan government to implement the
13th amendment and be excused from charges on violation of human
rights.
It is clear that human rights is a bogus
issue and the real concern of the west and Jayalalitha and the Congress is
giving so called rights of the Tamils as envisaged by the Tamil racist
movement. It is reported that the Tamil Nadu government is going to free seven
convicts of the Rajiv Gandhi murder case. It is a pity that the naval rating
who hit Rajiv Gandhi with his rifle had to be imprisoned. It may be that
murdering a Prime Minister is a lesser offence than hitting a Prime Minster
with a riffle, and I hope the human rights activists would take up the case of
the naval rating and proceed with a courts case for compensation for him in the
light of Tamil Nadu government to free
seven convicted of murder of Rajiv Gandhi.
The so called war between the LTTE and
the government has not ended in Nandikadal for the simple reason it was not a
war between those two parties. It is a conflict between the Judaic Christian
culture of the west and the Sinhala Buddhist culture that has been in operation
from 1506. The “war” has not been won by the Sri Lankan government and Cameron
is now directly involved in the tussle to defeat Sinhala Buddhist culture. The
demands of Tamil racism should have been thrown into the Nndikadal Lagoon in
May 2009 as the demands of the Nazis were, as the “war” is also a political
solution. There should have been no discussion on the 13th amendment after
Nandikadal but since Judaic Christian culture and the Greek Judaic Christain
Chinthnya, the main enemy of Sinhala Buddhism has not been defeated yet we will
have to face Genevas in time to come in spite of the military victory, which in
essence was the political solution to the Tamil racist problem. LTTE and Tamil
racism unlike the JVP fight against the sovereignty of the nation, as agents of
the west.
Nalin De Silva
21-02-2014