It is reported that Sivajilingam,
a TNA member in the Northern Province Provincial Council has claimed that there
will be more youth such as Gopi if the national problem is not solved. This is
soon after the youth in places in the Northern Province and the Eastern
Province, for example Jaffna, Kilinochchi and Batticaloa celebrated the victory
of the Sri Lanka cricket team in Dacca. It is also reported the TNA members in
the Parliament were absent when the Parliament welcomed the members of the Sri
Lankan cricket team. In the meantime
Canada has withdrawn its contribution towards maintaining the secretariat of the
Commonwealth, against Sri Lanka being elected as the chair of the Commonwealth
in Colombo last year.
As any person familiar with Tamil
politics in the last few decades would know the above events are not isolated
but connected, though they may appear to be contradictory. Canada has insulted
not Sri Lanka but the whole of the Commonwealth for Sri Lanka was elected as
the chair by the other members of the Commonwealth and was not something
imposed by the President of Sri Lanka. It is true that England the colonial
country that rules over Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland directly and most
of the other countries indirectly through various means including the hegemony
of their knowledge was against Sri Lanka being elected to the chair, and tried
to influence other countries against the decision to elect Sri Lanka, but for
tactical reasons has refrained from taking drastic actions together with
Canada.
What is clear is that countries such as
Canada and England are not prepared to accept the decision of the Commonwealth
that includes Australia but England with a history of tactful diplomacy while
encouraging Canada to withdraw its contribution will not do the same. Canada
with a history of about two hundred years goes against the wish of the other
Commonwealth countries and behaves like the Indian cricket fans who stoned the
houses of some members of the Indian cricket team after the defeat in the T –
20 finals in Decca. Canada is not used to taking defeat at international
conferences and in that respect it is not different from the giant neighbour
USA. If USA was in the Commonwealth it would have acted the same way as Canada and
we could have seen the countries behind the Tamil problem getting together
again to achieve what they want.
There are some educated people who think
that Canada behaves in this manner in order to attract the votes of the Tamils
of Sri Lankan origin living in that country. However, I am not prepared to buy
that story as the Tamils of Sri Lankan origin living in Toronto are not in a
position to change the outcome of Parliamentary elections in Canada. It is
countries such as England and Canada who use the dispersed Tamils in those
countries against Sri Lanka in order to establish a separate state for Tamils
whom they expect to serve the colonial masters as servile “dasas”. It is
reported that a conference of Eelam organisations would be held in London even
after sixteen front organisations of the LTTE have been banned by Sri Lanka.
England knows how to waive rules unlike Canada and USA and would resort to
“legally accepted” ways and means to achieve her objectives.
The TNA has to learn a lot from England
and not from Canada. However, it follows new countries such as USA and Canada,
may be because they are interested in establishing a new country. The members
of the TNA decided to be away when the Sri Lankan Parliament welcomed the Sri
Lankan cricket team and thus they showed that they are not with the ordinary
Tamils living in this country, but with the dispersed Tamils living in England,
Canada and USA, who are being used by the Anglo Atlantic Association Against
Sri Lanka (AAAASL) comprising England, USA and Canada.
It is clear that the educated Vellalas
of yesteryear and the dispersed Tamils today are working on the same wavelength
as dictated by England and of course the AAAASL. They are active in politics
but not politics of their own. The dispersed Tamils may include non Vellalas as
well, thanks to the free education that prevails in Sri Lanka since the forties
but education wise the dispersed Tamils are not different from the Vellalas. It
is ironical that the dispersed Tamils
have been educated at the expense of mainly the Sinhala people who constitute
the main segment of the (indirect) tax payers in the country. If not for the
free education and the Sinhala tax payers there would not have been a community
of dispersed Tamils in the Anglo Atlantic Association (AAA) and AAAASL would
have been ineffective.
The only politics that the Vellalas and
the dispersed Tamils know is politics against the Sinhala people supporting the
masters in AAA. They have never been engaged in any anti colonial struggle
against the English since 1798 when North set foot in the country as the agent
of the English traders and later in 1802 as the agent of the English King. When
dispersed Tamils led by Christians among them want politics for Tamils it is
this anti Sinhala but pro AAA politics they think of, and not of the politics
of ordinary Tamils living in Jaffna Kilinochchi or Batticaloa who cheer the Sri
Lankan cricket team.
There is no Tamil problem in Sri Lanka
except for the anti Sinhala politics of the Vellalas and the dispersed Tamils
who have come through the same education mill despite their caste differences
and with the defeat of Prabhakaran who was the agent of this politics in the
latter stages in Nandikadal almost five years ago. However, it did not happen
as the AAA continues to use the dispersed Tamils, the TNA, NGOs and of course
the pundits among the Sinhalas who claim that they have an open mind. The
pundits have acquired this open mind through the education that they have
received which is supposed to be rational, scientific, objective etc., but in
essence is created by the western Christian hegemony.
There would not have been Gopis if not
for the AAA and despite the claim by Sivajilingam there is no national question
to be solved. The very concept of a national question has been created by the
western Christian hegemony in order to destabilise countries such as Sri Lanka.
It is clear that the AAA and the rest of the west under the instruction by the former are pumping money directly and
indirectly to resurrect the LTTE or shall we say to establish a post conflict
neo LTTE adopting the language of the western Christian hegemony and the
government would have to be extra vigilant in order to safeguard the
sovereignty of the nation.
Those pundits and
others who think of the human rights of Gopi and others to organise against the
Sinhala people have to be reminded that the grandparents of Gopis were inactive
when the Sinhalas were fighting against the English colonials. It is also clear
why the AAA is hell bent on asking the Sri Lankan government to withdraw the
armed forces from the Northern Province as they want their agents like Gopi to
have a free hand in organizing the neo LTTE against the Sinhala people and the
government. If Sivajilingam is really interested in peace he should abandon his
pro AAA and anti Sinhala politics and initiate a movement within the Christian
dominated TNA, Sampanthan and Vigneswaran being mere ceremonial heads, to join
the Sinhala people in their fight against the AAA dominated west. Sivajilingam
should find enough support for such movement among the ordinary Tamils who
cheered the Sri Lankan cricket team most probably against the wish of the
American Ambassador and the High Commissioner for England who goes as the High
Commissioner for Britain.
Nalin De Silva
18-04-2014