The Malaysian authorities have to be
congratulated for deporting two so called refugees and one “asylum seeker” who
are none other than terrorists whose interests are being watched by “Human
rights watch”. It is now known that United Nations Organization is responsible
for giving so called refugee status to much more than these two terrorists who
were arrested in Malaysia. The UN Human Rights Council is clearly a haven for
Tamil terrorists and it makes them the most unsuitable organization to
interfere with so called reconciliation after the humanitarian operations. It
is up to the other countries to follow the lead given by Malaysia to deport any
terrorists living in their countries as “refugees” or “asylum seekers”. The Sri
Lankan government has already banned number of front organizations of the LTTE
and named some terrorists living especially in the western countries but
unfortunately these countries have not taken any meaningful steps to respect
the action taken by the Sri Lankan government. It is very unlikely that some of
these countries that aided and abetted the terrorists against not only the Sri
Lankan government but the Sinhala people as well would abide by the “requests”
of the Sri Lankan government.
What has to be told to the NGOs, INGOs,
Human rights people, peace vendors, some clergy that were behind the Tamil
terrorists, third rate Marxists (there are no first raters anyway), UN, various
governments that were not interested in the human rights of the Sri Lankans in
general, and Sinhala people in particular, is that Sinhalas would not consider
the nonsense uttered by the former on so called reconciliation. Those who aided
and abetted LTTE terrorists against humanity, only to use a word in the vogue
of the “peace lovers” who wanted to weaken Sinhala Buddhism, meaning the
relevant culture and not the religion as some professors emeritus who are not
familiar with abstract tooth think, have no right whatsoever to come out with
sermons from their altars and advice the Sri Lankan government and the Sinhala
people on so called reconciliation.
The Sri Lankan problem has its unique
features, which the “peace lovers” tend to forget. It is true that as in South
Africa the minority were the “rulers” of the country. In South Africa, the
black majority was discriminated and made to live in abject poverty by the
rulers who themselves were the colonial powers. The white colonials in South
Africa unlike in the North America were not able to almost wipe out the
indigenous people and thus faced with the problem of living with a majority who
could not be massacred. The apartheid policy was practiced, and gradually the
black majority organised themselves and fought against the colonials.
In Sri Lanka the Dutch colonials created
the Tamil racist problem by importing Tamils from present Tamil Nadu for their
tobacco cultivation in Jaffna, and the English colonialists made use of the
Tamil Vellala elite to discriminate against the Sinhala majority. If in South Africa
the colonialists were directly involved in discriminating against the majority,
in Sri Lanka, the colonialists whilst discriminating against the Sinhalas and
others directly also used the Tamil Vellala elite to discriminate against the
Sinhala people.
In South Africa the solution achieved
was through a deal with Mandela whereby the majority were given some political
freedom, while the white minority continued to maintain their economic
domination. In Sri Lanka after the universal franchise was introduced in 1931,
the Sinhala elite dissociated from the masses in thinking as well as in
culture, were able to become the political leaders of the country by defeating
the Tamil Vellala elite.
However, the Sinhala masses continued to
suffer until the SLFP that was formed in 1951 began to become the nationalist
party somewhere around fifty three. The process still continues and the victory
over the LTTE in 2009 was one of the significant landmarks in the process. In
any event it is still the western Greek Judaic Christian Chinthanaya that calls
the tune and in the name of free education and free health service we still
carry on with propagating the western education and western health services.
The Agrochemical Kidney patients who could be cured by Sinhala traditional
medicine continue to die as it is the western medical practitioners who are
instrumental in determining the health policy of the country.
There is no need for a reconciliation as
such in Sri Lanka a la South Africa, as such reconciliation has to be made if
at all between the Sinhalas and the English and not between the Sinhalas and
Tamils. The Tamils and the Sinhalas will live together in harmony with the
Muslims and the others in the country, if the foreigners do not interfere with
Sri Lankan politics. The English and the Tamil elite who prevented the ordinary
Tamils fighting along the side of the ordinary Sinhalas are responsible for any
misunderstanding between the ordinary Sinhalas and the Tamils. It is not a
reconciliation that is needed but a process to clear this misunderstanding, and South Africa I am afraid is not in a
position to give us any lead in this regard.
There is no harm in allowing the South
Africans to come to Sri Lanka to “study” the problem but decisions have to be
made by the Sri Lankan government in accordance with what the people want. The
government should listen to the Sinhala people before taking a decision, and
after all it is the Sinhala people who voted this government into power and not
the South Africans nor the westerners. In fact this government has come to
power against the wish of the western powers and thus there is no reason why
the government should listen to the UN or the western powers and their agents
in the country that aided and abetted the Tamil terrorists. These powers and
their agents continue to be behind the Tamil dispersed people especially in
Canada and England working against the interests of the Sinhala people.
In this regard it is encouraging to note
that the government of Sri Lanka has now taken a firm stand on the LLRC report
and said that its implementation is the work of the government. The western
governments had wanted to implement the LLRC report in full forgetting that the
LLRC was only a commission appointed by the government and not the government
itself. The government is not obliged to implement the LLRC report in full, and
it is certainly up to the former to decide which parts of the report have be
implanted, of course, after taking into consideration the Sinhala opinion.
After all Sinhala people also live in this country and not the diplomats of the
western countries, and it is the Sinhala opinion that the government should
consider and not the opinion of the diplomats.
When the President met the new Prime
Minister of India it is reported that the latter has told the former that the
13th amendment has to be implemented. It is an amendment brought in
the aftermath of the infamous Indo Lanka Accord signed by the Congress
government and the UNP government, both of which are not in power now. The Sri
Lankan problem is not a problem of India though Tamil Nadu may continue to
agitate, but it has to be emphasized that people such as Viko were defeated at
the recent elections to Lok Sabha. Mr. Modi can think afresh on the problem but
as an Indian nationalist who respects the sovereignty of the SAARC neighbours,
should not interfere with Sri Lankan politics. He should not be dictated by
Tamil Nadu or any other state and should realise devolution of power according
to the Indian model is not a “solution” to a problem in Sri Lanka that is
entirely different from the Indian problem. It has to be reminded that when Mr. Modi took
oaths as the Prime Minister of India he did so in Hindi and not in Gujarati.
Nalin De Silva
30-05-2014