THE LAST STRAW FOR TAMIL RACISM
The Tamil racists and the non national forces including the western Christian governments that back them are desperate. They pretend that they have won but they have lost almost everything by now. It is true that the LTTE has been given a "central bank", banks, police force, an army, a navy and an "inland revenue department" by a puppet government of the west. However, nothing is legal and they know that they are weak and are not in a position to carry on the "struggle". They want a legal "solution" but they have obstacles in the form of the President, the SLFP, the MEP and the JVP. The Tamil racists and especially the western countries want to remove the President though she is not a Mugabe or a Sadam Hussein. They have been successful in getting elected a UNF government, that is prepared to give in to Tamil racism with or without pressure from the non national forces. The government has retracted on so many things that it has stated previously, and now nobody, except of course the members of the UNF and some whose jobs, privileges etc., depend on the survival of the government, is prepared to believe anything that the spokesperson of the government or its leaders tell the public. Not many moons ago, the government said that the ban on the LTTE would not be lifted, until the so-called peace talks begin. The leaders of the government having made their umpteenth trip to Kandy to pay their "respects" to the Mahanayake Theros, promised them that the de proscription of the LTTE would not be lifted. Now under pressure from the Tamil racists and their western backers the government has decided to lift the ban with effect from 6th September. The promise given to the Mahanayake Theros is forgotten and the government thinks that they could overcome the opposition of the most venerable Theros without much difficulty. The government also said that they are not prepared to talk on interim council and other such topics but only on core issues. Now even without much pressure, the government has dropped that too and is prepared to forget the so-called core issues.
The non national forces have been successful in dividing the opposition to such an extent that the parliament has become the battle ground of the two main factions within the SLFP. However, they have two more obstacles on their way to satisfy the Tamil racists. The Tamil terrorists and the racists who have lost the "war" effectively, lost the debate to the Sinhala nationalists on the so-called injustices, homeland, bogus Tamil history, the Mahavansa phobia, distortions of the Sinhala Buddhist history of the country, the contributions by the Sinhala Buddhists in building a culture unique to this country are determined to win the final battle with the help of the UNF government backed by the western countries. If the so-called "war" continues for another five years, there wouldn't be a Prabhakaran and the Tamil population would have been reduced to about six percent in the country. The exodus from the Jaffna peninsula to the other parts and from there to other countries still continue. There are not many Tamils to play for the Tamil union and very often in spite of Mr. Muttiah Muralitharan one reads in the newspapers, news of one or the other Sinhala youth "saving" Tamil union in cricket. About thirty years ago the Colombo schools had many Tamils in their cricket teams but now the number has been reduced to about one or two at most. Surely one cannot say that school heads such as the warden of S. Thomas' College, Mt. Lavinia, Dr. Ponniah, are discriminating against the Tamils. In the mid-fifties the percentage of the Sinhala students admitted to Royal College, Colombo, the premier state school, was only fifty though the national percentage of the Sinhalas was around seventy five. Thus there was discrimination against the Sinhalas and many Sinhala boys would have been denied admission to the state school with the best facilities, because of this discriminatory policy. This has been corrected now and it has reached the "natural" percentages. After 1956, the government policy that tried to eliminate discrimination against the Sinhalas, especially the Sinhala Buddhists was interpreted as discrimination against the Tamils and the other ethnic communities. In any event, the percentage of the Tamil population in the country especially in the northern province has been reduced, mainly due to the "policies" of Prabhakaran and his political uncles such as Chelvanayakam and if the trend continues for another five years the Tamil racists would have lost everything, by the time of the next general elections. The LTTE terrorists as well as the other Tamil racists prevented the census 2001 being conducted in certain areas in the northern and the eastern province as they did not want the country and the world to know the statistics on Tamil population.
The Tamil racists are desperate and want to establish an Eelam in the north and the east, the so-called Tamil homeland demarcated by the English, before the next general election. Even though they do not have a case, "war" wise or "debate" wise, they pretend that they still have a case and demand the Eelam with the backing of the western Christian countries. However, they have to overcome the resistance of the President and the eighteenth and the nineteenth amendments are to curtail the powers of the President so that they could achieve their ambition. As we have said neither the PA nor the UNF has power and the amendments are a means of acquiring the necessary power that the parliamentary government does not have at the moment. There are peace vendors who are prepared to spend money - a future commission would find out how they got this money, it is very unlikely that the peace vendors spend their own money on these projects- to buy the MPs.
In fact I have reasons to believe that even the LTTE is financed by external sources. It is very unlikely that the Tamil diaspora would have contributed so much to the "Tamil cause" and when one realises that the west is not prepared to accept the correct facts on Tamil racism, even after they were presented during the "debate", but clings on to the same old myths on injustices to the Tamils, one gets the feeling that it was the west that helped from the very beginning to "propagate" the so-called Tamil position. The so-called peace organisations are financed by the west and the myth of a "war expert" Prabhakaran was also created by the western media. What has this murderer achieved so far? He has ruined the Jaffna peninsula, stopped the trains to Jaffna, deprived the Tamils of even the basic facilities. Is that an achievement? However, with the support of the so-called international community he has been able to put the blame on the government. If not for the backing of the west Prabhakaran would have been destroyed a long time ago. In the west there are centres for research on "Tamil cause, the history" etc., and there are university professors such as Peter Schalk who work overtime on these projects, not to mention the so called ethnic studies centres in Sri Lanka. Remember "WIDER" in Finland that employed anti Sinhala Buddhist Professors from Sri Lanka to write "theses" on Sinhala Buddhism. The elementary question is who finances them? There is enough money to buy the MPs but the important question is whether they could buy the required number.
If the President continues to hold the power to dissolve the parliament after the fifth of December then the Tamil racists would not have a chance to establish an Eelam. The Tamil racists and the west want to achieve their ambition within the period of the present parliament and they have to make sure that Mr. Wickramasinghe continues as the prime minister (and president) at least for few more years. The eighteenth and the nineteenth amendments are not for "parliamentary democracy" but for the benefit of the Tamil racists and Tamil Eelam. The SLFP and the PA would have to close ranks, not be tempted by the money of the west coming through various sources and defeat the eighteenth and the nineteenth amendments. All that they have to do is to make sure that the government does not get the two third majority. It is not a big task and the PA should be able to defeat these two amendments. (Defeating here means not giving the two third majority.)
The president has said that she is against de proscription of the LTTE and that she also does not approve the so called interim administration. Though she has added certain conditions what is important at the moment is that she is against these two issues to which the government has capitulated. The tactic of the LTTE is to have an "interim administration", legally if possible and then let it become the permanent Eelam. They want to participate at the so-called peace talks, they are not peace talks but Eelam talks, without the proscription as an "equal party". By an equal status what they mean is the status of a government. The weak UNF government, backed by the west is prepared to concede that too. However, the president and the SLFP, despite the divisions within the party and the MEP and the JVP would oppose this.
The government has decided to show its strength on the ninth by bringing "people" to Colombo. Dr. G. L. Peiris admitted that the government is organising this show of strength. It would not be a volunteer gathering and somebody would be paying for the bus ride and the rice packet reminding one of the "bathgottas" of the yesteryears. It is clear that the government is trying all the methods in the book to curtail the powers of the president to satisfy Tamil racism. The show of strength could even demand the resignation of the president as when the president resigns the prime minister would succeed her. The government could resort to this type of extra parliamentary "methods" as they are not sure of getting the two third majority in the parliament to curtail the powers of the president. The president has to be prepared and if she is determined not to lift the ban on the LTTE and to oppose the "interim council" then she has to be supported by all the Sinhala nationalists despite party alliances.
The UNF and the non national forces by trying to buy the MPs and resorting to extra parliamentary tactics is only attempting to deprive representation of the Sinhala opinion in the parliament. It has to be emphasised that at the last general elections the majority of the Sinhalas voted for the PA and the JVP. The government as the Tamil racists have been doing for nearly a century, wants to convert this majority into a minority. By curtailing the powers of the president at present and by trying to buy the MPs the non national forces that act through the peace vendors are trying to undermine the Sinhala interests and deprive Sinhalathva its rightful place in the country. However, the Sinhala nationalists have to be very careful. They are in a winning position but this could be turned into a defeating position overnight. There are agents of western colonialism in the Sinhala nationalist movement and some of them have come back to the country from their "working" places abroad in the last few days. They would try to create trouble and would advise the Sinhala youth to resort to undecmocratic means to defeat Tamil racism. Their aim is violent protests in the name of non violence and the Sinhala nationalists would have to be very careful of their "advice". Any violence would give ammunition to the government, Tamil racism and non national forces and one could expect the presence of the American army to massacre the Sinhala nationalists and probably the Muslims. Contrary to expectations by some so-called nationalists (A former MP who pretends to be a nationalist and who works according to the demand and supply theory, in that order, sometime ago wanted the American forces to come to Sri Lanka to defeat Tamil racism!) if the Americans come it would not be to fight the terrorist LTTE but to massacre the Sinhala youth. In this country Sinhala youth have been massacred twice at an interval of about fifteen years and another 15 years have elapsed since 1987. The Sinhala youth have to be protected from these agents of western colonialism and the Sinhala nationalists have to strengthen their democratic campaigns against Tamil racism.
Professor Nalin de Silva
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