CHANDRIKA, SLFP AND THE WEST
Does the SLFP represent the people who vote for the party or is it being controlled by the western powers through their ambassadors and high commissioners in Colombo? Ms. Chandrika Kumaratunga who was made the leader of the SLFP by the agents of the so called non governmental organisations, that are financed by the western governments and political parties, is not giving the leadership to the party nor to the millions that vote for the party. Instead she is prepared to please the western powers, especially the Anglo Saxons who are determined to deny the rightful place to Sinhalathva in the country.
I have heard of some ex, retired and neo Marxists who have claimed that they were the think tanks of Ms. Kumaratunga. I know for certain that these so called think tanks, are empty tanks incapable of thinking, who, due to their incapacity to think, have mistaken echoing some phrases they have picked up from books, for thinking. Ms. Kumaratunga in her formative years in politics has been exposed to pink socialism and later to Catholic socialism through her late husband Vijaya Kumaratunga. It has to be emphasised that leaders such as Messrs. T. B. Illangaratne and V. W. Kularatne who joined with Vijaya Kumaratunga to form the Sri Lanka Mahajana Party, later became disillusioned when they realised the Vijaya Kumaratunga was following basically an anti Sinhala line.
The SLFP of 1951, that was formed as a liberal party, went through a metamorphism after 1954 and became the party of the Sinhalathva. The Sinhala Buddhist leaders such as Mr. L. H. Mettananda had first gone to Mr. Dudley Senanayake to invite him to become the leader of a new party, but the latter who was in "retirement" from politics had recommended Mr. Bandaranaike for the leadership. The metamorphism of the S. L. F. P. has taken place after that and since then until the arrival of Ms. Kumaratunga from her self exile in London, it had been the party of the Sinhalathva. Even at present in the eyes of the vast majority of people who vote for the party it remains the party of the Sinhalathva though the leadership has other ideas. Ms. Kumaratunga was "imported" to Sri Lanka in the early nineties by anti national elements in order to derail the party and to make it ineffective against Tamil racism. Most of the people who played an important role in getting down Ms. Kumaratunga are now with the UNP and/or with the government leaving her in the SLFP, to carry on with the work they had assigned her.
Ms. Kumaratunga, however, knows that her power base is not in London, or in Colombo for that matter, and that she has to depend on the Sinhala masses who vote for the party, to hold on to power. Thus she vacillates in her day to day statements, from praising the so-called peace motion to attacking the "government" for kneeling down before the LTTE. However, this cannot go on for long and sooner or later she would have to take one side. If she decides to be with the western powers then that would be her end as well as the "end of the country and the nation" for some time. If, following her father, she decides to be with the masses who vote for the SLFP, then we should be able to protect the country, give the rightful place to Sinhalathva, and become independent of the western colonialism that has been with us for the last five centuries. Either way she would go into the history books of the future and it is up to her to select the manner in which she should be remembered.
Even though we may not agree with the "Marxism" of the JVP, the only way forward for the country, the SLFP and for Ms. Chandrika Kumaratunga is through an alliance between the SLFP and the JVP. One year after the so-called memorandum of understanding the country has been effectively divided into two zones, one under the control of the "government" and the other under the control of the LTTE. This is something the LTTE was not able to achieve in twenty years through the so-called war. The LTTE would have become powerful in certain areas during the last two decades, but the situation did not continue for long nor was it officially recognised. Now due to Norwegian facilitation, backed by the UK and USA, there are two "officially" recognised regions in the country. One is said to be the area under the LTTE rule. However, the regions and the powers are not symmetrical. There is no way of stopping the LTTE terrorists entering the "government" controlled areas. The terrorists can move in and move out whenever they want as there is no way of identifying a LTTE terrorist from, say for example, a Tamil racist intellectual. They all live on either side of the divide and a terrorist could pass into an intellectual if and when he or she decides to do so.
However, in the case of the soldiers it is not the case. As there are not many civilian Sinhalas living in the so-called LTTE controlled areas, as a result of ethnic cleansing, any Sinhala person moving out of the "government" controlled areas could be easily identified. If a LTTE terrorist is taken into custody for violation of the So called MOU, immediately hartals are organised "voluntarily" by the people and the "government" is forced to release the terrorist. If a police constable or a soldier is found in the so-called LTTE controlled areas, not only that no hartals are organised, but the "government" has no option but to allow the kangaroo courts of the LTTE to decide the fate of the constable or the soldier. Recently the body of a soldier who was killed by the terrorists was cremated without any army honors. The Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission, which is another mission to come to the country in the last five centuries is only working towards the establishment of an Eelam. These missions and world visions are the missions and the visions of the twenty first century. They are here only to weaken and if possible defeat the Sinhalathva in the country.
As we have mentioned number of times the ministry of defence exists only to defend the LTTE and not the country. Would the President take over not only the ministry of defence but the entire "government" and appoint a fresh set of ministers. The vast majority of the Sinhala people including some who voted for the UNP at the last general elections want the President to act quickly before it is too late. We do not have to be concerned about the western powers. They may be powerful, though I have my doubts even in this regard. They may be just paper tigers who depend on paper money.
I do not know what would finally happen in Iraq. What is clear is that the USA and UK are not that powerful. France and Germany, the major countries of Europe are not with the two Anglo Saxon bullies and North Korea is openly challenging them. In the meantime the President of Zimbabwe, Mr. Robert Mugabe is carrying on regardless of the pressure by Britain. The boycotts of a few matches in the world cup cricket carnival, if at all, would have strengthened the position of Mr. Mugabe. Henry Olonga (a kalu sudda?) who played wearing a black band, in the world cup matches would have become the darling of the white women in Zimbabwe, but he would not have disturbed Mugabe. Osama bin Laden is still living somewhere in the world in spite of the threats by the USA. I am not condoning the methods adopted by Mugabes and bin Ladens, but what I want to emphasise is that the USA and UK are not the powerful countries that the world media, essentially controlled by the Anglo Saxons, want us to believe.
The problem with the leaders supplied by the British, in this country, is that they cannot see beyond the USA and the UK, even if they had been educated in France and the other countries. As many people know Norway is only an agent of the USA and the UK, and with cabinet ministers such as Moragoda who unashamedly awaits a call from the American ambassador to run to the American embassy, the Anglo Saxons know how to manipulate the situation. Britain would not have any talks with the IRA, unless the latter decommissions the arms possessed by them. Iraq and North Korea are being forced, essentially to hand over any nuclear weapons and chemical weapons they posses to the united nations. However, Anton Balasingham is in a position to say that arms are the bargaining power of the LTTE and that they would not hand over weapons until the Tamil racist aspirations are satisfied. From where does Balasingham gets the strength to speak in that manner. Is he challenging the authority of the Armitages, Powels and the others in the USA?
Otunus and Bellamys come and go after making grandeur statements on child welfare and human rights, but the LTTE continues to abduct children and train them as terrorists. Now who comes to the defence of the LTTE leadership. It is none other than the latest mission we have among us, namely the so-called Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission. According to the head of the mission the leaders of the LTTE are good boys but it is the rank and file that abduct children against the wish of the leadership. If the LTTE leadership is not very powerful and if they cannot control the activities of the rank and file then defeating the LTTE cannot be that much of a problem. Does the SLMM think that the Sinhalas are modayas who could be fooled by its statements? The British given leaders may be fooled ( I suppose the phrase Sinhalaya modaya was coined after studying the behaviour of the so-called leaders of the Sinhalas) by the missionaries but not the ordinary Sinhala person.
The bargaining power of the LTTE is not the weapons that they posses. Their bargaining power is the support that they receive from the Anglo Saxons and the Scandinavians. The army is not given an opportunity to defeat the LTTE and stories of how it is impossible to defeat terrorist guerrillas are spread, demoralising the armed forces. Balasingham or Prabhakaran is neither a Mugabe nor a Mahathir Mohamed who has the strength to challenge the west. If not for the west the LTTE would have collapsed like a pack of cards by now. It is the west that keeps the LTTE going as the latter serves the interests of the former. The Tamil racists are neither efficient nor smart and the sympathetic publicity that they got in the west is not due to any cleverness of them. It is the west that gave all the publicity for the Tamil racists against the Sinhalas and in spite of the fact that the Tamils enjoy more privileges and rights in Sri Lanka than any minority community, including the Tamils, in the USA or the UK the west is never tired of crowing on the injustices caused to the Tamils by the Sinhalas, especially by the Sinhala Buddhists.
Ms. Chandrika Kumaratunga has to take cognisance of the above and act in the interests of the country and the nation and also of the party. The Sinhala majority would not wait for long and the leaders of the SLFP should not think that the Sinhalas would continue to vote for the SLFP in the future. As of today only the LTTE is getting ready for the eventual "war" recruiting terrorists and buying arms. The armed forces are neglected with the defence ministry defending the LTTE and not the country. This cannot go on for more than a couple of years and if Ms. Kumaratunga does not take any measures to correct the situation there is no future not only for the country but for her political career as well.
Professor Nalin de Silva
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