WHY WOO THE WEST
The USA has decided to continue to keep the LTTE on its list of proscribed organisations while arrogantly demanding that Sri Lanka should continue to have talks with the LTTE. The USA, UK, Norway and the other scandinavian countries work together, rather the Lutherian Scandinavian countries do what the Anglo Saxon Christian countries want them to do, to see that the LTTE is projected as an organisation that wants to solve the Tamil racist problem through discussions. The Canadian minister of foreign affairs who would be in Sri Lanka has apparently decided not to meet Prabhakaran. Whom are the Canadians trying to deceive? They have not even proscribed the LTTE claiming that the latter has entered the so called peace process. In any event, would the minister meet anybody else in the LTTE in Vanni? I am not trying to say that meeting Prabhakaran is the same as meeting another person in the LTTE. Prabhakaran is not only the leader of the LTTE, he is the person who makes all the important decisions of the terrorist gang. The others including the new man Thamilselvan only carry out his orders. Thamilselvan will have to face the same music as Mahaththya, Anton Balasingham and others in the not so distant future. The west acts in a very contradictory way not because of any so called dialectics, Marxist or otherwise, but because the western policy makers have not been able to formulate a consistent policy as a result of the double game that they play in order to deceive those Sinhala people who have no refuge other than the west (netha un sarana bthahira sarana). The treacherous MoU, that made the Sri Lankan NGO under Ranil Wickremesinghe to capitulate to the LTTE, was not the work of Westborg alone. It will take time to see the hands of uncle Sam in the preparation of this document. The so called monitors appointed under the MoU are powerless as could be seen from the Kinniya camp incident. Everybody, except the TNA that has become the lapdog of Prabhakaran, knows that the camp was established in the so called government controlled area after the MoU was signed. However nothing has happened so far and the camp would not be dismantled even if the "government" is dismantled in the process. Such is the commitment of Ranil Wickremesinghe to the MoU.
Is there any point in telling the west that the LTTE has violated the MoU not once but hundred times while the Sri Lankan NGO has been very faithful to this document. Do not they know that violations by the LTTE take place almost on a daily basis. Is the west waiting for "concrete" evidence when there is so much evidence. However all the western organisations that are handled by the USA, that includes all the United Nations committees and subsidiaries such as UNESCO, and UN personnel such as Otunu, turn a blind eye to these acts by the LTTE. They would simply make a statement to the effect that the LTTE should behave properly "in the future". This future as far as the LTTE is concerned is always in the future not differing very much from Chandrika Kumaratunga's future. The de jure executive president who has been reduced to a de facto ceremonial president always threaten to take action in the "future". That "future" also belongs to the "eternal future" as she continues to live on borrowed time.
Those who argue that to defeat the LTTE we should be able to convince the west that the LTTE is in the wrong have become slaves of the western political science and other western social sciences. These ladies and gentlemen are not even up to the "standards" of the gentlemen of the now defunct Ceylon National Congress who wanted to prove to the British that they were loyal to their colonial masters and therefore there was no danger in giving them some kind of "autonomy". The British knew that the gentlemen of the national congress were loyal to them more than anybody else in their empire and they were ready to reward their lackeys for the services rendered to them. At present the west knows very well that the LTTE is in the wrong but is not prepared to take any action against Prabhakaran. The west is not going to reward the present day lackeys among the Sinhalas simply because they prove that the LTTE has violated the MoU or that it is fascist organisation. They will not get anything by showing the west that they are for devolution, though they want the LTTE defeated.
The west is with Tamil racism that they created, baptised and nurtured. The Tamil racism in the form of the LTTE which India also nurtured for some time, is a fascist organisation. Do the lackeys of the west think that the west does not know that the LTTE is a fascist organisation and that Prabhakaran is a fascist? How many fascists and fascist organisations have been supported by the west during the last fifty years? Only those who are groomed in western political science with the help of the theories of the western political scientists would be naive to believe that the west does not support fascism. There is no point in trying to convince the west that the LTTE is a fascist organisation as the westerners know very well that Prabhakaran is a fascist.
There are some Sinhalas who think that we should convince the west that there are no grievances of the Tamils in Sri Lanka. Do we have to prove to the west that the "minorities" in Sri Lanka enjoy more privileges than any other minority group in any other country with at least a hundred years of history, not to mention more than two thousand five hundred years history which only the Chinese could boast of, other than the Sinhalas. It has to be recorded that though Bharath, a name given to a small region in the ancient past, could boast of a history going back to more than thousands of years there is no group of people that could be called Bharaths that could claim to a continuous history of thousands of years. Tamil language is an official language only in this country though many more Tamils live in India. The Tamils in India are not considered to be second class citizens in spite of this, though the Tamil racists are not tired of telling the world that the Tamils in Sri Lanka are second class citizens even today. Could anybody tell me whether in USA and UK there are any official languages other than English? In Norway the only official language is Norwegian though there are ethnic groups that use other languages.
It was only the last week that the Tamils of recent Indian origin, whose ancestors were brought to this country within the last one hundred and seventy years or so were given the citizenship rights. The bill to give the citizenship rights went through the parliament without any dissent. One would say that earlier there was opposition but that has been defeated by the enlightened opinion of the leaders of the SLFP. Whether enlightened or brainwashed I would like to ask the USA, UK and Canada and of course Norway whether anybody would be given the citizenship of their countries over the counter as Sri Lanka has done. In the USA that has a history of the hegemony of the white man not exceeding three hundred years, one has to pass an examination in that history written by the white male historians before one could obtain the citizenship of that country. How about insisting that the Tamils of recent Indian origin pass an examination in Sri Lankan history before they are given Sri Lankan citizenship.
The NGO intellectuals and others would question as to what history they have to study? Is it the history of the Mahavansa or the history of NGO intellectuals or the history as written by people like Sachi Ponnambalam and Vadivel. All that I want to tell them is to raise a similar question with Bush and his administration. What is the history that a person who wants to apply for the USA citizenship has to study? Is it the history of the USA as written by the white male historians or the history of the so called Indians? In the USA the answer is very clear. It is the history as written by the white male historians that has to be studied as the descendants of the Anglo Saxon Christians have the hegemony in the political, cultural and economic fields in the USA. In Sri Lanka even one hundred years ago nobody would have challenged the Mahavansa history in general, though the Ponnambalams were even then having different ideas based on books such as Yalpana Vaipava Malai and interpretations of Ramayanaya. Though Ponnambalams were aspiring to be the leaders of Sri lanka then, with the connivance of the British they did not have the strength to challenge the history of Sri Lanka as written by the Sinhala Theravada school of Mahaviyaraya.
Now what does that prove? Even if one were to say that there was a Theravada hegemony in this country from the Anuradhapura period it proves that by the time Mahavansa was written the Sinhala Theravadins had established their hegemony in the cultural and political fields. That simply means that the Sinhala Theravada Buddhists were in control of the affairs of the country even if there were other ethnic groups living on a permanent basis in the country. As there were no permanent Tamil settlements in the country before the twelfth century and the Veddas were living a different life altogether the above (with other facts) implies that most of the Yakshas and all the Nagas (They are not Tamils. They have been living in this part of the world before the Dravidians came to Bharath. The Tamils and the other Dravidians in Bharath and Sinhale have a tendency to claim that those who lived in these countries before the Aryans or Vedics arrived were Dravidians. This is not so and those people were neither Aryans nor Dravidians. The Dravidians wrongly assume that all the non Aryans were Dravidians.) had been absorbed into the Sinhala nation.
The fact that there is no book of history of the Tamils written in Tamil by the Tamils in Sri Lanka before the Dutch period (It has to be emphasised that there is not a single book written in Tamil in Sri Lanka before the Dutch period.) also goes on to establish that the Tamils had not thought of a history in Sri Lanka before the arrival of the Dutch. It was the Dutch who imported the Tamils from South India for their tobacco cultivation thus changing the demography in the Jaffna peninsula and colonising the region, who had encouraged the Tamils to write a bogus history so that they could deprive the Sinhala kings their claim to the maritime provinces in the north and east of the country. Today in order to deprive the Sinhalas the northern and the eastern provinces, the Tamil racists are creating bogus histories with the connivance of the westerners. If there is a doubt as to which history that has to be taught it is because of these bogus histories written by the Tamil racists. The Tamils have been trying to establish their hegemony over the Sinhalas at least in the northern and the eastern provinces with the help of the British and the other westerners, since the middle of the nineteenth century. The history that has to be taught to prospective applicants for citizenship in Sri Lanka is the history of the Mahavansa which has been proved to be consistent with archaeological and historical facts in more than ninety five percent of the cases. Westerners who do not agree with that could teach histories of their countries as written by non white historians in the schools.
The westerners know what they are doing. They are not supporting Tamil racism due to ignorance. They know that the Tamils in Sri Lanka enjoy more rights and privileges than any non white group in their countries. While the USA insists on a knowledge of the history of the country during the last three hundred years the UK insists on a knowledge of English from applicants for citizenship. Would president Bush supply bin Laden helicopters and aeroplanes to attend peace talks in some European country? The west would never do that and in fact they are now in the process of depriving Arafat his leadership in Palestine. They talk only to people whom they like but want us to talk to fascist murderers who are out to destroy Sinhalathva. There is no point in trying to prove to the west that the Sinhalas are not in the wrong with respect to the Tamil racist problem. The west knows that but pretends that there are grievances of the Tamils. Let the west first attend to the grievances of the so called Indians and others in the USA, of the Irish in UK, Palestinians in west Asia etc. The Sinhalas instead of trying to get the support of the west based on concepts and theories in western political science and western sociology should try to develop their own theories (we cannot expect the imitators to do that) and work out a strategy to defeat Tamil racism that is only an instrument in the hands of the western colonialists.
Professor Nalin de Silva
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