LEGITIMISING EELAM
The world bank has decided to consult the LTTE on the disbursement of funds amounting to six billion rupees for relief work in the northern and the eastern provinces. According to Peter Harrold, the country director of the world bank, the LTTE is a key stakeholder as there is an officially recognised LTTE controlled area, a kind of unofficial state. He has added that since the LTTE is a party to the ceasefire agreement with the government it has the status of a legitimate stakeholder. What would be the reaction of the JVP and the Karuna faction to this statement by the country director of the world bank.
The world bank is a bank of the western Christian world though it has given itself the bogus title of world bank. It is natural for an institution that pretends to be what it is not to talk for an organisation which claims that it is the sole representative of the Tamils in Sri Lanka. If the world bank cares to consult some Tamil Hindu leaders such as Mr. Anandasangaree who is not afraid of the LTTE, these country directors would be in a better position to find out the strength of a terrorist organisation which is nothing but a spent force at present. However, they would not consult people who know the ground situation for the simple reason that if they resort to such consultation then their bogus claims could not be maintained.
Mr. Anandasangaree has specifically said that the government should not establish a joint organisation with the LTTE on relief work in the north and the east. Who knows the situation in the northern and the eastern provinces better Mr. Anandasangaree or the so-called country director of the so-called world bank. The LTTE has no power whatsoever in the eastern province as Kaushalyan and others have proved by their deaths. If the LTTE leaders are not safe in the provinces that they claim to represent what is the use of consulting these terrorists. As we have said number of times, though the English speaking Sinhalas as well as Tamils are very slow to learn, there would not have been a LTTE by now if not for the support that they get from the Christian west. At least some people such as Mr. Anandasangaree, have realised that the LTTE has no power in these provinces and Norway is a danger to the country.
Would Karuna concede the "world bank" story that the eastern province or at least some part of it is "controlled" by the LTTE. It is clear that the world bank following the united nations is taking steps to legitimise a LTTE "government" in the northern province and the eastern province. If Prabhakaran is no more as the Karuna faction claims then it makes things easier for the Christian west to have a puppet "government" in those two provinces. Thamilselvan and Anton Balasingham are an ideal combination as far as the west is concerned to whom the power of the northern and the eastern provinces, could be "handed over" . Neither of them has a mass base and both depend on the Christian west for their survival.
Unfortunately the "government" of Sri Lanka is not in a position to tell the world bank what it ought to do. As we have maintained in these columns there is no government in Sri Lanka. The most inefficient lot who pretend that they are experts in administration is in charge of the day to day work of the government and nobody listens to them as very often their so called decisions are wrong to say the least. The most recent "decision" was in connection with the G.C.E. (A/L) Examination. The so called authorities decided to have two examinations in view of the tsunami situation without going into details regarding the repercussions that their decision would have in connection with not only the conduct of the examination but admission of students to the universities. The opposition to the decision of the know all authorities was so much they had to take a "decision" to conduct only one examination.
Sri Lanka is in a worse situation after the tsunami and the west is in control over the affairs of the country not only with respect to the economy but with respect to politics and culture as well. The west that knows how the "commissioners" (those who take commissions on deals) work in the so called third world countries has a grip on not only the "political leaders" but the "administrators" and the "public servants". The talk on rebuilding the nation is humbug and it has only increased the anaesthetisation of the state as well as the public. The western surgeons are now in a position to operate the anaesthetised state and the western organisations such as the world bank and the united nations are preparing their surgical instruments to amputate the state. The English educated middle class could only write on how to please the west with governmental proposals on the ISGA.
The so-called leaders know only to boast of the loans, the aid also being very often loans, that they "succeed" in obtaining from the western and other donor countries. These loans are not given due to any special qualities of the ministers and the officials who represent the country but mainly according to the whims and fancies of the donor countries. It is the west and not the "negotiating" skills of those who make free trips abroad at the expense of the public money that decides how much money is pledged to us, allocated to us and finally given to us. What is given finally after deducting the funds spent on the visits of the dignitaries etc., is only a fraction of what is pledged but over the years we have become increasingly dependent on these loans to the detriment of the people and the country.
The "world bank" and the other organisations that are manipulated by the USA, in the final analysis, have had an agenda that go back to the British period if not the Dutch period in the colonial history of the country. The JVP has named the present period as that of recolonisation but they are wrong as we have never been able to become independent after 1815. The JVP still use some Marxist concepts that have never been valid and we have had USA as our colonial power since the seventies. Up to the seventies, in spite of what is called independence, and 1956, the British were our rulers and USA since then has been manipulating our affairs using organisations such as the world bank and the united nations, as well.
Mr. Kadirgamer, in a speech made recently in India has said that it is time for India to speak her mind. The minster of foreign affairs who probably knows the mind of India has to be concerned about what is happening around him. Would India intervene at this stage or is it now too late for the big neighbour to help us? More importantly is India in a position to help us as that country also has a "solution" based not on the Sri Lankan situation but on the Indian context. In any event time is running out fast and unless something drastic happens, our so called leaders would and could "lead" the country only to a political, cultural and economical abyss. It is unfortunate that Tamil racism which is a creation of the Christian west with bogus concepts is continuing to be fed by ideas that are not only detrimental to the Buddhists but to Hindus as well. In "An Introduction to Tamil Racism" and other books and articles both in Sinhala and English we have tried to uncover and expose the western Christian forces behind a problem that goes back to the seventeenth century when the Dutch imported labour from South India for their tobacco cultivations.
This brings me into recent correspondence by Professor S. Ratnajeevan H. Hoole, a Tamil Christian, who is apparently a D.Sc. from a western university, and moreover one of the two Doctors of Science in the country both of whom happen to be Tamil Christians. Incidentally I became aware of the last information through the writings of Prof. Ratnajeevan Hoole himself. He has used western concepts in his articles and when he says that there is only a Sinhala ethnic group we would know from where he gets his "information". As far as we are concerned there is a Sinhala nation but that is not my concern in this article. Neither I am concerned with the clapping I received during and after a speech I made at the OPA sometime ago. I wish I had Prof. Hoole on the "other side" at that seminar but I must mention that as far as I could remember the professionals who gathered at the seminar did not behave in an unbecoming manner.
I am concerned with three aspects arising out of the correspondence of Prof. Hoole and Mr./Ms./ Dr. C. Jeyaseelan, a Lecturer at the Vavuniya Campus of the University of Jaffna. From the letter to the editor by the latter on 1st March, I gather that the University of Jaffna "in its wisdom" has decided not to consider the application of Prof. Hoole for relevant academic positions. The lecturer from the Vavuniya Campus has described Prof. Hoole as a role model for Sri Lankan academics. Is the lecturer hinting at discrimination by the University of Jaffna. If that is the case then it cannot be a discrimination against a Tamil as such, as I am not aware of any Sinhala racists on the various bodies of that august institution. I am concerned as my applications for academic posts were also not considered by certain universities in the past and I could only say that finally justice was done by the University Services Appeals Board that ordered the relevant universities to consider my applications. Perhaps Prof. Hoole is not in the position I was, as unlike me he is employed, and that at the University of Peradeniya, though not a Sinhala University by any means is a University where many Sinhalas whether communalists or not occupy important positions.
Secondly I am concerned why the Tamil members of the SLAAS failed to elect Tamils to the council of that body. If the Sinhalas voted for the Sinhalas and not for the Tamils, at least the Tamils could have got together to elect Dr. (Mrs.) Hoole or some other Tamil to the council of the SLAAS. Was the failure by the Tamils to do so due to discrimination against fellow Tamils or due to some other reason? Could somebody enlighten me on this please.
Thirdly I am concerned with the "history" as given by Prof. Hoole in his article on the 25th of February. I do not know that Prof. Hoole has a D. Litt. or even a B. A. in History, and I would like to know the authority he would quote chapter and verse according to the tradition of the Book, when he says for example "Tamils (or Dravidian speakers) and other stray elements such as 'the latter day descendants of the ancient Aryans' ( in Gananth - note the spelling by the role model- Obeyesekera's words) who became Buddhists slowly evolved into the Sinhalese as their religious texts in Pali changed their language into Sinhalese(of which there is no evidence till the 9th century)." I am not trying to say that one has to be a graduate in history to talk on history, but I would like to know how Prof. Hoole justifies his claims.
Professor Nalin de Silva
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