DEFEAT THE LTTE TO SAVE LIVES AND THE COUNTRY
The LTTE has murdered yet another Sri Lankan Tamil politician. However, the LTTE claims that it is the sole representative of the Tamils in Sri Lanka. It could be argued by some that if the LTTE represents the Tamils in Sri Lanka, then the leaders of the LTTE have a right to kill those who do not think that the LTTE represents the Tamils. The LTTE may claim that it represents the Tamils. The million dollar question is whether it could be said that the LTTE is Tamil. Their leaders speak Tamil, and some of them are Hindus by religion. However are they Tamil Hindus by culture? Incidentally who is the next Tamil politician in their list?
I doubt very much that even the old members of the old left realise that Mr. Kadirgamar was brutally killed on the fifty second anniversary of the Hartal of fifty three that saw the killing of people for political reasons for the first time since the British decided to take the back seat in manipulating Sri Lankan politics in 1948. As a Tamil who had, both in Sri Lanka and Britain, the best of the education that the British wanted to impart to some of the young people in their colonies, Mr. Kadirgamar could have helped the LTTE like many others in his profession both here and abroad. After all it was the British through their education who groomed a set of anti Sinhala politicians beginning in the nineteenth century A. D., not Shaka Varsha or any other Varshas known in this part of the world. However, Mr. Kadirgamar was not to be so and to the end of his life he remained a friend of the Sinhala people and a patriot. Most of the so called Chauvinist Sinhala people would have accepted him as the Prime Minister of the country whole heartedly. Sri Lanka has had many foreign ministers who were not Sinhala Buddhists though these facts do not come to light when speaking of the "barbarian Sinhala Buddhist people" who even in their dreams think of Sinhala Buddhist supremacy according to most of the Tamils as well as the Sinhalas who have had the best of the British education. (In fact there are many non Sinhala Buddhist diplomats representing Sri Lanka abroad, and most of the times it is said that a Muslim is sent as the ambassador in a Muslim country, though it is never reciprocated by some of the countries where there is a substantial number of Buddhists. Perhaps, those who have received the best of the British education would say it is not necessary as Sri Lanka is not a Sinhala Buddhist country. In any event, Sinhala Buddhists are painted as the Chauvinist barbarians of the modern world.)
Killing of Mr. Kadirgamar is a major violation of the so called ceasefire agreement (CFA), though the SLMM may not think so. A spokesperson for the SLMM has apparently said that the "CFA" is in danger of being abrogated now but he or she can be rest assured that unless the LTTE proclaims officially that they do not respect the "CFA", it will survive as long as Ms. Chandrika Kumaratunga remains the President. She who does not know the history of the country always blame the "Sinhala extremists" for not allowing her to give even a little to the Tamils, as a solution to their grievances. I challenge her to spell out these grievances. The LTTE has violated the "CFA" umpteen times but neither they nor their sponsors and back seat boys and girls in the west would ever admit officially that they violated the CFA.
The so called government of Sri Lanka has issued a statement on the murder of Mr. Kadirgamar. The "government" can only issue statements of condolence condemning the brutal acts. However sometimes not only that they do not identify the LTTE as the murderer but goes on to whitewash the latter saying that the murderer has not being identified. A SSP was killed only recently by the LTTE but so far nobody has been arrested. Incidentally who killed Sivaram alias Taraki? The NGO "intellectuals" and some "journalists" in rag sheets tried to implicate the JVP for the murder but they have remained silent since they picketed in front of the Fort Railway station against the "racist" killers, implying of course the Sinhala Buddhists. The LTTE does not lose anything by giving a "mahavir" to a person posthumously after killing him. However, it is very unlikely that Mr. Kadirgamar would be made a "mahavir" by the "mahamaruva" posthumously.
The President's statement that appeared in the press on the killing of one of the cabinet ministers is very confusing to say the least. Perhaps she is in a confused state of mind as a result of the murder of one of her most capable colleagues. The statement among other things mentions that the political foes opposed to the peaceful transformation of conflict and who are determined to undermine attempts towards a negotiated political solution to the ethnic conflict had killed Mr. Kadirgamar. The minister Mr. Nimal Siripala de Silva meanwhile says that nobody else other than the LTTE is responsible for the murder. We do not know whether the President agrees with the minister as she is a person who does not say anything without thinking and analysing a given situation. Her public speeches amply demonstrate this virtue she possesses, and if the minister is wrong in his speculations he would be in trouble. An unnamed official speaking to "The Sunday Island", on the other hand, has said "there are very few people who can do this kind of killing but we don't want to speculate right now". He has elaborated "Anyone who killed Lakshman Kadirgamar was against a negotiated end to the conflict. By referring to them as political foes, we simply meant that the killing itself was political. We don't mean to imply that the assassins were political".
Obviously the anonymous official not only knows the mind of the President but speaks for a group who probably drafted or gave their opinions or simply listened to the discussions that took place before, during or after the drafting of the statement. He/she is very clear on this aspect when he/she says "we don't mean to imply that the assassins were political". He speaks for this particular drafting group. The assassins need not be political, though the killing was political, according to this anonymous official who is either debarred from giving his/her name or who does not have the courage to identify himself/herself. Probably what the anonymous official tries to say in so many words is that the murderers need not be members of a political party. Could they have been hired by a political party? It is not altogether impossible according to what the official has said, however even if they are from the underworld the killing was political, and the underworld thugs are against a negotiated end to the conflict. It is possible that some of the underworld killers are Sinhala Buddhist Chauvinists who are "against a negotiated end to the conflict", whatever this conflict may be.
If as Mr. Nimal Siripala de Silva has said, the LTTE is responsible for the murder, and if the killers are members of the LTTE then not only the act but the actors become political, in the sense of the worthy anonymous official. However the LTTE could have hired one or more people to kill Mr. Kadirgamar, and in that case only the act is political, though the actor(s) themselves are "against a negotiated end to the conflict". Even if the LTTE is responsible for the murder as Mr. Nimal Siripala de Silva has said, if the assassins are not members of the LTTE, then according to the anonymous official it is only the assassins who are "against a negotiated end to the conflict" but not the LTTE. The LTTE has hired two murderers to kill Mr. Kadirgamar for some reason known to the leaders of the LTTE. According to the statement of the anonymous official, we can conclude that the LTTE is "against a negotiated end to the conflict", only if the assassins are members of the LTTE and not hired by the latter.
The President and the anonymous official may be trying to wriggle out of a difficult situation. Some western white Cosmologists speculate that the objects that collapse under gravity form black holes and go through worm holes to a different universe perhaps forming white holes. For the western whites death whether of galaxies and stars or human beings are associated with black while birth is associated with white. We do not know how the President and the anonymous official would come out of the worm hole, but it is quite clear that the western white politicians and officials want to keep their CFA alive. The "CFA" has been violated umpteen times by the LTTE, but the monitors of the SLMM turn a Nelsonian eye to the violations.
The anonymous official cannot hide behind words and pretend that the LTTE is not "against a negotiated end to the conflict". The LTTE is "against a negotiated end to the conflict" whatever the conflict may be and they would be satisfied only by a separate state which the western Christian whites are sponsoring. The "CFA" is a license given to the LTTE to kill anybody they wish while the "government" of Sri Lanka does not take any action. There is no need to pretend that the LTTE is not "against a negotiated end to the conflict", when they are clearly acting "against a negotiated end to the conflict". The so called CFA drafted by the Norwegians and the other westerners and signed by Ranil Wickremesinghe and Prabhakaran has no validity. Only the "government" of Sri Lanka that cannot take a stand against the LTTE and their sponsors in the west meekly stick to the letters of the "CFA" when nobody else cares two hoots for it.
A higher up in the "government" when reminded that people including SSPs are killed by the LTTE almost daily, has retorted back saying that more people would have been killed if not for the "CFA". How does this person know that? It is true that no bombs are were exploded in Colombo after the signing of the "CFA". However, there are sniper gunners, suicide bombers and lot of other terrorists in Colombo as a result of no check points in and around the town. Perhaps the life of Mr. Kadirgamar could have been saved if the so called CFA was not in operation. Those who signed the "CFA" as well as those who kept it in operation are also responsible for the killings that have taken place after the "CFA" was signed in an indirect way.
There is no point in loosing lives of innocent people by maintaining the "CFA". We would not follow the "SUN" newspaper in the democratic Christian Britain which said in banner headlines "got the bastards" after the arrest of four Muslims in connection with the second bombing in London recently, and request the Sri Lankan police to "get the bastards" who killed Mr. Kadirgamar. After all very highly placed Tamils who had the best of the British education may be involved and it may become impossible for the "government" even if it wanted, to catch the murderers. Mr. Mangala Munasinghe is on record saying that the BBC, not the Sandeshaya which is only a tail that is wagged by the dog, had called Mr. Kadirgamar an anti Tamil person, recently. The BBC never calls the LTTE a terrorist organisation though they called the JVP a terrorist organisation in the late eighties. The British would never talk to the IRA unless the latter gave up arms and recently the IRA had decided to say farewell to arms. In Sri Lanka, the situation is reversed. The LTTE is not called a terrorist organisation with respect to its activities in Sri Lanka. It may be banned in certain countries as a terrorist organisation because of its international connections with other terrorist organisations which are a threat to those countries. With all due respect to Mr. Kadirgamar, I am of the view that the USA was influenced by other reasons to ban the LTTE than by the arguments of the former. Bill Clinton met representatives of the LTTE, and the American embassy said that he met them as a representative of the UN and not of the USA. They could even say that any individual has a right to meet any terrorist as an individual. It would be nice if the US embassy could tell us in advance in what capacity their important citizens meet various people in connection with activities in Sri Lanka.
The LTTE is fighting a "war" with the blessings and the sponsorship of the west against the Sinhala Buddhists in the country. In view of the LTTE and the so called impartial BBC (that is how we are brain washed by the best of the British education), Mr. Kadirgamar was anti Tamil and with the western thinking in terms of binary opposition and Aristotelian logic, this implied that he was pro Sinhala Buddhist. He called the LTTE a terrorist organisation as the pro LTTE newspaper "Eelanadu" has reminded its readers on the day he was killed. Some peace vendors who are mainly sponsored by Christian Associations and Christian countries in the west, would come out with their rhetoric that the LTTE could be brought into the main stream politics only through negotiations. This is humbug of the highest order, as the LTTE is already in main stream politics by killing people. In the late eighties none of these peace vendors nor the BBC nor the Solheims wanted the then government to have negotiations with the LTTE. The JVP was branded as a terrorist organisation and the government crushed the JVP. If Britain insists that IRA should be disarmed before negotiations why cannot the same rule be applied in the case of the LTTE. They do not want to do that simply because there is nothing to negotiate with the LTTE. The negotiations would cease soon after the question is asked to spell out the grievances of the Tamils merely because they are Tamils. The President would not be in a position to sing her baila that the Sinhala Chauvinists are not allowing her to find a solution to the grievances of the Tamils, and blame the Sinhala extremists for the killings by the LTTE. The western Christian countries that sponsor and give their blessings to the Tamil terrorists want the so called CFA to be in operation making the "government" inactive while the LTTE kills people. There is only one solution to the problem, the problem being depriving Sinhala people and their culture the due place in the country. The solution is very clear. Defeat the LTTE with the aid of the armed forces. It is also a political solution. After all war is not continuation of politics as a white westerner has said but a form of politics.
Professor Nalin de Silva
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