ON 'PEACE' TALKS
It appears that most of the political parties including the JVP and the JHU are in agreement with the so called peace talks to be held in Geneva. As somebody had remarked Oslo would have better than Geneva, as the latter is increasingly identified with the wants of the USA. Whether USA or Norway it does not make much of a difference and Geneva is as bad as Oslo. However, what is interesting to note is that the LTTE wants the government of Sri Lanka to decommission the Karuna faction. This raises at least three questions. According to the Ranil Prabhakaran agreement, also known as the so called ceasefire agreement, the LTTE should have been decommissioned within thirty days of signing the agreement. We have passed not thirty days but more than thirty months after the infamous signing ceremony at which Ranil Wickremesinghe was belittled by Prabhakaran and the Norwegians, remember Ranil Wickremesinghe refused to shake hands with the Norwegian present at the ceremony, but the LTTE remains armed to the teeth. Why does not the government raise the question of decommissioning the LTTE for a change? The second question is why cannot the LTTE itself with its "armed power" and the "dedicated band" of terrorists decommission the Karuna faction. The last but not the least question is on whether or not the LTTE recognise the authority of the government of Sri Lanka in the eastern province for the latter to decommission the Karuna faction.
It is clear that the LTTE is playing a double game. If the Karuna faction cannot hold weapons, then by the same logic, whatever it is, the LTTE has no right to keep arms. The LTTE by demanding that the Karuna faction should be decommissioned, by implication wants to be treated like a government. Only a government can keep arms, and even Solheim should be aware of it. The Karuna faction has taken up arms because of the LTTE, and if the latter wants Karuna to lay down arms, then what they should lay down arms first. As soon as the LTTE lay down arms or the government decommission them, the Karuna faction will lay down arms. Since the LTTE has asked the government to decommission the Karuna faction the government should proceed with decommissioning the LTTE as that itself will force the Karuna faction to lay down arms. In any event the Norwegians should see to it that the Ranil Prabhakaran agreement, which they drafted, is implemented and their prot`E9g`E9 LTTE lay down arms.
The LTTE by demanding that the Karuna faction be decommissioned has acknowledged that they are incapable of defeating the latter without the support of the Sri Lankan government. Unlike in the case of the government of Sri Lanka which is under pressure by the western Christian countries not to defeat the LTTE there is no such difficulty as far as the latter is concerned. The western Christian countries would never ask the LTTE to refrain from defeating the Karuna faction. It is obvious that the LTTE which has been inflated by the western media, the western Christian states and their intellectuals, and of course, the NGO and INGO boys and girls both here and abroad, as a military outfit that cannot be defeated, is incapable of defeating the Karuna faction in what they pompously call the Tamil homeland. It is such an outfit that cannot defeat a splinter group, which pretend with the help of the Norwegians and the other western Christian countries as a great military power that make demands to the Sri Lankan government. If given the freedom the Sri Lankan forces can defeat the LTTE without much difficulty as they have shown during the Vadamaarachchi days. Of course, then it was India which resorted to Parippu tactics, and the irony of ironies was that the selfsame LTTE that was protected by India went on to kill Mr. Rajiv Gandhi not long after. If India had decided to keep the parippu or dhal for herself she could have saved not only parippu but the life of Mr. Rajiv Gandhi as well. The western Christian powers have no such fear, for they know what to do with Prabhakaran if and when he decides to disobey them. Even at this stage if we do not realise that Tamil racism was created by the Dutch and nurtured by the British and is protected by the Norwegians on behalf of all the western Christian countries, we are not going to see an end of the problems created by Tamil racism. In any event do not the western Christian powers have any plans to destroy the Karuna faction to protect their darling the LTTE?
By requesting the government of Sri Lanka and not their mentors in the Christian west, to decommission the Karuna faction, the LTTE has acknowledged that the government has control over the so called Tamil homeland. After all Karuna operates from the Eastern province and occasionally from the Northern province which the LTTE, the other Tamil racists, the Christian west and the NGO and INGO boys and girls who are kept by their mistresses and the masters in the Christian west, claim as the Tamil homeland, and that most of it is under the control of the LTTE. If that is the case why should the LTTE ask the "Sinhala" government to decommission the Karuna faction? The incapability of the LTTE has been exposed and there is no need for the government to engage in so called peace talks with the terrorists, when they have not laid down arms. If it is good for the USA to proclaim that they would not have anything to do with the terrorists, and if UK did not want to negotiate with the IRA as long as the latter were armed why should Sri Lanka under pressure from the same countries and other western Christian countries have discussions with the LTTE whether in Oslo, Geneva or Timbuktu. Why is the Christian west bullying the Sri Lankan government and force them to have discussions with a ruthless terrorist organisation? The west does not have to help the Sri Lankan government to defeat the LTTE as the government does not need such help. If the Christian west does not force the government not to use forces then it is good enough. Perhaps the west thinks that it is Christian nature to request others to do what they themselves do not do. Why not the Pope, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, and other Bishops and leaders of various Churches in the west either request the USA to negotiate with Al Qaeda immediately or to not to enforce conditions on the Sri Lankan government. It appears that the Pope and the others mentioned above are interested in peace of Sri Lanka but not in the west and western Asia. Is it a case of love thy neighbour, though we are thousands of miles away from Vatican and Canterbury, more than yourself? In the Ivanhoe we read at school, there was a character which always used to greet others with the words "pax vobiscum". Even as a schoolboy I used to laugh at this character who had no peace for himself but for the others, and I could not be convinced that it was Christian nature, having learnt about the atrocities of the Portuguese, the Dutch and the British at home and in the History classes, even after watering down by the Christian historians.
It is unfortunate that the Christian west does not have enthusiastic Bishops, Ministers and other leaders of the Churches similar to those we have got in Sri Lanka, who are committed peacemakers. In Sri Lanka every other day we read a statement by this Bishop or that Minister calling for peace in the name of humankind. Not to be outdone some Bhikkus also call for peace. In the name of peace these Bishops, Ministers and Bhikkus should be sent to Washington to request President Bush to have peace talks with bin Laden. In fact Norway that has donated some money to reconstruct few of the tsunami affected temples, in spite of her objecting to declaring Wesak as an international holiday, could send Solheim to accommodate the Bhikkus to Washington. Lutheran Solheim appeared to be an upasaka when he was visiting some of the temples to participate in ceremonies associated with tsunami reconstruction work. I know somebody could always say that objecting to the Wesak holiday has nothing to do with post tsunami reconstruction work, as they are independent of each other, but then we know that politics is not mathematics where consistency plays a very big role.
Even if one does not adhere to the Ranil Prabhakaran agreement like Solheim and others, Mahinda Chinthanaya itself would not allow the government to have peace talks with the LTTE even in an Asian country. The Mahinda Chinthanaya is very clear on this aspect. It says peace talks would begin only after the LTTE lay down arms and also after the LTTE give up separatism. Has the LTTE done any one of these? The answer is obviously no. The millions who voted for Mr. Mahinda Rajapakse would have expected him to honour the Mahinda Chinthanaya. However, Mr. Rajapakse has bowed down to the pressure from the western countries ignoring the expectations of the millions of voters. There are people who would say that reality has dawned on the President, and he has to begin peace talks whether he likes or not. As we have said number of times there is no reality as such, not even the real of Lacan and others, not to mention the other of Lacan and others, as all realities are creations of man. A Real beyond reality is a creation of Lacan and others and I challenge Lacan's golayas to show independent of the mind that there is a real independent of the mind. Of course, the western intellectuals based on Greek Judaic Chinthanaya and Judaic Christian culture cannot dispense with an objective reality and whether in Lacanian psychoanalysis or in Quantum Physics this objective reality is bound to come up with names such as Real, in spite of all the relativities these intellectuals talk of. The so called reality that Mr. Rajapakse has to face is nothing but western Christian colonialism, which can be defeated if we have the will to do so. If somebody says that the reality is that western Christian colonialism cannot be defeated then he/she is either an agent of western Christian colonialism or has been brainwashed by the Christian education given in the schools and the universities.
Professor Nalin de Silva
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