LTTE KILLINGS AND PEACE TALKS
The LTTE has gone on a killing spree in the new year period. It is clear that the LTTE does not respect the religious or national festivals of the people and are interested only in serving their masters in the west. Norway and others in the west including the co-chairs should also take responsibility for the killings, for if they want they can stop them. The west including Japan which is now not different from western countries are trying to deceive the Sinhalas. While we appreciate the work done by the Sinhalas living in Canada and other places to get the LTTE banned in that country, we have to realise that it is the thirty ninth organisation to be proscribed there. The ban will not make things very different for the LTTE, and we should not think that Canada banned the LTTE in the interests of Sri Lanka. In fact what prevented Canada from banning the LTTE earlier was the myth that it was connected with what is known as the Tamil cause. It is not difficult to conclude that of the other organisations banned in Canada, very few, if at all, are terrorist organisations worse than the LTTE. We articulated similar views when USA and UK banned the LTTE, and we know that despite UK banning the LTTE, Anton Balasingham operates from there.
The LTTE goes on a killing spree just before the "peace talks" and claims that they have not dissociated from the so-called ceasefire agreement. Then the "international community" issues statements condemning the acts of the LTTE and that's that. If the "international community" is genuinely interested in stopping the killings by the LTTE they could do so without issuing statements. This whole exercise is a drama enacted by the LTTE, SLMM, NGOs and "international community" to take the Sinhala people for a ride. They all want to show to the Sinhalas that the LTTE is capable of defeating the Sri Lankan armed forces, and establishing Eelam if they want. However, at the same time they want to create the impression that the Sri Lankan government is against peace, and only the LTTE is interested in a solution leading to peace. The "international community" applies "pressure" on the LTTE and eventually the terrorists agree to talks. Then at the negotiating table too they give the impression that militarily they are strong, and demand everything that leads to an Eelam. They threaten to walk out and resort to all sorts of mavericks in order to achieve what they want. There is nothing much the Sri Lankan government could do as the "international community" including the facilitators of Eelam are on the side of the Tamil racists. The western countries are engaged in humbug, and if the Sri Lankan government were to withdraw from the talks all these countries would make a big cry condemning the government. They would even threaten the government with economic sanctions and make the government kneel down before the Tamil terrorists.
At present the terrorists are interested in three matters. Firstly they want to remove Karuna from the scene. One has to remember that Karuna's organisation is not a paramilitary force if the LTTE is not a paramilitary force. Karuna's organisation could be decommissioned only after the LTTE is decommissioned. Furthermore, previously the LTTE did not want the government to handle Karuna's organisation, as they thought they could finish Karuna in no time. However, having realised that they cannot defeat Karuna the LTTE now wants the government to do the job for them. Secondly the LTTE wants to establish its sea tigers as a "legally recognised" outfit. They want the so-called ceasefire agreement amended accordingly. The "charges" against the Navy are made with an attempt to achieve this objective. Thirdly, the LTTE wants to fly to other countries without going through the Sri Lankan immigration and emigration formalities. It is obvious that they want to ignore the Sri Lankan passport, and this is nothing but another step towards establishing a separate State. Kilinocchchi is neither a Sri Lankan port nor where the officials of the immigration and emigration and of customs are present, and the terrorists should not be allowed to fly directly from there. It is the LTTE terrorists who are most safe in Colombo, and their claim of security problems is another myth that they want to spread with the assistance of the western countries.
The influence of the west is very revealing. In a recent interview over the television W. J. M. Lokubandara has said that when the (UNP) government wanted to take action on adult-only films, the ambassador for USA had intervened and said that in such case, they would have to reconsider the PL 480 agreement on wheat flour or what the people call American piti. Surely it cannot be the economic factors that made the USA intervene in a question of banning adult-only films. There is the cultural factor, which many so-called political scientists would like to ignore. If the USA could intervene in matters connected with adult only films, then one could imagine the pressure exerted by the western countries in one of the problems they created, namely the Tamil racist problem and the associated separatist and terrorist problem.
During the presidential elections campaign we mentioned that the more difficult task would be to see that the nationalist forces maintain the power that they would receive from the people. Unfortunately no proper attention was given to it, and today those who campaigned against Mahinda Chinthana have rallied round the President. It was the other day that the former chief of the SLMM claimed that the LTTE is engaged in a freedom struggle. This is the impression that the west has propagated, and as long as the west is of that view all the so-called peace talks are only exercises of humbug. Those who identify the problem only as a terrorist problem do not see the gravity of what they do. Terrorism is only a mode and what we have to do is to identify the problem first. The problem is nothing but Tamil racism created, baptised and nurtured by the western countries.
The LTTE is interested only in establishing an Eelam, which they cannot win by fighting, through negotiations. The terrorists who cannot defeat Karuna are not in a position to establish an Eelam through "war". They will pretend not to participate in talks but they have no alternative but to return to the negotiating table under "pressure" from Norway and other western countries even on a later date. This raises an important question. If the LTTE is incapable of establishing an Eelam through "war", then it has to act within the existing laws of the country, and more importantly the constitution. The laws and even the constitution of a country can be changed as long as it is done within the constitution. Only under special circumstances, for example when the constitution fails or when the laws of the country are not adhered to by the people, resulting from "war" or such other confrontations with the State, a constitution is changed "unconstitutionally". The LTTE is not in a position to change the constitution "unconstitutionally", as it is incapable of waging "war". Blasting claymore mines should not be equated with "war". Therefore it is not necessary to change the constitution, especially its unitary character through negotiations, when a vast majority of people, yes a majority, have expressed their willingness to preserve the unitary State through the ballot. If the LTTE wants to establish a confederation and then an Eelam by whatever name, let them do so by fighting a "war". There is no necessity for the government to ignore the majority, and give in to the wish of a tiny minority that the LTTE may represent, as it does not represent even the Tamil people contrary to its belligerent claims. In the name of a new kind of "democracy" preached by the west and their agents to the people in Asia, Africa and South America, the interests of the majority should not be betrayed.
There cannot be a solution to a problem unless the problem is identified and formulated. It is said that in research, not re-search done by the "intellectuals", the formulation of the problem amounts to more than seventy five per cent of solving the problem. In re-search what is needed is the basic ability to go through the catalogues, read a few books and journals, and use the jargon in presenting the results of the re-search to fellow "intellectuals". The ordinary masses who do not know the methodology of re-search would be marvelled by the papers presented by the "intellectuals". The problem in Sri Lanka is the aspirations of the Tamil racists and Tamil racism that was created by the Dutch, and baptised and nurtured by the British, and at present, by the British and the Americans with the assistance of the Norwegians. Tamil racism has no Hindu element, and it is backed by western nations. The Tamil racism with the assistance of the British wanted to produce the rulers of the country in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The stumbling block against this aspiration was the history and demography of the country. The Sinhala people had built the country and a unique culture within the country over more than two thousand years, and constituted the majority of the country, in spite of forced colonisation by the Dutch and British, beginning in the eighteenth century with Tamils brought from South India. Having failed in their attempts to be the political and cultural leaders of the country, some Tamils resorted to the more "humble" option of creating an Eelam in the Northern and the Eastern provinces. One has to admit that even today, the Tamils and non-Sinhala Buddhists in general, sponsored by the British are the economic leaders of the country. When the privileges given to the "minorities" that the west created, by the west, are being taken away gradually they claim that they are discriminated by the Sinhala Buddhists, and have to win freedom. The so-called freedom fighters that Haukland talked about stem from this, and it is the duty of the government to expose all these myths and tell the country and the world other than the "international community" what has happened in history.
Professor Nalin de Silva
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