LESSON FROM LTTE AIR ATTACKS
When are we going to learn? Soon after the air attack by the LTTE the government was seeking aid from the international community meaning the powerful western countries, and India to help them to defeat the LTTE. Some spokespersons for the government were quick to point out that the possession of aircrafts by the LTTE was not only a threat to Sri Lanka but to the entire world, and wanted the other countries to realise the gravity of the situation. However, except for China none of the other countries even condemned the action of the LTTE to attempt to bomb the Katunayaka air force camp. Indian Foreign secretary downplayed the event, and said that one cannot go by individual events, and that the violence should stop everywhere in the country. Obviously what he meant was that the armed forces should stop their limited retaliations in the northern and the eastern provinces, if the LTTE is to stop air raids.
The west and India by not condemning the action of the LTTE, and by implying that the government should stop limited retaliations against the LTTE in the northern and the eastern provinces have implicitly approved the bombing by the LTTE. One would not be surprised if the LTTE had the blessings of these countries to bomb the air force camp at Katunayake. I would not believe all the propaganda by the Tamil Net and other such websites on the number of planes destroyed by the LTTE at the Katunayake air base. However, the government should come out with the truth, instead of trying to tell the world, that the Katunayaka air port is safe, and no planes there were damaged. The government news media should tell the people truth and nothing but the truth, as otherwise the latter would be drawn to non national news media that try to project a different picture altogether. For example the BBC has tried to give the impression that the LTTE had been very innovative in carrying out the air raid.
The way that the western countries and India, which is fast adopting the western culture for a second time in history, reacted, and the way their media had given publicity to the event, compels one to hypothesise that these countries not only gave their blessings but probably had a hand in taking the decision to bomb the air force camp at Katunayake. (India for all purposes is not a country of the region having succumbed to the Aryan invasion from the west and losing most of the aspects of the Anaryan - Non Aryan, but not Dravidian, culture of the ancient times. Buddha and Mahaveera were two persons, who revolted against the western Brahmin culture, but the Vedic culture eventually defeated both Buddhist and Jaina culture, of course after incorporating some aspects from the Buddhist and Jaina cultures and creating what is now known as Hindu culture. Hinduism preaches ahimsa contrary to the Vedic sacrifices, and this should open the eyes of the "intellectuals" to the transformation that has gone in India over centuries. The fact that Buddhism survived mainly in Sri Lanka and the rest of Asia and not in India is ample proof that the India had lost most of its Anaryan culture as a result of the Vedic invasion. Today India is succumbing to the second cultural invasion from the west.) It is known that these countries are not happy at all with the limited retaliations by the Sri Lankan armed forces against the LTTE. They do not want the LTTE to be defeated before they extract a federal solution from the government of Sri Lanka forcing the Sinhalas to lose the northern and the eastern provinces.
However, due to the education we receive at the schools and the universities, we are unable to see through the western and Indian policies against the Sinhalas. It is very unlikely that the Brahmins in India will ever forget that it is the Sinhalas who protected Buddhism against the wish of the Hindu India for centuries. The Chinese on the other hand who were not Aryanised (the Sinhalas were also not Aryanised contrary to the belief of some Sinhalas themselves, and Tamil propagandists who attempt to portray the Sinhalas as Aryanised Dravidians) retained the cultural aspects of the region, and could be sympathetic to the Sinhalas. I always wonder what would have happened if the Aryans invaded China instead of India, surmounting the geographical barriers. It is the dependant education we receive that makes us to turn to the western countries and India for their help to defeat LTTE, assuming that these countries are either neutral or helpful. We will never achieve anything by appealing to the west and India for help to defeat the LTTE except misery. Instead what we have to do is to prepare the people for the eventuality, after telling them the truth.
Meanwhile the CFA has come into the picture again, after a government newspaper announced that it is possible that a referendum would be held to decide whether the CFA should be abolished. It is generally believed that the LTTE was able to assemble the light aircrafts that they posses after the CFA came into existence. In any event the CFA is heavily loaded against the Sri Lankan government, and many political parties had asked the government to abrogate the so called pact. When recently some political parties went before the appeals court against the CFA, it was revealed that it has no legal status. The courts cannot make it null and void as it is not a document that comes within the purview of jurisdiction of the courts of law. It is a good idea to conduct a referendum on this issue and already Tissa Vitarana, who calls himself the chairman of the APRC, as if it has any legal status, has come out against it. The APRC elected a chairman to chair the meetings and to covey to the others what the APRC wanted to. It has to be remembered that if the APRC wished it could have elected chairman on a meeting to meeting basis. In any event there would be others who would be against the referendum claiming it a majority dictatorship and other such names. The government should not be deterred by these hollow slogans, as the government itself has been elected on the principle of majority verdict. If someone were to object to the election of the President claiming that he was elected mainly by the Sinhalas and especially by the Sinhala Buddhists how would the government react to it?
Let us have a referendum on the CFA, and if the majority decides so then the government should withdraw from this notorious document which has no legal status in the eyes of the law. If a referendum cannot take a decision, then a government elected on majority vote cannot also take a decision, and we would have to go to the west to get advice based on their "wisdom". However, we should not forget that the west with the support of India would not allow us to defeat the LTTE until their wish is fulfilled, and for this purpose they are prepared to impose economic sanctions and/or send UN forces. This could be overcome by educating the people, and getting them involved in the "war". (War is a misnomer here as there is no war as such between Sri Lanka and the LTTE. There is a terrorist group that has taken up arms against the government, and it is the foremost duty of the government to defeat the terrorist group by means of military action, against the slogan shouting of the NGOs and cardboard Brechts mascara ding as artistes. The campaign against so called violations of human rights (there are no human rights as such in the abstract, and the west by human rights means western Christian human rights that work against the other cultures as has been demonstrated by the recent judgements against Muslim girls wearing the "veil" in the western countries.) is only a prelude to the impending economic sanctions/sending UN troops, and the government has to reply to these criticisms without depending on western political theories which are essentially Christian in culture. If we want to learn from the air attacks, then it is the lesson that the LTTE has to be defeated militarily before they do more damage with the blessings of the western countries and India.
Professor Nalin de Silva
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