BACK TO THE PROBLEM - II
The other day I was listening to a cabinet minister claiming that Mr. S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike made a mistake by making Sinhala the official language and that Mr. Mahinda Rajapakse corrected it by making both Sinhala and Tamil official languages. This particular minister has no understanding of the problem nor is that he factually correct. Of course, he did not say that all the problems began with making Sinhala the official language but it was clear that he had ulterior motives. It was definitely not Mr. Mahinda Rajapakse who made Sinhala and Tamil official languages but the minister who probably thinks of himself as a Marxist or a socialist is trying to use Mr. Rajapakse to do what he wants rather than what the people want the government to do. What this minister and others who could be grouped as pseudo socialist SLFP MPs do not know is that making Sinhala the official language was not an isolated incident, just as much annihilating the LTTE terrorists is not an isolated event. The minister not known for his intellectual talents is trying to mislead the President and the general public.
Sinhala had been the official language of the whole country for thousands of years though we did not have an act of Parliament just as much Britain has no act of Parliament that pronounces English as the official language of that country. It was the British who made English the official language again without appealing to an act of Parliament. The British who had wanted to weaken the Sinhala Buddhist culture, if not destroy it had given privileges to the Tamils especially to the Tamil Vellalas in Jaffna. It had been a continuous struggle by the ordinary Sinhala people, not the English educated Sinhalas in general who were satisfied with crumbs thrown by the British governor, to give due place to Sinhalathva, and the nineteenth century Sinhala Buddhist revival, nineteen fifty six movement and Mahinda Chinthana have been more prominent milestones in this fight back. In nineteen fifty six some of the injustices against the Sinhalas, especially the Sinhala Buddhists were corrected and the English educated Tamils, not the Tamils who did nor know claimed that making Sinhala the official language was an injustice to Tamil language. As we have said number of times, Tamil was not the official language before fifty six and by replacing English with Sinhala as the official language no injustice would have been done against Tamil nor to those Tamils who did not know any English. In fact some of the Tamils who did not know English would have known Sinhala and making Sinhala the official language instead of English was to their advantage.
It was the English educated Tamils who had been serving the British from the early nineteenth century with the intention of becoming the leaders of the nation and working against the Sinhala people from the time of the legislative assembly conniving with the British who took up arms against making Sinhala the official language. It was Chelvanayakam the Tamil Christian who belonged to the South Indian church and who had founded his racist Ilankai Thamil Arasu Kadchi or Lanka Tamil State Party in order to establish a separate state way back in 1949 before the Official language act, who spearheaded the movement against Sinhala and the Sinhalathva in general with his so called non violent sathgyagrahas that provoked the police and the Sinhala people and instigated people to take up arms. Prabhakaran was only the end result of this movement and Chelvanayakam and the TULF MPs who called the terrorists the boys are also responsible though indirectly for the murders of the LTTE. The minister referred to above does not know that making Sinhala the official language was part of our independence struggle against the British that was not completed in 1948, and if not for this struggle he himself would not have become a cabinet minister even in 2005, through the national list. The man probably does not know that Mahinda Chinthana carries this struggle forward and if he were to live for another fifty years he would claim that defeating terrorism was a blunder. These people though close to the President are acting in the interests of others and would be a threat to the policies of the SLFP. They should never be allowed to become the secretaries and other high ranking office bearers of the Party in the interests of the country. We know what happened when Chandrika Kumarathunga was made the leader of the party. She implemented not the nationalistic policies of the SLFP but the non nationalistic policies dictated by the British and the western powers, assisted by the NGO peace vendors on the pay roll of the western powers. These ministers and former presidents are ignorant of the problem as they have been brainwashed by the British historians, political scientists, sociologists, and of course by their counterparts here who can only echo the voices of their masters and mistresses, and by the Tamil racist movement.
The Tamil problem as we have said is nothing but a problem created by the Dutch and especially by the British. The British made use of the majority of the English speaking Tamils, who will be refereed to as the English speaking Tamils hereafter, to weaken Sinhalathva and if possible to destroy it from about 1827 to 1949. Originally they wanted to make the English speaking Tamils the leaders of the country over the English speaking Sinhala leaders and all the struggles in the legislative assembly for so called equal representation, fifty fifty representation arise from the English speaking Tamils trying to dominate the legislature with the connivance of the British governors. In 1949 there was a qualitative change in the aims and objectives of the Tamil racist leadership. Chelvanayakam who had seen that after universal franchise it was not possible for Tamils to become leaders of the country decided to establish a separate state in the northern and the eastern province long before the official language act, so called discrimination against the Tamil students when admitting students to the Universities and much before the so called black July. Chelvanayakam was able to broad base the struggle and mobilise the Tamils who did not speak English on behalf of the English speaking Tamils. He made use of the official language act, the anti shri campaign, the so called discrimination at university entrance examinations and mythology of a Tamil history going back to the days of Rama. In 1976 he was able to pass the traitor resolution to establish a separate state at the Vadukkodai conference and since then until two weeks ago the "boys" had taken the fight on behalf the English speaking Tamils.
The terrorists were created by the English speaking Tamils mostly among non English speaking Tamils to fight to weaken Sinhalathva if not destroy on behalf of the English speaking Tamils with the connivance of the British and the other western powers. Solheim was only the agent of the British and the Scandinavian countries with the leadership of Norway did the dirty work for the British. LTTE has been now annihilated and the English speaking Tamils who had financed the terrorists, together with the western powers, now have to "fight" on their own. These people are mostly in the western countries and we hear of them attacking the Sri Lankan, Indian and Chinese embassies in those countries and also attacking Buddhist temples and Sinhala people with the police turning a Nelsonian eye on them at Trafalgar Square and such other places.
The British and the other westerners are now trying to prosecute the President, Defence Secretary and probably the higher ranking officers in the armed forces for so called war crimes. They will be prosecuted in what are known as international courts that have no "legality" as such but being westerners they will pretend that these so called courts are "legal" courts. The western Christian modernity is now in the twilight of its dominance and their systems of knowledge, theories, economies, political strategies are collapsing. We are five hundred years after the so called Renaissance and centuries after Reformation, Protestantism, French Revolution, Rhetoric on Equality, Enlightenment, Industrial Revolution, commencement of Capitalism, American Revolution, the milestones of western Christian modernity. The western system is bankrupt and after Gödel Theorem and the double slit experiment the foundations of western Mathematics and western Physics and of course Aristotelian logic have collapsed. Their economy is going from bad to worse to say the least, and the west is being exposed even to the die hard Anglophiles among us.
It is time to organise the nations other than the west into an alternative international (vikalpa jathyantharaya) not the Marxist internationals, along the lines of the non aligned conference of the yesteryears and Sri Lanka can take the leadership with China Russia Cuba and probably India and Pakistan playing major roles. Also Sri Lanka should request a jury appointed from the countries in the new alternative international to inquire into the horrible acts of the LTTE against humanity and how the west created and maintained Tamil terrorism supplying them with funds, arms and know how.
In the meantime it is essential that those who have worked for the LTTE and Tamil terrorism whether in the media or positions in the public service or in the NGOs including the INGOs, irrespective of whether they are Sinhala, Tamil, Muslim, Burgher are brought to book. We may even dispense with the Roman Dutch Law for this purpose and establish our own adhikarana sabhas to go into these inquiries. Some third rate "intellectual" will think that this suggestion is not democratic etc., but then we know how the west acts democratically and fairly in these matters. In fact we should think of a mechanism to introduce our adhikaranaya in the other matters as well. (To be concluded with the solution to the problem)
Professor Nalin de Silva
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