By Charles.S.Perera

Tamils of Sri Lanka should change their separatist identity , to become patriots accepting Sri Lanka as their motherland.  The death of the Tamil civilians due to  terrorism and the death of Sinhala youth fighting against terrorism would be in vain if the Tamils in the North continue to claim separation from the rest of the Communities.

The TNA is the stumbling block against patriotic attachment of the Tamil people towards Sri Lanka.  TNA had been a proxi party of the terrorists, and now represent the pro-terrorist Tamil Diaspora abroad.  Hence both the TNA and the Tamil diaspora cannot expect to have patriotic affection to Sri Lanka.  Therefore they are both claiming a Separate Tamil State or demand Northern Province of Sri Lanka  left exclusively for the Tamil speaking people.

This cannot be and will never be, as the war against terrorism that had been carried out with great sacrifice had been to make the North and East of  Sri Lanka accept unity with other communities to make whole of Sri Lanka a single Nation despite the cultural, religious and language diversity of its people.  The Tamils in Sri Lanka  cannot remain as Tamils but as Sri Lankans, as much the TamilNadu Tamils cannot be Tamils but Indians.

It was considered a positive move to have selected Wigneswaran as the Chief Ministerial Candidate at the NPC elections , as he was educated and comes from amoung the Sinhala and the Muslim Communities in the South. It was a great chance Wigneswaran had to unite the Communities and contribute to the development of Sri Lanka as an exemplary  modern Nation.

Wigneswaran had the great opportunity of  getting into the history of our Country as the man who reconciled the Sinhala and the Tamil Communities to form along with the other Communities a lasting unity and build on that foundation a lasting Sri Lankan Nation. 

 But Wigneswaran has instead become a puppet of the TNA Political leadership and parrots their demands for a Separatist Tamil Province in the North without the presence of the Sri Lanka Armed Forces or the Sinhala and Tamil people as permanent residents.

TNA Sampanthan, Sumanthiran, Sivajilingam and Sritharan pull the strings and the Puppet Wigneswaran dance.   That is what has become of the retired Judge from Colombo.  Wigneswaran  has ended up in the TNA Puppet show

Unfortunately Wigneswaran did not have that political  experience, nor the spiritual or philosophical wisdom as a human being, as he has had a marginal  education confined to earn a living  in a chosen profession. Wigneswaran is  therefore not educated enough to see beyond the narrow limits of crude Tamilness to envisage greater possibilities of being an architect of the building  of a  prosperous forward looking  Sri Lankan Nation.

Passing examinations and qualifying in Law does not make  a person educated. One must be able to think beyond what one had read to pass an  examinations to earn a living, to appreciate the value of extended human relationships and national welfare.  The profession by itself does not give the philosophical wisdom to understand reality of life and acceptance of fellow beings despite their differences.

We now  see  who is  real Wigneswaran.  He is no more than a Tamil racist TNA  Provincial Councillor  like Sampanthan, Sumanthiran, Sivajilingam, Sritharan.   

 What difference is their between Wigneswaran  and Anandi Sasitharan ?

Wigneswaran cannot think independently and has no intelligence to break away from the  concrete walls of separatist racism the TNA Leader Sambanthan and his goons have built around him. Wigneswaran has to listen to the TNA MPs and act as they want him to do.

Sumanthiran  had said, “…if the government is sincere to change its present direction and treat Tamils as equals then the TNA is ready to sit down and discuss a solution which is acceptable to all communities in Sri Lanka..”

This man,  like the rest of the TNA politicians, when he speaks, speak to the enemies of Sri Lanka, who do not know the situation in Sri Lanka.   Ever since the terrorism ended in May 2009, the government had done a great deal taking care of the North and East, while the TNA MPs were fly to different countries in the world condemning Sri Lanka complaining that the Government does not attend to the grievances of the Tamil people.

The Tamils had never been treated differently even before the terrorism, and the government has not treat the Tamils  differently from the rest of the Communities after the elimination of the terrorism.

These are political propaganda TNA are vociferously carrying out to harness the anti Sri Lanka Governments to interfere into the internal affairs of the Government  and force either the creation of a separate State for the Tamils or reserve the North and the East for Tamils

The Government re-settled  nearly 300,000 Tamil IDPs the Sri Lanka Armed Forces evacuated from the terrorists,  who were keeping them like animals unwashed, unfed as their living shields. The government built roads, bridges, supplied fresh water, and  electricity to the North and East.  Built houses for  the Tamil IDPs, built schools, hospitals, put the captured hard core terrorists into special camps and rehabilitated them, teaching them handicraft, preparing some of them to sit for Examinations.  All that the government did to the North and East far exceeds the development work it undertook in the South.

Sumanthiran had continued, “…….Among the conditions, the TNA said is the need for the government to agree to make an honest effort to address the issue with an open mind and work with the international community including India and the US and learn from the South African experience.”

It is absurd for this “ignorant” man to propose the Government to learn from South African Experience. The South African Experience has no relation to the political situation of Sri Lanka. It is the Tamils of the TNA and the Tamil Diaspora  who have to learn from the South African Experience.  In South Africa it was a minority white Community that had been in control of  the black African majority.

In Sri Lanka it’s the Tamil minority that terrorised our country for 30 years and now dictate terms to the Sinhala majority  Community.  Where is the parallel of it to South African Experience ?

TNA Provincial Councillor Sivajilingam  has proposed a resolution  in the NCP urging to recommend to the President of Sri Lanka to appoint a person belonging to the Civil Society and also a Tamil from North as the Governor of the Northern Province.

The TNA MPs were the hand picked representatives of the terrorist leader Prabhakaran.  Therefore the TNA MPs cannot think differently from him. They carry with them Prbhakara’s heritage. They follow the same tactics of Prabhakaran. Prabhakaran sent delagations for talks for  peace settlements.  But he saw to it that the talks were broken down half way.  He always kept playing for time without committing to a peace settlement pretending that the government is the wrong party.

Sampanthan said that although the LLRC had recommended that the government present a political solution to the national question, such a solution was not presented by the government despite holding several rounds of talks with the TNA.  This is how they follow Prabhakaran’s tactics –postponing, abandoning, and blaming the government .

Another instance of it is , when , ” TNA’s chief R Sampanthan reiterated his party’s resolve not to participate in the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) on constitutional reforms. Sampanthan said the Tamils were not ready for another rigmarole but expected the government to talk to the TNA to thrash out a political settlement of the ethnic question.”

Even if there were to be a meeting instead of  “thrashing out a political settlement” they will abandon it half way. This is how they keep playing for time hoping that the government will  give into them.  They keep blaming the Government not allowing government to take credit for its efforts for reconciliation.

TNA politicians follow the same tactics.  Hoping that eventually they will be able to get what they want, a separate Eelam or a Northern Province only for Tamils.   Prabhakaran thought he will have his way, but failed miserably dying in the midst of it.  Therefore it is best that the TNA MPs lead by Sampanthan remember that miserable end of their leader without realising his dream,  and understand that their tactics will get them nowhere and they will also have a political end  without realising the dream of their thalaivar.

In the meantime the Puppet Wigneswaran  had said that there were four reasons for people in the North and East to try and leave for Down Under even risking their lives.  First reason he had said, “….. is  the heavy military presence in the North and East. Second – unlawful settlements of outsiders from the South in the North. Third-Our people do not have the security, Fourth- No job opportunities,”

The Puppet Wigneswaran imagines he is in his own Kingdom and the government has to give in to his wishes. He also had refused to co-chair two District Development Council meetings, as the Chair was a pro-government rival, Central minister Douglas Devananda. Wigneswaran had also declared that he would not implement the “Mahinda Chinthanaya”  which every Lankan government department is expected to implement.

Are these wise political steps taken by an ex-Judge, considered an intelligent person ?   He is like a street urchin who has suddenly grown up, to become a Chief Minister. Even the Chief Minister of Eastern Province Pillayan is far better than Wigneswaran.

With his professional experience,  and old age wisdom,  one expects him to be different from  the terrorist Prabhakaran and think of the necessity to change hackneyed ideas of Communal segregation  and work for  Communal unity, progress and development of Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka had people like Sir Ponnambalam Ramanathan and Lakshman Kadirgamar who understood the value of unity and working together with the other Communities.  Why cannot Wigneshwaran try to be a modern day Sir Ponnambalam Ramanathan or a Lakshman Kadirgamar ?

It is a great opportunity Wigneswaran has to work with the Governor Major General G.A. Chandrasiri.  He is the symbol of freedom, peace and democracy in the Northern Province.

Wigneswaran does not come from another planet not to know what it was to fight against the terrorists of Sri Lanka who had arms and ammunitions greater in numbers and better in quality than what the Government Armed Forces then had.  To battle again the terrorist of Sri Lanka was then like attempting to commit suicide. Every one local and foreign thought  the Sri Lanka terrorists were invincible.

Having faced such a ruthless group of terrorists and evacuated nearly 300 thousand Tamils and resettled them in their original homes Major General G.A.Chandrasiri needs the gratitude of the Tamil people. It is up to Wigneswaran to make the Tamil people aware of that duty to their Governor, without blindly following Sampanthan and the TNA MPS with blood of terrorism in their hands.  TNA was a part of terrorism and Wigneswaran has not got to be told, if he lived in Sri Lanka through out the terrorism that lasted 30 years.

Every Soldier as much as the Governor Major General G.A.Chandrasiri has a right to be in the Northern Province and be part of its future prosperity or its decadence, as the soil of the Northern Province is wet with the blood of Sinhala Buddhist Soldiers.

Wigneswaran was brought up, studied and worked in the South among the Sinhala , the Tamil and Muslim Communities , therefore it is his right to defend the flag of Sri Lanka and have the National Anthem sung in Sinhala .  That is the least that the Tamils can do for having regained the freedom and peace they had lost for thirty long years because of the Tamil terrorists..