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Greater People Participation Needed Towards Lasting Peace While Disillusioning The LTTE.
Considering the present impasse in the Peace Process in Sri Lanka it
may be fair to assume that perhaps there needs to be a greater participation
by all commuities affected, namely the Sinhalese,Tamil, Muslim and other
minority communities at people level and not merely at leadership level
of the once warring factions and may be significant towards a broader
based concept towards peace.
Further considering the concept of peace as a political one, in order
to have a lasting solution to Sri Lanka’s ethnic crisis, all sections
that are affected, which beyond question is all of Sri Lanka categorically,
should be participants in the unravelling of a viable solution towards
a lasting peace where the continuous haggling, intimidatory rhetoric and
counter posturing should be discarded for a rational acceptance that peace
involving the Nation's population could be better accomplished by all
the diverse groups coming together towards resolution through negotiation
and mutual consensus where the general populace need not wait in eager
anticipation of the decisions of their peers anymore albeit somewhat utopian!.
Somewhat unfortunately however, this concept has a huge stumbling block
in the form of the LTTE and its leader Velupillai Pirapaharan who continues
to hold onto his terrorist idealogies together with his imagined title
as overall representative of the Tamil Community and points towards the
singlemost outstanding reality that his idea of a settlement to Sri Lanka's
crisis is a subjugation Vis a Vis the ISGA presented to the Administration
and its majority Sinhalese who are the democratic power within Sovereign
Sri Lanka and Pirapaharan's 'Bull in a China Shop mentalitied intrusion
if it may be termed that, is an imposition by the terrorists and their
parliamentary proxy the Tamil National Alliance. The preconditions madeby
the LTTE at present to the Nation of Sri Lanka which short of being preposterous
is an abomination imposed on the majority of a Sovereign Nation by a miniscule
minority!! All the latest rhetoric as well as the publicity generated
by the LTTE and their supportive factions point to this most impure of
idealogies and something which will never be attained by them as it contravenes
the requirements of any democratic society where the demands are not only
impure and illogical but also violates the Constitution of Sri Lanka which
unfortunately the LTTE and the TNA do not seem to fully comprehend and
need to come to terms with in their own best interests and perhaps a Dravidian
rather than a Freudian slip!!
The President of Sri Lanka while rejecting the ISGA unequivocally has
made it clear that Sri lanka is willing to come to terms with the needs
of the Nation through her counter proposal pointing towards a Federal
Solution and the creation of a more pluralistic society which is not to
the liking of the LTTE and its so called political representation in Parliament
probaly due to their insecurities about where such a solution would place
them as they will in all probabilities be isolated and ostracised from
the freedom loving environment of Sri Lanka which would result, thereby
preventing further continuation of the activities of the LTTE towards
their survival and the pandering of the TNA to their needs!
Contrary to the demands of autonomy suggested in the ISGA of the LTTE,
the presentation of an alternate Federal Solution as devised by the Administration
of Sri Lanka under the leadership of Mme. Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga
would undoubtedly be one where all communities would participate in the
proper functioning of a once embattled Nation where all its inhabitants
irrespective of their ethnic, religious and cultural divide would share
equal rights in their coming together towards the evolution of a new Federal
System which would also involve Constitutional Changes towards incorporating
the rights of all Sri Lankans equally as well as ensuring their participation
in the functioning of the State at a much higher level than during the
hierarchies and dynasties which have sorely disrupted the Nation's progress
into the 21st century through bartering with terrorists who by any norm
should have been put down and vanquished decades ago! who even today together
with their connived proxy in Parliament are still disrupting the progress
of the Nation issuing ultimatums under the threat of a return to their
terrorist activities where the patience of the Administration is gravely
tested in a non terrorist friendly Global and National environment!
The expert opinion of a highly respected intellectual well versed in the
analyses of global problems relative to internal armed insurrection has
recommended (regardless of its applicability with respect to Sri Lanka
conceptually) that, taking into consideration the solution to Sri Lanka's
crisis being deemed a political one, it may be imperative that every section
of the population affected needs to participate towards it. Without a
broad participation by the people of a Nation, a political process that
leads toward an anticipated solution would in all likelihood not work
satisfactorily as it would involve decisions made at a hierarchial level
and imposed on a society unilaterally and a literal stuffing down their
throats regardless of feasibility. Hence the need for all the diverse
groups involved to come together towards evolving a Federal Structure.
Incorporation of diverse views are necessary to arrive at reasonable and
sustainable solutions acceptable to all sections of the population in
a terrorist free environment it must be emphasized implicitly!
But questionably does this entail the designs and objectives of the LTTE
and the TNA ? Probably not, as it contravenes and disrupts their very
means towards their existence and hence poses a fair sized hurdle which
the Administration needs to find a way to clear and also suggests a felt
need towards disillusioning the LTTE of their ambitions to dictate to
a Sovereign Nation considering their outlawed and proscribed status beyond
which no compromises are necessary unless they the LTTE and their supportives
show faith viably and credibly that they are ready to shed their impure
image and objectives towards merging into mainstream Sri Lankan society.
Amidst much circumspect thought there appears to be a definite need to
emphasize the importance of this concept time and time again to a hard
core terror group which probably has no intentions of relinquishing their
hidden agenda towards secession despite all the smoke screens they continue
to create as they have begun campaigning openly once again about their
power and might almost in an attempt to test the will of the Administration
and National Defence and something which they are ill equipped to expreiment
with at this juncture of their insecurities given the facts and may have
to pay a severe price for as the futility of their attempted coercions
will in all probabilities be a foregone conclusion somewhere down the
road!
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