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JVP’s Empty Rhetoric Cannot Fool the Masses

S. Hewage

The JVP has been playing a pseudo-patriotic card far too long, and it is high time that the JVP comrades realize that they cannot fool the masses forever. The JVP has been arguing that it is the only party dedicated to protecting the motherland from imperialists and separatists. For JVP propagandists, like Wimal Weerawansa, all other political parties and leaders of the country are either agents of imperial forces, or supporters of the LTTE, which is hell-bent on dividing the country. This is the only card that the JVP has been playing against every government ever since it entered into a democratic path.

Like Adolph Hitler, who trumpeted about the eminent threat to ‘the Fatherland’ in order to gain mass support in Germany, the JVP’s trump card has been the pseudo-patriotism claiming to protect ‘the Motherland’ in its campaign to stir trouble in the south. In reality, the JVP has no desire to free “the motherland” from its ongoing problem of terrorism. Rather, it wants the government to be embroiled in the war so that the JVP can eventually capture the state power.
The ultimate goal of the JVP is to perpetuate the conflict, which poses a threat to national security, and in doing so, it can build its own support base across the country. Thus, the JVP may agitate in the south urging the government to fight the war to the end, but in reality, it does not want the government to finish the war on terror.

As the JVP has demonstrated in the past, when the war reaches the crucial stage, the JVP will sabotage it by undermining the work of armed forces to ensure that the LTTE is not eliminated. You may recall the tactics adopted by the JVP in the late 1980s, when the Indian Peace Keeping Forces (IPKF) were fighting the LTTE in the north-east of the country. The IPKF was about to finish off Prabhakaran and his terrorist gang, when the JVP made havoc in the south forcing the government of the then President Premadasa to send the IPKF back to India. The IPKF left, and the rest is history.

Thanks to the JVP, Prabhakaran survived and revitalized his terror campaign to the present level. What the JVP is doing now is to undermine the Rajapaksa administration, which is determined to finish the LTTE. Although the JVP seems to advocate the war on terror, it knows that once the war is over the JVP’s empty rhetoric too must end. It cannot form a government based on slogans.

The JVP has to be understood in terms of what it is, rather than in terms of Wimal Weerawansa’s empty rhetoric during his media conferences. The JVP is a party based on outdated Marxist ideology. It has not comprehended the contemporary reality of Sri Lanka, nor has it fully adapted to a system of democratic governance with a mass support base. In order to survive the JVP needs Prabhakaran, and Prabhakaran needs the JVP.

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