{"id":103899,"date":"2020-06-24T14:50:30","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T21:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=103899"},"modified":"2020-06-24T14:50:30","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T21:50:30","slug":"the-ltte-diaspora-will-be-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/06\/24\/the-ltte-diaspora-will-be-happy\/","title":{"rendered":"The LTTE Diaspora will be happy\u2026."},"content":{"rendered":"

Palitha Senanayake<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Vinayagamurthi\nMuralitharan alias Karuna Amman, the former LTTE Eastern Commander, has got in\nto a difficult position with his recent utterances about the past encounters\nwith the Sri Lankan forces. Sections of the people in this country, including\nthe members of the Sanga are up in arms against this statement stating that it\nis a statement inimical to our heroic forces who liberated the country, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nreality however, is that if you study these people who have made this an issue,\nthe majority of them are those who never supported the forces when they were\nfighting the LTTE. As for the rest they are they are ignorant as to the enemy\nthe country is facing.  The real\nadversary of Sri Lanka is the LTTE Diaspora that is stationed abroad and they carrying\na war of attrition against the state of Sri Lanka through forums such as the\nUNHRC even today.  LTTE is only the\nfighting wing of this diabolical separatist enemy that has devastated this\ncountry for the past 40 years and thanks to the forces now we have overcome\nthat.  Yet let us not be complacent because\nwe are yet to overcome the true forces of racialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Therefore\nthis fight however is far from over because the background necessary for a\ncowboy like Prabhakaran to walk in to a war and perpetrate all that criminal\nactivity was created by the Tamil nationalism that haunted this country well\nbefore independence. It is this Tamil nationalism that opposed the introduction\nof universal franchise to this country in 1935. Tamil MP Waniayasingham\npredicted in the 1960\u2019s that a well- trained Tamil army of 5000 youth could\ntake over Sri Lanka and they proposed the floating of shipping company to bring\narms to the country.  At that time the\nArmy Commander was Tamil, Anton Muthukumaru and so was the Secretary of\nDefense. Chelvanayagam visited UK in 1962 and founded the Tamil Diaspora\nstating that, \u2018We need funds for the future struggle\u2019. Chelvanayagam\u2019s clarion\ncall to the Tamils was that, \u2018the great Tamil nation should unite to prevent\nthe uneducated Sinhalese\u2019 from taking over their country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those\nwho represent this line of action today, Tamil nationalism, are the likes of R Sambanthan,\nMA Sumanthiran and V Vigneshwaran etc. who are commemorating the LTTE and\ncanvassing at world forums against our forces. Therefore in this midst what is\nthis madness of advocating action against Karuna? This issue has brought up\nsituation that will please these separatist to no end because Karuna is the\nonly prominent Tamil who has publicly eschewed separatism. He is on record stating\nthat the Tamils do not need a separate state and that they could live in\nharmony with the Sinhalese. Has Sambanthan, Sumanthiran or Vigneshvaran made a\nsimilar statement? They always maintain that the Tamils need a \u2018political\nsolution\u2019 and by that they mean separatism of powers that will eventually lead\nto separate state.   Therefore, this\nsituation where the state is trying to prosecute the one who betrayed the\n\u2018Tamil cause\u2019 as per the chauvinist, will be very welcome by the likes of\nSampanthan Sumanthiran and Vigneshvaran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Karuna\nis contesting the election and he has to address a polity that has been\nbrainwashed with \u2018Tamil greatness\u2019 for year by these chauvinist politicians starting\nwith SJV Chelvanayagam. Thus, he has to work on a thin line between this \u2018Tamil\ngreatness\u2019 and the need to reconcile with the \u2018Sinhala state\u2019 as the Tamils\nhave been made to call Sri Lanka. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nother party that will be very happy with this news is the Tamil Diaspora that\nis presently deploying everything within their means to defame the Lankan\nstate. We have to realize that this fight against separatism and\ninternational-slur is a propaganda fight. In this fight Karuna could prove to\nbe an asset as he could be in possession of a sea of information as to the\nparties that helped and nurtured the LTTE. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sri\nLanka leaders have made a lot of mistakes in this fight against separatism and\nthat has dragged this country through a devastating war for 34 years and the\npropaganda war however, is yet to be won. At least now the people in this country,\npatriotic and otherwise, have to realize that this fight has to be fought with\nbrains and not with baser instincts.           <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Palitha Senanayake Vinayagamurthi Muralitharan alias Karuna Amman, the former LTTE Eastern Commander, has got in to a difficult position with his recent utterances about the past encounters with the Sri Lankan forces. Sections of the people in this country, including the members of the Sanga are up in arms against this statement stating that it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}