{"id":105917,"date":"2020-08-26T16:19:12","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T23:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=105917"},"modified":"2020-08-26T16:19:12","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T23:19:12","slug":"thank-you-vigee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/08\/26\/thank-you-vigee\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank You Vigee"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Mr. C V Vigneshwaran, the MP for Jaffna and\nthe former Chief Minister for the Northern Province, deserve Kudos from the\nGovernment for his statement at the opening day of the Parliament where he made\ntotally unwarranted claims about his race and its ancestry in this\ncountry.  This is because he made those\nflagrant statements in the context where the new Government, having withdrawn\nfrom resolution 30 A at the UNHCR, will now have to convince the international\ncommunity that the problem in Sri Lanka is not the violation of HR by the\ncounty\u2019s forces but the racialist claims and the misplaced nationalism of the\nleaders of its principal minority, the Tamils. Mr Vigneshwaran has now provided\nmaterial to help the government substantiate its case citing his statement as\nevidence that the Tamil leaders are bent in creating racial tension by making outlandish\nand unfounded claims at important and sensitive national events to provoke the people\nand create trouble in the country, as they have been doing all this while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Vigneshwaran was given time at the\ninaugural ceremony of the new Parliament to address the new parliamentarians as\na new Member of Parliament for Jaffna but he abused that gesture of goodwill\nand bonhomie to unload his divisive thinking and racial prejudices signifying\nthat all what the Tamil leaders wish is the assertion of their race\u2019s\nsuperiority and its fabricated \u2018grandiloquent\u2019 history.   The\nirony however is that this uncalled pomposity appears to be an attempt to prevent\nthe Sri Lanka nation from treating that intransigent and destructive past period\nof the nation as a part of its history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As an avowed supporter of that fascist LTTE\nleader, Piriphakaran, Mr Vigneshwaran is also following the advocacy of that\nfascist propagandist, Joseph Goebbels, who declared that \u2018 you could make a lie\nappear as true by repeating and asserting it over a period of time\u2019.  Joseph Goebbels also maintained that \u2018every\nGerman Soldier should carry the glorified German history in his backpack to\nmotivate him in his quest.\u2019 Accordingly, Mr. Vigneshwaran is propagating lies\nat crucial national events with the hope that those will earn a semblance of\nveracity someday while at the same time glorifying those falsehoods to propel\ninnocent young men to combat, just as Appapillai Amirthalingam did with his\nVadukkodai resolution back in 1976. However, it is doubtful whether the present\ngeneration of young men could be as foolish as those in the 1970\u2019s as they have\nbeen witnesses to how the egoism of Amirthalingam destroyed him and pushed\ntheir community back by a few decades, in the end. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recent Sri Lankan history will prove that \u2018provocating\nthe majority\u2019 is the popular tactic the leaders of the country\u2019s Tamil minority\nresorted to in order to manufacture and propagate their \u2018causes\u2019 to earn the\nsympathy and support of the \u2019international community\u2019.  Chelvanayagam tarred the vehicle registration\nnumbers and Sinhala street names in 1958, Amirthalingam called the Tamil youth\nto arms in 1976 and both those instances were followed by communal riots in the\ncountry.  Now Vigneshwaran, after all\nthat, is blithely staking fabricated claims to the country\u2019s anthropology\ninventing a new brand of Sri Lankan history! \nThe Sri Lankan nation has to be on the lookout, for there seemed to be\nan inexhaustible supply of \u2018cast conscious\u2019 and \u2018egoist\u2019 Tamil leaders on the\ncountry\u2019s highways inebriated with Tamil racialism and nationalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the previous instances of communal\nriots in the country have not been without their dividends to the Tamil\nleaders. Thanks to the 1958 riots Chelvanayaganm was able to establish the Tamil\nDiaspora in the west in 1960 and thanks to Piribhakaran and Amirhalingam ,the\nriots of July 83 strengthened the Sri Lanka Tamil Diaspora to well above 800,000\nin numbers. Accordingly, the big question now is, is Mr Vigneshwaran trying to\nrejuvenate the migratory opportunities of Tamils by prompting another riot, since\nthere is some paucity in those opportunities since 2009? After all, it is the\nDiaspora income that financed the war for 35 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In making these quant historical claims,\nwhat these claimants ( Tamil leaders such as Vigee. ) do not realize is, that a\nparticular community or civilization could only have only one native land and\ntherefore it is anthropologically and practically, on all counts, impossible to\nhave two native set- ups for a single civilization.  Narayan Swami is an Indian author who\nauthored 4 books on the LTTE and on Piribhakaran, having researched a whole lot\nof information about the movement from the 1970\u2019s. He had, parenthetically,\nmentioned in his books that he never felt that he was living out of India when\nhe stayed in North of Sri Lanka because, the way of living, food, customs and\neverything else remains as they were in Tamil Nadu. Therefore in a situation\nwhere even a civilization with limited numbers like the Sinhalese have\nevolved  slight differences in their\nlanguage, customs and dance forms, depending on their distances and\nhabitations, it would be preposterous for the Tamils to claim that their\ncivilization evolved identically from two different origins. This is as\nunthinkable as a single child being born to two mothers!    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Therefore, just as India and Tamil Nadu provide\nstrength for  Ceylon Tamils when it comes\nto waging war and bargaining internationally, the same India is proving to be\ntheir weakness when they try to make \u2018historical claims\u2019 in other countries.  On the other hand, Sinhalese are a unique\ncivilization of which no traces are found anywhere in the world. Although there\nare historical stories of an advent of an Indian Prince in to Sri Lanka, the\nisland was inhabited long before that and it is only that the island\u2019s history\nwas only recorded after this event. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Listening to Mr. V\u2019s speech, I often\nwondered whether he spoke something different to what he meant to say, because\nit is always possible that he meant to say \u2018the earliest invaders of the\nisland\u2019 when he said \u2018the earliest settlers of the island\u2019. If that is what he\nmeant, then no history scholar would have qualms about his assertion because\nKalinga Magga, the first invaders of \u2018Sinhaley\u2019, as the island was known then,\nwere said to be Andra- Tamils. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is yet another inherently foreboding\naspect of this \u2018historical claim of ownership\u2019 made by these intransigent Tamil\nleaders that the other inhabitants of the country should wisely take note of;\nSinhala and the Muslim communities. This is particularly relevant to the\ndevolution of power that the Tamil leaders have been clamoring for and these\nclaims of anthropological ownership signifies that the intention of these leaders\nis not of just obtaining a legal framework  for the exercise of power for the country\u2019s\ngood and co-existence, but of consolidating their ownership claims for an\neventual separate state. This undeclared intention will eventually lead to a\ndemographic and geographical disaster for all the people inhibiting the Island\nand may, in all probability, end up with a protracted sectarian\/ big power war\nin the island<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Further it may not sound fair to conclude\nthis write up without taking up the queer interpretation Mr. V has adduced to\nthe word \u2018nation\u2019 in his speech. He maintains that Tamils in Sri Lanka is a\nnation and not a community. Well, we have the United Nations that comprises 196\nNations of the world and if we are to bestow nationhood to every community in\nevery country the UN may well end up having about three or four thousand\nnations.  In that context, India alone\nmay have a \u2018United Nations\u2019 of its own because they alone have about 200\ndifferent communities with a myriad of languages. The meaning of a word should\nbe taken in the context of its popular use and just because Mr V. desires to be\nthe Head of a nation state he cannot make the SL Tamil community in to a nation,\nin the acceptable context.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every word Mr. V spews out in his speech\ndenotes his separatist virus and it is for this reason that they demand\nseparatism of powers in the guise of devolution. What the Sri Lankan rulers\nshould realize is that all the countries in this world with devolved power\nstructures (Federal), have been populations that have been brought together, in\ntheir own interest.  Their unitary\ncharacter is a strength and a welcome feature and is also a necessity for all\nof them.  Often it is because they desire\nnationhood in a country as they had not been a recognized as a country before.\nOn the other hand the Tamil leaders in Sri Lanka are demanding a Federal\nstructure because their desire is to be separated and not united. In other\nwords they are not \u2018staying together inclined\u2019 but separatist inclined. Also\nthis would be the first time in the world governance that a country that has\nbeen single from the time immemorial is being separated in to federal states. Federalism\ntherefore could be in danger with Tamil nationalist and racialist such as Mr V.\n\n\nThus, Mr V., by standing as a Tamil Parliamentarian\nin the inaugural parliament and expressing his, divisive, nation within a\nnation concept, and fallacious ownership claims, has depicted to the world that\nthe Tamil issue in Sri Lanka is not just about violation of human rights but a\ncase of the country\u2019s inability to grant \u2018extraordinary ownership rights\u2019 to\nthe Tamils.          \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Palitha Senanayake Mr. C V Vigneshwaran, the MP for Jaffna and the former Chief Minister for the Northern Province, deserve Kudos from the Government for his statement at the opening day of the Parliament where he made totally unwarranted claims about his race and its ancestry in this country.  This is because he made those […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105917","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=105917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}