{"id":112290,"date":"2021-03-03T17:50:32","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T00:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=112290"},"modified":"2021-03-03T17:50:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T00:50:32","slug":"tamil-aspirations-of-sri-lanka-are-like-crying-of-kids-to-bring-moon-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/03\/03\/tamil-aspirations-of-sri-lanka-are-like-crying-of-kids-to-bring-moon-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"TAMIL ASPIRATIONS OF SRI LANKA ARE LIKE CRYING OF KIDS TO BRING MOON PART 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

The\nLTTE, Prabhakaran, and colleagues worked against Sri Lanka\u2019s unity and\nterritorial integrity as he needed to establish a separate Tamil state with armed\nforces and struggle. His behavior appeared he wanted to re-establish the Vijaya\nNagar empire that will create severe risk India creating new Issues. The\nintention of the LTTE movement had been under the control of India and the behavior\nof Prabhakaran was differentiated by the killing of the Indian Prime Minister\nand it was the main cause to ending the life of the LTTE leader. Politics could\nbe played in any country but killing politics is not tolerated by a democratic\nsociety.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

India\nis always careful to express views and supports to Tamils of Sri Lanka thinking\nthere is a large Tamil community in India with ethnic relation to Tamils in Sri\nLanka, and many Tamils in Sri Lanka are of opinion that except upcountry\nTamils, who are descendants of Indians brought to Sri Lanka for plantation\nindustry, are a part of the Sri Lankan community since before the era of King\nElara. If it thinks in that line there is no question of respecting the rights\nof the Tamils. Whether Sri Lanka Sinhala, Muslim, or other communities do agree\nor not the government of Sri Lanka cannot discriminate against Tamils of Sri\nLanka. They are a part of the Sri Lankan community like a caste within the\nSinhala community and it shouldn\u2019t be a reason to discriminate against them,\nthe new constitution needs to clearly express that Tamil, Sinhala, Muslims, and\nother citizens of Sri Lanka are equal and all have equal rights and\nresponsibilities.  If this idea is\nproperly worded and express in the new constitution the equity and justice give\nequally to Sri Lankans and many clauses of the 13th<\/sup> amendment would\nbe immaterial as there are no ethnic groups in Sri Lanka, only one ethnic group\nin the country it is Sri Lankans. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When\nconsidering the Tamil aspirations of Sri Lanka nobody cannot ignore the\nIndo-Lanka accord signed on 29 July 1987. \nThis accord was prepared with an intention to enact the 13th<\/sup>\namendment to the constitution passed on 14 November 1987.  The complicated aspect of both was the idea\nof merging the North and Eastern provinces into one administrative unit. This\nidea was complicated and many Muslim and Sinhala people are living in the area\nand the rights of these people were ignored in the idea of merging two\nprovinces and it was a violation of the rights of these Non-Tamils.  The merger should be a permanent action was\nthe interpretation of the accord, which gave the power to the president of Sri\nLanka to postpone the referendum to merge the North and Eastern provinces.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nIndo-Lanka accord signed in 1987 has become a complicated matter after more\nthan 30 years and it appears the accord should be canceled or amended according\nto the current environment. The political history of the world indicates that\naccords, agreements were among many countries, which were either canceled or\nignored in the modern era. So, Indo-Lanka Accord was not an agreement God-given\nforever and it might change. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sri\nLanka had accords with India in history. In 1782 Sri Lanka signed an agreement to\nappoint a Malayali Prince as Rajahdi Rajasinghe to the kingship in Sri Lanka,\nbut it was canceled and India did not protest or worked against the cancelation\neither. This means the Indo-Lanka accord signed on 29 July 1987 could cancel or\nrenegotiate under the new condition. However, if the new constitution converts\npeople of Sri Lanka as Sri Lankans like in India disregarding ethnic and\nreligious, differences the validity of the accord may end without any\nnegotiation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr.J.R.\nJayewardene described the Indo-Lanka accord as a way of living under the shadow\nof India without surrendering to India. \nIt was a highly complicated statement and when the 1983 July riots\nhappened some international observers have analyzed and highlighted that Mrs.\nIndira Gandhi had the intention to annex Sri Lanka, but the major barrier to\nIndira was no a loyal group in Sri Lanka to manage the country on account of\nIndia. Mr.Varadarajah Perumal and his group may have trained for the purpose\nand it was not successful as the majority of Tamils had animosity with him than\nfor a Sinhala leader. Later this situation changed and promoted the 13th<\/sup>\nAmendment to the constitution and after the enactment of a new constitution the\nproblem may solve or complicate further and the current president should aware\nof this situation.        <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As\nIndia has mentioned, what is the process of reconciliation? this is a Byzantine\napproach that has no proper definition. Norway attempted to define the\nreconciliation with a bias toward Tamils and India indirectly opposed to the\napproach of Norway some time ago.  It was\na Noble Prize-related process was the feeling of common people than a genuine\nreconciliation between ethnic and religious communities of Sri Lanka.  Some time ago I explained a genuine\nreconciliation should be without strings and the approach of Lord Buddha when\nhe reconciled Chuloda and Mahodara would be the best approach.  Sri Lanka\u2019s government has taken many steps\nin support of the reconciliation process. Nevertheless, India attempts to use\nthe issue like a beggar\u2019s wound and didn\u2019t like western countries coming to the\nseen it may be a president to ethnic problems in India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sri\nLanka\u2019s relationship with China has impacted the Tamil aspirations of Sri Lanka\nand indirectly India requests from Sri Lanka to limit Chines role in the\ncountry and abate the support from China to Sri Lanka. India cannot support Sri\nLanka in the magnitude that China is supporting.  India has a massive population who don\u2019t\nenjoy at least the level of Sri Lankans\u2019 economic enjoyment. Attempting to\ntreat the equality of Sri Lankans in the same way, economic poverty of Indians\nis unreasonable.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\nseems an Indian hegemony-related issue too associated with the Indian approach\nrather than the problem that goes with international relations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According\nto the UN convention relating the human rights, any country may have\nrelationships with other countries, and it doesn\u2019t limit the ability of\nrelationships.  The attempt of India to\nlimit the relationship with China might contrary to the UN convention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When\ndeeply analyze the Tamil aspirations of Sri Lanka they have limits and subject\nto Indian controls. Whether Tamils living in Sri Lanka without differences have\nunderstood the situation is a complicated issue and many Tamils now open\nexpress views against the Indian approach. \nWhy India sticks to the attitudes of the past is a question and\neducating people on this matter might help to change Indian attitudes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sri\nLanka hopes India supports Sri Lanka in UNHRC and associate with Sri Lanka to\nconvert Tamil aspirations to a demand for asking to bring the moon. On the\npolitical front, there is working together by India and Sri Lanka, however,\nintelligence service works deeply looking at odds and do people in India and\nSri Lanka need to stick to odd points, no Sri Lanka had a closed relationship\nwith India since history and Sri Lanka also related to Indo-China languages and\nCulture, in this way India and China both are friends of Sri Lanka, diversity\nand unity is the secret of maintaining the relationship with both.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS The LTTE, Prabhakaran, and colleagues worked against Sri Lanka\u2019s unity and territorial integrity as he needed to establish a separate Tamil state with armed forces and struggle. His behavior appeared he wanted to re-establish the Vijaya Nagar empire that will create severe risk India creating new Issues. The intention of the LTTE […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edward-theophilus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112290","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=112290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}