{"id":113529,"date":"2021-04-15T14:56:02","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T21:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=113529"},"modified":"2021-04-15T14:56:02","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T21:56:02","slug":"the-geneva-game-and-the-13th-amendment-a-geographical-analysis-part-iii-to-expert-committee-to-draft-a-new-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/04\/15\/the-geneva-game-and-the-13th-amendment-a-geographical-analysis-part-iii-to-expert-committee-to-draft-a-new-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"The Geneva game and the 13th Amendment: a geographical analysis -Part- III To: Expert Committee to draft a new constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"

C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D.<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

...the broadly held view the world over, [is] that the devolution of power to ethnic minority areas, making for a measure of autonomy, is the best vaccine against separatism.\u201d<\/strong><\/em> <\/strong>-Dayan Jayatilleke, Advisor to Sajith Premadasa (Colombo Telegraph, April 7, 2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the Tamils\u2019 cry for separatism is given up, the two communities could solve their problems and continue to live in amity and dignity.\u201d <\/strong><\/em>-M.C. Sansoni, CJ (Sessional Paper No. 7 of 1980) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unreasonable\ndemands<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Barak\nObama became U.S. President in 2009, Neville Jayaweera, ex-CCS officer who gave\nup Buddhism and became a propaganda head of a world Christian organization,\nfloated the idea of a Tamil Obama in Sri Lanka, but he could not find a\ndeserving candidate. Now in 2021, TNA and other Tamil separatists are facing an\nerosion of domestic oxygen for their game. All their eggs are now in the UNHRC\nhandbag, an agency acting as proxy to US and India, demanding 13-A plus.  It is an open secret now that 13-A plus plan\nis nothing but a substitute for the buried but not dead MCC Trojan horse. This\nis a fact that cannot be ignored by the expert committee.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nunreasonableness of trying to use 13-A for self-rule in a mythical homeland by\na handful of Tamil politicians is ignored stupidly  by a set of Sinhala black white politicians,\nsolely due to selfish reasons and personal gain. How many of these national and\nlocal politicians cherish democracy, rule of law, human rights or the happiness\nof their electorate? It is amazing how those who got people killed leading them\non demonstrations against 13-A in 1987, are now using the PC system as gold\nmines or bottomless corruption  pits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tamil\nAspirations<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An argument\npresented by Robert Blake, Hilary Clinton, then, and Narendra Modi or Dayan\nJayatilleka, Sajith Premadasa’s international advisor now, that there has to be\n<meaningful> devolution  to Tamils\n(Sinhala people did not ask and did not get any benefit via 13-A) so that their\nnational aspirations (separate identity) could be achieved, is proven to be a\nfake geopolitical trick to divide the country. \nThe proof comes on a weekly basis from video clips by Arun Siddharthan,\na Tamil Che Guerra of <low caste> Tamils in Jaffna. What kind of\naspiration one could have living in slums with \nno water and toilets! Maslow with hierarchy of human needs must be\nturning in his grave. Empowerment of people at small community level is what\nArun is doing. Then only Tamil people (not a handful of separatist politicians)\ncan think of a Tamil culture and a Tamilness, harmless to Sinhalaness.\nHistorically, Sinhala Buddhism did not oppose Tamilness, Christianism, Hinduthva,\nor Musalman way of living, prior to it becoming a sharia-wahabi agression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Geography\nagainst 13-A <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Geography\nprovides all the evidence  needed to\nunderstand why the 13-A path is a disaster and how Tamil people could be\nempowered to overcome the spatial inequities they as well as the other\ncommunities are experiencing at present under a false system of capitalist\nrepresentative democracy. We are now experiencing how an EVIL TRIANGLE\n-politician- officer- civil society (NGOs, businesses)- has created a\ncancer-causing democracy while preaching rule of law, freedom of speech,\nliberal economy etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The expert\ncommittee has an historic opportunity to save democracy for people from\npoliticians by taking a path not taken by lawyers  who prepared all previous constitutions\nstarting with Ivor Jennings in 1947. Instead of Euro-centric constitutional\nprinciples, Buddhist literature provides systems of thinking needed to foster a\nsociety full  of happiness. These rules\nare simple and practicable. The Euro-American new remedies for the problems\nthey themselves created by divide and rule colonial strategy, so called\nnon-majoritarian constitutional solutions (Horowitz-Nye formula backed by the\nR2P weapon), did not solve any conflict in the world. Instead, these <solutions>\nsplit countries apart fighting with each other. Border wars in Sudan, East\nTimor, Lebanon  are just two exapmples.\n13-A is one such dead-rope given to Sri Lanka. Donald Horowitz, who was a\nFulbright scholar in Sri Lanka, did not discuss Gamsabhava (or Panchayathi\nconcept in India) in his many writings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nsocio-political-economic model based on the \nTrinity of village-water reservoir- temple, is still the best solution\nfor 70% of Sri Lanka’s sick democracy. Decentralizing governmental powers to such\nlocal entities, Gamsabha (Jana Sabha, Pradeshiya Sabha) level is the solution\nto the PC dilemma. Demarcating them using natural (geographical) boundaries as\nin New Zealand is as important as teaching Sinhala and Tamil to Tamil and\nSinhala students in schools from grades 3-10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

History is past\ngeography and two generations deprived of history and geography as school\nsubjects, including lawyers in the Island, (in western countries one cannot go\nto law school without a four-year first degree) cannot be blamed if they do not\nunderstand the geography behind the statecraft. Discussed below are some food\nfor thought, starting with geography and politics and concluded with geography\nof water and population. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Geopolitics<\/p>\n\n\n\n

K. M. Panikkar\n(1895-1963), the Malayali (Kerala) statesman and strategist wished Ceylon to be\nunder the Indian suzerainty. \nChelvanayagam’s willingness to hand over Trincomalee to India in 1949,\nit was honey in  Nehru’s ears. A\ncommittee of five ex-British prime ministers reported the military importance\nof the Trico harbour, a century ago. At that time they did not know that Trinco\nharbour has geologic troughs deep enough to hide nuclear submarines from enemy\ndetection. For air power, Sri Lanka has the lowest gravity on earth (Did king\nRavana know this?). Now a US Navy admiral says the significance of Sri Lanka is\nits location, location and location. This is absolute location as well as the\nrelative location. For example, Sri Lanka’s only next door neighbor is South\nIndia. However, it is separated from a narrow and shallow sea, which prevented\nit becoming part of South India, just like Japan saved from China or England\nescaped from Napoleon and Hitler. The expert committee ought to understand that\n13-A is directly linked with the geopolitical plan of\nUSA-India-Japan-Australia-New Zealand, to encircle China. Sri Lanka could be\nused in this plan if the central government is weekend or the country is\ndivided on ethnic lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russian need\nfor a warm water port<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Colonel\nOlcott came to Ceylon in 1880 with the Russian \nHelena Blavatsky, colonial government suspected him as a Russian\nagent.  Anglo-Afghan wars (1839, 1878,\n1919) were British attempts  to block the\nRussian bear coming to Indian Ocean. Colonially- created Pakistan was a result\nof British suspicion of an independent India becoming a strategic friend of\nRussia. Lord Soulbury, therefore, did not want to propose any  federal-type arrangement in Ceylon, which\nwould have given India room for directly interfering with Jaffna’s federal\npolitics, once freedom is bestowed. Thus, his <hindsight> apology to math\nprofessor cum separatist C. Sundaralingam, regretting his constitutional\n<error> was not sincerely made. Defense agreements, Clause 29, Senate,\nelectorate concessions and appointed MPs were all examples of what Soulbury\ncould give on the face of a future Russian-Indian axis. Japan bombing Colombo\nwas a warning in this regard. It was geopolitics in the 1940s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gondwanaland\nand Ranil’s tunnel and bridge to Tamilnad<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the\nGondwanaland split, and India drifted away from Africa, the island of Sri Lanka\ntried to maintain a separate geological boundary. This was the reason for a\nregular boat service from Dhanushkodi to Talaimannar to bring cheap Indian\nlabor to tea plantations in Ceylon, but the plan by Ranil W after 2000 to link\nIndia to Sri Lanka by a railway bridge or a tunnel was only black white attempt\nto sabotage the Sinhala Buddhist heritage. With his love for India, he said\nLord Buddha was an Indian. The same mouth uttered that Poson was the first\nIndian invasion!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Theravada\nBuddhism was planted in this island for a reason. It had the protection of the\nContinental Drift. Buddhism got wiped out in India with the end of King\nAshoka’s Just Rule. India interfered boldly in Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh\npolitics. In fact it created B’desh. If a land connection was there the Indian\narmy would have occupied Jaffna under any pretext it wants. Both Indira and\nRajiv lied to the world denying that they were arming or training Tamil\nterrorists. As the new Jaffna phenomenon of a Tamil Che Guerra, Arun\nSiddharthan pointed out recently, the Indian embassy branch in Jaffna is but a\nRAW field office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The relevance\nof these geology-based factors of absolute and relative location of the Island\nis that they do not support the 13-A plan, \naggressively promoted by local black white agents and their foreign\nmasters led by Indian, EU and American politicians. Which Sinhala politician or\nparty showed any interest in understanding such basic issues. This dilemma becomes\nclearer when we direct our attention from the geological base to surface of the\nearth (landscape).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Physical\ngeography and human geography<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sri Lanka’s\nphysical geography shaped its cultural geography. A simple example is to\noverlay on the relief and drainage (topography) \nmap, an irrigation (canals and reservoirs) map of the island. To this\none can add the climatic, soil, forest, groundwater and ecological zones. A map\nof agro-ecology regions reflects applied aspects of this nature and human\ninterface. What we have is a tropical island with  such diversity, that within 50 miles from a\ncoastal city like Colombo, one could reach cool weather and climate in the hill\ncountry such as Nuwara Eliya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sri Lanka’s\nhistory is shaped by this diversity in its natural environment, unique for a\nsmall island. This fostered the evolution of a diverse cultural environment.\nWhile the elements of physical diversity acted in unison to create one physical\nentity, prior to European invasions it exhibited a cultural unity in diversity\nof a  land called SINHALE. Sinhala\nBuddhist heritage had been the foundation of this unity in diversity. From the\nGamsabhava upwards  there was a system of\nadministration in sync with the natural environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With a central\nmountain mass, known as the Heartland of the tiny island, 103 rivers radiate to\nthe ocean. The mountains affect  the\nMonsoon seasons creating a southwest wet zone, small in area, and a vast area\nof dry and arid zones of east, southeast, north and northwest. Ancient\nirrigation civilization was an example of how Sinhala kings solved this spatial\ndeficit of water availability. A river for Jaffna is the only new issue in this\nregard, and Vigneswaran as CM-NP had already raised the question of how much\nwater North will get from the Moragahakanda dam, the last project under\nMahaveli irrigation system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Water wars<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the\nproposed Eelam bounday is marked on a river basins map of the island, the\nsuicidal nature of a 13-A plus solution to the Sinhala Buddists becomes obvious\n(see essay water wars attached). Water wars are a regular feature among south\nIndian states at the village level. Imagine the magnitude of this when an NP or\na merged  NP and EP complains to UNO or\nUNHRC that it is not provided with adequate amounts of water when drought dry\nout rivers. From the words and actions of the 13-A plus lobby, the expert\ncommittee cannot have any doubts that 13-A is only a way station on the march\nto Eelam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Population\ngeography<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sri Lanka’s\npopulation distribution map is like a scrambled egg. It cannot be unscrambled.\nIf ethnicity\/language based PC units or any other units of lower level are\ncreated, there is no way to think that the <Tamil genocide> myth by the\nTamil separatist lobby would vanish. So many Tamils are living happily in the\nSouth, practically in any town or village, but the design by Tamil separatists\nis to have a mono-ethnic N-E Region. This was the plan Mrs. Chandrika and\nNeelan Thiruchelvam prepared during 1995-2000, which just missed fruition by a\nshortage of 7 votes in the parliament. The Marxist who worked with them on this\ndeal, later prepared the Orumitthanadu plan with Sumanthiran in 2019, was\nJayampathy Wickramaratne, who is now marking time in  Geneva.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps, the\nsituation in Sri Lanka is unique in the world in this regard. Not just for the\npast 40 years, but even today if a Tamil from Jaffna could not move to  a European or other white destination, he or\nshe would move to Colombo or any other location in the South. But, when\nSinhalese move to North it is branded as government-aided Sinhalization of a\nmythical Tamil homeland! There is no Sinhala Thesawalamai in the south to block\nTamils buying land. Even the excavations of archaeological sites are resisted\nas encroaching Tamil private property, while a monk cannot build even a toilet\nin such land without official permission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The danger of\nany language-based units is that the heartland of the island, the Hill Country,\nwill become an unstable, Eelam play ground. If as Mrs. Chandrika’s plan of\nusing the majority of an electorate as the criteria for demarcating ethnic\nunits, then a separate Malayanadu will become a reality, which could opt to\njoin with NP+EP union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Any\nethnicity\/religion-based creation of units has a new problem with the recent\ndiscovery of Sharia\/wahabi project. The establishment of Muslim pockets all\nover the South with systematic buying of land and supporting baby-producing\nfactories with the Arab oil money is a threat that the expert committee ought\nto pay attention in dealing with 13-A \nrelated matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The solution to\nthis 13-A dilemma, lies within the triangle of the Buddhist Middle Path,\nReasonableness doctrine in law and the Regional geography, which identifies\nspatial units as organic space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The increasing\ntrend of lawlessness, foreign-funded NGO and opposition politician attempts to\nderail the 2019 election victory, compels one to ask are we living with the\nSixteen Dreams of the king Pasenadi Kosol. One solution is to create a Jana\nSabha (or pradeshiya Sabha) system representing people, military and the\ntemple, a Buddhist form of checks and balances at the local level. The officer\nwill become real servants accountable for their actions and omissions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dayan\nJayatilleka, who has become the self-appointed UNHRC and Modi’s agent in Sri\nLanka, to promote MCC via 13-A,  must\nanswer if what CJ Sansoni said in 1980 is \nstill a valid opinion. I wonder if Marxist, Christian, Euro-centric\nDayan could meet Arun Siddharthan, who is a Tamil Che Guerra in the making, an\nanathema to Jaffna Eelam establishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D. …the broadly held view the world over, [is] that the devolution of power to ethnic minority areas, making for a measure of autonomy, is the best vaccine against separatism.\u201d -Dayan Jayatilleke, Advisor to Sajith Premadasa (Colombo Telegraph, April 7, 2021) If the Tamils\u2019 cry for separatism is given up, the two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-wijeyawickrema"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113529","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=113529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}