{"id":122106,"date":"2022-01-13T17:18:45","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T00:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=122106"},"modified":"2022-01-13T17:18:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T00:18:45","slug":"red-light-for-china-green-light-for-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/01\/13\/red-light-for-china-green-light-for-india\/","title":{"rendered":"“Red light for China, Green Light for India”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Asoka Weerasinghe (Mr.) <\/strong>Kings Grove Crescent . Ottawa . Ontario . K1J 6G1\u00a0 . Canada,<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

13 January 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. R. Sampanthan , MP<\/strong>
President, Tamil National Alliance
16(30), Martin Road
Jaffna
Sri Lanka<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dear Mr. Sampanthan (Sam):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You intrigue me, and here I am writing to you again.  This\ntime to let you hear my thoughts on your down right arrogance letting the 21\nmillion Sri Lankans know that You on behalf of the rest of the Tamils residing\nin the  North and the East of the island decides who was welcome and who\nwas not welcome to place their feet on the green chillies and toddy palm groves\ngrowing  kabook soil that covered that chunk of land which  happens\nto be one-third of the island\u2019s real estate,  bordered by 66% of the\ncoastline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What a day-light cunning\u2026.What a day-light robbery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 It was as if you were guarding your Grandmother’s La\nLa Lotus land.<\/em><\/strong>   You said with some authority that China\nwas not welcome in the North and East while India has a legitimate right to be\nthere.\u201d Hmmmm..!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You know what Sam, looking back I have little reason to begrudge\nyour mindset and a landlordish\u2019 regal-attitude, because the incumbent Sri\nLankan government\u2019s like a hoard of wimps, gave you that right that you\ndisplayed with authority by not kicking yours and your compatriots behinds and\nask you all to behave yourselves when you all started to ethnic cleanse 27,000\nSinhalese by killing and terrorizing them from the North and East between 1971\nand 1981 where they had  lived for generations. Didn\u2019t kick your arse,\nwhen Tamil separatists stoned and chased 400 Sinhalese  lecturers and\nundergraduates on 13th August,1977.from the Jaffna University campus,  when\nthey were brought south in convoys of buses escorted by the army and police,\nlying on the floors  to dodge the storm of  Jaffna-rocks and stones\nreleased  like hand-grenades by  Jaffna-Tamilian hands. And when you\nall gave 24 hours to 90,000 Muslims to leave the North and East in October\n1990, leaving behind the valuables and gold at the nearest mosque, making Idi\nAmin look like an angel  He gave the Ugandan-Indians three months to\nleave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sam, although I resent what happened, I understand your arrogance\nand claiming that right because the incumbent Governments failed  to stop\nthis rot, and make you all kiss the Jaffna-Killinochchi dust that\nthe Sinhalese walked on..   And nip the Tamil Eelam quest in the bud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You Tamils were lucky, as the Sinhalese were handicapped. \nYou had your Godmother Indira Gandhi, with the 4th largest World\u2019s Army\nplatooned  behind her ready to shoot when her voice would order\u2026\u201dATTAIN-SHUN\u2026\nNOW SHOOT\u201d,<\/em><\/strong> at my Sinhalese people..  And in September 1983\ndecided to train 2000  of the Tamil separatists youth at Chakrata, north\nof DehraDun, for Commando and Army combat.  And this assignment was\ngiven  to the RAW (Research and Analysis Wing) of Indira\u2019s Cabinet\nsecretariat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were other military camps providing instructions in manufacturing\nbombs,suicide bodypacks, jungle warfare, weapon training, and military tactics,\netc. to your Tamil separatists at Kumbakonam, Meenambakkam, Parangimalai,\nSenegal patu, Sudtagen\nDevelopment in New Delhi, and a camp in Uttar Pradesh.  All to destabilise Yours and My Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And you Sam, the son of A.Rajavarothiam, the Superintendent of\nStores at the Gal Oya Project, and enjoying a \u2018free-education\u2019 as a youngster\nin the South among the Sinhalese, buddies at St. Anne\u2019s College, Kurunegala and\nSt. Sebastian College in Moratuwa, dipping your fingers into your \nSinhalese school chum\u2019s Gamini\u2019s, Cyril\u2019s and Sarath\u2019s paper cones of\nkonda-kadale<\/em><\/strong> during tea breaks,  shifted your allegiance to\nGandhi\u2019s India when you commented on India\u2019s current role in Sri Lanka\nAffairs explaining that India had a rightful and legitimate role to play with\nregard to the settlement of the Tamil national question in Sri Lanka.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rightful and legitimate role to play\u2026.\u201d  What!  You\nmust be out of your rocker, Sam.  Sri Lanka and India  were never\nlegitimate children of the same Mother.\u201d  They walked differently\u2026.they\nspoke differently\u2026the Sinhalese certainly didn\u2019t display the  red-moon\nthumbprint between their eyebrows\u2026.  It is only your clan that made their\nwomen walk five-feet behind men as if the women had some kind of a contagious\n\u2018Flu.  So give me a break Sam.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 This is even after Indira Gandhi\u2019s son Rajiv was\nrifle-butted by an angry navy soldier, Vijitha Rohana Wijemuni, on 30th July,\n1987 during a Navy Guard of  Honour in Colombo.  That brave act by\nWijemuni spoke for the majority of us Sinhalese, me included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sam, if you really felt that the outsider India had a legitimate\nrole to play in Tamil affairs in Sri Lanka, I am lost for \u2018kind\u2019 words, but\nwould say\u2026Oops..Damn it!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am not sure why you and  the rest of the Tamils in the\nNorth and East do not prostrate yourselves to  India\u2019s Prime Minister\nNarendra Modi asking him to syphon all of you back into yours and his\nMotherland, India, where 72,147,030 of your kith and kin Tamils live in Tamil\nNadu.  Why don\u2019t you Sam\u2026why didn\u2019t you, when your heart-strings are still\nback in India, and your vocal chords do not want to sing – Sri Lanka Matha\/\napa Sri Lanka, namo, namo, namo..matha\/ Sundara Siri barin<\/strong>i\u2026\u2026\u2026 but would\nhappily sing<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jana gana mana adhinayaka  jaya he\u2026.Bharata bhagya vidhata\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But let me caution you Sam, you are internationalising your\ninternal  Tamil problem which also concerns me a Sinhalese also troubles\nme. This time if your India turns out to be a Bully Boy\u201d,<\/strong> one more\ntime,  India will have to change gears in their involvement in Sri Lanka\u2019s\ninternal problem.  They certainly wouldn\u2019t want a Vietnam on their hands.\nAnd for sure they will be meeting not a Ceremonial <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Army as they did in 1987, but an army that has graduated and\nproved themselves to be the only conventional army in the world that destroyed\nmilitarily, almost single handed,  the most ruthless terrorists in the\nworld which had a foot army, a sea-navy and an airforce, the Tamil Tigers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite potent, isn\u2019t it?  It would be fun war- games, not just\nCops and Robbers, <\/em><\/strong>or Catapults and Bamboo sticks<\/em><\/strong>.<\/em>\nYou bet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sam, you recall that fateful day on 4 June 1987, when  5\nIndian Transport An32s escorted by 5 screaming low-flying Mirage 2000\u2019s of No.7\nSquadron flew over the sovereign territory of Sri Lanka and dropped a mere\n25-tons of so called \u2018Relief\u201d supplies over Jaffna peninsula which had a\npopulation of 800,000.  Sick\u2026Sick!  Rajiv Gandhi certainly had an\nugly sick-sense on humanitarianism, wanting to watch 800,000 of your Tamils\nclaw the earth where the 25 tons of relief supplies had been dropped to pick up\nthree grains of red lentils and boil it in water and drink the soup to feed\ntheir hunger.  Relief supply, my foot?  If geo-politics is what this\nis..Sweet Mother of Jesus, please help these Jaffna Tamils survive another day\nwaiting holding their stomachs with hunger-pains for food supplies from their\nGodMother and GodFather, India.  If they are hoping to poke their fingers\ninto Sri Lanka\u2019s internal affairs, then India better take that\nresponsibility  to keep the Northern and Eastern Tamils alive another day,\nwithout killing them of starvation. Sam, and I would call them you no good smub<\/em><\/strong>–ocitilop-oeg.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With your intervention and saying that only India is welcome to\nthe North and East of Sri Lanka, you better be ready to accept that\nresponsibility for being such a Goddamn foolish Tin God catalyst, Sam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And Sam, you said, outlining his reasons, the TNA MP said,\nfirstly the TNA\u2019s own political quest was based on human rights and\ndemocracy\u2026concepts he charged were alien to these Chinese.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for your own political quest – here\u2019s  my response\nSam.  <\/strong>You cannot  cut a country into two any more than you can cut\na human into two.. If you do, you do not have two human beings, you have a\ncorpse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

China, <\/em><\/strong> I say to you,<\/em> <\/strong>don\u2019t take\nthis guy from TNA, R. Sampanthan seriously.  It is his Tamil Tiger\nterrorists who took away the paramount human right <\/strong>of a person, his or\nher \u2018RIGHT-TO-LIFE\u2019,<\/strong> when they hijacked it from 20 million Sri Lankan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

people for 30 years during their Eelam war.  It was the Sri\nLankan Armed forces Heroes that gave it back to the millions of Sri Lankan\npeople after they annihilated the Tamil Tigers on 19 May 2009, militarily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

China, <\/strong>don\u2019t trust.Sampanthan on human rights.  It\u2019s his Tamil\nterrorists who plucked infants from young Sinhalese mother\u2019s breasts and\nbaynetted them and some were smashed on charnokite rocks and enjoyed watching\nketchup blood oozing from the tiny split skulls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It were their Tamil Tiger terrorists who ambushed a bus that was\ndriven with 33 Buddhist novice monks on a pilgrimage to Kelaniya.  They\nshot  them at point blank range, chopped them with machetes as if in a\nbutcher-shop, and massacred all of them at Aranthalawa at 7:15 in the morning\non June 2nd, 1997.  Human rights advocates, Sampanthan called\nthemselves.  What a crock full of  codswallop. What a sinner’s\nshameful claim!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sam, you pride yourself as a Human Rights Wallah.  If so,\nhere is a problem for you to solve, now that you have begun a love-in<\/strong>\nwith the Indian Government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You tell me, how come the Indian Government has ignored and not\nacknowledged the Sri Lankan Armed Forces\u2019 Text book superior act of Human <\/strong>Rights\nwhen they saved 295,873 Tamil refugees from the clutches of the Tamil Tigers,\nwho were used as a Human Shield for the last 6 months of the Eelam War, \nmarching them under a scorching Jaffna-Killinochchi sun like unwashed\ncattle,  How come Sam?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is more to this Textbook example of the Human Rights\nAct.  Most of the soldiers who rescued the Tamil Refugees turned cooks to\nprepare three hearty meals a day, Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner, producing a\nmillion meals a day and feeding them in Refugee camps for months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not a pip squeak of acknowledgement by the mighty India. \nWhat a bunch of humbugs\u2026what a bunch of UNESCO\u2019s lying salesmen and women. Sam,\nthis is the world that you have created that I have to live in and feel sick in\nmy stomach about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Sri Lankan Governments have drummed into my thick-skull day-in\nand day-out for months and years that India is Sri Lanka’s best friend..best\nneighbour that had been in the past,  the best friend there is..and the\nbest friend there ever will be.  This is the friend that the Sri Lankan\nGovernment is having  a love-in with, but who is silent, acting like \na pseudo-Kiwi-white painted colonial face who has found it difficult to vote\nagainst  the UNHRC\u2019s resolution to screw Sri Lanka onto a crucifix\ncharging them on human rights violations during the last five months of the\nEelam War,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sam\u2026.I cannot take this Bullxxxt from You and your love-in <\/strong>Buddies\nof 18 salt-water miles to the North.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sam, I want to breathe LOVE again and break bread with Tamils..\n  You can help me only if you are an honest-Tamil.  I want to breathe\nLOVE again.  I have done my share of reconciliation efforts with your\npeople.  Ask me, and I will tell you of my contribution.  Make it\nsoon as my International-licence for BRAGGING will be running out soon, and I\nhave decided not to renew it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So,Sam stop your dishonest crap, and become a born again-honest\npolitician.   God will love You. Your brand of honesty doesn\u2019t  cut\nmustard with me.  I resent it.  All it makes me do is spit dragon\nbreath at you a lot, for  wanting your quest to cut the island in two\nbased on  Goddamn lies\u2026on persection, discrimination and Genocide of\nTamils.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My request to you is to reboot your honesty and be a born again\ndecent TNA politician<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Rethink your foolish Red light for China, Green\nLight for India.\u201d<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0bylined – Marianne\u00a0 David – The Sunday Morning, (January 9, 2022)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sincerely<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asoka Weerasinghe (Mr.)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ottawa, Canada<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Asoka Weerasinghe (Mr.) Kings Grove Crescent . Ottawa . Ontario . K1J 6G1\u00a0 . Canada, 13 January 2022 Mr. R. Sampanthan , MPPresident, Tamil National Alliance16(30), Martin RoadJaffnaSri Lanka Dear Mr. Sampanthan (Sam): You intrigue me, and here I am writing to you again.  This time to let you hear my thoughts on your down […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asoka-weerasinghe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122106","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=122106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}