{"id":41889,"date":"2015-02-28T15:47:10","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T22:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=41889"},"modified":"2015-02-28T15:47:10","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T22:47:10","slug":"fighting-corruption-must-stand-by-when-the-bigger-fight-is-against-external-threats-to-our-survival-as-a-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/02\/28\/fighting-corruption-must-stand-by-when-the-bigger-fight-is-against-external-threats-to-our-survival-as-a-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Corruption must stand by when the bigger fight is against external threats to our survival as a Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"

R Chandrasoma<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

\u00a0In our contemporary world, the destabilization of heretofore stable nations and the gross interference in the internal affairs of the weak and the unprotected appear to be a system-features of its global dynamics. The so-called Big Powers feel it their right and duty to monitor – and often direct –\u00a0 the affairs of those unable to ward off their baleful influences. It is needless to add that matters are made worse by the near-anarchic state of cities and states across the world due to the recent colossal misadventures of those who were supposed to be global leaders and peace-keepers<\/span><\/p>\n

We in Sri Lanka are hopelessly vulnerable to the power-play of \u2018actors\u2019 near and far. Let us be specific \u2013 the Tamils will be a powerful force in the future and will have the great advantage of cross-nation support bases \u2013 something we in Sri Lanka will never have. Two groups will play a a key part \u2013 the Diasporic Tamils and the race-incited zealots of Tamil Nadu. Let us speak of the Diasporic Tamils first \u2013 a new generation of well-placed Tamils whose parents fled their home-country have become Sinhala-Haters by cultural inheritance. Like the Jewish antipathy towards Muslims, the venom towards a supposedly historic enemy is passed along with the genes. This group \u2013 well off and well entrenched \u2013 will be Sri Lanka\u2019s chief enemy in the decades ahead. They will be ably assisted by an increasingly belligerent Tamil Nadu \u2013 whose politicians will find the \u2018Sri Lanka Issue\u2019 as the prime tool in weakening the cohesiveness of the Indian State thereby laying the foundation for the re-emergence of a sovereign Tamil Nation. That the Western Powers will welcome such an eventuality is beyond question and the dangers posed to us will be ignored only by the incredibly naive or incurably unpatriotic.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is the latter group that is politically dominant in Sri Lanka after the historic defeat of MR. For the first time in recent history political reform is driven by a prime concern for the well-being of the Tamil and Muslim Minorities \u2013 not tor the good of Sri Lanka or its Sinhala majority. The New Leaders refuse to recognize that we are an imperiled nation wracked from within by divisive forces inspired by Big Powers that find our sturdy independence an offence to their standing as world leaders. Indeed, they see the \u00a0West\u00a0 as their Friend and source of probity and good sense. \u00a0In this perilous state our first concern must be security \u2013 not futile attempts at peace-making or gestures of conciliation directed at groups that will use this weakness to bolster their own strength. Let us be armed and ready before we talk of peace and let that overworked bogy of corruption be set aside so that we can attend to an imminent danger.<\/span><\/p>\n

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R Chandrasoma \u00a0In our contemporary world, the destabilization of heretofore stable nations and the gross interference in the internal affairs of the weak and the unprotected appear to be a system-features of its global dynamics. The so-called Big Powers feel it their right and duty to monitor – and often direct –\u00a0 the affairs of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-r-chandrasoma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41889","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=41889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}