{"id":43205,"date":"2015-04-17T08:38:14","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T14:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=43205"},"modified":"2015-04-16T14:45:09","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T21:45:09","slug":"milibands-tamil-new-year-wishes-the-cat-is-out-of-the-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/04\/17\/milibands-tamil-new-year-wishes-the-cat-is-out-of-the-bag\/","title":{"rendered":"Miliband’s Tamil New Year wishes – The cat is out of the bag!"},"content":{"rendered":"

S.Akurugoda<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

In a video message to the British Tamil Community Ed Miliband, the leader of the British Labour Party and the Leader of the Opposition has reiterated that his party will continue to \u00a0push for a full and independent, international investigation into alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka, while wishing a happy New Year for the ‘Tamil’ community.<\/p>\n

I want to wish everyone in the Tamil community a happy new year and I want to take this opportunity to thank the Tamil community for the incredible contribution you make to our country across every walk of life. The Labour Party has always been a friend of the Tamil community and will continue to be so, and we will continue to push for the full and independent, international investigation into alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka. It\u2019s something I raised with President Sirisena when I met him and we will continue to push this forward, we will continue to advocate for your cause”<\/em><\/p>\n

As Professor Nalin de Silva \u00a0has repeatedly stated in his valuable articles, it is the\u00a0 British who created the so called ethnic problem in Sri Lanka. Professor De Silva has clearly identified this fact in his book, ‘Prabhakaran, Ohuge Seeyala Bappala ha Massinala<\/em>‘ or its translation\u00a0 ‘An Introduction to the Tamil Racism in Sri Lanka ‘. <\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>Let me sight few sentences from the ‘Foreword’ of the book .<\/p>\n

“The origin of the problem can be traced back to the establishment of the legislative council based on communal representation, the educational reforms and other reforms deviating from the indigenous system in the previous century. These changes were the result of the Colebrooke – Cameron proposals of 1833. \u00a0The problem in the north and the east is due to Tamil racism which was initiated by the British Colonial rulers. Three phases can be clearly recognized in the evolution of Tamil racism. The main characteristics of Tamil racism can be identified; namely they refuse to accept the fact that the Sinhalese are the majority of the country. Secondly, they do not accept that at least the written history of the country and its identity is Sinhala Buddhist. Thirdly, Tamil racism considers the Tamils to be a separate nation in their so – called homeland and they want to live as a separate nation. They are not willing to share the common culture while retaining their own identity as an ethnic group.<\/em><\/p>\n

As highlighted in this booklet, Tamil racism has acquired these characteristics while safeguarding the powers and privileges the Tamils enjoyed under the British rule. These powers and privileges were completely out of proportion with the population ratio and were not in harmony with history.<\/em><\/p>\n

Tamil racism which was baptized by the British is nurtured today with the help of the western powers and their instruments which are the NGO’s. World imperialism which tries to eradicate non-Western civilizations, national cultures and nationalities across the world makes use of Tamil racism to destroy Sinhala nationality or Jathikathvaya. If these powers succeed in achieving their objectives, they will continue this very same process with the Tamils.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The above expression of\u00a0 Miliband on the interests of a particular race in our country while \u00a0wishing them a happy new year, completely ignoring\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0the interests of the majority community, is a clear indication of \u00a0the wishes of \u00a0the living grand fathers, uncles and brother in laws (BILs) of Prabahakaran who are fully active despite the elimination of the terrorist leader in 2009.<\/p>\n

The book, ‘An Introduction to the Tamil Racism in Sri Lanka ‘,<\/em>also identifies three phases in the evolution of Tamil racism. The first extends over more than fifty years from the ’80’s of the previous century to the 40’s of the present century. The second phase ends in the ’70’s of this century and the third phase has been with us for more than twenty five years.<\/p>\n

We who witnessed the last stages of the second phase and are still witnessing the third phase of the\u00a0 of the evolution know exactly what the west led by \u00a0British were doing directly or indirectly thorough their donor and\u00a0 lending agencies, NGOs and other front liners of promoting separatism for the benefit of their agendas.\u00a0 We remember, among other interferences throughout, \u00a0how\u00a0 the brother of Ed Miliband, former Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, and his French counterpart, Bernard Kouchner, came\u00a0 to intensify pressure on the government to halt its military operation to save Prabhakaran during last stage of the war against terrorist.<\/p>\n

Those forces who are \u00a0behind\u00a0 the current President and the Prime Minister , whom they managed to install as they planned, will do whatever possible to keep the duo as the leaders until they complete their mission entrusted.\u00a0\u00a0 To their advantage, both the main political parties\u00a0 \u00a0have become safe havens\u00a0 for corrupted politicians who will do anything to uplift their personal goals.<\/p>\n

The unfortunate result is that the current leaders will continue to dance to the tune of the living political relatives of Prabhakaran, as identified above, \u00a0while refusing to accept the fact that it is time for them to go for the benefit of the political parties they lead and\u00a0 for the betterment of the country at large.<\/p>\n

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