{"id":48916,"date":"2015-10-26T06:28:17","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T13:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=48916"},"modified":"2015-10-26T06:28:17","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T13:28:17","slug":"the-big-and-the-powerful-get-their-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/10\/26\/the-big-and-the-powerful-get-their-way\/","title":{"rendered":"The big and the powerful get their way"},"content":{"rendered":"

Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n
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Meanwhile, \u2018divided but in togetherness\u2019, local leaders continue to play
\npoker in the House and ordinary folk\u00a0 keep seeing Yahapalanaya as a mirage<\/em><\/h2>\n
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\"\"he war against the LTTE ended several years ago when the armed forces of Sri Lanka crushed the Tigers that ran wild and free for almost thirty years. It was a great relief for all Sri Lankans because it signaled an era of peace, change and opportunities for the country to emerge from the dregs of the conflict. It was unfortunate that the post-war development programmes for the country\u2019s betterment especially of mega kinds ran into thick banks of fog of various kinds created by a corrupt and crooked government. Their pea-soupers are yet to be cleared.<\/p>\n

Friends of terrorists<\/h2>\n

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\u00a0A major LTTE tactic to secure a homeland for the Tamil people was wooing the support of western countries that had a penchant for \u2018minority communities under real or imagined \u2018duress\u2019. The Tiger medium in that effort was the pro-LTTE Tamil diaspora that organized meetings and demonstrations in western cities to garner support for their terrorist masters, the so-called freedom fighters. They also squeezed out donations from other Tamils to support the \u2018cause\u2019. Such support kept flowing incessantly to batter the perceived oppressors of the Tamil people\u2013the Sri Lanka government that was compelled to take on the LTTE militarily. And it was that war that finally precipitated allegations of \u2018war crimes, war criminals and human rights violations\u2019 allegations against the Rajapaksa government, its armed forces and the possibility of hearings in The Hague. (LTTE atrocities were conveniently overlooked by its western supporters.). Such aggression against Sri Lanka labeled as a rogue nation continued well after the war until recently when that pressure began to lift after a new government assumed power. While this \u2018softened stand\u2019 of the US, its allies and the UN was welcomed by the country, it was frowned upon by some sections of the Tamil minority that lost its impetus in achieving Eelam. Their cries of being \u2018hounded, harassed and murdered in Sri Lanka\u2019 ran out of gas, baritones and tenors. The rest of the Tamil people however, turned to favour the theme \u2018we are all Sri Lankans\u2019 mooted by a Yaha government.<\/div>\n

\u00a0 When some faces turned red<\/h2>\n

I say, Ooty,with the latest developments in the war crimes scene there\u2019s a change in international poking into the so-called mis-behaviour of the state and the armed forces,\u201d meowed Tommo a pussycat relaxing with his working partner an owl in the kitchen of the Wallside Restaurant and Bar. The pair employed as vermin exterminators in touch with matters that affected their governors were discussing recent events in New York on war crimes and war criminals in the Eelam war.<\/p>\n

Thuhoot,\u201d responded the owl. Who can forget the Tiger propaganda; their protests, video clips on Channel 4, 5 and 6 said to be of our governors\u2019 soldiers shooting Tamils and reams of other cooked up stuff in the media. The pro-Tiger crowd was pinching western noses to look their way and nowhere else.\u201d
\nMeeooww, there was a time when some Un-united governors also supported the Tigers with blazing canons. Can you remember their heavy broadsides when the striped hoodlums penned in some corner were about to be written off the map?\u201d<\/p>\n

Even well known ladies of Uncle Sam\u2019s brood and ancient but vociferous actors and actresses in Tamil Nadu yelled that Lankan forces were slaughtering civilians, using them as human shields and blasting hospitals away,\u201d hooted the owl<\/p>\n

“When you see the continuing\u00a0 waywardness in the country with even the new lokkas I think the international entry is a bloody good thing”<\/em><\/h2>\n

They were desperate to save their pets all right. And, what about their Big Brother? He howled to have a cease fire and hold discussions; anything to protect their relations being sent to Satan\u2019s care,\u201d purred pussy.<\/p>\n

But, our governors in charge then didn\u2019t listen, did they? They clobbered the terrorists and elevated their leader to godliness of some unknown kind,\u201d giggled the bird.<\/p>\n

Purrshsh; but it had repercussions. The international community pissed off that the government didn\u2019t listen to their commands and demands, continued their chase to hang charges of war crimes, infringements of human rights and genocide, whatever that could work, round our governors\u2019 necks. But our governors with support from friendly countries kept that attack in check.\u201d<\/p>\n

I know, I know; but now after a series of fits and starts, the internationals have introduced a hybrid menu into a \u2018war crimes\u2019 inquiry on local grounds. But first was that war a war or a struggle against some killers branded as terrorists the world over?\u201d\u00a0 The bird\u2019s question was a common one<\/p>\n

Unwanted hybridism<\/h2>\n

Meeoowwyep (Yep). Your question would never be answered. Apart from the ISIS and other fundamentalists, the latest fad is democratic terrorism. That\u2019s another story. Anyway, the Rajapaksa top-dogs\u2013the alleged \u2018culprits\u2019 of war crimes are not the top-dogs anymore. A new regime that took over has lowered the intensity of the Rajapaksa chase has agreed to support a local inquiry under help and guidance of foreign coaches. One reason for this coaching camp is because a princely UN human rights man had said that our governors\u2019 legal frame work was \u2018not geared to handle war crimes and war criminals\u2019 or some such thing. The intro of foreign umpires into a local inquiry is clearly to call the shots. \u201d<\/p>\n

When you see the continuing legal waywardness in the country with even the new lokkas looking the other way until kick started by some public hue and cry,\u00a0 I think the international entry is a bloody good thing,\u201d hooted Ooty.<\/p>\n

“Yaha fire is spluttering and may\u00a0 burn out altogether . The people who had high hopes of a better deal\u00a0 are seeing Yahapalanya\u00a0 as a mirage they have been fooled with”<\/em><\/h2>\n

Meeoowwyep (yep). The international club has wangled itself into that position for good reason. But, I think their main aim is to gun down Rajapaksa \u2018baddies\u2019 most of whom are in troubled waters already. But surprise, surprise, some of those bad-boys are seen blooming in the Cabinet of the new regime. So there\u2019s a worrying factor in the air. Despite the unearthed history of robbery and villainy, a huge number of Rajapaksa fans yet in government positions are poking sticks into Yaha wheels. If Rajapaksa and his palanquin bearers return, it would be the end of war crime inquiries, hybrid or otherwise and curtains for the multi-coloured Yaha crowd that wants the Rajapaksa Corps sent down to Davy Jones\u2019 locker without safety jackets.\u201d
\nThat\u2019s a tough expectation isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

Maestros and a mirage<\/h2>\n

What you see is the unfolding of a drama featuring a Yaha and International combo taking out the strongmen. Then the internationals would regain a position they were losing fast to worrying competition and the new regime would have a clear runway for its Yaha programme.\u00a0 Recent history has proved that the two Yaha chiefs are political maestros, but theirs is a marriage of convenience. It\u2019s not registered or solemnized but a result of a specially brokered arrangement with pre-conditions like in pre-nuptials,\u201d Tommo laughed the way pussies do.<\/p>\n

Hoot! So what?\u201d<\/p>\n

Meeoowww, marriages of convenience as the name suggests are for convenience. So there\u2019s no room for permanency in the Yaha marriage. In fact when considering the sparks of sourness in it, the question is for how long it would it stay afloat?<\/p>\n

“Marriages of convenience as the name suggests are for convenience. So there\u2019s no room for permanency in the Yaha marriage”<\/em><\/h2>\n

Hooot, boy, oh boy! The situ is getting thicker than a Hungarian goulash.\u201d<\/p>\n

The internationals are no babes lost in the woods, chum. They know what they are doing. However a sad situation is developing for our governors who thought, \u2018Thank God we are finally getting a Yahapalanaya under a convenient blue-green marriage\u2019 not so long ago, are now wondering what the devil is going on. The new regime that promised a total turnaround is being found of being as guilty of bad governance as the former crowd. \u2018And pray, of what kind?\u2019 \u2018Of every kind the former crowd didn\u2019t follow\u2019. The truth is that the Yaha fire is spluttering and the way things are going it may not take long for it to burn out altogether and the people who had high hopes of a better deal under a blue-green regime are seeing Yahapalanya as a mirage they have been fooled with.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

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Courtesy The Daily Mirror Meanwhile, \u2018divided but in togetherness\u2019, local leaders continue to play poker in the House and ordinary folk\u00a0 keep seeing Yahapalanaya as a mirage he war against the LTTE ended several years ago when the armed forces of Sri Lanka crushed the Tigers that ran wild and free for almost thirty years. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48916","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=48916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}