{"id":51034,"date":"2016-01-14T14:04:36","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T20:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=51034"},"modified":"2016-01-13T16:43:32","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T23:43:32","slug":"the-road-map-to-separatism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/01\/14\/the-road-map-to-separatism\/","title":{"rendered":"The road map to Separatism"},"content":{"rendered":"

By : A.A.M.Nizam, MATARA<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

The most discussed topic nowadays is the abolition of the existing constitution or the replacement of it with a new constitution under the guise of abolishing the powers of the Executive Presidency and the preferential voting system.\u00a0 The purpose of this article is to enlighten the patriotic people on the moves taken in the past to segregate Sri Lanka for the detriment of the Unitary status of the country. Similar discussions were held in the 1930s when the subject of granting independence to Sri Lanka and introducing the Soulboury Constitution were being contemplated in the then Legislative Council.<\/p>\n

The father of separatism, the Singapore born S.J.V.Chelvanayagam opening the Pandora’s Box of national disunity at that time said that they the Tamils are far more superior to the Sinhalese and they cannot be ruled by the inferior Sinhalese and hence a separate entity guaranteeing an autonomous region for the Tamils to have their separate self rule in the North and East of the country should be established if independence is to be granted to Sri Lanka (Ceylon). The Sinhala and patriotic legislators sternly objected this proposal and insisted then that independence be granted to Ceylon as a Unitary State and Buddhism the majority religion of the country which had prevailed in the country for several centuries should be made the State Religion.\u00a0 These views of the majority community were fully endorsed by the Muslim member of the Legislative Council Mr. A.L.Marcan Markar and said that the Sinhalese being the majority community of the country has every right to rule the country and the Muslims will be happy to be under the Sinhalese rule as they hitherto existed under the Sinhalese rule amicably.<\/p>\n

Chelvanayagam also stated that the majority of the Tamils are erudite and they cannot be compared with the uneducated Sinhalese despite the fact that they were South Indian slaves brought to this country by the Dutch colonialists for tobacco cultivation and educated by the American missionaries who came to Sri Lanka in 1813 and established the first American Missionary English school at Tellippalai in 1816. By 1848 these American missionaries established 105 English Schools and 16 Tamil Schools in the North.<\/p>\n

The uncles and cousins of separatists, the Arunachalams, Ramanathans, Naganathans and Amirthalingams fully endorsed the vicious views of Chelvanayagam and agitated for self rule of Tamils in various forms.\u00a0 When the populous government of late Prime Minister SA.W.R.D.Bandaranaike came into power in 1956 these separatists made all attempts to introduce a federal form of administration for the Northern and Eastern Provinces and even signed an agreement called Bandaranaike- Chelvanayagam agreement and the Prime Minister tore up and annulled the agreement in the face of the stern opposition from the majority community. Puppet Bra Sirisena speaking at a function on the 8th<\/sup> of this month aimed at bolstering his image regretted for having annulled this agreement and the Chelvanayagam-Dudley agreement (details of which will follow)<\/p>\n

From then onwards, since 1958 the separatists staged various forms of unsuccessful agitations with the objective of achieving their goals.\u00a0 They were totally rebuffed during the reign of Madam Sirimavo Bandaranaike\u2019s government from 1960 \u2013 1965 and that led to the formation of the 7-party coalition of the Dudley Senanayake government of 1965 in which the separatists were a part of the government and the separatist Thiruchelvam was the Minister of Home Affairs. During this period Premier Dudley Senanayake succumbing to the dictates of the separatists signed an agreement with the father of separatism Chelvanayagam to grant autonomous status and self rule to the Northern and Eastern provinces.<\/p>\n

Under stern opposition staged by the patriot masses throughout the country with the slogan of Dudlige Bade Masala Wade\u201d the government was forced to abandon this agreement with a Buddhist monk assassinated at by the Police at the Kollupitiya junction.\u00a0 However, the separatists did not abandon their urge for self rule and in the Northern and Eastern provinces and on May 14, 1976\u00a0 the Tamil leadership, headed by S. J. V. Chelvanayakam, the father of Tamil separatism, passed the Vadukoddai Resolution , declaring war on the nation through violence to get their demand of an autonomous \/ federal state.<\/p>\n

The entire Tamil leadership called on the Tamils\u00a0 in general and the Tamil youth in particular to throw themselves fully in the sacred fight for freedom and not to abandon their goal achieving a sovereign state of Tamil Eelam and the armed Tamil youths launched this armed struggle under the leadership of magalamaniac Prabhakaran by making Jaffna Mayor Duraiappah the first victim of their armed struggle.<\/p>\n

While the tiger terrorists atrocities were mounting in the country with deaths and bomb blasts being carried out in the country almost daily the Tamil sympathetic bandit Queen Chandrika incapable of finding a mechanism to defeat the terrorists offered the Northern and Eastern provinces for magalamaniac Prabhakaran to rule those two provinces without elections and when that also failed this arrogant woman attempted to impose a federal constitution drafted by Thiruchelvam the son of the separatist former Minister Thiruchelvam to Sri Lanka in the year 2000 which was once again thwarted by the people of this country.<\/p>\n

What followed then until the former President patriotic Mahinda Rajapaksa eliminated Prabhakaran and the entire tiger terrorist leadership at Nandikadal without bowing down to dictates of the western and hegemonic Indian leadership on May 18th<\/sup> 2009 needs no elaboration as it is known even to a toddler in this country.\u00a0 However, it is pertinent to remind here how the treacherous United National Party leadership, Ranil Wickremasinghe and his cronies ridiculed the liberation struggle being carried out by our gallant forces with statements such as Toppigala is a large forest, that any bull can fight a war and our forces are marching towards Medawachchiya instead of Kilinoichchiya and towards Pamankada instead of Alimankada and our Army Commander is only fit to be the Commander of the Salvation Army.<\/p>\n

In the meantime another dimension has emerged to this Tamil aggression with hegemonic Indian patronized groups called Tamils of Indian Origin in Colombo and several hill country districts that they too are a significant population of this country and they should have at least 14 seats in our Parliament.<\/p>\n

It is a well known fact that it was the tiger terrorist diaspora, the western powers and the Indian hegemonists who installed the puppet Bra Sirisena government last year to grant the separatist Tamils and the Tamils of Indian Origin all what they desire and make the majority population of this country slavish to them.\u00a0 The latest attempt being made to force a constitution in the guise of abolishing the powers of the Executive Presidency and the preferential voting system is to satisfy the anti national elements in the country and the overseas elements which are against Sri Lanka remaining a unitary state and a Buddhist State despite in their States the majority religion remain as the State religion.<\/p>\n

When discussions about the so-called constitution was taken up in the Parliament yesterday it was separatist Sambambandan who opened up the debate and he urged all members to cooperate in forming the new constitution thereby implying how it is important for them\u00a0 to have this new constitution implemented.\u00a0 At the same time, the treacherous political chameleons of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party who have illegally joined the government stated that they have introduced some amendments to the proposed constitution.\u00a0 People of this country cannot be fooled by such statements and attempting to show that they did not fully endorse the proposed constitution. These treacherous political chameleons will have no exoneration from the masses and the future elections will certainly dump them in the political dustbin of this country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By : A.A.M.Nizam, MATARA The most discussed topic nowadays is the abolition of the existing constitution or the replacement of it with a new constitution under the guise of abolishing the powers of the Executive Presidency and the preferential voting system.\u00a0 The purpose of this article is to enlighten the patriotic people on the moves […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aamnizam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51034","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=51034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}