{"id":55027,"date":"2016-05-27T12:29:54","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T18:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=55027"},"modified":"2016-05-26T17:09:19","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T00:09:19","slug":"hands-off-our-armed-forces-apologize-chief-minister-nazeer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/05\/27\/hands-off-our-armed-forces-apologize-chief-minister-nazeer\/","title":{"rendered":"Hands off Our Armed Forces: Apologize Chief Minister Nazeer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shenali D Waduge<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Rudeness is the weak man\u2019s imitation of strength.\u201d
\n\u2015\u00a0Edmund Burke<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

In less than 7 years people appear to have forgotten that they are today living in peace because of the sacrifices of the armed forces. Chief Ministers Wigneswaran and Nazeer can hold portfolios because of the Armed Forces. They would never have become Chief Ministers if LTTE prevailed. Wigneswaran, Nazeer and all of the TNA including sections of the SLMC who are throwing their weight at the armed forces were dead scared to even imaging doing the same to Prabakaran or the LTTE. Sambanthan would not have sited a LTTE camp, Wigneswaran was scared to visit the North and no one even heard of Nazeer until the Armed Forces annihilated LTTE and its ground force. Today, seven years after the freedom has been given to 20million people, those who feared the LTTE are coming out roaring like tigers at the Sri Lankan Armed Forces who provided them that freedom. This is when the public must stand up in disgust at all parties and individuals who jeered at the Armed Forces, laughed at them when victory was within reach, those who shied from calling LTTE as terrorists and ironically enough it is these very parties who have been propped to rule Sri Lanka and their silence at the cheap theatrics being displayed boldly in front of a foreign ambassador shows the despicable heights the quality of leadership as today stooped to. If all their supporters watch in silence it only goes to show their quality as well.<\/p>\n

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The Muslims have forgotten much. They wore the brunt of LTTE\u2019s wrath. Their children were murdered and cut to pieces. LTTE stormed their mosques. LTTE cared not that people were in prayer. Hundreds of people were cut to pieces. Kattankudy mosque was washed in blood.<\/p>\n

LTTE’s Kattankudi Muslim Mosque Massacre (03 August 1990) \u2013 175 Muslims killed<\/strong><\/p>\n

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http:\/\/www.slnewsonline.net\/ltte_atrocities_genoside_of_muslims.asp<\/a><\/p>\n

Even after making a fool of himself in public the CM has come out with a pool of lies as conveyed by the media. Anyone seeing the video can judge for themselves the manner of his behaviour. Whatever our opinion of the Ambassador he was a foreign guest and it brought the country to much disrespect. Moreover, he hit the child standing near him and didnt so much as pat the child to say sorry.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ad1vV_HksTA<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Quoting DBS Jeyraj on LTTE\u2019s ethnic cleansing of Muslims http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/archives\/43660<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

It was in October 1990 that the tiger organization (LTTE) forcibly expelled the Tamil speaking Muslim people from the Northern Province in an atrocious act amounting to ethnic cleansing. Within a few days the Muslims were chased out of their homeland where they had lived for many, many centuries. The mass expulsion of Muslims from the North in 1990 was a humanitarian catastrophe. Uprooting a people from their habitat at gun point and driving them away after depriving them of their cash and jewellery was despicable and unpardonable.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

More than 50,00 Muslims were expelled from the northern mainland by the LTTE. Together with those of the peninsula the Muslims driven out from the Northern Province numbered around 75,000 in 1990.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The Sammanthurai and Kattankudi attacks on Mosques and killing of Muslims while praying and the massacres of civilians at the Saddham Hussein model village of Eravur being notorious examples. A delegation led by Karikalan the then LTTE eastern political chief came to the North to persuade tiger supremo Prabhakaran that stern\u201d action should be taken against Muslims. Karikalan apparently wanted a lesson to be taught to the Muslims. Even as this pressure was being exerted on the tiger hierarchy an incident occurred at Chavakachcheri in the Thenmaraaatchi sector of the Jaffna peninsula.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

However all that the LTTE did to Muslims did not mean anything to the SLMC Leader Hakeem seen here shaking hands with the very man who ordered the massacres.<\/p>\n

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CM Nazeer\u2019s apology is like Tony Blair saying sorry\u2026 it means nothing. The video is enough evidence of the venom inside the man, repeatedly humiliating a gentlemen in uniform who apologized politely. Anyone watching the video could see how CM dealt a blow to the little child watching in shock at the drama taking place. There is little that needs to be said of the Governor who\u2019s appeasing character is known and nothing that should surprise us. The look of controlled shock on the ambassador was also clear as were other officials who did not know how to handle the situation. We really do not know what encompassed after the video ended but there is little doubt that this cheap minister would have continued his tirade. What was he expecting? That the ambassador would call him aside and tap him for his performance? Was he also aspiring to be the next Western stooge when West begins to eye the East? Are all these performances calculated and delivering a bigger message than the display of buffoonery we saw? We care less. What we do care about is that our Armed Forces have earned for themselves a special place in history. A hand on one is a hand on all the armed forces who have done their duty by us and the nation.<\/strong> The armed forces are one of the two forces that protect and preserve the identity of the nation. The other is the Buddhist priest as seen by the manner they came to assist the flood victims. The historical place they hold through history cannot be erased easily or forgotten.<\/p>\n

It would be also good to read Izeth Husseins Tamils are the worst racists ever says a Sri Lankan Muslim\u201d http:\/\/www.island.lk\/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=142638<\/a> and a commentary on it https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/03\/27\/tamils-are-the-worst-racists-ever-says-a-sri-lankan-muslim\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Two incidents of shocking proportion have taken place of late. The Tamil representative Sambanthan and a coterie of NGOs stormed the Army Camp demanding deeds to the North. The yahapalana pooh-poohed the incident and took the side of the TNA. Taking confidence from this the Eastern Chief Minister thought of taking advantage of the presence of the American ambassador the key player in Sri Lanka\u2019s regime change and began a verbal tirade against the naval officer. It is a relief that the Navy high command has taken a strong stand and yahapalana cannot brush the episode like it did to Sambanthan\u2019s irate behavior. This is where we have to draw the line. If minorities want to live in peace they must learn to live in co-existence and harmony. Their representatives must stop hoisting the minority card and behaving like monkeys. Thankfully the Muslims themselves are disassociating themselves from the CM. It would have been nice if the Tamils had done the same when Sambanthan and Wigneswarans theatrics started. Only a few Tamils did come forward though. If the international community were not as biased and hypocrites they would by now have demanded an apology. Instead even the US embassy is stoic silent.<\/strong><\/p>\n

These incidents are not to be taken in isolation. The minorities are presently behaving as they are because they have got international nods of approval. The yahapalana\u2019s undoing will be the same minorities that the yahapalana depends on for sustenance.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The condemnation of the armed forces are tied to the western objective as seen in the UNHRC resolutions. LTTE fronts are today calling the shots and the yahapalana for lack of spine are taking all lying down and has even agreed to fast forward constitutional changes much of which is being drafted by questionable characters and putting at stake all that the armed forces sacrificed to save. 30,000 men sacrificed and a similar number lie injured for life not to have a few power hungry politicians hand over a country on a platter to others or divide the country for it aligns to what was promised to bring them to power? Why have strategic entry points and land areas being specifically targeted to be removed? Why are intelligence personnel being locked up for no legal reason?\u00a0It has been a shock to most the manner the government downgraded a military victory to a cultural show\u00a0while allowing\u00a0LTTE sympathizers to hold remembrance ceremonies when it was clearly to mourn\u00a0dead LTTE cadres. The\u00a0irony of it all was seen when these memorials supposed to be meant for civilians had eelam and\u00a0LTTE flags including the eelam map.\u00a0These are questions that the citizens of Sri Lanka must seriously wonder about. These power hungry politicians and minority leaders cannot be allowed to bring down a nation that has a history and identity that many are jealous of in particular the feat of annihilating an internationally banned terrorist movement.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We are yet to hear the Governments stand on the rowdy behaviour of Chief Minister Nazeer<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shenali D Waduge<\/strong><\/p>\n