{"id":67367,"date":"2017-06-28T15:29:28","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T22:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=67367"},"modified":"2017-06-28T15:29:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T22:29:28","slug":"reconciliation-with-tamils-part-ii-is-it-reconciliation-or-handing-over-part-of-sri-lanka-outright-to-tamils-and-now-another-part-to-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/06\/28\/reconciliation-with-tamils-part-ii-is-it-reconciliation-or-handing-over-part-of-sri-lanka-outright-to-tamils-and-now-another-part-to-muslims\/","title":{"rendered":"Reconciliation with Tamils Part II-Is it reconciliation or\u00a0 handing over part of Sri Lanka outright to Tamils, and now another part to Muslims ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Charles.S.Perera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Election of \u00a0Maithripala Sirisena as President to form a new government does not mean that he was given the right to disinherit Sinhala Buddhists of their country and their culture.<\/p>\n

The \u00a0government should stop further reconciliation with Tamils. The Tamils are outright Racists if one disagrees, that one should\u00a0 re-examine his or her mental thinking process. There may however be a few Tamils who are reasonable and understands the reality of the situation correctly.<\/p>\n

Even if the dog\u2019s curved tail is put in a tube for many thousand\u2019s of years, it want become straight. So is the separatist mentality of Tamils. To what ever extent the reconciliation efforts were to be made the mental attitude of Tamils will never change, they will always want the pound of flesh\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n

. Wijedasa Rajapakse the Minister of Justice \u00a0at a TV debate made a great effort to show how different constitutions gave political rights to minorities. But all those arguments are not valid as Sri Lanka is a Sinhala Buddhist country before the British colonial rulers wrote those constitutions.<\/p>\n

The minorities came later on and they were accepted by the Sinhala people. Migration of minorities \u00a0happened in many countries in the world but in those countries the minorities became a part of those countries\u00a0 and a part of those nations without asking for a part of those country for themselves \u00a0or have their language and religion recognised as a part of those countries.\u00a0 Why should it be otherwise in Sri Lanka ?<\/p>\n

Australian government told the Muslims that they were never invited to come, and having come to learn the language of the country and accept the law of the land\u00a0 or else leave the country.<\/p>\n

There seems to be three types of reconciliations going on in Sri Lanka. Firstly the reconciliation efforts of the Yahpalanaya Government, secondly, the\u00a0 reconciliation demanded by the Tamil Diaspora, Sri Lanka Tamil extremists of the TNA, Sivajilingam and Wigneswaran,\u00a0 and thirdly, the reconciliation being imposed by the West supported by \u00a0the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights \u00a0Zeid Ra\u2019ad Al Hussein.<\/p>\n

The Yahapalanaya seems to be giving into all the three types of reconciliations, which would at the end leave little or nothing for the Sinhala Buddhists to call their own.<\/p>\n

The reconciliation process allows the Tamils and Muslims to insult, abuse, castigate, and speak disrespectfully of the Buddha, Dhamma and the Sangha the noble triple gem the most sacred heritage of the Buddhists. Venerable Gnanasara thero may speak loud to tell what others think silently, but that does not give the right to anyone or any news paper to address the Venerable Gnanasara thero disrespectfully as Gnanasara<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Before May, 2009, the Tamils of Sri Lanka were being gradually decimated by the\u00a0 Tamil terrorists, had there not been a President like Mahinda Rajapakse who with the mainly Sinhala Buddhist armed Forces eliminated the terrorists the Tamils of the North and East may have perished or reduced to small numbers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

When speaking of Sri Lanka it has \u00a0now to be divided in to two major periods. Sri Lanka before 8th<\/sup> January,2015, \u00a0and Sri Lanka after 8th<\/sup> January,2015. The Sri Lanka after 8th<\/sup> January,2015 is a disaster from which it has to be redeemed.<\/p>\n

The Government of Sri Lanka before the 8th with its heroic Armed Forces carried out a long and a costly\u00a0 military operation sacrificing over 6000 men and making many disabled to terminate a more than 30 years long human suffering through terror without any aid from any Western country.<\/p>\n

Finally when it was over and relief was brought to\u00a0 a long suffering people to at last awaken to peace and security and live without\u00a0 the constant fear of death by terrorist bombs and assassinations, \u00a0\u00a0the USA and the West came forward to accuse the Sri Lanka\u00a0 Government and its Armed Forces for war crimes.<\/p>\n

The people of developing countries seem to have \u00a0a false sense of the USA and the West being nations friendly towards the poor people of the underdeveloped countries.<\/p>\n

It is an utterly false concept, may be there are some sympathetic towards the poverty stricken people of the developing countries, and there may be organisations and individuals with their Christian love for the fellow beings\u201d coming forward to contribute material \u00a0and spiritual comfort\u00a0 sharing their more civilised Christianity. But those were ancient concepts of the West, \u00a0which have now changed into more sophisticated Human Rights, NGOs, R2P, Amnesty International and so on and so forth. <\/strong><\/p>\n

They Human Rights Watch, NGOs, R2P, Amnesty International and so on and so forth. <\/strong><\/p>\n

– are also giving love and affection\u201d to the poor people of these developing countries, by changing their own people friendly elected regimes, to regimes which are West friendly\u00a0 and dependent on \u00a0scrap thrown by the West.<\/p>\n

And these poor countries are also blessed \u00a0having sympathetic Ambassadors, \u00a0like \u00a0US Ambassaodor Athul Ketchup, always every where, where he is wanted or where he is not wanted,\u00a0 interfering into the internal affairs of the countries to divide communities and sow seeds of dissention.<\/strong> According, James Russo, Public Affairs Officer of the U.S Embassy, one of the key goals of the embassy, here in Sri Lanka, is to support the reconciliation process.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bravo USA Bravo ! Where in the world are foreign embassies engaged in internal affairs of countries to which they have been assigned ?<\/p>\n

Now the USA and the Western Countries\u00a0 do not stand by the Majority Community,\u00a0 but rather with the minority communities, looking after their, minority interests. Because the Communal dissension is the best means to extract for themselves, the political benefits of strategic importance. Smaller the developing countries become by division through self determination etc.\u201d they are easy to be manipulated by the West like pawns on a checker board.<\/p>\n

Irrational accusations most often used\u00a0 by the USA and the West against Sri Lanka were due to \u00a0the \u00a0demands made by \u00a0the Tamils living in their respective countries, \u00a0who have increased in numbers to be a significant decisive political vote bank.<\/p>\n

USA and the West brought a resolution against Sri Lanka for Violation of human rights and war crimes at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva neither for the benefit of the Tamils nor for the Sinhala but for the sake of the political and strategic benefits they can draw for themselves by the implementation of these resolutions which spell disaster to the country.<\/p>\n

The USA and the West cannot on their own divide Sri Lanka (or other developing countries),\u00a0 destroy its culture, dissolve its identity, and distort its historical past without having a Government (of that country) which listens to them,\u00a0 and\u00a0 ready to act without reflexion like the Yahapalanaya Government of Sri Lanka. The USA and the West now have an appropriate government in place in Sri Lanka \u00a0to do what they want to do, and at the same time please the Tamil diaspora.<\/p>\n

This Yahapalanaya government wants only two \u00a0things, \u00a0that is firstly \u00a0to be in power, and secondly to make people forget the Previous regime of Mahinda Rajapakse which began by raising\u00a0 Sri Lanka from the status of a developing country to a middle income country, giving people a higher standard of living and above all peace and hope for a better future.<\/strong><\/p>\n

With that interest in view this Yahapalanaya government is more keen in closing the mouths of its opponents, so that the people will have only them- the UNP members of the government to listen,\u00a0 as the SLFP part of the Yahapalanaya is like a knocked out \u00a0boxer lying in the ring. \u00a0The Yahaplanaya\u00a0 has not\u00a0 done any thing visible as development , primarily because they have neither a plan nor the means.<\/p>\n

However the President Maithripala Sirisena shows himself to the people as a good man because he does not hesitate to invite all manifesting associations, strikers and other groups to see him to discuss their problems and find solutions. But, though he listens to them and promises to solve their problems, once they go away satisfied that the President had lent them a sympathetic ear, they realise they have in fact been deceived, the problems had not been solved or what they had got was not what was promised.<\/p>\n

President Sirisena \u00a0made such promises to GMOA but they did not get what they requested. The President promised to settle the Bond issue but\u00a0 the Commission he appointed goes on investigating indefinitely. The thief has been found, but Yahapalanaya government does not want to file legal action against the thief.<\/p>\n

The \u00a0Yahapalanaya government has not been able to solve any of the major problems of Sri Lanka. They remain like the sword of Damocles.<\/p>\n

Reconciliation ! Reconciliation !! to what extent will yahapalanaya go in its reconciliation process\u2026.?\u00a0 Speaking at a ceremony at the Education Ministry\u00a0 at Isurupaya, Battaramulla the Education State Minister V.Radhakrishnan has vowed\u00a0 that he would get the government to bring 100 Indian teachers to overcome the prevailing shortage of\u00a0 science and maths teachers in the Tamil Schools in the estate Sector. Is it part of the ETCA agreement ?<\/strong><\/p>\n

While M.K.Sivajilingam and Wigneswaran call for\u00a0 seven days of mourning from May 12 to 19th<\/sup> in remembrance of the genocide of Tamils from the day of Independence 1948, R.Sampanthan the leader of the Yahapalanaya Opposition says\u00a0 that he has put in a word\u201d to the Indian Prime Minister\u00a0 Narendra Modi to ensure the continuation of the\u00a0 UNP-SLFP Administration, as the TNA has faith in this Yahapalanaya government\u00a0 with its very favourable reconciliation programme towards Tamils.<\/p>\n

In order to make a reality of this favourable situation Sampanthan advices the Yahapalanaya government to maintain unity between SLFP and the UNP factions within the government.\u00a0 Sampanthan had said that the Indian Government would help the incumbent regime continue its good governance programme.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

But good governance to whom ?<\/p>\n

The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s visit did not assure India\u2019s special\u00a0 relationship with Sri Lanka. Narendra Modi\u2019s\u00a0 speech was of questionable intentions towards Sri Lanka. He had more talks with the Tamil political leaders and extended more contact with the Tamil people, ignoring Sinhala people of the South.<\/p>\n

India unable to look after its own people some of who live in dire conditions , adviced in his speech at Dickoya that the Sinhala and Tamil Communities\u00a0 should strengthen unity and harmony as he assured India\u2019s full support\u00a0 to the steps taken by Colombo to improve the living conditions of\u00a0 minority Tamils in the country. Do we really need him to come and say that ? India will only aggravate our situation with the Tamils.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is\u00a0 a shame that the Yahapalanaya had thought it appropriate to give the Ministry of National Coexistence Dialogue and official Languages to\u00a0 Mano Ganeshan. Such \u00a0a Ministry should have been given to a Sinhala representative of the people in order to have direct contact with the minorities,\u00a0 otherwise the rift between the minorities and the majority community will be further distanced.<\/p>\n

Reconciliation needs two parties and it is not one party giving into every demand of the other, while the other holds onto every thing without\u00a0 giving anything in return.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tamils are not open minded\u00a0 therefore\u00a0 they are inept for building unity amoung Communities. The Northern Province Councillor M.K.Sivajilingaam is certainly not helping any reconciliation, he is an unreliable terrorist sympathiser, as much as Wigneswaran the Chief Minister of NPC.\u00a0 They are both a hindrance to build any unity between the Tamils and the Sinhala people.\u00a0 They should be arrested or their civic rights should be withdrawn if the Yahapalanaya wants to adopt a successful reconciliation process.<\/p>\n

The President Sirisena speaking at a cultural programme Erabadu Vasanbtham at Singakkuliya, Danktuva had said that the spiritual leaders are the real messengers who connect the hearts of the people and strengthen reconciliation as wished by every religious philosophy.<\/p>\n

This is lot of nonsense. Reconciliation is possible only if the Tamils could give up their separatist mental\u00a0 attitude,\u00a0 and think of themselves as a people living together in one country with a majority Sinhala Buddhists, and others minority communities. They have to now come together giving up their\u00a0 separatists identity to identify themselves as partners of a nation living in one country as normal human beings.<\/p>\n

Even if the dog\u2019s curved tail is put in a tube for many thousand\u2019s of years, it want become straight. So is the separatist mentality of Tamils, to what ever extent the reconciliation efforts were to be made the mental attitude of Tamils will never change, they will always want the pound of flesh\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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