{"id":72348,"date":"2017-12-02T00:16:40","date_gmt":"2017-12-02T06:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=72348"},"modified":"2017-12-01T16:50:09","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T23:50:09","slug":"commemoration-of-dead-ltte-cadre-heralds-the-hollowness-of-current-attempts-at-reconciliation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/12\/02\/commemoration-of-dead-ltte-cadre-heralds-the-hollowness-of-current-attempts-at-reconciliation\/","title":{"rendered":"Commemoration of dead LTTE cadre heralds the hollowness of current attempts at “reconciliation”."},"content":{"rendered":"

Bodhi Dhanapala, Quebec, Canada.<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Just recently, construction workers doing a work site in Hamburg, Germany came across a buried giant Swastika from the Hitler era. Some antiquarians\u201d called for its reservation as an object of history. No way\u201d, said the the Mayor of Hamburg and other civic leaders concerned. This is a despicable sign that brings to memory the horrors committed by a regime of mass murderers. Immediately after the war, aided and abetted by the other Western Nations, Germany began a program of deNazification\u201d.<\/p>\n

In France, the leaders of the Vichy regime that worked closely with the Nazis were brought to book.<\/p>\n

In contrast, after the end of Prabhakaran, those who collaborated with the LTTE and even acted as their political spokesmen are given a free hand to re-enact their old politics. There has been no move to bring them before judgment, while only the army has been claimed to have war criminals. Individuals whose family responsibility\u201d was recruiting\u201d children by force to be sent to the front lines for certain death today act as elected\u201d officials, rush to Geneva talking of human-rights abuses.\u00a0 Individuals who led suicide attacks on civilian targets like schools, buses, and trains are being commemorated as heroes\u201d.<\/p>\n

None of these fellow travelers of the old LTTE has come forward to denounce the murders of the best of the Tamil leaders, starting from Mayor Duraiappah, elected Tamil MPs, even the likes of Amirthalaingam whose own boys\u201d killed him, thorough Neelan Thiruchelvam and Lakshman Kadirgamar. Those who disagreed with the LTTE were traitors\u201d;\u00a0 the LTTE poet Kasi Anandan it was who deemed that such traitors\u201d should not die a natural death. It is this philosophy of blood, cyanide and hate that is being celebrated by some prominent members of the TNA and the now-defunct Northern Provincial council. While these people have the money to build memorials for dead terrorists, they have no money to settle the IDPs who can be used as a beggar\u2019s wound of complaint as long as they are not settled. After all, the IDPs are low caste\u201d people who are disposable people\u201d in the context of the Eelam objective \u2013 they need not be settled, but should be kept as a perennial problem?<\/p>\n

What do the liberal minded Tamils\u201d say of all this? Why are the likes of Dr. Kumar David, who waxed eloquent of the technical prowess of the LTTE in making little war planes etc., contributed to the Tamil Net, worked\u00a0 to elect\u00a0 Yahapalanaya, and ever ready to comment on the barbarism of the Sinhala Buddhists, being silent on all this? Bishop Dulip Chikera, ever the urbane leader of civil society, who even at one time proposed to buy wine for christian ritual from Killinochchi as a gesture of reconciliation to Prabhakaran, should surely come forward to denounce the crass act of commemoration\u201d of the dead LTTE terrorists as well as their apotheosis into heroes\u201d?<\/p>\n

How should we think of Thileepan? Was he not a deliberate human sacrifice – an LTTE murder – carried out in front of the Nallur Temple by the dicta of the LTTE leader? There have been many fasts unto death\u201d in other struggles all over the world. But in the nick of time, death is averted by all civilized movements by ensuring that the fasting person is not sacrificed. But not so with Prabhakaran. When he took\u00a0 300,000 Tamil people to Nandikadal as a human shield, he did not regard even one such life as valuable. It is documented that the wounded Tamils while in retreat were put in immobile buses and set fire by these LTTE heroes as they were considered a liability to them. What ever the\u00a0 ISIS did a decade later, the LTTE heroes\u201d did it more ghoulishly. It is they who are being commemorated by some TNA leaders with their Faustian pact, by Jaffna-University’s\u00a0 servants of the devil, and all this tacitly allowed\u00a0 by their political collaborators in the government. Is commemoration of evil a part of the Sudu Nelum\u201d ideology? How can reconciliation be achieved by commemorating terrorists?<\/p>\n

Is there no law against acts of\u00a0 racial incitement that will surely lead to the kinds of riots that we had in the pre-Eelam era? Perhaps that is the very objective of some TNA leaders? Then they can call foul and\u00a0\u00a0 call for a Kosovo?<\/p>\n

Those who attend such commemoration events are ghoulish misguided agents of the worst of the beast in man.\u00a0\u00a0 Where are the apostles of reconciliation, those pillars of policy alternatives well nourished on foreign dollars, and well aware of international values, who should rise to denounce such crass acts of homage to terror ?\u00a0 Of course the diplomats are not supposed to comment on Sri Lanka’s internal matters, even though they do if they can point their finger at the majority who are labeled mere chauvinists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bodhi Dhanapala, Quebec, Canada. Just recently, construction workers doing a work site in Hamburg, Germany came across a buried giant Swastika from the Hitler era. Some antiquarians\u201d called for its reservation as an object of history. No way\u201d, said the the Mayor of Hamburg and other civic leaders concerned. This is a despicable sign that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bodhi-dhanapala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72348","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=72348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}