{"id":84174,"date":"2018-12-15T15:24:53","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T22:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=84174"},"modified":"2018-12-15T15:25:38","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T22:25:38","slug":"save-the-country-from-tnas-treachery-part-ix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/12\/15\/save-the-country-from-tnas-treachery-part-ix\/","title":{"rendered":"Save the\u00a0 country from TNA\u2019s Treachery. \u2013 Part IX"},"content":{"rendered":"

By A.A.M.NIZAM \u2013 MATARA<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

The Canada based pro separatist scribe D.B.S.Jeyaraj who writes long articles to Daily Mirror run by Ranil Wickremasinghe\u2019s family and who has gained much experience in promoting the Tamil separatist objectives on the\u00a0 sly has said that Sammbamdan (the terrorist grandpa) and diaspora bank rolled Sumanthiran\u00a0 have been accused of harming the Tamil cause by attending the February 4th<\/sup> freedom day event as Thurogigal\u201d or Traitors and a vicious\u00a0 and venomous campaign is being orchestrated against both of them.\u00a0 As per the views of the Sri Lankan patriots the act of both these terrorists were only an eye wash instigated by western diplomatic groups and Indian hegemonizes to pose it as their genuine wish and thereby promote the constitution ghost.<\/p>\n

The article was full of hidden objectives to promote the separatist goal brief of extracts of the said article are given below with appropriate counter comments from the Sri Lankan patriots who can easily understand the direction the cattle is trying to take when it turns its head and the Sri Lankans have experienced this kind of gimmick when megalomaniac Prabhakaran was ruling the roost.<\/p>\n

To justify the hidden objective of promoting the activities being carried out by the terrorist duo Jayaram says that the past weeks have seen a barrage of\u00a0 articles critical of both in newspapers and websites published by LTTE remnants\u00a0 in the Global Tamil Diaspora, Radio and TV Stations run by \u00a0LTTE and pro-LTTE elements and constant propagation of\u00a0 derogatory views on the internet. \u00a0He says\u00a0 that these internet warriors too are on the warpath against the terrorist duo.\u00a0 If Jaqyaraj and his ilk believe that with this kind of negative comments against the terrorist duo they can promote their constitution and other separatist objective, they are grossly mistaken.<\/p>\n

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Let us join hands against the <\/strong>Separatist Elephant-Tiger Alliance<\/strong><\/p>\n

As it was pointed out in a previous article of mine, the Sri Lankan patriots suspect that this deliberately organised and purported anti Sumanthiran activities seems to have been organised to facilitate his migration to either UNP or to the camp of JEPPOs and the attempt to migrate to UNP has already become successful and he has now gained the authority to dictate terms to\u00a0 the senior vice President of that party Lakshman Kiriella and participate in internal party meetings while the so-called party stalwarts remain dumb founded.<\/p>\n

In February 21st a demonstration was held in Jaffna for the ostensible purpose of drawing attention to the plight of disappeared and missing persons. After engaging in protest opposite the Jaffna central bus stand, the demonstrators went in procession via Hospital road and Kankesanthurai (KKS) road to the memorial constructed for the persons killed during the \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0International Tamil Research Conference on January 10th, 1974. Youths also\u00a0 \u00a0 shouted out\u00a0\u00a0 slogans against Sampanthan and Sumanthiran while proceeding,\u00a0 leaving most onlookers puzzled\u00a0 as to how those slogans would draw attention towards the plight of the disappeared.
\nNorthern Provincial councillor Ananthy Sasitharan the wife of senior tiger leader Ezhilan\u201d addressing the gathering said t that people\u00a0 desperate over the plight of their missing family members had got emotionally agitated and\u00a0 spontaneously engaged in the burning\u00a0 Sumanthiran\u2018s \u00a0effigy and so suddenly .<\/p>\n

Ananth\u2019s blatant untruths were immediately refuted by the council\u2019s deputy chairman Anton Jeyanathan. He responded to Ananthy angrily by asking her if the act was spontaneous then how was the effigy created beforehand and brought to the venue in,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 her vehicle?\u201d Jeyanathan elected from Mullaitheevu district went on to describe\u00a0 Sumanthiran as a Mandaikkaai\u201d\u00a0 which colloquially means brainy person. He also shot down Ananthy\u2019s explanation about the spontaneous anger of the families of the disappeared and missing and queried Why should the family members burn Sumanthiran\u2019s effigy to \u00a0protest their relatives taken by the army\u201d? Jeyanathan silenced Ananthy by posing a counter question Whose effigy can\u00a0 the families of those taken by the tigers burn\u201d? This struck home as Ananthy\u2019s husband Ezhilan is accused of conscripting youths on a large scale. ( Jeyaraj in has in earlier articles\u00a0\u00a0 has\u00a0 vividly exposed the human rights violations and crimes against humanity perpetrated by Ezhilan).<\/p>\n

Jeyaraj further stated that\u00a0 when Ananthy was struck dumb by Jeyanathan\u2019s angry outburst, another provincial councillor tried to enter the fray. This was none other than Kandiah Sarweswaran the brother of TN A spokesperson and Eelam People\u2019s Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF) leader Premachandran alias Suresh. Northern Provincial Council chairman C.V.K. Sivagnanam\u00a0 who \u00a0was presiding, \u00a0had refused to let Sarweswaran speak. Sivagnanam forced an end to the discussion in the council about the effigy burning incident by his ruling.<\/p>\n

Jeyaraj explained though the furore subsided at the council it is doubtful as to whether the controversy would simply peter out.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He\u00a0\u00a0 said\u00a0\u00a0 the related London antics by the pseudo-nationalists can be dismissed as the work of the Tamil lunatic fringe, but the r role played by TNA elements in attacking Sampanthan \u00a0and\u00a0 Sumanthiran in Sri Lanka\u00a0 cannot be ignored. The central committee of the IlankaiThamil ArasuKatchi (ITAK) which is the chief constituent of the TNA met in Vavuniya and\u00a0 have\u00a0\u00a0 discussed necessarily follow up action.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>Jeyaraj further\u00a0 states that it is certainly a fact that the TNA clique consisting of people like TNA parliamentarian Suresh\u201d Premachandran, Provincial Councillors M.K. Sivajilingam, Ananthy Sasitharan, K Gajatheeban, ITAK senior vice president Prof.S.K. Sittampalam and ITAK youth front leader\u00a0 V.S. Sivakaran are engaged in this type of politics. It is aided and supplemented by outside elements like Ex-MPs Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam and Selvarajah Gajendran of the TNPF and Kumaravadivel Guruparan the livewire behind the Tamil Civil Society Forum. Many of these malcontents maintain links to Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) elements abroad and a recruit to these ranks is the ambitious former Northern Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran who is working to his own agenda\u00a0 He says that Wigneswaran is the latest Darling of the Diaspora after the ill-advised genocide\u201d resolution adopt\u00a0 by the NPC.<\/p>\n

These opposing\u201d sections are always on the look-out to find fault and\u00a0embarrass the TNA particularly its leadership. Sumanthiran\u00a0 has\u00a0 said\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 that\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 he\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 had\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 been\u00a0 singled out\u00a0 specifically\u00a0 because he is the most articulate\u00a0 TNA parliamentarian. He is widely accepted by \u00a0some\u00a0\u00a0 pro\u00a0 separatist Southern politicians\u00a0 nationally as well as leaders and officials internationally. Sumanthiran is the most trusted and able deputy of the \u00a0terrorist grandpa Sampanthan and in recent times Sumanthiran has been playing a constructive role in Tamil political affairs. In a blend of public advocacy along with quiet diplomacy the TNA national list MP has been rendering yeoman service to his community. In many instances those who want to weaken\u00a0 Sampanthan use Sumanthiran as a target. The idea is to cripple Sampanthan politically by undermining Sumanthiran.<\/p>\n

Sumanthiran\u2019s\u00a0 political role has\u00a0 been appreciated and praised by many but it has also led to some\u00a0 resentment` in certain circles within and outside the TNA. Jeyaraj comments that a mong the TNA parliamentarians\u00a0of today, Sumanthiran is the only MP who has had no\u00a0 interaction with any of the Tamil militant groups including the LTTE prior to his entering politics. Though born at the McLeod Hospital in Inuvil, Jaffna, he grew up in Colombo studying at Royal College. The prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of Sumanthiran\u00a0, the pro separatist Jeyaraj says\u00a0\u00a0 Smitherman was aloof from active politics, practising law in Colombo until invited by Sampanthan\u00a0 to join the TNA. He was appointed national list MP in 2010 by Sampanthan\u00a0despite Emeritus Professor Stamata also staking his claim. Sittampalam has \u00a0not forgiven the Sampanthan-Sumanthiran duo since then.<\/p>\n

Tamil detractors of Sumanthiran particularly those in the Diaspora use the handle of national list MP to insult and belittle him. Since he was not elected to Parliament directly, Sumanthiran is described as someone who entered Parliament through the Pin Kathavu\u201d or back door. Therefore, argue his Diaspora critics, Sumanthiran is a second-class MP and has no moral right to do whatever he is doing. This description of backdoor MP has absolutely no basis either legally, morally or practically as national list MP seats are allocated on the basis \u00a0of votes polled by each party.<\/p>\n

A peculiar feature of Sri Lankan Tamil politics is the usage of backdoor MP\u201d to \u00a0\u00a0demean\u00a0those parliamentarians nominated from the national list.\u00a0 Sinhala, Up- Country Tamil\u00a0\u00a0 or Muslim politics does not have this attribute. National list MPs are not called \u00a0backdoor MP\u2019s by their rivals or critics. Only Sri Lankan Tamils have this tendency. This \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0practice began with the introduction of the current system in 1989. The man responsible\u00a0 for \u00a0this phrase\u00a0 was former North-eastern Chief Minister Annamalai Varatharajapperumaal. \u00a0\u00a0When veteran TULF leader Appapillai Amirthalingam was nominated as national list MP in \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a01989, Varatharajapperumaal criticised it and dubbed Amirthalingam\u2019s entry as having been\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 done through the backdoor.<\/p>\n

The term backdoor MP has been bandied about in Tamil politics ever since. Those nominated on the national list with LTTE blessings like Joseph Prarajasingham. M.K. Eelaventhan, S.Thurairatnasingham etc were not called backdoor MPs derisively. But those Tamil national list\u00a0 MPs such as Dr. Neelan Tiruchelvam and M.A. Sumanthiran whom tiger elements do not favour have been\u00a0 described as such.<\/p>\n

The current Parliament has many national list MPs like \u00a0Eran Wickremaratne, Dr. Harsha de Silva , D.M. Swaminathan, Anura Kumara Dissanayake,\u00a0 M.T. Hasen Ali,\u00a0 Muthu Sivalingam etc. None of them are called backdoor MPs by their critics. However, in the case of Sumanthiran, his detractors particularly the feline affiliates take relish in describing him so.
\nDefending Sumanthiran his corotege Jeyaraj says that another avenue of attack is to refer to his Colombo background. Sumanthiran is called a Kozhumbuth Thamizhan\u201d or Colombo Tamil. Therefore, he cannot speak for the Tamils of the North and East is the argument. The funny thing is that these jokers do not use the same argument against Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam who was born \u00a0\u00a0and bred in Colombo. Only Sumanthiran\u00a0 is attacked as a Colombo Tamil simply because he does not pander to the whims and fancies of tiger elements and LTTE<\/p>\n

The highly personalised attacks\u00a0 against Sumanthiran have escalated in recent times. There is perhaps an ulterior motive in such escalation according to TNA circles. Since the\u00a0\u00a0 attacks\u00a0 against Sumanthiran\u00a0 are on the basis that he is a national list MP from Colombo a decision has been taken by the TNA hierarchy to field him as a candidate at the next Parliamentary elections. Though ITAK branches from Mullaitheevu, Amparai and Trincomalee districts wanted Sumanthiran to contest from their respective districts, TNA leader Sampanthan had been of the view that Sumanthiran should enter Parliament as an elected MP from Jaffna district where his roots are from.<\/p>\n

(To be continued)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By A.A.M.NIZAM \u2013 MATARA The Canada based pro separatist scribe D.B.S.Jeyaraj who writes long articles to Daily Mirror run by Ranil Wickremasinghe\u2019s family and who has gained much experience in promoting the Tamil separatist objectives on the\u00a0 sly has said that Sammbamdan (the terrorist grandpa) and diaspora bank rolled Sumanthiran\u00a0 have been accused of harming […]<\/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-84174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aamnizam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84174","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=84174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}