{"id":91823,"date":"2019-07-31T22:58:14","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T04:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=91823"},"modified":"2019-07-31T15:51:20","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T22:51:20","slug":"uneven-handed-treatment-of-muslim-and-tamil-mps-who-are-alleged-to-have-terrorist-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/07\/31\/uneven-handed-treatment-of-muslim-and-tamil-mps-who-are-alleged-to-have-terrorist-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Uneven-handed treatment of Muslim and Tamil MPs who are alleged to have terrorist links."},"content":{"rendered":"

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

When public suspicion is aroused, it is\nextremely important to ensure that innocent people are not victimized just to\nsatisfy  blood-thirsty crowds and\nopportunistic politicians. Those who are under suspicion must be investigated\nin a transparent way, and the accused must NOT be harassed by investigating\nofficials, the public, or by Buddhist monks who should, as true followers of\nthe Buddha,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

should exercise their compassion and allow\nthe justice of Kamma to act unhindered instead of engaging in street battles\nand farcical fasts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The attack on the Churches and the murder\nof some 260 people, while injuring over 500 others have indeed raised public\nindignation. Politicians linked with the Thowheed organization have been\nsingled out for public wrath. Muslim ministers and governors were made to\nresign, and lethargic public servants have been made the scapegoat for the sins\nof Presidents and Prime Ministers. If the Prime minister did not get security\nbriefings while even the ailing father \nof one of his MPs had got the information, is that not an abject failure\nof the PM? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Did the Muslim politicians   have more serious links than those of other\npoliticians who were looking for the Muslim vote? Did they engage in some\nillegal activity what ever?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But what about the members of Parliament\nwho openly  collaborated, aided and\nabetted the LTTE in its hay-day, and even now talk glowing of the terrorist\nleader Prabhakaran?  When Vaiko, the\nTamil Nadu politician made statements in support of Prabhakaran he was promptly\nhauled up in a tamil Nadu court and indicted. UNP  politician Vijayakala spoke of  Velupillai Prabhakaran in glowing terms\nduring a government function in the Northern Province, and called for a revival\nof the LTTE. In December 2017, she claimed 200,000 Tamils had been massacred\nalong with Prabhakaran.  If these\naccounts are correct, she is guilty of sedition. Venerable Rathana, a member of\nthe UNP, did not hold a  farce unto\ndeath\u201d  in front of the Temple of the\ntooth and ask the leader of his party, the Prime Minster,  to take action against Ms. Vijayakala. It was\nthe Prime Minster, or was it Mr. Sumanthiran from behind the thrown, who moved\nswiftly to  remove the defense attach\u00e9 at\nthe High Commission in London for allegedly making an inappropriate gesture at\nLTTE sympathizers who allegedly brandished terrorist flags of the LTTE?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is not just Ms. Vijayakala, but also Mr.\nSampanthan, and Mr. Wigneswaran, etc., who have made statements in support of\nthe LTTE and its leader,  at various\ntimes, and celebrated the memory of Suicide bombers. Are we to soon allow\nthe celebration of the memory of the Thowheed suicide killers  like Zahran Hashim in the name of\nreconcilliation?<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unlike the present leaders of the LTTE, the\nMuslim leaders do not seem to have sought to glorify the Thowheed Jamat suicide\nkillers, and in fact there is clear evidence that information from the Muslim\ncommunity, and the security forces, were already with the AG for over a\nyear.  But, just as they soft peddled the\nseditious acts of pro-LTTE Mps, the Thowheeds have also been soft peddled by\nthe AG’s department. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Wigneswaran’s pro-LTTE parole came\nabout only after he became the Chief Minister of the Northern Provincial\nCouncil (NPC). On the other hand, Mr. Sampanthan and Mr. Sumanthiran have a\nclear track records of being mouth pieces of the LTTE and in fact came to power\nbecause they were the candiates of the LTTE, and the LTTE ensured that opposing\ncandidates will be assassinated or driven out, seeking sanctuary in Colombo or in\nforeign climes. Mr. Shamindra Ferdinando’s columns on the War on Terror\u201d may\nbe perused by those who have forgotten those times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why are the carnage in Churches by the\nThowheeds in April 2019 treated differently from the carnage in the Kattankudy\nMosque, or the killings of Monks in Aranthalawa, and the killings of pilgrims\nin Mahamevna Park, Anuradhapura, by the LTTE when LTTE collaborators are still\namong us?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So the case against Sampanthan,\nSumanthiran, and their ilk who were LTTE spokesmen is much stronger than the\ncase against Azath Ally, Hisbullah and other Muslim leaders who are being\ntargeted. The supreme irony is that Mr. Sumanthiran is a member of the Public\nSecurity Commission that is probing into the Terrorist Attack!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do we back-peddle any criticism of Tamil\nsedition and Eelamism  in the name of\nreconciliation, and do we do the same with respect to Thowheeds? Is that why\nthe Attorney General\u2019s department and senior security officers  took no action against the hatef language of\nthe Thowheeds, and the Vijayakala?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, let us say that the Rajapaksa\ngovernment has already set the tone of not acting against the collaborators of\nthe LTTE, and hoped to let bygones be bygones, repaired the infrastructure of\nthe North,  de-mined the land, and\nappointed the NPC legislators to build up the North. Unfortunately, Mr.\nWigneswaran never even fully spent the budget that was given to him, and spent\nmore time reviving  a Nationalist history\nof the Tamils,  building statues of\nSankilli, and making seditious statements against the Sri Lankan state, in the\nhope that he can provoke the Sinhalese to riot, and there by please the\nDiaspora extremists who are demanding their Shylockian pound of flesh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Wigneswaran is Lawyer enough to know\nhow the French Government under  General\nde Gaulle handled the Nazi-collaborators of the Vichy regime. Surely,\ninternational justice and national fair-play demand that the TNA leaders who\nsupported terrorism, and continue to talk of reviving the LTTE, be treated just\nas the leaders of the Vichy government were treated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Why\nvictimize the Muslim leaders and become part of the world-wide Islamophobia\nfanned  by the US, when those who abetted\nand aided terrorism for three decades are treated as honorary citizens because\nthey have a handle on Western administrations led by the US? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bodhi Dhanapala, Quebec, Canada When public suspicion is aroused, it is extremely important to ensure that innocent people are not victimized just to satisfy  blood-thirsty crowds and opportunistic politicians. Those who are under suspicion must be investigated in a transparent way, and the accused must NOT be harassed by investigating officials, the public, or by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91823","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\/91823","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=91823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}