What Sri Lanka Needs Towards
Posterity
Dutugemunu Perera
World Council Of Sinhala Peers
For LankaWeb
The Nation of Sri Lanka today is embroiled in a struggle
for its survival towards posterity from many adversities, from a burgeoning
population, ethnic diversities, natural calamities, the jockeying for
power by pseudo patriotic wannabe political leaders and most distressingly
the scourge of insurgent laced, nation destructive terrorism.
It has now been over four decades that Sri Lanka has had to contend
with the organizations of minority dissent , particularly from sections
of the tamil community where the majority Sinhalese have never been
permitted to govern their Nation peacefully and amicably towards the
best interests of all its citizens. Sri Lankans by nature are a dissatisfied
lot, never settling for the basic necessities of life and being content
with what the Nation has provided for them which has been further hampered
by the division of the class structure, communalism and the disparity
between the haves and havenots which has prevailed over time imemorial
or at least going back to the era that Sri Lanka gained independence
from her last colonial master Great Britain.
It has to be admitted discerningly by those who fully comprehend the
realities surrounding the Nation of Sri Lanka today that the greatest
wrong Sri Lanka has been hard done by mainly through her own neglect
and to a degree some of her allies is the unavoidable existence of a
group of armed and considered dangerous terrorist from the Tamil community
within the land. A miniscule factional representation as a visible minority
of the Nation's total population amounting statistically and numerically
to less than 20 percent of the whole who have over a period of time
attempted without success to overrun the Nation, its Sinhala mjority
and its resources towards their own advantages and selfish reckoning
that they have an entitlement towards self government through the division
of Sri Lanka which has thus far not manifested itself into any semblance
of reality.With thanks to the resilience of the Sinhala people which
has prevailed over all their oppressors and the wisdoms of its true
patriotic peers it is a means which needs to be further supplemented
towards creating an impenetrable bastion of a Sinhala Power Structure
which has to be formulated and constructed through Sinhala Unity and
an undivisible committment towards preserving the Nation of Sri Lanka,
its rich culture and natural beauty which has been the cynosure as well
as the envy of many eyes that have come into direct contact with them
and a cause enough for all proud Sri Lankans led by the indomitable
Sinhalese towards the continued preservation of the Sovereignity and
Territorial Integrity of their land while synonymously dealing effectively
with those who attempt to destroy what Sri Lanka is and has been for
eternity, the Resplendent Land.
What Sri Lanka needs to overcome predominantly over all else is the
threat to her resources, freedom loving people and continued state of
sovereign existence by the LTTE terrorists who are trying incessantly
to ursurp and an ironic manifestation considering the odds they face
towards their objectives should all the measures set in place to quell
and put down Global Terrorism by the International Community and its
lawmakers was also applicable to Sri lanka without reservation and double
standards.
Surely it has to be accepted by all concerned who have even a fractional
desire to rid the world of terrorism and are in a capacity to initiate
proceedings towards this very justifiable, and in Sri Lanka's case,
imperative cause that they cannot hedge or prevaricate over the issue
anymore. There are alarming signs presently that Sri Lanka is being
subjected to a great level of stress and provocations through the LTTE
terrorist whose transparencies are visible beyond their mantle of cover
where there is every resource available to nullify their existence and
rid the Nation of their unwelcome presence but for some curious reason
never pursued in an effective manner where the concept of tolerance
and passive resignation seems to be the order of the day.
To add to the chagrin of Sri Lanka's woes in this respect, She has mistakenly
and somewhat unfortunately engaged the assistance of resources such
as the involvement of Nations which have their sympathies leaning heavily
in favour of Her adversaries and the problems related compounded consequently.Thes
so called insincere benefactors who have all but imposed further adversities
upon the nation through their presence need to be jettisoned at this
stage from further involvement in Sri lankan affairs to be replaced
by more moderate representation towards Sri Lanka's well being without
a conflict of interests.
Perhaps it is time appropriate for Sri Lanka to face upto her terrorist
related adversties with a defiant and relentless campaign to rid the
nation completely of its terrorist menace and go the distance even alone
if necessary towards this cause in the fervent hope that subsequent
assistance from allies towards it would be forthcoming as eventually
it would have been for a common cause and a worthy one as the Nation
will never be able to rest its proverbial head as long as the terrorist
elements are permitted free passage within the nation and are tolerated
to the extent of impunity and the consequences academic!
The justification for this rests on the reality that these are terrorists
with whom negotiation and dialogue have failed and they show no interest
towards renouncing terrorism and their objectives towards subjugating
the Nation through their terrorist means which is unacceptable to any
society within the norms of freedom, human rights and the entitlements
of every decent law abiding citizen of any land !
"Breathes There a man who never to himself has said, this is my
land ! my own Native Land!"
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