Report Suggesting LTTE Arrogation
Of Land In The North And East Needs InvestigationTowards Credibilities~
Those of the LTTE And The Writer!
© Nandimithra Perera
- Popular Front Against Terrorism In Sri lanka For LankaWeb.
11th March 2006
According to a Hindustan Times of India news item by its
Colombo corresondent PK Balachandran dated March 10, 2006 the LTTE has
enforced its own land laws in Sri Lanka and perhaps a testing time for
the Sri Lankan Administration to lay bare the the credibilities of this
assumption to assure the people of Sri Lanka that it is probably no
more than speculation on the part of the writer who is fast gaining
a reputation as a controversial reporter with pro LTTE sympathies as
what is being implied in this item is that the brigands of the LTTE
with absolutely no authority to initiate any such actions have ridiculed
the Sri Lankan Administration in a first step towards secession starting
with the so called areas controlled by the LTTE and is catgorically
challenging the Sri Lankan Administration to take effective action and
an immediate response towards dismantling any such de facto attempts
to initiate any authoritative power which the LTTE have no entitlement
to!!
Consequently the effective action necessary towards asserting the National
Government's overall authority within Sri Lanka needs to be jump started
towards dismantling and cleaning up any areas within the territory of
Sovereign Sri Lanka and has to include whatever measures necessary or
face the world with the humiliating reality that what the the LTTE have
probably initiated by way of thought according to this news item is
an arrogation beyond any legislative accords permitting them to this
arrogant(no pun intended) and bold action. Therefore everything else
the Government profesess as its sole sovereign right becomes farcial
at best and hypothetical beyond the control of the Governing President
where abrogation of all the ambitions of the LTTE which may even need
a direct confrontation by the Sri Lankan Armed Forces has to be effected
despite the metaphors towards patience !
The consummatel question needing to be asked here as applicable to the
Sovereign Democratic Republic of Sri Lanka, a member of the Commonwealth
of Nations and the United Nations within which all legalities and charters
concerning the governance of Sri lanka are ensconced what rights does
an outlawed and proscribed illegal entity such as the LTTE have towards
initiatinfg and laying down any laws within Sovereign Sri lankalet alone
laws to govern land rights and land distribution in the areas under
its alleged control in Sri Lanka.
According to this news item the laws have come into force on Friday,where
the rebel outfit's law department( this is now beginning to sound like
humor of a teledrama!) has said in a notification, according to the
Tamil daily Sudar Oli another contentious and flybynight LTTE supportive
Newsengine which is courting the government towards initiating post
litigatory dismantling proceedings with its tendency to publicise inflammatory
material and an action which could well be made manifest through the
Prevention of Terrorism Act if the measure was implemented !
It is upto the Sri Lanka Administration in the event of any truth in
the information conveyed by the Balachandran news item to assert the
nation of Sri lanka that there are no such implementable laws which
either the LTTE or Balachandran have concocted where, the LTTE has no
conceivable right to arrogated any acquisition of land for "public
purposes", to distribute land among the landless, re-allocate refugees'
lands to relatives of their choice, and to' fix' land prices as the
only fixing which needs to be done in the event of even the semblance
of an attempt in this direction needs to be one which straightens out
the LTTE aspirations if any and to discourage the pipe dream they seem
to be envisioning and has been picked up by their sycophant Balachandran!
All Sri Lankan Tamils and the International Community need to be gently
reminded if necessary that the LTTE have no entitlement to take any
steps which project them into any authoritative control of any territory
within Sovereign Sri Lanka on the assumption that the Sri Lankan Government's
machinery does not function in the LTTE-controlled areas in North and
East Sri Lanka in the same way as it does in other parts of the country
which is a huge speculation as the new Administration of Mahinda Rajapakse
has reiterated time and time again that under his dictate there will
be no such unilateral actions permissible to the LTTE, that they will
not be tolerated beyond a need to address them directly if the situation
presents itself and that it is a trifling with of Sri Lanka's sole right
to govern and administer her Sovereign territoty .
The Government's presence may be minimal, if not absent in these areas
as outlined by the news item in question. There is indeed a Government
Agent (like a District Magistrate or District Collector), but his functions
may be minimal. That the Sri Lankan police and legal structure are absent
as a tour de force in these areas a huge error of misadventure due to
the ignorant policies of the previous Wickremasinghe Government under
the Presidential direction of Chandrika Kumaratunga who swept under
the carpert the imoportance of being earnest towards maintaining Sri
Lanka's Sovereign entitlements in the North and East while also compromising
the efficiencies of very forceful Armed Forces leadership who had the
capabilities of overrunning the LTTE under their command! and perhaps
inadvertently bartered away the power of authoritythrough neglect to
the unscrupulous terrorists of the LTTE where beyond the shadow of a
doubt they need to be wrested back!
That the Sri Lankan Police are barred from entering the LTTE-controlled
areas once again is misadventure on the part of the previous administration
whose neglect towards maintaining the needed authorities without prioritising
them provided erroneous carte blanche assumed by the LTTE towards having
its own courts, laws and police to administer areas under its control
making a mockery of the administrative infrastructure of Sovereign Sri
Lanka.
If all of these purported manifestations are a creation of a platform
indicative of the LTTE's desire to show the world that it is in full
control of the land it occupies they surely need to be hastily disillussioned
of the assumption which it is tantamount to and should be sent scurrying
like the pack of rats they truly are with nowhere to run as somewhere
down the road the Rajapakse Administration and all the powers that be
in support of Sri Lanka's Sovereignity and Territorial Integrity need
to unite towards the cause!!
This would indeed be a testing of the Administration's patience but
the root cause for the dilemma based on the so called arrogation of
LTTE in imperative need of affirmative action or at best some investigation.
If to the contary the hue and cry of the Balachandran report turns out
to be mere hearesay the affirmative action probably needs to be switched
towards booting out the rabble rousing nature of this individual from
the confines of Sri Lanka!
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