Failure of a Sovereign State - Genesis
of a War – for Reconciliation
An Independent Sovereign State
has a responsibility of upholding the constitution it have enacted by word and
deeds and are mandated by people to do so through universal franchise time to
time - universal franchise – everyone who cast a legitimate vote, trust and hope that the government that would be formed
through that process would first ensure safety, and peaceful life-
this is what happened when Maithripala Sirisena challenged Mahinda Rajapaksa’s
third term contest and the State machinery was rather in need of such a move
and the minorities of all respect, north to south, east to west and of central
hills gave the overwhelming support to that State requirement of the hour. This is just a classic example of a fact
emanated through continuing democratic process of the nation that the
minorities of the state have always trusted the constitution enacted and its entrusted
responsibility of safe guarding the basic rights, such as right to live equally
peaceful, opportunities equally dispersed, and equality of all aspects of
living would be guaranteed by whoever elected. Some people, even Sinhalese do, do not have any
expectation and or trust in voting system and just avoid voting or go to the
Polling Booth and waste their vote through different means, in anger of
expectations never materialized, - this is said here to emphasize that people do have constitution oriented
expectations while exercising their franchise.
Did such expectations transpired the way it was
fascinated while franchising by the minorities since independence?
Never happened to the minorities and that is the main
reason for the emancipation of a distinct political demand as
such for the minorities alone.
Politics of the majority community
was never in such a demanding situation, rulers of the nation made sure by
promulgating the minority targeting short sited issues, majority are looked
after well by the alternative governments, for the sake of winning their votes.
No rulers were in a proper governing mood of a plural society. If the post independent Government had had a
vision for peaceful plural society, they wouldn’t have embarked on the mission of changing demographic
pattern of East, the State sponsored colonization of Sinhalese
only, instead the rulers would have considered land allocation for each community in a particular fresh settlement of peaceful integration rather than of intriguing chauvinistic demography altering unsettlements.
Few years later they introduced the Sinhala only Language Bill, in an arrogant, rapid rigorous manner, despite the fact that the rulers were well aware that there were populace of Tamils and Muslims who cannot cope with any kind of rapid change, in this case it is 24 hours. Psychologically it is just an outcome of a thought of the post-independence majority community to prove themselves that they are really Sinhalese for some reasons. Those who tasked with the forming of the Government just after independence, were of well-educated and were well aware that leaders of Muslim and Tamils communities contributed immensely and trusted the Sinhalese leaders during the transition of power from the British to them. Thus the above non-visionary actions are just not hegemonic political survival alone, what transpires is something else.
Few years later they introduced the Sinhala only Language Bill, in an arrogant, rapid rigorous manner, despite the fact that the rulers were well aware that there were populace of Tamils and Muslims who cannot cope with any kind of rapid change, in this case it is 24 hours. Psychologically it is just an outcome of a thought of the post-independence majority community to prove themselves that they are really Sinhalese for some reasons. Those who tasked with the forming of the Government just after independence, were of well-educated and were well aware that leaders of Muslim and Tamils communities contributed immensely and trusted the Sinhalese leaders during the transition of power from the British to them. Thus the above non-visionary actions are just not hegemonic political survival alone, what transpires is something else.
The Independent State has fallen pray for notion of fear
that the wealthy and knowledgeable minorities would overhaul back the ruling
status, suspicion of other inhabitants, borne out of Myths and lies of
Mahavamsa, the same as an insinuated ‘constitution’ within the system, it has
been in practice generation to generation; written constitution for
fooling the
rest of the society locally as well as globally for a well devised deceptive, single
religion, single language, oriented action plan for supremacy/hegemony politics
demonizing Tamils and others.
Nobody can challenge the right of the majority community to have faith and believe in whatever a fictional history or a true philosophy that renders them to attain the spiritual accomplishments, whether it is a myth or true it is only a concern of those who preach and practice only;But when these believes in chronicles induct hate and disintegration of other faiths and the members of those faiths not followed by the majority then it becomes the issue of everybody, including of those articulating ethnic cleansing for sustaining the wrongly interpreted noble teaching in favour of a particular community . Whichever the faith that articulates intimidation and killing as means for it survival, will not be respected at all and will be hated for its practices, and that is what happened to Buddhism in the North and East of the Island, at the turn of 6th Century AD, where all slowly but steadily reverted back to Saivism, after embracing Buddhism from 246 BC to 5th century AD.
The State set in motion a well collaborated all out plan that would marginalize the other communities based on Mahavamsa myth created in 5th Century AD for the sustaining of Buddhism against the reviving upheaval of Saivism within India and South India which they found only early as early 20th Century through British – a foolish inheritance of insinuated practice.
Otherwise, how can one explain the behaviour of a Responsible
State in the following incidents of the post independent history of the nation?
1958 communal riots was a
well-orchestrated one by the State in order to install fear in the minds of
minorities, with an aim of implementing the Sinhala only bill and colonization of Sinhalese as well as any other actions that would attain
the “minorities are not Sri Lankan entities” free of any protest arising - based on the selected people theory of Mahavamsa
imagination.
Tamil Nationalism is only a reaction to the Sinhala nationalism
Compatriot Parliament Members,
were organizing a Nonviolent Satyagraha in protest of Sinhala only bill and
against the Sinhala colonization, on behalf of the people they were
representing, - as the movement took momentum, the State Radio Ceylon,
broadcast an utter lie of a news item that the Parliament Members in unruly
behaviour and disturbing the peace, and on top of it imposed curfew and
deployed the army to dismantle the Nonviolent Satyagraha. Army enters the podium,
boot kicks, the Parliamentarians, lift them by force, rifle-but charged them,
break the heads of many, - Curfew was used to loot the shops and the people
get caught in the suddenly imposed curfew were harassed by various means,
demonizing the opposing political campaign.
The parliament is the forum where all the issues of the public of all
respect, has to be deliberated and confronting need of the people has to be
addressed. When the Tamil
Parliamentarians rise to speak all Sinhalese Parliamentarians leave the chamber
for other business. (Their other business time is that is allocated for the
Tamil MPs to speak) In the aftermath of above
incident not a single Sinhalese political leader, commiserated Tamil MPs or
condemned the action of Army, or was prepared to call the action of the Tamil
MPs was a legitimate rightful opposition.
It
should be noted here again when the people fulfill their franchise commitment
they do hope that the constitutionally guaranteed basic rights of the citizen
would be safeguarded regardless of to whom they are voting and that is the
hallmark of Parliamentary Democracy and Tamils undoubtedly continued to have faith in it.
It took more than 25 years for the post-independence Sinhalese leaders
to totally realize that there are considerable populace that are conversing only in
Tamil, incapable of using any other language, further importantly Sinhalese
regime realized that no Tamil can be converted into a Sinhalese by changing the
official language, similar to the way Tamil speaking natives gradually became Sinhalese
long after 6th Century AD; similar pattern was witnessed during a
later period, Kandy Accord to hand over Kindy Kingdom to the British was signed
in Tamil by the so called Sinhalese. One of the Clause laid by Sinhalese using
the Tamil dialect to that same Kandy Accord, declares that all Malabar People who
arrives within Kandy under of British Ruled be killed! The interpretation of “Malabar People” could
be one of the reasons, for post independent “wholesome killings” through series
of communal rioting, a theme pronounced in Mahavamsa found during British rule
as well. Thus a reasonable doubt arise
here, whether the Buddhist Spiritual Leaders, reserves the commandment of
Defense System and in enforcement of Law and Order over the State and the above
amply proves that, a religious directive had been delivered or have been
insinuated to the effect of only Sinhalese have to be benefited in any kind of
disputes. A clergy decree that cannot be
overruled, which is a normal practice for Buddhists.
Malabar People are Keralans, who pronounce their language, similar to
the pure Tamil spoken by North Eastern Sri Lankan Tamils, and cooking &
eating habits are also still very similar, and the European invaders wrongly
implied them as Tamils, and vice versa and the Sinhalese consumed into it for their convenience. That doesn’t any way means
North Eastern Tamil people are descendants Keralans, because Tamil is the one
of the oldest language in use on the earth, Malayalam sprinted comparatively recently
yet to get into the proper language status. All the modern Sri Lankan Historians and
Researchers predominantly of Sinhalese have established that Sri Lankan Tamils
and Sinhalese had a common ancestor; even
the most Sinhala biased archaeologist/researcher Dr. Senarat Paranavithana says,
“the vast majority of the people who today speak Sinhalese or Tamil must be
ultimately be descended from those autochthonous people of whom we know next to
nothing”.
In all the series of communal
rioting 1958, 1977 and 1983 The State machinery was very much ineffective. Some Buddhist religious
leaders were in arrogance to tell or to insinuate that the Tamils have
no homeland in Sri Lanka and go back to Tamil Nadu, if Tamils cannot accept
Sinhala-Buddhist language, religion and culture as the significant culture of
Sri Lanka including the Tamil North and East. This was the basis for all
these communal rioting. But in contrast Tamils of North East who have their
nativity within entire Sri Lanka since ancient period, and were dispersed to
North and East from same Anuradhapura /Polonaruwara since the ancient
Anuradhapura /Polonaruwara period - But the aggressors didn’t understand
the human psychology that any person with self-respect would retaliate to the
intimidating, would not naturally give up the native rights as well, many will
not retaliate immediately but it would be only for a stronger vengeance later.
But being a Sovereign State it was well
aware of these incoming response still allowed the communal rioting take its
own toll and its own course to end. But two exceptions were also recorded; in 1976
where Srimavo Bandaranayke ordered the Navy to take control of the situation
within Trincomalee District and in 1985 the Police was able confine rioting
within Nuwara-Eliya and Ratnapura Districts through an order of District
Judge. This proves that there is a
hidden commanding force that allows the anti-Tamil rioting take its own course
to end, without any interventions!
1983 holocaust of Welikada Jail manifested most gruesome
cruelty on a prisoner’s last wish of donating his eyes, apart from the torture
&murder of inmates. The worst was an
army officer was just watching on the entire gruesome process of removing eyes
of that prisoner’s on a last wish that was pronounced in a Court of
Justice! Can a reconciliation effort
survive the rulers with such hysterical maniacs, who placed an army officer to
look after the entire gruesome process?
Absolute failure of
the Defense forces and the Law Enforcement of the Sovereign State.
The perpetrators of pogroms should be ashamed
of themselves if they are really human beings, but they are Leo-Men of
self-selected defenders, of Buddhism created by Mahavihara monks of Anuradapura led by Ven. Mahanama
of 5th Century AD, a total
contradiction of Buddhism that fascinated the Naga King Thevanambi Theesan as preached
by Ven. Mahinda in 246BC.
Hence the entire processing of
1983 riots as well as the 1984 deploying of Army in Excess following a shooting
down a policeman in Jaffna were the mechanisms for the precipitation of the war
that has been the deliberate pogroms by the State since 1956. The climax of
such inciting connivance was, the brutal burning down of the South East Asia’s
best collection of books in the Jaffna people’s proud property- The Jaffna
Public Library was brought down to ashes by the men who came along with Cabinet
Ministers Siril Mathew and Gamini Dissanayake a Cambridge University alumnus of
law, for the purpose of 1980 rioting within Jaffna Municipal limits. This
library had in possession of many chronicles of Island’s history beyond 2500
years and recorded events of all International Conference Tamil Research
including that of 1974, Yalppanam Conference.
It has been globally recognized that the Tamil Language is among the ten very oldest languages. If the State of Sri Lanka had have opted with blessings to allow, the 1974 International Research Conference of a surviving classical language for more than 5000 years old, be held in a place where it is still spoken proudly in its purest form no untoward would have taken place on final day closing ceremony.
A Donkey cannot be expected to be impressed by the fragrant of Camphor!
If the Sinhalese are ardent of
their language, sprinted fairly late as later than 7th Century AD perfectly
adorned by Tamil mainly and Pali Sanskrit and Grantha, why cannot Tamils be
proud and be celebrating of their 5000 years old language; the Sinhalese should consider
privileged and proud that the one of the oldest language had contributed to
their dialect, and their compatriots are still using such an oldest language
within the same Nation. The
authorities just doing opposite to this, they are such preoccupied against
Tamil, and they teach generation by generation that Tamils are of “Nappuru”,
and in one Sinhala text book it has been printed as such as per their inherited
insinuate constitution. Sinhala language
despite its late origin, carries very vibrant attractiveness through diverse of
cultural applications, and have to be proud about it. But the inherited habit
of bad description of brethren speaking language people confers ugliness on it.
Common Sinhalese people are not jealousy naturally, but
religious and Political leaders are inducting common innocent people particularly
through the former because of their influence on them, the innocent believe
whatever they say.
Everything was going on smoothly for that conference until the final
day of finishing programs in the evening.
The crony of the regime in that period, nocturnal door knocking Mayor in many sense,
was at work, he brought some thugs to the meeting being held for the finishing
Ceremony, inducted stone throwing towards the podium of speakers seated. Being a Mayor he informed, his booze mate Jaffna
ASP, Chandrasegara, the Police with his battalion arrived at the scene ran
amok, repeatedly shot at the electric post, supplying electricity to the
podium, the livewire brought down and 10 people were electrocuted, 6 died of
stampede due to that commotion, such a crowd was assembled to witness the final
day summing up of successful research deliberation for more than a week. It is
such that Tamil People respect and love their language more than their
life! The Jaffna ASP was promoted as SP
and the Magistrate Balakidnar who failed to give an open verdict, into those
murders and saw the whole episode as of accidental deaths, all under duress of
Colombo regime, was later promoted as a District Judge! Such was the preoccupied hate against the
oldest language surviving on the earth!
The Organizing Committee
Chairman, Prof. Su. Vithiyananthan had a vision as Head of the Department of
Tamil, University of Peradeniya then, in taking the Conference to Jaffna,
against the wish of the State that it be held in Colombo, if not for the
spontaneous response shown by the Tamil people there would have been a Sinhala
hooliganism ended the entire proceedings instead of the final day evening
only!!
The same Mayor was shot dead by
Velupillai Prabaharan two years later!
A
Sovereign State cannot be inferior to any organization inland or any other
Sovereign State. It was and it has been!
All discussion above is about
of a program of establishing a Sovereign State that to be prepared for taking
on a foreign invasion militarily. Sri Lanka being an island has no any border
dispute in order to expose the defense system – in real warring experience, and
the Sinhalese Government unleashed a pogrom to achieve it inland. Therefore
up to 1977 all actions of the State were that of induction the younger
generation of Tamils into an agitation attitude, unfortunately for the State,
Sinhala youth as well got agitated and it culminated in terrorizing revolt of 1971
&1989 in the South baring North and East of the Island. The State has self-sinned itself by their
focused scheming of racist pogrom, was under a confident clout as of enough
being done to Sinhalese youth and the April 1971 coup commotion exposed the
absolute inadequacy of defense system as foreseen by post-independence Sri
Lankan leaders, but for the absolute dismay to them, as they had to call the
Indian Military assistance much earlier than anticipated by the State. This
propelled the Sovereign State of Sri Lanka, to further strengthen the above
program. Thus since 1976, RGOSL being
well aware Tamil youth had have been agitated, and forming groups wanted to
sustain it rather than to prevent, so as to construct a warring situation. Only the present Government’s
actions will decide whether such an action plan is absolute racism and a
program of ethnic cleansing, but such a pogrom was very much unbecoming of a Sovereign State to have put
its entire population to immense peril but Tamils along with Islamic brethren have
been subjected to repeatedly for loss of life in hundred thousands, rendered
invalid in many tens of thousands, the surviving repeatedly made refugees, loss
of property and earnings many a times, absolute mayhem beyond descriptions. But
the fact is that the minorities have contributed immensely towards the defense
sector of a nation building process
If Janata Vimukthy Peramuna
who terrorized the southern block twice, revolting to topple an elected
government, can be given a pardon, so do deserve the Tamil prisoners of a
concocted war of inland. On top of it, the Political leaders of south connived
with main double crossing leaders of LTTE who all throughout continued
conscription cadres for LTTE, as part of the above prolonged program, are enjoying
the special privileges of the State while the cadres conscripted are in the
prison cells. Another doubleheader or Selective Justice of the Sovereign
State.
Numerous Commissions are
appointed then and there, in other words whenever law and order has been
misappropriated, only to divert the attention of the public query and to
effectively cover the intentionally subordinating the written constitution for
the programs of the inherited insinuates, emancipated off religious sentiments.
Thus it is anybody’s guess that how many commissions would have been appointed
and how much enormous public funds being wasted on “implementing the doubleheader snaky
constitutions.” The latest one of such commission to release its
report is Maxwell Paranagama commission on missing persons; I had a huge
confidence on this commission when it was hearing the, as much as possible
crying, weeping and whims of those grieving for missing
their loved ones for such long undefined period. But he had proved himself none
other than the above lot who was appointed to cover the implementation of the “doubleheader snaky constitution”, when he
finally presented the report, the lamenting
commissioner had ventured far outside of his mandated as per the twin Gazette
Notifications. Even though the commission had interviewed scores of directly
affected public, who in Maxwell Paranagama found a consoling drainage of grieve
of so long, repeats the propaganda nauseam the State narrative that the LTTE
held the people hostage. The “Parana Coat” has failed to mention the dilemma of
those 300,000 public get caught referred to as of hostages were with no clue
whatsoever where to run; for them the ARMY has not done the best of it, or
rather not shown anything good of it to attract the ordinary people in quandary
towards them for at least 3 years since liberating the East from the LTTE - the “Parana Coat deliberately omitted the
public grieve drained on him as of above, and had vomited the same old very
confined matter. The so-called Military Expert (ME) from the UK, rushes
hurriedly to buy the same narrative of the State and makes those same mistakes
in failing to consider the predicament of the people. Even from an absolute militaristic
standpoint, he with clumsy arguments overrides the facts that there were
possible alternative strategies other than that of using heavy artillery to
rain shells towards civilian concentrated areas, once the army had captured the
East, the Western Vanni and Kilinochchi, and surrounded the coast of
Mullaitivu. The argument that the SL military is not sophisticated enough and
didn’t have enough other military equipment or training is really an admission
of guilt and the claim that all heavy weapon use had been stopped is absolute
lie. In contrast the fact is, entire war program of the State was to expose the
defense personals to, experience using of all heavy military equipment and its
ultra-modern techniques, in a real warring situation. That is why the Sovereign State of Sri Lanka left
the people of 300, 000 to be with LTTE for so long through meticulous
construction of a war for exactly of intended finish.
The total failure of a Sovereign
State, upon the entrusted responsibility of ensuring safety of its entire
population, by a program of constructing war against minorities who also
integral part of the same Sovereign State. Reconciliation Mechanism is mandated
to search for truthful and truth as answers only for all the following
questions.
1. Apart
from natural disasters, how many times you will force your country men as
refugees?
2.
How long you will force your country men
as refugees once you have forced them as refugees?
3. The
prime objective of the Defense forces and the Police forces should be to ensure
the people a peaceful life, public;s security whoever it may be, have they done it for the embracing
satisfaction of minorities since independence?
4. Why on the earth the Sovereign State
failed to arrest V. Prabaharan, as soon as he shot killed the Mayor of Jaffna
instantaneously at Ponnalai Varatharaja Perumal Temple?
5. He was hosted by the Appapillai Amirthaligham
with the toast of hoppers the same night, closest Police Station Chankanai
functioning only 4km away from that residence, and there was a navy camp 8km
away at Karainagar, why those had been installed there just only for “wholesome”
subjection of people; wasn’t it for a
scheming, knowing that V. Prabaharan was on a wanted list some other offenses
earlier as well, A. Amirthaligham was
not a MP then and there is no question about any special privileges, no action
was taken
6. In 1977 Veluppilai Prabaharan and
his accomplices ambushed a radio-car with few CID officers at the same farm, in
close proximity to Thalldi Army Camp, Mannar one of the biggest then existed.
But
when Compatriot Parliament Members, were organizing a Nonviolent Satyagraha in 1962
in protest of Sinhala only bill against the Sinhala colonization and other
grievances on behalf of the people they were representing for their legitimate
rights of language and equality, army was deployed and harassment, robing, and
looting were made order of the day.
Why
such an action was not taken to avert a relatively higher catastrophe on the
above 4, 5 & 6?
An absolute failure of the Sovereign
State in all 3 instances, in 1962, 1976 and 1977 how?
Search for truth -
Action
not taken is not an action at all for a Sovereign State
Wasn’t the State became
inferior to the collaboration of Prabaharan and Amirthaligham by failing to enforce
the law at an appropriate time so as to prevent the incoming catastrophe and
miseries and save the people from it?
7. You all refer and talk about Sovereign State and
Sovereignty of State
when demanded or recommended international expertise to inquire into all Human
Rights Violations – but when India wanted to halt the Operation Liberation, in
1987 The Sinhala state without any objection, that is you all just surrendered
putting your tails under the legs, which is otherwise always raises whenever a
Tamil issue is raised. Isn’t it that Sovereignty of the Nation is immaterial for the
Sinhala State whenever there arise an opportunity to torture, rape harass and
kill the Tamils by a foreign force?
8.
Why
on the earth you all failed to arrest or shoot down V. Prabaharan before meekly
submitting to India, letting lose a criminal as savior of Tamils, for the 3rd time,
9.
Isn’t
it that amounts to abandoning the responsibility of national security of minority
public? Wasn’t it endangered the entire population as well.
Then Tamils and Muslims, I
mean the public, not their leaders, require a different defense system and a
separate police to enforce the law order then and there, so as to save them
from manmade calamities,
Absolute blundering of a Sovereign
State’s responsibility. How on the earth we can trust or expect a Sinhalese
State would further protect the minority population?
Forget and forgive for who? from whom ?
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