Yeah 2ndClass, if Only your Praba will agree to it…. the SL Govt has been waiting,… and still continues to wait… Federalism counld have been there by now,…oh who, oh who was it that forced a Boycott of the Elections to make sure the Pro-War candidate was put into power?

Gee,… let me guess! Vellupillai Prabharkaran?

All things bright and beautiful. Nice and wonderful. Mate you are living in a world where human feelings have no place. We are born to kill and eat the meat of others, oppress the one next to you and the list goes on. That’s what human beings are. Practical world.

Ahimsa to all beings is only in Buddhism but they are first Sinhalese and then Buddhists. If not by now in extinction. Along with that Buddhism too in extinction except for business tycoon Dalai Lama’s Buddhism.

All the leaders who were there before and soon after independence lived in harmony on the misery of poor majority, notwithstanding the tribe Sinhala, Tamil or Muslim. It was a cosy life for few privileged and no qualm from higher echelon.

It was only when the Sinhala lot in that club tried to keep all and sundry to themselves that the Tamil lot raised the issue of discrimination and lined up the poor Tamils to fight against Sinhala chauvinistic hegemony. All beautiful words. For that serious misjudgement the entire Tamil leadership who hoodwinked the innocent Tamil youth paid a terrible price at the hands of devil incarnate created by them and them alone.

You could quote from Bretcht, Russel and many in that ilk but ground reality is different. This battle like many others in the history will end up only when conqueror vanquished the fallen. Just hold your breath for that day. If in doubt read history again and again. But not the distorted one. Bear in mind Sinhala tribe has no history where they have attacked the innocent but in the case of brutes retaliated with ferocity and paid with interest.

Tata

So I am forced to comment ‘on this excellent article’ written for the idealists. It fails to see the mood of the people, as the central indicator that directs governance. Prez MR has successfully turned the mood of the people from one seeking peace to one for all out war. It is a monumental achievement and I acknowledge and congratulate him. He has used many tools like the media, propaganda, military successes, etc., not always honourably, and a good measure of well concealed deceit as well, to wean the people away from peaceniks and slant them towards his hard-line thinking. So the peace lobby can benefit by studying his methods.

Basically, unless there is a tangible incentive or benefit, people of this world who are ready to exploit their kith and kin, let alone the downtrodden or underprivileged, for their selfish ends, will not be motivated to change their views for lofty ideals. (The painful comparison between developed and underdeveloped world, in a macro scale, is an ever-present example).

It appears to me that only unbearable turmoil has the power to focuses one’s attention towards peace’ especially for a people who are yet to experience the horrors of civil or world wars, before they can understand the significance of peace.

The time has not yet come for peace. We are caught in war psychosis

Thouggh, there is a well managed propaganda by the government and the Sinhalese, terrorism is not the problem in Sri Lanka as heard by many of us. The problem is something else.

The Tamils of North East have a liberation movement of the masses, for the independence of its people. They expressed their desire for freedom in a mild form even before 1948, the year in which the country was declared a “dominion” under Britain.

The Tamils have been expressing by various means or methods, initially, democratically, through their elected representatives, then by means of non violent protests; under Federal Party, then by resolutions and mass referendums in the North East, under Tamil United Liberation Party, led by SJ Chelvanayakam.

Every time the Tamils used a democratic method, the past governments ruthlessly destroyed the method by violence using the armed forces. Our leaders were kept in house arrest and prisons, for a long period of time.

Instead of addressing and granting their legitmate right to secede, the governments used armed violence using the military, forcing the Tamils to resort to armed resistance against the atrocities of the armed forces. As a formula for survival LTTE was born.

The governments also popped up puppets trying to subdue the mass movement for liberation of the North East.

The problem in Sri Lanka is not the “method” or means used by the Tamils to obtain Independence. The problem is with the Sinhalese. They are unable and adamantly unwilling to grant the legitimate right of Tamils to have Tamil Eelam. Terrorism started from the military and upto this date it continues. It should be stopped by the International Community.

But, Comrade, never mind my mournful and melancholy mood.
Take the hopeful and otimistic road of our friend Bob Marley
and sing :-

“Observing hypocrites mingle with the good people we meet Good friends we have or good friends we have lost along the way ….. Everythings gonna be alright (From – No woman! no cry)