That’s so easy, man. The Cubans, Nicaraguans (Sandinitsas), Chinese, Vietnamese.

However, the problem is that the LTTE wishes to secede with such a disproportionate portion of the land, that the inhabitants of Tamil Eeelam end up with 4 times as much land as those remaining in the South-West.

Therein lies Prabakaran’s extremism. While denouncing Sinhalese racism and chauvinism he attempts to impose an utterly racist and chauvanist outcome on the other communities in Sri Lanka. Establishing a large lebensraum for himself and his people and leaving just scraps for the rest to fight over.

The current fighting is merely an expensive means of negotiating a compromise between the two extreme positions of the Sinhalese and Tamils.

More principled and capable leaders would have tried to avoid this human cost by trying to negotiate a fair compromise based on equality and the acceptance of the right to self determination for those who wish to secede.

Did anyone of them ever been Christians?

Religion may be the opium of the people!Marxists!

Now Dayan wants to tell us about clean guerrilla warfare.

Could Dayan tell us a single guerrilla movement that had not adopted terrorist tactics?

Revolution without Bloodshed! Revolution is a picnic!
Does this mean that Mao’s Guerrillas, Vietcong and all the Palestinian groups adopted violent but non terrorist methods and when the opportunity opened they had become real democrats and democracy is practiced in China and Vietnam since then!

Who started hijacking of civilian aircrafts? suicide bombings of civilian targets?
But you don’t want to call Al Fatah, Hemas, Hisbulla as Terrorist?.

Even if Governments adopt or engage in barbaric forms of violence against unarmed civilians, will they not be called barbaric terrorists?

Further Dr Dayan says that the Sinhalese majority will not let the small island of Sri Lanka -only country in which Sinhalese is still spoken-to become a dismembered and separated state,
Here Dr Dayan admits that the anti Tamil tigers who had already been liberated from the East and others soon to be liberated from the North and Muslims are indifferent to this Just war waged by the Majority!

Sinhalese and this is a war waged only by the Majority Sinhalese? Dayan be careful!, you may fall into trouble. This is not a diplomatically correct stand!

Again Dayan says ‘Had I been arrested, I would have either been judged and sentenced to prison for a long time or would have simply ‘disappeared’?

So Dayan admits that disappearance is not something novel in Sri Lanka!.

Now Dayan I am curious to find out how you became a minister from the uncontested North or from the contested East? Or nominated thanks to IPKF!

Now Federalism and Devolution had become dirty words, Hence we have re discovered an old nomenclature ‘Decentralization in steps’

For the first step you have to go back 20 years,
For the second step you may have to go back further 10 years then you will get District Development Councils!

Was it Lenin who said two steps backwards and three steps forward or something like that!

Instead

SRILANKAN PUBLIC SHOULD EXPECT HIGHER STANDARDS FROM THEIR POLITICAL LEADERS :

I refer to the question put to Dr Dayan Jayatilleke ans his answer What are the root-causes of the terrible civil war that plagues your country?

A: They are complex and intricate

I believe Dayan has missed the point altogether. The problem with political leaders of SL since 1948 and particularly Mahinda now and US leaders such as Mr Eliot Spitzer and Mr Bill Clinton, or any among the endless string of exposed politicians worldwide, is not simply about popular support, demeocratic power through majority vote which give them license to unleash state terror ,corruption,adultery. The problem is about their dishonesty and hypocrisy.

Here are some parallels between two US leaders and the cureent MR and his regime though the acts are different.

Mr Spitzer made his name as a vice-fighting Governor, and now he is known as a hypocrite. Hypocrisy is the worse form of lying, for it not only hides the truth, it also promotes another falsehood. If a politician can declare to the public that he has a habit of engaging high-class prostitutes and at the same time, fight prostitution, and still manage to get elected, then more power to him. Similalrly with Clinton over Monica issue

In the case of Mahinda he aborted CFA , made use of armed groups and state terror to get rid of bigger armed group ( or only terrorists in SL from their point of view ) in the name of democracy and making use of the cover of ” global fight against terrorism after9/11) from the East and making use of those armed groups to be part of SL style democracy in the east. This has given more power to him from the Sinhalese masses in the South and he is continuing the same thing in the North with IC closing one eye and giving economic and military support.

However, I seriously doubt if his party and the alliance can be elected on such a platform in the provincial election on May 10th in the east The problem is that he is cheating not just his armed alliance groups, but the Srilankan public particularly the poor Sinhalese masses as well. Once he gain more power the Tamil and Muslim armed groups from the east will be replaced by JVP and JHU who are in theory unarmed now but can call their loyal members from the armed forces and mobilise them any time to control the whole of east. That should be one of the reasons JVP is adamant that TMVP is unarmed before the elections.

The integral and inseparable part of public office is public trust. By definition, this calls for a person or a system that is trustworthy; not a leader who says one thing, but does another. It is as simple as that. REMEBER MAHINDA ONCE FOUGHT FOR THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF JVP MEMBERS tooth and nail simply because majority of them are from down south and Uva. When it comes to Tamil youths kill them first then talk about the solution much later.

REMEMBER MAHINDA ONCE FOUGHT AGAINST RAJIV’s 1987 accord and supported JVP indirectly which gave more power to JVP uprising in 1989. Now Dayan is with MR and playing different orchestral tune.

In the case of STATE TERROR , we are looking at Sinhalese leaders ( note : Laxman kadirgamar was never allowed to become a leader ) who had once made a solemn vow ( uphold democratic principles ) to be loyal to his/her country ( means to the all citicens ).

It is, therefore, very reasonable to conclude that if this leaders can break their democratic vows to all citizens, whom he presumably professed to love unconditionally, then
he may not be trusted in other aspects of life.

One may say that Democracy and running a country is a very tricky business, and even the best among the Sinhalese leaders can fail at it. But, what Mr MR has done is very different
from a systematic engagement to cheat. To brush such dishonesty aside with the support of IC is simply mind-boggling.

Dayan jayatilleke on behalf of his master MR also seems to imply that “everybody is doing it”, so “let us not be so naive”. Is this really the case? Even if it is so, should the
moral standards and expectations of public office be determined by what everybody else is doing? WHERE IS SRILANKA’S UNIQUNESS ?

I believe that there are many things in life that are beyond the typical “MAJORITY VOTE – POWER ” democratic formula, and that it is still the right of the public to expect higher moral standards from those who are leading the nation. Has Buddhism and buddhist monks contributing positively in this regard since 1947 ? On the contrary.

One political commentator wrote that “finally, I can tell my children that
they can look at their President and follow his example”.

The golden test, therefore, is this Mr. Dayan Jayatilleke : Can we look our children in the eye and tell them to do the same things their national leaders do to the Tamil youths ?

Can we tell them that the ends always justify the means, and that as long as the Sinhalese leaders “do a good job” to uphold Sinhala Buddhist hegemony , it is all right to lie and cheat, to be morally corrupted, to unleash state terror etc because the world is kind of grey or ” rather complex and intricate ” anyway?

The truth is that values that are black and white to children must
definitely not be grey for adults Mr. Dayan Jayatileke.

Dr. D.jayatilleke, As a strong believer in Christianity and its crusades and supporter of Sinhala Nation what is the moral message you carry from Christ to Sinhalese masses and the democratic world except “the issue in Srilanka is Tamil terrorism and state terror and reducing the Tamil youth population as per Sarath Fonseka/ Gothabaya Rajapakse’s vow is the moral anwer – amen ”

If Buddha to reincarnate in SL today I am sure he will say since 1947 the simple problem ( not complex and intricate ) in SL has been about dishonesty and hypocrisy by the Sinhala Buddhist Political Leaders in taking the country backwards.
Namo buddham sharanam gacchami. Namo dharmam sharanam gacchami. Namo sangham sharanam gacchami.

2. Marxism-Leninism is incompatible with any religion. It is sheer idiocy for people who claim they are Marxist-Leninist to say they are also Christians.

3. Even if one ignores the truth that there is no God and accepts the basis of Christianity, any kind of war is incompatible with Christianity. That some useless theologians might write about ‘Just War’ does not make it compatible with Christianity.

The interviewee here is hypocritical at every level, on every point above. Only ignoramuses will fall for this the claims made in the interview.

That said, the Tamil armed struggle is moral. The GoSL is not fighting the LTTE as such, but is, in concert with Sinhalese extremist forces, intent on exterminating Tamils. LTTE’s actions have elements of fascism–no doubt–but the GoSL is also fascist, much worse than the LTTE; in the context of this Tamil struggle, Tamil people have to defeat first the GoSL’s oppression and then the fascist elements of the LTTE. So, those who reflexively take the side of the GoSL are clearly immoral.

Would it not be hypocrisy on the part of Christ to be violent (If the act of eviction of money lenders from the Temple in Jerusalem by him can irrefutably seen as violent) and to Preach ‘But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.’ And doubly so to have called the Pharisees Whitewashed Tombs.

I do not request of Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka or his government to turn the other cheek, but let him know that, to say that Christian principle justify war in specific cases, is very unchristian. Just because there was war in the early Christians and present Christian civilizations does not mean Christianity as preached by Christ justifies war but that those human who felt justified in extending the conflict (The conflict between what one wants reality to be and what reality is) within themselves and finding themselves lame for reason have used the crutches of Christianity to extend an argument of just war

I fail to understand the necessity of Christian theology to answer the question of morality of violence, unless of course his argument is on the premise that the present interpretation of Christ preaching’s in the form of Christian theology as absolute and hence all other religious theology is wrong.

May be he should try Leo Tolstoy’s argument against Just War theology in his book ‘The Kingdom of God is within You’

I do not agree with him or his government or the LTTE to justify the war for reason that it exhibits hypocrisy in whatever all three of them profess

1 Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka (if he is one )as Christian (Christ Preached Non Violence)
2. Government as Buddhist (Buddha preached Non Violence)
3. LTTE as Tamils (Because of the Ancient Tamil Saying ‘All nations are one, all are my Kin’)

But if the conflict is because of rights of citizen then violence is not the answer, may be sane reasoning on the basis of present realities could lead to the answer.

Do to others as you would have them do to you.

‘How can you kill people, when it is written in God’s commandment: ‘Thou shalt not murder?’
-Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God is within You

-That this social order with its pauperism, famines, prisons, gallows, armies, and wars is necessary to society; that still greater disaster would ensue if this organization were destroyed; all this is said only by those who profit by this organization, while those who suffer from it and they are ten times as numerous ‘think and say quite the contrary.’
-Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God is within You

You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if someone wants to sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well. If someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles. Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.
-Matthew 5:38-42, NIV
-Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God is within You

But I tell you who hear me: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. If someone strikes you on one cheek, turn to him the other also. If someone takes your cloak, do not stop him from taking your tunic. Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back. Do to others as you would have them do to you.
-Luke 6:27-31. NIV
-Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God is within You

This is the first time we are hearing “Decentralization in steps” or “power-sharing by transfer” concept. Perhaps he will elucidate the ignorant masses as to what that vision is, now that he indirectly acknowledges the death of APRC an the imminent birth of another ’round table’. Or is it also censored information due to the national security threats faced by the govt?

Balkanisation is essentially an ethnic division. Social revolutionary theories don’t quite fit here. Thus we see the difficulty of Dr Dayan to theorize the Tamil struggle.

This article, based on Dayan being the “AMBASSADOR”, has no value! He still is a murderer, convicted and escaped punishment,because Sri Lankan Rulers DO NOT enforce Law & Order as they are also do the same.

As for ordinary civilian like me who value life and livelihood of everyone and have caused no harm to anyone all my life, him being awarded the “Ambassador” position is the last nail in thecoffin to live the way we ought to live.
WE ALL MIGHT AS WELL KILL AND ACTIVELY TAKE PART IN ARMS STRUGGLE OF SORTS AND BECOME POPULAR.
THIS ALSO SHOWS WHAT SORT OF A COUNTRY IS SRI LANKA THAT AWARDS MILITANTS WITH ALL POMP AND POSTS.
SRI LANKA DESERVES IYS CURRENT PREDICAMENT AND A POSSIBLE BIFURCATION NO MATTER WHAT DAYAN GOT TO SAY. ON THE GROUND WAR IS UNWINNABLE AND SRI LANKA WILL BECOME THE POOREST NATION IN THE WORLD. DAYAN WOULD HAPPILY LIVE EVER AFTER WITH HIS 60000 DOLLAR US, SALARY WHILE ORDINARY CIVILIANS CANNOT AFFORD EVEN A BOWL OF RICE.