Sri Lanka News Updates with Discussions

By: M.R.Wilson

APRC has disregarded the parity of status or equality the central principle of democracy in toto, and given its specious proposals for an interim solution for the burning issues of the ethnic conflict 60 years old in Sri Lanka, since 1948.

Sri Lankan Buddhist Singhalese Constitution formulated by the qualitative strength of the majoitarian Singhalese community is replete with hawkish communal extremism and any proposals put forward by the APRC to conform to the stipulations of the Constitution of this nature would be injudious and communal.

Sri Lankan Constitution is replete with ethnocentric assumptions:

Sri Lankan Constitution emphasizes that, only a Buddhist Sinhalese could be the Head of government and state, Buddhism could be the State religion, Singhalese could be the official language, colonization of Tamil areas by Singhalese could be done at State expense, and a contrived standardization procedure to enter higher education could be enforced to benefit the Sinhalese with the suppression of Tamil children who thrive on education.

And also, on the sly the past historical records or the archaeological evidences of the country are being reportedly tampered with surreptitious interpolations to be advantageous to the Sinhalese community under the powerful iniquitous Buddhist Singhalese rule.

By virtue of the Constitution in effect and force, even the judicature or the judicial system in Sri Lanka is of a bias favorable to the Buddhist Singhalese extremism.

Joint Mechanism formulated on humanitarian grounds to dispel the hardships of the Tsunami victims in the North-East also had been abrogated by the Sri Lankan judicature.

Democracy is the quantitative strength of the people, not qualitative strength community-wise:

Democracy is the government of the people, by the people and for the people purely depending only on their quantitative strength, irrespective of their qualitative strength racially, linguistically or religiously.

In Sri Lanka, a multi-ethnic and multi-religious country with a diverse and rich culture, the will of the majoritarian Buddhist Sinhalese should not be imposed on the minority Tamils by the domination of ruthless communal extremism of the Singhalese race, and chauvinism of the Buddhist religion.

Just like the numerical strength of the majoritarian Singhalese racially that could defeat any proposals of the minority Tamils at any referendum, numerical strength of the Singhalese representatives in the legislative assembly, or a national government or any adhoc All Party Representatives Advisory Committee racially could defeat any proposals submitted by the Tamil representatives on behalf of the minority Tamils.

Equality, the central principle of democracy is of the essence in forging ahead with any peace talks:

Before any embarkation on developmental, rehabilitation or resettlement ventures, main theme of any the peace process should ensure that the Tamils are empowered to live with their basic, fundamental and equal rights just like any Buddhist Singhalese, as they were before the advents of Colonial rulers in the year 1505, as the Tamils are entitled to pursue their economic, social and cultural development and establish their self-autonomy, and self-identity within the framework of the United Nations` Charter, International humanitarian and human rights laws without any discrimination.

Bipartisan approach to the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka is a prerequisite to ensure a happier future constitutionally for the coming generations, with the neutralization of patriotic frenzy of any community based on its qualitative strength racially, linguistically or religiously.

HE the Sri Lankan President, in a less squeamish and more belligerent fashion by his demagogic oratory, successfully manoeuvres to equate irrationally on a par with the International terrorism the internal struggle of the Tamils aspiring for their political rights within their territories, by his rhetorical prevarications and highly contorted version of truths whenever or wherever he speaks and bluffs his way out of any embarrassing situation.

What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander:

Obsessed with communal bias if the Singhalese community cannot share powers with the minority Tamils, system should be changed, loosened up, or broken off with the secession of Tamil territories from the rest of Sri Lanka as it is the only alternative. After independence in 1948, somewhere only in 1970s, the Tamil militant group was in its embryonic stage and indulged in its retaliatory attacks in self-defiance only since 1983.

Since 1983, over the last 25 years to date, in the war that ensued between the armed forces and the Tamil militants within the Tamil territories, churches, temples, schools, refugee camps, houses and business establishments were bombed and destroyed indiscriminately, killing, wounding, maiming or mangling in thousands inclusive of children while leaving behind children orphaned and men and women widowed besides the mass exodus of the Tamils in hundreds of thousands to foreign countries.

Singhalese regimes one after the other had tantalized the Tamils with false hopes and assurances:

Governments one after the other had tantalized the Tamils with false hopes and assurances in a desultory fashion from time to time with tiring and boring treadmill of pacts, accords, conferences, talks, agreements, memorandums, appointments of committees etc, etc, which all turned into a complete fiasco, so far.

After the Independence in 1948, former Prime Minister S.W.R.D.Bandaranaya ke from SLFP prioritized Singhalese only policy of 1956 and captured power defeating the U.N.P.

Bandaranayke S.J.V.Chelvanayagam Pact of 1957 was abrogated because of the UNP protests. Dudley Senanayake - S.J.V.Chelvanayagam Pact of 1965 was abrogated because of the SLFP protest. The Republican Constitution of 1972, robbed the minorities of even the scanty safeguards against discrimination provided under Section 29 of the Soulbury Constitution, introduced at independence in 1948. Indo-Lanka Accord of 1987 was abrogated by the National Singhalese protests.

Tamil territories are tyrannized under false pretences:

Because the Tamils who lived in peace and harmony in the Tamil territories under civil rule clamoured for their political rights, under the subterfuge of emancipating the Tamils from the Tamil militants conferred with the poisonous term of terrorists on them, Buddhist Singhalese hawkish regime tries all its best resorting to all terroristic military aggression possible to bully the Tamil community into submission. They are being threatened with extrajudicial killings, torture, enforced disappearances, displacements in tens of thousands, arbitrary detentions, aerial bombardment, closures of highways, and forced starvation besides denial of their other basic facilities expedient and necessary. Further, by the encroachment of the armed forces and enforced expropriations, army camps have mushroomed all over the Tamil territories, while cultivation and fishing industry have either been crippled or perished.

H.E. the Sri Lankan President clings on to jingoism, professing communal extremism with xenophobic attitudes, to be deep- rooted in power:

Ever since H.E. the Sri Lankan President with the sole aim of personal aggrandizement targeting totalitarianism, bagged the coveted post in 2005 with a combination of circumstances, his hawkish stance against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, and solid backing from Jathika Hela Urumaya the party of the Buddhist monks and the Marxist-nationalist party Janatha Vimukti Peramuna , jettisoning all the aspirations of the Tamils for peace by prioritizing war, with his own ideology called Mahinda Chinthanaya which emphasizes, no Norway, no federal constitution, no right to Homeland, no self-determination, no nation-hood for Tamils, no PTOMS, no recognition of anyone as sole partner in negotiation and no Oslo as venue for talks, Tamil community in Sri Lanka is obsessed with a fear psychosis, due to the dreadful terror and spree of violence in full spate that prevails among them by the existences of the SL Government sponsored Paramilitary groups comprising Tamil renegades quislings and stooges.