The Hon Ban Ki Moon
Secretary General
United Nations

13 April 2009

Dear Mr. Ban Ki-Moon,

`TWO-DAY PAUSE IN MILITARY OPERATION AGAINST REBELS`

First of all, thank you for using the word `rebels` and not terrorists. We are better able to identify with that than the `terrorists` title.

Tamils have reached a stage where we have to weigh any win against the government in the background of civilian lives lost. Every civilian life lost on either side, is a national level defeat for the government. In terms of soldiers on both sides they chose the path through which they seek to attain independence for themselves and eventually share that with their people.

I have learnt through experience here in Australia, that it is only when we are able to accept defeat as a failing of a part of our world including in government that we belong as leaders of that group. Hence all leaders must be able to accept defeat by the opposition if they seek to become wholesome and independent. To the extent we depend on others to endorse us we are dependent on them. When it is time based dependence i.e. until we become the leaders it is subjective dependence which becomes faith when we bring them into ourselves including through respect for them. When it is independent of time we have to `show` outcomes that the world can recognize and use for its own purpose independent of the subject who produced that outcome.

Yesterday, during Easter Sunday celebrations, the leader of a sociology discussion group read out a passage about rebels and terrorists as if they were one and the same. As per that passage, sophisticated weapons produced by rich countries as part of their government and business often ended up in the hands of rebels in poorer countries but without the training needed to take responsibility for the total effects of their actions. My contribution to the discussion was based on the fact that government here in Australia used threat of armed force in preference to being `seen` to have lost, to remove the possibility of rebellion by those who seek outcomes here and now and are not prepared for wait for the government to learn from the people especially victims who are known to have suffered genuine pain and loss. In other words Do governments that use armed forces to suppress and cover up challenges to their authority through Due Process, have the authority to label those rebels criminals and terrorists? How much of that suppression is to kill democratic opposition which is essential for us to feel independent of others` known and unknown to us?

The UN also banned the Tamil Tigers as Terrorists. But now, you call them Rebels. We did not call them terrorists because of our shared feelings of pain and experiences. Like the fingers of our palm, we choose different paths towards our ultimate goal of independence as individuals and/or groups. We are all `right` so long as we stay within our feelings when traveling through that path and/or that we use the highest common law truly accepted by the leader/s of the group that we are traveling with. I chose the government as my leader but realized that I was the highest practitioner of Equal Opportunity principles not only in Australia but even as part of the Global Community represented by United Nations. As written to Professor Walter Kalin, your Representative for the Human Rights of Displaced Persons, by asking the government to release as a priority, UN staff from detention, the UN revealed that it was not committed to Equal Opportunity where there was no reliable merit based assessment producing in this instance objective outcomes that would stand up to global scrutiny.

Hence when we know for certain that we are the highest investors it is our democratic duty to judge ourselves as per our own experiences and then compare with the judgment delivered by others including the Judiciary which are based on thinking rather than experience. The identification would be greater with those who are bound by common feelings and beliefs and least with strangers. Hence the need for objectively measurable outcomes and independent processes with facilities for equal participation by both sides. This is yet to happen in Australia which has recently been criticized by the UN for its abuse of Anti Terrorism Laws.

Today, many Tamils are collectively seeking the intervention of the Australian Government in the war in Sri Lanka. There are reports of protests in front of `Kirribilli House` the official residence of the Prime Minister of Australia.

Aborigines have been fighting in many ways for racial equality here in Australia. The one I identify with most is Eddie Mabo who fought on his own largely through his belief and feelings. That is why he won even though it took our Judicial system to `show` on behlaf of the nation, that Eddie was right in claiming the land to be theirs. Eddie believed and fellow Australians who believed in him added their faith to him which ultimately produced the right outcome.

As a migrant, I took my claims of racial equality to the highest level possible. Through that process I realised that there was no more to come from the current judiciary and unless I wanted money and or status, I was hurting those Australians who did identify with my judgment of myself. Collectively that has higher status value than the verdict of a judicary that did not include me in its world. The government has since engaged with me and I am satisfied that I defeated that Rakshasa / Demon `Lacking in Substance` defence by the Government. That naturally overturns in the People`s Court all the defeats caused by lawyers who limited themselves to that defence and therefore became more and more dependent on the opponent`s defeat for their benefits.

The more one fears defeats the more one depends on winning. Hence the more one obstructs one`s own path to independence.

By facilitating this two day ceasefire, you have facilitated all parties to accept some part of the defeat. President Rajapakse gives it his own form of facilitating `New Year` celebrations which are common to the two communities in conflict.

Tiger Leader is reported to have agreed to a rescue mission by a Western country.

These are all confirmations of your feelings for Peace each one in their own language to best satisfy their own people. In other words we have three different worlds here.

UN`s ban against the Tigers has been overridden through reality which you identified with only after loss of lives of those who dared to challenge the system anyway they could. That is because the UN did not feel connected to the minorities until it `saw` bloodshed. Then the UN reacted. Likewise the Western countries. Do you then have the moral authority to label anyone Terrorists ? No. We are all rebels until you prove otherwise through Objective evidence to fit a global definition of terrorism and ensure that you do not take any steps to punish until you know that the government is totally free of that accusation. Racial discrimination by a government is the parallel of rebellion by minority race. If the latter is terrorism then the root is also terrorism.

I seek to share with you my feelings that we need strong Administrative leadership independent of both sides to the war to lead Peace development in Sri Lanka. That would be the best punishment for those who gave priority to weapons over intellectual discussion and adjustments to belong as one society. To start with, on equal opportunity basis, the religion of majority must be given first place in the respective Provinces to match article 9 of the Constitution which states `. The Republic of Sri Lanka shall give to Buddhism the foremost place and accordingly it shall be the duty of the State to protect and foster the Buddha Sasana, while assuring to all religions the rights granted by Articles 10 and 14(1)(e).`
Without such a parallel provision Article 10 could be practiced only if the groups are separated from each other geographically. Article 10 says `Every person is entitled to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, including the freedom to have or to adopt a religion or belief of his choice.`

This means that no taxes taken from other religious followers should be spent on Buddhism to maintain its foremost place. Once we know that our taxes are being used as a priority on Buddhism we no longer feel that freedom of thought as Equals to Buddhists.

Article 14 (1) states :
`(e) the freedom, either by himself or in association with others, and either in public or in private, to manifest his religion or belief in worship, observance, practice or teaching
(f) the freedom by himself or in association with others to enjoy and promote his own culture and to use his own language `

Given that almost hundred percent of Buddhists are Sinhalese, the above could not be upheld in multicultural areas except through a parallel to Article 9 - which has the Equal possibility of being applied to all minority religions if they in majority in that area.

Elected representatives represent our common faith for which there are no rights and wrongs. Rights are wrongs are calculated above the level of this common faith. Religion is the avenue through which majority Sri Lankans develop faith. Hence any preferential treatment to the religion of majority automatically lowers the democratic status of the nation to the lowest level. It took a war for us to bring this to the notice of United Nations the custodian on democratic status at global level.

It is important that you recognize this failure on the part of your own organization before expecting us to make concessions to accept the failures of the Government of Sri Lanka to uphold the real value of our work and sacrifices. Until that base is firmly in place and we are able to confirm that in common, any truce would be temporary until the...