India and the Int’l Community can and must bring in the necessary sense and justice
By Ilaya Seran Senguttuvan
The only way for Rajapakse Inc., to remain in power, after their lackluster
Performance nearing two years is to appease the larger electorate - the chauvinistic, Sinhala Buddhist Electorate. For this you also need a well-equipped Army. As we learn from the Press, the army is calling for a further 50,000 more men. Why do we need additional forces now that the Sri Lanka Govt propaganda units are daily claiming victories in all Fronts? Batticaloa they claim is taken. And so Trinco. So we will eventually have over 250,000 men going after a mere 8,000 LTTE cadres. Does not make too much military sense. We are already a Garrison-State and Colombo is shamefully a military city with ubiquitous soldiers clutching modern, sophisticated and costly rifles and flying in motor-bikes, Jeeps etc., Whatever happens to the Cost of Living and other so long as the Govt can tell Buddhist Sinhala ears they are “winning” the war everything will be forgotten and forgiven. But the raw truth must come out someday - and it will in all its fury and probably sooner than the ruling clique figures.
As to the Tamils, we have been losing since the days of old DS.
Gal Oya scheme put paid to Tamils living for generations in South Batticaloa. The Mahaweli there made it worst. Trincomalee’s ethnic balance continues to slide against Tamil interests. The Colombo eviction, I venture to suggest, is a “Dry run” for things to come in the future for the “Final Solution” of Lankan Tamils.
India and the Int’l Community can and must bring in the necessary sense and justice to our rapid slid into anarchy.
Today, as I write this note, even many Sinhalese, include hard-core Rajapakse supporters, are embarrassed at what their Govt is doing to the Tamils - and, they know justice will soon prevail. Mahinda Rajapakse’s threat last week to “dissolve” Parliament is the painful cry of a man on a hopeless trek - besieged from all sides. Unfortunately, the country’s economy and the well being of 20 million people are being taken along this perilous path.
I know I sound like a Prophet of Doom - but what do we have before us now?
Nathan Canada :
July 1, 2007 @ 11:00 am
Dear Sir,
I agree entirely. Even moderates like Kumar Rupesinghe are vilified when they plead for justice to tamils.
Mahinda’s threat to dissolve parliament and this new ‘Mahajana Wing’ of SLFP are merely a part of the game which can be called ‘Political Survival at Whatever Cost”.
Minorities are merely pawns in the game - a few of them are willing to be used as such. They are the bane of lankan tamils and muslims.