Immediately
after the elimination of the terrorists the political climate was conducive to
the abolition of the TNA and the removal of the 13Amendment. It was the
terrorists who manipulated voting
to have the candidates of the TNA elected
as MPs to be the voice of the terrorists in the Parliament. After the elimination of the terrorists the
TNA had no raison d’etre.
However,
having lost that opportunity we are burdened with a set of MPs who have no
sense of belonging to Sri Lanka
as their Island home. They are still seeking to realise the
objective of their master the terrorist
Prabhakaran to setup a Tamil
Homeland. An MP who takes an oath of
allegiance to the Constitution of Sri Lanka has no right to spread divisive political rhetoric and seek
the help of foreign countries to intervene in the affairs of Sri Lanka to
enable them to realise the separatist politics.
Normally that should be considered treasonable activity to confiscate
their right to represent the people as Members of the Sri Lanka Parliament.
But for
some reason the President and the Government seem to tolerate the recalcitrant
attitude of the TNA MPs despite their continued refusal to integrate into the political fabric as normal
members of Parliament to cooperate with the government to ameliorate the
condition of living of the people they represent and participate in the
numerous development projects. They
remain outsiders with the only objective of somehow set up an Eelam State
in the North.
But the
numerous Missions to denigrate the
Government of Sri Lanka as anti- Tamil
government that denies the rights of the minorities succeeded only in getting the
South African Tamil Navi Pillai the UN Human Rights Commissioner to move the
UNHuman Rights Council against Sri Lanka with USA taking a prominent part in
denouncing Sri Lanka and even in passing a resolution against it.
Stephen
Harper the Canadian Prime Minister had
also been roped in by the TNA to be a
vociferous anti Sri Lanka
activist demanding the Commonwealth Countries to boycott the commonwealth Summit to be held in Sri Lanka in 2013. TNA’s success in their numerous visits abroad
was only to become a means for the
foreign governments to interfere with internal affairs of or country accuse our Armed Forces and make incessant
demands for accountability for an
internal military operation against a group of terrorists which is past
history.
Stephen Harper
had stated; “ I intend to make clear to
my fellow leaders of the commonwealth that if we do not see progress in Sri Lanka in
human rights I will not as Prime Minister be attending that Commonwealth
summit. And I hope others will take a similar position."
But it is
unlikely that the other Commonwealth leaders will follow an undiplomatic
Stephen Harper who has developed traumatic syndromes because of alleged war crimes supposed to have been committed
by the Sri Lankan Armed Forces in the final phase of the war which raged for 27 years with the Tamil Tiger.
And Manmohan Singh too did his part to pacify directly the “political idiots
of Tamil Nadu” Karuna nidhi and
Jayalalitha by voting against Sri Lanka along with its mentor the USA.
As an
excuse in an interview with Salma Yusuf, Rahpal Malhotra the Executive Vice-Chairman of the Centre for
Research in Rural and Industrial Development (CRRID) in Chandigarh, had said, “….If the Prime
Minister did not make the decision that he did, the current ruling government
would have collapsed. It is in such a context that the decision to vote in
favour of the United Nations Human Rights resolution in March 2012 must be
viewed by Sri Lankans.
Domestic pressure and what you rightly described as ‘coalition compulsions’
were what led to the vote by India in favour of the United Nations Human Rights
Council resolution on Sri Lanka, but it must be made clear that this in no way
means that the government of India is against Sri Lanka.”
It reminds of Caesar’s last words to his friend
Brutus when he stabbed him last-et tu Bruté ?
All that must have in some way consoled
the TNA considering them as the
results of their anti Sri Lanka efforts undertaken in hectic travel to
different corners of the world with the pathetic story of the unpitying
harassment of the Sri Lanka Tamils by
the Majority Sinhala Government of Sri Lanka have not however helped the TNA to
realise their primary objective of a separate Eelam.
TNA even went to China seeking China’s assistance to launch their pet idea of a Tamil Eelam. In Ceylon Today P.K.Balachandra reports that the Propaganda Secretary of ITAK Nadesan Pillai Vithiatharan who led a delegation and stayed there for ten days at the invitation of the Chinese Government, came back to Sri Lanka disappointed.
Vithiatharan had said that, “China will not help the Tamils secure justice and political autonomy. The Chinese believe that the solution for the problem of religious or ethnic minorities lies in economic development and the grant of economic opportunities, rather than political autonomy. The overall view was that the Tamil problem in Sri Lanka had been solved because guns had been silenced. There was no realization that the basic political issues over which the Tamils had struggled in various ways, still remained unsolved, and crying for attention,”
The China has thought rightly so, as the cry for “basic political issues” does not come from the ordinary Tamil people the TNA represents, but it is the demand of the handful of ambitious Tamil racist politicians of the TNA manipulated like puppets by the pro terrorist Tamil Diaspora. It is this TNA MPs who have created an artificial ethnic problem for the realization of the “ basic political issues“.
Do the TNA
MPs at least now realise that they have been tolerated by some of the countries
of the International Community as an instrument to intervene into the Affairs
of Sri Lanka , but other than that no
one has taken them seriously enough to demand Sri
Lanka to create a
separate state for the Tamils in Sri Lanka ?
The
Government of Sri Lanka which even in
the eyes of the most vehement critics of Sri Lanka cannot but appreciate the work it has
carried outs since the elimination of the terrorists for the settlement of the
IDPs after removal of thousands of
personal mines, infrastructure
development and providing facilities such as hospitals, schools , electricity and
fresh water for the welfare of the Tamil people and the development of the North and East.
TNA MPs
blinded by their foolish demand for a separate Eelam, when the ordinary Tamils
seem to be happy in a North and East
developing as it had never been
before, are groping in the dark trying to hold each others hands to keep themselves
afloat without sinking into their own
“cess pit”.
Even
their mentor India
to whom they ran every now and then to get their advice and requesting to help them set up the Eeelam State
seems to have turned its back on them.
The TNA Jaffna district
Parliamentarian E. Saravanabavan, speaking during the debate on the Budget 2013, had said that India should either support or stay away from
the matters of Tamils, so that they could earn their (Tamils) rights, instead
of playing double games. He had
said, "Thousands of Tamils in the
North and East shed blood to achieve their rights but India let them down and
because of the recent behaviour of the Indian Central Government, there is a
serious and reasonable doubt among the Tamil people whether India has a genuine
feeling of forcing the Sri Lankan government to resolve the matters,"
In the mean
time M.A.Sumanthiran who often does not know what he is talking, after having
heard about the UNO “leaked” document has
said, "Now that the UN has come with this report we want action, There
should be an international inquiry. The government as the main accused party
cannot be involved in the investigation."
Then in another mood M.A. Sumanthiran admits that, . “The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution is something that we had rejected right through as being meaningless,”
TNA is unfortunately divided one does not know what the other says. Speaking in Parliament on the Budget TNA Leader R.Sampanthan has said, “any attempt by anyone to modify or nullify the 13th Amendment, to make it ineffective and worthless could cause irreparable damage to the future of the country. The 13th Amendment was the only provision that recognized the diversity of the country to a certain extent,”
What is happening to the TNA MPs are they suffering from brain damage ?
In the mean time the Sri Lanka Armed Forces in a highly commendable effort to reconcile the Communities and make the Tamil people accept the Defence Forces as belonging to every citizen of Sri Lanka and to make them understand that it is not just a mechanism of protection of the Government , had recruited 100 Tamil girls from Kilinochchi to the Lanka Army Volunteer Force. There had been 200 applicants and after three rounds of interviews the Army had recruited the best 100.
TNA MP Suresh Premachandra did not appreciate it as a genuine attempt in reconciling the Communities. According to a report in the Udayan News Paper Premachandran had condemned it calling it a forced recruitment of Tamils to the army in Jaffna.
In an interview with Rohan
Abeywardhana the Sri Lanka Freedom Party
organiser for the Batticaloa District Arun Tambimuttu has said that , “the 13th
Amendment and the provincial councils need to go as the time has come to evolve
a more practical system of devolution and administration in their place.”
All that makes it absolutely
clear that TNA has no intention of
working together with the Government for the reconciliation of the Communities and the development of Sri Lanka. If they continue on that path they become a burden to Sri Lanka paying them salaries
merely to disrupt progress and
development, and separate the Communities, when every thing is being done by
the government for the wellbeing of the Tamil people in the North and
East.
Finally, what have the TNA MPs
done for the wellbeing and the
improvement of the living
conditions of the Tamil people who voted to elected them as their representatives to the Parliament
other than going round visiting foreign countries crying about the pathetic
situation of the Tamil people and asking
their help to force Sri Lanka to devolve political power. Is that what the ordinary Tamil people want ?
Therefore, it is time
that either the TNA give up their
separatist politics and join hands with the government, or be abolished as a political party as they
serve no purpose as Members of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
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