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Is Sri Lanka heading in the
right direction?

By
S Akurugoda, Melbourne, Australia
It is learnt that the British
Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, and US secretary of state, Hilary Clinton,
called for an immediate “humanitarian” ceasefire and the need of a ‘political
solution’ two weeks ago and last week, the British High Commission announced
the appointment of British parliamentarian and former defence secretary Des
Browne as Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s special envoy to Sri Lanka.
Des Browne, speaking of his
appointment, had said he welcomed the opportunity to act as the Prime
Minister's Special Envoy and was looking forward to contributing to the UKs
efforts to improve the ‘serious humanitarian situation’ and liaising with all
parties that may have a role to play in taking forward work on a sustainable
‘political solution’ in Sri Lanka.
Western governments are
pretended to be the great supporters of humanitarian issues— provided that the
issues involved are not those of their own citizens. These ‘owners of the
human rights, champions of interpretations of anything to their own benefit’,
are adopting a different policy towards smaller developing nations such as
ours,
Sri Lanka.
The people of West appear to
be peaceful but the leaders of governments of the
U.S. and of Britain have a proven
taste for carnage, as we see from their actions over the most recent years
towards Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq and Sudan etc (the list goes on), even if we
exclude the indiscriminate killing of innocent civilians though out the history
by these perpetrators.
Let us take one out of several
recent examples of disrespect for human lives by these two economic and
military powers, just to see if there is any significant change in their taste
for carnage with time.
The US-Britain led war against
Iraq did not begin in 2003, as many
people believe. In fact the US and Britain had been waging an undeclared war
against Iraq more than a decade. The aim has
been the destruction of Iraqi society enabling the US and Britain to gain control of Iraq's huge oil reserves. As a result of
economic sanctions against Iraq, the prevention of the delivery of much-needed
medical and other supplies because of US vetoes in the U.N. Security Council,
and the carcinogenic effects of depleted uranium left over from the 1991 Gulf
Slaughter, over a million people have died including an estimated 600,000
children .
As the entire world is aware
now, the alleged "weapons of mass destruction" is just a lame excuse
to bomb
Iraq several times a week and to
maintain sanctions which are slowly killing many of the people of Iraq. This policy by the US and Britain has truly been inhuman, slow
genocide certainly, and no amount of hypocritical moral posturing on the part
of their leaders can disguise this.
In the military process, it is
reported that
U.S. and British pilots slaughtered at
least 200,000 Iraqi men, women and children. And of course all these
murdered human beings were dismissed by the Pentagon as "collateral
damage." BBC does not give publicity to these figures,
although the broadcaster is all-out to mislead the world when a terrorist ‘in
journalist’ cloth was arrested by the Sri Lankan police.
Apart from their ability to
dismissals of any crime committed by themselves out rightly, these super powers
are champions of justifying and regretting after committing such
crimes. Few such justifications and regrets (typical) are;
"The pilot attacked
what he believed to be military vehicles, but he dropped his bomb in good
faith, as you would expect of a trained pilot from a democratic country. ...
The bomb destroyed the lead vehicle, which we now believe to have been
a civilian vehicle."
"NATO deeply
regrets" the deaths of 80 people which occurred when NATO attacked two
refugee columns in
Western Kosovo on April 14.”
"NATO deeply regrets" the
deaths of thirty nine civilians killed when a NATO missile hit a bus crossing a
bridge at Luzane on May 1.”
Thus judging by the above
records, the obvious question we have in Sri Lanka is, what moral rights do the
leaders of these countries have to advice us on how to improve the so-called
‘serious humanitarian situation’ and to work on a ‘political solution?
‘Humanitarian issues’ and
‘Political solution’ are the last trump cards of the game played by the LTTE
propaganda machinery. Almost all printed and electronic media supportive
to the outfit are full of statements and media releases issued by the NGOs
funded by foreign interests, few notable academics and politicians who are in
the payroll of LTTE. These groups appeared to have intensified their
battle for their own survival since a successful military action against
terrorism may deprive the income of those waging PEACE.
On the other hand, Tissa
Vitharana, the Chairman of the ‘FPRC’ (Few Party Representative
Committee) appears to be busy in finalising his so-called ‘Political Solutions
to Terrorists Problems’ or ‘Square Pegs for Round Holes” as ‘APRC’ (All Party
Representative Committee), for a non-existing problem, just to provide the
moral support to those holding the ‘Political Solution’ trump card. According
to media reports, Vitharana’s ‘FPRC’ is proposing full implementation of the
13tth Amendment and to establish another Assembly consisting of Provincial
Members. He is getting ready to put forward these proposals at the end of
this month. The 13th Amendment was made to the Constitution amidst fear
of Indian invasion and the extent of opposition to the treacherous Indo-Lanka
pact was notable when a sailor attacked the Indian PM while the latter was
receiving the guard of honour.
Prior
to the signing of the 13th Amendment, there had been a belief that the
‘Official language policy" of 1956 was the root cause of the conflict. The
13th Amendment made Tamil an official language overnight as a solution but the
charges against discrimination and demand for self-determination continue to be
made based on those lines. If official language is the root cause, the conflict
would have resolved itself with the implementation of the 13th Amendment
language policy.
There is hardly
any difference between the Quasi-Federal Indian government and the form of
government forced on us by the Indian constitutional draftsmen. In fact, some
argue that the Indian Constitution has vested more powers with the Centre than
those made under the 13th amendment in this country and when implemented in
full
Sri Lanka’s system will surpass
the Indian’s quasi-federal system.
Thus, the unitary
nature of our Constitution was shattered with the establishment of Provincial
Councils. The powers once devolved, especially along ethnic lines, though the
Centre has the power to dissolve any provincial council, will be irreversible
and, if an attempt is made to reverse them, the consequence would be
disastrous.
An additional
Assembly consisting of Provincial Members will add more burdens to economy
similar to the Provincial Councils and will help only the politicos who have
nothing else to do.
Is
Sri Lanka heading in the right
direction?
S. Akurugoda
Thursday, 19 February 2009
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more about the 13th Amendment
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