Friday, March 27, 2009

Our Ambassadors And Their Extended Holidays

Author:Swarnajith Udana
swarnajithUdana@gmial.com

About fifteen years or so ago a friend of then Sri Lankan President was appointed as the Ambassador to Australia. The presidential call was from his friend to have a nice holiday in Australia. This ambassador was insensitive enough to publicly state this in front of a group of Sinhalese (This shows that he could not see any thing wrong with that. That is how they think about public. Public is there to serve their each and every single wish and whim.). At the end of his tenure Sinhalese people did not even bother to give him a farewell. He might have said to himself, “ungrateful rascals!” This is the attitude of our government people and its representatives. What are they doing to counter LTTE propaganda? Yes they do a little as a hobby in a leisurely fashion not with any passion. How can the LTTE still take the world for a ride? Infiltrations! That could be very true. Did our Governments anticipate this? Did or do they have a plan to counter this? If the lackeys are appointed to represent our nation as gifts for facilitating dirty political deals then we can expect only peanut services.

For instance, while this genocide accusation is making rounds in international arena, have our representatives endeavoured to point out that one has to drag Tamil Civilians by force from the Government controlled side to the LTTE safe heaven. While that is so, is there a loud cry by the Government to show that the Tamil civilians brave mines (that are set up by LTTE to stop civilian escape), Tamil civilians have even become sheer insensitive to shooting, torturing and live-burning done by the LTTE as punishment for attempts of escaping and Tamil civilians risk their lives by taking extremely dangerous jungle and sea routes just to cross to the side of the genocide camps. How strange is this?

Why cannot the world see this? The people who crossed to the “genocide” camps of Sri Lankan Government bare evidence to the trust they place in the security forces and atrocities committed by the LTTE. A UN official has commented that he cannot vouch for the number of civilian deaths due to war. This is understandable. To vouch for a number more or less one needs to count. If it is not possible, then one cannot vouch, but what does prevent UN from pointing out to this strange phenomenon that people voluntarily and deliberately going to the concentration camps of genocide and then express gratitude and relief? How come the Tamil civilians craze to cross to the side of death? This situation is indictment of our foreign services and government corrupt practices through decades. No wonder why the LTTE has been on top of the propaganda war.

The recent upheaval in the UNP camp is a blessing in disguise for Sri Lanka if the people pay proper attention. Loosing credibility of Government is nothing new and signals the death of the regime. That may not be bad itself, but loosing credibility of the Opposition signals the death of democracy. That is a disaster. Yet this recent upheavals in the UNP has a silver lining in it. It reveals the inner working of the modern political parties and provides glimpses into the soul and inner spirit of our society. The decay of society and the moral decay of political parties go in hand in hand and they feed on each other. If this is how the UNP has conspired against its own members it is not hard for anybody to imagine what might have they done against the government. How many accusations against the Government might have just cooked up in Siri Kotha?

How many crimes they might have committed or stage-managed just to point the finger at the Government? Is there any guarantee that the UNP has not provided disinformation on the Government and told tales against the Government in International arena with malicious intent, to short cut the war and reach their own dirty political aspirations by throwing the Nation to the Tiger, LTTE? This loosing credibility is a crime against the Nation, not just against the President.

Governments and Oppositions are both elected to serve the Nation. The task of the Government is to govern the country and the task of the Opposition is to govern the Government. Instead of performing these sacred national duties entrusted to them, the first priority of the Government is to outfox the Opposition and that of the opposition is to outfox the Government. While this game of outfoxing of each other is going on high gear foxes from outside meddle, control and govern the affairs of the country. What is being subjected to immense bleeding and torturous gangrene is the Nation itself; the sacred duty that they have been entrusted with is neglected and ignored. To see this just listen what our politicians say. UNP, JVP, Marxist Parties and the Government and all the other parties behave in this ludicrous manner. For instance a Trotskyite, once said that minority racism or nationalism is progressive and the majority racism or nationalism is oppressive. Minority or majority when a gun fires the bullet kills. Maybe, by the word progressive, the Marxist was referring to the increasing magnitude of mayhem.

Morality cannot win military wars; just because of that one cannot throw the morality away. If we do then we will later find that the Nation has lost in big time. Also, the war of morality cannot be won by military means. One of the excuses of our past Masters and International Lords that they still tend to find a pet in the Tiger is that the behaviour of our own leaders. (Another reason is the appointment of foreign services officers to extended holidays.) Let us say that Lasantha Wickramathunga , who has been hailed as saint of journalism (This I am not going to discuss and his duplicity and complicity has been amply exposed for the eyes that are open.), was killed by LTTE or UNP, just to trouble the Government. Let us agree all the dirty killings and attacks were cruel deeds of the UNP or/and the LTTE. Then I should ask who pardoned the wife of Minister Milroy Fernando? Was this done by UNP? Is this a thitha (period) to Mathata thitha of Mhinda Chinthana itself. The President mocks himself.

President you have been elected to a post of immense powers as JR once remarked, but remember none of these powers is vested in you to release convicted murderers without due legal process. Here I recall the release of Gonawala Sunil. How can an ambassador, even if he/she wants to and is equipped with skills to face and decimate LTTE propaganda, confront outside world and say our Government works on principles? This is not a human mistake. This is a traitorous act against the Nation. That is even more so in this delicate moment. This is as traitorous as the burning of Jaffna library and allowing the 1983 riots to go unabated for sometime. President you are not elected to this position to show your gratitude or express your friendships; (It is good that you have those good qualities but do not use the powers vested in you for personal favours). You are elected to be King Elara or the policeman in India who fined himself for running a red light and who sued his wife for abusing government property (the vehicle was given to him by the government for his official use.)

President has recently expressed that the ambassadors of Sri Lanka should be able to negate the LTTE propaganda. For this to happen, ambassadors should be able to stand on high moral ground. If the ambassadors have to defend murderers being pardoned with out due legal process by the highest authority of the country and if the security given to politicians is withdrawn as a mean of intimidation then they will have no credibility to start with and the pet rebels would win hands down. Providing security for these unscrupulous politicians is not done because their services are invaluable. It is to neutralise any propaganda against the Government. If the Government is so keen about winning the propaganda war (which is a more sacred national duty rather than a strategy of political expediency) then it is important that the Government stands on principles.

Mr. President when you came to power Sri Lanka was a divided country whose leaders chose to bend their heads to kiss the feet of the True God. You chose otherwise. You achieved this nearly impossible feat in a prudent manner with strategical cleverness and skills without haste or reluctance. This credit must go to you, Sir and to some of your team and of course to the soldiers. If you really want to, you can become the mythical Prince Diyasena. Stand on principles. People will be grateful to you. They already are. Do not betray their trust. History will mark appropriately the magnitude of Chandirka’s betrayal of people’s trust. Please do not follow that example, Sir. I believe that you are too good for that.

Sri Lankan people have come a long way from their 1983 racial disharmony. This is evident that they showed maturity and compassion to ignore provocations and stay calm bearing emotional distress. My feeling is that they have vastly moved away from straight forms of racial biases. At least Sinhalese people seem to be more compassionate towards the predicament of Tamils, yet they still have a long way to go. There should be campaigns to nurture this new unity. It is heartening to see that Tamil people who once feared the security forces (with good reasons I might add) now trust them and soldiers under extremely testing conditions keep their composure. These did not happen in a vacuum. Political and military leaderships and particularly soldiers should be praised for this achievement.

Muslim people seem to be going some extra mile to generate religious harmony by offering alms to temples. Have Buddhists reciprocated this magnificent gesture. How about other religions? To enhance this springing up national unity, Bodhi Puja needs to be organised in village level to bless health, safety and peace to Tamil civilians.

Some people may think and say that standing on fairness to all beyond racial lines on national unity is humanely impossible utopianism. In that case, we do not have to worry! We always have the luxury of inhumanely possible and economically ‘productive’ war. The choice is ours. Not making the choice itself is the choice of inhumanely possible war. If politicians resolve firmly to perform their sacred duty we can bring our Nation to the prosperity that it deserves and once it had. I believe that the President, Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksha, can do it if he really so desires.

Cease The Cries For Ceasefire Or Show How To Cease Fire

Author:Swarnajith Udana
swarnajithUdana@gamil.com

From a considerable number of organizations there are loud cries for ceasefire. That itself is not a bad idea. Any reasonable person (This excludes LTTE and its supporters.) would want to save civilians. What I cannot see-may be due to lack of military expertise and not being privy to sufficient information- how can a ceasefire save even a single civilian life if the LTTE does not agree to release the civilians during a well determined ceasefire? Do the people who crave for a ceasefire care to tell the Sri Lankan Government how can the civilians be saved even if the LTTE would choose to tighten the noose around the civilians? I am not saying that there are no such methods; the problem is that I cannot perceive such methods due to limitedness of my mind. If any body can show this I will be crying for a ceasefire too since it cuts the noose around the civilians and tightens around the LTTE.

How did our affairs develop into this sorry state that International community at large is blind to these realities? There is no doubt the LTTE is a unique phenomena in the stage of international arena. They are cunning, innovative and resourceful. All these aspects rise from one single black hole; A black hole that usurps all positive human qualities and x-rays only sinister ruthlessness reinforced by no-remorse-no-guilt-no-shame spirituality of True Godly maxims. This is true but are we to believe or say that the LTTE is invincible? Who offered them this invincibility? We can say Masters did. It may be also true. So, if that is the whole truth, nothing but the truth, then aren’t we doomed and accepting that the LTTE is undefeatable?

If we really want to defeat the LTTE militarily and spiritually then we need to look at our roles in granting the LTTE its invincibility. Only by seeing that it is us, more than any body else, who grants the LTTE its divineness then we can empower us to truly take out their invincibility. Otherwise, we will have to wait until the LTTE sheds its invincibility by itself and the Masters take it away. That is not going to happen.

How did we give the LTTE its invincibility? Recently Mr. Thomas Johnpulle writing on Sri Lanka Guardian claimed that Jaffna Tamil people gave up the idea of independence state for economic reasons. Yes it is true that one of them claimed they need 50/50 representation. It is also true that colonial powers had ignited racial friction between the ethnic groups. Even then the Jaffna Tamils choose not to ask for an independent state. (I am not a historian-so I may be wrong here in detail but my basic tenet would still be correct. For that matter, even if I am a historian I may still be wrong regardless my sincerity since even exact sciences cannot claim to achieve absolute truths.) Whatever the situation is it is absolute truth that there was racial disharmony and friction fuelled by colonial powers (This statement does not exonerate Tamils or Sinhalese for keeping the fuel working on themselves.) and still the Tamil people choose (may be reluctantly) agreed to live in one Sri Lanka or Ceylon. Now what did our politicians do to quell the fires deep insides of hearts.

Rather they themselves choose to fuel the racial disharmony and sold their souls for foul votes. Dear Sinhalese do not ask what Tamils did or did not do to soothe the situation and nurture National identity among all. If you do then you are surrendering control of yourselves to another group. Dear Tamils do not ask what Sinhalese did or did not do either. You both people need to stand for fairness to all and throw away animalistic tribalistic world view in favour of more humane version of patriotism and ethnic love. If it is impossible to you, then you are choosing war. If we do not choose to change ways of our hearts we are fuelling Sinhalese and Tamil extremist groups. The Sinhala version of LTTE or the upgrade version of LTTE may not be far away. (Please do not interpret this as a support for power devolution, federalism or separatism. In fact some time ago, I happened to be a supporter of separatism or at least federalism. In principle, I am not against separatism or federalism, yet in practical terms federalism or power devolution in racial lines could spell disaster for both Tamils and Sinhalese, is what I believe now.)

It is evident that the LTTE blissfully welcomed 1983 riots. They knew the right buttons to push to make it happen. How did they know? They knew it because they accurately gauged the sentiments of Sinhalese politicians and some segments of Sinhalese population. They did not kidnap our politicians and make them burn the Jaffna Library. Some of our politicians did it voluntarily. The LTTE did not take the hands of Sinhalese mobs and raise those hands and planted them with swords then landed the hands on Tamils to unleash lethal power. Some one is saying even these mobs were led by Tamils (LTTE) themselves. If any Tamil went near by such a mob they would have been killed by the mob instantly. We should not play LTTE type games with truth. Why did JR wait so long to address the Nation and ask for calmness? Was it because he was abducted by the LTTE and kept hostage until enough damage was done to satisfy the horrendous plan of the LTTE.

If we want to decimate the myth of LTTE invincibility we need to take control; control of ourselves, that is, not of Tamils. We need to clearly understand how a segments of Sinhalese people themselves ignited racial disharmony. Then Even a larger segment physically or in attitude followed these sentiments fueled by racial hatred. If we see this collectively we can free ourselves from this evil and reach out to our Tamil brothers and sisters. Do not leave it to them. Let us be strong assertive and reach out them without yielding. Is this impossible? Alright then we have the luxury of war and suicide bombing.

Upon arrival of this LTTE menace, having helped them to establish themselves as a military power what did our politicians do? The LTTE became a gold mine for some of our ministers and army officers. They let our young people to be slaughtered at the will of the LTTE and virtually sold their corpses to fill their coffers with dollars. Some of our politicians and army officers made every possible buck from commissions obtained by purchasing ineffective bullets and non-protective bulletproof vests. The list goes on and on. We ornamented the LTTE with the myth of invincibility and we celebrated their invincibility with pious feelings of reverence. We can blame India, NGO and many other evil forces. By doing that what we only do is to hand over the control to somebody else. We are subliminally saying to us “They are so powerful and we are helpless.” For the credit of this current Government, this feeding of one’s own coffers using the beggars wound of the war seems to have almost eradicated. It seems like that now the soldiers are looked after and being well disciplined.

True Sun God may be planning to do a Jim Jones; commit mass murder and suicide as it happened on 18th of November 1976 in Guyana. One may argue this suicide-murder was initiated by the visit of Congressman Leo Ryan. If such a heinous crime happens in the safe zone then some of our masters may be waiting to blame Sri Lanka for initiating the crime by choosing to defend its sovereignty. I wish that True God will have sanity enough not to commit such thing since I cannot bear that harm of this magnitude coming to our brothers and sisters not because some are waiting to tarnish the image of Sri Lanka.

LTTE Claims The Crown Of The Commonwealth; Sri Lanka Gains The Pariah State

Author Swarnajith Udana
swarnajithudana@gmail.com

Humanity, justice and fairness have won a remarkable uplift recently. The Masters are going to expel Sri Lanka from the exquisite membership of the club of old colonies. We need to keep this membership so that we can keep celebrating being colonized, don’t we? The aftershocks of colonization peaked in 1983 and is continuing to this day in grandiose of mayhem, suicide bombing. Why should not we celebrate?

After the expulsion, the next logical step would be to award the crown or the Mastership of the club to the LTTE. Well done Master! I will be happier if the crown goes to the LTTE. Then there is at least some predictable pattern to the world affairs. Let us assume that this will be done otherwise it will be impossible for many of us to keep our sanity.

During the same period, Elam Super Power has warned China to get its facts right. Nadashen, genuinely and sincerely as always as he is-being true to the nature of his organization- has offered help to educate China about real facts. There they go. Master exceeds the New Crown Prince and the New Crown Prince outdoes the Master. This is how it should be. One outperforms the other. One may wonder; do they have a shared tongue? Maybe they share not only a single tongue but also blood, bones and soul. Does not this show whatever has been said or pretended, the LTTE are the pet rebels and rebel pets peace doves of the Masters of the world? Also they are peace doves of the gentlest kind.

Even though it has been discussed the peace credentials of LTTE, I would like to present a brief summary.

• The LTTE is well known for the spiritual and peaceful nature of unique kind that guarantees achievement and sustainability of peace. The pillar principle of this peace spirituality can be summed up in four words: Only us then Peace. It is sure to work. The only obstacle is Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka is selfishly resisting this philanthropic and spiritual principle. Also, it is unfortunate that this principle seems to be little too much for Tamil civilians and even for some hardcore carders too. They are running away to the Government controlled areas. But Super Power Elam will never vacillate from its divine principles or move away form this sure to work peace theme- only us then peace.

Maybe the Master was very pleased with this steadfastness. This brave and courageous stand on a single theme such as only us then peace has never been witnessed in the whole history of mankind. This power of resolution itself exceeds the limitations of boundaries of humanity and is unimaginable to human cognition when tactics and strategies of only us then peace theme manifested on streets and in crowded busses etc, which has become an affront for the beast itself. Why shouldn’t such a magnificent achievement unimaginable to human mind be rewarded by the Masters? We might add that this reward does not come as a favor made on partiality. It comes as a true evaluation of the meritorious performance of the LTTE. Well done Masters and the New Prince of Crown!

• The prophet of the True God of Super Elam Heaven has warned China to get its facts right. See how peaceful they remain with themselves and within themselves? The spiritual determination and miraculous ability to remain in peace with themselves after making buses burnt into ashes-one after one- seem to have impressed the Master. If this is not meritorious what can it be? Maybe this has reminded them their colonial times; divide and rule spirituality and other crimes.

• The prophet has also loudly and clearly expressed their resolute desire to have peace talks with Sri Lankan Government without any precondition. This is a gem of a gem of the rarest of the rarest kind, or precisely the LTTE kind. I am sure Masters could have been elated to hear this proclamation of love of peace by their pets. Masters might have been feeling motherly love for their rebel pets or pet rebels and experiencing pica-syndromic-feelings to run to the Putumattalan sea strip, take the LTTE into the lap, mollycoddle and say soothing lullabies while breastfeeding their peace doves.

Do you hear the Lullaby?

Sweet Baby LTTE
Always feeds
Just in peace
Do not cry do not cry
Sri Lanka will go perished.

• Such maternal love should always be admired. We all know the world runs on maternal love. One needs to see that this condition that there is no condition is, in fact, a condition to the Sri Lankan Government. Government should not ask the LTTE to lay down arms or release the civilians or stop committing any horrendous crimes. See how peaceful they are. If God has created man, HE could not have created the LTTE. I suspect Devil. Devil in the Mind. Mind of the True God, but not without our help.