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Peace In Sri Lanka Minus The Rhetoric And The Manouvering Required To Accomplish Same Towards Posterity.With all the pundits especially media jabs from agencies such as Reuters
and some sections of the Indian Press involved in sending in viable
alternatives towards resolving the current peace impasse with nary a
reference towards challenging the rights of the terror group involved
which continues wearing all its terrorist regallia and effects unrelentingly
and blaming it on the President for having appropriated the cabinet
ministries within her constitutional right to do so when all indications
pointed to a viable justification of her actions, no one however seems
to want to blame the LTTE as being the chief culprits responsible for
the impasse while its reality stares the more discerning right between
the eyes. Indeed taking a view of the mechanisms and structure needed relative not only to the Presidents but also the ruling party's vigorous output as refered to towards positive objectives ending in the onset of a lasting peace if absent as is to be infered when Peace Initiatives commenced then it would seem a rather ridculous error of omission which if it is an admission and needs to be viewed objectively as to what credibilities the UNF Administration did in fact carry towards their concept of peace where so much time energy and finances seem to have been spent on, thus far accomplishing so little! and a clear admission of guilt towards incompetence! What modalities the Professor is refering as needing consideration in earnest! boggles the analytical mind and the high flown rhetoric which accompanies the explanations of a botched Peace effort seems sadly inadequate to compensate for what the Nation views as tantamount to a sellout of its Sovereignity and Territorial Integrity by all concerned in support, and sticks out in the manner of a 'sore thumb!' Those who have dared to condone the shambles of a counter proposal termed the ISGA towards peace submitted by the LTTE must surely be indulgent of a prevaricative admission on behalf of the UNF Administration that the lack of consensus on the issue of peace unequivocally is something which needs to be supplemented urgently before the LTTE takes too much for granted and are permitted to further their assertion of the right to recognition which they are in no way entitled to considering their terrorist status and their non recognition in the eyes of the World Powers who have banned them and a consensus which can only be achieved realistically and credibly if all the aspects of a insurgent free infrastructure is viewed as an alternative to dealing with a group of fully armed unrelenting terrorists who do not by rights or definition represent completely represent the Tamil community and not something which can be accomplished through palavering to Velupillai Pirapaharan's chest beating or the intimidatory verbosity of LTTE idealogues who continue to justify their right to redress based purely upon a recognition demanded by them which cannot be accommodated in any rational or legal sense! Perhaps time enough to discard the attitude of benevolence towards the impurities of what the LTTE represent and indicate a reluctance on the part of the Administration as well as all political parties within Democratic Sovereign Sri Lanka to recognize them as an entity with any right towards their cause which under a banner of terrorism should bever be permitted to succed and their quest towards the continuity of their own existence discouraged and put down by all the legal and constitutionalised means within Sri Lanka where their only alternative would be to come clean, decommission their weapons and discontinue expansions of mock administrative operations, give up idealogies towards secession which is consequently obvious regardless of denials and merge into mainstream Sri Lankan society where the criminal element within their organization is purged completely and handed over to the relevant authorities seeking their indictments for high crimes and misdemeanors perpetrated on a Sovereign Nation and its neighbour India and manifestations of deplorable terrorism responsible for the carnage of a colossal loss of innocent lives over decades. Very philosophically it needs to be emphasized that it is often all too easy to be confused by the preachings of an incumbent regime by virtue of its office and elevation which in the quest for its own ideals forgets the greater responsibility towards the State and the rights of its people to exist unencumbered by the threat of terror. In the simplest evocation of professorial rhetoric "to retain a sense of perspective, it is necessary perennially to remind oneself of that fact and that there can be no peace within an infrastructure dictated to by terrorists. Whether it be Elections post haste! or a dissolution of parliament and a replacement of the Administration within the means of the Constitution and initiated through Presidential decree, Sri Lanka's involvement with the implications of impasse seem to be an inevitable part of her destiny which at the end of it all lies in the hearts of her voting public and the importance of National Unity of majority assent of the Sinhala Nation which must surely be the only means towards peace and needs to be manouvered minus the presently overflowing rhetoric towards real posterity!. |
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