Conspiracy of the Catholic
Church in the North
By Charles S. Perera
In the wake of the Government Forces entering in to the District of
Kilinochchi controlled by the armies of the demoniac Prabhakaran, Bishop
Duleep Chikera has woken up to call for a Peace Zone in the North.
In the meantime the Catholic Church is trying to make the best out
of a bad situation to permanently implant the influence of the Catholic
Church in the North after the terrorists are eliminated by the Government
Forces. Therefore the intervention of Duleep Chikera calling for peace
zones now could be seen as an act in support of the agenda of the Catholic
Church in the north..
The Catholic Church is pleading for the cause of the Tamil civilians
caught in the conflict to show themselves as the saviours, so they could
herd them into their camp as the children of the God saved by their
intervention. In fact what they are doing is to see that the north remains
their Zone of influence once the terrorism is eliminated and peace and
calm settled down.
From far away Germany , Professor Emmanuel, hastens to echo the voice
of the Catholic Church in the north Sri Lanka, calling, pleading and
blaming all at the same time, to be heard by the International Community
entreating its intervention. The Catholics seem to spring from every
where, to plead the cause of the Civilians, who they had so far left
to suffer under the ruthless terrorists- who had been keeping them under
their grip on the pretention of being their protectors, the only representatives
of the Tamil population of Sri Lanka.
The majority of the people of the North are Hindus, but it is unfortunate
that only white cassocks of the Catholic priests are seen in the images
sent for public consumption by the media. The role of the Hindu priests
is to remain in the temples, to perform rituals and invoke the blessings
of the Hindu deities. They do not venture out to help the believers
and see to their welfare. Hence the Catholic priests have become the
cocks in the pen, to manage the civilian population in the north according
to their guise.
There are lot of Tamil writers in the websites devoted to the Tamil
cause, but none of them had found it necessary to get involved in forming
welfare groups ( without being supporters of the terrorists), to help
their Hindu compatriots without leaving the field open to the Catholic
priests. INGOs who have access to the civilian population may also be
willing partners of the Catholic Church. The pandering by these people,
the Catholic Clergy and the Christians will distance the Tamil civilian
population from their own religion and culture which would be an obstacle
to the unity of the Communities after terrorism.
The Tamil middle class, the Tamil intelligentsia, and the rich Tamils
in Sri Lanka including Anandasangaree are more interested in political
independence, and devolution of power- under a Federal Constitution,
while the poor Tamil citizens are being herded either by the terrorists,
to make cannon fodder of their children while the old, and the rest
are made to suffer under a fascist dictator, or by the Catholic Church
to take away their cultural identity, and replace their inherited gods
by a foreign god.
It is time that the Tamil Diaspora opens their eyes to this disaster
that has befallen the ordinary masses in the North-their kith and kin,
the poorer Tamil citizens. While they send their hard earned money to
enrich the coffers of a group of terrorists, to create a homeland for
the Tamils of the diaspora , their poorer compatriots are left at the
mercy of terrorists, and their inherited culture is being pawned to
gain a paradise after death, offered by the Catholic Church.
We appeal to the Tamil diaspora to at least now forget the past, and
instead of continuing to sow seeds of hatred, join with the Tamil, Sinhala,
and Muslim communities in Sri Lanka to make the common motherland a
happy place for all to live together. It is very heartening to see that
many Tamil writers come forward to give a true picture of communal relations
in the past. In this respect please see the following articles that
appeared in the Sri Lanka Guardian website:
1: Let my people go in Peace by Dr.Noel Nadesan (30.8.2008)
2: Open the gates of hell and let my people go by Selva Gnanam (4.9.2008),
and
3: Tamil Racism is older than 1956 by Thomas John Pulle (4.9.2008)
It is in this background, that Professor Emmanuel pontificates (TamilNet-4.9.2008)
from far away Germany to speak of an impending human crisis of a first
magnitude. He paints a picture of utter desolation caused by the government
forces, and speaks of the district overcrowded with internally displaced
people from Vanni seeking protection from the atrocities of the Sri
Lanka Forces. Prof. Emmanuel seems to say that the IDPs are flocking
into Kilinochchi running away from the Armed Forces seeking protection
from the terrorists. He adds with a flourish that "Sri Lanka government
has forfeited Tamils as its citizens. Its attitude and actions are that
of an invading country in an enemy's territory."
It is strange Prof.Emmanuel echos the sentiments of M.K.Narayanan,
in saying that Sri Lanka has forfeited Tamils as its citizen. The statement
is quite false, despite the attempts of the Catholic Church to distance
the Tamil citizens from the government of Sri Lanka.
Quite contrary to Sarah Palin's assertion that it is the God that had
made the American Armies go to Iraq, the Armed Forces of Sri Lanka have
been sent by the Government to eliminate terrorism, and with clear instructions
that in doing so they should avoid putting into danger the lives of
the Civilian population. That is one reason the government says, why
the progress of the government Forces towards entering Kilinochchi to
oust the terrorists is slow.
Even though there are complaints of the dangers caused to the Civil
Population in the conflict zone in the North, even the TamilNet the
voice of the terrorists has not pointed out any major disaster to human
life because of the bombardments, and army artillery fire by the Government
Forces.
Prof. Emmanuel who is himself not informed of the correct situation,
writes an article which is meant to poison the minds of the uninformed
Tamil diaspora against the Sinhala Community, and draw the attention
of the International Community to his imagined "human crisis of
a first magnitude.".
He says that in a couple of months when the war is over the Tamil demand
for basic human rights in Sri Lanka will be silenced for ever. It would
be the contrary as there are already lot of changes taking place some
initiated by the government, and others with the changing of attitudes
of the people , with the activities commenced by well meaning associations
and persons to change things from what they had been. The Sinhala people
will not hinder the government from taking every action possible to
build an environment of peace and reconciliation where the three communities
will get together to construct a new future for their children and generations
to come.
The north is marked by the absence of Buddhist Viharas, therefore it
is essential that the north as in the south should have Buddhist Viahras
with Monks and Nuns, in their yellow robes, without leaving the space
in the north free for the Catholic Church to dominate the scene, to
hinder the progressive development of communal relationship of the Hindu
Tamils, Sinhala Buddhists, Islamic Muslims, and the Christians.
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