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Greater People Participation Needed Towards Lasting Peace While Disillusioning The LTTE.
Considering the present impasse in the Peace Process in Sri Lanka it
may be fair to assume that perhaps there need to be a greater participation
by all commuities affected, namely the Sinhalese,Tamil, Muslim and other
minority communities at people level and not merely at leadership level
of the once warring factions and may be significant towards a broader
based concept towards peace.
Further considering the concept of peace as a political one in order to
have a lasting solution to Sri Lanka’s ethnic crisis, all sections
that are affected which beyond question is all of Sri Lanka categorically,
should be participants in the unravelling of a viable solution towards
a lasting peace where the continuous haggling, intimidatory rhetoric and
counter posturing should be discarded for a rational acceptance that peace
involving the Nation's population could be better accomplished by all
the diverse groups coming together towards resolution through negotiation
and mutual consensus where the general populace need not wait in eager
anticipation of the decisions of their peers anymore albeit somewhat utopian!.
Somewhat unfortunately also, this concept has a huge stumbling block in
the form of the LTTE and its leader Velupillai Pirapaharan who continues
to hold onto his terrorist idealogies together with his imagined title
as overall representative of the Tamil Community and points towards the
singlemost outstanding reality that his idea of a settlement to Sri Lanka's
crisis is a subjugation Vis a Vis the ISGA presented to the Administration
and its majority Sinhalese who are the democratic power within Sovereign
Sri Lanka and an imposition by the terrorists and their parliamentary
proxy the Tamil National Alliance. Such a precondition made to the Nation
of Sri Lanka which short of being preposterous is an abomination imposed
on the majority of a Sovereign Nation by a miniscule minority!! All the
latest rhetoric as well as the publicity generated by the LTTE and their
supportive factions point to this most impure of idealogies and something
which will never be attained by them as it contravenes the requirements
of any democratic society where the demands are not only impure and illogical
but also contravenes the Constitution of Sri Lanka which unfortunately
the LTTE and the TNA do not seem to fully comprehend and need to come
to terms with in their own best interests and perhaps a Dravidian rather
than a Freudian slip!!
The President of Sri Lanka while rejecting the ISGA unequivocally has
made it clear that Sri lanka is willing to come to terms with the needs
of the Nation through her counter proposal pointing towards a Federal
Solution and the creation of a more pluralistic society which is not to
the liking of the LTTE and its so called political representation in Parliament
probaly due to their insecurities about where such a solution would place
them and in all probabilities isolated and ostracised from the freedom
loving environment of Sri Lanka which would result, thereby preventing
further continuation of the activities of the LTTE towards their survival!
Contrary to the demands of autonomy suggested in the ISGA of the LTTE
the presentation of an alternate Federal Solution as devised by the Administration
of Sri Lanka under the leadership of Mme. Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga
would undoubtedly be one where all communities would participate in the
proper functioning of a once embattled Nation where all its inhabitants
irrespective of their ethnic, religious and cultural divide would share
equal rights in their coming together towards the evolution of a new Federal
System which would also involve Constitutional Change towards incorporating
the rights of all Sri Lankans equally as well as ensuring their participation
in the functioning of the State at a much higher level than during the
hierarchies and dynasties which have sorely disrupted the Nation's progress
into the 21st century through bartering with terrorists who by any norm
should have been put down and vanquished decades ago! who even today together
with their connived proxy in Parliament are still disrupting the progress
of the Nation issuing ultimatums under the threat of a return to their
terrorist activities where the patience of the Administration is gravely
tested in a non terrorist friendly Global and National environment!
The expert opinion of a highly respected intellectual well versed in the
analyses of global problems relative to internal armed insurrection has
recommended (regardless of its applicability with respect to Sri Lanka
conceptually) that, taking into consideration the solution to Sri Lanka's
crisis being deemed a political one, it may be imperative that every section
of the population affected needs to participate towards it. Without a
broad participation by the people of a Nation, a political process that
leads toward an anticipated solution would in all likelihood not work
satisfactorily as it would involve decisions made at a hierarchial level
and imposed on a society unilaterally. Hence the need for all the diverse
groups involved to come together towards evolving a Federal Structure.
Incorporation of diverse views are necessary to arrive at reasonable and
sustainable solutions acceptable to all sections of the population.
But questionably does this entail the designs and objectives of the LTTE
and the TNA ? Probably not, as it contravenes and disrupts their very
means towards existence and hence poses a fair sized hurdle which the
Administration needs to find a way to clear and also suggests a felt need
towards disillusioning the LTTE of their ambitions to dictate to a Sovereign
Nation considering their outlawed and proscribed status beyond which no
compromises are necessary unless they the LTTE and their supportives show
faith viably and credibly that they are ready to shed their impure image
and objectives towards merging into mainstream Sri Lankan society.
Amidst much circumspect thought there appears to be a felt need to emphasize
the importance of this concept time and time again to a hard core terror
group which probably has no intentions of relinquishing their hidden agenda
towards secession despite all the smoke screens they continue to create
as they have begun campaigning openly once again about their power and
might almost in an attempt to test the will of the Administration and
something which they may have to pay a severe price for as a foregone
conclusion somewhere down the road!
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