Cabinet Should Not Only Withdraw
The CFA But Also Ban The Tamil Tigers.
© Insight By Sunil
Kumar for LankaWeb
Jan.02, 2008
The Cabinet proposal made in Colombo on the 02 January, put forward
by Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapakse, in his capacity as Minister
of Defence, to withdraw the Ceasefire agreement entered between the
Government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on
22 February 2002 appears to have come at an opportune time albeit the
resonance of the saying "better late than never!" which comes
to mind significantly. The very fact that the CFA was permitted to linger
on has undoubtedly been costly to Sri Lanka at the expense of lost lives
and property but in the best interests of the Nation this is a closure
where there will be no further deals with the terrorists.
This is time appropriate to press home the advantage of having the upper
hand militarily over the terrorists who even today continue their cowardly
attacks as the latest bomb blast in Colombo has been set off in Slave
Island which has every hallmark of the LTTE and signifies the importance
of not making any compromises that would give the terrorists even the
slightest chance to re-group toward even a sporadic attack. The drive
to snuff them out is important as to how efficiently it is executed
as much as the need to implement fully the Prevention of Terrorism Act,
continue the Emergency and undo all the ludicrous agreements with the
terrorists a previous Administration in all its stupidity set in place
in collaboration with the meddling Norwegian Government.
The proposal which may run into some legal snags, thanks again to a
totally imperceptive previous administration led by a block headed leader
has been approved by the present Cabinet and it has been further decided
to appoint a ministerial cabinet sub-committee to look in to legal aspects
of withdrawing the Ceasefire Agreement which may play a key role twards
the all important closure this decision will set in place.
The Details of the Cease Fire Agreement which eventually became a smoke
screen for the LTTE to regroup and permitted Norway carte blanche to
meddle in and disrupt many aspects of the smooth functioning of Governence
which was r time and time again disrupted through the mendaciousness
of the terrorists whom they helped has been pellucidly outlined by The
Asian Tribune as quoted which reports that " According to the Ceasefire
Agreement, paragraph 4.4, the agreement shall remain in force until
notice of termination is given by either Party to the Royal Norwegian
Government. Such notice shall be given fourteen (14) days in advance
of the effective date of termination.
The ceasefire agreement was signed on 22 February 2002, between Ranil
Wickremasinghe, who was then the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka and Velupillai
Prabakaran, Leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
This Ceasefire Agreement was said to have been presented to the Sri
Lanka Government by Norway who continues to play the role of Peace facilitators
for talks between the Government of Sri Lanka and the LTTE.
It was alleged that the CFA legitimize the claims of LTTE having under
its control Vanni in the North which consisted of Kilinochchi, Mullaithievu
and a section of Mannar districts and also a section of vast land area
in the East.
The purpose of the CFA was to hold talks to end the conflict. Unfortunately
the talks did not continue as expected and even Sri Lanka Monitoring
Mission, a creation under the CFA to monitor violations was helpless
in monitoring the violations as it was an organization without any teeth
to bite.
According to SLMM, it was reported that LTTE violated the CFA more than
3000 times. In fact nothing came out of the CFA violation reportsand
LTTE continued with its violation with impunity." end of quote.
What transpired as a result is now infamous history where Norway pulled
out of her involvement in the Peace Process somewhat shamefacedly as
the skullduggery and contentiousnes of the likes of Eric Solheim and
his ilk were exposed together with the duplicity of Norway's involvement
where it provided the LTTE with platforms towards their continued existence
albeit pretentious towards an independent stance which was eventually
exposed as rank duplicity.
The LTTE however met their nemesis the day they decided to take on
Lieut. Gen. Sarath Fonseka who having narrowly missed being assassinated
has rallied his forces together with all the Armed Forces and Law Enforcement
Agencies within Sri Lanka, all of which are proudly gifted with astute
leadership who have begun their "tour de force" towards the
ultimate objective of wiping out the LTTE and nothing must stand in
the way of their progress.
The following exerpts from a public interview by Sri Lanka's Defence
Secretary granted to the media once again courtesy of the Asian Tribune
puts into perspective the Government's viewpoint of why it seems meaningless
to uphold a worthless Ceasefire Agreement when all it does is shackle
the Government from its progressive march to eliminate the LTTE and
liberate the Nation from their vile crimes against humanity including
their own Tamil Community which they falsely claim to represent and
provides leeway for them as the LTTE terrorists to continue their criminalities
with impunity!
Recently Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapakse in the interview
publicly suggested that CFA is just a joke and it should be scrapped
and that the LTTE should also be banned.
Given below is the full text of the relavent portion of the interview
with Gothabaya Rajapakse which appeared in the last Sunday Observer.
Q:Do you think that there is a need to abolish the CFA?
A: Yes. The vital fact is there is no CFA and it is just a document.
The CFA is a joke. We had signed several peace agreements and they are
still in existence.
Indo-Lanka agreement is still there. When signing a new peace agreement,
the previous peace agreements should be abolished but it never happened.
I think since Thimpu we have so many peace agreements.
I believe that the most sensible thing is that we must abolish the ceasefire
agreement. It should be officially end. The CFA is there and every day
it is violated making the CFA a big joke.
Officially we should say that there is no ceasefire agreement and we
should ban the LTTE because it is a terrorist organisation. I think
these two steps - banning the LTTE and officially declaring the abolition
of the CFA should be done immediately.
Then the President can come out with a new set of proposals to address
the problems of the Tamil people. One should remember that we should
not give solutions for the LTTE, which is a terrorist organisation.
Our solutions should be for the Tamil people and their leaders.
Q: But President Rajapaksa has recently said that the government
will ban the LTTE if they continue to attack?
A: Probably the President wants to give the LTTE some opportunities
to come forward for negotiations. But my personal opinion is to ban
the LTTE immediately.
- Asian Tribune -
There is little more which needs to be said about the imperative need
to rescind the CFA, ban the LTTE, set in place all the legal fortifications
needed to back the Government's objective to eliminate the LTTE and
eventually provide all peace loving citizens of Sri Lanka with their
inherant rights and the opportunity to live their lives with no terrorist
impediment towards the freedoms they have always been used to prior
to the terrorist scourge which began plaguing the Nation almost four
decades ago!
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