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Make terrorists democrats, not democrats terrorists. Manmohan Singh has a lesson to Learn from Mahinda Rajapakse.

By Charles.S.Perera

President Mahinda Rajapakse, actually made terrorists, democrats. But, what the Amnesty International, the Human rights activists, Muslim politicians, and the failed politicians of the UNP want to do is exactly the opposite.

Where is the sense of Democracy, and respect for human rights of the people, if they capitalise a situation to their benefit without reflecting on the importance of the issue.

It is said that even a harmless little animal if driven to a corner without an escape rout would open its fangs and turn back on its attackers in defence.

The same may happen now if the human rights organisations, and local politicians, keep on accusing Karuna Amman and his followers, for kidnappings, murder or recruiting child soldiers, distrusting them because they keep arms, refusing to give them a chance to become honest peaceful citizens, because of their past crimes. They may see the hypocrisy of democracy, and democratic institutions, and go back to be terrorists, to die as terrorists..

I do not wish to repeat the well known Buddhist story of Angulimala, but it is suffice to say that once a person turns his back to the past and sincerely repents for his errors, it is a turning of a page, end of the bad kamma that enlightens him to take another route. The society should then encourage him by giving him confidence, trusting him and helping him on his way to redemption.

Amnesty International accused Great Britain of not having charged Karuna Amman for crimes against humanity. That itself showed to what extent the Amnesty International acts without thoughtful evaluation of situations and people. Under Mme Irene Khan Amnesty International has become an institution blindly following the organisations of human rights activists, that began to appear like mushrooms after rains, when Sri Lanka government sought the military solution to end terrorism.

Irene Khan, did not have the intelligence to understand how important it is to fight terrorism from within. If the terrorist groups are divided and some of them turn away from terrorism to embrace democracy, that would be the beginning of an end to terrorism.

But if on the other hand, if there is such a break up, and one group turns to democracy, and the government following the methods suggested by Mme Irene Khan's Amnesty International , seizes the break away group of terrorists, put them in prison, and charge them for crimes against humanity, the other terrorists from the break away group may very well run away from democracy, not wanting to fall from the frying pan into the fire, and go back to terrorism.

Thereafter, any terrorist discontent with terrorism will stay on to die as terrorists, and will fight against democratic governments to set up Fascist Regimes, rather than embrace democracy.

If Mms Irene Khan's method of fighting against terrorism is to charge every terrorist who gives up terrorism and surrenders to the police or the security forces, for crimes against humanity, that would then be the terrorism by democracy. Therefore, we appeal to Irene Khan as well as the Western Human Right groups, to please leave our problems for us to settle in our own human way, as we have had enough of being interfered by modern humanists .

If one were to implement the proposals of Amnesty International, what an irony it would be, for those young terrorists, (who for number of years went through hell living in jungles, without a square meal a day, without love and affection of parents, a wife, or a child), who suddenly decide to give up terrorism and seek democracy hoping that it would give them freedom, peace and the love of a people who are fed up with terrorism, if the so called democrats will grab them the moment they surrender, and charge them for their past crimes as terrorists.

The most of the terrorist are mislead, and merely follow orders from their leadership, blindly hoping for the pride of belonging to an Eelam State, or through fear of reprisals if orders are not carried out.

Some of our Muslim compatriots, too envisaged treating those who had given up terrorism to seek peace and happiness in democracy, as persons not educated enough to hold responsibility, and still not worthy of being trusted. Even our failed political leaders of the UNP Ranil Wickramasinghe, Tisss Attanayake, S.B. Dissanayae , Lakshman Kiriella , and many others of that ilk, demanded that the Karuna group should be disarmed. These "democrats" of the Muslim community, and the UNP were hell bent on depriving the Pillaiyan of the break away terrorist group from becoming the Chief Minister of the East.

The worst disappointment was to come during the SAARK meeting, when the Prime Minister of India Mr.Manmohan Singh, give an audience to the Agents of the LTTE terrorist the TNA, and refused to see the Chief Minister of East-Pillaiyan, who is not only anti-terrorist, but who is a person who has given up terrorism and accepted democracy, that he believed, people like Mr. Manmohan Singh represents.

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