Thank you Army Commander Lt.General
Sarath Fonseka, the Commanders of the Navy and the Air Forces, and the
Soldiers of the Combined Security Forces.
By Charles.S.Perera
The said to be the Invincible Terrorist Army of the Sun God, is at last
brought to its knees, and his mighty terrorist armed forces are running
in disarray. We the people of Sri Lanka should be ever grateful for
the Commanders of the Combined Military Forces of Sri Lanka, for bringing
back to our country the pride it had lost. The International Community
who was out to make us come to a peace settlement with the terrorist
and eventually divide our country like India, has failed in its endeavour.
Incidentally, as the Commander of the Army made a statement to the
press that the Army is seeing the tail end of the "war" against
terrorism, Swaminathan Natarajan of the BBC Tamil Service writes in
the BBC News website, the most twisted and negative article, "
Sri Lanka's east in shadow of war" . This had been by and large
the foreign media comments that had been, an on going journalist retching
against all efforts of the Sri Lanka Government and its Army, through
out the last two years in its successful military action against the
terrorists.
This success story of the Sri Lanka Security forces will not be received
well by the International Community and the British Colonialists. It
is a well known fact that the British Colonialists practiced its- now
famous divide and rule policy in the administration of its colonies.
They tried it with great success in India.
To India they brought in Jinnah who was already engaged in the British
politics, having left India after his famous 14 points were rejected
by the Congress . The British probably had a hand in using him as a
wedge, between the crack that was appearing between the two Communities
in the course of India's struggle for independence , and probably kept
on striking on Jinnah the divisive desire, which finally resulted in
the split between the Muslims and Hindus, and the formation of Pakistan
by the break away Community of Muslims.
The British Colonialists failed to do the same in Sri Lanka before
Sri Lanka was granted independence, and belatedly tried their best to
put right their failure, by splitting Sri Lanka using the LTTE terrorists
as the "wedge", between the Sinhala and the Tamils.
The Tamil Diaspora most of who left Sri Lanka in 1983, espoused the
terrorists' demand for a separate Tamil Eelam, making the terrorists
their heroes- freedom fighters. But the terrorists were nothing but
a group organised by Prabhakaran to make a reality of his Eelam dream.
It was the bitter memories with which the Tamil Diaspora, were made
to wrench away from their bellowed motherland, that made them embrace
the terrorist cause for a separate Tamil Eelam.
The interested parties who were looking forward for personal benefits
that may "fall on them", from a political separation of Sri
Lanka, fanned the Tamil hatred against the Sinhala and Sinhala Buddhists.
The communal uprising of the 1983, was not a Sinhala sponsored movement,
there were other actors who played their part to make it take the aspect
of a Sinhala-Tamil racial riot.
The Sinhala never had any grudge against the Tamils for the colonial
manipulation of minority as a wedge, to keep the communities apart for
the convenience of their colonial rule. The idea itself, of Sinhala
Supremacists with a Mahawansa mindset, discriminating against the Tamil
minority, is a completely false concept, created apparently by the Tamil
intelligentsia, for reasons better known to them.
Of course, after the independence the Governments of Sri Lanka had
taken measures to put right the colonial discrimination against the
Sinhala, which had been instituted to keep the Sinhala Majority from
rising against the British rule, along with the minority Tamils.
Those actions of the Sri Lanka governments, now condoned by the Tamil
diaspora, were exagerated to distance the minority Tamils from the Sinhala,
which resulted in the first uprising of the communal riots in 1957 after
a Sinhala man was supposed to have been assassinated in the North. The
subsequent communal rights were the distant results of the first. It
is high time that these unfortunate deplorable events are forgotten,
and the Sinhala and Tamil rise from the past errors, who ever was responsible
to them, and begin to build a united nation of Sri Lanka.
The great victory of the Security Forces, over the disastrous terrorism,
is no doubt also due to our President Mahinda Rajapakse, who allowed
the Commanders of the Combined Security Forces to carryout their responsibilities
in complete independence, without any interference.
The nearly three decades of terrorism have given a chance for each
Community to reflect, and bury the wretched hatchets of discord, and
unite together as brothers and sisters in this land where we were born,
and live together as the children of one great family.
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