CLASSIFIED | POLITICS | TERRORISM | OPINION | VIEWS

RE: SL article of 17 March (Boston Globe editorial)

Anura Seneviratna (on behalf of expat Sinhela team-UK)

20 Mar. 08

The Editor
The Boston Globe

Dear Sir,/Madam,

“Sri Lanka’s recurring fever”

In response to this editorial – 3/17/2008 of your renowned paper, some facts on the Sri Lanka conflict must be brought to the fore as a matter of duty in the service of justice and truth.

“government dominated by a Sinhalese Buddhist majority and minority Tamils, who are mostly Hindu.”

The Sinhalese are not a mere majority but the 14 million Sovereign Nation of the island known as Sri Lanka where Tamils are a non indigenous minority of Tamil Nadu (Tamil Country) ethnic origin of the Indian subcontinent. The conflict is nothing other than an attempting undercover invasion to convert Sri Lanka into a second Tamil Nadu. 70 million Tamils of Tamil Nadu plus over 30 million expatriate Tamils including Sri Lanka totalling over 100 million Tamils are a major population of the world and they have a legitimate grievance of not having their independent country. As they cannot clash with the Indian subcontinent, to free Tamil Nadu, the national land of the Tamils, they found leeway in Sri Lanka due to most past rulers of Tamil ancestral origin nurtured Tamils against the nation of Sinhelas. So the world Tamil conspiracy of over 100 million Tamils was borne to capture Sri Lanka as the first step before freeing Tamil Nadu. Affordably, they are lobbying daily all over the world including The Boston Globe with the world’s most heinous fraud.

“Sri Lanka's president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, disavowed a 2002 cease-fire that Norwegian mediators had negotiated”

Not disavowed but it was self-evident that Tamil tigers broken peace-talks innumerable times hell-bent in capturing a part and then the whole island country.

“A recent Human Rights Watch report shows how Rajapaksa's government has committed grave human rights abuses.”

Most Tamil tigers move around as civilians committing dastardly genocide and their inhumanity does not deserve human rights but the massive world Tamil network can make untruth walk on stilts and fob Human Rights Watch, The Boston Globe and even US politicians.

“A lasting solution will require that the central government grant meaningful self-rule to the Tamil region,”

There is no Tamil region within the Sinhela National Country but only areas settled by non indigenous Tamils of Tamil Nadu ethnic origin who are equal members within the Sinhela nationhood. Lasting solution for them is to fall in line with the rest of the world’s minorities in host countries.

Anura Seneviratna (on behalf of expat Sinhela team-UK)

Sri Lanka's recurring fever

The Boston Globe. [Editorial]. 03/17/2008.

ALL TOO many regions of the contemporary world are afflicted with recurring outbreaks of warfare between nation-states and ethnic or sectarian minorities. One of the worst has been festering for the past quarter-century in Sri Lanka, where 70,000 people have perished in intermittent fighting between a government dominated by a Sinhalese Buddhist majority and minority Tamils, who are mostly Hindu.

more stories like thisOver the past two years, that war flared up worse than ever. In January, Sri Lanka's president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, disavowed a 2002 cease-fire that Norwegian mediators had negotiated between the government and the armed group known as Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Cease-fire monitors from several Nordic countries were then called home. The monitors had been sidelined for the past year while the army assaulted the predominantly Tamil eastern and northern provinces and the Tigers responded with attacks on army forces in the north and east as well as bombings in the capital, Colombo.

The government, under pressure from Sinhalese hard-liners, has opted to end the conflict by winning the war. Political and military leaders speak of crushing the Tigers by the end of the year. They insist the Tigers are nothing but terrorists and that once their funding from abroad is cut off, the army will solve the conflict over Tamil minority rights by wiping out the Tigers.

The reality is not so simple. A recent Human Rights Watch report shows how Rajapaksa's government has committed grave human rights abuses. In its 241-page report, "Recurring Nightmare: State Responsibility for 'Disappearances' and Abductions in Sri Lanka," the human rights group documents a pattern of abductions of civilians by security forces. The report calls on the government to acknowledge its "responsibility for large-scale disappearances and take all steps necessary to stop the practice."

Human Rights Watch also calls on the Tigers to "cease abductions and extrajudicial executions." Still, it is hard to deny that the government's human rights violations deprive it of the ethical high ground.

Asian powers China and India, competing for influence in Sri Lanka, do not help its government by withholding criticism. At bottom, Sri Lanka's conflict is political, and it must be resolved by political means. A lasting solution will require that the central government grant meaningful self-rule to the Tamil region, perhaps in a confederal structure that maintains the unity of the country. Continuing attempts to resolve the conflict militarily can only produce more suffering and more war.

Disclaimer: The comments contained within this website are personal reflection only and do not necessarily reflect the views of the LankaWeb. LankaWeb.com offers the contents of this website without charge, but does not necessarily endorse the views and opinions expressed within. Neither the LankaWeb nor the individual authors of any material on this Web site accept responsibility for any loss or damage, however caused (including through negligence), which you may directly or indirectly suffer arising out of your use of or reliance on information contained on or accessed through this Web site.
All views and opinions presented in this article are solely those of the surfer and do not necessarily represent those of LankaWeb.com. .

BACK TO LATEST NEWS

DISCLAIMER