POLICE AND LAND POWERS IN 13th AMENDMENT - POLITICAL DYNAMITE FOR
INDIA AND SRI LANKA
Jayantha de Z Gunasekera
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Provincial Council including the Northern Provincial Council has enjoyed
Police and Land powers for quarter century (26 years). Why is the TNA
hell bent on securing police and land powers at the behest of the LTTE
Diaspora, other than to fragment this country with the assistance of
Jayalalithaa, Karunanidhi and Hillary Clinton?
Why are we paying salaries and giving enormous perks to TNA to
brazenly act in a manner inimical to our country? The TNA rather than
dousing the fires are fanning the flames.
Tamil Nadu Politicians’ who were advocating separation from the
central government of India in the 1960s, shut their big mouths when the
central government of India introduced the 16th Amendment to the
Constitution of India. Now, they are attempting by devious means to
approach the same issue by first creating a separate state in Sri Lanka
which will then be used as a launching pad to create a separate state in
Tamil Nadu in India. This is the reason why Tamil Nadu and TNA want
weapons and they are hell bent on getting police and land powers to
create a separate state in Sri Lanka.
The 13th Amendment was foisted on our government by India. It is a
wolf in sheep’s clothing. This was no legislation that was designed for
the benefit of our country. In fact it is detrimental to us. It was
drafted by the Rajiv Gandhi government, and forced on President
Jayewardene by using intimidatory tactics. Indian Air Force planes
blatantly violating our Air Space, dropped food parcels over the North
and East of Sri Lanka, when our Government Forces had cornered the
terrorists. Several of our Cabinet ministers including the Prime
Minister were against this Amendment, and did not attend the signing
ceremony of the accord, which was hurriedly assembled by JRJ and his
cohorts, under curfew.
LTTE coffers
M Karunanidi |
J Jayalalithaa |
Tamils in the North, East and South of Sri Lanka are having a better
quality of life not having to contribute to fatten the LTTE coffers.
They are leading a life free of fear. Their young are not forcibly
conscripted to be cannon fodder, but can enjoy free education and a
chance to lead a qualitative and a pleasant life. India has a population
of 1.1 billion.
Only a few thousands (incited by a few Tamil Nadu politicians) want
to interfere with Sri Lanka. The vast majority of Indians are not the
slightest bit interested in the 13th Amendment.
The threat of carving out a separate state exists even more than when
Prabhakaran was using his military might. The diaspora and Tamil Nadu
still have Hillary Clinton in their clutches, so much so that when
Hillary Clinton visited India she brazenly visited Tamil Nadu only and
met the politicians there. She did not visit any other state in India.
What is this unholy alliance with the Tamil politicians? Was she
pressurized by the LTTE diaspora whom she is under obligation to? The
latest gimmick the LTTE diaspora have devised in the US is “Tamils for
Obama”.
This is another way of thanking the Obama administration and Hillary
Clinton in particular for penalizing Sri Lanka at the Human Rights
Council in Geneva in March 2012 and 2013. And much more is expected from
Hillary Clinton. So Human Rights is a bogus excuse.
How can the Sri Lankan government give Police and Land powers to the
representatives of the LTTE diaspora. This diaspora have vowed to carve
out a separate state sooner or later, using police and land powers.
The US Country report 2010/11 unambiguously states that the diaspora
are collecting funds and that they are in the process of purchasing
weapons in order to restart violence. How the Sri Lankan government can
overcome these arm twisting tactics of Hillary Clinton, the LTTE
diaspora, Karunanidi and Jayalalithaa is by holding a referendum in the
whole country, as every citizen in Sri Lanka will be affected by the
granting of Police and Land Powers, to traitors who are hell bent on
dividing the country.
IPKF
The
crafty Indian High Commissioner J.N. Dixit was like the Military
Governor in Sri Lanka. It must be remembered that thereafter the Indians
became a hated lot. We seem to have forgotten within 26 years, the
hatred that India brought upon herself from nearly 20 million Sri
Lankans.
India interfered in our internal affairs merely to satisfy
Prabhakaran and some politicians of the Tamil Nadu government.
The beauty of it is that Prabhakaran himself rejected both the 13th
Amendment and the IPKF, and was engaged in a long drawn out battle with
the IPKF. The 13th Amendment and the presence of the IPKF gave an excuse
for the JVP to raise its head. Sri Lanka doesn’t want a recurrence of
this scenario. The mighty IPKF withdrew in ignominy.
In the battles between the LTTE and the IPKF, hundreds of innocent
Tamils died. Several women were raped by the IPKF soldiers. Two sons of
the first Speaker of the State Council Sir Vythilingam Duraisamy,
happened to be in Jaffna on the day the IPKF walked in there. The
scenario was worse than in the wild west in America. Several people
including both sons of Sir Vythilingam, were shot for being spectators.
The hatred towards India for pressurizing us was so intense, that
Rajiv Gandhi who came here himself to sign the accord, was clobbered by
a naval rating, with the butt of his gun. Rajiv escaped death by a
whisker.
Now, Indian interests in Sri Lanka are enormous. Do they want to
jeopardize all this by pressurizing us to implement the 13th Amendment?
Don’t they realize what dangers it can bring about to India and to the
Indian interest here? India is having enough internal problems. Does the
Indian government want to escalate those problems? Have they forgotten
that all things imported from India were not permitted to be brought in?
President JRJ’s sister-in-law Dr Gladys Jayawardene , Chairman of the
State Pharmaceutical Corp was murdered for importing Indian medicines.
Several pharmacy owners were killed for stocking Indian medicines. For
quite sometime the Indians were a hated race here.
Tamil Nadu politicians
Does Manmohan Singh want a recurrence of this? Right now the Indians
are highly accepted in Sri Lanka. They should not drive Sri Lanka
further into the arms of China, by their short sighted policies. In the
1980s Sri Lanka was not militarily powerful and did not have close
friends like China, Russia and many countries of the Middle East.
India must tackle the miniscule LTTE Diaspora and the handful of
Tamil Nadu politicians in a different manner without bending over
backwards to appease them, thus jeopardizing India as a whole. If
Manmohan Singh continues to give into Tamil Nadu they will keep black
mailing him. You give them an inch, they will demand a yard.
Hillary Clinton |
Manmohan Singh |
India must view the 13th Amendment with caution and intelligence and
realize that it will be the start of an Eelam War 5. Eelam War 4 was
concluded at the cost of many thousands of lives of military personnel
and Tamil combatants and Tamil civilians.
By giving politically enhanced power to Tamil politicians, it will be
used for the achievement of a separate state here, which will eventually
be detrimental to India herself. This will be the start of the
fragmentation of India. The 13th Amendment is political dynamite for
both India and Sri Lanka. This Diaspora made/makes money out of illegal
and unethical means. They are known to bribe international politicians
with their ill-gotten collection.
This Diaspora is said to be tempting the TNA with handsome allowances
and free holidays abroad. They are being dictated to create an
atmosphere which will assist the LTTE diaspora to instigate bedlam once
again in Sri Lanka.
The avenues of making money from innocent Tamils is running dry. They
do not want to loose their opulent life styles. It is only a handful of
this Diaspora members that are up to mischief.
LTTE Diaspora Agents
As a result of Rajiv Gandhi’s short sighted policies he paid the
supreme penalty by being murdered in cold blood in a village in Tamil
Nadu by the LTTE itself; the very LTTE whom his mother Indira and he
were trying to appease.
The whole world knows now, and is indeed admitted by the
intelligentia of India, that the Indira Gandhi government created the
LTTE and nurtured, financed and trained and gave every conceivable
assistance for them to create problems in Sri Lanka. Eventually, Indira
Gandhi’s beloved son Rajiv was done to death by the very group she
created.
She herself was killed in consequence of Sikh terrorism.
How true is the saying, “those who live by the sword die by the sword”.
If the Sri Lankan government convinces the Manmohan Singh government
about the dangers of the 13th Amendment boomeranging on India, they will
not be serious about pushing it down our throats. As long as the 13th
Amendment remains in our statute books, India and TNA will keep
pressurizing us to implement it. India should thank her lucky stars that
the LTTE which was hell bent on creating a separate state here, was
annihilated. Had Prabhkaran succeeded in his endeavour, his guns would
have been pointed at Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi, as much as their
wrath was directed at Rajiv Gandhi who helped them in no small measure.
With Karunanidhi and Jayalalithaa vowing to create a separate state
in Sri Lanka, it would be insane to grant Police and Land Powers to
their acolytes, the TNA who take orders from them and the LTTE diaspora.
The Sri Lanka Tamils in the North, East and South are a happy and
contented lot. Only their language problem should be sorted out. All
Tamil businessmen are making money hand over fist, all professional are
earning a very handsome living un-interfered. Development in the North
and East is going on at an accelerated pace. The refugees are now being
systematically settled. The Tamils who were living amidst the Sinhala
people and the Muslims for safety during the war, are now selling their
properties in Wellawatte, Kotahena and other parts of Colombo and going
back to their villages in the North and East which have become
absolutely safe, devoid of the fear and threat of the LTTE. They are not
interested in giving additional powers to the LTTE Diaspora Agents – the
TNA who will in turn make their lives a misery.
They do not want to upset the equilibrium. Those who want to upset it
are the TNA and their acolytes. The TNA, in addition to their tax-free
salaries, free car permits and a host of other perks from the Sri Lankan
government, are also rumoured to be getting huge allowances and free
trips abroad from the LTTE Diaspora. If that be so, the TNA are having a
very comfortable existence. All they have to do is to prostrate
themselves before the active LTTE Diaspora and do their bidding, just as
they knelt before Prabhakaran and the LTTE. They must give the
impression that they are people with a modicum of self respect.
International community
There is no give and take in TNA negotiations. In any event, they
will not participate in the PSC until they get instructions from the
LTTE diaspora. They make out false claims to fool the international
community. In negotiations they only take and not give. That is in their
blood. Does the TNA represent the Tamils of Sri Lanka or the LTTE
diaspora who are attempting to reintroduce violence in Sri Lanka as is
borne out by the Country Report of the US 2011/2012. It is upto the
government, to educate the Sri Lankan Tamils that the TNA are attempting
to take away the freedom that they are now enjoying after 30 years of
suppression by the LTTE.
The TNA are clearly violating the 6th Amendment to our Constitution.
We have had four unbroken years of peace. If any violence breaks out,
whether it be in the North, East or anywhere else in the country, the
TNA will have to hold itself responsible, for it is because they are
stretching every sinew to cater to the LTTE diaspora and Tamil Nadu
Programme that such a situation will come about.
The TNA have conveniently forgotten that if not for the protection
they were given by the SL Govt, they also would have suffered the same
fate as Amirthalingam, Sivasithamparan, Yogeswaran et al, at the hands
of the LTTE. They are alive today because of the protection given by the
forces. They are a very ungrateful lot.
Quoting the Ceylon Daily News of April 27, 2013, “several disruptive
elements including local NGOs, lobbyists and TNA MPs along with other
activists campaigned furiously in the last few weeks to get CMAG to
challenge Sri Lanka’s CHOGM host status”.
Brazenly doing such inimical things to the country that gave them
protection for the last 30 years from the LTTE, is high treason, not
only punishable with loss of civic rights, confiscation of property but
also punishable with Death.
It is an offence in all Western countries to tender “MATERIAL SUPPORT
TO A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION”. This is exactly what the TNA are doing.
Small wonder that the TNA members are still at large doing every
conceivable inimical thing to our country in the guise of representing
the Tamil people, without being incarcerated or at least questioned on
charges of HIGH TREASON.
They are skating on thin ice.
(The writer is a President’s Counsel ) |