This was a dangerous precedent in that underground media was able to speculate rather than tell the truth as it is. So, In a sense the government spawned conspiracy theories much to the detriment of its own eforts at bringing a semblance of peace to the country.

This also spawned a cottage industry in the form of NGOs.

I will not go so far to say the that successive powers wanted to eliminate Tamils.

But the fact they were paranoid about the international media getting to know the truth which was that the govts in power willfully allowed mobs to intimidate, threaten and annihilate Tamils due to a three member cabinet ministers’ frenzied nationalism in JR regime, namely the late Gamini Dissanayake, Cyril Matthew and of course the Tamil IGP Rudra Rajasingam who wanted to hold onto his position come what may.

The IGP had powers vested in him to declare curfew as soon as the govt orchestrated mobs targeted Tamils in the South.

But he was only interested in his entrenched position with the govt. Not unlike many of our Tamil politicians and judges including Palakidnar who would sell their souls for a piece of land and house in Dehiwela as Chandrika gave him post 1994 elections.

Tamils were not let down by the Sinhalese. Their enemies are within their own community. Should I elucidate and count Anandasangaree, Siddharthan, Douglas, Karuna and Pillayan.

Now it is a field day for conflict resolutinists, peacemakers and many tother NGOs who would shamelessly forage the Tamil predicament in the IDP camps and the international NGOs woud buy them line, hook and sinker.

[Edited out - racism and mindless slander are not tolerated on Groundviews.]

In your post of December 4, 2009 @ 2:41 pm you were suggesting about to get the expertise of the UN to draft a new constitution.

But why do we need another constitution? According to my knowledge your post itself is a constitution. Isn’t it?

The main problem facing this country has been such undue demands/orders by various parties.You think Sinhalese people should change but not you and whom you represent?

Do you think being a minority is a privileged to make undue demands?

Do you think the suggestions posed by you above are tolerable to any country, leave aside SL?
You are suggesting things that are against the interest of reconciliation of this country. You are praying for harm to this country. Do you want same calamity to be repeated? Don’t you think we should put a full stop to this unwanted quarrel between ourselves?

Don’t ask for the found of flesh. Please be sensible.

You must have heard Aristotle has said, ” Justice is the bond of that keeps society together. If justice is denied, revolt is the result.” Injustice either by majority or minority should not be tolerated.

The populace expect a future president to pronounce clearly, boldly and specifically as to what he would do about the major problems facing the country and its people.

But in Sri Lanka(SL), during the past 50 years, we had junk leadership that was unwilling to boldly pronounce specific solution to address the legitimate rights of the people of North East(NE), for self governance, and geuinely lead the Sinhalese people to solve the problem.

This undemocratic and racist approach caused violence, armed resistance and a brutal war. Peace was absent since 1972. Now, the time has come for the people to throw away this approach into the backyard of their lives.

In any true democracy, the future has no room for the mistakes of the past. The voters desire an innovative leadership, openness and specifics. General statements such as “the parliament will decide on matters of NE” or “I will speak to the LTTE” indicates that the candidate himself is undecided, shaky and dubious lacking character, will and leadership to resolve the matter.

Likewise, a political party that says it will form a constituent assembly to draft a new constitution for SL, is not pragmatic enough in its approach for peace. It is unwilling to correct the past mistake of a “Unilateral constitution” that has created Sinhala Buddhist totalitarianism in SL.

All the voters, whether Muslims, Tamils or Sinhalese, must agree therefore, to vote in unision, for an open candidate with character, who will ask the UN to use its expertise to draft a new constitution, that would embody human rights and comply with the UN conventions.

The voters must not fret away or quit. They must stand and stand firmly to bring this true democratic change. The leadership of the past 50 years who made this country get stuck in the rot should be thrown away into the waste bins of history.

If we are committed to love and peace, and decide to text to a friend “work for peace with love for all” we will surely take an extra step of determination.

Then, we will be firmly committed to principles and not politicians. We will surely win peace for our island.

I propose to contend that “it would NOT be fair to say that the vast majority of the people aspire for a life with peace, dignity, security, democratic freedom and prosperity” on the basis that if the aspirations of the vast majority of the people were such, the country would have indeed moved towards achieving those aspirations as opposed to having moved away from them.
I would surmise that the aspirations of a vast majority of people are much simpler and far more ambiguous. Most of our aspirations are also selfish and therefore often infringe upon the just aspirations of others.
In any successful –if not ideal- society, equal application and protection of the law safeguards people’s just aspirations against the unfair actions of fellow citizens. Law provides the framework for citizens to take individual and collective action to fulfil their aspirations while regulating those actions so that they do not compromise or threaten the right of others to do the same. The assignment of a competent legislature is – not to create state jobs for the electorate or carry out favours for their friends and financial sponsors (let alone abuse the media and anyone else who questions their actions) but to make just and impartial laws. The need for an honest and efficient executive is to execute those laws with equality and integrity. An impartial judiciary is needed to keep the legislature and executive in check, to ensure that the protections and privileges offered by the law is no abused but justly and equally provided to all citizens.
The fact that we are ever further away from realising our aspirations is a failure of these three branches of government that have failed over and over again in their exercise of OUR sovereignty. Sovereignty cannot be ‘transferred’ let alone ‘stolen’ in any practical sense from the ‘.people’ without the complicity of the ‘people’ in that process. A hundred or even thousand politicians derive their ‘power’ from the compliance of those they govern. They carry out most of their unjust and unfair actions with the full cooperation of citizens who comply – either for petty personal gain, lack of knowledge or the capacity to understand the greater consequences of their actions, for the lack of a moral conscience, or all of the above.
Anyone who’s watched the movie “A beautiful mind” would be familiar with Nash’s equilibrium which states that the best outcome comes not when individuals act only in their self interests, but when they act both in their self interest and the interests of the collective. So, as long as we are wilfully blind, corrupted by selfishness and unaware of our civic duty to others in our community – our families at one end of the scale, the world and environment on the other – we will drift ever further from these ideals… the aspirations that a majority of us do not seam to have.