October 6, 2008 @ 9:45 pm

“Sri Lanka is a small country. It can not be partitioned. We are not in Europe. If Tamils needs a separation, other minorities would follow suits. What will then happen.”

So the best thing would to create a political climate that will not induce anyone of any minority community or majority community to think in terms of “taking-up arms” to solve his/her problems. For which the “Rule of Law” must be established. To establish the “Rule of Law” we must establish “good governance” in the country. To establish “good governance” we (particularly the “majority” community) must change our ‘attitude’ towards others around us and think in terms of “justice to everyone” and discard ‘racial supremacy’.

This Island that was once known as the “Paradise Isle” is not only a beautiful island but also a bountiful island where there is ENOUGH SPACE for everyone to lead a peasant life on their own and not at the expense of others.

As Lord Buddha said “Greed is the cause of all Grievances”

This bountiful island has enough resources to satisfy the NEEDS of all its inhabitants but a few are trying to “grab” all the resources o themselves by false slogans to make the “common people” their slaves in their pursuit of power.

Let us – the common people – of this bountiful country , be vigilant to avoid becoming slaves without our knowledge.

Sri Lanka is a small country. It can not be partitioned. We are not in europe. If tamils needs a seperation, other minorities would follow suits. What will then happen.

“tamil speaking survive and may partake in the life of the country at the pleasure of the sinhala minority ”

– we are allowed only what they see fit to share with us
-our freedoms are those that they allow us

and we should like it and thank them for it…

like dayan said somewhere on this site: (paraphrasing) federalism, separation etc will not work because the majority sinhalese will not allow it. The 13th amendment is what was approved and that is what the tamils must accept. NOthing else will pass with 2/3rds majority in parliament and/or at a referendum.

in his and most sinhalese persons views it is their country and they can dictate to the “minorities” the conditions of their “servitude”.

the fact of the matter, which the LTTE recognizes and fights for, is that the tamils have the right to self determination. The East Timorese & Macedonians did not have to get the approval of the Indonesians or Yugoslavia/Serbia. They had referendums and then separated. in 1977 the tamils voted for the TULF on the platform of separation – and won.

The LTTE & Prabakaran understand that the statement by Fonseka is what all sinhala leaders since independance have believed, it is only this administration that is frank enough to say these things out loud. and due to the recent GOSL military “successes” there are many in colombo who i once thought were enlightened, western educated, reasonable persons, with similar worldviews who have turned out to be closet sinhala-nationalist racist and the sad thing is that they don’t see that they are.

“I strongly believe that this country belongs to the Sinhalese but there are minority communities and we treat them like our people…We being the majority of the country, 75%, we will never give in and we have the right to protect this country…We are also a strong nation … They can live in this country with us. But they must not try to, under the pretext of being a minority, demand undue things.”

At least let this be a lesson to the UNP that it must belatedly stop contributing to the alarming militarisation of Sri Lanka in every aspect including electoral politics. The bigger problem, as I noted in my comment of Aug 10 (see above), is not the likelyhood of the individual called Sarath Fonseka taking over the country as military dictator. It is the military – all three armed forces – slowly and insidiously militarising our nation. Few have noticed their gradual encroaching of the civilian spheres in administration, media, disaster management, etc, etc.

For now, at least, one overambitious ex-general has been stopped in his track by nothing more than the combined ballots. But don’t expect ANY of these generals – current or serving – to have much faith in the ballot or any other democratic systems. They have for too long ruled by the bullet, terrorising innocent Tamilians, and they will always be tempted to resort to the bullet to achieve their own selfish, dangerous ends!

PS: I feel rather sorry for Ranjan Ramanayake, a good man and non-politician who hitched his fortune on to the miserable UNP of Ranil Wickramasinghe.