“Why Tamils of Tamil Eelam Deserve Self-determination”

http://www.srilankaguardian.org/2012/09/why-tamils-of-tamil-eelam-deserve-self.html#.UGQ6rb8yZt8.blogger

In it please read my opinion on the position of Tamils under the heading – Devolution, 13th Amendment and Eastern PC Elections:

Up to this day no political solution recognizing the right of Tamils of Eelam to Self-determination has been forth coming, most Sinhala politicians hating the word because it involves at the least a federal arrangement for the Tamils with maximum devolution as an option to separation.

The 13th amendment does not come close to meeting the criteria for Self-determination. Without police and land powers and functioning under the control of a powerful despotic executive presidency, the system of provincial councils which India is trying to ram down the throats of the Tamils of Eelam, as a devolution package, it must understand, will never satisfy the Tamil penchant for Self-determination.

The Eastern Provincial Council Elections have shown how easily politicians can kowtow for positions and how political patronage dictates outcomes: The manner in which Rajapakse can twist Rauff Hakkeem round his finger to form an alliance with the Muslim Congress to run the Eastern Provincial Council so that Hakkeem could hold on to his ministerial post, is a case in point.

The Eastern PC Elections have also shown that the Tamils of Eelam will be in eternal opposition, beholden to Sinhala masters and left to pick up the scraps that they throw at us. To think that if the Eastern PC Elections was ‘free and fair’, the TNA “would have come first,” is an eye-opener. The TNA leader Mr. Sampanthan’s statement after meeting the President reveals the hopeless position the Tamils are in and is indicative of what future elections would be like if safeguards are not put in place. If brief power cuts can decide the fate of the elections, and become a factor between victory and defeat, it begs the question as to why international observers and media were not present at all. When the Rajapaksa regime uses all its resources to corrupt the democratic process, harassing and threatening the TNA candidates to “cross over to the government,” promising material incentives there is very little Tamils could expect by way of recourse.

BUT IT CAN BE SAFELY CONCLUDED THAT THE MAJORITY OF THE VOTERS WILL NEVER PAUSE TO GIVE THESE THOUGHTS EVEN A CONSIDERATION.
MOSTLY AND MAINLY BECAUSE THE MAJORITY OF THE ELECTED POLITICIANS OF TODAY WILL STAND TO LOOSE PERSONALLY, THEIR UNDESERVED PORTFOLIOS, AND THE PERKS THAT GO WITH IT. THEY WILL NOT PROMOTE THESE IDEALS.
THEIR MOTTO BEING
LET THE COUNTRY, IT’S ECONOMY, SOCIAL FABRIC BE DAMNED, SO BE IT.