The recently
concluded Annual Meeting of ITAK, or the TNA representing the people of Tamil
Heritage in Sri Lanka, held in Batticaloa came up with some startling claims or
wish lists!
The most preposterous
of them was the desire to remerge the Northern and Eastern Provinces as it is
the Historic land of the Tamil Speaking People! I do not wish to go any further
on the other desires for administering this land under a Sri Lankan sovereign
state, but I think even contemplating or dreaming up such an idea is itself,
tantamount to compromising the cause of a United Sri Lanka in every sense of
the word, which I have advocated within this blog.
I have
campaigned for a religious freedom, and freedom for all people in this country
to live in harmony without infringing on other people’s fundamental rights, and
I believe this demand is an infringement of that. I have harped on against the
Sinhala Buddhist tunnel visioned racists who have hardly a drop of Sinhala
blood if their ethnicity is put to a gene test. Their retort to that is that
the gene test is a Christian invention to promote racial animosity and
superiority so it is not a valid basis for identifying our ancestral history!
The demands of the ITAK are no different.
In a small
country where the total number of Tamil heritage people in the Northern and
Eastern Provinces at the latest Census amount to no more than 600,000 people,
the cheek of thinking they have self determination rights is a joke. It is like
saying that the Muslim suburbs of Bombay have their own self governing rights
to the rest of the city. It is just not practical when most of the people of
Tamil heritage of Sri Lanka live outside these confines. So I beg to differ.
On the question
of the pretence of the historic land of Tamils, I ask how far back do they go?
It is that history that we must define. No ethnic group has historic rights in
Sri Lanka except all the citizens who live here. Just as the Aboriginals have
historic rights over Australia, and Native Americans over the USA, Canada and
the Incas over Peru, the original Veddas have historic rights over Sri Lanka.
All that amounts to a hill of beans in 2012. So I respectfully ask these
hallucinating politicians to get a life and do what they have been elected for,
namely represent the interests of those who have voted for them, and not make
hypothetical demands on their behalf for personal greed. These demands smack of
a direct challenge to the rule of law. This is only bound to infuriate those
who do not see any rights for the Tamils, further inflaming tensions in Sri
Lanka, one I have desperately tried to diffuse in my writings.
I am firmly of
the opinion now that these Tamil leaders trying to bask in reflected glory,
have lost their marbles, and I am now forming an opinion that we should ban all
religious and race based parties forever in Sri Lanka as they are a direct
threat to the national Integrity of a Nation struggling to put a violent past
behind us to go forward, so every citizen of Sri Lanka feels they are part of
an Independent, and proud Nation first, before any other personal feelings of
race or religion even come up for discussion.
The Hela Urumaya
is just as nauseatingly offensive to decent peace loving people as is the SLMC
or the ITAK, so do not get me wrong, I only wish for a Nation that is proud of
its Nationhood, and work together as a nation. Remove all references to race or
religion in any official document except perhaps in the register of births
where the father and mother’s religion may be asked!
I am a patriotic
nationalist first. The president and his family are racists and so are the
leaders of the Tamils and Muslims and those who back the JHU. To me they are
all traitors to the cause of Nationalism. I repeat the challenge about gene
testing which will prove that all these racists have more blood of another race
than the race to which they purport to defend, making their claim even more
laughable. Only time will make fools of all these people when they are exposed
as just opportunistic infidels, having more in common with an Israelite than with
a son of any soil! No wonder the Jews in Israel fear the Gene test, as most will
be proven to be more Arab than the Arabs!
I therefore ask the
reader to consider this aspect. Who represents the interests of the 20+million people
of Sri Lankan Nationality best? Will they take on the task of eliminating any race
based glasses pinned on our children to form a truly united nation where we are
all proud to belong to one nation called Sri Lanka? We are an integral part of the
family of nations also knows as mother Earth and it is our duty to do our small
bit to preserve and protect mother Earth from all that threatens its existence and
sustainability. Let us unite under one flag and one nation, PLEASE
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