Featured Article: An Eternal Political Stalemate
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Sunday, 01 January 2006 |
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The political situation in SL seems grim and stalemated. Can Mr Rajapakse last politically without J.V.P & J.H.U support? What are the J.V.P & J.H.U planning to do - cut his throat if he does not stick by his totally unacceptable election pledges? Does he, in the interest of survival, intend to stick by those pledges?
How can the International Community possibly tolerate such blind obstinacy if even a minimal prospect of a peace agreement is to remain a reality? Has Rajapakse, on the other hand, given the slightest indication that he will modify his position? If he does, how politically stable will he be? Can he honor anything other than what he has promised to his political allies?
Are we just playing games by pretending that Rajapakse is a true leader
of the island who can represent it in any internationally-sponsored
peace negotiations?
Since the Tamils cannot trust Rajapakse to represent Tamil aspirations,
what are we left with? A possible stalemate, where no Sinhalese party
can ever satisfy Tamil aspirations? If so, have they not forfeited
their right to determine who our ruler should be? This is not a smart
alec, slick argument.
It is a harsh political reality.
As long as the Sinhalese parties insist on maintaining an armed
presence in the NE, no peace agreement can be in the offing. As long
as the Sinhalese parties deny us the right to elect our rulers to
determine our fate, the prospects of peace are deadened.
The fact is that no Sinhalese party or section of the Sinhalese press
will ever be willing to release their stranglehold over us.
What the Sinhalese fail to realize is that we have ceased to be Sri
Lankan subjects and are now Tamil subjects, since Sinhalese rulers have
long since ceased to have our interests at heart.
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Wakeley Paul, Esq.
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