WHY DO NOT THE CO-CHAIRS RISE TO THE TASK THEY ARE ENCUMBERED WITH, WHEN THE CEASE-FIRE AGREEMENT IS ON THE VERGE OF COLLAPSE, IN SRI LANKA ?

It smacks of double standard and hypocrisy, when the Co-Chairs (of the Tokyo Donor Conference for Sri Lanka Peace Process, comprising the United States, the European Union, Japan, and Norway), stipulate in common, that both parties should cease hostilities immediately and return to the negotiation table in strict adherence to the CFA of 22/02/2002 knowing very well that, the LTTE is always ready, but the Government is not ready with its hawkish policies.

Further, very unreasonably, and impartially they stipulate conditions only to the LTTE that, they should lay down the arms while they allow the Singhalese regime who commits high profile atrocities over the Tamils to go scot-free. Furthermore, making a mountain out of a molehill they are very keen on banning the LTTE when it, resorts to retaliatory attacks against the armed forces.

They could very well evaluate the gravity of the situation, on a comparison of the percentage of the displaced Tamils from the Tamil population in the Tamil territories, with that of the percentage of the displaced Singhalese from the Singhalese population in the Singhalese territories.

Hawkish policies of the Singhalese regime were exposed when, on 6th June 1956, Singhalese only bill was passed together with the Buddhism only policy and the peaceful Satyagrahas held in protest by Tamil MPs were suppressed by the Singhalese in Colombo and Gal Oya Valley, killing in hundreds, and wounding many including Tamil MPs. Hooligans and rowdies who were set upon the Tamil MPs while they sat on the Galle Face Green in a silent protest, bit their ears, beat them up mercilessly, besides humiliating and robbing the innocent Tamils walking along the roads, on that day.

Hawkish policies of the Singhalese were exposed when in May 1958, National Singhalese protests in all Singhalese provinces, forced the abrogation of Bandaranayake- Chelvanayagam pact.

Hawkish policies of the Singhalese regime were exposed by the nature of the Republican Singhalese Constitution of 1972, which robbed the minorities of even the scanty safeguards against discrimination provided under Section 29 of the Soulbury Constitution, introduced at independence in 1948.

Hawkish policies of the Singhalese regime were exposed when, in 1974, the World Tamil research conference held in Jaffna, was attacked by the police, killing nine persons and injuring many more.

Hawkish policies of the Singhalese regime were exposed when on 20th September 1977, upcountry estates elections were followed up by a racial massacre by the Singhalese and between 250 to 300 Tamil citizens had lost their lives while many were injured.

Hawkish policies of the Singhalese regime were exposed when in Jaffna, in the year 1981, on the nights of May 31st /June 1st, and on June 1st and 2nd Singhalese armed forces burnt the office of a Tamil newspaper, the home of the member of parliament for Jaffna and the Public Library with about 97,000 valuable volumes, which included numerous culturally important and irreplaceable manuscripts books, besides killing about 10 and injuring many.

Hawkish policies of the Singhalese were exposed when on May 11th, 1983, unprovoked attack on the Tamil Students at Peradeniya University took place with weapons like knives, ropes, steel rods, cycle chains, and wooden rods from broken chairs and tables by the Singhalese students for 3 consecutive days.

On 23rd July 1983, Tamil militants killed 13 Singhalese soldiers in ambush in retaliation for the past atrocities wielded over the Tamils by the Singhalese government.

Hawkish policies of the Singhalese were exposed, when this was followed up by a Tamil Holocaust in all the Singhalese provinces in which, about 3,000 Tamils were killed, 53 Tamil detainees were slaughtered by jail guards in the Welikade Jail, over 100,000 were displaced to NE, with a mass exodus of the Tamils to the foreign countries while the belongings and properties of Tamils were both looted and burnt to ashes.

During the insurgencies of the Singhalese JVP extremists, the government's forces never resorted to such tactics in the Singhalese areas, in consideration of the safety of the Singhalese civilians.

Subsequently, over the years, in the war that ensued between the armed forces and the Tamil militants, to date, in the Tamil territories, churches, temples, schools, refugee camps, houses and business establishments were bombed and destroyed killing, wounding, maiming or mangling in hundreds including children while leaving behind children orphaned and men and women widowed.

Hawkish policies of the Singhalese regime headed by former President J.R.Jeyawardana were exposed, when he signed the Indo-Sri Lanka Peace Accord of 29th July, 1987 with Rajiv Gandhi, and masterminded a ploy to crush the Tamil militants by the IPKF, which turned into a complete fiasco.

Hawkish policies of the Singhalese regime are exposed when the Singhalese regime brazenly with impunity amasses weapons and armaments besides multibarrel guns, naval ships and war planes reserving funds enormously in the budget for war, besides the other foreign aids from parties with vested interest, to crush only the Tamils in Sri Lanka.

Hawkish policies of the Singhalese regime are exposed by the Constitution of Sri Lanka based on, the numerical strength of the Singhalese and racial, linguistic, and religious dominance which emphasises that , only a Buddhist Singhalese could be the ruler, Buddhism could be the State religion, Singhalese could be the official language, Buddha statues could be erected at random anywhere in the island, colonization of Tamil areas by Singhalese could be done at State expense, and a contrived standardization procedure to enter higher education could be enforced to benefit the Singhalese with the suppression of Tamil children who thrive on education.

Credibility of the Singhalese government is called into question because of, their tampering with the past historical records or the archaeological evidences of the country with surreptitious interpolations to be advantageous to the Singhalese community.

Hawkish policies of the Singhalese regime were exposed , when His Excellency the President (Mahinda Rajapakse) on his determination to capture power in 2005, jettisoned all the aspirations of the Tamils for peace by prioritizing war, with his own ideology called �Mahinda Chinthanaya� which emphasizes �no Norway, no federal constitution, no right to Homeland, no self-determination, no nation-hood for Tamils, no PTOMS, no recognition of anyone as sole partner in negotiation and no Oslo as venue for talks�.

Credibility of the Singhalese government and the armed forces are called into question because, when Karuna, one of the most trusted erstwhile confidants of LTTE militants, to escape justice from the movement because of his embezzlement of tens of millions of movement funds, murdering fellow cadres, sexual escapades and abuse of female cadres, slipped into the hands of the Singhalese armed forces with a pledge to damage the reputation of the LTTE by pursuing his vendetta against it until it is crushed, he was spared on his pledge and his surrender impelled the armed forces to sideline the peace process, break the truce that prevailed by virtue of the CFA and embark afresh on violent activities shattering the peaceful atmosphere that existed in the country.

Credibility of the Singhalese government and the armed forces are called into question because, the Tamil community in Sri Lanka is obsessed nowadays with a fear psychosis due to the dreadful terror that prevails among them by the existences of the SL Government sponsored Paramilitary groups comprising Tamil renegades.

Credibility of the Singhalese government is called into question because, these undesirable elements in collusion with the Singhalese armed forces go on a killing spree when they come across any Tamil who exhibits his/or her aspirations for equal rights or do not submit to their extortions of money. Further, they do not even hesitate to stray into the Tamil territories yearning for sexual relations under coercion or to cast lewd remarks under the guise of searching for hidden bombs. Furthermore, they indulge in abduction or killing of prominent, erudite and intellectual personnel among Tamils to subdue them and suppress their aspirations. Moreover, they have not released yet the humanitarian aid personnel of TRO whom they had abducted nearly nine months ago and their fate is not known still.

Credibility of the Singhalese government and the armed forces are called into question because, even though the people heaved a sigh of relief, subsequent to the enactment of CFA on 22/02/2002, peace process was sabotaged by the admission of Karuna into government sponsored paramilitary groups, the growth of which are being fostered with ulterior motive at state expense with corpulent remunerations and perquisites.

Credibility of the Regional and Super powers is called into question because they, both overtly and covertly help the hawkish Singhalese government from time to time militarily, and provide military training to the Sri Lankan top army brasses and share military and naval intelligence with the Sri Lankan armed forces.

Credibility of the Indian government is called into question because, LTTE merchant ships were sunk in international waters with logistics provided by the Indian navy, joint naval patrols are being conducted in certain key and vulnerable areas and India has gifted indigenously made Indra radars.

Thus, the despotism and terrorism of Singhalese regime which displays its racist ego against the Tamils could be established convincingly beyond doubts in a manner that is irrefutable or cannot be challenged.

Unless there is will and desire induced by change of heart among Singhalese, nothing tangible can be expected at anytime with a constitutional guarantee to ensure that there would not be any discrimination against the Tamils in this country. Tamils have a very legitimate desire, as anybody would, to control their own lives, to rule their own destinies, and to govern themselves in their homeland, in the areas they have traditionally inhabited.

It is utmost stupidity to attempt to cure the symptom instead of the root cause of the disease. It is conventional wisdom to learn from past mistakes. Any freedom struggle or terrorism is a symptom of an underlying cause of an unjust system, aggression or denial of rights and they would automatically vanish once the root causes for the conflict are eliminated.

Parties, who cannot share together, cannot live together. If, at least, a federal government is not feasible in Sri Lanka, the only viable alternative would be the formation of Tamil Eelam, in the North-East.

The International communities recognized the existences and independence of UN Member States like Israel, Bangladesh and so on in the past or East Timor from Indonesia, in year 2002, State of Eritrea from Ethiopia on 24 May 1993, Atoll of Atafu the last colony of New Zealand with less than 1500 people in March, 2006,and Republic of Montenegro from Serbia and Montenegro on 3 June ,2006.

We can have two States in Sri Lanka, which is approx. 65,610 sq.km. A few of the UN Member States actually smaller than either the future Sinhalese Sri Lanka approx. 46,777 sq.km. Or the Thamileelam approx. 18,833 sq.km (in order of Area) are as follows:

Fiji, Kuwait, Swaziland, East Timor, Vanuatu, Qatar, Gambia The, Jamaica, Lebanon, Cyprus, Brunei, Cape Verde, Luxembourg, Comoros, Mauritius, Singapore, Atoll of Atafu and so on.

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