Shivashakthi Anandan ,Vanni district TNA Parliamentarian, has spotlighted a very relevant issue in his address on the floor of the House.

“While the Tamil people in their homeland live in adversity, while they live in refugee camps, while they live under trees getting wet in the heavy rains, while their children live under nourished, while their very survival is under threat, you are gloating over presenting a budget on the lines of Mahinda Chinthina promising prosperity to the south” he stated..

If any body things that this country could march towards economic prosperity while another part of the isle lives in adversity and then he or she is sadly mistaken”, he warned.

That really was the pertinent issue raised by this honourable Member of Parliament on the floor of the House.

He pointed out that on reading the budget proposals, one finds that the government considers the North-East as an alien land and the south as the Swadeshi territory.

This discrimination is explicitly clear if one looks at the quantum of money allocated to each district under this budget. This has been the attitude towards the North-East by every successive Sinhala Buddhist government since Sri Lanka attained independence from Britain. The present ethnic crisis is really a by product of this oppression of the Tamil minority community. This government worsens the situation either knowingly or unknowingly by pursuing the oppressions against the Tamils.

It is with that end in view that a large quantum of money is allocated for the defense expenditure in the present budget. All the political parties in the south have shed their differences and rallied with the government to support this defence oriented budget.

By the government increasing the vote on defence and by all political parties of the south extending their support to such a budget, the government and all political parties have proved their togetherness in anti-Tamil activities.

This only shows that the south still lives in a dream world that they can oppress the Tamils with the might of the government. The reality is there is a de facto state in a part of the Tamil homeland. This must be realized.

It is through a meaningful power sharing that a lasting solution can be found.

An English translation of the Editorial in Uthayn, a Tamil daily, based in Jaffna

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