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Communalists under one banner toll the death knell for peace

The alliance formed by the Sri Lanka Freedom Party and the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna has caused a growing sense of fear and anxiety among the Tamils. The two year long peace effort begins to have a dark vision of its future. The Singhalese in favour of peace also have identified the dangers of this Alliance and warned of the impending calamities for peace.

Even the Singhala media that endeavor to speak against the national aspiration of the Tamils are not complacent about this alliance. Being aware of the antagonism expressed by the constituents of the alliance towards the peace process, the international community interested in the build up of peace is concerned over the formation of this alliance.

The communal political groups such as Mahajana Eksath Peramuna and Sihala Urumaya have also joined hands with this grand alliance. The Singhala majority communalists who have been divided with party politics have now become active rallying under one banner with the sole motive of capturing the power of government. This communal front has prepared one plan of action in secret and another in public. In what they publish in public the two founding parties are contradictory to each other.

The JVP has eloquently announced and explicitly stated its extremity with majority communalism and its antagonistic culture against peace in respect of the national question. The SLFP has as usual issued an evasive communiqué with an attempt to assuage the international concern.

It has been evident in her utterances in the past that Madame Chandrika's words do not mean what she says of peace. Her words have always been abound with opportunism and hypocrisy. She is a warmonger who strove to camouflage the horrendous war, she waged against the Tamils, with her words 'for peace'. She is today bereft of all her masks and inhibitions with all evidence of her real face before the international community. As Tamils are concerned this fact is a matter for rejoice.

JVP's extreme communalism and their strong aversion to foreign involvement in our peace efforts are well known worldwide and they are adjudged by the outside world as the 'Talibans of Sri Lanka'. It is learnt from reliable sources that the secret pact signed by the key parties to the alliance has many aspects of danger.

Some Singhala print media have published in their columns that a detailed action plan embodied in the secret pact to mobilize the Singhala people for a total war against the Tamils, include the termination of the peace negotiation, dismissal of MoU on Ceasefire, making all documents on peace process illegal and withdrawal of Norway from its role as facilitator in the peace process.

In the history of the island of Sri Lanka the Sri Lanka Freedom Party founded by Madame Chandrika's father is identified as a party of Singhala Majority Communalism. The party's foundation itself consists of the fanatic extremism of the majority communalism in the "Singhala only" enactment. The party snatched power at its inception with the fanatic and cynical policy of majority communalism. The immediate and instant result of this policy was the first of the series of the genocidal communal hooliganism and disturbances in Sri Lanka.

It was in the regime of Madame Chandrika's mother Srimavo who succeeded Chandrika's father Solomon Wesley Ridgeway Bandaranayake that the extremist's Communal Act enforcing standardization was administered against the Tamil aspirants to university education. Besides the constitution of 1972 that made the Tamils political destitutes, the cold-blooded murder of Tamils at the International Conference on Tamil Research was committed by the security arm of the State Home Affairs. Worse than her parents' regimes of anti Tamil events was the regime of Chandrika that has its record in the passage of history for her genocidal war against the Tamils. In the history of the Tamils of Eelam the regime of Madame Chandrika would be recorded as the worst of tragedies.

Her regime has filled the passage of time with tragedies of state atrocities committing genocides and causing miserable displacement of people in unprecedented exodus that jerked the entire Tamil community within and without. Recently since her taking over of the three key ministries the hopes of Tamils to breath the air of amity and accord and secure peaceful living have been shattered due to her turning the chariot of peace topsy-turvy.

Now she is determined to mobilize the entire array of majority communalism and resume the genocidal war against the Tamils at the point where she had left it unaccomplished. The LTTE for their part are firmly committed to adopt peaceful means as far as and as long as possible to resolve their national problem. They are deliberate to be patient until such time the international community has its eyes wide open to the realities of the communal policy and the warfare attitude of the Singhala state of Sri Lanka.

The Norwegian government that facilitated the peace negotiation, the Japanese Government that presides over the group of donor countries interested in peace and development in Sri Lanka and other western countries have seen for themselves the foregoing facts of reality. The international community would have by now understood which of the two parties in the conflict is truly a hindrance to peace, war mongering and in haste to war- the NorthEast Tamils or the Singhala state of the south.

04 February 2004

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