DON'T START AGAIN
Among many Tamils, the Tamil National Alliance has become a stigma on the Tamil community. So are the Diaspora. Some may disagree. TNA, with it s superiority complex has created more troubles within communities than bringing them together.
Last week the venerable TNA said it would request Russia and China to urge the Sri Lankan government to work out a long lasting political solution to the national question, Parliamentarian and party media spokesman Suresh Premachandran said.
TNA should do degrees in world history in the first place.
Russia and China supported Sri Lanka in its war against terrorism and as permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, had at the time thwarted an attempt to bring a resolution against Sri Lanka.
Bringing solutions is good. But then, what are the problems?
The bloody war is over. Some may be still saying "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red." This is hacked. So is the so-called national problem.
The fact is when the problem started the global situation was entirely different. Opportunities were limited. It was polarized. Private sector commercial activity was in its infancy.
In such a scenario a thing like “standardization” did affect adversely the youth who have high aspirations.
Now we are talking about it after 40 years.
Governments have opened up. Nobody cares about vernacular languages. Today, even a trishaw driver wants to send his child to English medium school!
The IT field has taken English even further high. “Sinhala Only” will have to use binoculars to take a peep at the benefits of English. Still many political leaders and sadly many voters believe in the political rhetoric of language politics.
So, since the world has changed the context of the problem too has changed. In fact the stumbling block has been eliminated.
Now a talented youth can zoom into top slot positions had he has the talent. Global corporations do not have a column that asks your nationality.
So when the main cause of the problem is removed naturally there is no problem.
But still TNA et al harp on the some problems.
True enough, the three or more decade of war has left many maimed and devastated, mainly the Tamil speaking population. (The use of “Tamil” is only for the purpose of reference). And as a responsible government should and sincerely set aside the pettiness that is always associated with it, should speedily help these people rebuild their lives.
Selvarasa Pathmanathan alias KP, who succeeded Prabhakaran as the LTTE leader has also echoed that the UN Secretary General’s panel report on Sri Lanka wouldn’t help any reconciliation and rather it disturbed reconciliation.
“If you go to Wanni and (discover) 1,000 families or 100,000 families benefiting from this UN report, then it’s a different story. But the truth is that no one gets any benefit from such reports,” he had added.
“The past is past. War means first (many people) die. War means who dies first. Truth (also dies). War means the same everywhere. You cannot say good war and bad war. War is war,” he had been quoted as saying.
We see one Asoka in him.
To finish today’s thought, how many of you know that now many countries are encouraging foreigners to buy land and property in their country and inviting foreigners to make their country their second home!
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