Gajalakshmi Paramasivam
29
July 2018
Permanent Tamil Opposition
Yesterday I voted with my Truth via my article
headed ‘African Gangs & Sri Lankan Terrorists’. This morning I identified
with the outcomes when reading ABC article ‘Super Saturday: Labor's by-election wins leave Turnbull Government with
questions to answer’.
Our real votes are cast when we feel good or bad due
to Government policy and practice. Showing our Truth manifests the opposite within the Sovereign
unit that we feel a part of. Hence we
must first ‘own’ to make a difference at the top level. This could happen
without us voting at all. When we have manifested our Truth, the other side at
that level will happen within that Sovereign unit and we will ‘see’ it.
Lawyer Harvey says in the TV Serial Suits – ‘Being a lawyer is like being a doctor. You keep pressing
it until it hurts, then you know where to look.’ Tamils did just that – pressed until we became the Equal Opposition in
1977 elections. The manifestation happened through the 1976 Vaddukoddai
Resolution that majority Tamils could identify with in their own ways.
In 1983, when the Tamil Tigers returned the slain
soldiers that action was NOT a manifestation that majority in Tamil community
could identify with. It was disrespectful of the individuals’ human rights. Those who claim their soldiers
as great heroes – are not heirs of the 1983 leadership or the 1983 leadership
was not an heir of those who gave birth to the Vaddukoddai Resolution.
One of our relatives who failed to take
responsibility for his children would react the moment his pension card was
within his sight. As per his conscience – that was his and his alone. So long
as he had that – he was being taken care of. Likewise, all of us feel the pain –
real pain – at the point where the opposition meets our Truth. This was
education to majority Tamil leaders and language to less educated Tamils.
In order to be entitled to a structural change at
National level, Tamils need to have both
– feel the pain at Policy level, and have the courage to express it independently.
Thereafter, the responsibility to ‘show the other side is with the system of
Truth which is self-balancing. This happened in 1977 and in 2015 through real
votes of true Governors. The Truth whether its manifestation at that time at
that place is positive or negative – acts independent of us – including those
who manifested the first side. It would be beneficial to those who manifested
it despite pain and loss – so other victims will not feel alone.
In
his Daily Mirror article ‘Lessons
not learnt From Black July and aftermath India had stressed that it would not
accept a Tamil State near its southernmost State, which houses a homogeneous
populace’ Mr M S M Ayub states:
[Every
aspect of the proposed new Constitution is branded as an attempt to carve out a
separate Tamil State.]
One would expect
minorities to have hurt much more through the Buddhism foremost article in the
current constitution. If the new structure shows a separate Tamil structure –
then at policy level it becomes a balanced constitution workable through intellectual
discrimination.
During my Court
battles, including against the then Prime Minister John Howard, a Judge of the
NSW Supreme Court observed that I would not be ‘told’. Under the hierarchical
system our seniors tell us and we tell our
juniors. Too much ‘telling’ or too little ‘telling’ would weaken this system.
Former leads to dictatorship and latter to indifference. The system of
democracy helps prevent such deterioration by facilitating minority to ‘tell’ ‘majority’
by taking Equal position. Muslims whose first language is Tamil are part of
that Equal Opposition.
Mr
M S M Ayub states:
[Where would the frustration ultimately lead the Tamil youth in the
future? History has the answer. The frustration is already being witnessed by
facts such as glorifying of former State Minister Vijayakala
Maheswaran.
On the other hand, those Tamil leaders who ran
away from the north and the east and hid in Colombo during the height of the
separatist war are now drumming up separatist slogans and calling for the
revival of the slain LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran.]
There is are two
apparently opposing sayings in Tamil :
(1)
Ondru pattaal undu
vaalvu (United we stand)
(2)
Kitta pohna mutta
pahai (familiarity breeds contempt)
Both would be valid
only when one is mentally united but physically not too close.
The fact that Mr Ayub
applies Mrs Maheswaran as well us the separatism chanters – confirms the level
at which Mr Ayub is capable of maintaining opposition. It is certainly not at
the level of intellectual governors who
raised the thought structure of Tamil community. This includes the Hon G G Ponnambalam of our generation.
When we deal with the
issue at that level – educated Tamils of Sri Lanka would become the Royal
Family – good looking but dysfunctional.
Mr
M S M Ayub observes [One
cannot find fault with the commemoration of people killed in the war and even
the sacrifices by the LTTE cadres and also with the struggles for the rights of
the Tamils, so long as those events would not reinforce separatist ideology
among Tamils.
But some Tamil leaders still get involved in
these events in a manner that creates or toughens separatist zeal among the
Tamil youth, just for political gains. ]
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