Radha Aiyar of Vaddukoddai & Chief Minister of Northern Province |
Tamil Chief Minister
Balancing the Books
Today, I was referred to the article ‘Communal
politics of Tamil leaders’ by Professor Nalin de Silva, published in ‘The
Island’.
We are introduced to the thoughts of Professor Nalin de Silva as follows:
‘I
was not shocked when the Chief Minister of Northern Province wanted the
government to hand over the custody of the seventy five children who lost their
parents due to the landslide in Koslanda to the Northern Provincial Council or
in effect to some Tamil organization(s) in the North. C Vigneswaran is only
continuing with the communal politics of the Tamil leaders of the nineteenth
century.’
When I received news of that offer made by the Chief Minister – I was happy that
there was help coming to Hill Country Tamils who do not have as much support as
Jaffna or Batticaloa Tamils in their respective areas of residence. To me it was as natural as me going there to
help. I did go to Batticaloa during Tsunami Reconstruction time. When I met with the President through
Minister Devananda President Kumaratunga did ask me whether I was from
Batticaloa. I said no that I was from
Jaffna. President Kumaratunga did have a short friendly chat aided by Mr.
Mahaganapathy who was from Batticaloa. The ‘call’ for me to go to Batticaloa
came through Sunthu - a Yoga Swami devotee.
Yoga Swami is common to all Hindus of
Sri Lanka and beyond.. Belief makes us common. Politics needs to be
structured to develop this belief. Hence
the offer seemed quite natural to me. It seems otherwise to Professor Nalin de
Silva who interprets as follows:
[It may be that the Chief Minister among other things
assumes the following. All the seventy five children are Tamil. The Tamil
children who lost their parents should be brought up by Jaffna Tamils.
Otherwise they will lose their cultural identity. The TNA is the representative
of Tamils in the Uva Province (and the whole country), though there are other
parties such as the UPFA, unlike the TNA that contest in the Uva and poll votes
not only among the Sinhalas, but the Tamils as well. The basic thinking of the
TNA leaders does not differ from that of Prabhakaran. The UPFA even in Uva is
identified not with the left of the left parties in the coalition but with the
SLFP.]
If there was no provision in Sri Lanka’s
laws to prevent a citizen/group from
helping another – one needs to rely on Natural laws to structure one’s
path. One would be unwise to ‘wait’ for
those who get paid to do the job – to deliver the service to the needy. This is
the basis on which I instituted legal action against many Australian leaders
through Racial Discrimination Act 1975.
It was a process I had to follow before going into the area of ‘Natural
Authority’ as per My Truth. As I traveled along that path – I realized that I
was being supported by the system of Dharma. I was able to make the connection
to myself in the case of many such supports. But some are still miracles as far
as I am concerned.
If the Tamil Chief Minister had interfered
in action - with the work of Uva Provincial Government or the Central
Administration in this matter - that
would have been unethical. But no one has the authority to interfere with an
offer that is not unlawful, unless it affects them directly. The expressions by Professor Nalin de Silva –
as they are interpreted by me – seem the parallels of the Sri Lankan Government preventing the
international community from going to Vanni in 2009 but minus the ‘Terrorism’
reasoning. The reference to Prabhakaran confirms that in the minds of Sinhalese
leaders – all those who ‘show’ their Tamil culture– including helping the needy
in the Tamil Community which reduces their own status one way or the other –
are Terrorists. In fact I recall Mr.
Wigneswaran also indicating this during his recent Kannabiran Memorial lecture in
Chennai – on the subject matter of ‘Safeguarding
Security and Sovereignty’:
“When
one points out the injustices indulged in by the State, one is invariably
termed a terrorist, naxalite, communist, imperialist, separatist or whatever
term that is in vogue at the time to demonise and silence critics”
Through that speech – one could easily work out the higher
thought order of the mind of Mr.Wigneswaran which seems way above the reach of
average Sri Lankan politician – and in this instance - academic. It is also
interesting that Mr. Wigneswaran – who continues to accept his title ‘Justice’
– is quite natural in using the Judicial path rather than the Political path to
interpret and share with those who would listen.
Through the above offer to care for
orphaned Hill Country Tamil children – Mr. Wigneswaran was invoking the feeling
of Oneness within the Tamil community – through his own feelings for those
kids. One driven by such feelings-based service is a Facility. That person’s
actions and expressions should not be measured through personal opinions nor
General Administration – unless one is directly hurt or damaged by such
actions. They are the real Governors.
Interestingly, in the above speech Mr.
Wigneswaran made the distinction between Regime Security and Human Security.
This is also the difference between Politics and Governance Facility. Human
Security is a natural entitlement of the individual. Governance Facility is the
natural entitlement of the whole that the individual is a part of. Laws, Systems including through use of
arms - lead from one to the other. I believe that one who fails to protect and
use her/his natural Security would not
become a Sovereign person. Likewise one who fails to exercise her/his rights as
an individual would not mature to become a facilitating Energy empowering her/his environment. Today’s Governance
Facility is the genesis of tomorrow’s Natural Laws governing that area. These
are forces beyond the seen and the known. Believers would identify with it
naturally.
The urge felt and expressed by TNA and Prabhakaran
respectively – are extensions of this investment in protecting the natural
sovereignty of individuals. That is God-given and is beyond the reach of other
humans who are not part of ourselves. If it were true that Sinhalese leaders
would feel this for Tamils or Muslims - at equal or greater level compared to
Tamil or Muslim leaders – then we already have a solution in that leader. Let
that leader be the Governor of Sri Lanka. If Jaffna has to have a Governor,
then in the name of consistency we need to have a Governor for Sri Lanka – from
the UN.
Gajalakshmi Paramasivam – 15 November 2014
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