The Right Hon Amber Rudd, MP
Home Secretary
House of Commons - London
The Right
Hon. Boris Johnson, MP
Secretary of State for
Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs
House of Commons - London
Dear Members of the Government of the
United Kingdom,
Escalation
of the Conflict Between LTTE supporters and Sri Lankan Armed Forces in the
Territory Governed by the British
I write in my role as a leading member of
the Tamil Diaspora.
I refer to the communication dated 09
February 2018, addressed to you, from the following Tamil Diaspora organizations:
British Tamil Conservatives (BTC), British
Tamils Forum (BTF), Global Tamil Forum (GTF), International Centre for the
Prevention and Prosecution of Genocide (ICPPG), Tamils Coordinating Committee
(TCC-UK), Tamils for Labour Tamil Friends of the Liberal Democrats Tamil
Information Centre (TIC), Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE), Tamil
Solidarity (TS).
The subject matter has been presented under
the following heading, by the above group:
REQUEST TO DECLARE THE SRI LANKAN MILITARY
ATTACHE, BRIGADIER PRIYANKA FERNANDO, A “PERSONA NON GRATA” FOR COMMITTING
SERIOUS OFFENCES UNDER BRITISH LAW, ABUSING DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY IN THE UK AND
COMMITTING WAR CRIMES & CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY IN SRI LANKA AND THEREFORE
TO CURTAIL HIS LEAVE TO REMAIN IN THE UK
My search for the basis brought up the
following presentation by Wikipedia:
[Under Article 9 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, a receiving state may "at any time and without having
to explain its decision" declare any member of a diplomatic staff persona non
grata. A person so declared is considered
unacceptable and is usually recalled to his or her home nation. If not
recalled, the receiving state "may refuse to recognize the person
concerned as a member of the mission".]
Given that the Government does not have to explain its decision, one
is entitled to conclude that the acceptable basis is belief. The question then
arises as to how the independent observer would ‘reconcile’ between the belief
based outcomes expressed by the two governments or are we expected to know that
– the outcomes manifested by the Government of Sri Lanka and the Government of
the United Kingdom are beyond
reconciliation?
Knowledge of this is important for us as –
the Tamil Diaspora.
The Sri Lankan Government’s
Responsibility
As you may already know, the Sri Lankan
Government is committed by Article 9 of the Sri Lankan Constitution to afford ‘Buddhism,
the foremost place and accordingly it shall be the duty of the State to protect
and foster the Buddha Sasana.’ As a
Hindu, born and groomed in Sri Lanka, I view this issue through my Hindu mind
which practice is also facilitated through Articles 10 and 14(1)(e) of the
Constitution. I believe that it is the Responsibility of the Sri Lankan
Government to ensure that the outcomes manifested by itself – satisfy both
these Fundamental requirements. This may require certain degree of Separation
between the groups concerned.
As you would appreciate, the provisions in
the Constitution need to be self-balancing in their logic. As per the system of
karma – common to Buddhism as well as Hinduism and indeed Christianity through
different forms – manifestations have three levels of influence: - (1) Current
Merit; (2) Common faith developed in current environment and (3) Truth of our
past/Predestined influence/karma.
To my mind, Diplomatic missions are of
group (3) – where instead of time based separation – they have distance based
separations – away from the current base. The groups that have complained
against the Sri Lankan Diplomatic mission are also of this category in terms of
the Sri Lankan public whom the groups have disowned by inheriting the LTTE philosophy
of Separation rather than realizing Independence within one Common structure of
Administration.
These groups are entitled to be respected
as distinctly separate entities to the groups that have migrated to the UK with
active memory of their life in Sri Lanka through which they remain part of the
community currently resident in Sri Lanka and to whom (the latter) Sri Lanka is
the only ‘home’. Within the Tamil Diaspora, these are sub-communities who rely
heavily on their ‘local’ culture to enjoy freedom. Some end up merging with
others like themselves while others remain at their already earned credit levels
or lose their identity as a special purpose groups.
Since this is a Sri Lankan issue – affecting
the group that I represent through my ownership investment of my free will, in
that area, I believe I have a duty to place on the common table my contribution on behalf of those folks. As you
may know, the first Tamil Political Declaration of Independence was made in
Vaddukoddai in 1976. I believe that anyone to whom that place is ‘home’ will
inherit the values (positive as well as negative) of that which was proven to
have had the blessings of Natural Forces, in 1977 and more recently in 2015
when the leading Tamil Political group became the Equal opposition in Sri
Lankan Parliament, confirming the strong investment in intellectual
independence made by Sri Lankan Tamils over a long period – including during
the rule of British who were also a minority group at primary level. The
essence of this manifestation is that whenever Tamils claim Independence as a Political
right – their true status is elevated and those who failed to respect that
right were demoted. Both – the true claim by minority and the true deterioration
have to happen at the same time.
The claim by minority group through the
Political path is weakened to the extent minority as a community ‘show’ an alternate pathway
and/or are indifferent to who governs them. It is strengthened exponentially by
those who realize independence and therefore practice self-governance as
individuals or sub-minorities within the main group of minorities.
The contents of the above mentioned letter
from some such Tamil groups confirm that these groups are themselves dependent
on others – for example - the non-Tamil British Politicians - to establish good governance. They have thus
weakened the value of Independence that Tamils have already contrituted to through
various pathways as individuals and/or groups.
As per my discovery – Belief confirms
ownership to the person by the person. Management is a combination of Ownership
and Administration trough common principles. The higher the value of ownership –
including as an individual -the more reliable would the outcome be. Hence those
who qualify entitlement in Diplomatic Missions have to self-assess and confirm themselves
as owners.
When belief is manifested it confirms
perfect balance. A political group needs to have ‘belief’ as the driving force
in seeking an Administrative ruling involving an opposition. By seeking an
Administrative ruling by the British Government, this consortium of groups has
also confirmed acceptance of the Sri Lankan Defence Forces as their Opposition.
To that extent they have confirmed distance from the LTTE which acted for
itself towards its stated purpose of ‘Separation only’ as a solution to the
ethnic problem.
The Sri Lankan Government’s
Responsibility
This particular group of Tamils carried the
flag of LTTE which as per your Home Office was proscribed as follows:
[Liberation
Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) - Proscribed March 2001 The LTTE is a terrorist
group fighting for a separate Tamil state in the North and East of Sri Lanka.]
As per the Common, Law Abiding British
Citizen, the above group that carries the LTTE flag is a group that is infected
by proscription. The complaints and suggestions from this group have to be
discounted by that degree of proscription and likewise any punishment to the ‘opposition
side’ needs to be outside the activities that led to the LTTE to be listed as Terrorist Group by the British
Government – by itself for its own purposes.
The LTTE were heroes to some and tyrants to
others. Each one is entitled to be driven by their own experiences. As per
mine, the LTTE were, as per their own confession in 2003, zeroes in Democratic
Civil Administration.
We await in this regard an outcome that
would facilitate intuitive identity with the respective governments that we
have invested in. The Sri Lankan Government is required by law to be
Dharmic/Righteous as per Buddha Sasana. The
British Government is expected to deliver as per its role as a leader in the
global community.
In your shoes, I would strongly recommend
to the Sri Lankan Government as quid pro
quo to the inappropriate conduct of the Sri Lankan Diplomatic Mission, the release
of all LTTE prisoners in Sri Lanka, in respect to whose imprisonment the
Government does not have objective evidence of wrong-doing AND who have been
endorsed positively by their respective elected leaders.
In matters of Belief, Governance ruling has to be through
Independent voting by the Parliament and not by Administrative rules in the
making of which minorities have not had equal opportunity to contribute. I
identified with the beauty of this through my own belief in the investment made
by Jaffna Tamils in higher education. The opportunity came through the
University of Jaffna whose Governing Council has demonstrated dire need to
balance between Intellectual Independence and Physical Freedom (Politics) where they would be kings and queens of locals
and locals only. The University of
Jaffna paved the way for a good proportion of rural Tamils to improve their self-governing abilities
I wider world, through investment in Intellectual Independence. Some of them are
likely to be in the groups that protested in London on 04 February when Sri
Lankans celebrated Independence in common. If one were to use the merit based
method – the credit goes to Indians led by Mahatma Gandhi whose Truth reigned Supreme
and resulted in the British departing to confirm their self-dignity. To my
mind, Sri Lankans like myself who respect and value British contribution to our
life – celebrate on 04 February the preservation of this self-dignity that is
the nucleus of self-govervanance. As an Australian I value this dignity with
fellow Australians – including Indigenous Australians on 26 January.
Yours sincerely
Gajalakshmi
Paramasivam
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