27 May 2023
Gajalakshmi Paramasivam
RBO
FOR ETHNIC PROBLEM
On 25 May 2023, Mr Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam spoke in Sri Lankan
Parliament, about the illegality of Buddhist shrine built at Thayitti, in Northern
Sri Lanka. On the same day, the President of Sri Lanka, stated at the Nikkei
forum in Japan, in terms of the subject matter Democratic Values &
Human Rights –
‘If the West wants a rule based
order, the West must adhere to these rules all the time.’
The problem was
surfaced by the Tamil MP on the same day the Common President provided the
solution. The commonness is from Royal College Education in Colombo. That
commonness renders Equal status in Colombo.
Land-grab is not just a
Sinhalese problem. This was highlighted in the following conversation:
Tamil Diaspora Leader: (About the local speech) Thank
God we have Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam and Gajendran to take the fight to the
Chauvinists; however it would be of no avail: the travails of the North East
Tamils would be of no concern to the International community . At the Geneva
sessions in March & in September , lots of speeches will be made ,
some countries paying lip service to Tamils’ rights , while a few other nations
will be shedding crocodile tears over the violation of human rights, crimes
against humanity , war crimes committed on innocent Tamil civilians. That’s all
.
Gajalakshmi
- Truth
is also another name for God. In Thunaivi, not far from the office of Suhash,
Mr Wigneswaran, then the chief minister inaugurated a building which was built
on occupied land. To date, Suhash has not protested against it. They in fact
become the contributors to the culture of ‘illegal occupation’. Truth is not
with them. They are at the same level of civilisation they accuse the other
side of
When we merge all known
manifestations through our own truth, we have the solution at our own levels. In
the President’s shoes, I would implement a Rule-Based-Order
for both side MPs - Sinhala & Tamil -
in national parliament. This would lead to ‘common interpretation’ at base
level.
When the lowest level applier
– say the police constable or the citizen, is able to apply the rule directly, political
variations would be minimised. The rule in the case of land occupation ought
to be that the complaint has to be by the owner and/or her/his representative. Where none is present, the local government authority
needs to certify that as per its records, that there are no active owners. Thereafter, the issue is between the local government
and the National government responsible for Police powers.
The example that comes
to mind is presented by Wikipedia as follows:
‘On 21 May 1976 several leading Tamil
politicians (A. Amirthalingam, V. N. Navaratnam, K. P. Ratnam, M. Sivasithamparam and K. Thurairatnam)
were delivering leaflets when they were all arrested on government orders.
Sivasithamparam was released but the others were taken to Colombo
and tried for sedition. All the defendants were acquitted on 10 February
1977 after a famous trial at bar case
in which around 70 leading Tamil lawyers, including Ponnambalam and S. J. V. Chelvanayakam, acted for the defence.’
The
above actions and arrests happened 5 days after Vaddukoddai Resolution was
manifested on 14 May 1976. Hence the ‘fear’ and ‘desire’ were due to Vaddukoddai
Resolution. This was preceded by the Tamil
Nadu experience presented as follows by Wikipedia:
‘In January 1976 the Union Government of India
dismissed the state government of Tamil Nadu, accusing Chief Minister Karunanidhi of corruption, and imposed President's rule.
Ponnambalam represented
Karunanidhi at Supreme Court & justice Ranjit Singh
Sarkaria's commission of inquiry. Karunanidhi was cleared of the
corruption charges.
To the extent Sri Lankan government benefitted from India’s
contribution to independence from Colonial Rule, but failed to pay its respects
to India, the Sri Lankan government’s mind would have the polarised experiences
of desire and fear in its relationship with India. Hence the above victory in
India would have caused fear in Sri Lanka, contributing to the ‘arrests’
The Indian experience confirms merger of minds through law.
But this is no longer a reality after weapon based opposition by both sides.
Hence the need for simple rules.
Hence
the need for Rules Based Order. Some of us practice that in family life when challenged
by differences in culture. We do not run to the authorities for family problems.
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