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24 July 2023
Gajalakshmi Paramasivam
WHO
WROTE BLACK JULY FACT?
Today marks the 40th anniversary of
Black July, presented as follows by Wikipedia:
Black July (was an anti-Tamil pogrom that occurred in Sri Lanka during
July 1983. The pogrom was premeditated, and was finally triggered by a deadly ambush on 23 July 1983, which caused the death of 13 Sri Lanka Army soldiers, by the Tamil
militant group Liberation
Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Although
initially orchestrated by members of
the ruling UNP, the pogrom soon escalated into mass violence with
significant public participation.
On the night of
24 July 1983, anti-Tamil rioting started in the capital city of Colombo and then spread to other parts of the country.
The
LTTE provided the following explanation as
to why it happened:
‘On the basis of 1977 riots, we anticipated some
reaction to our action. But we failed to anticipate the extent to which UNP
politicians would influence Sinhalese to let loose racial hatred they had. The 1958 riots were limited
to political reasons. The government seemed to want to generate so much fear
into Tamil minds, that the Tamils would
not dare to protest. But that was before the armed rebellion’
In
2009 also, the Sinhala army raped and demonstrated animal behaviour against
Tamils. The LTTE has zero reports of rape but it also has records of other forms of animal / asura behaviour
in a free environment. There are many
accusations of ‘sexual misconduct’ against football
players here in Australia. Yet the game is popular in Australia. Ethics is the
backbone of civilisation of a group. The closest word I can think of in Hinduism
is Dharma.
What
induces this animal behaviour which extends beyond war/play area? Excessive
victory celebrations.
Truth
is perfectly balanced. At primary level, where there is right, there needs to be
a wrong to complete the circle of relativity. Hence two sides of the coin. At tertiary level, right & wrong are felt by the same person, at the same time. Hence there is no excess. The role of the Opposition in parliament is to maintain zero excess. The greater the excess, the greater the tendency to be animalistic.
In the case of Sri Lanka, the ethnic game is often extended beyond parliament, due
to lack of discipline in politicians. Hence, the political follower becomes the
animal driven by the parliamentarian. The LTTE leader confirms this by referring to
specific UNP politician Mr Cyril Mathew & to the then president J R Jayawardene.
The armed forces punished Sinhala rebels also cruelly. Kataragama beauty queen, Premawathi Manamperi was forced to parade naked and tortured to death. When opposition
is weak, the karma returns to the same side.
Missing on the part of the LTTE was ‘ownership of Colombo’, where the July riots began. If the leader had felt the pain of
Colombo Tamils, as his own, he would have anticipated the pogrom and taken advice from Tamil Politicians, including Mr Appapillai Amirthalingam who was murdered by the LTTE on 13 July 1989. But LTTE , its followers and its supporters, do not observe 13 July as a day mourning. This confirms that they contribute to armed politics and not intellectual politics. The motive of ‘intimidation’ was confirmed by the LTTE leader as ‘fear factor’.
Given that the LTTE was part of the team that ‘caused’ the 1983 Black July, each time
someone blames the causal forces, they blame the LTTE also. That is how Dharma, works. That is the way shown by King Ellalan who punished himself by ordering the execution of his son who killed a calf and caused pain to mother cow. In Equal Justice
the law of the causer of the ‘fact’ is the law applied to the victim also – as in measure for measure.
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