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12 April 2024

Gajalakshmi Paramasivam

 

 

KACHATHEEVU PART OF TAMIL EELAM ?

We do not always ‘get’ the outcomes we think we are entitled to.  But as a total package we always feel the results of our contributions to ownership.  I learnt through Sri Lankan PRESCRIPTION ORDINANCE 1872 , the higher value of belief based ownership, relative to money based ownership. Now that Kachatheevu has become an election issue in India, it is important to Tamils of Northern Sri Lanka, due to Fisher-folks in that area. One needs to also take into consideration the citizenship agreements between the  governments which are without belief  and carry the risk of quid pro quos. Mrs Sirimavo Bandaranaike who represented Sri Lanka, in the Kachatheevu agreement was also the leader who introduced the ‘Buddhism foremost’ article in the Sri Lankan constitution in 1972. This obviously was a quid pro quo for Buddhist votes. The lady introduced also the policy of standardization which is presented as follows by Wikipedia:

was a policy implemented by the Sri Lankan government in 1971 to curtail the number of Tamil students selected for certain faculties in the universities. In 1972, the government added a district quota as a parameter within each language. In 1969, the Northern Province, which was largely populated by Tamils and comprised 7%of the population of the country, provided 27.5 percent of the entrants to science-based courses in Sri Lankan universities. By 1974, this was reduced to 7%.  Given the JVP uprisal in 1971, one is entitled to conclude that it was ‘fear-based’.  Desire and Fear are twins, separated by time.

When  Buddhism was made relative, it resulted in loss of sovereignty of  the government and separated the government from the Sri Lankans who believed in Multicultural Sri Lanka, with Separation of Powers, earned through Belief and therefore Sovereignty. Belief entitles one to Sovereign status.

As per the communication from the Hon M Karunanithi, as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, the Kachatheevu agreement was signed on 26 June 1974. Two days later, the Srimavo-Gandhi Pact was signed to repatriate 525,000 Hill-country Tamils to India!  Wikipedia reports:

 

‘The Sirima–Gandhi Pact  was an agreement that was signed between Sirimavo Bandaranaike, the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, and Indira Gandhi, the Prime Minister of India, on 28 June 1974. It was a follow-up agreement of Sirima-Shastri Pact that left 150,000 people of Indian origin in Sri Lanka to future account. Sirima-Shastri Pact agreed to grant Ceylonese citizenship to 300,000 Indian population in Sri Lanka and 525,000 people repatriation to India.

Even if one repatriated Sri Lankan of Indian origin had believed that s/he was Sri Lankan, the return karma would have been exponential.

 

 

Kachatheevu issue is about livelihood of fisherfolks. The fisherfolks of Tamil Nadu and those of Northern Sri Lanka, would have been brought together, by positive, work-based grouping of the caste system.  It is no coincidence that the LTTE leader of Northern Sri Lanka, and the JVP leader of Southern Sri Lanka,were from the same caste of fisherfolks. As per Wikipedia:

‘Patabendi Don Jinadasa Nandasiri Wijeweera was born on 14 July 1943 (Bastille Day), to Patabendi Don Andris Wijeweera and Nasi Nona Wickramakalutota, who lived in Kottegoda, a coastal village situated close to Matara in southern Sri Lanka and mostly belonged to the Karava caste hierarchy.’

The birth on a day connected to the French Revolution is no coincidence. Likewise, the KaravaSinghalese)-Karayar(Tamil)  natural commonness. They were known as Pattanavar in Tamil Nadu.

As per Wikipedia:

 

Governing systems

The Pattanavar possess a strong system of self-governance.

 

The true leader chooses her/his place of rebirth. This could be vertical on time basis or lateral on place basis. In the case of LTTE, the consequences of Sirima–Gandhi Pact  is confirmed to be lateral – as in a team:

 

‘In 1983, the Indian Research and Analysis Wing established training camps Tamil Nadu to train

and arm Tamil insurgents in Sri Lanka. The rebels

found it easy to travel back to Sri Lanka from training

camps and smuggled in their supplies from India via

small crafts cross the Palk Strait. With the Sri Lanka Navy intercepting these crafts, Prabhakaran ordered the formation of maritime wing within the LTTE in 1984 tasked with smuggling personnel and equipment between the LTTE's bases in Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka, in particular Jaffna. A year later these crafts manned by LTTE cadres now known as Sea Tigers had been evading naval patrol crafts began mounting machine guns with which the began engaging the navy in gun battles at sea’ – Wikipedia.

 

Kachatheevu is a small island with sovereign power of water.