President’s ‘Home grown solution’ for the national conflict

What is home grown solution! What is home grown solution!! What a fiddle the government is advocating? It will only produce ruffians, rowdies and murderers like the ones embodied in the government.
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By Rajasingham Jayadevan

(July 18, London, Sri Lanka Guardian) The never ending drama of the national conflict in Sri Lanka is not showing any light (even accidentally) at the end of the tunnel. Having tried the heartless avenues including a federal solution to the conflict since independence, the present upbeat government of the President Mahinda Rajapakse is now saying that it will not be guided by the international theories to solve the conflict in Sri Lanka and will find its own home grown solution.

The other parties to the conflict are the Tamil speaking people and the government is beating the one sided rabban (drum) to pontificate its never known solution to the conflict whilst the Tamils are held under the state military and intelligence control and its anti-Tamil mandate. This new concept of home grown solution is the story of Alice in Wonderland for the world to dream and is propped up whilst the President is engineering a process to procrastinate even the speedy outcome of the ‘All Party Representative Committee’ (APRC) to find a solution to the national conflict.

The present political governance is grown from the foundation of hate practiced against the minorities since independence. Disfranchising the section of the Tamils brought by the British to Sri Lanka, Sinhala Only Act, systematic state sponsored colonisations, state engineered anti-Tamils violence, standardisation policy on education, ruthlessly suppressing the Tamil democratic agitations before Tamil militancy started in the 1970’s were some of the breading grounds for the Tamils violence in Sri Lanka. Indications are these will not be dissected to find a solution to the conflict. The government continues to preside over these maladies without sign posting and dealing with them as the root causes of the problem.

These scandals against the minorities are the body structure that is still propping up the anti-Tamil sentiments in the governance in all shapes and forms. Hate, violence, intimidations, blackmail, corruption, state terror, deep resentment, in built racism etc have grown into irretractable magnitude over the sixty years since independence that unless the whole political culture is overhauled without carrying out petty pruning exercises or tinkering works to fiddle with the burgeoning issues, the so-called propagation of ‘home grown’ solution is another fraud that government could engage to fiddle with its way through.

The President missed the golden opportunity to portray him as a national leader when he addressed the nation after the defeat of the LTTE. He could have made a wide ranging speech to reach the cross section of the Sri Lankan society. Instead, his speech was a drama limited in extending the age old agenda of the Sinhala nationalism and only contributed towards fermenting the rabban (drum) beating, cracker firing and kiribath (milk rice) dishing out extremists that play an important part in the governance in Sri Lanka.

There was no national mourning for many thousands Tamils died in the military onslaught to-date. It is contemptible even to speak about these deaths. The President’s position is that the LTTE killed the Tamils, implying that the government forces were only fighting with the scented flower guns. The government even will not allow an investigation into the so called LTTE killings as it knows the outcome will boomerang on its face.

The government is not even sincere towards the Sinhala people it represents. Two months since the defeat of the LTTE, it is still to confirm the deaths, injuries and missing in action figures of its own soldiers. The Sinhala masses too are happy and even those who could question do maintain silence, due to long arm of the state military intelligence and the political gunda’s associated with the government.

The government is so dishonest in its conduct that it is advocating a position of violently suppressing any resentment. These are part of the home growing culture that will play its role in determining the so called home grown solution to the national conflict.

It is clear that the government will be insincere to the Tamils and will extend its age old agenda to fiddle its way through with the help of few Tamils who are prepared to play a subservient role for their material and physical gains.

Will the government say what its objectives in its mission to find a home grown solution to the conflict? Is it forceful assimilation of the Tamils in the heavy presence of the military in the Tamil areas? Is it a solution imposed on the Tamils with the questionable Tamils engaged with the government who enjoy the wide spectrum of the wonder world benefits with the bounties of every kind given to them?

What is home grown solution! What is home grown solution!! What a fiddle the government is advocating? It will only produce ruffians, rowdies and murderers like the ones embodied in the government.

-Sri Lanka Guardian