The LTTE that you claim to have structured with your soul mate Prabakaran, did not have the positions and structure to connect the work of locals – especially the LTTE members and supporters – to accepted forms of Self Governance at the global level.
by Gaja Lakshmi Paramasivam
Dear Mr. T.S.Pathmanathan (K.P.)
CEO – NERDO (North East Rehabilitation and Redevelopment Organization)10, 1st lane
Kathiresu Road, Vairavaputhiyankulam
Vavuniya, Sri Lanka
(November 29, Melbourne, Sri Lanka Guardian) I refer to your communication dated 26 November, regarding your current activities. Your communication was forwarded to me by a fellow Australian Tamil.
Your communication starts with the message that your current incarnation is through NERDO – the first one being to structure LTTE and the second to save your people. Your communication ends with the message that you are squeezed between the ‘Government Machinery’ and your Criticizers.
This could be translated for the Common Tamil without political influence as having been caught between the ‘Government and the Armed Fighters’. Your criticizers use the pen instead of the gun that your LTTE used. We the commoners conclude that your gun karma is coming back to you as word karma.
Mr. Pathmanathan, to me, it is all about work and sacrifices of earned benefits and wealth. If you had valued the work of others as if you had done the work yourself – your return is guaranteed through God’s/Nature’s system. When the work is from the heart, the return ‘happens’ immediately. Where the environment is not strong enough to return the benefits of our work, the value of our work goes into storage and manifests itself at the time and place we need it most. To the extent you knowingly or otherwise damaged the work of genuine investors in independence and self governance, you earned the return attack from which you claim to have suffered much.
The LTTE that you claim to have structured with your soul mate Prabakaran, did not have the positions and structure to connect the work of locals – especially the LTTE members and supporters – to accepted forms of Self Governance at the global level. When Mr. Ruthrakumaran’s group sought our support to set up a Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam – I urged them to ensure that there was a reliable system of Public Administration in place to return the value of work and sacrifices by all genuine investors. That group went ahead without paying attention to this call. Now we are witnessing internal divisions within former LTTE members and supporters. To that extent, we the commoners conclude that the LTTE wanted to ‘win’ more than be that force of Independence.
As you would appreciate, our actions are driven by a combination of calculated plans and belief. The stronger the belief – the less the pain due to defeats. I for example, sued on the basis of what I believed to be unlawful discrimination on the basis of race by Mr. John Howard when he was Prime Minister of Australia. I felt the urge to ‘register’ my pain and loss through the highest level at which I had worked. Belief always empowers. I believed that my work was of that standard. If I had ‘calculated’, I am not likely to have taken Mr. Howard to court. Instead, I may have structured the intellectual parallel of the LTTE here in Australia. I knew that I would lose as an individual in court, but I still had to do what I did. That to me is ownership. Now the returns are happening through various arms of Public Administration. To me this is possible only because of ordinary Australians (some of whom represented Mr. Howard in court) who invested in common with me – especially through the Government Machinery.
Belief is true. When the mind is still, the passage of belief is open. To the extent, LTTE did contribute including through military activities, to the system of Governance, through their belief, their contribution was positive. The moment their calculated plans and actions exceeded the strength of belief based actions – they needed an intellectual administrative structure to return investments including by global agencies. Failure to develop such a structure has limited Tamils to the local level of Sri Lankan politicians – many of whom are known to be driven by brawn power more than brain power.
We now have to widen our base to include global investors in self-governance, and believe with them in common. Given that you failed to develop such a structure despite having quick access to the authority of the LTTE, it is difficult for us to project as to how you would return any of our investments in your current activities through NERDO. As a fellow Tamil said recently ‘When you ask without having first invested, you are begging. When you are given without you asking – it is as per Dharma’ .
The return karma for excessive telling when one is in power, is likely to be begging when one loses power. Please honor the soldiers who believed in Independence. Those who believe would neither beg nor dictate. They would just invest and draw as per their needs which drawing is always facilitated by the system of Natural Justice. Hence I urge you to please develop a system that upholds our dignity as a community. Keep us informed and leave it to us to respond as per our feelings. This is likely to result in drop of funding. But it would also eliminate those who are driven by winning – this time through philanthropy.
The only reliable avenue through which I see the Tamil Community ‘winning’ against ‘majority force’ – is through higher education. The force of the individual Tamil needs to be greater than the force of the individual Sinhalese, for us to become Equal powers as communities. Sri Lanka needs this to become a democratic nation. This Equality is often achieved through Higher Education. It is when the two powers are Equal that we have earned the right to be an independent power through devolution. When that happens – a government that is committed to Dharma would naturally share power. The more we expect to be ‘given’ the more we confirm that we are begging – be it funds for charity or political powers. Let us keep developing self governance through the best and highest avenues available to us. To majority Tamils this needs to be through investments higher education rather than in military activities, for us to merge with official global powers.
I confirm that I worked with the Tamil Tigers on the basis of belief – towards which I had to sacrifice my wins through the intellectual path of Structured Administration. It ‘happened’ through UNDP which to me was my return karma for investing in Global standards of Public Administration. That to me is the best way to preserve the value of our work to benefit all Tamils in common. Let us therefore develop the strongest possible system of Public Administration through all avenues available to us. That system would sustain Tamils for generations.
Belief is the power of One. Let’s therefore develop that belief in self governance and each one of us would at least be equal to the collective power of the community which would at least be equal to the power of majority race that elects government. Tamils need to do that not only in Sri Lanka but in the nations that are currently their ‘home’.
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