{"id":119359,"date":"2014-02-02T00:03:23","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T18:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=119359"},"modified":"2014-03-02T03:44:10","modified_gmt":"2014-03-01T22:14:10","slug":"powerful-president-dithering-in-the-south-powerless-provincial-council-resolving-in-the-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/powerful-president-dithering-in-the-south-powerless-provincial-council-resolving-in-the-north\/","title":{"rendered":"Powerful President Dithering In The South, Powerless Provincial Council Resolving In The North"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Rajan Philips<\/span><\/a> –<\/b><\/p>\n

\"Rajan<\/a>

Rajan Philips<\/p><\/div>\n

Last Sunday I alluded to Geneva anxieties<\/span><\/a>. Since then things have got sillier and more complicated at the same time. \u00a0On Monday, the Northern Provincial Council<\/span><\/a>, that has not been enabled to do anything worthwhile after its election in September, passed a resolution calling for international investigation into the last stages of the war, and for erecting a memorial at Mullivaikal to honour the civilians killed there during the war\u2019s final phase.\u00a0 The Council also decided to send Councillor Ananthi Sasitharan as its representative to Geneva to speak on the question of the missing persons.\u00a0 The resolution seems to have come out of the blue for most observers, and certainly for the UPFA government (which lately has been losing its original SLFP blueness).<\/p>\n

The government has not provided a response to the resolution for nearly a week.\u00a0 The usually truculent government spokespersons haven\u2019t said anything, and the President appears to be too busy for serious politics given his ceremonial duties as Head of State and the urgency of picking fair candidates from film-star and night-star contenders for the forthcoming PC elections in the Western and the Southern Provinces. \u00a0On the matter of the Northern Provincial Council, even after a much publicized and reportedly cordial meeting with Chief Minister Wigneswaran<\/span><\/a>, the all-powerful President, I must say, has been quite simply dithering.\u00a0 The President did not even follow up on his reported agreement with the Chief Minister to replace the currently contentious Chief Secretary of the Province with a new appointment acceptable to both the President and the Chief Minister.<\/p>\n

Chief Justice and Chief Secretary<\/b><\/p>\n

That the President could not do so because of some threatened opposition by the SLAS Union is nonsense.\u00a0 Chief Minister Wigneswaran has already exposed the absurdity of this excuse from the legal and administrative standpoints.\u00a0 Politically, it is laughable that a government that got rid of the country\u2019s Chief Justice without any fuss cannot replace a Secretary in Jaffna, even though she seems to be capable of more fuss than Chief Justice Shiranee Bandaranayake<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 Rotations and replacements of senior civil servants are routine affairs after elections and change of governments and these are not subject to trade union rights.\u00a0 No one is calling for the Secretary\u2019s dismissal or punishment, but only an administrative change following the first ever Provincial Council elections in the North, with due compensation to the Secretary as per her terms of employment.<\/p>\n

According to Wigneswaran, it is the frustration of powerlessness that precipitated the NPC resolution calling for international intervention.\u00a0 It was a rather hotheaded response to a frustrating situation that also had a lot to do with the internal politics of the TNA Councillors.\u00a0 It may have been an attempt to put Wigneswaran on the spot while embarrassing the government.\u00a0 The resolution reportedly required a lot of debate and much persuasion by Wigneswaran to avoid the inflammatory reference to \u2018genocide\u2019 in the resolution. For the amateurish TamilNet theoreticians, the exclusion of the term \u2018genocide\u2019 has inexcusably diluted the resolution.\u00a0 For pro-Rajapaksa, anti-Rajapaksa-advisers commentator Dayan Jayatilleka<\/span><\/a>, the resolution is a \u201cdangerous escalation\u201d that will only weaken the hand of the President and strengthen the chorus of anti-devolutionists in the South.\u00a0 The fact of the matter is that the President\u2019s hand needs no strengthening.\u00a0 He has the strongest political hand ever among all of Sri Lanka\u2019s Prime Ministers and Presidents, but he also has the least willingness to use it to resolve the Sinhala-Tamil problem in our lifetime.<\/p>\n

The hand that has been weakened is the hand of Chief Minister Wigneswaran.\u00a0 And the history of Sinhala-Tamil politics is being repeated now in more ways than one.\u00a0 It was the earlier failures to honour the agreements with parliamentary Tamil leaders that gave rise to the rise of Tamil political violence and the rejection of non-violent parliamentary politics. \u00a0Wigneswaran is already beginning to experience the disappointments that befell Tamil leaders like Ponnambalam, Chelvanayakam and Amirthalingam. \u00a0Rather than working with Wigneswaran and enabling the new Northern Provincial Council to carry out its mandated business, the President is duplicitously promising to work with him and then doing nothing about it.<\/p>\n

Those of us who were associated with the Movement for Inter-Racial Justice and Equality (MIRJE) in the late 1970s and chronicled \u201cEmergency \u201879\u201d can see another connection. \u00a0Just a month before imposing Emergency Rule in Jaffna, after which Jaffna would never be the same again, the Jayewardene government transferred out of Jaffna its then Government Agent, Lionel Fernando, a Sinhalese Civil Servant and one of the more popular GAs ever to serve in Jaffna, and replaced him with Yogendra Duraiswamy, a retiree from foreign service and a Tamil political busybody, who was also a defeated pro-government candidate in the 1977 election.\u00a0 Lionel Fernando was a fearless civilian interface between the security forces and the people of Jaffna.\u00a0 In contrast, when the army descended on Jaffna to enforce Emergency Rule, the new GA, Duraiswamy, went ingloriously missing in action until he was finally removed.\u00a0 It has been reported that that the present contentious Chief Secretary in Jaffna is a niece of Yogendra Duraiswamy.\u00a0 For those interested in family trees, they are respectively the grand daughter and the elder son of Sir Waittilingam Duraiswamy, a Jaffna notable and former Speaker of the State Council.<\/p>\n

Preparation for Geneva<\/b><\/p>\n

After its two botched attempts in diplomacy and communication, sending all and sundry of its myriads of hangers on, to the UNHRC<\/span><\/a> sessions in 2012 and 2013, the government has sent Presidential Secretary Lalith Weeratunga as its public face to Geneva to prepare the ground for the March sessions this year.\u00a0 From Geneva, Mr. Weeratunga<\/span><\/a> has gone on to canvas the Americans in Washington, where the government (rather the Central Bank) is already investing almost US$ 200,000 annually in a Public Relations firm to spruce up Lanka\u2019s image for the Americans.\u00a0 Keeping him in check is Sajin de Vass Gunawardena<\/span><\/a> (Monitoring MP for the Ministry of External Affairs \u2013 whatever it means in the Rajapaksa lexicon of cabinet government), who apparently has been given the responsibility for handling UNHRC matters for 2014.\u00a0 But making power point presentations is Mr. Weeratunga\u2019s forte. \u00a0In Geneva and in Washington, Mr. Weeratunga has been just doing that dutifully.<\/p>\n

In a selectively axe-grinding commentary<\/span><\/a>, Dayan Jayatilleka has all but called Weeratunga\u2019s salutary professional efforts\u00a0 a waste of time given the government\u2019s utter lack of progress in regard to an internally agreed-upon strategy, in April 2011, to trade-off devolution for accountability to quieten the West, and the Presidential directive to start working with the TNA immediately. Dr. Jayatilleka rightfully lambastes the impertinence of Sajin de Vass Gunawardena in provoking the TNA leader R. Sambanthan into a public fury a few months later and virtually freezing all communications between the TNA and the government.\u00a0 More months later, the LLRC Report recommended the same trade-off loud and clear, but between lines.<\/p>\n

Dayan Jayatilleka also pokes fun at the government\u2019s apparent new strategy to emulate Israel\u2019s obduracy in international forums. \u00a0This is a new development following a little reported aspect of the recent multi-purpose visit of the multi-hued Presidential entourage to the Holy Land. \u00a0Reportedly, President Rajapaksa<\/span><\/a> sought out Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s advice about influencing Washington to appreciate the Sri Lankan government\u2019s no less obdurate position.\u00a0 We do not know whether any notes were compared in this strange meeting about creating offensive human settlements in unwanted places.\u00a0 Mr. Netanyahu can give ample advice on that.\u00a0 But what happens then to the Rajapaksa government\u2019s Non-Aligned Middle East policy?<\/p>\n

While the Sri Lankan government was focusing on Washington to prepare for Geneva, Assistant Secretary of State Nisha Biswal of the US State Department has been visiting Jaffna and London, as part of the US preparation for Geneva.\u00a0 On Sunday, January 26, before the NPC Resolution in Jaffna, the TNA leader issued a public statement<\/span><\/a> in Trincomalee following the Central Committee meeting of the old Federal Party (ITAK).\u00a0 It seemed to be a point-by-point response to the government\u2019s power point presentation in Geneva, and covered the yet unfinished, or yet to be started, business in six critical areas: Land, Missing Persons, Military Presence, Independent and Impartial Investigation, Government\u2019s failure to implement previous agreements with the TNA, and the continued disabling of the newly elected Northern Provincial Council. The next day, the disabled Northern Council bestirred itself into a passing a resolution. All of which the government could have easily avoided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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