{"id":184557,"date":"2017-11-21T01:41:15","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T20:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=184557"},"modified":"2017-11-23T11:41:52","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T06:11:52","slug":"societal-conflict-gintota-is-only-the-tip-of-the-iceberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/societal-conflict-gintota-is-only-the-tip-of-the-iceberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Societal Conflict: Gintota Is Only The Tip Of The Iceberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><b>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Mass+L.+Usuf\">Mass L. Usuf<\/a> &#8211;<\/b><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_168796\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Mass-Usuf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-168796\" class=\"size-full wp-image-168796\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Mass-Usuf.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Mass-Usuf.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Mass-Usuf-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-168796\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mass Usuf<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The clich\u00e9 that the Sri Lankan government emerged victorious in the separatist Eelam war but failed to win the hearts and minds of the Tamil population is very true.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Not long after the end of the war began the attack on the Muslims. Both the previous government, which is credited with the victory and, the present government have miserably failed in creating an environment facilitating co-existence for its minority citizens. This dereliction is an indictment on the former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, sitting President Maithripala Sirisena and the Prime Minister.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Each of them singularly and collectively lacked the political will to take affirmative action in the matter of race relations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Prime Minister\u2019s frequent rhetoric on the drive towards development, luring foreign direct investors etc. is doomed without the foundational issue being adequately addressed.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>No foreign investor will be willing to park his funds in a market overshadowed by chronic ethno-racial tension.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Insecurity is a major factor, among others, that would remain a threat to stability and growth prospects of any economy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">To pat oneself on the back for ensuring law and order by ordering the police and military to a trouble spot is simply treating the symptom.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>What the country needs is a scientific and qualitative approach to address the root cause and mitigate its effect.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Priority And Speed<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The creation of the Office for National Unity and Reconciliation (ONUR) and the establishment of a separate Ministry for National Integration and Reconciliation are steps in the right direction.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>The vision statement, \u201cTo build a strong integrated Sri Lankan Community whilst protecting socio-cultural value system \u2026.\u201d of the Ministry of National Integration and Reconciliation is indeed encouraging.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>So are the thematic focus of ONUR, \u201cBuild an inclusive society by promoting social integration.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Support the healing process within communities.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Bring youth and children to the forefront in building national unity and reconciliation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Deliverables, however, are not robust and have not been felt on the ground. This does not mean that they do not do anything at all.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>On the contrary, whatever is being done is insufficient and has not reached the wider audience \u2013 the masses.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Also, apparently, these institutions lack momentum.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>It is also imperative that they co-ordinate their activities to support the training of Police personnel on diversity (see below). <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Forms of Racism <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Racism in the Sri Lankan society is a reality.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>The subtle or covert form of it is experienced almost on a daily basis by those belonging to ethnic or religious minorities. Everyday racism like being ignored, ridiculed or treated differently in circumstances, do not make headline news. However, the covert nature of such microaggressions are symptomatic of the prevalence of this \u2018disease\u2019 in the people. The cumulative effect of such aggressions over a period of time impacts on the thinking of both the target, as victim of racial prejudice and, the racist, as the aggressor with a sense of superiority.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The unfettered and unchecked progress of this sense of racial superiority is dangerous to society. History teaches us the lesson of death and destruction which had its roots in racial superiority.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Hitler\u2019s fascist Nazi idealisation of the German \u2018Blut und Boden\u2019 (Blood and soil) is reflected in the Sinhala Buddhist ultra-nationalism and Sinha Le manifestations in Sri Lanka.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Agents Of Metastasis<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Racism like cancer metastasises fast.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>The agents of metastasis are the social media and the monks.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>In their cultural tradition, the Buddhists pay obeisance to monks with great reverence.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>This reverential bonding psychologically places monks in a position of influence over the thinking and behaviour of the lay people, especially the youth.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>There is sufficient empirical evidence for this. Some of these monks, instead of inculcating samma ditti (right view) in the minds of the people, they are teaching hatred, intolerance and vengeance.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Instead of weaning the lay Buddhist youth from violence, they lead them to thuggerism.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>The social media is an easy platform to spread evil and indoctrinate the rest of the gullible people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Similarly, the novice monks too are under the sway of their seniors.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>This writer has explained in an article before about the detrimental effect of this dominant and peer influence.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>(See: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/culturing-fear-hatred-in-the-sinhalese-mind-an-open-letter-to-sinhalese\/\">Culturing Fear &amp; Hatred In The Sinhalese Mind<\/a> &#8211; 21 May 2017 &#8211; Colombo Telegraph).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>An Accident Or Love Affair<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The full-blown effect of covert racism can be seen manifesting itself in a totally unrelated incident finally, taking the form of racial conflict.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Let it be a road accident, an argument with a bus driver or a love affair if the parties involved are Sinhalese and Muslims the outcome is different.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>In the distant past, such events were dealt with according to the nature of the problem.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Not so, today.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Once two of my Sinhalese friends and I were on our way to a wedding function.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>While walking past a certain area, some guys rushed to assault one of my friends to settle an old score.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>I intervened to save my friend and they engaged me. The three guys who attacked my friend were all Sinhalese.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>My friend, too, a Sinhalese. Today, such an incident will be converted into a \u2018thambiya gehuwa\u2019 incitement (\u2018thambiya\u2019 a supposedly derogatory word used against the Muslims by the Sinhalese, \u2018gehuwa\u2019 hit).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This stands as proof of the drastic social transformation that has evolved over the years towards ungodliness.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>The genesis of the racial violence in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Gintota\">Gintota<\/a> a few days ago was in fact, an accident which happened on 13.11.2017.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>If all were Sinhalese, the angry crowd may burn the vehicle or assault the driver and the matter ends there.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Since the parties in the Gintota incident were the explosive combination \u2013 Sinhalese versus Muslims, it took the form of racial violence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Arrest Institutional Racism<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The advanced stage of covert racism is its graduation towards the much serious form of institutional racism.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>In Sri Lanka, this progression has now fruitioned considerably in the affairs of governmental institutions especially, the Police.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>The sight of policemen driving past, waving their hands at the looters, arsonists and killers in response to the latter shouting \u2018jayawewa\u2019, during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=July+1983\">1983 pogrom<\/a>, is a spine chilling reminder of institutional racism. Even in Gintota, some allege that the Police were mere bystanders when some business premises were attacked.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>There are also allegations that some Policemen were themselves involved in damaging the properties of the Muslims.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Many were the tales of such non-intervention or complicity by the Police during the June 2014 Aluthgama riots against the Muslims instigated by the infamous Gnanasara Thero.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The previous government never made an attempt to check such institutionalised racism.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>This lapse had contributed in normalising what would otherwise be named as racial discrimination. It must be stated unequivocally that there are Police Officers with the highest integrity.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Unfortunately, the lower rung is populated with some unsocial elements stigmatising even the good apples amongst them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">If the government is thinking in terms of development and a prosperous Sri Lanka, it needs to seriously device mechanisms to arrest the metastasising of racial prejudice amongst the majority community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Training On Diversity<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The government must take on this task of reorienting the Police and the Special Task Force (STF) which are important state security apparatuses. The Police department must enlist the services of race relation experts, social scientists and social psychologists to develop a curriculum to train the Police personnel. There is a need to provide a new regime of Police training directed towards maintaining neutrality in matters relating to racial, ethnic and religious conflicts.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Every policeman must be put through a mandatory reorientation programme in batches.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>They have to be prepared to handle such sensitive and potentially explosive matters with caution, empathy and justice.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Educate and share with them the values of equality, diversity and human rights which are expected of them in honour of the uniform they are wearing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The law enforcement authorities must bring to justice all miscreants of the Gintota incident irrespective of their ethnicity or religious stature including members of the Police. The Police Media Spokesperson Ruwan Gunasekara during a media briefing said, \u201cThe measures we are taking against these disruptive and extremist groups are in accordance to the provisions of Act No. 56 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.\u201d According to the Act\u2019s provisions, the arrested can be given bail only through the High Court only upon presenting extraordinary reasons to court.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Well done, Sir!<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Would you also seriously investigate the allegation of Police involvement?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> <b>A parting question to the Police:<\/b> Why were not the so many suspects which also include monks, who had blatantly violated the provisions of the ICCPR in the recent past, not booked under this law? It is a fundamental principle of a progressive society to establish the rule of law.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>This has to be done without the influence of institutional racism, political opportunism and soft peddling on monks who breach the law.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":168796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,46,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-constitutional-reforms","category-editorial"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Societal Conflict: Gintota Is Only The Tip Of The Iceberg - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/societal-conflict-gintota-is-only-the-tip-of-the-iceberg\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Societal Conflict: Gintota Is Only The Tip Of The Iceberg - Colombo Telegraph\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/societal-conflict-gintota-is-only-the-tip-of-the-iceberg\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Colombo Telegraph\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-11-20T20:11:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-11-23T06:11:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Mass-Usuf.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"150\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"150\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Mass L. 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