{"id":231317,"date":"2023-02-10T21:10:48","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T15:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=231317"},"modified":"2023-02-15T17:06:48","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T11:36:48","slug":"the-presidents-clarion-call-for-fundamental-changes-the-tamil-speaking-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/the-presidents-clarion-call-for-fundamental-changes-the-tamil-speaking-people\/","title":{"rendered":"The President’s Clarion Call For Fundamental Changes & The Tamil Speaking People"},"content":{"rendered":"

By C.V. Wigneswaran<\/a> –<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Justice C.V. Wigneswaran MP<\/p><\/div>\n

I thank the Chairperson for giving me this opportunity to speak on the Policy Statement made by the President<\/a><\/span> two days ago. Though there is nothing new to be found with regard to the solving of the ethnic question which is paramount to us Tamils, I was pleasantly surprised to find that the President has quite rightly identified the maladies that have stultified progress in the economic field in Sri Lanka and the fundamental changes that need to be brought about in ourselves to grapple with the situation.\u00a0<\/span>Let me list them;<\/p>\n

1. At page 4 of the English version he has said \u201cI am ready to make unpopular decisions for the sake of the Nation\u201d.<\/p>\n

2. At page 5 bottom he has said \u201cInflation rises during an economic crisis. The price of goods increase. Employment is at risk. Businesses collapse. Taxes increase. It is difficult for all sections of the Society to survive. However if we endure this hardship for another five to six months, we can reach a solution.\u201d<\/p>\n

3. At page 6 in the penultimate paragraph he has said \u201c\u2026\u2026the future cannot be built on falsehood.\u201d<\/p>\n

4. At page 10 he has said \u201d\u2026\u2026I try to cure the malady first, after which we can take further measures. We should prioritize curing the ailment\u2026\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

5. At page 11 he has said \u201cWe neglected economic reforms for the sake of narrow political agendas. The burden of loss-making\u00a0<\/span>government institutions was borne by the people\u2026.Even the most destitute have to bear the cost of maintaining these institutions\u201d<\/p>\n

6. At page 12 he has said \u201cIt is imperative to stop the practice of directing public investment for political reasons\u201d.<\/p>\n

7. At page 13 he has said \u201cWe avoided problems and did not seek long term solutions. We are all presently experiencing the result of that behaviour.\u201d<\/p>\n

8. At page 13 he further says \u201d\u2026..we are facing an economic crisis which is more decisive than the past conflict in the North and East.\u201d<\/p>\n

9. At page 18 he has said \u201cThe traditional politics that we have followed so far is no longer valid. Deceptions made with lies and illusions for political gains are not suitable for the future\u201d.<\/p>\n

10. At page 18 he has further said \u201cChange should begin from within ourselves. We all should change and that too should be for the betterment. As politicians we should change for the better.\u201d<\/p>\n

11. At page 24 he has said \u201cWe all have to change our lifestyles for the sake of the Nation\u201d<\/p>\n

12. At page 25 he has said \u201dIt is the duty of this House to make them (children and youth) inherit a free tomorrow and a free Nation\u201d<\/p>\n

All these are noble words. Words emanating from a matured mind. When politicisation\u00a0<\/span>of the civil service and administrative service took place in this Country there were warnings from concerned persons. But our politicians continued to make the mistake over and over again. The result is the present impasse. When Dr NM Perera as the Minister of Finance under the Sirimavo Government was ready to take unpopular decisions in the economic front\u00a0 <\/span>for the sake of the Country he was not allowed. At all stages the Sinhala psyche preferred today\u2019s entertainment for tomorrow\u2019s impasse. The behavioral pattern of the 16th<\/sup> century Portuguese had been inculcated into the hearts of our Sinhala brethren. Kaapanla beepanla suthi karapanla<\/em> is their motto. Be happy today. What happens tomorrow is no concern today.<\/p>\n

If only the Tamil Civil servants or Tamil speaking higher officers from the North and East were allowed to direct affairs from our Departments the motto would have been different. Save today for tomorrow\u2019s entertainment would have been their chorus!<\/p>\n

There was a happy blend of our basic characteristics during the time of the British. But with the steady outflow of senior Tamil Public Servants the attitudes among our Public Servants left behind changed for the worse. Our Politicians saw to it that they changed.<\/p>\n

His Excellency\u2019s clarion call for fundamental changes in our perception gives us hope.<\/p>\n

But as a Tamil Member of Parliament representing the Jaffna District I must say I am disappointed. Despite many promises nothing substantial to ameliorate the conditions of the Tamil speaking people of the North and East have been included in the Policy Statement. The promised release of Tamil Political Prisoners has not taken place. Except for 100 acres the balance 3000 acres of People\u2019s lands have not been returned to the People. 60,000\u00a0 <\/span>acres of\u00a0<\/span>State land still remain in the hands of the Military. The transferring of Officers posted to the Chief Secretary ship of the Provincial Council nor the Post of Provincial Heath Director have not taken place despite more Senior Officers being there in the Northern Province.\u00a0<\/span>The release of lands by the Departments though promised has not seen the publishing of the relevant Gazette Notifications.\u00a0<\/span>Army\u2019s presence has not been curtailed. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The reason seems to be an inbuilt fear and suspicion about the Tamils of the North and East in the minds of not only Politicians and Public Officers but even religious dignitaries like the Venerable Mahanayake Theros. Until and unless such inbuilt suspicions are removed, this Country cannot progress not only economically but socially and politically too.<\/p>\n

Many of you my dear Colleagues may have read the open letter I addressed the Venerable Mahanayaka Theros with regard to their recent\u00a0 <\/span>statement on the Thirteenth Amendment<\/a><\/span>. May I refer to a few statements here of what I wrote to the Venerable Mahanayake Theros with regard to their statement regarding the Thirteenth Amendment?<\/p>\n

It was stated in a joint letter by the Venerable Mahanayaka Theros\u00a0 <\/span>that by granting Land and Police powers together with the right to administer archaeological sites and places of religious worship to the Provincial Councils, it would lead to separation.<\/p>\n

I inquired from\u00a0<\/span> the most Venerable Mahanayaka Theros\u00a0<\/span>if the President grants Land and Police powers whether all nine Provincial Councils would ask for \u201dseparation\u201d as they say? If that be so, I asked, then why not? After all there are 20 cantons in Switzerland. We could have a confederation like in Switzerland allowing every Province to function independently and separately subject to certain rights of the Centre.<\/p>\n

If the Venerable Theros thought that the Provinces other than the Northern and Eastern Provinces would not want to act independently but that only the North and East would want to \u201cseparate\u201d as they say, then it would mean that they infer that because the North and East are Tamil speaking areas they would want to act independently. In other words the Venerable Theros believe the Tamils are not satisfied being under the yoke of the Sinhalese governed Central Government and therefore the North and East would want to \u201cseparate\u201d as they say and therefore they must be forcibly kept under the boot of the Sinhalese without giving any freedom to the Tamil speaking people of the North and East to govern themselves.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Was it not such thinking, I asked, that has brought economic instability to the Country? How long is this Country going to prepare for war against the Tamils and spend colossal amount of foreign exchange to keep the military in readiness? And what are the Sinhalese scared about at the worst? That the Tamils of the North and East would separate and form their own Thamileelam?\u00a0<\/span>How does it affect the Sinhalese? The Sinhalese never occupied the North and East in great numbers. The Buddhist remains in the North and East are those from during the time of the Demala Baudhayo. (Tamil Buddhists) (vide Demala Baudhayo by Professor Sunil Ariyaratne in Sinhala language). In any event there was no Sinhala language born during the time of the Demala Baudhayos. The Sinhala language came into being only in the 6th<\/sup> and 7th<\/sup> Centuries AD. Only those who spoke the Sinhala Language could be identified as Sinhalese. The Mahawamsa never referred to a people called the Sinhalese nor to a language called Sinhala!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I asked the Venerable Sirs as to whether they are worried about separation because they were aware that the Sinhalese had no legitimate rights whatsoever to control the Tamils? In other words I pointed out they were wanting force and violence to be used on the Tamils to keep them subjugated. I asked whether that was what Buddhism had taught their Reverends?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I asked them whether Ahimsa was not part of Dhamma. The term Ahimsa is an important spiritual doctrine shared by Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. It literally meant ‘non-injury’ and ‘non-killing’. It implied the total avoidance of harming of any kind of living creatures not only by deeds, but also by words and in thought. I asked their Reverends how they could as Bhikkus of the highest calibre and sensitivity preach something which harms a section of our People?<\/p>\n

After all the Tamils of the North and East are asking for something which the International Law gives them the right to claim and enjoy. Article 1 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights states as follows;\u00a0All peoples have the right of self determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development.<\/i><\/p>\n

Granting Land and Police powers to the North and East under our Unitary Constitution would not lead to separation under any circumstances. It would only curtail and to some extent control the nefarious activities carried out by the Centre and its Agents in the North and East. I asked their Venerable Sirs whether they want to perpetuate the wrongs done by the Centre in the North and East by requesting the Centre not to grant Land and Police powers to the North and East which they are by Law entitled?<\/p>\n

In conclusion let me say here and now that the 13th Amendment<\/a><\/span> can never lead to separation of any sort since it is decentralization which is set out in the Thirteenth Amendment and not power sharing of any nature. The Thirteenth Amendment coming under the Unitary Constitution gives no right whatsoever to the Provinces to think freely and independently.<\/p>\n

Finally let me hope that the much maligned and hated Thirteenth Amendment would be implemented in full at least for the moment until an opportunity dawns on the powers that be in Sri Lanka to grant voluntarily or involuntarily the right of self-determination to the Tamil speaking people of the North and East. Thank you.<\/p>\n

*Justice C.V.Wigneswaran M.P\u2019s speech made in Parliament on 10th<\/sup> February 2023<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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