{"id":97609,"date":"2013-07-29T00:54:59","date_gmt":"2013-07-28T19:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=97609"},"modified":"2013-08-01T11:35:58","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T06:05:58","slug":"sri-lanka-coercion-for-political-realism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lanka-coercion-for-political-realism\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka: Coercion For Political Realism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Posts by Ayesha Siddiqa\" href=\"http:\/\/tribune.com.pk\/author\/112\/ayesha-siddiqa\/\">Ayesha Siddiqa<\/a><\/span>\u00a0&#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_97611\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lanka-coercion-for-political-realism\/pakistani-author-ayesha-siddiqa-prepares-to-address-a-press-conference-in-islamabad-31-may-2007-the-respected-pakistani-author-accused-the-government-of-attempting-to-ban-the-launch-of-her-bookmil\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-97611\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97611\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-97611\" title=\"Pakistani author Ayesha Siddiqa prepares to address a press conference in Islamabad, 31 May 2007.  The respected Pakistani author accused the government of attempting to ban the launch of her book&quot;Military Inc: Inside Pakistan's Military Economy,&quot;  on how the powerful military has penetrated the country's economy. Siddiqa said that the book was due to be launched at a conference hall in a government-run club which has had instructions from the top to cancel the reservation.   AFP PHOTO\/Aamir QURESHI (Photo credit should read AAMIR QURESHI\/AFP\/Getty Images)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/ayesha-siddiqa-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/ayesha-siddiqa-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/ayesha-siddiqa-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-97611\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ayesha Siddiqa<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The young Sri Lankan man in the audience did not like it as the former editor of a renowned newspaper\u00a0<em>The Sunday Leader\u2019s\u00a0<\/em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Frederica+Jansz&amp;x=9&amp;y=4\">Frederica Jansz<\/a><\/span> spoke about her persecution at the hands of the dictatorial and authoritarian Rajapakse regime. The occasion was a seminar organised by a Sri Lankan professor at the University of Pittsburgh to discuss the issue of militarism and humanitarianism in Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The editor had to flee her country within a few days to avoid being killed as she was directly threatened by the secretory to the ministry of defence , who is the brother of President <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Mahinda+Rajapaksa&amp;x=4&amp;y=3\">Mahinda Rajapaks<\/a>a<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">, and of meeting the same fate as her predecessor,<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Lasantha+Wickrematunge&amp;x=10&amp;y=4\">Lasantha Wickrematunge<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">, who was gunned down in 2009. In Jansz\u2019s case, she was directly threatened by the defence minister; the transcript of the conversation was released as she left the country.\u00a0<\/span><em style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">The Sunday Leader<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">\u00a0was doing stories about the government\u2019s human rights atrocities vis-a-vis the Tamils, such as the regime\u2019s violation of an agreement made with the international community to allow peaceful surrender of the <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=LTTE&amp;x=12&amp;y=6\">LTTE<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"> political leadership. They were butchered to death as they came out of hiding waving white flags.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Notwithstanding the achievement of having won a war, the government in Colombo must not be allowed to expand a sociopolitical system that had 30 years ago, divided the society into two: Sinhala south and Tamil north. Historically, the Sinhala leadership has not demonstrated tolerance, resulting in repeated mass carnages. As if the killing of 60,000 Sinhala youth in the south of the country during the 1980s for their involvement in socialism was not enough, the Sinhala leadership made policies that started ethnic strife in the island-state. In fact, what essentially was a class conflict was turned into an ethnic problem with Colombo introducing policies such as Sinhala, as the only national language, to replace both Tamil and English.<\/p>\n<p>Having won the war against the Tamil Tigers and managing to kill the LTTE leader, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Prabhakaran&amp;x=9&amp;y=3\">Velupillai Prabhakaran<\/a><\/span>, in 2009, it was expected of the government that it would reach out to the estranged Tamil population. Instead,\u00a0the regime engaged in greater atrocities\u00a0and encouraged the Sinhala ruling elite (that include the religious faction that is the Buddhist monks) to engage in high-handedness against other ethnic groups, including the Muslims who had served the state in the war against Tamils. In fact, one of the reasons (if not the only) for Colombo\u2019s victory was that Prabhakaran could not dominate the north due to the presence of Muslims in the northeast.<\/p>\n<p>Colombo\u2019s overall behaviour is questionable, such as dominating all state institutions, including the Supreme Court, whose\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Shirani+Bandaranayake&amp;x=8&amp;y=5\">chief justice was impeached<\/a><\/span>\u00a0in November 2012 and replaced by a close adviser of President Mahinda Rajapakse. Moreover, the president has turned the state into a family affair with key institutions dominated by his family and friends.<\/p>\n<p>With reference to the ongoing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=anti+Muslim+campaign&amp;x=8&amp;y=9\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">tension between the Buddhist<\/span> <\/a>clergy and the Muslims, this is gradually brewing and could turn nasty as in\u00a0Myanmar\u2019s case. Sadly, the international community watches silently, with people talking about global Islamic <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=jihadists&amp;x=7&amp;y=7\">jihadists<\/a><\/span> setting base in the island-state. Such developments could bring further support for Colombo without anyone looking at the real causes of the conflict. The Canadian government should be thanked for being the only one to have refused to send its prime minister to the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Commonwealth+Heads+of+Government+Meeting&amp;x=4&amp;y=4\">Commonwealth Convention<\/a><\/span> to be held in Sri Lanka this year, on the basis of human rights violations. The international community is too busy watching and worrying about Colombo cosying up to China. While Pakistan looks away as it\u00a0played a role in helping Rajapaksa win the war, Delhi\u2019s objections regarding Colombo are tactical and based on the politics of Tamil Nadu rather than a larger policy. The Indian hawks are more concerned about China than the human factor. This is humanity being sacrificed for a misconstrued concept of political realism.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing itself is not one of those states, which would really object to human rights violations. Recently, it got into an agreement with Colombo for its fishing trawlers to fish in Sri Lankan waters flying the host state\u2019s flag. The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Sri+Lankan+Army&amp;x=11&amp;y=6\">Sri Lankan Army<\/a><\/span>, which is a tool of atrocity, is being slowly corporatised through encouraging its commercial ventures such as selling fish in the local market. The only problem for this venture for soldiers\u2019 welfare is that it is eating into the livelihood of local fishermen, who can no longer compete with the low prices offered by the army salesmen.<\/p>\n<p>However, for a certain type of Sri Lankan (Sinhala, in particular) <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Tamil+Diaspora&amp;x=8&amp;y=3\">diaspora<\/a><\/span>, they would rather not hear the dissident voice as it makes them uncomfortable, especially in the West. The argument in the seminar that day was that let foreigners visit Sri Lanka and see things for themselves. The problem is that with all the voices being quieted, as is mentioned earlier, would foreigners get to see anything other than clean roads? Obviously, the Sri Lankan urban middle class, like that of any other state in South Asia, would like to see their country turned into Singapore and all dissent shoved in some dark hole where no one can see it. Perhaps, this is the curse of the age of media, where dissent becomes an eyesore and so, needs to be curbed in order to avoid embarrassing certain people.<\/p>\n<p>A question worth asking those opposing dissent abroad is that why would people express reservations to the system of their countries if there was enough space to do so at home? Some states, like Sri Lanka, use hard coercion and so Frederica Jansz did not have a chance to speak at home or defend herself in Colombo without the fear of getting killed. Other states use soft coercion, which means leaving very little space for dissenters through encouraging a narrative that would naturally make dissent look like anti-nationalism. In both cases, society incurs a huge cost, which it eventually will have to pay \u2014 the cost of human liberty and survival. At the end, the state and its partners eliminate one after the other.<\/p>\n<p><em><em>*The writer is an independent social scientist and author of Military Inc.\u00a0<\/em>A\u00a0<em>version of this article is first appeared in\u00a0<\/em>The Express Tribune.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":97610,"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-97609","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>Sri Lanka: Coercion For Political Realism - 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\/sri-lanka-coercion-for-political-realism\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sri Lanka: Coercion For Political Realism - 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