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Message: <blockquote data-quote="uhox" data-source="post: 5271994" data-attributes="member: 32883">There is a need to mobilise the masses against the 13th amendment before it is too late--by Prof: S AkurugodaAccording to a news item appearing in today’s Asiantribune under the heading “Sri Lanka No Platform For Anti-India Activities: Rajapaksa’ , President has spoken of his continued adherence to the 13th amendment as a starting point. “I have openly spoken about the 13th Amendment as a starting point. It is acceptable to India and it has been accepted in Sri Lanka”.Rejoiced Dayan JAyathiale is circulating a similar statement said to have been made by Dr Kohona on the same line.Tissa Witharana is going to release his so-called solutions based on 13A+ to President very soon, as per another news item appeared in Divaina today. After failing to get the JVP’s support to run the government, Mahinda Rajapakasa had to look for MPs in order to secure the numbers in the parliament. All hardcore federalists led by Rajitha Senaratne surrounded the President and pledged their support and managed to direct his ‘new Chinthanaya’ towards 13A+. After these people moved into the government, President declared, for the first time, in ‘Walk the Talk’ program on NDTV that “the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord offers the best solution” and appointed Dayan J to Geneva. DJ made use of this golden opportunity to maximise his campaign to achieve what he could not achieve by joining hands with V Perumal decades ago. The sinister motive of those opportunists is to start with 13A for the time being. They know very well that whatever the President proposes as a so-called solution, at this stage, will be blindly accepted by the people. They are aware that implementation of 13A is the beginning of implementation of the Thimpu demands (distinct nationality, traditional homelands, self-determination) as claimed in the following statement of Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi to the Indian Parliament on July 31, 1987." The Agreement meets the basic aspirations which have animated the Tamils’ struggle, namely, the desire to be recognised as a distinct ethnic entity; political autonomy for managing their political future; and appropriate devolution of governmental power to meet this objective, the recognition of the Northern and Eastern Provinces of Sri Lanka as areas of historical habitation of the Tamils and the acknowledgment and designation of Tamil as an official language of Sri Lanka.The Agreement constitutes the Eastern and Northern Provinces of Sri Lanka into one administrative unit with an elected Provincial Council; and a Chief Minister. Powers would be devolved... to ensure a full measure of autonomy to the Provinces in Sri Lanka."On August 2, 1987, Rajiv Gandhi told a public meeting in Madras that "The Agreement secures everything that the Sri Lankan Tamils had demanded, short of breaking Sri Lanka’s unity. In fact, it goes well beyond the initial demands of the Sri Lankan Tamils. Under the Agreement, approximately one-third of Sri Lankan territory will be made into a single province where the Tamils will have a clear majority. They will have regional autonomy comparable to State governments in India ... " (‘Thirteenth Amendment plus ... a look at probabilities’ by Foxwatch – Sunday Island dated 19/07/09)It is very unfortunate that the very same person who came to power denouncing existence of the so-called traditional homeland is now committed to implement the concepts of traditional homeland, knowingly or unknowingly, paving the way for the gradual disintegration of the country on racial basis. If he succeeds, in decades to come, it will be the future generation who will have to face the consequences since any attempt to reverse such move would be disastrous. ----------------------------------------------------- <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/no.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":no:" title="No    :no:" data-shortname=":no:" /></blockquote>

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