HISTORIC VICTORY
Undoubtedly it was a historic victory. It was not only a victory against the LTTE but a victory against the western forces shamelessly led by Britain, this time Milliband playing the role of Solheim, or was it a case of Solheim playing the role of Milliband who has been liquidated to the size of a millilitre, in the earlier stages when Norway was acting on behalf of Brits. It was also a victory against the LTTE in rescuing some if not the vast majority of Tamils who lived were used by the LTTE as a human shield. Last but not least it was a victory in the name of a unitary state.
It was a victory that cost many lives. While we congratulate the armed forces over their victory we have to be mindful of those who sacrificed their lives in the armed forces and the police, in order to keep the unitary state in tact. It was certainly a great victory but we should not compare it with any victory over the Cholas by the king Vijayabahu or victories over the Kalingha Maghas. It is not a case of belittling the victory of the President Rajapakse over not only the LTTE but the Brits and the other westerners. Conceptually it is wrong to compare the two situations. The Cholas and the Maghas had captured parts of either Anuradhapura or Pollonnaruwa as the case may be and were ruling over some parts of the Sinhala kingdom.
In the case of Prabhakaran he had not captured any part of the island and he was only living on borrowed time with the help of the Brits and other western powers who think of themselves with no end. Brits think that they are still great while the west in general not knowing that western Christian modernity on the decline. In the territory that was supposed to had been captured by the LTTE, all the public servants were paid by the government and hospitals, schools etc., were maintained by the Sri Lankan government. Prabhakaran never ruled over the land but he presided over the lives of the innocent Tamil people and finally ruined them. The government machinery was always in the hands of the Sri Lankan government and Prabhakaran could not be compared with Chola king or Kalinga Magha. The former was only a puppet in the hands of the Brits and the west and it is hearting to know that at the end he ran out of man power. Of course he did not run out of arms power, as the west had provided him with enough arms to establish himself over the whole island. If the Mavil Arasu humanitarian operations had been postponed by another year, with the arms the LTTE had been given by the Brits and their colleagues in the European continent it is clear that all these interested groups would have realised the dream of an Eelam extending even to Tamil Nadu having captured the whole of Sri Lanka.
The victory as we said is not only over the LTTE but mainly over Britain and its colleagues in the west. The LTTE was only a pawn in the hands of Britain and we knew right throughout that if the government of Sri Lanka could stand up to the pressure from the Britain then the LTTE could be defeated. We were the first advocate the annihilation of the LTTE and to state cleary that it could be done. The government of Sri Lanka and the armed forces could be satisfied that they have defeated Brits again. The Brits had never been able to defeat the Sinhala kings and capture the whole island and in 1815 it was through an agreement that Doyle manipulated that the Brits were able to take control op the whole island. The Brits are notorious for these agreements and it is clear that it was during the time that the CFA signed by Ranil Wickremesinghe and Prabhakaran was operative that most of the heavy arms supplied by the west had reached the LTTE. Lium Fox tried his best to arrive at an agreement between Chandrika Kumaratunga and Ranil W. and he was successful to a very great extent in incorporating most what he had wanted. The President is on the correct path as long as he does not sign any agreements with the British or any of their colleagues in the west.
Sri Lankan armed forces have proved to the whole world that they are the experts in defeating terrorism and also that they are well disciplined contrary to the propaganda by the Tamil Net and its friends in Channel four, BBC, CNN etc. If not for the support given by the western media, especially the so called left of centre or enlightened media, the Tamil racist LTTE would not have had any publicity. It is now clear that not only that the LTTE were not good in their publicity campaign without the west, but that they were not good at fighting. It was the western media that inflated the LTTE as a fighting unit and in more than one way the LTTE could be described as paper tigers having had an existence due to the western media. The moment President Rajapakse decided to not to listen to the west the LTTE was deflated.
The Tamil racists had been arguing that power had to be devolved to woo the Tamil people from Prabhakaran who wanted an Eelam and nothing else. Now this argument does not hold and the Tamil people, not the scattered Tamils and those who live in Colombo under the auspices of the west who are really agents of Brits and the rest of the west that work against Sinhala Buddhist culture, are already with the armed forces and the government. There is no need for so called devolution of power as it will not solve any of the "grievances" of the Tamils in the Eastern and Northern Provinces even if the "grievances" existed, and what matters to the people in those two provinces is some kind of "development".
The accusation that the armed forces used heavy arms in the latter stages is proved to be only propaganda by the west and the Tamil Net as if heavy arms had been used the operations could have been finished within a few days after the armed forces surrounded Mullativu. It was a very humane and disciplined exercise by the armed forces and we have to appreciate that fact even though it would not be given any publicity in the western and hence the so called world press. Finally who should get the credit for the victory? Who defeated the LTTE? The answer is simple. Who defeated the Cholas? Who defeated Elara and company? Though in all these cases it was the soldiers who battled it out, finally we remember only Gemunu , Vijayabahu and "generals" or yodhayas such as Nandimithra and Suranimala. If not for the political leadership of the President, the military leadership provided by the Defence Secretary and the commanders of the armed forces, especially Lt. General Sarath Fonseka, there would not have been a victory. Without trying to be a cheap populist who speaks for the masses and the soldiers if one is asked the simple question who built the house one occupies nobody would expect to get the answer it was the masons. It is always a question of one's father or grandfather building the house and not the masons. The pseudo democrat in Ranil W. who tries to be a populist following some third rate Marxists would speak high of Churchill but not of Rajapakse. The Ruwanveliseya was built by king Gemunu and not simply by the "masons" as claimed by the third rate Marxists referred to above.
While we celebrate a great victory we have to be mindful of the fact that it is only the beginning. The Tamil terrorism has been annihilated but not Tamil separatism and Tamil racism. These have to be defeated and there again it is a case of not listening to the west led by the Brits in this particular instance. Some people may laugh at these ideas now but when we said that the LTTE has to be and could be defeated long time ago the very same people laughed at us. The irony is that they have now become the most vociferous elements against the LTTE thanks to the electronic media. We have to be careful of some of these elements who now advocate that we should not say anything against the west and try to develop the country with their assistance.
Undoubtedly it was a historic victory. It was not only a victory against the LTTE but a victory against the western forces shamelessly led by Britain, this time Milliband playing the role of Solheim, or was it a case of Solheim playing the role of Milliband who has been liquidated to the size of a millilitre, in the earlier stages when Norway was acting on behalf of Brits. It was also a victory against the LTTE in rescuing some if not the vast majority of Tamils who lived were used by the LTTE as a human shield. Last but not least it was a victory in the name of a unitary state.
It was a victory that cost many lives. While we congratulate the armed forces over their victory we have to be mindful of those who sacrificed their lives in the armed forces and the police, in order to keep the unitary state in tact. It was certainly a great victory but we should not compare it with any victory over the Cholas by the king Vijayabahu or victories over the Kalingha Maghas. It is not a case of belittling the victory of the President Rajapakse over not only the LTTE but the Brits and the other westerners. Conceptually it is wrong to compare the two situations. The Cholas and the Maghas had captured parts of either Anuradhapura or Pollonnaruwa as the case may be and were ruling over some parts of the Sinhala kingdom.
In the case of Prabhakaran he had not captured any part of the island and he was only living on borrowed time with the help of the Brits and other western powers who think of themselves with no end. Brits think that they are still great while the west in general not knowing that western Christian modernity on the decline. In the territory that was supposed to had been captured by the LTTE, all the public servants were paid by the government and hospitals, schools etc., were maintained by the Sri Lankan government. Prabhakaran never ruled over the land but he presided over the lives of the innocent Tamil people and finally ruined them. The government machinery was always in the hands of the Sri Lankan government and Prabhakaran could not be compared with Chola king or Kalinga Magha. The former was only a puppet in the hands of the Brits and the west and it is hearting to know that at the end he ran out of man power. Of course he did not run out of arms power, as the west had provided him with enough arms to establish himself over the whole island. If the Mavil Arasu humanitarian operations had been postponed by another year, with the arms the LTTE had been given by the Brits and their colleagues in the European continent it is clear that all these interested groups would have realised the dream of an Eelam extending even to Tamil Nadu having captured the whole of Sri Lanka.
The victory as we said is not only over the LTTE but mainly over Britain and its colleagues in the west. The LTTE was only a pawn in the hands of Britain and we knew right throughout that if the government of Sri Lanka could stand up to the pressure from the Britain then the LTTE could be defeated. We were the first advocate the annihilation of the LTTE and to state cleary that it could be done. The government of Sri Lanka and the armed forces could be satisfied that they have defeated Brits again. The Brits had never been able to defeat the Sinhala kings and capture the whole island and in 1815 it was through an agreement that Doyle manipulated that the Brits were able to take control op the whole island. The Brits are notorious for these agreements and it is clear that it was during the time that the CFA signed by Ranil Wickremesinghe and Prabhakaran was operative that most of the heavy arms supplied by the west had reached the LTTE. Lium Fox tried his best to arrive at an agreement between Chandrika Kumaratunga and Ranil W. and he was successful to a very great extent in incorporating most what he had wanted. The President is on the correct path as long as he does not sign any agreements with the British or any of their colleagues in the west.
Sri Lankan armed forces have proved to the whole world that they are the experts in defeating terrorism and also that they are well disciplined contrary to the propaganda by the Tamil Net and its friends in Channel four, BBC, CNN etc. If not for the support given by the western media, especially the so called left of centre or enlightened media, the Tamil racist LTTE would not have had any publicity. It is now clear that not only that the LTTE were not good in their publicity campaign without the west, but that they were not good at fighting. It was the western media that inflated the LTTE as a fighting unit and in more than one way the LTTE could be described as paper tigers having had an existence due to the western media. The moment President Rajapakse decided to not to listen to the west the LTTE was deflated.
The Tamil racists had been arguing that power had to be devolved to woo the Tamil people from Prabhakaran who wanted an Eelam and nothing else. Now this argument does not hold and the Tamil people, not the scattered Tamils and those who live in Colombo under the auspices of the west who are really agents of Brits and the rest of the west that work against Sinhala Buddhist culture, are already with the armed forces and the government. There is no need for so called devolution of power as it will not solve any of the "grievances" of the Tamils in the Eastern and Northern Provinces even if the "grievances" existed, and what matters to the people in those two provinces is some kind of "development".
The accusation that the armed forces used heavy arms in the latter stages is proved to be only propaganda by the west and the Tamil Net as if heavy arms had been used the operations could have been finished within a few days after the armed forces surrounded Mullativu. It was a very humane and disciplined exercise by the armed forces and we have to appreciate that fact even though it would not be given any publicity in the western and hence the so called world press. Finally who should get the credit for the victory? Who defeated the LTTE? The answer is simple. Who defeated the Cholas? Who defeated Elara and company? Though in all these cases it was the soldiers who battled it out, finally we remember only Gemunu , Vijayabahu and "generals" or yodhayas such as Nandimithra and Suranimala. If not for the political leadership of the President, the military leadership provided by the Defence Secretary and the commanders of the armed forces, especially Lt. General Sarath Fonseka, there would not have been a victory. Without trying to be a cheap populist who speaks for the masses and the soldiers if one is asked the simple question who built the house one occupies nobody would expect to get the answer it was the masons. It is always a question of one's father or grandfather building the house and not the masons. The pseudo democrat in Ranil W. who tries to be a populist following some third rate Marxists would speak high of Churchill but not of Rajapakse. The Ruwanveliseya was built by king Gemunu and not simply by the "masons" as claimed by the third rate Marxists referred to above.
While we celebrate a great victory we have to be mindful of the fact that it is only the beginning. The Tamil terrorism has been annihilated but not Tamil separatism and Tamil racism. These have to be defeated and there again it is a case of not listening to the west led by the Brits in this particular instance. Some people may laugh at these ideas now but when we said that the LTTE has to be and could be defeated long time ago the very same people laughed at us. The irony is that they have now become the most vociferous elements against the LTTE thanks to the electronic media. We have to be careful of some of these elements who now advocate that we should not say anything against the west and try to develop the country with their assistance.
Professor Nalin de Silva
The island 2009
