Peace for the World

Peace for the World
First democratic leader of Justice the Godfather of the Sri Lankan Tamil Struggle: Honourable Samuel James Veluppillai Chelvanayakam

Monday, December 5, 2011

Chauvinism not the solution

Sunday 04 December 2011
17-317-4We were struggling during the last period to build a social democratic movement to face the dictatorial and repressive policies of the government. But this attempt was nullified continuously by the intervention of chauvinist forces. There is a school of thought which believes that the government could be challenged only by a leadership that is more Sinhala than the Mahinda camp. These misplaced radicals devote their time to contact racist elements who fall out from the ruling coalition. In addition they try to promote alternate UNP leaders to act as saviours of the Sinhala nation. In other words an important question is posed to those who are coming into the anti government agitation. Are we to take the stale set of slogans of Sinhala chauvinists as the first and foremost weapon to be 
used against the government? Quite apart from the question of expediency of such a strategy, it will inevitably boomerang on the opposition.

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