The Politics Of The 13th Amendment Contd: Diabolical Machinations Of A Defunct Capitalist State
Ajit Rupasinghe
One might think that the hasty response by the Regime to declare that there is no decision to abrogate the 13th Amendment- at the present time, is an indication that it has backed down in the face of rising opposition, got afraid of the possible repercussions in Geneva, or that some chauvinist militarist cabal acting on its own impulse has been brought to heel by the Chief Executive, or worse, that it has abandoned its renewed offensive against the Tamil nation and its people- which the call for the abrogation of the 13th Amendment is intended to achieve . To believe so would be to entertain fatal illusions.
The continued and unrelenting offensive to wipe out the political status of the Tamil nation and impose and enforce the undisputed hegemonic domain of the unitary Sinhala-Buddhist/ Comprador Capitalist State had been initiated and intensified by every successive government. Both major Capitalist parties –the UNP and the SLFP-have competed to represent the cause of Sinhala-Buddhist supremacy and hegemony, while playing a game of chess with the fate of the Tamil nation. There is no need to recall the history of deception and betrayal of the Tamil nation by the State and it’s successive regimes. Every time the government introduced even the most truncated forms of sharing political power through devolution, the Opposition has sabotaged it. Both these parties are responsible for systematic discrimination and violent suppression of the Tamil people, including unleashing state-sponsored communal pogroms. Championing the cause of Sinhala supremacy and Sinhala-Buddhist hegemony was never intended to serve the oppressed Sinhala masses, but to deceive and manipulate them so that they turn their wrath – their frustration, pain and anger at being duped, chewed and spat out by the system – against the Tamil nation and its people. It is designed to manipulate the masses to support the rulers in their policy of ‘divide and rule’, which only serve to ensnare and enslave the oppressed masses-whether Sinhala, Tamil or Moslem- in their conditions of oppression. The two main Capitalist parties are served in this diabolical game by a host of other junior partners – such as the JVP, JHU, NFF, LSSP, CP and other such deformities- who form coalitions and alliances, and governments with them, to get their own piece of the cake, to grab their fill of the blood feast. This has been the trajectory of the so-called Westminster system of bourgeois parliamentary democracy imposed by the British. Read More
