Tamil Extremists Undermining Geneva Resolution
By Kumar David -March 19, 2014
Prof. Kumar David
Some things are incredible but true. Two crazy possibilities have come into the limelight recently. There is a lobby that argues that the Malaysian Boeing 777 was abducted by aliens. The lobbyist’s case is that not even a remotely credible conventional explanation has been offered by Malaysian, Chinese or US authorities. If nothing turns by the time you read these lines, it is not too silly to engage in unconventional speculation, especially if you are young at heart! Unconventional I said, not unscientific. Science can accept that life exists elsewhere in the universe; the poser is how devil aliens got here, given the restriction imposed by Special Relativity.
What the lunatic fringe of the Tamil diaspora is up to is no less harebrained. Recently I ran into Tamil “intellectuals” buggering up Wigneswaran from the radical side, but convinced they were being helpful. “Why don’t you set up a parallel administration (dual power) instead of asking for 13A” they exclaim. Dual power just at the moment when it would lead to shipwreck! Standing Lenin on his head is the Tamil extremist’s upside-down perception of his thesis of getting the ‘next step’ right all along the way. If it was only theoretical ignorance of Lenin and the dual power concept, it can be put down to immaturity and ignorance, but it dovetails with the harm Tamil extremism is doing to the impending UNHRC vote.
Tamil nationalists in London and Toronto are still fighting the civil war for Eelam that others thought had been was lost in the Vannie. I recognise the right of Tamils to self-determination and if secession be their choice, so be it. The issue at this time, however, is less momentous. The immediate issue is should Tamils help get the US resolution in Geneva adopted, or should they undermine it because it does not go far enough. Far enough for ultra nationalists means it is not useful to the Eelam project. Actually the latest draft is good. Clause 8d puts GoSL on the spot and in effect says: “You set in motion an independent investigation or the Human Rights Commissioner will intervene”. Real-politik and the importance of winning Council votes dictate that Tamils accept it as it stands. The next step is if Rajapakse rejects it and unleashes mayhem, or says ‘yes’ but undermines it in practice, thus inviting an international backlash. In this cut-throat game Lanka’s democrats must watch and move one step at a time; Tamil extremism must be kept in check.
