Resolute Governance And Demise Of Boycott Philosophers
By S. Sivathasan -January 21, 2015
S. Sivathasan
“Those who make revolution half way, only dig their own graves”.
Relentless and Resolute
A revolution rightly called or miscalled, glorious or not, needs first to be consolidated. Disaster can result otherwise. A bloodless revolution can be stamped out in blood. The leader who was elevated as Prime Minister in 1956, was swept to that position by a demagogic wave. It became a tragic irony that the assassin had in him the same demagogic forces. He was a Bhikku, a swabasha teacher and an ayurvedic physician. To avert a repetition after the second bloodless one in 2015, the revolution needs consummation with no loss of time. Compassion can be misplaced strategy. Complacency may be ill advised default. Relentless pursuit savours of realism.
Dr. N M Perera attributed IRRESOLUTENESS of the leaders for the failure of the 1962 coup. Never ever may it be said that the second revolution of 2015, had an inglorious end for the same reason. Karl Marx has pointed out that the ruling class will never depart the stage voluntarily. It has to be pushed out. Rephrasing Lenin’s words to suit the Sri Lankan context, liberation of the oppressed minorities is impossible without destroying the repressive apparatus of the state. To the Tamils, the use of extra-legal armed groups has been the worst feature of oppression by the previous government. They have to be in preventive custody at the earliest, for Tamil turnout to reach 85% in April 2015.
In 1688, the bloodless revolution in England shifted power from monarch to Parliament. The arrangement has not changed since then. In Sri Lanka power has shifted from President, Family and Dynasty to the people and their representatives in Parliament. This change of 9, January 2015 is destined to remain if infanticide is precluded.
