Two weeks ago, Mr Keenan came out with a piece of writing, “Sri Lanka: Time for action, not action plans.”
While his piece of writing was viewed by many as counting trees for action and deliberately deviating from the sight of the wood, Sinhala media in Colombo reacted strongly, providing excuses for the ICG-like, to cite at the Sinhala attitude to negate justice to Eezham Tamils and to hide the fact, whose ‘balance of merits’ actually denies justice.
Any one determined in committing genocide would not provide the kind of amicable ‘context’ envisaged in the interview by Keenan to facilitate independence to victims.
The ICG was actively articulating during the antecedents as well as the course of the genocidal war. It continues its articulation in the structural genocide aftermath.
Mr Keenan, in lines with the stand of the US Asst. Secretary of State, Mr Robert Blake and the failed Norwegian peace facilitator, Mr Erik Solheim, is well known in the Tamil circles for his project of campaigning among potential Tamil activists, dissuading them from uttering the word genocide or claiming independence.
Keenan in the interview on Friday said that he didn’t think that the ICG had ever rejected the right of the Tamil people to rule themselves in a sovereign fashion, but all what the ICG had said is that the demand for separation is not a wise one in the current context.
This is blatant denial of the detrimental role the ICG played by internationally negating any righteousness in the independence demand of Eezham Tamils.
For the edification of Keenan and enlightenment of the readership, the video evidence added herewith would show how the CEO of the ICG, Louise Arbour. was negating the sovereignty and the demand for independence of Eezham Tamils in September 2010.
Why after more than three years of the war, and after allowing structural genocide to set in, Keenan now says the genocide case could be looked into, without compromising on his fundamental of negating independence and dodging a question on remedial sovereignty rights of a people?
Has a situation come where they could now confidently tell, ‘yes, there may be genocide, but accept it, try to survive through it, and nothing could be done about it now’?
But, sections of Eezham Tamil activists think that there is a change in the ICG perception. This is exactly what Keenan aims at, to insinuate into sections with which the ICG has no credibility and to engage them in the brainwashing.
A perusal of his interview would show that the genocide investigation he envisages is a passive one, as though somebody else has to undertake it and prove it through a lengthy legal process.
“It needs to be explored by people who put together the facts and compare it to the legal issues involved and make some kind of chronological assessment,” Keenan said.
The tactic is to buy more and more time.
* * *TamilNet on Sunday has reproduced some of the recent email communications it had with its columnist in the Asia Pacific who passed away last week, explaining the course of affairs of the International Community of Establishments (ICE) and the ICG:
“We need to open our eyes and see the collusion games being played by DFAT, ICG and the like as tools of the International Community of Establishments (ICE),” the columnist said.
“Up to the CFA it was GoSL that was buying the time, but after that, it was the IC that is buying the time,” he wrote.
On the current world situation, the columnist said: “Humanity is facing a leadership crisis. The dark clouds of deteriorating environment, the deepening world economic crisis, and the successful pre-emption of the completion of national liberation by the globalised establishments currently transforming under the influence of intelligence agencies as an insurance against the establishment of a socialist world order– All indicate a very favourable objective conditions for a revolutionary change.”
“But the 99% having been submerged under ideology of individualism and egoism, being influenced and divided by the uneven distribution of the bribe/spoils of war & oppression, are suffering from a leadership crisis.”
“History will not forgive us if we engage in the propagation of divisive stories promoted by the oppressor,” the columnist cautioned.
If justice is not coming from the ‘context’ of the Establishments of today, Eezham Tamils have no option other than reaching out to the likeminded masses of the world for mobilized action.
The Asia Pacific columnist was suggesting a Plan B of canvassing International public opinion, as he was sure of the Plan A of approaching India or the West becoming useful only in proving that they would not support the cause of Eezham Tamils.
The diaspora is fully capable of Plan B, he said.
“A very effective Plan B may even make Plan A workable, if the numbers behind Plan B are large enough. Mobilising TN [Tamil Nadu] population is very important,” the columnist said in an email in July this year.
An orchestrated campaign is currently unleashed specifically against TamilNet, by certain Establishments, their agenda-workers, diplomatic missions, and by a group of gullible followers or ‘1% aspirants’ among Eezham Tamils, who believe that the stand of TamilNet is spoiling the ‘grand designs and strategies’ they have for the island.
