The Rajapaksa Hegemony; Is there a way forward?
Robinhood-
Saturday, April 6, 2013
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According to the prevailing state of affairs, the way the GOSL behaves, allowing continuing lawlessness and impunity, the disobedience to oblige international resolutions, the failure or the delay or the casual approach to address, respond and resolve desperate issues such as land, resettlement, livelihood, ethnic harmony and social integration in the north, the delay and the unwillingness in implementing the LLRC to establish genuine civil administration and rule of law, it appears there are factors deliberately fasten by the government preventing to implement and to obstruct the smooth function of all above.
When doing a casual approach in implementing the LLRC no credible local civil society organizations are invited in post war reconstruction and rehabilitation in the north. Though few INGO’s operating few projects none of these projects address the critical issues faced by the people in the north. These restrictions cause severe setbacks and cause vast delay in the rehabilitation, reintegration and development of the war affected people in war torn area. Further the continuation of frequent intimidations and abductions by the paramilitaries and state sponsored mobsters dressed in civilian uniforms, the presence of the military, curtailing the freedom of expression and association it is learnt there is a clear suppression and a debilitation carried out targeting the Tamil community living in the North.
The Rajapaksa administration has extracted and centralized all its power to a single executive location which could centrally administer. It has fastened its brothers, family members, relatives, friends, henchmen’s and stooges to every corner in the public sector and government institutions to strengthen its network.
When we look at the ground situation the people in the north are continuously restrained participate in political activities and freedom of association. This is due to the hidden agendas of the government to oppress the Tamil minority people curtailing their democratic rights. The regime continues the oppression against minorities for its benefit to find a way to exist among the majority community dissembling separatism to the hearts and minds of the majority Singhalese creating a communal hatred among the two communities to sustain its rule. These hidden agendas cause severe setbacks for the establishment and implementation of the 17th and the 13th amendment and the implementation of the LLRC to bring a reintegration and harmony among the communities. Further these hidden agendas limit the ongoing developments (5R’s), the commitment and the government’s willingness to find a lasting solution for the ethnic conflict. The disinterest shown to implement the LLRC and the casual and selective process hinder a genuine reconciliation which is not acquired considering the best interest of the northern people or aiming to find a political solution for the Tamil national issue in a post war situation but to the best interest of few politicos in the regime.
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Commonwealth Meet Should Not Be Held in SL: Karuna
APR 06, 2013
DMK today said its MPs and members of pro-Tamil TESO backed by it will meet envoys of Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group of countries, scheduled to meet at London on April 26, to demand that the CHOGM should not be held in Sri Lanka.
DMK, which has been opposing Sri Lanka as the venue for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) slated for November, said in a statement that its representatives will call on the CMAG members to press their demand.
"I insist that the demand not to hold (CHOGM) in Sri Lanka should be discussed in detail and a decision is taken. DMK MPs and TESO members will meet envoys of member countries of CMAG and explain in detail that the meeting should not be held in Sri Lanka," DMK chief M Karunanidhi said.
The 88-year-old leader recalled his party Executive had adopted a resolution in this regard on March 25.
The DMK, which walked out of the UPA coalition over the Lankan Tamils issue last month, had in the Executive also demanded that India boycott the meeting in case it was held in the island republic.
Members of Tamil Eelam Supporters' Organisation (TESO), a once defunct organisation revived last year by Karunanidhi, include his son M K Stalin and Viduthalai Chiruthaaigal Katchi founder-leader and Lok Sabha MP, Thol.Thirumavalavan, among others.
Commonwealth Meet Should Not Be Held in SL: Karuna
APR 06, 2013
DMK today said its MPs and members of pro-Tamil TESO backed by it will meet envoys of Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group of countries, scheduled to meet at London on April 26, to demand that the CHOGM should not be held in Sri Lanka.DMK, which has been opposing Sri Lanka as the venue for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) slated for November, said in a statement that its representatives will call on the CMAG members to press their demand.
"I insist that the demand not to hold (CHOGM) in Sri Lanka should be discussed in detail and a decision is taken. DMK MPs and TESO members will meet envoys of member countries of CMAG and explain in detail that the meeting should not be held in Sri Lanka," DMK chief M Karunanidhi said.
The 88-year-old leader recalled his party Executive had adopted a resolution in this regard on March 25.
The DMK, which walked out of the UPA coalition over the Lankan Tamils issue last month, had in the Executive also demanded that India boycott the meeting in case it was held in the island republic.
Members of Tamil Eelam Supporters' Organisation (TESO), a once defunct organisation revived last year by Karunanidhi, include his son M K Stalin and Viduthalai Chiruthaaigal Katchi founder-leader and Lok Sabha MP, Thol.Thirumavalavan, among others.
