The TNA Has To Tread With Caution And So Should The Central Government
R.M.B. Senanayake
The Government must recognize that the 13th amendment has come to say. It must realize that there are States where devolution of power has not led to separate states but instead provided a modus Vivendi for a minority to live in peace with a majority giving up the claim to be a separate state.
The people at large do not understand what is involved in the nature of the State and have not learn’t political science. The problems of majority -minority are projected to the people by the politicians and the political leadership. The political leadership wants to exercise a monopoly of political power for themselves and this they do by ensuring that all elected representatives belong to the ruling political party. So in the past the ruling political parties sought to govern the Tamils through co-opting Tamils who were willing to join them for perks like Ministerial posts. But the recent Provincial Election shows that that era is over as at least as far as the North is concerned. So the Government must change its mindset and realize that the way to win the hearts and minds of the people of the North is to resolve their problems particularly the problems of the IDPs which they are legally obliged to do under International Law.. Freedom is what all people desire and it would seem that the civilian population resents the presence of the Army. Surely the Army could like any Secret Service monitor the behavior of suspect individuals un-obtrusively.
The ruling party politicians are averse to devolution of power because it dilutes their power. They oppose devolution of power to the people. The most they are willing to concede devolution of power is to the MPs in the electorates who have been exercising power without responsibility and that too only for members of their own party. Read More
R.M.B. Senanayake
