Sri Lanka activists stage protest against Modi

By AFP

Published: June 10, 2014

COLOMBO: Hundreds of activists protested in the Sri Lankan capital Tuesday against India’s new Prime Minister Narendra Modi for urging the island to step up post-war reconciliation with ethnic minority Tamils.

The pro-government protesters waved placards that read “Modi don’t be foolish” and shouted anti-Modi slogans outside the Indian High Commission – the de facto embassy – in Colombo over the prime minister’s comments made last month.

The protesters accused Modi, who swept to power with a landslide election win in May, of interfering in Sri Lanka’s internal affairs.

The activists, led by the National Freedom Front, a coalition partner in President Mahinda Rajapakse’s government, also targeted the chief minister of India’s southern Tamil Nadu state, Jayalalitha Jayaram.

The protesters burnt a photograph of Jayaram, who has called for Modi to probe the “genocide” that she alleged was committed against Tamils during Sri Lanka’s decades-long separatist war.

Sri Lanka is under international pressure to probe allegations that up to 40,000 civilians were killed in the finale of the war between the military and Tamil rebels that ended in 2009.

Rajapakse held talks with Modi after attending his inauguration last month. Modi urged Rajapakse at the talks to devolve political power to Tamils in reconciliation efforts.

There have been tensions between the two countries over Colombo’s treatment of its Tamil minority, which shares close cultural and religious ties with the more than 70 million Tamils in Tamil Nadu state.

Last week, Sri Lanka’s government reacted angrily to Jayaram’s “genocide” remark, which it said reflected her bias against Sri Lanka.

Tamil Nadu, which is separated from Sri Lanka by a narrow strip of sea known as the Palk Strait, had in the 1980s provided safe haven to Tamil guerrillas who were fighting for an independent state carved out of Sri Lanka, the majority of whose population is ethnic Sinhalese.

Minister Priyankara Jayarathna's Devil Dance - Threatens Police To Release Suspect

• Monday, 09 June 2014 08:17

Another powerful Cabinet Minister, representing the government, has intervened to release a suspect, who was arrested by Police, in connection with an assault on a Policeman. 

Civil Aviation Minister Priyankara Jayarathne, has staged a protest in front of the Karuwalagasweva police, demanding the release of Karuwalagasweva PS Deputy Chairman Chaminda Ruwansiri, who was arrested for assaulting a Police officer. 

Along with the Deputy Chairman, a few other suspects, who were also allegedly involved in the assault, have been arrested by Police. 

During the protest, the Minister literally threatened the Police to release the suspect. 

This came just a few days after goons assaulted a police constable who gave a speeding-ticket to Deputy Minister Hemal Gunasekera, on the Southern Highway. 

The deputy chairman of Karuwalagaswela PS has now been released on bail. The other suspects, the Police said, would be produced before the court today (09).

Minister Prasanna Attacks Parents

Monday, 09 June 2014 14:08 0 Comments

A mother has been admitted to Colombo National Hospital A & E unit after an attack carried out by the thugs of the Chief Minister, Western Province.

This attack was carried on June 5th while all the parents and teachers were agitating against the political interference carried out in Ashoka College, Colombo. Teachers and students are accusing the principal of being a henchman of the CM and destroying the school and its education.

Even though the principal was sacked on 26th February, he has been re-appointed on 6th June according to Joseph Stalin, the convener of Ceylon Teacher's Association. He further added that this government gives more priority to their henchmen rather the future of the nation whom are innocent students. These corrupted politicians will go to any length to safeguard their ill interests such as carrying out punishment transfers to teachers and attacking the parents who question them.

Last week Janarala newspaper exposed the nature of the corrupt activities in Ashoka College under the caption of " Ashoka College spends Rs 50 lakhs on colour wash"

China warns of limits to Hong Kong freedom as protests loom

HONG KONG Tue Jun 10, 2014

(Reuters) - China warned Hong Kong on Tuesday that there were limits to its freedom and it should adhere strictly to the law ahead of a planned pro-democracy protest that could end up shutting down part of the financial hub's business district.

As the most liberal city on Chinese soil, the former British colony has grappled with Beijing since its return to Chinese rule in 1997 to preserve its freedoms and capitalist way of life under a "one-country, two-systems" formula.

Over the past year, however, a push by democracy activists to hold protests, as part of a campaign for the right to choose candidates for a poll in 2017 to elect Hong Kong's next leader, has stoked friction and unnerved Beijing leaders fearful of an opposition democrat taking the city's highest office.

China's State Council, or cabinet, reiterated in a "white paper" on the "one-country, two-systems" formula that the city, despite its wide-ranging autonomy, comes under the control of China and has limits to its freedom.

"The high degree of autonomy of Hong Kong is not full autonomy, nor a decentralized power. It is the power to run local affairs as authorized by the central leadership," the cabinet said in the official report.

"There is no such thing called 'residual power'."

Some Hong Kong residents saw the report by China's highest administrative body as a warning to Hong Kong's pro-democracy camp who have agitated for full democracy in 2017.

A group of activists plan to launch an online "referendum" on political reforms on June 22 before deciding on the scope of its civil disobedience street campaign.

A groundswell of discontent, often manifested in raucous, protests, has grown in Hong Kong and Taiwan over the past year, as anger has mounted over China's increasing assertiveness and interference in local affairs.

CAPITALIST ENCLAVE

The "one-country, two-systems" formula was agreed between Britain and China in the 1980s as part of the deal to return the capitalist coastal enclave to communist China's rule.

"The practice of 'one-country, two-systems' has come to face new circumstances and new problems," the cabinet said.

"Some are even confused or lopsided in their understanding of 'one-country, two-systems' and the Basic Law," the cabinet said. The Basic Law is Hong Kong's mini-constitution.

Hong Kong's leader, Leung Chun-ying shrugged off suggestions the report was a political warning.

Instead, he said it had been prepared by Beijing over the course of a year and had been translated into seven languages so it represented Beijing's considered position on Hong Kong's political landscape, while reiterating China's sovereignty.

China has agreed to let Hong Kong elect its next leader in 2017 in what will be the most far-reaching version of democracy on Chinese soil.

Specific arrangements, however, have yet to be decided including, crucially, whether public nominations of candidates, including opposition democrats, will be allowed.

Senior Chinese officials have already all but ruled out public nominations, saying it is not allowed for in the law and that a small committee of about 1,200 largely pro-Beijing loyalists should choose who gets on the ballot.

(Reporting by James Pomfret and Nikki Sun; Editing by Robert Birsel)

Hypocrisy laid bare in Indonesian election race

Indonesian presidential hopeful Prabowo denounces violence while courting political and religious thugs, writes Patrick Tibke

Indonesian presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto, center, lifts a baby boy during his campaign rally in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, Thursday. Pic: AP.

HONG KONG Tue Jun 10, 2014

The startling hypocrisy of Prabowo Subianto has been spectacularly laid bare in recent days, after the presidential hopeful and his campaign team successfully managed to woo the backing of what can only be described as a tripartite thug alliance, comprised of violent radical Islamists and notorious political paramilitaries. 

Hypocrisy Laid Bare in Indonesian Election Race by nelvely

Friendly fire incident leaves five Nato troops dead in Afghanistan

US soldiers came under heavy fire from Taliban militants and called in air strike but helicopters shot wrong targets

Afghan soldiers in Nangarhar,where gunmen broke into a Nato complex in Jalalabad, the provincial capital of the eastern Afghan province overnight. Photograph: Xinhua /Landov / Barcroft Media/Xinhua /Landov/Barcroft Media

Emma Graham-Harrison in Kabul

Tuesday 10 June 2014

An air strike has killed five US troops and one Afghan soldier in southernAfghanistan, the deadliest friendly fire incident of the war for Nato forces.

Helicopters were called in by US soldiers when they came under Taliban attack after a day's heavy fighting in Zabul province, east of Kandahar, Afghan officials said, but the pilots hit the wrong men.

"We had launched a clearance operation in an area with a high security threat," the Zabul provincial police chief, General Ghulam Sakhi Rughlewanai, said. "When it was over and we were returning to base, the enemy opened fire and [the US troops] asked for air support. The helicopters made a mistake and targeted their own people."

More than 150 police and soldiers, both US and Afghan – along with a handful of intelligence officers – had taken part in the mission, which began at 6am and ended a couple of hours after sunset. The insurgents attacked again after they gathered to leave the area.

Afghan security forces have gone on the offensive against Taliban fighters in advance of 14 June, when the second round of a crucial presidential election will be held. Insurgents have vowed to disrupt the voting, so government troops are trying to create bubbles of security at polling stations.

Nato forces have officially stepped back from frontline fighting to focus on training Afghan soldiers, and death rates have dropped dramatically.

The deaths, along with one other in eastern Afghanistan, made Monday the bloodiest day for foreign forces since a helicopter was shot down in December 2013, killing six.

But some troops still go out on operations to help Afghan soldiers in areas where they have weaknesses, including limited intelligence, over calling in air support. It is one of those teams that appears to have been caught up in Monday's attack.

"We can confirm five International Security Assistance Force service members died in southern Afghanistan yesterday," the ISAF said.

"The casualties occurred during a security operation when their unit came into contact with enemy forces. Tragically, there is the possibility that 'fratricide' may have been involved."

If confirmed, that makes it the deadliest friendly fire incident in Afghanistan for several years, and the worst of the war for foreign troops. In 2010, German soldiers killed six Afghan troops who were rushing to the aid of other Afghan forces in a fight against Taliban.

The worst single incident of the war for coalition soldiers was in 2002, when a US fighter pilot dropped a 500lb bomb on Canadian troops – carrying out a live-fire exercise near an old al-Qaida training base – killing four and injuring eight.

Perhaps the most notorious friendly fire incident of the past decade was the 2004 death of American football player Pat Tilman. His family were originally told he had been killed in a Taliban ambush, and did not learn the truth until after he had been buried, causing a public outcry and prompting accusations of a cover-up.

Other attacks within one country's military or between different coalition forces have been a small but recurrent cause of death and injury, including two British soldiers in 2012 and one in 2010.

Sophisticated identifying and communications equipment has cut confusion on the battlefield, one of the leading causes of friendly fire deaths, but the accuracy of weapons targeting has also improved, making any mistake more likely to be lethal.

Another soldier died in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, Nato said, but not from a combat injury. It gave no further details. At least 40 foreign soldiers have died in Afghanistan this year, although the number of dead has fallen dramatically from a peak of more than 700, in 2010.

There are about 50,000 Nato troops still in Afghanistan, but due to leave by the end of this year. The US has promised to leave about 10,000 behind, bolstered by hundreds from allies, if the new president signs a long-delayed security agreement with Washington.

Insurgents seize Iraqi city of Mosul as troops flee

Burning vehicles belonging to Iraqi security forces are seen during clashes between Iraqi security forces and al Qaeda-linked Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the northern Iraq city of Mosul, June 10, 2014. Radical Sunni Muslim insurgents seized control of most of Iraq's second largest city of Mosul early on Tuesday, overrunning a military base and freeing hundreds of prisoners in a spectacular strike against the Shi'ite-led Iraqi government. REUTERS/Stringer (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS MILITARY)

BY LIZ SLY AND AHMED RAMADAN June 10

BEIRUT — Insurgents seized control early Tuesday of most of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, including the provincial government headquarters, offering a powerful demonstration of the mounting threat posed by extremists to Iraq’s teetering stability.

Insurgents Seize Iraqi City of Mosul as Troops Flee by nelvely

What is Causing Buddhist Violence Against Muslims?

March 10, 2014
You can listen back to a recording of the entire panel discussion by clicking here. 
More than 250 Muslims have died in attacks in Myanmar in recent years, with some of the violent mobs led by Buddhist monks. Buddhist groups have also been leading campaigns against Muslims in Sri Lanka, attacking mosques, assaulting women wearing the hijab and campaigning against halal certification of food. What is causing an upsurge in anti-Muslim violence in these countries?

What is Causing Buddhist Violence Against Muslims by nelvely

Lethal injection is just as ghastly as the electric chair. It's going to speed up the end of the death penalty in America

The needle can be even more barbaric than the chair

By William Henderson -June 10th, 2014

There's been an extraordinary twist in the story of capital punishment in America, one which seemingly goes against the very grain of the nation's founding: the state of Tennessee has approved the use of the electric chair in the event that the drugs for lethal injection are unavailable.

This is a remarkable development – it means there is now a US state in which electrocution forms a default method of execution, something not seen since 2008 when Nebraska outlawed it and where it was the sole method.

Lethal injection plays a part in every US state with the death penalty (and the federal government). It was introduced mainly because of the electric chair, with its general nature and a number of massively botched executions in the 80s and 90s creating concern among states that electrocution would be ruled unconstitutional as a violation of the Eighth Amendment (which forbids "cruel and unusual punishment) and leave them with no means of carrying out the death penalty.

As that list shows, lethal injection also has a history of errors – a history which precedes the self-imposed embargo by European drug makers unwilling to see their products used to kill people. The affect that this boycott has had on the death penalty though, and will continue to have, is enormous: it's thrown lethal injection into exactly the same era of experimentation that plagued the electric chair at the turn of the 19th century when it was first introduced.

State Electricians, as executioners were known, did not "throw a switch", but turned the wheel of a rheostat. Insufficient current wouldn't kill the condemned; too much would cause burning and smoke. Executioners developed their skills on the job, learning to apply a high jolt for the first few seconds to hopefully cause immediate unconsciousness, then a less powerful but longer one to cause death.

The same thing is happening today, except with drugs instead of electricity. The second execution with neither sodium thiopental nor pentobarbitone – two barbiturates which have been vital to previous executions – used a benzodiazepine hypnotic and an opioid narcotic. It seemed tantamount to strangulation: Dennis McGuire spent the fifteen minutes he took to die in Ohio's execution chamber snorting and gasping for breath. Three months later in April, Oklahoma's first execution without barbiturates saw Clayton Lockett writhing in agony for 45 minutes before eventually succumbing of a heart attack. In 2010, a lawyer successfully challenged Oklahoma's decision to use methohexitone, a barbiturate derivative, as an anaesthetic, on the basis that it would be experimental and may lead to a "torturous" death. Indiana now wishes to use that very drug in its next execution.

If you have a strong stomach, take a look at these horrendous photos of Ángel Díaz, following his execution in Florida. That's with the original drug cocktail, by the way. Lethal injection was supposed to put an end to incidents like this, but comparing what happened to Diaz with what happened to John Louis Evans in Alabama's electric chair makes it impossible to avoid the conclusion that history is repeating itself.

Watching someone die by any means is an assault on the senses; that's why lawmakers want to make executions as palatable as possible, and not least for those involved, because we know it affects them psychologically, as Jenny McCartney has discussed. The deck is stacked against them: they're medically unqualified individuals using materials they have no professional experience with, and the alternative is older, revived methods that are renowned for their imprecision anyway. Future botched executions seem virtually inevitable, and also bearing in mind that in just seven years, six states have abolished the death penalty, how ironic it is that the technology for legally sanctioned killing itself will surely speed up the signing of its own death warrant.

India’s call for ‘full implementation’ of 13-A 

June 8, 2014, 9:14 pm

INDIA, NEW DELHI : Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (C) arrives with Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Urban Development, Venkaiah Naidu (R) for the first session of India’s newly elected parliament in New Delhi on June 4, 2014. The first session of India’s newly elected parliament lasted only minutes as lawmakers immediately adjourned in a mark of respect for a government minister who died in a car crash with the process of swearing-in the 543 members of the Lok Sabha pushed back to June 5. AFP

By Neville Ladduwahetty

When Sri Lanka’s President met India’s newly elected Prime Minister Modi at the latter’s inaugural ceremony, it was widely reported that Mr. Modi had called for the "early and full implementation of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution", and that Sri Lanka should "expedite the process of national reconciliation in a manner that meets the aspirations of the Tamil community for a life of equality, justice, peace and dignity in a united Sri Lanka".

India’s Call for ‘Full Implementation’ of 13-A by nelvely

13A is not an Appendix - M.A. Sumanthiran 



BY ANANTH PALAKIDNAR- 
June 8, 2014 

In an interview with Ceylon Today, Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Parliamentarian, M.A. Sumanthiran, said the 13th Amendment to the Constitution is not an Appendix. "The government should abide by the Constitution and ensure the full implementation of the Amendment before thinking of revisiting it to consider devolving police powers to the provinces.

Following are excerpts:
Q:
What is your take on the recent views expressed by the government and several other political parties and individuals on the 13th Amendment?

13A is Not an Appendix - M.a. Sumanthiran by nelvely

Inter-Religious Empathy That Waits To Be Harnessed

By Jehan Perera -June 9, 2014 

Jehan Perera

In addition to being subjected to international scrutiny on account of war-time human rights violations Sri Lanka is now coming under international scrutiny for religious intolerance.  Several incidents have highlighted the rise of Sinhalese nationalism that is at odds with the requirements of national reconciliation that includes the ethnic and religious minorities.  These have included attacks on mosques and churches.  The attacks on Christian churches have been going on for the past two decades at least.  Most of these attacks have been against the new churches that are active in attempting religious conversion allegedly by unethical means of providing for the material needs of those whose conversion is sought.  However, as most of these conversions take place at the local level and in relatively poor areas, they do not receive much media publicity. They are one of the unacknowledged problems concerning inter-community relations in the country.

On the other hand, the attacks on the Muslims have received considerably more media publicity.  This on account of the higher visibility of some of the targets that have been located in more densely populated urban areas.  The institutions attacked have been both mosques and commercial establishments owned by Muslims.  One of these attacks was on a media conference organized in a Colombo hotel by the Jathika Bala Sena (JBS) in which a mixed group of Muslim and Buddhist clergy sought to explain the resettlement of Muslim IDPs in the North.  It has been alleged that the resettlement of Muslims was on a forest reserve meant for wildlife preservation and that a Muslim Minister of the government was behind this anti national action.

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Sexual Violence in Conflict: Sri Lanka

UK Foreign Secretary William Hague calls for perpetrators of sexual violence in Sri Lanka's conflict to be brought to account, speaking in Colombo, Nov 2013

 09 June 2014
Tomorrow, the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict begins in London, co-hosted by the UK's Foreign Secretary, William Hague and the Special Envoy for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Angelina Jolie. 

Sexual Violence in Conflict Sri Lanka by nelvely

The missing connection: Street protests and presidential politics

by Rajan Philips-June 7, 2014

Apart from the necessary distraction of the watershed elections and government change in India, Colombo’s parlour politics has maintained its obsession with the future of the presidency in Sri Lanka. However, the parlour discourse of presidential politics is rarefied from street level protest politics, and the Rajapaksa second term has spawned both the obsession with presidential politics as well as the disaffection of the working people towards the government. The last few weeks have shown trade unions getting more and more restive, although they are not storming on the war path yet. But strange as it may seem, there is no articulation of the presidential politics that dominates the Colombo parlours and internet chat platforms, on the one hand, and the almost continuous trade union protests on the streets. This is the dismaying disconnect - between the reality of disaffection among the working people and fantasies of presidential politics that fascinate the pundits.

The Missing Connection Street Protests and Presidential Politics by nelvely

Gotabaya Rajapaksa – War Criminal, Coward Or A President-In-Waiting?

By Muhammed Fazl -June 9, 2014

Muhammed Fazl

With international pressure building up and a successful prosecution taking shape against him, the Secretary to the Ministry of Defence, Mr. Gotabaya Rajapaksa cashing in on the wave of success of his brother PresidentMahinda rajapaksa in local elections, is rushing to seek legitimacy and public support for a top job that could fall vacant in the near future. The sudden decision would have risen either from insecure complexities or as a precautionary measure of having immunity usually granted to serving heads and deputy heads of States against possible convictions in an International War Crimes Tribunal. It is also no secret that Mr. Gotabaya harbors great ambitions to fill the shoes of the President in the event the position becomes vacant, either due to an unexpected death of the latter or due to a ruling by the Supreme Court arising from a successful petition against the President for seeking an illegal third term. As for the legitimacy of the third term, only the voter should have the right to approve changes to the Constitution. 

Gotabaya

By not allowing thieves, rapists, sports stars and actors to sustain a despotic regime, thanks only to their popularity, the crossover MP’s should have no mandate to vote for President Rajapakse’s third term, especially when they had hoodwinked and convinced the ignorant voters into believing that they would act as opposition members in the parliament! We as a right-thinking nation cannot allow 150 plus individuals to hold the nation of 20 plus million as hostages!

Believing it would be unfair to the readers as well as to Mr. Gotabaya if the title of this article is not explained, I hope the following will shed more light on this elusive and the most-feared character of our time.

Living in a country where anyone charged of a crime is guilty until proven otherwise, there are serious allegations and over-whelming evidences of war crimes committed by Sri Lankan armed forces on direct orders from the Defense Secretary Mr. Gotabaya Rajapaksa. While he claims credit for coordinating and directing operations and winning the war, wouldn’t it be equally right for him to own up to any breach of ‘rules of engagement’ occurring especially at the last stages of the war? And yes, your guess would be good as mine.                              Read More

Mahinda’s Appeal To The World 

Must Be Understood!

Assertive Indian foreign policy needed!

| by Rajasingham Jayadevan

( June 9, 2014, London, Sri Lanka Guardian) A fine toothcomb is not needed to understand President Mahinda Rajapakse’s psyche on the resolution to the historical conflict with the Tamils.

Mahinda’s Appeal to the World by nelvely

மேலாதிக்கவாத சிந்தனையை களைவது சிறப்பான நிவாரணி

2014-06-07 12:48:58 | General

Monday  9 Jun 2014
மொழிப்பாகுபாடும் பாரபட்சமும் இலங்கையின் இனங்கள் மத்தியில் அதிகளவு விரிசலை ஏற்படுத்தின என்பது தொடர்பாக மேலாதிக்கவாத கடும்போக்கு சிந்தனையாளர்கள் மத்தியில் இன்னமும் புரிந்துணர்வோ, சகிப்புத்தன்மையோ ஏற்படவில்லை என்பது துரதிஷ்டவசமானது.பல்லின, பல்மொழி பேசும் சமூகங்களைக் கொண்ட நாட்டில் விட்டுக்கொடுப்பும் புரிந்துணர்வும் அதிகளவுக்கு பரஸ்பரம் ஏற்பட்டால் மட்டுமே இனங்களுக்கிடையில் நல்லிணக்கத்தை ஏற்படுத்த முடியும்.

1956 இல் மறைந்த பிரதமர் பண்டாரநாயக்கவின் சுதந்திரக் கட்சி தலைமையிலான அரசாங்கம் தனிச்சிங்களச் சட்டத்தை அறிமுகப்படுத்தியதால் சிறுபான்மைத் தமிழ்பேசும் மக்களுக்கு ஏற்பட்ட பாதிப்புகளின் காயங்களை ஆற்றுப்படுத்துவதற்காக சிங்களத்துடன் தமிழ்மொழிக்கு தேசிய மொழியென்ற அந்தஸ்து அரசியலமைப்பினூடாக வழங்கப்பட்டிருக்கின்றது.

ஆனால் அதனை தென்னிலங்கையிலுள்ள கடும்போக்கு சக்திகள் ஏற்று அங்கீகரிக்காத தன்மையே அதிகளவுக்கு காணப்படுகிறது. வடக்கு மாகாணசபை தனித்தமிழில்  ஜாதிக ஹெல உறுமயவிற்கு கடிதமொன்றை அனுப்பியிருந்ததாகவும் அது மொழிக்கொள்கையை மீறும் செயலெனவும் அக்கட்சி விசனம் தெரிவித்திருந்ததையும் அதற்குப் பதிலாக வடமாகாண சபையின் அவைத்தலைவர் அரசியலமைப்பின் பிரகாரம் வடக்கின் நிர்வாகமொழி  தமிழா இருப்பதால் அந்த உரிமையை ஒருபோதும் விட்டுக்கொடுக்க முடியாது என்று தெரிவித்திருந்ததாகவும் செய்திகள் வெளியாகியிருந்தன.

குறித்த மொழி பேசும் சமூகத்தவருடன் அவர்களின் மொழியிலேயே தொடர்பாடல்களை மேற்கொள்வது அதிகளவுக்கு விளங்கிக்கொள்ளும் தன்மையையும் பரஸ்பரம் புரிந்துணர்வையும் ஏற்படுத்தும்.

இந்தச் சிக்கலை நீக்குவதற்கு அரசாங்கம் மும்மொழிக்கொள்கையை அறிமுகப்படுத்தி முன்னெடுத்து வருகிறது. மொழிக்கொள்கைகளுக்கென தனியான அமைச்சையும் உருவாக்கி நடைமுறைப்படுத்தப்படுகின்றது.இம்மொழிக்கொள்கை  அமுலாக்கத்தை துரிதமாகவும் செம்மையாகவும் முன்னெடுப்பதற்கு  அதிகளவு நிதி ஒதுக்கீடு உட்பட தேவைப்படும் வளங்களை வழங்குவதற்கு அரசாங்கம் முன்னுரிமைகொடுத்து செயற்பட வேண்டும்.

இந்தியாவில் புதிய அரசாங்கம் பதவியேற்றுள்ள நிலையில் நேற்று முன்தினம் பாராளுமன்றத்தின் மக்களவையில் பதவிப்பிரமாணம் மேற்கொண்ட எம்.பி.க்கள் தத்தமது தாய்மொழியிலும் தமக்கு விருப்பமான மொழியிலும் பதவிப்பிரமாணம் செய்துகொண்டதாக செய்திகள் வெளியாகியிருந்தன.

545 உறுப்பினர்கள் கொண்ட மக்களவையில் அன்றையதினம் 510 பேர் பதவிப் பிரமாணம் மேற்கொண்டனர். அவர்களுள் குஜராத்தி மொழியை தாய்மொழியாகக் கொண்ட பிரதமர் நரேந்திரமோடி, இந்தி மொழியில் கடவுளின் பெயரால் பதவிப் பிரமாணம் மேற்கொண்டிருக்கிறார்.

வெளிவிவகார அமைச்சர் சுஸ்மா ஸ்வராஜ், அமைச்சர்கள் உமாபாரதி, ஹரஷ் வர்த்தன்  போன்றவர்கள் தேவபாஷை னை இந்து மதத்தவர்கள் கருதும் சமஸ்கிருதத்தில் சத்தியப் பிரமாணம் மேற்கொண்டனர்.

இணையமைச்சர் பொன். இராதாகிருஷ்ணன் தமிழிலும் இதர  பல  உறுப்பினர்கள் தத்தமது தாய்மொழிகளான கன்னடம், இந்தி, மைத்திரி, கொங்கணி போன்ற மொழிகளிலும்  சத்தியப் பிரமாணம் எடுத்திருக்கின்றனர். காங்கிரஸ் தலைவி சோனியா காந்தி இந்தியிலும் அவரின் சகலையும் அமைச்சருமான  மேனகா காந்தி ஆங்கிலத்திலும் பதவிப் பிரமாணம் மேற்கொண்டுள்ளனர்.

இவை இந்தியாவின் கலாசார, மொழி ரீதியான பன்முகத்தன்மையின் வெளிப்பாடும் அங்கீகாரமுமென அந்நாட்டு ஊடகங்கள் பாராட்டியுள்ளதையும் காணமுடிகிறது. இந்த விடயத்திற்காக இந்தியாவின் அரசியல் கட்சிகள், தலைவர்கள் எல்லோரும் தார்மீக நெறிகளை  அரவணைத்துக்கொண்டவர்கள், நாகரிகம் நிறைந்தவர்கள் எனக் கருதிவிடமுடியாது.

இதற்கு உதாரணமாக  பாலியல் வல்லுறவு சம்பவங்கள் அந்நாட்டில் உக்கிரமாக அதிகரித்திருக்கும் நிலையில் உத்தரப் பிரதேச மாநிலத்தை ஆளும் கட்சியான சமாஜவாதக் கட்சியின் தலைவர் முலாயம் சிங் யாதவ் வல்லுறவில் ஈடுபடுவோர்கள் தொடர்பாக “ஆண்பிள்ளைகள் ஆண்பிள்ளைகளாகத்தான் இருப்பார்கள் என்று கூறியிருந்தவிடயமும் நேற்று முன்தினம் ஆளும் பாரதீய ஜனதாவைச் சேர்ந்த மத்தியப் பிரதேச மாநில  எம்.பி. பாபுலால்கௌர் என்பவர் பாலியல் வல்லுறவு பற்றி விபரிக்கையில் “சில சமயத்தில் இது சரி, சிலவேளைகளில் இது பிழையானதென கூறியிருந்தமையும் கடும் கண்டனங்களுக்கும் விமர்சனத்திற்கும் இலக்காகியிருந்தது.

ஆதிகால மூதாதையரின் பண்பு, மேலாதிக்கவாத, நிலப்பிரபுத்துவ சிந்தனை போன்ற தோற்றப்பாடுகளை அதிகாரத்திலிருப்போர் கொண்டிருப்பது பிரச்சினைக்கு தீர்வுகாண்பதற்கு உதவமாட்டாது என்று ஐ.நா.செயலாளர் நாயகம் பான்கீ மூன் முலாயம் சிங்கின் கருத்தை மறைமுகமாக சாடியிருந்தார்.

மொழி, இன, மத மேலாதிக்க சிந்தனைகளை எந்தவொரு அரசியல் கட்சிகளின் தலைவர்களும் கொண்டிருப்பதே சர்ச்சைகளும் பிரச்சினைகளும் பிளவுகளும் பூதாகாரமாவதற்கு வழியமைத்துக்கொடுக்கின்றன.

தத்தமது மொழிகள்,மதங்கள், கலாசாரங்கள், பண்பாடுகளைப் போன்றதே ஏனைய இன,மத, மொழிக்குழுமங்களினதும் என்ற புரிந்துணர்வை அதிகளவு ஏற்படுத்திக் கொள்வதும் சகிப்புணர்வுமே அரசியல், மத ,சமூகத்தலைவர்களுக்கு அவசியமானது. தலைவர்களிடம் இப்பண்புகள் இதய சுத்தியுடன் வெளிப்படும்போதே அவர்களைச் சார்ந்தோரும் அதனைப் பின்பற்றி நடப்பார்கள்.