Unequal reconciliation is subordination. Lasting peace will not come by reconciliation for other’s needs. The real reconciliation may come only when it dawns on the Sinhala nation that the last defenders of land in the island were the fallen Tamil fighters (including militants of all shades for the cause), and not the Colombo regimes or military in the lascarin service of outside agenda. But all care will be taken for not seeing history in that way.
Ever since nationalism as way of the then modern polity was introduced into our region through colonialism, the British were steadily deceiving the nation of Eezham Tamils, starting especially from the Manning reforms of 1920s, and specifically targeting through the Donoughmore Constitution of 1930s and the Soulbury Constitution of 1940s.
For the deceits of the Sinhala regimes in Colombo there is a long catalogue, first under the British since 1931 and later in the name of the so-called independence after 1948.
Thereafter, alternately or together, competing New Delhi and Washington have taken over the legacy of deceit on behalf of the genocidal State in Colombo. Washington is in the forefront now, just as New Delhi was adamant over the Indo-Lanka pact of the late 1980s.
The argument that the world today has no ‘appetite’ for national liberation (selectively for Eezham Tamils), as smokescreen to encourage, institutionalise and to ride on the genocidal nationalism of the Sinhala State for imperialistic agendas, has to be confronted outright at the face of those who come out with it.
Eezham Tamils could never be averse to global orders transcending nationalism for the benefit of entire humanity. They would willingly participate in them, provided their nation, identity, land, security and self-respect are internationally guaranteed.
If there is any lesson for Eezham Tamils to learn, the Vanni War should have taught the lesson that from where exactly the deceits have come and to where actually their struggle in the current context has to be addressed directly. Why the lacuna in orientating the polity in that direction, has to be seriously perused by genuine activists and the younger generation.
