Betrayal

All these days some of the foreign media kept on repeating the news that Prime minister of Sri Lanka has apologized from the Tamil people who are evacuated from Colombo and taken to their home areas. It was a good step that he apologized and I’m happy about it. Same as i believe that this evacuation should not have been done. But my concern is not to explain this same old story which you already know.

I am sure most of you are not going to believe the baby talk of government saying they did not know anything about it. If they didn't know this, that it self shows how poor the intelligence system of the government heads and how poor administrators they are. Anyhow what ever done by the army, as the commander of forces president should be responsible. Therefore most people have their fair doubts.

Last couple of days I met various people from various levels. This article is based from facts I gathered from them. People think that what government did was like "Killing 2 birds with one stone". Because every one had the doubt why the Tamils were expelled during the time Akashi comes here for donation. Its quite obvious that Akashi will not recommend donation after such incident. Then why couldn’t they postpone it to couple of days if they really wanted to send those Tamils to North? Well people have different ideas on this issue. One person claimed that, foreign donors have requested to the government that Tamil people should not be checked and restricted from traveling any where in the country they want etc etc. But if government just accepts that, majority of the Sinhalese people will not like the government. Because they do have a reasonable fear that LTTE bombers will come with civilians. So what government did was they played this drama. Obvious next step is Tamil NGOs goes to court and get an order. Then they could nicely say "Hay look, its not us, the Supreme Court has given the order. We can’t do anything about it". Same as by doing this they can scare who ever helping LTTE. So it’s advantageous for them anyway.


Climax comes after that. Prime minister went and apologized saying they didn't know anything about it and Army has done something very wrong and they should be punished etc etc. Very next day minister Jeyaraj has criticized saying that he don’t agree with the fact that prime minister apologized because it demotivates the Sri Lankan forces. When I saw this news in Daily Mirror, I remembered one of the fighting strategies we had in school. Once our football team had to go for a fight with another team. If they didn’t go for the fight, that means they loose their status. Everyone could have thought they are week. But if they go for the fight, they will get banned for couple of matches. So they had a plan. They planned on how to hit the other team. Now the whole team is going for the fight except for the captain. Because next day captain has to go and apologize for what the team did. Then they don’t get the punishment. So simple. I feel now days our government also follow the same strategy.

But these jokes are not the sad part of it. I guess some of the Tamils who are innocent got in to trouble. Same as our army and police officers who just obeyed the rules were in the danger now. Government has nicely betrayed them after all. It’s a very bad strategic move. This definitely demotivate the army. According to Daily Mirror 12/06/2007 "Western diplomats in Colombo has mentioned yesterday that Sri Lankan security forces members may be denied Visas to European Union if they have human rights abuse charges against them. An Inspector involved in expelling Tamils from Colombo this month told reporters at the week end that he has been denied Visa to an unnamed European Union country because of this action. “One thing is now these officers are an easy target of LTTE. I am scared that the same thing happened to our Intelligence unit will happened to these officers too. And in such case they can’t go out of country too. I'm sure though these officers are wrong, they did it with the good intention and it’s for the country. They don't have any personnel benefit from that. So my friends, this is how this country betray its heroes.