The agenda of LTTE: Formulating infertile political leadership in the country

28 Apr 2008

For over two decades, it is only a single military and political leadership that has been prevailing under the fascist rule in the Wanni jungle. That is LTTE self appointed supremo Piripaharan. In the mean time, there have been five presidents ruling the country and military leadership has passed from hand to hand due to logistics and other rules of the country. Piripaharan is having only a single mission that is to defend and rule his territory by fascist iron fist. He has simply killed and eliminated political and military threats from the Tamil society. In the contrary, the political leadership in the South has to pay attention to multitude of problems of the country ranging from economic development to social and political issues.

LTTE political wing with the support form of INGO’s have actively involved in destabilising economy and political structure in the south. The well planed killing of political leadership of the country is a key part of the master plane of LTTE. It started with killing the political leadership of Tamils. The long list started from the killing of Alfrad Doreappa who was the Mayer of Jaffna and then the list of killing spans Amirthalingam, Thiruchelvam, Yoganathan, Laksman Kadiragaramar and Jeoraj Fernadopulle and many more. The LTTE has silently removed the educated Tamil community from politics and paved the way for mere puppet politicians to get open license to represent Tamils on behalf of Piripaharan. Only a handful of leaders like EPDP leader Duglas Devananda and Ananda Sangari managed to survive. Still their politics is confined to liberated area due to threats from the LTTE terrorists. Mr. Devanada has miraculously survived dozens of close assassination attempts mostly due to his own skill and vigilance. He is a great example for politicians to know how to combat terrorism effectively and professionally. You can not win over terrorism by being an easy target of the killer. First one must safeguard his own life so that he can work on plan to hunt the hunter. That is how leaders like Devananda have preserved even a slightest hope of democracy in the Tamil society.

In parallel to eliminating leadership of Tamils in the North, LTTE unleashed the same tactics in the South. Since 1977, UNP had been long ruling the country and UNP leadership under J.R Jayawardana let the LTTE separatist terrorism to spread beyond control. While the old selfish fox was succumbed to natural death, all his secondary leadership in the UNP became victims of LTTE. The chain of killings started from killing of Ranjan Wijayarathna who had wowed to crush LTTE in similar manner that he had crushed insurgency of JVP in the South. However he proved to be only a boaster than actual leader and became a soft target to a LTTE suicide bomber. From that day we have seen quite a number of so called ‘leaders’ who are shouting and setting days to crush terrorism, but they were not even able to care about their own security. If a leader is not even caring of his own security, how can the Sri Lankan nation count on those leaders to liberate our emerald island from the terrorists?

The LTTE hunting list of UNP leadership included R. Premadasa, Gamini Dissanayaka, Lalith Atulathmudali, Gamini Premachandra, Weerasingha Mallimaracchi, etc. LTTE created the vacuum in UNP leadership by killing all the genuine second level leadership and the result was a mere character like Ranil Wickramsingha to get the leadership of the UNP. Ever since, both LTTE and their INGO supporters have cashed in both political and military fronts.

Now LTTE is eying to create similar situation in the UPFA government as well. So far LTTE has successfully targeted key cabinet ministers C.V. Gunarathna, Laksman Kadiragaramar and Jeoraj Fernadopulle. However LTTE has been failed in assassinate attempts of ministers Nimal Siripala and Mahinda Samarasingha in the political arena, Gotabaya Rajapaksa in defense segment and Major General Sarath Fonseka in the very military front.

If we allow LTTE to prune our leaders in political, military or administrative fields, it will result in infertile, incapable and puppet leaders to immerge and that is what LTTE is eying for in their long term political and military strategy. This type of weak leaders has no option but to negotiate and cohabit with terrorists. International community can easily manipulate this type of puppet. INGO agents find safe heaven under these so called leaders and therefore INGO media agents always inflate and promote white feather of these weak (so called) leaders as mark of humanity and peace, dependency on international community as great diplomatic relations. That is when people have to push or drag so called leaders rather than leader providing vision and initiative.

Leadership is something that can not be artificially crated within a selected personality. It is skills evolved due to natural competition and experience that create great leaders. Regardless of color or supporting political party, we all Sri Lankans must emphasize the need of safeguarding our leaders before it is too late. That is why we all must unite in defending our leaders in fight against LTTE fascist terrorism. The government also has a responsibility to provide security for all the leaders without considering their political stands, because leaders are great assets of the country that any political party, and above all, the country can benefited.