As I said before, these are only day dreams. They expected a war tribunal and serious constitutional changes through foreign intervention. No one believes them any more.īut Tamils expected much more from global powers. There is a huge credibility issue with the Mahinda presidency. Resolution does not have much power but it is a resolution of shame to Lanka. With the resolution passed Mahinda regime is devalued in the international arena. That means even liberals who state, sovereignty must entail a government exercising its authority to uphold the rule of law, are traitors. This reality was shown to the leaders by rational advisers but members of the Mahinda regime frequently labelled dissenting voices as “traitors”. However, it is a fundamental problem of democracy and cannot be swept under the carpet. Mahinda regime in Colombo thought that by concentrating on infrastructure development, the underlying issues of the national problem will fade away. After the end of the war, the world powers waited for some form of bourgeois balance to be introduced, but Mahinda was drifting. There was the unwritten understanding between Lanka and global powers that after defeating the “terrorists”, the issue of the Tamil national problem will be addressed. Thus the assistance, political and military, extended to Lanka by North America, the European Union and India was not unconditional. Except chauvinists such as Nalin and Gunadasa, every body knew that at some point Lanka would have to address the issues of the Tamil cause.
The Lankan state won this contest as the international community under the pressure of India, listed the LTTE as a terrorist organisation.īut most of Lanka’s senior diplomats and pro government intellectuals maintained that the moral high ground of the Tamil cause was unassailable, and the new concept of “terrorism” only provided Lanka with a temporary respite. The LTTE countered and projected itself as a liberation organisation. Both claimed that terrorism should be eliminated by armed repression while the liberation aspect should be dealt with a political solution.Ī deliberate and orchestrated strategy was pursued by the Lankan state to “brand” the LTTE as a terrorist organisation. Lanka and India put forward the view that Tamil liberation should be separated from the terror campaign. Consequently interventions by the leaders of India and Lanka ensured that the LTTE was on the list. Even during the deliberations leading up to the listing of the LTTE as a terrorist organisation in the western countries, liberal officials and politicians objected to so listing the LTTE, as they perceived it as a liberation organisation.
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