நியாயமான அதிகாரப் பகிர்வு முன்வைக்கப்பட்டால், புலிகளை ஜனநாயக அரசியல் நீரோட்டத்தில் இணைத்துக் கொள்ள முடியும் : அருளர்

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நியாயமான அதிகாரப் பகிர்வு முன்வைக்கப்பட்டால், புலிகளை ஜனநாயக அரசியல் நீரோட்டத்தில் இணைத்துக் கொள்ள முடியும் : அருளர்

வீரகேசரி இணையம் 3/3/2009 2:01:17 PM - இலங்கை அரசாங்கத்திற்கும் தமிழீழ விடுதலைப் புலிகளுக்கும் இடையில் சமாதான பேச்சுவார்த்தைகளை முன்னெடுக்க மத்தியஸ்தம் வகிக்கத் தயார் என பிரபல சர்வதேச 'ஹிப்பொப்' பாடகி எம்.ஐ.ஏ.(மாதங்கி அருள்பிரகாசம்) யின் தந்தை அருளர் எனப்படும் அருள்பிரகாசம் தெரிவித்துள்ளார்.

30 ஆண்டு காலமாக தொடரும் தேசிய இனப்பிரச்சினைக்கு தீர்வு காண சுயாதீன மத்தியஸ்தராக கடமையாற்ற முடியும் என அவர் குறிப்பிட்டுள்ளார்.இலங்கை நிலவரம் தொடர்பில் ஆங்கில நாளேடொன்றிற்கு கருத்துத் தெரிவித்துள்ள அவர் மேலும் கூறுகையில்,

"இலங்கையில் தொடரும் யுத்த நிலைமைகளின் காரணமாகவே நாம் புலம்பெயர்ந்து வாழ நேரிட்டுள்ளது. அரசாங்கத்திடம் தற்போது இராணுவப் பலம் அதிகளவில் காணப்பட்ட போதிலும், தற்போதைய யுத்த அணுகுமுறையின் மூலம் ஒருபோதும் நிரந்தர சமாதானத்தை ஏற்படுத்த முடியாது.

ஆளும் ஐக்கிய மக்கள் சுதந்திரக் கட்சி அரசாங்கம் முக்கிய தமிழ்த் தரப்புக்களை ஜனநாயக அரசியலில் இணைத்துக் கொண்டு இந்தப் பிரச்சினைக்குத் தீர்வு காண முனைந்ததில்லை.

மாறாக, தம்முடன் நட்புறவு பேணிவரும் சில தமிழ் அரசியல் கட்சிகளை மட்டும் சமாதான முயற்சிகளில் இணைத்துக் கொண்டுள்ளது. இதனை ஓர் வெற்றிகரமான முயற்சியாகக் கருத முடியாது. வ் தமிழீழம் தமிழர்களுக்கு உரித்தானது, சிங்கள நாடு சிங்களவர்களுக்கு உரித்தானது, இலங்கை முழு இலங்கையர்களுக்கும் உரித்தானது என்ற கொள்கையின் அடிப்படையில் தீர்வுத் திட்ட முனைப்புக்கள் மேற்கொள்ளப்பட வேண்டும்.

இந்திய உதவியுடன் வன்னிப் பெருநிலப் பரப்பில் புலிகள் முற்றாக விரட்டியடிக்கப்பட்ட போதிலும் அவர்களின் கெரில்லா போராட்டத்தை முழுமையாக தடுத்து நிறுத்திவிட முடியாது. நிலப்பரப்புக்கள் கைப்பற்றப்பட்ட போதிலும், தமிழீழ விடுதலைப் புலிகள் இன்னும் சில ஆண்டுகளுக்குப் போராட்டத்தை தொடரக் கூடும்.

தமிழர் அபிலாஷைகளுக்கு மதிப்பளிக்கக் கூடிய வகையிலான நியாயமான தீர்வுத் திட்டமொன்றை அரசாங்கம் முன்வைக்கும் பட்சத்தில் விடுதலைப் புலிகளை இணக்கம் காண வைக்க என்னால் முடியும்.

நியாயமான அதிகாரப் பகிர்வு முன்வைக்கப்பட்டால், தமிழீழ விடுதலைப் புலிகளை ஜனநாயக அரசியல் நீரோட்டத்தில் இணைத்துக் கொள்ள முடியும்" என்றார் அருளர்.

அதேவேளை, இலங்கைக்கு விஜயம் செய்யத் தாம் விரும்புவதாக எம்.ஐ.ஏ. தெரிவித்துள்ளார்.அருளர் எனப்படும் அருள்பிரகாசம் 1980 களில் ஈழவிடுதலைப் போராட்டத்தில் ஈடுபாட்டைக் கொண்டிருந்தவர். ஈரோஸ் எனப்படும் ஈழ ஜனநாயக முன்னணியில் இணைந்து செயற்பட்டவர். இவர் லங்காராணி அருளர் எனவும் அழைக்கப்படுபவர் என்பது குறிப்பிடத்தக்கது.

பெறப்பட்டது ........வீரகேசரி ...............நன்றி

[Brammaasmi]

மாற்றார் வந்தார், மத்தியஸ்தம் தந்தார்

கேட்பார் இன்றி கடுகடுத்துச் சென்றார்.

போப்பார் சொன்னார், காப்பாரெல்லாம் சொன்னார்

பார்ப்பொமெனக் கூடச் சொல்லா பக்ஷேகோ

நாமே சொன்னால்???

[ரதி]

Arular wants to be an independent mediator in Lanka

By Jennifer A. Rodrigo

Hip hop sensation and British songster M.I.A’s father, Arular Arudpragasam, in an exclusive interview with the Daily Mirror expressed his interest to offer his services as an independent mediator of the ethnic conflict to the government. Speaking, while in Sri Lanka on a visit, Arudpragasam, said that his 30 years’ experience in Sri Lanka’s conflict, would be the primary reason for his inclination. “Even though, right now, the government through its military strength, is thinking we are going to finish this war and attain peace, I feel that peace may be even further away with the current approach,” said the one-time military mentor of the LTTE, referring to the present arena in the North-East.

‘This is all her talent’ - Dad

Commenting quite early during the discourse, about his Oscar and Grammy-nominated artist daughter, Maya Arudpragasam (M.I.A), he said that she was born in London and brought to Sri Lanka as a seven month old baby when he came to launch EROS (Eelam Revolutionary Organisation) in Sri Lanka. She spent most of her budding years in Jaffna, where she schooled at the Jaffna Convent and left Sri Lanka in the year 1985. “She has single-handedly achieved all of this. I was away from home for many years and I could live with my family only from time to time. This is why she came up with her stage name M.I.A – to mean Missing In Action.” He moreover described his daughter as having little music training as a child even though she had talent towards music and dance. “What we,” he began referring to his wife and himself, “gave her were the confidence, self esteem and the courage.” Completing her education in the UK, M.I.A graduated from the Fine Arts School taking to Film and Media. She eventually joined the group Elastica as their PR person. M.I.A is one of three children in the family; she has one younger brother who works with her and an elder sister who is a jewellery designer working from London.

Mentoring Prabha

Arular Arudpragasam brought together six militant groups in the Eelam struggle in the early eighties which was called the Community for Eelam Liberation (CEL) and has been a pioneer of the militant groups. He was also the first to launch EROS in the year 1976 and V. Prabhakaran was under Arudpragasam’s watch in his early years as a militant. From the year 1980, Arudpragasam was “more or less a common person to all the militant groups.” He was in the North-East Provincial Council as Head of the Research Division of the Chief Minister’s Secretariat in the years 1988, 89 and 90. Simultaneously, according to him, he became the first mediator between the government and LTTE during President Premadasa’s regime. “This was the time, when the LTTE told me that they’d consider the alternative of a separate state if that is acceptable to the Tamil people, but unfortunately, for the last 18 years, such a solution has not emerged.”

The solution, a problem?

Arudpragasam noted that Sri Lanka is not living in an era where a solution can be imposed against the will of a people. He observed that the present solution attempted in the island, which is via military combat, is about imposing a unitary state and for the Tamil people, this means the Sinhalese rule over them, which is what brought them to the current state in the first place. “It is necessary that we work out a solution that is going to be acceptable to the Tamil people.” With the question of acceptability arising, it was queried as to what exactly he proposes as acceptable to the Tamil people, to which he responded that although there are many other communities as well, the conflict is between the Tamil people in the North-East and the Sinhalese of the South - “The solution lies in bringing a new Sri Lanka into existence where people will feel their rights have been met and they don’t feel threatened.”

“This is a problem of re-articulating Sri Lanka on a different platform. Only if such a process is taken forward, can a constitutional restructuring take place,” he said. According to this former EROS Leader and one time Coordinator for CEL, trying to deal with the existing problem in Sri Lanka at party/political level, where parties are more interested in the vote patterns than in bringing about a cardinal constitutional change, will not bring peace. “A platform of dialogue and understanding has to be established accompanied by some form of affirmative action directed at re-orienting our minds.”

“I don’t see anything wrong with the Tamil people or the Sinhalese, fundamentally,” he said, “They are all quite amicable and reasonable people. So it is necessary that we help people to come to terms with a solution that will meet the expectations of everybody.”

Referring to the approach taken by the government, Arudpragasam said that the ruling party is not aiming at bringing the mainstream Tamils into the political process. Instead, he sees, the government trying to solve the problem depending on the peripherals that are in goodwill with them. “This can only produce a temporary solution. Only a solution based on the principle, ‘Tamil Eelam belongs to Tamil people, Sinhala Rata belongs to Sinhala people and Sri Lanka belongs to all Sri Lankans’ will hold.”

“The current thinking is the LTTE is going to be wiped out and a solution can be brought for the Tamil people, even with the help of India. Of course, I’m extremely sceptical about that,” he expressed. According to Arudpragasam, even if the government occupies the entire Wanni area, with the LTTE disappearing, this in no way, will diminish their ability to wage a guerrilla war against the government for many years to come.”

Vice-versa

Arudpragasam is of the view that the government has completely rejected the approach where it comes up with a solution together with the Tamil people and then tried to marginalize the LTTE with the help of the Tamil people. “This is mainly because, the government does not have a solution which is acceptable to the Tamil community,” he said adding, “so we are only heading towards a scenario where there is extensive military occupation and rule over the North-East and a prolonged guerrilla war by the LTTE. Even if the government succeeds in defeating and eliminating the Tigers completely, without a settlement, the opportunity of withdrawing armed forces from the North-East will never come.” This, he feels, will be a setting, totally unacceptable to the Tamil people. “What I’m trying to say is that, we will see a Tamil national liberation struggle without the LTTE, while the government will continue to struggle and come to depend on greater foreign involvement to sustain its opposition of the liberation struggle.

Citing the example of Yasser Arafat, whom he described as a “moderate and secular leader”, he spoke of how the West undermined him labeling him a terrorist. “An amicable Abbas was a brought to be leader and Hamas was the answer of the Palestine people. The conflict never ended.” Urging to look at the similarities between what happened in Palestine and what is happening here, Arudpragasam said that without a settlement, only forms will change. This is the lesson we learn from the Palestine problem. If a solution is not going to be brought forth in earnestness, we are only heading towards more trouble.”

Prabha misled

When asked about the countless number of lives which have been lost due to the atrocities of war waged by the LTTE, he said that, his own vision for the LTTE when it was originated was not in harmony with such catastrophe. “Although Prabhakaran was under my spell earlier on, subsequently, he came under so many other forces, inclusive of Anton Balasingham, which took him in the wrong direction; however I always believed, if an appealing solution was brought forth by the government, I could convince Prabha and make him accept the solution and end the war but unfortunately, such a solution never came.”

From the very inception, Arudpragasam stated that he could differentiate between terrorism and liberation warfare. He expressed that Prabhakaran believed in individual killing when he came into the liberation struggle. “We thought we could suppress his terrorist killer inclination. I even wrote a Tamil Novel called Lanka Rani to force him out of this culture. I think we failed,” he articulated.

Arudpragasam left Sri Lanka after his tenure as mediator in the island and entered Cambridge University to pursue Sustainability Development. He now lives in London and is the Director General and Convener of the NGO called Global Sustainability Initiative. His childhood years were spent in Jaffna predominantly but he also schooled at St. Joseph’s Bandarawela. His father was a head teacher and was also a political activist and Arudpragasam recalls growing up in an active political environment as a child. He attended University in Moscow where he read for his Masters degree in Engineering.

Disband LTTE

The Hindu on December 4, 2008 quoted Arudpragasam as having stated that the LTTE should disband itself and transform itself into a democratic force. Daily Mirror asked him if he still held such a view. “Yes,” he responded, “I have repeated this in my latest article ‘Political Realities and Political Solution to the Ethnic Problem in Sri Lanka’.” Arudpragasam had mentioned in his article that the LTTE should either join EROS or the TNA. He had further mentioned that if ever a situation arises when Prabhakaran cannot fight any further, he should inform the same to the Tamil people and disband the Tigers and allow them to join other groups. “But if he feels he can continue, then it is his duty to find the answer to the problem of overwhelming force he is facing.”

While he asserted that he has always been for meaningful devolution in the country, he sketched that transforming the LTTE into a democratic force is a difficult proposition. He believes that as long as Sonia and Congress are there, there will be problem with his leadership. “Tamil people need a leadership that will make India feel comfortable. I think Prabha should disband and retire.”

‘Is the LTTE the sole representative of the Tamil speaking populace?’ – a question, contemplated by many, to which he answered negatively. “In my view, the LTTE has about 20% support among the Tamil people but this can only be tested if LTTE contests the election. The LTTE has unnecessarily gone about imposing this position that it is the sole representative of the Tamil people and in the process of establishing this hegemony it has engaged in all sorts of artificial and fascist exercises and imposed itself to show that the Tamil people are overwhelmingly behind it.”

“It was my decision in the CEL to promote all groups equally. In the original CEL, there were six groups - EROS, EPRLF (Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front), TELO (Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization), PLOTE (People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam), LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) and NLFTE (National Liberation Front of Tamil Eelam). It was in the CEL in 1982, that a decision was taken to seek India’s support to the militant movement but one of the groups, NLFTE, dropped out. It was a Maoist group which did not want to work with India. Then came India’s support and the 83 riots when Tamil people threw their entire lot with the militants. I made sure all five groups grew equally and that all them got India’s support, though individually, all of them sought factional supremacy.”

The result was, according to Arudpragasam, that by 1986 each group managed to consolidate a 20% support, the situation becoming saturated. No one could grow any further and LTTE turned the gun against fellow militant groups and since then, the LTTE wasn’t fighting a war of liberation but a war for factional supremacy and sole representative status. “Its lack of proper orientation is demonstrated in its current debacle. Tamil people are hard nuts. Even today the loyalty of people to various groups at that time has not changed in spite of all the efforts and games of the LTTE.” So, today’s government military victories, according to Arudpragasam, are not the end of the LTTE. “That 20% base support can never be erased.”

M.I.A wishes to tour Sri Lanka

Stating that he hopes to visit his daughter, M.I.A, now that she has delivered her baby, he went on to say that he doesn’t need to encourage her to travel to Sri Lanka. “She is quite interested in coming to Sri Lanka and India but her programmes are bound by long term contracts with record companies.” However, the father is sure she will work out some thing although he also feels that the return of peace may be a condition for her. “If on the other hand, I am going to mediate the conflict and her coming can contribute to peace, then I will make a request.”

thanks daily mirror

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