NORWEGIANS AGAINST TERRORISM EXPOSURES OF NORWEGIAN GOVERNMENT
COLLABORATION WITH TERRORISM TO MASSACRE THIRD WORLD CIVILIANS
http://www.svik.org/ltte.htm
THE CIVILIAN MASACERS CARRIED OUT BY NORWEGEAN BACEKD TAMIL TIGER
TERRORISTS
http://www.spur.asn.au/LTTE_Atrocities_20060615_Kebithigollewa_Massacre.htm
http://www.spur.asn.au/LTTE_Atrocities_20070528_Ratmalana_Bomb.htm
http://www.spur.asn.au/LTTE_atrocities_20060529_Welikanda_Massacre.htm
http://www.spur.asn.au/LTTE_Suicide_Bomb_Blast_20071127_Nugegoda.htm
ETHNIC CLEANSING CARRIED OUT BY NORWEGIAN MINISTER ERIK SOLHEIM'S
TAMIL TERRORIST BOYS
http://www.spur.asn.au/ethnic_cleansing_in_sri_lanka.htm
http://www.spur.asn.au/chronology_of_suicide_bomb_attacks_by_Tamil_Tigers_in=
_sri_Lanka.htm
http://www.spur.asn.au/After_signing_the_so-called_JM.htm
Pro-Tiger media tends to swing erratically from one extreme to
another. When the Tigers are on top they glorify their military
advances. When the Tigers are on the run they swing violently to claim
refuge under human rights with the help, of course, of pro-Tiger NGOs,
media and academia.
Right now they are focusing exclusively on human rights issues,
****traying the Sri Lankan forces as violators of human rights
conducting a genocidal, anti-Tamil war. Desperate for help to halt the
advance of the Security Forces inching their way into Vanni, the pro-
Tiger media are now playing up religious issues, hoping to mobilise
world sympathy. The tears shed by the predominantly Hindu Tigers for
Catholic Madhu Church, weeping about "the spiritual and tem****al
conquests" (Queroz) of their land, is as hilarious as the headline of
the TamilNet: "Lanka ploy of Buddhists for subversive acts in Tamil
Nadu". (7/4/2008).
Underlying this propaganda thrust is the subtle line of equating the
Tamil Tigers with the Tamil community. Any defeat of the Tigers is
projected as a defeat for the Tamils. This propaganda also assumes
that the Tigers are the sole representatives of the Tamils. Neither is
accepted by the frustrated and disillusioned Tamil community, let
alone the world at large. In the early days, when the Tigers were
patronised as "boys" by the Tamil community, this would have been
valid up to a point. But not now when the Tigers are fighting with
their backs to wall.
Despite the brutalities of the Tigers the Tamil community was willing
to go along with the Tigers as long as they showed signs of winning
concessions from the Sri Lankan government. But the fall of the east
and the slow but steady advance into Vanni have wiped out the last
rationale that propped up the Tigers. Except for the decreasing hard
core Tigers, the rest of the Tamil dias****a and independent analysts
can see the writing on the wall. Jane=92s Weekly summed it up neatly
when it said that the Tigers are as good as dead unless they can stage
a decisive military reversal.
The Tigers who were threatening an apocalyptic end if their position
in the north and the east was threatened have gone from toning down
their rhetoric to studied silence. Of course, they hit back with
counter-productive suicide bombers. But this is not going to win them
territory, international sympathy or military successes that can rally
their forces, particularly in the dias****a, to lift their image as a
formidable force that can deliver the promise of the elusive Eelam. So
what is Prabhakaran fighting for?
The battle cry of the Tigers now is not so much to defeat "the Sinhala
government" militarily as to "stop the war" through external pressures
for Prabhakaran to breathe easy. This explains why Vaiko, the hired
Indian agent of Prabhakaran, is running around almost begging on his
knees for foreign intervention to stop the war. He has appealed to the
European Union and to Norway.
Rather late in the day Vaiko, leader of Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra
Kazagam (MDMK), has pleaded with Erik Solheim, the failed peace
negotiator, to revive the Ceasefire Agreement (CFA). This was a
lifeline thrown by Ranil Wickremesinghe, the then (February 22, 2002)
Prime Minister, to save Prabhakaran. But, predictably, Prabhakaran,
assuming an invincibility that he does not posses, undercut the ground
on which he was standing safely by violating 95% of its terms and
conditions. He reached the peak of his power when the international
community, together with Wickremesinghe, handed him the north and the
east on the CFA platter. But his megalomania, intransigence, hatred of
his perceived enemies (both Tamil and Sinhalese) and, above all,
inability to read the political realities, have gone as far as they
could and are now coming home to roost. After wasting all the
op****tunities that came his way to consolidate his position
politically he is now left with no friends to rescue him.
Prabhakaran=92s track record confirms that he can be relied upon to do
only one thing for sure: dig his own grave. No Tamil leader has yet
beaten his unique record of being his own enemy and that of the
Tamils. He has also excelled in piling up and standing on the peak of
the highest mountain of dead bodies of Tamils. It is most unlikely
that any other Tamil rival is likely to surpass his record in the
future. He stands out as the most gruesome and horripilating
undertaker of the Tamil community in Sri Lanka. No wonder The New York
Times and The Hindu (Chennai) have labelled him as the Pol Pot of
Asia.
Going by his own logic and commitment, he has a future only if he can
get his elusive Eelam. But, after three decades of killing and hitting
in all directions to achieve his goal, he is nowhere near his Eelam;
nor has he found any backers internationally, despite the labours of
his dwindling dias****a. So what is he fighting for? Isn=92t he fighting
purely for his own survival and that of his fascist regime armed with
a ruthless killing machine =96 the only political system that can
protect and sustain him? He cannot and will not enter the democratic
stream for fear of exposing him to his Tamil enemies waiting for the
day to get even with him for the crimes he has committed against the
Tamils. Besides, he is not attuned to live in competitive politics
where he has to give equal space to his Tamil rivals. He can survive
precariously only in a fascist dictator****p with him running it as a
one-man show. So what does the future hold for him and the Tamils who
have pinned their hopes on him?
The new spectre haunting him is the international trend rising against
him from unexpected quarters. It was spelt out by Jon Hanssen-Bauer,
Norway=92s Special Envoy for the failed peace process in Sri Lanka, at
the conference organised by the Art of Living Foundation of Indian
spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar held last week on Oslo.
Participants at the conference quoted him as saying: 1) "Norway will
not sup****t the establishment of Eelam", according to Jayalath
Jayawardene, UNP, MP ; (2) "Norway will not be able to help in
negotiations as long as the war rages on," according to Arumugan
Thondaman, a Minister in the present government.
The third point was stated Hanssen-Bauer: No 'externally designed
solution' will end Sri Lanka's dragging ethnic conflict=85.. =91One should
not be tempted to try to impose an externally designed solution to
conflicts but assist the parties in defining a domestic one=85..The
common understanding between the government and the LTTE (Liberation
Tigers of Tamil Eelam) has been that talks are aimed at finding a
political solution that is acceptable to all communities in Sri
Lanka,' Hanssen-Bauer told the two-day conference. (IANS =96 April 13 =96
14, 2008).
Hearing these statements Prabhakaran might as well say: "Et tu Brute!"
These are statements that the Norwegians never uttered before when
they were in the peace process. These statements may end their ever
coming back into the peace process because Prabhakaran is not likely
to take these comments kindly. Leaving the Norwegian stand aside, it
can be asserted that Prabhakaran=92s future hangs essentially on the
role of India, more so because Norway, too, is playing India=92s game
and is depended on India to define Norway=92s role in Sri Lanka. It is
not surprising that Norway is coming out against Eelam because that is
also India=92s position. India doesn=92t want to go along with this
proposition for both domestic and regional interests.
Besides, a new factor has entered the equation with Nepal swinging to
the Maoists. India is deeply worried that the unexpected swing to the
Maoists will upset India=92s interests in the region. India is already
facing a hostile Pakistan and Kashmir in the west and a not-so-
friendly Bangladesh in the east. In the north, India will keep its
fingers crossed despite Prachand, the Maoist leader, saying that he
will keep an equal distance between China and India. From a point of
geo-political strategy, with pressures mounting from east, west and
the north, India has to keep its southern neighbour, Sri Lanka, on its
side. In fact, it can be argued that India will need Sri Lanka more
than Sri Lanka needing India, if things go sour in Nepal.
With Tibet on the boil and with China claiming a huge chunk of India=92s
Arunachal Pradesh in the east =96 reviving memories of the Indo-China
war over the McMahon line =96 unfolding events may be put on hold by
China till the Beijing Olympics are over by September. It is also on
the cards that both China and India will be vying for an influential
place in Nepal. The pressures are bound to mount after the Olympics.
The emerging regional politics will not favour Prabhakaran, who has
been accused by the Indian media of helping the Maoists with training
and equipment. Maoists, too, have admitted getting help from the
Tigers. It is unlikely that the Maoists will reciprocate in kind. But
if they do, overtly or covertly, it will add to India=92s woes. Sri
Lankan diplomacy, too, will have to be activated more vigorously in
Khatmandu and in Beijing =96 a centre that will have increasing
influence over the Maoists.
So where does all this leave Prabhakaran? He is hemmed in from all
sides with no escape route. As things stand, he must be the only one
who is forced to reject the common belief that there is a silver
lining in dark clouds.
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