ISGA – Isit a blanket license to kill ? The government majority party of SLFP and the opposition UNF are very keen to have a negotiated settlement with the LTTE under the framework of the proposed Interim Self Governing Authority (ISGA) put forward by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
Past misgivings of the leaders of SLFP regarding the ISGA during the last election period are now history.
Let the voters decide in a future election how truthful they were when they forcefully opposed that proposal during February through April 2004 election period.
Citizens of the sovereign nation of Sri Lanka should remember what the LTTE has done since signing the interim peace agreement nearly two years ago. They have systematically eliminated most of the Tamil leaders who did not openly support them.
The police and government agencies supposedly taking care of crime prevention did nothing to find the killers and bring them to justice. So it stands to reason that UNF and SLFP leadership are eager to appease the Tigers by accepting the ISGA proposal for a self serving reasons. They want to enjoy the rest of their political lives unharmed.
While fearing for your life is a horrible position to be in, making political decisions based on fear will have ramifications that impact generations of lives. Appeasing LTTE by accepting ISGA is a shortsighted tactic, and one that will backfire.
Our so called national ‘Bada Perata’ politicians lack the vision to understand how the LTTE will act if they were given the self governing capability of North and East of our small island.
If the LTTE can now control the North and East without having any of these powers, what can we expect if they were officially given full legitimacy to run that area?
They will continue to eliminate all their opponents in the North and East. We are mistaken if we expect the terror tactics to stop there. Our ‘Bada Perata’ politicians in the south are foolish to think that their cooperation will secure their immunity from the lethal and legitimized LTTE they are about to create. Agreeing to ISGA is effectively handing LTTE a LICENSE TO KILL.
Abayatilaka Samaranayake 821 N Wilcox Avenue Montebello,
CA 90640 USA
