ORDERS have been issued by Sri Lanka president Mahinda Rajapaksa and by his sibling Basil Rajapaksa to colonial governor Maj-Gen Chandrasri for immediate and full-swing replacement of Tamil civil service in the north.
The act may superficially look as a revenge for the defeat in the civic elections, but it is actually aimed to make any political solution that will be ‘accounted’ to the outside world completely meaningless to Eezham Tamils.
It is actually part of a long-contemplated agenda of structural genocide, political observers said.
Meanwhile, knowing what is happening and what will happen in demography, political representation, civil administration, militarisation and in all other respects, why should the TNA commit to seek solutions under a ‘united Sri Lanka’ just because the powers that abetted the genocide want it, ask non TNA Tamil nationalists.
Despite the presence of a gang of SL ministers, Tamil civil servants in the north didn’t cooperate with Rajapaksa in getting him victory in the civic elections, is what is now said in the south.
Why should Rajapaksa regime accuse them when Tamils have not voted for Rajapaksa, the civil servants ask.
Targeted Tamil civil servants in the north are either going to be removed or transferred, news sources in the north said.
Currently, 60 per cent of the civil servants between 60 and 65 years old in the north are retired, and re-nominated Tamil officers. They have been now ordered to go home before August 15.
Provincial Director of Education, Mr S Vikneswaran has been ordered over the phone to go on compulsory leave.
Many more Tamil officials are expected to get transfer orders soon. Those Tamil officials currently in Jaffna will be transferred to unimportant positions
The vacant posts are going to be filled by Sinhala trainee civil servants currently in Jaffna. 140 of them were sent to Jaffna last month.
The Health Department in the north is going to be the first to get completely Sinhalicised, news sources further said.
Decisions have been taken to fill all vacant posts by Sinhala civil servants. Recently in a meeting held in the provincial secretariat in Jaffna, a former JVP parliamentarian publicly stated that Colombo has plans to Sinhalicise the civil service in the north by those who are currently under ‘training’ in Jaffna.
As Tamils have not been recruited to the SL civil service for the past several years, occupying Sri Lanka will have excuses.
Sinhalicisation of civil service is considered by Colombo as a prerequisite to go ahead with Sinhala colonisation of the north to attract Sinhalese to colonise the north and to provide services to them.
During the civic elections, visiting Rajapaksa in a meeting at Koappaay, asked the Sinhala civil servants under ‘training’ in Jaffna to support the government in the elections.
After this, the TNA protested to the inclusion of the trainees in any key election work. They were later deployed only in presiding over counting.
Meanwhile, SL minister Rishad Bathiudeen is impressing upon Colombo to bring in Muslim civil servants to the north. Already a Muslim civil servant has been sent to look after the interests of 40 Muslim schools in the north.
Divisional Secretary of Jaffna Division, Mrs Theyvendrum is under continued intimidation by Rishad Bathiudeen, who accuses her of not doing enough for the resettled Muslims.
The Tamil civil service community in the country of Eezham Tamils, which has already dwindled in number, is currently under serious intimidation and uncertainty over its future, while Colombo is allowed to proceed in its genocidal ways.
In fact, there is nothing much wrong with Colombo. The State in Sri Lanka has given enough forewarning and is giving enough forewarning of what it intends to do in a ‘united Sri Lanka’.
Colombo makes it very clear that any political solution it will be cooking within a ‘united Sri Lanka’ to show to the outside world would be a day-to-day torture to Eezham Tamils living with a paranoid state.
There won’t be any security service of civil service to listen to the political representation elected by Eezham Tamils. For every small thing, Eezham Tamils have to spend their energy in fighting.
In collaboration with ‘State’ in Sri Lanka, New Delhi, Washington and some international crisis, managers may fail to see the point or pretend not seeing the point.
But isn’t it an irony for the TNA wailing to the diaspora about what Colombo is doing in the island, to then still seek suicidal political solution within a ‘united Sri Lanka’ and discourage the free diaspora and people in Tamil Nadu righteously demanding independence for Eezham Tamils, ask Tamil activists inside and outside of the TNA in the island, who care for self-respect of human life.
l Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa is scheduled to make another official visit to China in the second week of August, Colombo media reports.
Rajapaksa’s last visit to China was in November 2010 as a special guest to attend the Expo 2010 Exhibition in Shanghai.
Since 2007, Mahinda Rajapaksa had visited China thrice and the oncoming visit would be his fourth, Colombo media reported quoting foreign ministry sources.
China is involved in several ‘development’ projects in Sri Lanka.
• The European Union (EU) Council, comprising the heads of state of the 27 EU member states, along with the President of the European Commission and the President of the European Council, has decided to further extend the proscription of the Liberation Tigers (LTTE) from September.
Meanwhile, the same EU Council is mandated by EU law to respond in writing to the case (T-208/11-9) filed by Amsterdam-based Bohler Advocaten attorney, Victor Koppe, on behalf of the Liberation Tigers at the Luxembourg-based European Court of Justice before the third week of September, legal sources close to the EU case said.
‘The extension of proscription is anticipated and is not a surprise. The EU Council would have repeated the same reasons that it would have advanced pre-2009 May, when the LTTE was actively engaged in a war with Sri Lanka military,’ legal sources working with Tamils Against Genocide (TAG), a US-based activist group said, adding: ‘however, the real test is when the Court analyses EU Council’s argument against Victor Koppe’s, to make a determination if the judicial basis to the listing of the group is still valid.’
