Chase the
Norwegians! Bring in their Constitution.
(English Translation - Divaina, 27 Feb 2000)
By Dr Susantha
Goonatilake
The report into Kumar Rupesinghe's International Alert by a
Norwegian Institute termed the type of "conflict
resolution" Norway is doing now "a new form of
imperialism." And, as Norway interferes, let us first learn
about our new imperialist.
The Constitution of Norway says that the
"Evangelical-Lutheran religion" is its "official
religion" and that "inhabitants professing it are bound
to bring up their children in the same". The Executive Power
is vested in the King, who must be a member of the official
religion and must "uphold and protect the same". The
King's Council itself should have a majority of this sect. Senior
state officials must speak Norwegian; and an international body
can exercise on internal affairs on the country only with a prior
"three-fourths majority" of parliament, but will
"not" have the "power to alter the
Constitution".
If that were Norwegian state theory, let us see her practices.
Norway put the Nazis' theory of selective breeding into practice,
and like the Nazis sterilized people as racial policy, these
experiments continuing up to 1994. These racist ideas gave rise
to Quisling, the Norwegian leader under the Nazis. Even now,
minority Lapps - Samis - suffer. Skulls robbed from their graves
were used to show Samis as inferior. Young Sami children are
encouraged to ignore their heritage and until very recently, were
forbidden to learn their language at school. The use of the Sami
language in the Church is banned. This year the Norwegian
government ordered arbitrary reductions, up to 10% of reindeer
herds - the livelihood of the Samis.
Let us now translate this Norwegian theory and practice to Sri
Lanka.
Unlike today, Buddhism would be the State religion (now given
only "foremost position"); there will be a ban on
conversions; Chandrika Kumaratunga will be barred from baptizing
her children; state officials must speak Sinhalese; foreign
"mediation" will only be allowed after three-fourths of
the parliament's approval; and will not be allowed for any
discussion to alter the Constitution; Tamil children will not be
allowed to pray in Tamil; and cultivation in Jaffna would be
reduced this year by 10%.
It is with policies like this that this colonialist steps into
our country.
Their present interference was preceded by a prior propaganda
assault- PsyOps. Carefully selected, university teachers were
paid several times their salary by Norway to brainwash our youth.
And those NGO employees who demonstrate against defeating the
Tigers have links to Norwegian money.
The colonialist National Peace Council (NPC) is in the trenches
with the new imperialists. Its chief organizer Ajit Rupasinghe,
Kumar's brother marches with the LTTE in Geneva. When the troops
were about to take Jaffna, Kumar Rupasinghe, a key backer of the
NPC called on the army to stop. The NPC has propagated in foreign
countries the traditional homelands hoax, at times calling for
dismantling existing settlements. It's Media Director - read
chief propagandist- Jehan Perera, at the time of the Indian
incursion threatened Sri Lanka with dire consequences. He has
several times questioned the need for our sovereignty and has
called for a "shared sovereignty" and for "two
near-states". Recently, his organization produced a
completely unscientific survey - I saw the questionnaire - that
falsely showed that the country wanted negotiations with the
Tigers. They continuously brain wash the Sri Lankan public to
accept a loss of sovereignty. The Norwegians would never allow
any of this in their own country. In December, Jehan Perera was
at a seminar organized by the German Cultural Institute on Sri
Lankan history where many of his mistruths were implicitly under
question. He did not say a single word.
Clear links between foreign funded so-called "Peace
Groups" and Tigers and Tiger fronts are easy to establish.
This is not the first time we have been subject to Norwegian lies
and interference. The then NORAD representative Arne Piertoff -
who later formed Worldview Foundation - said in a Norwegian
newspaper that in Sri Lanka three names were well regarded, the
Buddha, Marx and himself. Thor Heyerdhal propagated the lie that
the Buddha statues found in the Maldives - the heritage of the
Sinhalese connection - were statues from the Easter Islands. And
I had credible reports that their embassy or NORAD office in
Delhi hid leaders of the Vikalpa group who were then waging their
own war on behalf of Tamil separatism.
On the other hand, our ambassadors to Norway and Scandinavia have
been "colorful" personalities. We had NevilleJayaweera
who according to the BBC Listener had seen visions in the night;
a condition I would have thought requires urgent psychiatric
treatment. Instead he became head of a Christian propaganda unit
in London and later our ambassador for Scandinavia. We had Lal
Jayawardene in WIDER, Helsinki who left under a deeply tarnished
image, after sponsoring that book of partial fiction Buddhism
Betrayed of Tambiah and whose wife Kumari Jayawardene was
organizing a seminar at WIDER on alleged Sinhala chauvinism.
(Source WIDER).
Our government (and opposition) is not like the sophisticated
leaders of the Israelis and the Palestinians. In the last
negotiations, they allowed the Tiger flag of the Cholas to fly
side by side with the national flag. (Norwegians treat their
national flag very properly). And when one of Chandrika's
negotiating cronies was asked by the BBC of the problems at
Elephant Pass, he said that it was no problem, because his
"approach was scientific". And the negotiators at the
last meeting with the LTTE were Uyangoda who is on written record
justifying separatism and Charles Abeysekera whose NGO empires
endorsed the fiction of traditional homelands. With negotiators
like this, we do not require Tigers as enemies.
From the beginning of the separatist war, Tamil migrants in
Norway have pre brainwashed the Norwegians. Their University,
Tromso already recognizes Eelam in their research grants. And,
according to Tamil Net, which earlier leaked the Tiger agreement
with Ranil; under Norwegian plans, ethnically cleansed land in
the North will be left in Tigers' hand. Norwegians limit the
Sami's use of their land but accept the completely fictional
Tamil homelands.
After the Indian "Accord", the American Ambassador to
Sri Lanka, James Spain said the Americans "still blame the
Japanese, but ironically in Sri Lanka, the people do not blame
India" And last week, a South Indian politician Subramaniam
Swamy, aghast at our neo colonialism called for a halt to
Norwegian interference.
Before coming here, the Norwegian Foreign Minister shook the
blood stained hand of Balasingham of the LTTE, who is guilty of
two easily provable crimes against humanity. They are the ethnic
cleansing of Jaffna and the killing of the 600 policemen who
surrendered to them, as well as of all the armed personnel at
Mullativu. Instead of suing the Tigers like the Chilean dictator
Pinochet, they now collaborate with it, putting on the Quisling
mantle once again.
The Norwegian embassy should now make public, all those who got
their money for ethnic "conflict resolution". They
should announce whether - as being talked about - Norwegians are
about to finance a new information technology facility for Kumar
Rupasinghe. And, Foreign Ministry officials should also declare
whether any NGO, they or their family is involved in, has
received any Norwegian aid. This is a standard requirement in
other countries to prevent possible conflicts of interest.
LTTE is again signaling with their rain of bombs. The
"peace" employees are silent, because their paymasters
have not given the order to protest. Truth and justice must now
send its own signals. When Tiger bombs next rain on Chandrika or
Ranil, we should have no sympathy. Security forces should ponder
deeply when their camps are next overrun by the LTTE -
aninevitable outcome of Norwegian interference.
And they should remember that the absence from the Independence
celebrations - unheard of in any other country- of both their
Commander in Chief Chandrika, and her next politician in command
Sirima, was not a dereliction of duty. They possibly were
thinking of strategies to deal with the new enemy, Norway.