Sinhala Nationalists, Are You Ready to Lose The War?

Whenever I talk about ending the war in Sri Lanka, always prefer to use the word IF. We grow up with the war, it was shadowing our life every single movement, and it would be very odd for us when the war is over.

When war started I was a tiny kid, and been a kid I absolutely had no concept what war is, until I heard the news of Star-toffee factory is on fire one day. I liked Star-toffees, Red once. When you are a child, you don’t ask long questions from your parents. So I asked my father, “Why?”. I guess he didn’t knew how to answer that question. So he simply said, that was a Tamil business.

They looted and destroy every Tamil business possible. We use the word “they”, when we are not absolute about who “they” are. But I suspect “they” are some sort of disgusting thieves who call them Sinhalese according to the opportunity. Reason I don’t say they are just Sinhalese, because I saw the same sort of people doing same sort of utterly discussing things in the time of Tsunami too regardless of race, without any regard to human decency. Regardless, I don’t hesitate to leave the blame to Sinhalese as a group, since it was Sinhalese nationalism that introduced to the country by the first closeted Tamil president in Sri Lanka, who went by the adopted family name Bandaranayke, provided political meaning to all of that. At least I wish we Sinhalese were capable of catch the leader of those disgusting group of people and 700 those disgusting souls, shave one half of their heads and exile them, so they can float away to some island and start their own country by cheating on the woman who help them. But we didn’t bother to do anything that sort. Instead capable Tamil people left Sri Lanka to develop other countries, like Singapore, while others migrate to north by thousands, to develop the world most organized and well oiled terrorist organization.

I know every Sinhalese are not racist or every Tamil. I’m not talking about those good people in this post. I’m talking about the group of people who misleadingly call themselves Sinhala Nationalists or Tamil Nationalist or “any other tribal name” + Nationalists. Let me make it clear, all of them are racists. There can’t be such a thing call Sinhala nationalism nor Tamil nationalism because neither of them are nations. There is only one nation and it goes by the name of Sri Lanka.

So far in this racist game, Sinhala nationalist are winning like Jayasuriya & Kalu pair in 90s. They achieved this mainly by destroying Tamil business every possible way. When group of people depend on each other’s supply-and-demand to run their business, their differences become secondary. Trading is what keeps capitalistic society connected together. Not only setting fire to Tamil businesses, they achieved this by making commercial capital utterly difficult to Tamil people. Destruction of Tamil business did not make Sinhala business any better or successful, if not worst. All it did was, kept Tamil people out of mainstream success. I can’t pass all the credit to Sinhala nationalist alone for their success. They could not do that without tremendous support they received from LTTE again and again. They provided enough fuel for Sinhala racist to run while they themselves kept Tamil people suppressed and unsuccessful.

When the war is over, we have to open up the commercial capital to all Tamil people, who are very hard working and capable people. Tamils are the people who fought with Sri Lankan army for more than a decade and assembled their own airplanes and own ships, while Sinhalese tried to do exactly the same thing two times without what so ever success and could not assemble anything more than a “gal katas”. I’m not praising LTTE’s distraction power or barbarism, I’m just pointing out Tamil people are capable and when put the mind in to productive things too, they should be able to do wonders. When the war is over, when LTTE lost its military power, Tamil people will not go in to a dark corner and fade away.

My commonsense tell me they will be very successful once again, even more than before the war. And I wholeheartedly wish that. Even it may possible for them to have the backup of the same finical machine that funds the world most profitable terrorist organization, but for development of Tamil people this time. Growth of Tamil business will help all the business, big or small, Sinhalese or Muslims. But that will indeed create new problems to Sinhalese Nationalists, by making Tamils + Muslims business becoming proportionally larger than Sinhalese business, in this capitalistic society, if it is not already so. Most importantly, it will make Sinhalese business tied with Tamil business in a trading web, making it difficult to Sinhalese to live without Tamils in long run. Economical success always comes with political power and cultural significance and other things. Minority political parties already have significant political power, and that will increase further more.

As you see, end of the war cannot be a good thing for Sinhala nationalists. They will lose everything they build so far and they wished. And most impotently they will lose the platform they are working on – war and separation of north and south. America won the Cold War, just like how Sri Lanka going to win the war against LTTE. But that made countries like Russia, India and China opening up their economy to the world and rise higher and stronger than America, beating America in its own game. Colombo elite who ran the country for so many years, won the southern rebellion, but by doing so, they lost their power to southerners. Same thing will happen, exactly the same way, with this war too. Tamil people will achieve larger share of democratic power and success, and north will rise again. North will rise higher than ever before.

Sinhalese nationalists, get ready to lose.