The Charge is
Genocide - the Struggle is for Freedom traces the facts
relating to the genocidal
onslaught on the people of Tamil Eelam by successive Sinhala
Sri Lanka governments during the past fifty years, and raises
the question: Why did these genocidal attacks happen and why do
they continue to happen?
The author argues that ethnic cleansing
is about assimilating a people and that the preferred route of a
conqueror is to achieve his objective without resort to violence
- peacefully and stealthily. But
when
that is resisted, albeit peacefully, the would be conqueror
turns to murderous violence and genocide to progress his
assimilative agenda. He concludes that in the island of Sri
Lanka, the record shows that during the past fifty years and
more, the intent and goal of all Sinhala governments (without
exception) has been to secure the island as a Sinhala Buddhist Deepa.
Sinhala Buddhist 'ethno nationalism' masquerading as a 'civic'
Sri Lankan nation is the genocidal side of democracy.
The central theme of the book is that the conflict in the
island of Sri Lanka is not simply about the systematic
violations of human rights of the Tamil people, or about
violations of the humanitarian law of armed conflict or the
violations of the ceasefire agreement - or for that matter
genocide. The conflict in the island is about the refusal of the
people of Tamil Eelam to submit to alien Sinhala rule.
The author contends that in the ultimate analysis, the
struggle of the people of Tamil Eelam for freedom is about
democracy and that if democracy means the rule of the people, by
the people, for the people then it must follow, as night follows
day, that no one people may rule another.
The author emphasises the need for the international
community (the trilaterals - USA, European Union and Japan -
together with India and China) to engage with the people of
Tamil Eelam, in an honest and open dialogue as to the
strategic interests that each of the IC members themselves seek
to secure in the island of Sri Lanka - and, indeed, whether
each seek to prevent a resolution of the conflict except on
terms which secure each of their own (conflicting) strategic
interests in the uneasy balance of power which prevails in the
Indian Ocean region today. He calls upon the international
community to seek liberation from the political rhetoric of
terrorism and to support the liberation of peoples.
