Originally Posted by Kenni
May 21, 2009
If V Prabhakaran was wrong, Mahatma Gandhi was wrong too!
Death of the LTTE founder and leader V Prabhakaran was good news for many and bad news for few. It is good news for people who are ignorant about the past and who have limited vision about the future. Prabhakaran was of course born in Tamil Nadu, and a lot of Tamils had migrated to Sri Lanka, but then NOT all Tamils were migrants. There isn’t any history that all Tamils who lived and existed in Sri Lanka were from Tamil Nadu. In fact there isn’t any history about who are the natives of Sri Lanka – the Tamils or the Sinhalese. The truth is - they always existed together. Hence the language or the dialect the Sri Lankan Tamils use is different and far more superiors than Tamil spoken in Tamil Nadu.
I went through few forums on the Internet and spoke to few people, and most of them had similar views. “One who migrates to another country should not ask for separate nation.”Point taken. But who said – Tamils in Sri Lanka belonged to another country on the first place? Just because Sri Lanka is 13 kms away from Tamil Nadu, doesn’t mean all the Tamils living there swam to Sri Lanka.
Most believed that – the minority should go by what the majority says. And the natives have all the rights to form rules to which the minority should abide. Then why the hell did Mahatma Gandhi refuse to carry identity cards in South Africa? And also Mahatma Gandhi should have kept his mouth shut when he was thrown out of the 1st class compartment saying he was a coolie. And there surely is history that Indians were transported to South Africa predominantly to do the work of coolie. In the given scenario Gandhi had no rights to instigate unrest in a foreign land – which incidentally made him famous, a leader and father of the nation!
Another argument – LTTE was violent, and violence doesn’t win wars. I really wish Lord Krishna had gone on a hunger strike to win over Kauravas. And I really wish Lord Rama had gone on a hunger strike too to get Sita back from Ravana. If the world believes in non-violence, then was Saddam Hussein hanged? He should have sent to some psychologists or a rehabilitation center.
Most people usually confuse between non-violence and tolerance. Gandhi was not tolerant. He was violent and he was always ready to fight - the weapon he used was ‘non-violence.’ He didn’t choose non-violence out of choice though. In fact there weren’t any other choice left. If India was good at ammunition, and India was good at technology may be Gandhi would have used violence to get rid of Britishers. And if Gandhi really thought that non-violence is the only thing that can win wars, then he should have not agreed to send Indian military force to support the Britishers to fight against the Nazis.
If we agree that only natives should have the stronghold, and that natives alone have all the rights to dictate terms and suppress the minority, then Martin Luther King had no business to fight for the blacks in America. History says that the Africans were transported to America as slaves. They should have not complained about separate beaches for black, separate compartment in trains, and separate divisions in buses.
In India too – Dravidians are the native people historically. In this case Aryans should be the suppressed ones. Which is not the case today.
I was pondering about the main differences between Human beings and animals. It isn’t about the 5th sense of the 6th. It is about ‘truth’, ‘justice’ and ‘equality’. These three important factors do not exist in animal kingdom. And whenever injustice is forced upon fellow beings on the basis of caste, community, religion, and race – a new leader is born to fight injustice.
The Germans were screwed in the 1st world war and Hitler was born. The Tamils were suppressed in SL and Prabhakaran was born. People die, but truth doesn’t. Truth has to prevail for the human race to survive, so people will be born in different forms to fight - for life is eternal.
When my daughter asked me, why did the terrorists attack Hotel Taj? I didn’t tell her they are cranky. Or their religion is misinterpreted. Or they are Jehadis. I just said BJP, the political party who claim to be the representative of Hindus in India, brought down Babri Masjid based on a fictitious character. These attacks are just retaliation because not all think non-violence is the only way to win wars.
If we walk the talk, then those NRIs living in the US should stop carrying and celebrating Indian independence in foreign land for similar reason that we would never want Pakistanis to jam the roads on August 14th.
Posted by Kenni at May 21, 2009 07:46 AM
