Justice Vigneswaran, the next National-threat? The Rajapaksas - TopicsExpress



          

Justice Vigneswaran, the next National-threat? The Rajapaksas habitually transform any impediment to their familial project into a national threat. The TNA’s decision to nominate a man of learning, experience and courage as its Chief Ministerial-candidate would have dismayed and even frightened the Rajapaksas. The last thing the Siblings would want is a man of Justice Wigneswaran’s calibre becoming the Northern CM. Justice Vigneswaran has asked for the restoration of civilian rule in the North and the East. That perfectly reasonable and completely democratic demand constitutes the antithesis of what the Rajapaksas intend for the two provinces in which the minorities form the majority. The Rajapaksa plan is to demographically transform the North and the East by implanting military families (such state-orchestrated colonisation is totally different from the free movement of private citizens). Once the cantonments are complete and military families become residents and voters, they can be used as a break on any future political re-awakening in the North. The colonists will be intrinsically opposed to devolution and would need the protection of the military to feel safe in an alien territory. The argument of ‘democracy’ can thus be used to oppose both devolution and de-militarization. A Chief Minister Vigneswaran can be a real impediment to this Israeli type Settlement Plan. So the Siblings will target Justice Vigneswaran. The first salvo has already been fired. SM Chandrasiri, Deputy Minister of Economic Development, has demanded that President review all the judgements given by Justices Vigneswaran and Waravewa7. Justice Vigneswaran, spoke in defence of democracy and judicial independence during the Impeachment travesty. He has the potential to become a Lankan leader, not by ignoring or denying the specific issues facing Tamils, but by affirming them and placing them within a national project of reclaiming democracy, rule of law and common decency. A nonpareil candidate, one who can be a bridge between the North and the South: that would be a Rajapaksa nightmare. Which is why Justice Vigneswaran might replace the ‘Flying Fish’ as the ‘next-national threat’.
Posted on: Sat, 03 Aug 2013 23:47:58 +0000

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