Those parties, who made use of the Provincial Council system for 25 years, are now up in arms at the thought of Tamils in the Northern Province having an elected council of their own, for the first time since Vartharajah was deposed by the President Premadasa.

These parties used these councils to do services to their followers and to build up their leaders. Some of these may not exist today if not for the devolution of power.

PC system helped them to enjoy power in the respective areas but they want to deprive the NPC of rights, the other PCs enjoyed for a quarter century.

Obviously they do not want Tamils and Muslims to share power and they believe only Sinhala nationality has the right of autonomy or self rule. In effect they assume other communities should be under the power of Sinhala.

They stick to this idea though they cannot spell out a single logical argument for this line of thinking. Obviously this is not a coherent idea but a feeling attached to a territory or habitat. Such feelings are shared by all males in a primitive tribe in the ancient times.

Males were supposed to protect the habitat, sacrificing ones life if necessary. Patriarchal power arose from this sacrificial feeling for a territory.

In modern times with the arising of national states, even the bourgeoisie mobilized national feelings to establish national states and to sweep out old feudal or ancient bondages. These feelings were considered positive as long as the community is fighting against oppression or colonialism.

In that sense one could understand the national feelings of all communities in Lanka. During early agitations for independence, nationalists of all communities of Lanka, got together to challenge the British rule.

However if the majority mobilizes such feelings to enslave smaller nationalities then it becomes a serious problem. We know what happened to the Germans before the Second World War. At the turn of the century the Germans were boasting about their cultural superiority and philosophical achievements.

Even Hegel thought that the German state will become the example for the final stage of man kind; thus creating the end of history. However subsequent German nationalism created unbelievable misery and cruelty, and almost destroyed the mankind.

Sinhala nationalism and chauvinist campaigns today could extinct in the end the Theravada Buddhism claimed to be a treasure protected by the Sinhala. Buddhism explains the fundamental nature of reality with the rules of impermanence and negation. Also it explains human alienation with the working of thrushna or desire. As it is, these Sinhala racists are under the spell of worse deployment of thrushna and they are blind to the menace they have already created.

On the other hand, while backing this entire political development, Mahinda regime is continuing, guided by global powers in his march for economic development. Lanka’s current economic growth rate of around 8.3 percent would rank the country among the top four performing economies in the world, said Minister of Economic Development Basil Rajapaksa recently; and further said that an IMF study had predicted that Lanka would remain as the second best performing economy in the world next year, after China!

He also disclosed that the country is very serious in perusing Nano technology and scientists at the Biyagama zone have invented a fertilizer that could bring far reaching results. “We are currently in the process of obtaining a global patent for this product and several other similar global patents are on the way,” he said, “The people in the North and East do not need police or land powers but land to cultivate their crops and protection from terrorism, abductions and the demand for ransom. The government will not hesitate to protect the people in the two provinces and provide them with land for cultivation,” he said and added that the peace dividend is mainly enjoyed by people in the North and East with the Vanni becoming the highest developed district with the fastest poverty reduction rate after Colombo and Gampaha.

Thus we see that Mahinda regime is embedded in the structural development dictated by the foreign donors. Regime is infested with agents of global capitalist powers and they all are committed to the complex socio-economic matrix growing with their efforts.

This Matrix is growing in all directions inspite of massive waste and corruption and it has only contempt for law and justice. Government ministers say that they are unable to control what they classify as MAFIA groups. These mafia groups are part of the ruling Matrix. Not only they are unable to understand the sufferings of oppressed communities but also the destruction brought by them to peasants, fishers and other plebeians through out the country.

Also, changes and destructions made by them have affected environment badly including elephants, birds and cattle. This new global oppression is not understood by the Sinhala chauvinists who are blinded by racism; because the Matrix is always carrying a Lion flag and operates under the Sinhala sign!

Vickramabahu