Erik Solheim Desparate White Tiger Trying To Save Terrrist Killers

Erik Solheim, the Tiger-friendly Norwegian who has operated in this
country under the guise of peace-facilitator has arrived in Colombo.
The so-called Norwegian effort at seeking peace on the highly explosive
ethnic crisis has been a monumental failure in respect of the ideal
that was widely propagated.

In reality it has become clear that Norway only helped to preserve the
LTTE, a terrorist outfit and even give it all the time and lattitude to
equip itself as a powerful military oarganization.

The Government of Sri Lanka has a responsibility to maintain Law and
Order and the LTTE has been able to install a reign of terror
especially in the Northern and Eastern Provinces. The LTTE is a Gang of
Criminals and certainly not freedom fighters. Helped by Norway and the
Sri Lankan Government that probably still thinks the European is next
to God, the LTTE has been allowed to grow into a monstrous force of
evil.

"Sudhadoration" is a peculiar failing of the Sri Lankans, an insult to
our dignity and honour. One of Sri Lanka's finest writers Tarzie
Vittachi called it the "Subservient adoration of the White Sahib", and
anyone white is a sahib who should be salaamed servilely.

The LTTE has exploited the ethnic issue to advantage but it must be
understood that this terrorist outfit and Tamils are two different
issues. If the rights of the Tamils are to be enshrined, the LTTE
should be dealt with as a Law and Order problem. Any kind of settlement
with the LTTE will only trap the Tamils into the claws of the Tigers
who only want a mafia state.

It is time for Norway to bow out of Sri Lankan affairs. They have not
served the interests of Sri Lanka and especially that of the Tamils. A
good point, though a minute one, illustrates the whole tragedy. When
2nd-Grade educated Su Pa Thamilselvan returned from Oslo in his bags
were equipment of war and violence and he was allowed to bring them
into the country.

Waiting for his arrival at Katunayake were representives from the
Norwegian mission in Colombo. Here is a guy, a member of a criminal
gang who should be arraigned before the International Court in The
Hague for crimes against humanity and yet he is afforded diplomatic
honours on arrival on Sri Lankan soil.

Now that Erik Solheim is here one wonders whether his baggage was
checked on arrival. He possibly could have brought some war-related
equipment to be handed over to the LTTE. This observation should not be
taken as meaning to insult a visitor to the country but expressed in
concern about a visitor who obviously favours the preservation and
promotion of a terror organization.

Solheim and the likes of him must appreciate, understand and accept
that the Tamil question cannot be solved by talking to the Tigers, even
worse, trying to preserve them.

Incidentally, on the Allaipiddy issue, talking to the Rev Father
Anthony Amalraj is not going to help to have a fair idea of the tragedy
that occurred there. Worse, to have him preside at a conference to
understand the problem. This would be like talking to the fox about
what happened to the chicken house one night.

He was certainly a party to many families leaving Allaipiddy, an
exercise the LTTE wanted so badly. The Tigers want human shields in
Wanni. If 60 buses were found to transport, there must have been quite
a lot of work that had gone into planning such an exodus. And the
Catholic Church has identified itself with Tiger interests in the North
and East very much.