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While the spark that ignited the violence was confined to the so-called "Tamil problem", a long-festering thorn in the Government's side, opposition to the UNP Government has been steadily snowballing in the wake of Jayawardene's efforts to aim himself with extra-constitutional powers in order to muzzle the powerful labour unions and bring the Tamil problem under control.</i><br><br><i>Despite the widespread feeling that he is currently riding an unpredictable tiger, Jayawardene was surprisingly relaxed and cheerful when he met </i>India Today's<i> Senior Editor,</i>Venkat Narayan<i>for an hour-long exclusive interview last week in his elegant official residence in Colombo. Dressed in his traditional spotless white cotton sarong and shirt, Jayawardene spoke frankly and at length on the factors and forces responsible for the current instability in Sri Lanka. Excerpts:</i><br><br><b>Q. Your Excellency the recent arson and looting in Ratnapura and other areas where plantation workers of Indian origin live has caused much damage to their lives and properties. What steps are you taking to instil confidence in the affected people?<br>A. </b>These disturbances arose as a result of the murder of over 20 police officials in Jaffna district. They were largely Sinhalese and some Tamils. This is the work of those whom we call terrorists. These terrorists have long been associated with the activities of the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF).<br><br>Some of them are members of the TULF. I personally do not think that the TULF  leadership has anything to do with them now. But it takes a long time to erase the original idea from the minds of the public. The TULF, though they may not be associated with the terrorists, doesn't condemn or oppose these murderous activities in Parliament and in their utterances.<br><br>If the TULF people openly say that they are against terrorism, and associate themselves with the Government in nabbing the terrorists, this feeling of insecurity in the minds of the non-Jaffna people, people living south of Jaffna, will disappear.<br><br>They will then believe that though the TULF is asking for separation, they will resort to only constitutional means and not to violence; Because there's this anti-TULF feeling and the TULF is associated with Tamil people - good and bad - certain elements.<br><br>May be criminals, maybe politicians, use that existing anti-Tamil feeling to create tension. We are doing our best to control the situation. Those who need our special protection are those in the plantations - citizens, non-citizens or the stateless. They are the most harmless people.<br><br>They are members of unions which are supporting our government. That's why I cannot understand why anybody supporting the Government should try to harm people who are themselves supporting the Government. I think there is some anti-government movement behind this.<br><br><b>Q. This has caused anxiety in India where there was a heated discussion in Parliament last week.<br>A.</b>I can understand the anxiety of India, but that anxiety should be for people wherever they attacked, not only in Sri Lanka. Just as much as we are anxious when people in India are subjected to communal violence, whether they be Muslims, Buddhists, But I feel the Indian Government should not show undue anxiety.<br><br>In Sri Lanka it can be misunderstood. We do not like interference in our affairs and I feel our government is liberal, democratic and as humane as the Indian Government or any government in the world. There's nothing they can teach us or anybody can teach us about how to govern a country.<br><br><b>Q. There has been some talk about the involvement of a foreign hand by some of your ministers. Do you believe that too?<br>A.</b>I can't say I believe or don't believe it. Terrorism is always international. We are investigating it.<br><b><br>Q. You don't suspect the Indians by any chance?<br>A.</b>I am not suspecting anybody, least of all the Indians.<br><br><b>Q. During the past week I have travelled in the affected areas and spoke with the people, Sinhalese as well as plantation workers. Some statements made by some of your ministers in Parliament appear to have contributed a great deal to the building up of tension in the affected areas. Do you approve of the racial tone of such statements by your ministers?<br>A.</b>Maybe they could have contributed but much less than what the TULF has contributed. The TULF people began it all by making provocative statements. If there wasn't that debate where a lot of steam was let off, it is possible the Sinhalese might have erupted more. They were saying: What is the Government doing? What are the MPs doing?<br><br><b>Q. One gets the impression that the 'Ceylon' Tamils as well as those of Indian origin suffer from a tremendous sense of insecurity. This is why they are agitated and are talking about a separate state.<br>A.</b>They have a sense of insecurity because they are talking about a separate state. If they give it up, all this will disappear.<br><b><br>Q. They say that Tamils don't get jobs if they can't speak Sinhalese. They have problems getting admission to colleges. They say there's discrimination. So they are fed up and are very agitated. They say, 'we have been living here as long' as the Sinhalese have been living. If we can't live in non-Tamil areas happily, let them give us autonomy so that we can live in our areas like Jaffna with happiness and without any discrimination.'<br>A.</b>The development councils will be implementing all this. You can't change things overnight by legislation. But a section of the TULF, which believes in terrorism, is opposed to the development councils. They murdered our chief candidate. They don't cooperate.<br><br>Nobody tells us who did it. Why doesn't the TULF come forward and say they are for development councils? Their main grouse is that we are not implementing some of our decisions. Implementation takes time. We need TULF'S cooperation. I can't go beyond the development councils. As long as there is terrorism, I don't think both sides can get together. Anytime we sign any agreement they go and shoot the Sinhala police.<br><br><b>Q. So you are saying that it's terrorism that is coming in the way of a settlement?<br>A.</b>I have done everything they want. Their complaint is non-implementation of what we have agreed to. But why don't they get together with us to implement things?<br><br><b>Q. Whenever there's serious communal trouble in India, either the prime minister or one of her senior colleagues rushes to the spot to console the victims and to reassure them. Nothing of the kind seems to be happening here. Are you planning a visit to Ratnapura or Jaffna?<br>A.</b>I am thinking of doing that. I am trying to go there before leaving for Saudi Arabia next month.<br><br><b>Q. In Jaffna people are very upset. The policemen set fire to the 50-year-old library and burnt 97,000 valuable books. They also set fire to a TULF MP's house.<br>A.</b>That's because they think he is in touch with the terrorists.<br><br><b>Q. It seems they were trying to catch him so they could kill him.<br>A.</b>Terrorists do that too.<br><b><br>Q. So it's tit for tat? This kind of situation is causing a lot of alienation. Therefore, if you go there and assure them of your concern for their safety, they may feel relieved. It may go a long way to ease the tension.<br>A</b>. I want to do that but I must find time. I don't want to go with so much security. If something happens, it will be worse.<br><br><b>Q. I don't think the Ealam Tigers will try to get at you! Mahatma Gandhi whenever he visited areas of Hindu-Muslim riots, used to completely transform the atmosphere there. Your image is such that such visits will certainly help a great deal.<br>A. </b>I am trying to work it out.<br><br><b>Q. The 15-year Indo-Sri Lanka agreement about repatriation of Tamil plantation labourers will expire in October this year. There are still over half a million stateless people here. What do you propose to do about them?<br>A.</b>We are discussing it at the official level.<br><br><b>Q. Are you going to have another agreement?<br>A.</b>Yes, we have to have something like that.<br><br><b>Q. How do you propose to run the plantations which entirely depend on Tamil labour if the plantation workers leave the area to go either to Jaffna or to India due to fear and insecurity?<br>A.</b>Those who are non-citizens can go back.<br><br><b>Q. But after living here for five generations?<br>A.</b>Yes, they have to go back.<br><br><b>Q. In the US, if a child is born on American territory, its mother too gets that country's citizenship.<br>A. </b>That may be so, but we have different citizenship laws here.<br><b><br>Q. Mr Amrithalingum, the Leader of the Opposition, says the TULF has a mandate to fight for separation. He says it is up to your government to come up with proposals so that they can consider what to do.<br>A.</b>All the proposals are now being implemented.<br><br><b>Q. Are you planning to ban the TULF? <br>A.</b>Not the TULF, but the Ealam group that is now in Tamil Nadu.<br><b><br>Q. But the talk of Ealam is already illegal, isn't it?<br>A.</b>I think it is, under the Constitution, but we have not really taken it all that seriously.<br><br><b>Q. Now you want to ban it or banish the people who talk about Ealam ?<br>A.</b>I have not thought about it. I want to develop their consciousness. It has just started.<br><br><b>Q. Has Mrs Gandhi been in touch with you about the recent troubles here?<br>A.</b>No, I don't write to her When there's communal trouble in India. It happens more often in India.<br><b><br>Q. Do you think she has any clout with the Tamils here? Can she perhaps help mediate here?<br>A.</b>I don't think so.<br><br><b>Q. You don't think she has a role to play?<br>A.</b>Nobody other than Sri Lankans have a role to play. But what help can she give?<br><br><b>Q. Maybe, she can ask the TULF leadership not to push you hard on separation but to sit down and talk to settle their problems with you in a peaceful way.<br>A.</b>Oh, yes. Certainly it will be helpful. But I have not asked her for it.<br><br><b>Q. If she offered to help on her own you won't consider it interference or something? <br>A.</b>I don't think they'll listen to her.<br><br><b>Q. At Mrs Gandhi's level if she does something to help sort this out and asks her ally, the DMK leader Karunanidhi, not to encourage the talk of Ealam but to see how best the Tamil problem can be solved in a peaceful way, l am sure..<br>A.</b>Yes, yes. That will be a great help.<br><div id="tab-link-wrapper-plugin"><div class="authors__container"><div class="authors__by"><div class="authlable">Published By: </div><div class="authdetaisl">AtMigration </div></div><div class="published__on"><div class="authlable">Published On: </div><div class="authdetaisl">Nov 8, 2013 08:38 IST</div></div></div><div class="sendros">--- ENDS ---</div></div>

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<i><div class="itg-mosimage"><div class="itgimage"><img  title=""  class="" alt="" src="https://akm-img-a-in.tosshub.com/sites/media2/indiatoday/images/stories/1981September/lanka-_110813091833.jpg" loading="lazy" /></div>Sri Lanka's President Jayawardene: Taking a hardline</div>Following his stunning electoral triumph four years ago and the overwhelming parliamentary majority that his United National Party </i>(UNP)<i>commands, Junius Richard Jayawardene, 75, had earned the enviable reputation of being one of the most stable heads of state in the volatile Indian Ocean region. <br></i><br><i>By last fortnight, however, the austere, Sri Lankan Presidents political fortunes had taken a dramatic downswing in the wake of the recent orgy of violence that has convulsed the central part of the idyllic, island. While the spark that ignited the violence was confined to the so-called "Tamil problem", a long-festering thorn in the Government's side, opposition to the UNP Government has been steadily snowballing in the wake of Jayawardene's efforts to aim himself with extra-constitutional powers in order to muzzle the powerful labour unions and bring the Tamil problem under control.</i><br><br><i>Despite the widespread feeling that he is currently riding an unpredictable tiger, Jayawardene was surprisingly relaxed and cheerful when he met </i>India Today's<i> Senior Editor,</i>Venkat Narayan<i>for an hour-long exclusive interview last week in his elegant official residence in Colombo. Dressed in his traditional spotless white cotton sarong and shirt, Jayawardene spoke frankly and at length on the factors and forces responsible for the current instability in Sri Lanka. Excerpts:</i><br><br><b>Q. Your Excellency the recent arson and looting in Ratnapura and other areas where plantation workers of Indian origin live has caused much damage to their lives and properties. What steps are you taking to instil confidence in the affected people?<br>A. </b>These disturbances arose as a result of the murder of over 20 police officials in Jaffna district. They were largely Sinhalese and some Tamils. This is the work of those whom we call terrorists. These terrorists have long been associated with the activities of the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF).<br><br>Some of them are members of the TULF. I personally do not think that the TULF  leadership has anything to do with them now. But it takes a long time to erase the original idea from the minds of the public. The TULF, though they may not be associated with the terrorists, doesn't condemn or oppose these murderous activities in Parliament and in their utterances.<br><br>If the TULF people openly say that they are against terrorism, and associate themselves with the Government in nabbing the terrorists, this feeling of insecurity in the minds of the non-Jaffna people, people living south of Jaffna, will disappear.<br><br>They will then believe that though the TULF is asking for separation, they will resort to only constitutional means and not to violence; Because there's this anti-TULF feeling and the TULF is associated with Tamil people - good and bad - certain elements.<br><br>May be criminals, maybe politicians, use that existing anti-Tamil feeling to create tension. We are doing our best to control the situation. Those who need our special protection are those in the plantations - citizens, non-citizens or the stateless. They are the most harmless people.<br><br>They are members of unions which are supporting our government. That's why I cannot understand why anybody supporting the Government should try to harm people who are themselves supporting the Government. I think there is some anti-government movement behind this.<br><br><b>Q. This has caused anxiety in India where there was a heated discussion in Parliament last week.<br>A.</b>I can understand the anxiety of India, but that anxiety should be for people wherever they attacked, not only in Sri Lanka. Just as much as we are anxious when people in India are subjected to communal violence, whether they be Muslims, Buddhists, But I feel the Indian Government should not show undue anxiety.<br><br>In Sri Lanka it can be misunderstood. We do not like interference in our affairs and I feel our government is liberal, democratic and as humane as the Indian Government or any government in the world. There's nothing they can teach us or anybody can teach us about how to govern a country.<br><br><b>Q. There has been some talk about the involvement of a foreign hand by some of your ministers. Do you believe that too?<br>A.</b>I can't say I believe or don't believe it. Terrorism is always international. We are investigating it.<br><b><br>Q. You don't suspect the Indians by any chance?<br>A.</b>I am not suspecting anybody, least of all the Indians.<br><br><b>Q. During the past week I have travelled in the affected areas and spoke with the people, Sinhalese as well as plantation workers. Some statements made by some of your ministers in Parliament appear to have contributed a great deal to the building up of tension in the affected areas. Do you approve of the racial tone of such statements by your ministers?<br>A.</b>Maybe they could have contributed but much less than what the TULF has contributed. The TULF people began it all by making provocative statements. If there wasn't that debate where a lot of steam was let off, it is possible the Sinhalese might have erupted more. They were saying: What is the Government doing? What are the MPs doing?<br><br><b>Q. One gets the impression that the 'Ceylon' Tamils as well as those of Indian origin suffer from a tremendous sense of insecurity. This is why they are agitated and are talking about a separate state.<br>A.</b>They have a sense of insecurity because they are talking about a separate state. If they give it up, all this will disappear.<br><b><br>Q. They say that Tamils don't get jobs if they can't speak Sinhalese. They have problems getting admission to colleges. They say there's discrimination. So they are fed up and are very agitated. They say, 'we have been living here as long' as the Sinhalese have been living. If we can't live in non-Tamil areas happily, let them give us autonomy so that we can live in our areas like Jaffna with happiness and without any discrimination.'<br>A.</b>The development councils will be implementing all this. You can't change things overnight by legislation. But a section of the TULF, which believes in terrorism, is opposed to the development councils. They murdered our chief candidate. They don't cooperate.<br><br>Nobody tells us who did it. Why doesn't the TULF come forward and say they are for development councils? Their main grouse is that we are not implementing some of our decisions. Implementation takes time. We need TULF'S cooperation. I can't go beyond the development councils. As long as there is terrorism, I don't think both sides can get together. Anytime we sign any agreement they go and shoot the Sinhala police.<br><br><b>Q. So you are saying that it's terrorism that is coming in the way of a settlement?<br>A.</b>I have done everything they want. Their complaint is non-implementation of what we have agreed to. But why don't they get together with us to implement things?<br><br><b>Q. Whenever there's serious communal trouble in India, either the prime minister or one of her senior colleagues rushes to the spot to console the victims and to reassure them. Nothing of the kind seems to be happening here. Are you planning a visit to Ratnapura or Jaffna?<br>A.</b>I am thinking of doing that. I am trying to go there before leaving for Saudi Arabia next month.<br><br><b>Q. In Jaffna people are very upset. The policemen set fire to the 50-year-old library and burnt 97,000 valuable books. They also set fire to a TULF MP's house.<br>A.</b>That's because they think he is in touch with the terrorists.<br><br><b>Q. It seems they were trying to catch him so they could kill him.<br>A.</b>Terrorists do that too.<br><b><br>Q. So it's tit for tat? This kind of situation is causing a lot of alienation. Therefore, if you go there and assure them of your concern for their safety, they may feel relieved. It may go a long way to ease the tension.<br>A</b>. I want to do that but I must find time. I don't want to go with so much security. If something happens, it will be worse.<br><br><b>Q. I don't think the Ealam Tigers will try to get at you! Mahatma Gandhi whenever he visited areas of Hindu-Muslim riots, used to completely transform the atmosphere there. Your image is such that such visits will certainly help a great deal.<br>A. </b>I am trying to work it out.<br><br><b>Q. The 15-year Indo-Sri Lanka agreement about repatriation of Tamil plantation labourers will expire in October this year. There are still over half a million stateless people here. What do you propose to do about them?<br>A.</b>We are discussing it at the official level.<br><br><b>Q. Are you going to have another agreement?<br>A.</b>Yes, we have to have something like that.<br><br><b>Q. How do you propose to run the plantations which entirely depend on Tamil labour if the plantation workers leave the area to go either to Jaffna or to India due to fear and insecurity?<br>A.</b>Those who are non-citizens can go back.<br><br><b>Q. But after living here for five generations?<br>A.</b>Yes, they have to go back.<br><br><b>Q. In the US, if a child is born on American territory, its mother too gets that country's citizenship.<br>A. </b>That may be so, but we have different citizenship laws here.<br><b><br>Q. Mr Amrithalingum, the Leader of the Opposition, says the TULF has a mandate to fight for separation. He says it is up to your government to come up with proposals so that they can consider what to do.<br>A.</b>All the proposals are now being implemented.<br><br><b>Q. Are you planning to ban the TULF? <br>A.</b>Not the TULF, but the Ealam group that is now in Tamil Nadu.<br><b><br>Q. But the talk of Ealam is already illegal, isn't it?<br>A.</b>I think it is, under the Constitution, but we have not really taken it all that seriously.<br><br><b>Q. Now you want to ban it or banish the people who talk about Ealam ?<br>A.</b>I have not thought about it. I want to develop their consciousness. It has just started.<br><br><b>Q. Has Mrs Gandhi been in touch with you about the recent troubles here?<br>A.</b>No, I don't write to her When there's communal trouble in India. It happens more often in India.<br><b><br>Q. Do you think she has any clout with the Tamils here? Can she perhaps help mediate here?<br>A.</b>I don't think so.<br><br><b>Q. You don't think she has a role to play?<br>A.</b>Nobody other than Sri Lankans have a role to play. But what help can she give?<br><br><b>Q. Maybe, she can ask the TULF leadership not to push you hard on separation but to sit down and talk to settle their problems with you in a peaceful way.<br>A.</b>Oh, yes. Certainly it will be helpful. But I have not asked her for it.<br><br><b>Q. If she offered to help on her own you won't consider it interference or something? <br>A.</b>I don't think they'll listen to her.<br><br><b>Q. At Mrs Gandhi's level if she does something to help sort this out and asks her ally, the DMK leader Karunanidhi, not to encourage the talk of Ealam but to see how best the Tamil problem can be solved in a peaceful way, l am sure..<br>A.</b>Yes, yes. That will be a great help.<br><div id="tab-link-wrapper-plugin"><div class="authors__container"><div class="authors__by"><div class="authlable">Published By: </div><div class="authdetaisl">AtMigration </div></div><div class="published__on"><div class="authlable">Published On: </div><div class="authdetaisl">Nov 8, 2013 08:38 IST</div></div></div><div class="sendros">--- ENDS ---</div></div>

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