Norwegian peace model and its faults
By Siri Hewawitharana
Looking at analysis done by Norwegian govt via NORAD is a document that brings Norwegians into serious disrepute as a peace negotiator. NORAD is a respected organization.
The report started by insulting Sri Lanka and saying “The conflict is understood here as being rooted in processes of incomplete state formation, which led to competing ethno-nationalist projects.”
This statement it self is enough to justify why Norway failed since it ignore how and why Sinhalese Buddhists assert them selves in 1948 after 500 yrs of foreign colonial insults and domination to their country and, how all of these colonials try to erase Sinhalese Buddhist civilization that span more than 200 yrs.
Trying to assert Sinhalese Buddhist culture in 1948 we may have done some harm to the minorities rights even though this was not the intention. Interested parties agitated and also help from the past colonial country push the country into an ethnic hot bed which originated from the British and still continue that policy for their strategic gain.
Norwegians biggest mistake was that whole history and present issues were taken from few anti establish local traitors who are basically prostituting for foreign dollars… If see CPA, it means either Centre for Paid Advise or Centre for Prostitution and Ass licking.
For Norwegians some in this organization look like academics but they are not and some of them are failed Marxists who love dollars and nothing but parasites living on peoples miseries.
I like to ask Norwegians
Why did you get in to an agreement with SL Prime Minister without consulting Executive President?
Why did you take advice from NATO military and ignore SL Military?
Those two issues created one of the worst state political and military debacle that cost so many innocent lives and discredited the whole peace process.
This Norwegians report is nothing but a whitewash that trying to wiggle out of the basic errors that Norwegians created. These are fundamental errors that took the whole peace building in to a shifting sands and fault lies with the original peace document that Norway created with LTTE and ignoring Sri Lankan Military concerns (Including the SL President) and add fuel to the document, weakling UNP Sri Lanka Prime Minister and his cohorts which are nothing but incompetent fools created a mirage that later found to be disaster for the country.
I have great respect for NORAD since they have helped Sri Lanka immensely and also a trusted organization.
When Solheim came to the peace deal and start to make lots of pro bias LTTE decisions and comments my brother who is close to NORAD and politically connected to Norway approach Norwegian power elites and complain about the Solheim’s bias towards LTTE and his lack of neutrality.
Norwegians immediately said “Solheim cannot be trusted and he is not a honest broker” .
Well…. Now after all these yrs we know that statement is true.
Few advise to Norway.
Try to get 360 degrees view of the conflict and avoid local parasites advise since they are paid to do foreign biddings.
Don’t simplify the root cause of the conflict and put local project mangers to get local ordinary peoples views…. If they have hired local Sinhalese, Tamils and Muslims and Burgers as a study groups they would have learn so much since poor Sinhalese or Tamils have same aspiration which is better life for them and their kids.
They would have learn that LTTE is nothing but a racist organization and fuel by few wealthy Tamils that wants special privileges given to them by British Masters.
Sinhalese are not racist or communal thinking and they are proud about their heritage which British trying to destroy… Buddhists are passive but don’t take it as weak.
Don’t take race conflicts advise from former colonial masters since its tainted and it’s the colonials that created the conflict in the first place.
Thank you Norway for trying to help this beautiful country and hope NORAD is active with Sri Lanka’s development and help North and East with infrastructure development specially fishing and can factories since poor has no ethnicity except self respect.
- Asian Tribune -
Comments
No peace model has merit if
No peace model has merit if it has a bias. This particular Norwegian Model was flawed from the beginning. They were facilitating LTTE to carve out a section of the country on bogus means. How did not they know that LTTE was hording weapons in the so-called area controlled by them. In fact all the NGO and Red Cross operating in these areas never ever reported these illegal activity-taking place in the North and East. However by Sri Lanka government providing the civic expense for the Civilians LTTE took the advantage of channeling all their resources to weapons and combat preparation. What a scenario was that. In one way Sri Lankan Government was responsible for prolonging the war by way of proving necessities of life to people willingly trapped in these areas with Tamil nationalism. While LTTE got the license to kill at will, the Norwegian model was busy keeping the government forces in the barracks. Anyway it was the innocent Tamils who had to sacrifice their Children for this LTTE illusion.
Why is Sri Lanka being
Why is Sri Lanka being allowed to be used as some sort of 'experimental grounds' with obviously failed politics of Separatism touted by various Tamil leaders even today ?
What we need in Lanka is Common Ground thinking by all leaders to tackle daily problems, cost of living, health & environmental issues, education, etc.
The Norwegians have been
The Norwegians have been trying for years to set themselves up as the world's Peace Facilitators. After the failure of their role in the Middle East, Sri Lanka became their laboratory, willingly aided by the LTTE and Ranil Wickramasinghe who signed a CFA and watched to see how far the LTTE would go. I cannot think that he was foolish...NO! he was fully aware of the consequences and perhaps had been promised his political "quid pro quo" for signing the CFA without even reading it properly, as no responsible politician could have handed so much power to an insurgent group. So reliant was he on the West putting him in place as Head of State in exchange - a position he could NEVER achieve through honest democratic means. But the Norwegians have been exposed, by everything that was discovered by the Army as they marched through the Vanni.
Sri Lanka has surely "Learnt her Lessons" about Norwegians and other self-proclaimed do-gooders from the West who have left trails of blood on Sri Lanka's soil, ably aided and abetted by Lanka's own traitors with ambitions of power!!
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