Embracing a Tiger in cassocks
By Janaka Perera
Has anyone heard of a country after militarily crushing a vicious terrorist outfit trying to seek ‘peace and understanding’ with the unrepentant supporters of the very same group? Well, there is one country, the ‘Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka.’ Its current cowardly rulers, in an absurd gesture of ‘goodwill’ are reportedly planning to invite a covert terrorist in cassocks.
He is the well-known Father S. J. Emmanuel, President of the Global Tamil Forum (GTF). Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera is inviting this promoter of separatist terrorism to join the government’s effort towards ‘reconciliation’ (whatever that means). But the hard fact is that the main purpose of his visit is to participate in the LTTE’s so-called Heroes (Maveer) Day ceremonies this month.
Of course, the Government will do everything possible to conceal the truth unless it has agreed with his view that commemorating and mourning (like Vikremabahu Karunaratne) the dead Tiger cadres is the way towards so-called reconciliation.
Now self-exiled in Germany, Emmanuel’s ‘Christianity’ reminds us of those who led Uganda’s ‘Lord’s Resistance Army’ which rose against the Ugandan Government, committing numerous crimes including massacres, abductions, torture and recruiting child soldiers. It is led by Joseph Kony who proclaims himself the spokesperson of ‘God’.
Likewise Emmanuel rechristened Prabakaran “anna” as “Jesus Christ”, the LTTE as “soldiers of Christ” and LTTE suicide bombers as “martyrs.” He lured naïve Tamil youth to give up their lives “for a greater cause” and brainwashed them to “come out to die.”
Former LTTE ex-combatants under rehabilitation have also confirmed how Father Emmanuel addressed them in LTTE training camps in the Wanni!
We all know the GTF is one of 16 terrorist fronts which the previous Sri Lanka Government banned by gazette notification.
Father Emmanuel can never deny his links with LTTE. Addressed the Anton Balasingham memorial in Germany in 2009 with the LTTE flag decorating the podium, he encouraged Tamils to carry out suicide missions and kill themselves – what priest would do that? He was deported from India for links with LTTE in 2011 but he is said to have had secret meetings with Sonia Gandhi, a Catholic Italian!
Yet the Sri Lanka Government has no hesitation in inviting this fraud of a priest if reports are true.
GTF’s founding members include Australian Tamil Congress, British Tamil Forum, Holland Tamil Cultural Center, Tamils Forum Malaysian, Norwegian Council of Eelaam Tamils, Swedish Tamil Forum, United States Tamil Political Action Council, Canadian Tamil Congress (CTC), its Communications Director Sahilal Sabaratnam was arrested by FBI in 2006 and Amnesty International accepted CTC’s Canadian $50,000 while Human Rights Watch says LTTE raises money from Canada’s 250,000 Tamils and other nefarious activities.
Will the Sri Lanka Government ask from Emmanuel where are the millions collected by GTF, BTF and others it is not being received by the Tamil people in Sri Lanka? A Canadian Parliamentary delegation that arrived in Sri Lanka confirmed this.
Will Fr. Emmanuel who now says he likes Sinhalese Buddhists be good enough to explain why he chose to remain silent on (1) LTTE’s targeting of the Sacred Sri Maha Bodhi killing Buddhists while they were chanting stanzas (2) chopping up with swords 30 Buddhist student monks at Aranthalawa in Amparai one after the other in 1987 and (3) bombing the Dalada Maligawa and killing devotees in 1998, among other Tiger atrocities.
With such guilt and blood on their hands can the likes of Father Emmanuel pretend to be ‘holier and than thou’? It is now clear all the killings of innocent civilians in Sri Lanka had the tacit approval of many all these sanctimonious humbugs.
Is the Sri Lanka Government out of its mind?–
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