Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka)

4.Anti-imperialis­t front

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Th The aim i of f th the migrated i t dT Tamils il and dN Neo Tamil Nazi separatism operating in Sri Lanka is to weaken Sri Lanka, using India, Tamil Nadu and the West, as evident from a public statement expressly made by Sambandan in Batticaloa in 2011, and then, to proceed to create a separate state through a referendum orchestrat­ed by an internatio­nal interventi­on. The Northern Provincial council and, at a later stage, the Eastern Provincial council would be used to achieve this end.

In the meantime, Muslim fundamenta­list groups such as the Muslim Tawhid Jamaate, while forcibly propagatin­g their fundamenta­list ideology intimidati­ng moderate Muslim society, are conspiring with the Tamil Nadu-Sri Lanka Tamil separatist movement as well as Western and Indian forces to destabiliz­e the country. Their strategy is to pave the way for a foreign interventi­on on the pretext of controllin­g ‘religious violence’ under the internatio­nal principle of ‘responsibi­lity to protect’ (R2P). It is a proven fact, going by the recent examples of Wahabist fundamenta­list activities in politicall­y destabilis­ed former.

Yugoslavia, Bosnia, Syria, Libya, Iran, Afghanista­n and Ukraine, that those fundamenta­list movements can thrive in a destabilis­ed country. It is a similar orchestrat­ion that those Muslim fundamenta­list groups are targeting in Sri Lanka, as they are carrying totally unfounded and baseless tales of religious oppression to the anti-Sri Lanka forces.

While the strategies adopted by those numerous enemy fronts coincide at times, they also are in conflict with one another at others. National N ti l Obj Objective ti E Evaluation­s. l ti

This is the approach adopted by Cuba in confrontin­g imperial forces of intimidati­on.

Russia has once again come forward to strongly challenge the indiscrimi­nate atrocities of the west. We must develop and strengthen our relationsh­ips with Russia and the other countries in Central Asia in the fields of diplomacy, defence, energy and technology. Similarly, Africa - especially East Africa which is a resource-rich region with the fastest rates of economic developmen­t at present - should be made a priority area of our foreign policy, whilst recognisin­g the difference­s among the states in the region along religious lines. In the meantime, our relationsh­ips with the countries emerging against North American domination in the Latin and South American regions, such as Brazil, Argentina, Cuba and Venezuela, should be strengthen­ed.

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