Prabhakaran’s destiny after 54...... ?
Some months ago , a popular astrologer Theventhra Rajh of the State of Karnataka made a prophecy .He predicted that there is a possibility that Prabhakaran can die between 8th and 15th of November. He added that this period is extremely lethal to Prabhakaran and his death will be due to ill health. No sooner this prophecy was made than a number of TNA members of Parliament who were in India at that time met Prabhakaran and came back wailing over this news, according to Indian media reports. These reports went on to say that some even went to kovils and conducted poojas to invoke blessings on Prabhakaran to save his life. The astrological predictions did not however materialize. Prabhakaran is today, 26th of November 2008 celebrating his 54th Birthday.
When he had completed 18 years of age , he had a close shave with death. In 1972, when he and his associates were in the process of making bombs , one of them exploded causing burn injuries to his right leg. From that point of time , he has been relentlessly stalked by death . It has been knocking at his door , every second , minute and hour. He, of course never opened the door for it.
It is India’s former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi who first issued the order to kill Prabhakaran. This order reached the hands of an Indian peace keeping Force Army officer through the former Indian High Commissioner Dixit. Fortunately for Prabhakaran this officer did not execute the order. However, it did not take much time later for Prabhakaran to take Gandhi’s life.
Similarly , a former Sri Lanka’s Defence Minister, Ranjan Wijeratne until the time of his death unrelentingly tried to track down Prabhakaran and kill him. When Indian media personnel Anita Pratap who had interviewed Prabhakaran met Ranjan Wijeratne , the latter told her , “when you meet Prabhakaran, tell him it is the last time he will be seeing you. Before you get there next time , I will make sure he is a dead man”. In her book entitled ‘ Island of blood’ , Anita Pratap says, ‘ The Tigers got him first ’.The former Deputy Minister of Defence , Gen Anurudhha Ratwatte in the Jayasikuru (Victory assured) operations hoped to meet Prabhakaran and shake hands with him after opening the A 9 Road stretching from Vavuniya to Jaffna. He told this to the Foreign media when he summoned them to his residence. He could neither open the Road nor shake hands with Prabhakaran. He was implicated in the Udatalawina multiple murder of ten persons and had to be on remand for a period.Later, his party also rejected his nomination for elections.
In similar fashion, on the birthday of Prabhakaran on 26th November 2007 , the present Defence Secretary, Gotabaya Rajapaksa declared that he will not leave room for Prabhakaran to celebrate his birthday in 2008 , as he is going to destroy him before this day. But, Prabhakaran is still alive and celebrating his birthday today.
Today , Prabhakaran is celebrating his birthday when America, India, China ,Pakistan, Iran and Russia are aligned with Sri Lanka (SL), and a war is being waged against him.
Since 1983 he is fighting a war against the SL army. In 1987 , he fought against the Indian Army, one of the largest in the World. Today, he has been made to wage war against the world’s biggest powers. Yet, when Prabhakaran was met recently by a TNA M. P.who went to Wanni , he talked to the M.P. with calm and composure. The TNA M.P. disclosed this to the diplomatic community in Colombo.
In 1987 , when Prabhakaran was summoned to induce him to agree to the Indo -SL peace accord and he was in a Hotel in India , his aides who were with him became very restless and fretful . They became apprehensive and griped that if Prabhakaran rejects the request he would be imprisoned in India. When Balasingham too was panic stricken and inquired about their next move , Prabhakaran was unruffled , he just said, ‘ let us first eat something’.
Though he would have perceived at that time that he would have to contend against the largest army in the world , certainly, he would not have envisaged that he would have to confront a SL army teamed up with the most powerful forces in the world in the war . But, it is Prabhakaran himself who is the architect of this problem .
In 2001, a former SL Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar made a request to Prabhakaran during the time when the latter had captured all the North East security installations and the Sri Lanka army were trapped in Jaffna. “ You showed yourself as a great warrior to the whole world. The whole world acknowledges this . Now, it is enough. It is time for you to translate the war victory into political victory by coming forth and sitting at the negotiating table ”. This was the advice proffered by Kadirgamar to Prabhakaran.
In 2002, Prabhakaran sat at the negotiating table . But, in 2003 he withdrew from negotiations . This was his undoing. Whatever successes he achieved in 2001 are ebbing away from him. The sympathy he earned from within the International community until 2001 too is receding. Until 2003, the world thought that it is the extremist politics of the South as the impediment to peace in SL. After 2003, they understood it is Prabhakaran who is the biggest stumbling block to peace. The Tamil people being incited by him to protest and boycott the 2005 Presidential elections further corroborates this. Today, he has to fight a war against the world’s super powers owing to this blunder he committed.
At any rate, Prabhakaran is not a person who admits his faults. Even Balasingham has confessed that Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination was a grave tactical error committed by Prabhakaran. But, today the loud agitations launched by Tamil Nadu in Prabhakaran’s favour drowns his error . The opinion poll conducted by the popular Kumudam Reporter magazine among the University students of Tamil Nadu declared that 50 % of them described Parbhakaran as a hero. Not only Tamil Nadu , the entire Tamil population the world over are sympathizing with Prabhakaran’s struggle.
If, at this moment Prabhakaran is assassinated in Wanni, not only Tamil Nadu ,even the entire Tamil population of the whole world will point an accusing finger at New Delhi .There is an anti Delhi sentiment growing among the Tamil youths across the whole world including Tamil Nadu. If Prabhakaran is killed , this sentiment can turn explosive and a ‘catastrophic storm’ is more likely to result rather than it dying down. Though in SL , the Tamil liberation struggle may get controlled , in Tamil Nadu it will rage on like an uncontrollable wild fire.
In that event, the dead Prabhakaran can prove more lethal to New Delhi than the living Prabhakaran.
courtesy:dailymirror.lk
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