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Last Tuesday on the so-called Maaveerar day, from the Well of Parliament in which he pledged to uphold the constitution and swore not to promote, espouse, advance or encourage the establishment of a separate state on Lankan soil, Tamil National Alliance MP S. Sritharan piled praise upon praise on the very ogre who was the singular cause of the destruction of thousands of Lankan lives in the pursuit of his megalomaniac quest to establish a separate state of Tamil Eelam.

In the squinted eyes and warped mind of this former school principal turned politician, Vellupillai Prabhakaran is the stuff heroes are made of.

Just what are these heroic qualities that Mr. Siritharan brazenly and unashamedly cherishes as the hallmark of one who deserves to be revered and idolised; that inspire this devout Hindu to add this psychopathic mass murderer to the pantheon of his household gods?

Father’s frolics: Prabhakaran splashing in an inflatable kiddy's pool with his younger son

Is it possible that this school master considers it as a heroic act, a chivalrous, manly deed to forcibly drag children from their homes, from their parents love and care, from their schools and education and instead of pens to arm them with guns and, as part of their vocational training course, instruct them in the practical exercise of killing other humans en masse? Does Mr. Sritharan’s heart glow with pride when he reads the Coalition to Stop Use of Child Soldiers’ Global Report for 2008 which states: “As of September 2007 the total number of Tamil children known to have been recruited by the LTTE since January 2002 was well over six thousand, although the real number was thought to be higher?”

Is it another act of heroism to be hailed when the Tiger supremo disrupted the educational activities of thousands of school children and turned them into the North’s lost generation for whom the flowering years of life passed by?

Does Sritharan’s eyes beam with admiration when he recalls how Prabhakaran sent thousands of Tamil men, women and children to battle while he lay closely guarded splashing in a garden inflatable kiddies pool playing with his younger son, as unearthed photographs now reveal? How, while the misguided brainwashed generation of Tamils were being turned into murderers, ‘Maaveerar’ Prabhakaran’s own children were sent abroad to study to be turned, as any fond father would dearly wish, into educated professionals or academics as is clearly evidenced by the family photograph of Prabhakaran and his wife posing with their young son kitted up in a graduate’s cloak and cap?

Does Sritharan take particular delight and jump with glee when he recounts the ruthless machinations of the hero he worships and gladly would kiss the ground he has walked on, who cold bloodedly exterminated the entire TULF leadership along with its leader A. Amirthalingam in one night; and usurped for himself the mantle of being the sole representative of the Tamils of Lanka, denying them, under the threat of death, the right to express any form of opinion other than his own?

Does he gloat over the thousands of Sinhala and Muslim civilians slaughtered in carnages perpetrated by the Tamil Tigers, where they were hacked to death in border villagers, massacred whilst in prayer at mosques in Kattankudy and blasted while traveling in trains and buses in Colombo?

Does he condone, does he endorse, does he tacitly approve the brutal killing of his own Tamil people by the butcher he considers to be the ‘Mahaveerar’ of the Tamils? The University Teachers For Human Rights (UTHR) in Jaffna whose founder Dr. Rajani Thiranagama

Father’s hopes: Prabhakaran with wife and younger son kitted in graduate's cloak and cap

was assassinated in Jaffna by the Tigers in 1991, has revealed the figure to be over 8000 Tamils killed by Prabhakaran’s death squads?
Does Sritharan marvel at the bravery of his idol deity who surrounded himself with a human shield of innocent Tamil civilians, including women and children, the old and the feeble, the sick and the infirm and prevented them from leaving at the point of the gun to protect himself from the advancing Lankan Army?

Are those the heroics that make him romance and elevate this sadistic, selfish grotesque freak of perverted nature that sprung from the seed of his own racial origins to godly status? Even as an ageing frustrated woman from afar drools in pseudo poetic flush over her fallen Mahaveerar, like a love-lorn lass wailing for her demon lover?

Wisely the TNA leader R. Sampanthan has disassociated his party and himself from the abhorrent sentiments expressed by Sritharan. But that alone will not suffice to placate the sensitivities of the Lankan people or erase the disgrace to the dignity of Parliament. The absolute privilege to the freedom of speech granted to members within the confines of that august assembly cannot be abused to deliver inflamed speeches that may incite racial violence nor can it be held as an absolute defense to transgressing the solemn oath of upholding the constitution and the unitary status of Sri Lanka as specified in the Sixth Amendment.

The Government and the opposition too must act in unison and decry this further glorification of a pathological terrorist who, shorn of the embellishments and idolization of the western media and bleeding heart sympathizers the world over, would be nothing more than a common criminal, the self-confessed murderer of Jaffna’s respected Mayor Alfred Duraiappah in the early 1980s. This glorification of Prabhakaran’s gory feast must earn for Mr. Sritharan the condemned cell of the people’s opprobrium as a warning to others of his ilk.
Western nations who berate Lanka for tarrying reconciliation must be made aware that this heinous outrage committed by a Tamil politician only serves as an impediment to the process and is not conducive to mending the fences and building confidence between the races. They must be made to understand that the Sinhalese and the Muslim people, too, suffered immensely in the bloody war unleashed by the “Maaveerar” Sritharan worships. They must be reminded that even 68 years after Hitler’s death no such glorification of him will be tolerated in any other western nations, let alone in their hallowed parliaments.

As far as the so -called memorial burial grounds for ‘martyred’ Tigers are concerned for which the United Nation’s Human Rights Commissioner Navy Pillai displayed a morbid fascination and wished to visit and pay her homage with flowers on her recent trip to the North as did the third tier, half baked Canadian delegation who came for the Commonwealth Summit, it should be clearly explained to the foreign nations that the graves are not of martyrs but that each grim tombstone marks the fate of misled, brainwashed Tamil youth turned killer machines, led beyond the pale of redemption to Prabhakaran’s satanic altar and there sacrificed to appease his insatiable bloodlust.

this then is the incarnate demon to whom Sritharan prays with his praise in his attempt to install this scum of the earth in heaven’s exalted domain.

And one more question for this devil’s disciple.

What does indeed make Sritharan deify Prabhakaran and treat him as an object worthy of worship when not even four years ago, Sritharan actively urged the Tamil populace to vote as president of Lanka the Sinhala warrior knight who had finally slayed the demon Asura and thus ended Lanka’s long night of evil? Or does Mr. Sritharan consider his own forked tongue to be a blessed gift and deem the repugnant acts he performs with it are qualities of heroism he himself possesses?

It was a heaven sent blessing for the children of the north when Sritharan forsook the teaching profession. For the northern Tamil voters, however, Sritharan’s decision to embrace politics instead, has turned out to be a damning curse.