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Thiranjala Weerasinghe sj.- One Island Two Nations
?????????????????????????????????????????????????Friday, June 30, 2017
The Northern Woman
Women’s affairs covers the educated women also. Unless Mrs. Sasitharan becomes humble enough to learn from them – and becomes the passive medium through which they would be seen as leaders Mrs. Sasitharan would fail the Jaffna Tamil Woman.
( June 30, 2017, Sydney, Sri Lanka Guardian) Ananthy
Sasitharan was sworn in as the NPC Minister of Women’s Affairs,
Rehabilitation, Social Services, Cooperatives, Food Supply and
Distribution, Industry and Enterprise Promotion.
Mrs
Sasitharan who is closely associated with the Militants needs to focus
on developing a structure that the current Northern Women would be able
to relate to and adopt at the family level. The first lesson needs to be
to ‘internalize’ any shortfall in status allocated as per her past but
at the same time be grateful for the contribution made by her family –
especially her husband to the formation of Provincial Council that she
is now part of.
Through
my direct experience with the Female militants, during ceasefire, I
learnt that they accepted the male dominated environment they were in
but at the same time quietly went about completing their support work.
As the wife of Elilan – the LTTE head at Trincomalee, one would expect
Ananathi also to have played that role. Now Mrs Sasitharan is occupying
the leadership role in Politics and needs to respect the Political
structures and as Minister, Mrs Sasitharan needs to bow to the
Administrative structures common to all folks in Northern Province. The
value of Thamilini – the Women Leader within LTTE needs to be remembered
and paid tribute to by Mrs. Sasitharan. The Title of Thamilini’s book –
‘Oru Koor Vaallin Nizhalil’ / ‘ In the shadow of a sharp sword’
confirms the essence of my assessment above – that the women were a
support force.
There
are women in Jaffna society who are led by their achievements in Higher
Education. Mrs Sasitharan needs to learn from them or if they seem
false – then Mrs. Sasitharan needs to renounce any benefits from that
pathway that seem available to her. Otherwise, Mrs. Sasitharan is likely
to submit to those who are pleasant and ‘show’ high profits from her
position. The moment Mrs. Sasitharan takes for example her husband’s
place or worse Velupillai Prabhakaran’s place – she would naturally
disconnect from the root of the Provincial Council Act. Without that
connection, Mrs. Sasitharan is likely to be influenced by the greater
benefits in wider world.
Women
leadership in the world based on LTTE structure, is not likely to be
strong and high. The parallel has already been shown within the
Sinhalese Community – through Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike, who was
promoted by politicians to occupy her husband’s place. A woman leader
must command respect – through belief or Intellectual Administration.
Belief is Natural measure on Equal platform.
Intellectually, it needs to be developed by reducing the higher status that we start with through the side seeming to be our side and hence being entitled to share in our status. An intellectual measure would uphold Justice only when applied at the same level on both sides. Hence Equal Opportunity – on the claim of which we had the war. But by using arms we showed cleverness to defeat and did not sacrifice to own.
Intellectually, it needs to be developed by reducing the higher status that we start with through the side seeming to be our side and hence being entitled to share in our status. An intellectual measure would uphold Justice only when applied at the same level on both sides. Hence Equal Opportunity – on the claim of which we had the war. But by using arms we showed cleverness to defeat and did not sacrifice to own.
Women’s affairs covers the educated women also. Unless Mrs. Sasitharan
becomes humble enough to learn from them – and becomes the passive
medium through which they would be seen as leaders Mrs. Sasitharan would
fail the Jaffna Tamil Woman.