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Kenの日記
by Ken
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■「B-C Pact」
北部・東部地域においてのある程度のタミール人自治を認める。当該地域における直接選挙による首長の選出、あるいは選挙で選ばれた首長等への中央政府からの権限委譲の保障などを規定するものであった。
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協定破棄の顛末は以下のようです。
On the morning of April 9 (1958) a police message reached Mr Bandaranaike warning him that about 200 bhikkus or monks and 300 others were setting out on a visitation to the Prime Minister's residence in Rosmead Place to demand the abrogation of the Pact. They would arrive at 9 a.m.
The Prime Minister left the house early that morning to attend to some very important work in his office. The bhikkus came, the crowds gathered, the gates of the Bandaranaike Walawwa were closed against them and armed police were hurriedly summoned to throw a barbed-wire cordon to keep the uninvited guests out. The bhikkus decided to bivouac on the street. Pedlars, cool-drink carts, betel sellers and even bangle merchants pitched their stalls hard by. Dhana was brought to the bhikkus at the appointed hour for food.
In the meantime, the Prime Minister was fighting off the opposition to the Pact among his own party colleagues with desperate fury.
At 4.15 p.m. the B-C Pact was torn into pathetic shreds by its principal author who now claimed that its implementation had been rendered impossible by the activities of the Federalists.
The Prime Minister had gone home that afternoon accompanied by half a dozen Ministers who stood on the leeward side of the barbed-wire barricade while Mr. Bandaranaike listened to the shrill denunciations of the monks. The Minister of Health sat on the Street facing the monks and preached a sermon, promising them redress if they would only be patient. The Prime Minister consulted his colleagues. The monks had won. The Magic Pact was no more.
But the monks insisted on getting this promise in writing. The Prime Minister went into the house and the Health Minister, hardly able to suppress the look of relief on her face, brought the written pledge out to the monks.
Yet another victory for Direct Action had been chalked up."
１９５８年４月９日午前９時２００人の仏教僧を含む５００人の民衆が協定破棄を求めて首相府に押し寄せた。この民衆の反対だけでなく、与党内からも協定破棄を求める声が大きく首相は苦しい立場に置かれていた。首相は盟友達からの反対、仏教層からの反対に抗しきれず、前年締結した協定を破棄せざるを得なくなってしまった。
因みに「バンダラナイケ首相」はもともとはキリスト教徒の家庭に生まれているが後年仏教徒に宗旨変えを行っている。バンダラナイケ首相は仏教の教えに基づき「タミール人勢力」との融和を進めたのであるが、皮肉にも仏教徒の反対によってその協定を破棄することになってしまった。
バンダラナイケ首相はその後１９５９年に過激派仏教党の手により暗殺されることとなる。享年６０歳。このバンダラナイケ首相の長女が前スリランカ大統領の「チャンドリカ」である。
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