Special Photo: Innocent Sri Lankan children are working out side the 4’-11’’ height Tiger leader Prabhakaran such as slaves. By: Nesan Shankar Raji
(October 16, London, Sri Lanka Guardian) The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) are continually making full use of young male and female child soldiers to defend their Front-Lines from the Sri Lankan Armed Forces. Why the LTTE cries out to the International Community and accuses the Government of Sri Lanka of Human Rights Abuses I do not know when the LTTE themselves are abusing the Human Rights of young teenagers who deserve a better quality of life free from the very high possibility of a very short life-span by being forced out on the battlefield. More and more, young Sri Lankan Tamils are fleeing Sri Lanka, our motherland because they fear being recruited by the LTTE. This is fact! The declaration of Eelam War (IV) is the biggest mistake the LTTE leader Prabhakaran could have made and has cost the lives of over 4,000 people. Human life to the LTTE means nothing, Human Rights, Freedom of Speech, Democracy and Pluralism means nothing. They make full use of their front Human Rights organisations worldwide for their own propaganda purposes to fuel their campaign and support amongst the Sri Lankan Tamil speaking Diaspora which is fast dwindling.
The LTTE have always waved the Human Rights issue when they have been near military and political defeat. It is entirely hypocritical of them to have appointed a Human Rights Spokesperson Ms N. Selvi, a female soldier, a champion of Human Rights for Terrorist Fascists who has no understanding whatsoever of the pain and anguish of a mother who has either lost her son or daughter in the battlefield after being recruited by the LTTE.
There are tens of thousands of our people starving in Sri Lanka because of the LTTE's military campaign; many thousands of civilians are displaced from their home villages. There is a lack of sanitation and basic facilities for our people in the refugee camps. All these unbearable sufferings, because of the LTTE's, plight to achieve Eelam. Prabhakaran knows only too well that neither he or the LTTE will never deliver Eelam. The fact of the matter is that he is not man enough to admit this and on the same token will never settle for anything less that Eelam. Therefore any solution between the LTTE and the Government of Sri Lanka would always be deemed “interim”. The LTTE has been deceiving the Sri Lankan Diaspora for decades now. These sufferings’, being faced is definitely not what our community wants and the other communities of Sri Lanka. This is why we as an organisation are actively working in Sri Lanka once again and abroad for our people and to help protect the interests of the Sri Lankan Tamil speaking community.
EROS urges the Sri Lankan Tamil speaking community to open their eyes wide and observe what is really going on in Sri Lanka. The LTTE have transitioned from a movement of freedom fighters to a movement of Fascists. The LTTE will never achieve their goal in delivering Eelam to the Tamil speaking people, they will only bring tens of thousands of more deaths and bloodshed. Is this what we really want? What will be left of our community’s population in our motherland I do not know for it has plundered to ridiculous levels ever since the LTTE embarked on their journey of killing off rival democratic politicians, political groups and claiming to be the sole representatives of the Sri Lankan Tamil speaking people.
EROS has always advocated that all Tamil speaking people are Eelavar's. Eelam is our traditional homeland, there is no question about it, but that’s all in the past now. This does not mean to say that we do not recognise the North-East as our traditional homeland, we do but we must learn to live amongst one another in peace. The Sri Lankan Tamil speaking community do deserve to have regional autonomy, but it should not be at the price of death and destruction in our homeland. This can be achieved through constructive political dialogue with the Government of Sri Lanka.
The only barrier to this is that the LTTE must admit political defeat and will never hand over its arms. It is the LTTE that has alienated the Sri Lankan Muslim community from the Tamil community by acts of sheer Genocide and ethnic cleansing. EROS is working towards addressing the grievances of the Muslim community and re-integrating the Tamil speaking Muslims back into our community and encouraging reconciliation.
We need your support and encouragement. We are an independent organisation and political party with a good name and reputation amongst our community. We will do what’s right for our community and help bridge the gap between other communities in Sri Lanka. We must learn to be Sri Lankan first and our ethnicity, religion etc should come secondary. Secularism must be encouraged and promoted in Sri Lanka. There can never be peace in Sri Lanka if the LTTE remains as a military outfit and continues to fight for a separate state. They will always come in the way of true and ever lasting peace in Sri Lanka.
The writer is chief spokesperson of a Tamil democratic political Party, the Eelam Revolutionary Organisation.
(October 16, London, Sri Lanka Guardian) The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) are continually making full use of young male and female child soldiers to defend their Front-Lines from the Sri Lankan Armed Forces. Why the LTTE cries out to the International Community and accuses the Government of Sri Lanka of Human Rights Abuses I do not know when the LTTE themselves are abusing the Human Rights of young teenagers who deserve a better quality of life free from the very high possibility of a very short life-span by being forced out on the battlefield. More and more, young Sri Lankan Tamils are fleeing Sri Lanka, our motherland because they fear being recruited by the LTTE. This is fact! The declaration of Eelam War (IV) is the biggest mistake the LTTE leader Prabhakaran could have made and has cost the lives of over 4,000 people. Human life to the LTTE means nothing, Human Rights, Freedom of Speech, Democracy and Pluralism means nothing. They make full use of their front Human Rights organisations worldwide for their own propaganda purposes to fuel their campaign and support amongst the Sri Lankan Tamil speaking Diaspora which is fast dwindling.
The LTTE have always waved the Human Rights issue when they have been near military and political defeat. It is entirely hypocritical of them to have appointed a Human Rights Spokesperson Ms N. Selvi, a female soldier, a champion of Human Rights for Terrorist Fascists who has no understanding whatsoever of the pain and anguish of a mother who has either lost her son or daughter in the battlefield after being recruited by the LTTE.
There are tens of thousands of our people starving in Sri Lanka because of the LTTE's military campaign; many thousands of civilians are displaced from their home villages. There is a lack of sanitation and basic facilities for our people in the refugee camps. All these unbearable sufferings, because of the LTTE's, plight to achieve Eelam. Prabhakaran knows only too well that neither he or the LTTE will never deliver Eelam. The fact of the matter is that he is not man enough to admit this and on the same token will never settle for anything less that Eelam. Therefore any solution between the LTTE and the Government of Sri Lanka would always be deemed “interim”. The LTTE has been deceiving the Sri Lankan Diaspora for decades now. These sufferings’, being faced is definitely not what our community wants and the other communities of Sri Lanka. This is why we as an organisation are actively working in Sri Lanka once again and abroad for our people and to help protect the interests of the Sri Lankan Tamil speaking community.
EROS urges the Sri Lankan Tamil speaking community to open their eyes wide and observe what is really going on in Sri Lanka. The LTTE have transitioned from a movement of freedom fighters to a movement of Fascists. The LTTE will never achieve their goal in delivering Eelam to the Tamil speaking people, they will only bring tens of thousands of more deaths and bloodshed. Is this what we really want? What will be left of our community’s population in our motherland I do not know for it has plundered to ridiculous levels ever since the LTTE embarked on their journey of killing off rival democratic politicians, political groups and claiming to be the sole representatives of the Sri Lankan Tamil speaking people.
EROS has always advocated that all Tamil speaking people are Eelavar's. Eelam is our traditional homeland, there is no question about it, but that’s all in the past now. This does not mean to say that we do not recognise the North-East as our traditional homeland, we do but we must learn to live amongst one another in peace. The Sri Lankan Tamil speaking community do deserve to have regional autonomy, but it should not be at the price of death and destruction in our homeland. This can be achieved through constructive political dialogue with the Government of Sri Lanka.
The only barrier to this is that the LTTE must admit political defeat and will never hand over its arms. It is the LTTE that has alienated the Sri Lankan Muslim community from the Tamil community by acts of sheer Genocide and ethnic cleansing. EROS is working towards addressing the grievances of the Muslim community and re-integrating the Tamil speaking Muslims back into our community and encouraging reconciliation.
We need your support and encouragement. We are an independent organisation and political party with a good name and reputation amongst our community. We will do what’s right for our community and help bridge the gap between other communities in Sri Lanka. We must learn to be Sri Lankan first and our ethnicity, religion etc should come secondary. Secularism must be encouraged and promoted in Sri Lanka. There can never be peace in Sri Lanka if the LTTE remains as a military outfit and continues to fight for a separate state. They will always come in the way of true and ever lasting peace in Sri Lanka.
The writer is chief spokesperson of a Tamil democratic political Party, the Eelam Revolutionary Organisation.
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