By S. Makenthiran
(These are the strictly personal views of the author)
(May 04, Toronto, Sri Lanka Guardian) The happenings in Sri Lanka is a cause for anger in every right thinking human being. The Eelam Tamils are being subjected to genocide and the worst atrocities imaginable by the Singhalese dominated racist Sri Lanka government. It is disappointing to see the international community looking on without taking action. Worse, it is shocking that the Congress Indian government is giving military and financial help to the Sri Lankan government to carry out this extermination of the Tamil Hindu minority.
The Chinese and Pakistanis have supplied lethal arms, chemical weapons and multi barrel rockets to the Sri Lankan government to slaughter Tamils. Many Western powers cut off financial aid sent by the Tamil Diaspora to the Eelam Tamils. Many countries banned the LTTE, encouraging the Sri Lankan government to invade Tamil Eelam.
The LTTE has been cornered in a small area in Mullaitivu district by the Singhalese armed forces. Before the Rajapakse government started the offensive in 2006, LTTE controlled 80 % of the Tamil homeland, and ran an efficient Eelam administration with army, navy, air force, police, judiciary, taxation, banks, health services, education etc. The Sri Lankan government has destroyed Tamil Eelam by an unscrupulous scorched earth policy. The Eastern Province (South Eelam) occupied by the Singhalese army has been transformed into a puppet province without any powers under Tamil stooges.
The Tamil Tigers were formed after the state sponsored genocide carried out in 1983 by the Singhalese thugs and armed forces on the defenseless Tamils, to defend the helpless Tamil civilians. 90 % of Tamil property in Singhalese majority areas were destroyed and looted and about 3,000 Tamils were killed. Tamil women were raped and prisoners massacred in jails It is only the firm intervention and warning by Indira Gandhi that stopped further atrocities.
For thirty years, the Eelam Tamil leadership carried out passive non violent resistance to Singhalese discrimination without success. Singhalese Only Bill was passed in 1956 and Tamils were denied jobs and higher education. Singhalese thugs went about demanding ‘Kappam’ (ranson) from Tamils and made life intolerable. Singhalese uprooted the Tamils and colonized the Tamil homeland by planting Singhalese criminals. Consequently, about 800,000 Tamils sought refuge in Indian U.K., Europe, Canada, Australia, U.S.A, and different parts of the world.
The Indian government failed to act when the entire Tamils of the plantation were disenfranchised in the very year of independence in 1948 and made stateless. The plantation Tamils had lived in Sri Lanka for centuries, but were uprooted under the Srima-Sastri pact and more than half were forcibly expatriated to South India , a land they had never seen. The non violent protests by Tamil plantation leaders were ignored.
The Sri Lankan armed forces were able to defeat the Tamil Tigers due to their numerical superiority. The Eelam Tamils are outnumbered one to eight by the Singhalese. The revolt of Kaurn Amman, the Eastern Tiger commander considerably weakened the LTTE. Singhalese successfully followed divide and rule policy. There are quislings among Tamils like Douglas Devananda, Anandasangaree and Pillayan.
The Tamil civilians of Vanni retreated with the Tigers into Mullaitivu. About 250,00 Tamil civilians were said to be trapped in the small combat area. The Sri Lankan government declared no fire zones for the Tamil civilians to take refuge and then slaughtered them by using heavy artillery and aerial bombing.
Over 110,000 Tamils have been forced by the Singhalese army to surrender and are being kept in concentration camps behind barbed wire. According to reports, Tamil girls and women are being separated and raped by the Singhalese occupying army. Tamil young boys and men are removed from the camps and slaughtered. Tamil IDPs are being starved by the Singhalese armed guards who are restricting food supplies by Tamil volunteers and NGOs.
The Rajapakse brothers and Sarath Fonseka, who are holding power in Sri Lanka are racist war criminals. The worst of them are Gothabaya Rajapakse and Sarath Fonsekas, anti Tamil maniacs, who ordered the bombing of no fire zones and Tamil hospitals. Anbumani Ramados has said that if returned to power, they will haul them to the international court for crimes against humanity.
The situation is beyond redemption and separation is the only way out.. A two state solution alone can remedy matters. Jayalalitha, the former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister has hit the nail on the head. She has consoled the world Tamil community by publicly declaring that a separate Eelam is the solution as Tamils are being treated as slaves by the Singhalese.
Jayalaltha has boldly declared that she will do all she can to persuade the Central Government to send the Indian army to create Eelam. She has become the symbolic mother of World Tamils. Tamils in Tamil Nadu, Eelam, South Africa, Malaysia, Mauritius and other parts of the world look to her to come to the rescue of Eelam Tamils. The Tamil dinosaur has been provoked by the Singhalese Buddhist fanatical predators and has awakened. They are playing with fire by rousing 70 million Tamil people.
Turkey has separated Northern Cyprus from the Southern part. Recently Russia, entered Georgia and annexed two provinces. If Indira Gandi can send the Indian army to create Bangladesh, and Rajiv Gandhi can send it into Sri Lanka and Maldives, Jayalaltha has every right to ask the Indian army to return to Sri Lanka. It is most unfortunate that the IPKF had to be withdrawn due to bungling by both LTTE and the Indian government.
The Tamil National Alliance headed by Sampanthan has 22 Tamil members in Parliament and they should take the initiative and invite the Indian army. Eelam can have our own democratically elected Chief Minister and legislature like Pondichery, Tamil Nadu, Goa and other states. The destiny of Tamil Eelam should be decided by Eelam Tamils and not by the hostile alien Singhalese. The entity of Tamil Eelam (Northeast Province) is non negotiable.
Eelam should federate with India and not with Sri Lanka. Tamils are linguistically, religiously and culturally firmly connected like the umbilical cord to India, and not to the Singhalese, who are perennial enemies of Tamils. Blood is thicker than water. -Sri Lanka Guardian
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This is a well balanced article, which should open the eyes of the rulers. Definately, Rajapakshe brothers have destroyed not only the tamils, but the infrastructure, the natural jungles, the economy etc.Morover, the tamils in their own country have to live in detention camps in the north. In which part of the world does this happen?. Surely, the time is not too far when the international community will take up this matter in the Hague for war crimes, both the govt and the LTTE.
Your comments which are in bold and my comments are in normal letters
The Eelam Tamils are being subjected to genocide and the worst atrocities imaginable by the Singhalese dominated racist Sri Lanka government.There is no genocide in Sri Lanka it is only a publicity stunt by the terror sympathizers of Velupille Piribaharan a noted and wanted mass murderer aka the chief terrorist of LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam a banned terror organization in USA,Canada, UK, EU , Sri Lanka & India and many more countries who as per the FBI is the most ruthless terrorist organization in the world even bypassing alqueada.
If there is genocide in Sri Lanka how come the majority of the tamils live side by side with all the other communities in Sri Lanka.
It is disappointing to see the international community looking on without taking action.Worse, it is shocking that the Congress Indian government is giving military and financial help to the Sri Lankan government to carry out this extermination of the Tamil Hindu minority.Another misconception the hindu minority is living hapily with the other communities all thorughout sri lanka . Extermination yes you used the correct word that is reserved for a bunch of Terrorists who has brought misery to this nation for 30 odd years and yes unless sanity prevails and LTTE lay down arms only extermination is awaiting them.
The Chinese and Pakistanis have supplied lethal arms, chemical weapons and multi barrel rockets to the Sri Lankan governmentPlease cut the crap about chemical weapons the only chemical weapons used in this is by LTTE which used a gas against the SLDF. There are no chemical weapons in the SLDF arsenal and the whole world knows it other than misguided terror sympathizers like you who swallow every joke tamilnet publishes or is that what you were asked to do propagate lies.
Many Western powers cut off financial aid sent by the Tamil Diaspora to the Eelam Tamils. Many countries banned the LTTE, encouraging the Sri Lankan government to invade Tamil Eelam.Financial Aid for the LTTE to purchase weapons you mean.It is well proven that all these organizations which's assets are frozen are front organizations of LTTE
Invade tamil ealam.You must be dreaming tamil elam is only in your dream. Its just a matter of the Democratically elected government of Sri Lanka wresting control of its legitimate land and securing its legitimate boundaries from a bunch of thugs & terrorists nothing more nothing else.
in 2006, LTTE controlled 80 % of the Tamil homeland, and ran an efficient Eelam administration with army, navy, air force, police, judiciary, taxation, banks, health services, education etc.Are you on drugs yes LTTE tried to run a parallel administration high jacking the government administration let me get this to you straight the salaries were paid by the Government of Sri Lanka for health, Education.Not a single development work done by the LTTE nor the NGO & INGO clan who operated there so much for the efficient administration structure you are talking
The Tamil Tigers were formed after the state sponsored genocide carried out in 1983You lack knowledge about the tamil militancy it has its origins well before 83 the seperation cry or the elam concept was first brought to the fore front by arunachalam in 1920 and Pulip Padai ( Army of Tigers) was formed in 1961.& Pirabaharan founded the LTTE on May 5, 1976 ( Early Tamil Militancy (M.R. Narayan Swamy in Tigers of Lanka)
For thirty years, the Eelam Tamil leadership carried out passive non violent resistance to Singhalese discrimination without success. Vadukkodai Resolution (14-05-1976) by Chelvanayakam & TULF calling Tamil Youth to fight for seperation is the start of your large scale violent terror campaign So the your non violant struggel killed over 100,000 sri lankans for 30years from that point onward
Singhalese Only Bill was passed in 1956 and Tamils were denied jobs and higher education.This is called the official language act 1956. British prefered tamils over singhalease due to their divide and rule policy and by this time english was the official language which was not even spoken or written by 5% of the Sri Lankans so the then government made sinhala the official language, which is spoken by more than 80% at that time with provision to reasonable use of tamil so as a result the elite tamils lost their previladged status Sri Lanka is the only country which has given official states to Tamil and is the only country where tamils are represented in the national flag some thing not even india has done
colonized the Tamil homeland by planting Singhalese criminals.
Consequently, about 800,000 Tamils sought refuge in Indian U.K., Europe, Canada, Australia, U.S.A, and different parts of the world.Are you talking about australia such a thing happended there when british send their convicts to colonize not in Sri Lanka
please get your facts right
Please read " facts & myths of state aided colonization" a report by Retired Deputy Director of the department of Agriculture and former Director of environment authority and Mahawali Authority
The report is available in the defence.lk archives
The Indian government failed to act when the entire Tamils of the plantation were disenfranchised in the very year of independence in 1948 and made stateless.Srima Sharsthi pact gave a choice for the estate tamils of indian origin to choose whether they wanna go to india or to remain in Sri Lanka some chose to remain and some chose to go no body was forced.
Singhalese successfully followed divide and rule policy.Hard to swallow your own medicine this is what your white masters thought you isnt it ?
The Tamil civilians of Vanni retreated with the Tigers into Mullaitivu.
That is the reason over 100,000 came to govt braving the Firing by the LTTE this was shown to the entire world live how the LTTE prevents people from leaving at gun point
concentration camps behind barbed wire. According to reports, Tamil girls and women are being separated and raped by the Singhalese occupying army. Tamil young boys and men are removed from the camps and slaughtered.You really live in a fantasy land no families are separated at IDP centers unless they came separated they were given unit shelters per family.As for your information known terrorists are also among these innocent civilians they are arrested and sent for rehabilitation once identified. Im sure who is trained to kill small children by hitting them on to trees and to hack and kill entire villages should not be allowed to roam free unless rehabilitated.They pose a potential threat to civil society being a civilize person you are dont you think so
The Rajapakse brothers and Sarath Fonseka, who are holding power in Sri Lanka are racist war criminals. The worst of them are Gothabaya Rajapakse and Sarath Fonsekas, anti Tamil maniacs, who ordered the bombing of no fire zones and Tamil hospitals.
There are no war criminals in Sri Lanka except for Velupillai Piribaharan and Pottu Amman .Please look in some western countries you may find such people who carried out such acts in iraq & Afganistan.
Anbumani Ramados has said that if returned to power, they will haul them to the international court for crimes against humanity.Have you heard ever heard the term "Singing to the gallery"
The situation is beyond redemption and separation is the only way out.. A two state solution alone can remedy matters. Jayalalitha, the former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister has hit the nail on the head. She has consoled the world Tamil community by publicly declaring that a separate Eelam is the solution.Agree the situation is beyond redemption for the LTTE terrorists as for jayalalithas speach if i were you would not give a hoot simply election talk to grab a chunk of votes from the intelligent voters.
Jayalaltha has boldly declared that she will do all she can to persuade the Central Government to send the Indian army to create Eelam. She has become the symbolic mother of World Tamils. Tamils in Tamil Nadu, Eelam, South Africa, Malaysia, Mauritius and other parts of the world look to her to come to the rescue of Eelam Tamils.They are playing with fire by rousing 70 million Tamil people.promoting Military intervention in a sovereign state can have its repercussions be glad that the GOSL has not lodged an official protest but then again who cares about election talk specialy from TN politician looking for intelligent votes
The cat is out of the bag isnt it this is not about Sri Lankan tamils isnt it this is all abouth the mythical great Dravidian nation. Ok now i feel so sympathetic for your statelessness well we cant do anything about it but Sri lankan Tamils have a state that is called Sri lanka as for the others since project ealam is finished in SL for good you could start by fabricating a bogus history in canada, australia, UK and malasia for a start good luck
Turkey has separated Northern Cyprus from the Southern part. Recently Russia, entered Georgia and annexed two provinces. If Indira Gandi can send the Indian army to create Bangladesh, and Rajiv Gandhi can send it into Sri Lanka and Maldives, Jayalaltha has every right to ask the Indian army to return to Sri Lanka. It is most unfortunate that the IPKF had to be withdrawn due to bungling by both LTTE and the Indian government.Get This loud and clear my friend "Not in Sri Lanka" Sri Lanka is a nation which never faught for an square inch of others land or countries and we will also not let others conquer Sri lanka
The Tamil National Alliance headed by Sampanthan has 22 Tamil members in Parliament and they should take the initiative and invite the Indian army .
Another set of Joker tiger proxies contravienning the constitution is a crime and they could try to do that and see
The entity of Tamil Eelam (Northeast Province) is non negotiable.Yes it is non negotiable " No Tamil Elam
Eelam should federate with India and not with Sri Lanka. Tamils are linguistically, religiously and culturally firmly connected like the umbilical cord to India, and not to the Singhalese, who are perennial enemies of Tamils. Blood is thicker than water.Now the cat is jumping up & down in the open this was the whole plan behind the great Dravidian nation concept too bad the Sri Lankan & the Indian Governments had the foresight to see this so project scraped in Sri Lankan soil you could try some other place and its disappointing isnt is after 70 odd years to start all over again.
This is racial crap. Without pointing a finger at LTTE, what this writer is trying to do. He do not touch upon atrocities committed by LTTE and all the sufferings inflicted on Tamil people. Even at this time, if not for LTTE holding civilians as a human shield there will be no tragedy. What the writer is arguing the LTTE has a god given right to inflict pain and create mayhem on innocent civilians? This is classic LTTE propaganda. Ask from Daya Master who has just crossed over to freedom. The whole blame should be attributed to LTTE, no one else for the plight of Tamil people at this time.
Why is sri lanaka guardian publishing this type of stupid,racialy abusive, baseless, and moronic junk?
Sinhabhu, thank you for taking the time to answer those baseless tiger propaganda of a sorry arse of a tiger supporter.
No point writing, publishing or reading LTTE propaganda based biased, partial, fabricated humbug like this article.Last not the least SL forces, job done..Game is over..Let Any Toronto, London, Oslo,Paris or Melbourne be Dreamland of EELAM IN EXILE.Sri Lanka is Sri Lanka for ever, not for sale, ever.
The writer is living in delusion. Why is the Lanka Guardian publishing such rubbish which gets circulated among the LTTE sympathizing western media?
Hopefully, the writer will feel the pain of his own people who are suffering as human shields of the LTTE thru the LTTE tentacles that are deeply wrapped around the tamil diaspora in Canada!
There'll be freedom, peace and prosperity in the North and East of Sri Lanka soon, and then all the LTTE sympathizing Tamil Diaspora who are hoping for a bloodbath can fight for a separate state in Scarboro Canada!!
"The plantation Tamils had lived in Sri Lanka for centuries, but were uprooted under the Srima-Sastri pact and more than half were forcibly expatriated to South India , a land they had never seen."
This is a vile and a bald-faced lie, at that time my father was a Planter in a Uva District Tea Estate, the Gov' had issued two sets of forms, one application was to apply for a permanent Sri Lankan citizenship, (who already were not) and the other was given to anyone who wanted to leave for India. According to my recollection only a handful chose the latter saying that they got relatives there. And the rest applied for the Sri Lankan Citizenship, they were too scared to leave cos' they did not know anyone in India. Some information that we later heard from them was that they were not doing well at all, and some even regretted that they left Sri Lanka. This is a fact, one can check this out.
In my opinion this article is highly questionable where facts are concerned.
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