| by L.Annadoure
( March 21, 2013, Chennai, Sri Lanka Guardian) The students who are pursuing the courses in Law, Engineering, Arts, Science and technical in the colleges in Tamil Nadu have risen against Indian Government in a non violent way , a spontaneous upsurge all over Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, urging the Indian Government to move an effective resolution against Mr.Mahinda Rajapaskshe who had committed Genocide and war crimes against Eelam Tamils and to institute an independent international investigation into the Genocide and war crimes committed against Eelam Tamils. The students who hail from other States too have joined themselves in espousing the cause.
The movement is unique in the sense that the sole architects of the non violent movement are the students themselves and such a movement is being carried on by them independent of any political party or any support or any other backing of whatsoever nature from any quarters.
The efforts taken by the students of Loyala College , Chennai in observing an hunger strike for the cause of Eelam Tamils has been thwarted by police at mid night which action turn has given rise to the students of other colleges joining hands with the non violent agitators and set in motion one college students after another in resorting to observance of Sathyiagraha.
It is there to see that the Student community has apparently despised the participation of political leaders in their agitation so as to avert branding of political name on their movement. The effusion of feelings for the Eelam Tamils has come on them as natural as leaves to a tree and the Sathiyagrahis have vowed that they would not to take water until their demands are met and the consequence of ever surging students’ non violent movement is the DMK’s dismemberment from the coalition.
Mr.Vellupillai Prabakaran was a forerunner and pioneer in this respect , for when the Indian Government had confiscated telecommunication gadgets in 1986 he had observed Satyagraha without taking not even a sip of water.
Even the Satiyagrahis like Mahatma Gandhi, Shri.Potty Ramalu in Andra Pradesh, and Shri Sankaralinga Nadar from Viruddu Nagar , Tamil Nadu and others who had observed hunger strike for the respective cause of theirs had taken water to quench the thirst during the course of observance of Sathyagraha.
The Second on the path of Sathiyagraha was Mr.Deelipan of Tamil Eelam who had observed Satiyagraha without taking not even a drop of water for 12 days on end and he had laid his life for the cause, the emancipation of Eelam Tamils from the shackles of their oppressors at the precinct of Nallur Kandasamy Temple, Nallur.
Mr.Deelipan had laid five demands before Indian Government and the said representation was sent to the Indian High Commissioner and the demands were, 1. all the detainees who were detained under terrorist prevention law had to be released forthwith, 2. the settlement of Sinhalese families at the initiative of Sri Lankan Government amidst Tamil families under the garb of resettlement be stopped immediately, 3. prior to the installation of an interim Government all activities done under the garb of resettlement had to be stopped, 4. opening up new police stations in the North and East be stopped immediately and 5th. the supply of arms and weapons to home guards who were under the superintendence of Indian Peace Keeping force be abandoned.
On the first day of Sathiyagraha , the school children who had come in and around the area had walked in a file to take a last glimpse of Deelipan and bid him farewell. Several college students who had come there had read out short verses in praise of him. Women folk had cried and shed tears imploring their Gods to save Deelipan.
Large crowd of about 1lakh had gathered there before the Nallur Kandasamy Temple, Sri Lanka . Mr.Deelipan had observed Satyagrahga mainly to enforce the stipulations and clauses which found place in the 1987 agreement between Indian Government and Sri Lankan Government.
On the second day Mr.Deelipan spoke before the milling crowd thus, “ Fellow liberator Miller who while going out on a mission said to me thus . ‘I do not know whether I would be alive tomorrow and I wanted to speak to you. I am steadfast in my ideal, aspiration and aim. Six Hundred and fifty of us were dead already. I am happy and feel satisfied in laying my life for the cause of my mother land but I could see that I may not be alive to see the birth of Tamil Eelam’. Before I chose to sit on hunger strike I sought the permission of our Leader who had approved it by saying that ‘ I might go first and that he would come after me’. Let the peoples’ movement gain momentum under his leadership which would certainly secure peoples’ basic rights and the birth of Eelam Nation. Myself along with six Hundred and fifty of our friends would feel happy to see from other word the birth of Tamil Eelam. We cherish dearly the children the sisters, mothers and fathers above all else. Achieve the goal along with our leader”.
The School Children in Tamil Nadu too have associated themselves with the present Sathiyagraha movement and no body has incited them. They have come to gain knowledge and get news faster these days than their parents did in earlier years and the school Children know pretty well about the annihilation of Tamil Race in Sri Lanka and the days are gone when the parents would be cautious enough in seeing their children had not involved themselves in politics and now the parents themselves want to participate in the Sathiyagraha movement led by their sons and daughters because they know pretty well the plight and pathetic lot of Eelam Tamils and how certain political parties and the erstwhile State Government and Central Government have let them down.
During the previous periodic review, the Tamil Nadu state Government took a precautionary measure of closing down all schools and colleges lest the students’ community should engage themselves in strike and demonstration and at present too this State Government has tried its level best to curtail the non violent movement but it knew that repression of such non violent movement would certainly have its repercussions. What is as clear as day light is that the students community and the people have awakened themselves from their stupor and lethargy and the Governments cannot hoodwink them any longer.
The Students’ community in Tamil Nadu rose against imposition of Hindi on Tamil people in 1965 and the agitating students were lathi charged 63 times in 2 days in Madurai alone and the District collector had felt happy to have done so. Army was called in to quell the uprising and perhaps Tamil Nadu except Kashmir was first of the states to have been subjected to repressive measures. The Government had clamped down censorship. The Police had opened and read all letters and covers at the post offices which had been turned into mini police stations and the striking students were arrested under Defence of India Rules. The DMK which had spear headed the agitation had silenced the agitation for self interest.
One of the student leaders in Chennai recently spoke in press interview saying that the students’ antecedents are being collected by the CID and perhaps the students leaders, active participants and organisers would soon be branded as Terrorists as the High Commissioner for Sri Lanka has made a sweeping condemnation against the students’ non violent movement as terrorist activities.
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