Showing posts with label Tamil Eelam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tamil Eelam. Show all posts
Tortures still continue even after the political change in Srilanka
In this episode Karunakaran talks to Sonya Sceats, director of policy and advocacy for Freedom from Torture.
Erik Solheim - Interview with the mediator between the Tamil Tigers and the Srilankan Government
Erik Solheim - Interview with the mediator between the Tamil Tigers and the Srilankan Government Puthiyathalaimurai's exclusive interview with Erik Solheim, the former Norwegian minister and mediator between the Tamil Tigers and the Srilankan Government sharing his experience and opinions regarding the UN resolution, America's stance, etc.
The holy bible is being burnt in India
Dear Govemment of India ,Much love to you,and Greetings you modi in the name of our Loard and Savior Jesus Chirst.According to the bible,a christian is also known as a beliver.We belive in the AlMIGHTY GOD? In his invisible and eternal attributes and in the Son of the Almighty God, Jesus christ .The Bible teaches us that all things work togther for good to those who love God. The bible teaches us pray for our nation, for our leaders nad for those who are in authority beacause the effective, fervent prayers of a righteous man avails much but certainly it is a call of much faith and time During the eletion you spoke of everyone's progeress, We were pleased.YOU called us friends,we were very pleased ,you spoke of cleanliness,we honored you, you spoke about serving the nation, We joined hands with you. we voted for you.
Today you are in power, We are in hope you are in authority, we are in prayer.The entire chirstian community is your friend today may your friends not be forgotten by you after your arrival,the churches of yours friends are being increasingly set aflame. Free india of christians by 2021 are the slogans being echoed. Christians are being threatened by the foced mass conversions of the ''homme coming'' Christians gatherings are beings terminated at several places clergymens are being killed,the holy bible is being burnt. You are in authority, we are taked aback and troubled by this altered state of affairs .Those who are executing these,are they your friends or who are they??? and we are futher pained that you are smiling,that you are silent, you are exceedingly aware; The role of a prime minister is of much excellence, responsibility and dignity We are hopeful that you will manifest yourself,that the prime minister of india is a benefactor of every citizen ,that he is a true friend,
Clergymens are being killed,the holy bible is being burnt in India
Dear Govemment of India ,Much love to you,and Greetings you modi in the name of our Loard and Savior Jesus Chirst.According to the bible,a christian is also known as a beliver.We belive in the AlMIGHTY GOD? In his invisible and eternal attributes and in the Son of the Almighty God, Jesus christ .The Bible teaches us that all things work togther for good to those who love God. The bible teaches us pray for our nation, for our leaders nad for those who are in authority beacause the effective, fervent prayers of a righteous man avails much but certainly it is a call of much faith and time During the eletion you spoke of everyone's progeress, We were pleased.YOU called us friends,we were very pleased ,you spoke of cleanliness,we honored you, you spoke about serving the nation, We joined hands with you. we voted for you.
Today you are in power, We are in hope you are in authority, we are in prayer.The entire chirstian community is your friend today may your friends not be forgotten by you after your arrival,the churches of yours friends are being increasingly set aflame. Free india of christians by 2021 are the slogans being echoed. Christians are being threatened by the foced mass conversions of the ''homme coming'' Christians gatherings are beings terminated at several places clergymens are being killed,the holy bible is being burnt. You are in authority, we are taked aback and troubled by this altered state of affairs .Those who are executing these,are they your friends or who are they??? and we are futher pained that you are smiling,that you are silent, you are exceedingly aware; The role of a prime minister is of much excellence, responsibility and dignity We are hopeful that you will manifest yourself,that the prime minister of india is a benefactor of every citizen ,that he is a true friend,
India LIke LTTE 'put in its place' : Norway report
The exhaustive document, released here on Friday, shows that New Delhi's sympathy lay with Colombo vis-a-vis the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam as the peace process began to slowly unravel from 2003-04.
"India criticises Norway in private meetings for being too 'LTTE friendly' and underlines the need to 'put the LTTE in its place'," said the 202-page report, based on archival material in the Norwegian foreign ministry as well as interviews with key players and personalities.
"India provides radar and intelligence information to the Sri Lankan forces. Delhi maintains it will not provide offensive military assets but it does not object to Sri Lanka purchasing weaponry elsewhere...
"Most importantly, Indian opposition to the LTTE starts to translate into firmer backing for the Sri Lankan government."
India outlawed the LTTE in 1992, a year after a Tiger suicide bomber assassinated former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. In a dramatic turn of events, his widow Sonia became India's most powerful figure when the Congress returned to power in 2004.
Although the document, titled "Pawns of Peace", is an evaluation of the Norwegian peace efforts in Sri Lanka from 1997 to 2009, when the LTTE was vanquished, there are repeated references to India, which many viewed as the most important foreign player in Sri Lanka.
Norway helped the LTTE - which was fighting for a Tamil homeland - and the Sri Lankan government to sign a ceasefire agreement (CFA) in February 2002 with a view to ending the country's protracted ethnic conflict.
But after a limited period of peace, the situation slowly returned to square one, particularly after the LTTE split in April 2004 and President Rajapaksa took power in November 2005 promising to tame the Tigers.
In May 2009, the Colombo militarily crushed the LTTE, the last stages of the war leaving thousands of combatants and civilians dead. By then, Sri Lanka had terminated Norway's role as facilitator in the peace process.
The reports says that even as New Delhi made "some pleas for limiting civilian casualties (towards the end of 2008), the Indian government makes it very clear that it supports a continuation of the (military) offensive and the defeat of the LTTE".
Referring to the LTTE's last days, the report said: "As the net around the insurgents closes, LTTE surrender becomes a less and less attractive option for Colombo. It is also doubtful (if) India has any interest in the LTTE surviving the end of the war."
May 2009, when the entire LTTE leadership including its founder chief Velupillai Prabhakaran was wiped out, also coincided with the last round of Indian elections that saw the Congress retain power.
The report says that Sri Lanka was worried that if the Congress was voted out, 'someone will come to the insurgents' aid'.
The report says that Indian cabinet minister P. Chidambaram contacted Prabhakaran towards the end of the conflict -- it does not say how -- and suggested that 'the LTTE agree to a pre-drafted statement that they will lay down their weapons'.
But this move, it says, leaked to pro-LTTE Tamil Nadu politician Vaiko "who rejects it as a Congress trick and assures the LTTE that the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) will win the elections and come to the Tigers' rescue".
That never happened, and Prabhakaran was killed just when the Lok Sabha election results were announced in India.
The best tamil Student
MONTREAL — Marymount Academy welcomed back one of its own Thursday: an internationally recognized scientist -- who is only 17 years old.
Abicumaran Uthamacumaran graduated from the Cote-St-Luc Rd. school four months ago, and was put on an accelerated track.
"My plans were to go to college and then university, pursue a Bachelor's and then a Master's, Ph.D., (or) med school or something like that," said the ambitious Uthamacumaran, who was fast-tracked four years ago when he sent dozens of e-mails to professors about his passion for science.
The only one who wanted to speak with him was Dr. Phil Gold, a pioneer cancer researcher who has committed his career to improving patient care through the development of groundbreaking therapies.
"After about 10 minutes, it became quite obvious he wasn't off the wall at all, but he was a very bright guy," said Dr. Gold, who said the young man is a unique young student. "From my vantage point, he's like the big bang. He's a singularity."
Gold, who was the first director of the McGill Cancer Centre, now serves as executive director of the Clinical Research Centre of the Research Institute of the MUHC, and is a montor to Uthamacumaran.
After being mentored by the leading scientist, McGill agreed to waive the Cegep prerequisite and enrolled Uthamacumaran.
The accomplishment was recognized Thursday by the staff and students at his former high school with an honorary doctorate of science from the English Montreal School Board and Marymount Academy.
Abi, as he is known, spoke humbly to students at his alma mater Thursday.
"I'm no different than anybody in this room. We're all just at the same level," he told them, serving as inspiration for some other young minds.
"I see him, the way how he's achieved his goal, and he's continuing to strive to reach higher. It makes me feel like I can do the same," said Krystopher Collymore, a student at Marymount Academy.
Uthamacumaran said he believes when you put your mind to it, there's nothing that can't be done.
"We say the sky's the limit, but there is no limit to the sky," he said. "The sky just extends forever."
Eezham liberation is geopolitical priority for Tamil Nadu: Thirumurukan
If the people of Tamil Nadu are vigilant enough of the nature and aims of the geopolitical forces operate in the region, then they will realise that call for independence of Eezham Tamils should get priority over war crimes investigation and indictment of Mahinda Rajapaksa, said Mr. Thirumurukan Gandhi of the May 17 Movement of Tamil Nadu, while discussing the UN report in Chennai last month. The whole world, except Tamil Nadu, knows that the power to change the paradigm lies in Tamil Nadu, he further said. Thirumurukan’s analysis coming from grassroot thinking in Tamil Nadu was refreshing, while ‘analysis groups’ in Chennai and some international organizations backed by establishments aiming to capitalize the war crimes to their interests truncate the ultimate justice of liberation to the affected, said political observers in the island and in the diaspora.
Geopolitical analysis or regional political analysis of quality was rarely made from Tamil perspectives in Tamil Nadu in the past. Such analyses were always a monopoly of a so-called ‘national’ minded clan and their media in India.
Much of the sufferings of Tamils in India and outside, and the diplomatic woes of India in its southern flank were due to this lacuna, as analyses coming from Tamil Nadu perspectives meeting the rigours of international norms were never highlighted or they didn’t come at all, rising above the din of empty political rhetoric.
The way a new genre of Tamil analysts discussed the UN panel report last month in Chennai was very refreshing, amazingly transparent in the content of truth and casts away conventional analyses or psy-ops coming from enslaved universities, funded organizations and intelligence-operated strategic ‘think tanks’ into dustbin, commented an academic in Jaffna.
The most dangerous of the ‘analysis campaign’ after the genocidal war in Vanni is shedding crocodile tears for the war crimes to get political acceptance to post-war agendas, but refusing to examine why the affected should not be liberated and independent.
If successive constitutions since British times and post-British times have failed for more than a hundred years on the national question in the island, and if the logical end has reached the point of genocide, then there is no point in accusing the implementation of the present constitution or harping on constitutional reforms. There is something wrong with the very existence of this state as a single unit.
When the very word ‘Sri Lanka,’ ever since its constitutional inception, is associated with a genocidal state, anyone with common sense could tell why the Tamils can’t be ‘Sri Lankans’ in the island. Saying, “Tamils can be Sri Lankans” at this stage is only another way of putting an agenda to exterminate the nation of Eezham Tamils in the island.
Why don’t the political science pundits who always think of power interests tell us what global or civilization-benefits are there for humanity by Eezham Tamils not claiming their independence even when they face genocide, the academic in Jaffna asked.
Raman and Hariharan have lost the credibility with the war ending in genocide. So, there will be another set of analysts with seemingly new paradigms but with the old agenda, the academic further said.
The investigation on war crimes, covering all those who were involved with the crimes, is a responsibility of world humanity primarily for its own sake, if it wants progress from the suffocating state and power system of today. Even after becoming two states the Eezham Tamils and the Sinhalese have to strike reconciliation on their own, for their own survival in one island. But anyone concerned with war crimes or reconciliation today cannot pretend ignorance that neither a genuine war-crimes investigation nor genuine reconciliation is possible when the Eezham Tamils don’t have independence first.
The responsibility of Tamil Nadu, based on Tamil perspectives, which Tamil Nadu alone could do, is more than identifying itself with the global responsibility of war crimes investigation. The government of Ms. Jayalalitha may have taken carefully calculated initial steps in the right direction, but it should not be deviated by vicious forces that have a record of doing mischief in the region is the concern of global Tamils.
Thirumurukan Gandhi, K. Aiyanathan, Prof Paul Newman, Devasahayam, Rajendra Chozhan, Priya Thampi, Arul Ezhilan, Pandimadevi and DSS Mani, who have discussed the UN panel report in Thiyagaraya Nagar, Chennai on May 28, have boldly and explicitly brought out the intriguing aspects that affect affairs from moving in the right direction and what Tamil Nadu should do about them.
Such analyses should also reach the outside world for the benefit of global public opinion, the Jaffna academic commented, adding that with such quality of awakening and new thinking, the next generation of Tamil Nadu cannot be taken for a ride or be contained by anyone, without yielding into aspirations that are righteous.
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The following are some points brought out by Thirumurukan in his analysis. The links for the full speeches of Thirumurukan and the other analysts in Tamil are given at the end:
There was genocide before the war and there is genocide after the war. Before there was a militant organization to counter it, now there is nobody. The genocide that takes place after the war needs our full attention.
Tamil Nadu should be aware of its geopolitical importance to take right moves, while the land of Tamils is fast becoming another Afghanistan in South Asia.
China that sets the String of Pearls and aspire for Blue-water Navy and the USA that now orchestrates regime changes to save its image and to control Chinese inroads are not really against each other. They only practice containment and in the process people perish.
Ilangkai (Sri Lanka) is in the highlight now as it is going to set the trend elsewhere. The next in line is the Karen nation in Burma.
The US and the EU broke the peace talks in the island. The US knows all what had happened during the war. There was close understanding between the US and the Rajapaksa regime and the US gave arms to Colombo through Israel.
The US needs the entire east coast of Sri Lanka.
Corruption is a weapon to bring in instability and corruption is encouraged to bring in instability. Corruption cannot be the cause for revolution but revolution can have corruption.
The popular uprisings in the world, including the Jasmine Revolution in West Asia and North Africa are planned and hijacked by the US, only to change the leaders and to escape the anti-US sentiments in the world.
They prepared Rajapaksa to destroy the LTTE. After the LTTE, Rajapaksa is not needed and the powers now bring in the war crimes investigation to ‘punish’ him. Rajapaksa is not our concern, but Tamil Eelam is our concern. Our fear is whether Tamils will get their justice. The US is known for differentiating punishment to the ‘criminal’ from delivery of justice to the victim.
The political replacement that took place in Tamil Nadu is analogous. They need some one acceptable in Tamil Nadu to endorse their agenda.
All except Tamils know that Tamil Nadu is the key factor.
The West may now hand over the task of ‘political solution’ to India. As it does now and then, India will dust the 13th Amendment.
There are three Tamil entities to handle.
The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) in the island will be handled both by India and the USA.
Whatever they impose in the island should find endorsement in Tamil Nadu. As Karunanidhi has lost the credibility there should be some one else who could evoke hopes in Tamil Nadu. Tamils need to be watchful. Tamil Nadu has already gone into global politics.
When the Tamil Nadu State Government is handled, there will be no one to raise voice in the Assembly.
The Communist Party of India (CPI) may talk, but it too looks at the issue within the framework of a ‘united Sri Lanka’.
Vaiko was purposefully sidelined earlier and now, as there shouldn’t exist anyone within the Assembly to raise the name Tamil Eelam.
The third entity, the diaspora and its committed section, is already pressurised heavily in many systematic ways in the West. When the stage is set, Rudrakumaran will be forced to accept what is set by the agenda.
When the BBC and the CNN blare out the virtues of the solution, the voices in Tamil Nadu will be feeble.
Our support to the war crimes investigation of the UN should be conditional. The UN panel report is incomplete, as it has not recognized the genocide in the island. Merely a regime change effected by the war crimes investigation cannot bring in lasting solutions to Eezham Tamils.
2,50,000 Tamils have been killed in the war of decades. Accepting wanting solutions is not doing justice to the killed.
We live in historic times.
Like SJV Chelvanayagam was firm in 1976 in Vaddukkoaddai Resolution calling for Tamil Eelam, like Pirapaharan was firm in 1987 against hoodwink solutions, Tamil Nadu has to be firm now.
The war crimes the UN now speaks of, is not an isolated event. The root has to be addressed and answered. Governments in India and Sri Lanka always set the agenda and we in Tamil Nadu only respond to passing events of the agenda. Immersed in immediate issues we fail to raise the voice for the fundamental issue – the independence of Tamil Eelam.
Eezham Tamils have democratically mandated the Vaddukkoaddai Resolution and have re-mandated it in the diaspora recently.
War crimes investigation may be welcomed. But, without the recognition of the genocide and without the recognition that a national question was the reason, the investigation is meaningless.
Let those who don’t agree conduct a referendum through the UN and see.
Geopolitical analysis or regional political analysis of quality was rarely made from Tamil perspectives in Tamil Nadu in the past. Such analyses were always a monopoly of a so-called ‘national’ minded clan and their media in India.
Much of the sufferings of Tamils in India and outside, and the diplomatic woes of India in its southern flank were due to this lacuna, as analyses coming from Tamil Nadu perspectives meeting the rigours of international norms were never highlighted or they didn’t come at all, rising above the din of empty political rhetoric.
The way a new genre of Tamil analysts discussed the UN panel report last month in Chennai was very refreshing, amazingly transparent in the content of truth and casts away conventional analyses or psy-ops coming from enslaved universities, funded organizations and intelligence-operated strategic ‘think tanks’ into dustbin, commented an academic in Jaffna.
The most dangerous of the ‘analysis campaign’ after the genocidal war in Vanni is shedding crocodile tears for the war crimes to get political acceptance to post-war agendas, but refusing to examine why the affected should not be liberated and independent.
If successive constitutions since British times and post-British times have failed for more than a hundred years on the national question in the island, and if the logical end has reached the point of genocide, then there is no point in accusing the implementation of the present constitution or harping on constitutional reforms. There is something wrong with the very existence of this state as a single unit.
When the very word ‘Sri Lanka,’ ever since its constitutional inception, is associated with a genocidal state, anyone with common sense could tell why the Tamils can’t be ‘Sri Lankans’ in the island. Saying, “Tamils can be Sri Lankans” at this stage is only another way of putting an agenda to exterminate the nation of Eezham Tamils in the island.
Why don’t the political science pundits who always think of power interests tell us what global or civilization-benefits are there for humanity by Eezham Tamils not claiming their independence even when they face genocide, the academic in Jaffna asked.
Raman and Hariharan have lost the credibility with the war ending in genocide. So, there will be another set of analysts with seemingly new paradigms but with the old agenda, the academic further said.
The investigation on war crimes, covering all those who were involved with the crimes, is a responsibility of world humanity primarily for its own sake, if it wants progress from the suffocating state and power system of today. Even after becoming two states the Eezham Tamils and the Sinhalese have to strike reconciliation on their own, for their own survival in one island. But anyone concerned with war crimes or reconciliation today cannot pretend ignorance that neither a genuine war-crimes investigation nor genuine reconciliation is possible when the Eezham Tamils don’t have independence first.
The responsibility of Tamil Nadu, based on Tamil perspectives, which Tamil Nadu alone could do, is more than identifying itself with the global responsibility of war crimes investigation. The government of Ms. Jayalalitha may have taken carefully calculated initial steps in the right direction, but it should not be deviated by vicious forces that have a record of doing mischief in the region is the concern of global Tamils.
Thirumurukan Gandhi, K. Aiyanathan, Prof Paul Newman, Devasahayam, Rajendra Chozhan, Priya Thampi, Arul Ezhilan, Pandimadevi and DSS Mani, who have discussed the UN panel report in Thiyagaraya Nagar, Chennai on May 28, have boldly and explicitly brought out the intriguing aspects that affect affairs from moving in the right direction and what Tamil Nadu should do about them.
Such analyses should also reach the outside world for the benefit of global public opinion, the Jaffna academic commented, adding that with such quality of awakening and new thinking, the next generation of Tamil Nadu cannot be taken for a ride or be contained by anyone, without yielding into aspirations that are righteous.
The following are some points brought out by Thirumurukan in his analysis. The links for the full speeches of Thirumurukan and the other analysts in Tamil are given at the end:
Thirumurukan Gandhi
Tamil Nadu should be aware of its geopolitical importance to take right moves, while the land of Tamils is fast becoming another Afghanistan in South Asia.
China that sets the String of Pearls and aspire for Blue-water Navy and the USA that now orchestrates regime changes to save its image and to control Chinese inroads are not really against each other. They only practice containment and in the process people perish.
Ilangkai (Sri Lanka) is in the highlight now as it is going to set the trend elsewhere. The next in line is the Karen nation in Burma.
The US and the EU broke the peace talks in the island. The US knows all what had happened during the war. There was close understanding between the US and the Rajapaksa regime and the US gave arms to Colombo through Israel.
The US needs the entire east coast of Sri Lanka.
Corruption is a weapon to bring in instability and corruption is encouraged to bring in instability. Corruption cannot be the cause for revolution but revolution can have corruption.
The popular uprisings in the world, including the Jasmine Revolution in West Asia and North Africa are planned and hijacked by the US, only to change the leaders and to escape the anti-US sentiments in the world.
They prepared Rajapaksa to destroy the LTTE. After the LTTE, Rajapaksa is not needed and the powers now bring in the war crimes investigation to ‘punish’ him. Rajapaksa is not our concern, but Tamil Eelam is our concern. Our fear is whether Tamils will get their justice. The US is known for differentiating punishment to the ‘criminal’ from delivery of justice to the victim.
The political replacement that took place in Tamil Nadu is analogous. They need some one acceptable in Tamil Nadu to endorse their agenda.
All except Tamils know that Tamil Nadu is the key factor.
The West may now hand over the task of ‘political solution’ to India. As it does now and then, India will dust the 13th Amendment.
There are three Tamil entities to handle.
The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) in the island will be handled both by India and the USA.
Whatever they impose in the island should find endorsement in Tamil Nadu. As Karunanidhi has lost the credibility there should be some one else who could evoke hopes in Tamil Nadu. Tamils need to be watchful. Tamil Nadu has already gone into global politics.
When the Tamil Nadu State Government is handled, there will be no one to raise voice in the Assembly.
The Communist Party of India (CPI) may talk, but it too looks at the issue within the framework of a ‘united Sri Lanka’.
Vaiko was purposefully sidelined earlier and now, as there shouldn’t exist anyone within the Assembly to raise the name Tamil Eelam.
The third entity, the diaspora and its committed section, is already pressurised heavily in many systematic ways in the West. When the stage is set, Rudrakumaran will be forced to accept what is set by the agenda.
When the BBC and the CNN blare out the virtues of the solution, the voices in Tamil Nadu will be feeble.
Our support to the war crimes investigation of the UN should be conditional. The UN panel report is incomplete, as it has not recognized the genocide in the island. Merely a regime change effected by the war crimes investigation cannot bring in lasting solutions to Eezham Tamils.
2,50,000 Tamils have been killed in the war of decades. Accepting wanting solutions is not doing justice to the killed.
We live in historic times.
Like SJV Chelvanayagam was firm in 1976 in Vaddukkoaddai Resolution calling for Tamil Eelam, like Pirapaharan was firm in 1987 against hoodwink solutions, Tamil Nadu has to be firm now.
Eezham Tamils have democratically mandated the Vaddukkoaddai Resolution and have re-mandated it in the diaspora recently.
War crimes investigation may be welcomed. But, without the recognition of the genocide and without the recognition that a national question was the reason, the investigation is meaningless.
Let those who don’t agree conduct a referendum through the UN and see.
