சனி, 24 மே, 2014

நரேந்திரர், இராசபக்சேவை அழைப்பதைக் கண்டித்து, போராட்டம்: வைகோ

நரேந்திரர், இராசபக்சேவை  அழைப்பதைக் கண்டித்து, தில்லியில் போராட்டம்: வைகோ 



ம.தி.மு.க. பொதுச் செயலாளர் வைகோ வெளியிட்டுள்ள அறிக்கையில் கூறியிருப்பதாவது:–
நரேந்திர மோடியின் மகத்தான வெற்றிக்கு மகிழ்ச்சியையும் வாழ்த்தையும் தெரிவித்துவிட்டு, ஈழத் தமிழ் இனப்படுகொலை செய்த கொடிய பாவி இராசபக்சே, புதிய அரசின் பதவி ஏற்பு விழாவில் பங்கேற்பதைக் கடுமையாக எதிர்க்கிறேன். எங்கள் மனவேதனையையும் எதிர்ப்பையும் வரலாற்றில் பதிவு செய்ய வேண்டியது தமிழர்களின் தலையாய கடமை ஆகும் என்பதால், இராசபக்சே இந்திய மண்ணில் கால் வைப்பதை எதிர்த்து, நாளை மறுநாள் மே 26 ஆம் தேதி திங்கட்கிழமை காலை 11 மணி அளவில் தலைநகர்  தில்லியில் சந்தர் மந்தரில் என்னுடைய தலைமையில், மறுமலர்ச்சி திராவிட முன்னேற்றக் கழகத் தோழர்கள் கருப்புக்கொடி ஏந்தி அறப்போர் நடத்துவோம்.

மோடி அரசுக்கு மிகத் தவறான பாதையைக் காட்டி உள்ளார்கள். இந்தச் சதிச் செயலுக்குப் பின்னால், யார் யாரெல்லாம் இருக்கிறார்கள், யாரையெல்லாம் இராசபக்சே பயன்படுத்துகிறான் என்பதை நான் நன்றாக அறிவேன்.

தமிழர்களின் இரத்தம் தோய்ந்த கரங்களோடு இராசபக்சே புதிய அரசு பதவி ஏற்பு விழாவில் பங்கேற்பது தமிழர் நெஞ்சத்தில் சூட்டுக்கோலைத் திணிக்கும் செயல் ஆகும்.

இந்தியாவில் நரேந்திர மோடி அரசு பொறுப்பு ஏற்றால், நீதியின் கதவுகள் திறக்கும்;  நிலையான வெளிச்சத்துக்கு வழி பிறக்கும் என்று எதிர்பார்த்துக் கொண்டிருக்கும் நேரத்தில், பஞ்சமா பாதகம் செய்த இராசபக்சே இந்தியாவுக்குள் நுழைவதை எதிர்க்க வேண்டியது எங்களின் தவிர்க்க முடியாத கடமை ஆகும் என்பதால், மே 26 ஆம்  நாள் தலைநகர் தில்லியில் காந்திய வழியில் வன்முறையற்ற அறவழியில் எங்கள் கருப்புக்கொடிப் போராட்டம் நடைபெறும் என்பதை, கனத்த இதயத்தோடு தெரிவித்துக்கொள்கிறேன்.

அதே நாளில், மே 26 திங்கட்கிழமை காலை 11 மணி அளவில், தலைநகர் சென்னையில் வடசென்னை துறைமுகம் பகுதியில் மாவட்ட ஆட்சியர் அலுவலகத்துக்கு அருகில் மறுமலர்ச்சி திராவிட முன்னேற்றக் கழகத்தின் சார்பில் கருப்புக்கொடி அறப்போர் நடைபெறும். கழகத் தோழர்களும், உணர்வாளர்களும் பங்கேற்க அன்புடன் வேண்டுகிறேன்.

இவ்வாறு அதில் கூறியுள்ளார்.


Wigneswaran declines Rajapaksa's offer to accompany him to New Delhi

Wigneswaran declines Rajapaksa's offer to accompany him to New Delhi

[TamilNet, Friday, 23 May 2014, 13:11 GMT]
In a letter to SL Minister for External Affairs, G.L.Peiris, the Chief Minister of Northern Provincial Council (NPC) CV Wigneswaran on Friday declined to accept an invitation to him to accompany the SL President Mahinda Rajapaksa to New Delhi to the swearing in of Indian Prime Minister Elect Narendra Modi. "Primarily, because acceptance would indicate that there exists a strong co-operative spirit prevailing between the Centre and the Province, when in fact, the Peoples of the North are engulfed in a climate of fear on account of the continued presence of the Military while the activities of the Northern Provincial Council have been stultified," Mr Wigneswaran said in his reply faxed to SL Minister G.L. Peiris.

"I would be guilty of facilitating tokenism were I to accept such an invitation. Nevertheless I have already sent my best wishes to the Prime Minister Elect of India through the High Commissioner for India in Sri Lanka," Mr Wigneswaran said in his reply to G.L. Peiris.

Wigneswaran's reply comes after considering the request in the company of NPC Board of Ministers, the letter further stated.
CV Wigneswaran's reply to SL Foreign Minister G.L.Peiries
CV Wigneswaran's reply to SL Foreign Minister G.L.Peiries

Jayalalithaa to boycott PM swearing-in over ‘ill-advised’ invitation to Rajapaksa

Jayalalithaa to boycott PM swearing-in over ‘ill-advised’ invitation to Rajapaksa

[TamilNet, Friday, 23 May 2014, 07:15 GMT]
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Ms. Jayalalithaa will boycott the swearing-in event of India’s new Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi on 26 May, over the issue of invitation to Mahinda Rajapaksa, latest news reports said on Friday, citing AIADMK party sources. Earlier, Ms. Jayalalithaa described the invitation to genocide-accused Rajapaksa as “ill-advised” and as “rubbing salt into the wounds.” Modi’s camouflage in inviting SAARC heads of governments is impelled by his priority to Pakistan and Muslim factor, and the Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s immediate response to come shows the US advice behind the move, political analysts said, adding that the USA and India long sidelining and sabotaging the Tamil question is the boon for genocidal Colombo and the Rajapaksas.

Modi’s New Delhi and the USA could negotiate their overlapping priority in many other ways, but bringing in Rajapaksa either shows providing an escape route to genocidal cum militaristic Sri Lanka, endorsed and so-far groomed by the two powers, or shows the callous contempt and utter disregard to the Tamil cause, or was pre-planned by a caucus to widen the rift between New Delhi and Tamil Nadu, the analysts said.

Tamils have no option other than making the detractors realise the gravity. Ms. Jayalalithaa is taking the right direction, the analysts further said.

Meanwhile, showing a healthy polarisation of political opinion in Tamil Nadu, the DMK chief Mr. M. Karunanidhi has also made a statement that Mr. Modi could have avoided inviting Mr. Rajapaksa.

Narendra Modi’s party the BJP’s ally in Tamil Nadu, Mr Vaiko of the MDMK was the first to condemn Mr. Modi for extending the invitation to Mahinda Rajapaksa.

* * *

On Thursday, responding to Modi’s invitation to Rajapaksa, Ms. Jayalalithaa said: “This is tantamount to rubbing salt into the wounds of the already deeply injured Tamil psyche,” adding that the move is “ill advised.”

Further excerpts from her response:

“It is with a deep sense of anguish that we point this out to the new Government to be formed at the Centre.”

“We had hoped that the new Government to be formed at the Centre would be sympathetic to the cause of Tamils and friendly to the State of Tamil Nadu.”

“However, even before the new Prime Minister and the new Government assume office and begin functioning, this unfortunate move of inviting the Sri Lankan President to attend the Swearing-in Ceremony of the new Prime Minister of India has deeply upset the people of Tamil Nadu and wounded their sentiments all over again.”

“Particularly, with regard to the relationship of the new Central Government with the Government of Tamil Nadu, it would have been better if this ill advised move had been avoided.”

“The entire country and indeed the entire world is aware of the various Resolutions passed in the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly during the last three years, with regard to the war crimes, ethnic pogrom and genocide,” Ms. Jayalalithaa said reminding that “we had demanded economic embargo on Sri Lanka and urged that India should take the lead in bringing a Resolution in the United Nations for those accused of war crimes and genocide to be brought before the International Court of Justice and that they should be made to face trial.”

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Jaffna University, NPC brave threats to observe Mu'l'livaaykkaal Remembrance

Jaffna University, NPC brave threats to observe Mu'l'livaaykkaal Remembrance

[TamilNet, Thursday, 22 May 2014, 20:06 GMT]
While the Sri Lankan military was recklessly determined to suppress the Tamil students, academics, religious dignitaries, democratically elected political representatives and the common public against observing the 5th Mu’l’livaaykkaal Remembrance, the University students and academics at Jaffna University emotionally commemorated the supreme sacrifice by the thousands of Eezham Tamils who faced the genocidal onslaught in the final days of Vanni war. Also the elected Northern Provincial Council (NPC) members on Thursday marked their observance by lighting candles at the NPC Secretariat where councillors Mr Shivajilingam and Ms Ananthi Sasitharan were blocked by the occupying SL police, who also desecrated the tribute site at the gate.
Jaffna University observes Mu'l'livaaykkaal Remembrance
Students and academics at Jaffna University on Wednesday commemorated those who perished at Mu'l'livaaykkaal facing genocidal onslaught



NPC observes Mu'l'livaaykkaal Remembrance
Elected NPC councillors observed Mu'l'livaaykkaal Remembrance on Thursday at NPC secretariat in Kaithadi, Jaffna.


Both the events on Wednesday and Thursday, showing maximum participation, expressed resolve that the will to freedom and the aspirations of Eezham Tamils could not be crushed by the occupying SL military. The SL State has only ended up exposing itself to the outside world, the students at Jaffna University told TamilNet.

In the meantime, Mr R Rasakumaran, the head of the English Language Teaching Centre and the president of the University Teachers’ Association (UTA), who has been voicing for the collective rights of the students and teachers to commemorate the people who perished in the Vanni War, was harassed by the Terrorist Investigation Division in Jaffna on Tuesday and was later ‘summoned’ to Palaali military base by the SL military commander in Jaffna Major General Udaya Perera, who personally threatened the academic, informed sources told TamilNet.

The sources said the SL commander, in his dialogue with the academic, had come with veiled death threat against those who observe collective remembrance.

Mr Rasakumaran was then instructed to present himself for interrogation at the notorious ‘4th floor’ of the Sri Lankan CID headquarters in Colombo, the sources further said.
NPC observes Mu'l'ivaaykkaal Remembrance
NPC members, including the chief minister CV Wigneswaran, wore black robes on Thursday when the NPC met for the first time following the 5th Mu'l'livaaykkaal Remembrance
Jaffna University observes Mu'l'livaaykkaal Remembrance
A section of students lighting candles at 5th Mu'l'livaaykkaal Remembrance observed inside Jaffna University on 21 May
NPC observes Mu'l'ivaaykkaal Remembrance
NPC councillors paying respect to those who sacrificed their lives in Mu'l'livaaykkaal
NPC observes Mu'l'ivaaykkaal Remembrance
NPC councillors started their session by lighting candles observing Mu'l'livaaykkaal Remembrance


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வெள்ளி, 23 மே, 2014

New Delhi has to be told whether it wants Tamil Nadu or genocidal Sri Lanka

New Delhi has to be told whether it wants Tamil Nadu or genocidal Sri Lanka

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 21 May 2014, 23:02 GMT]
New Delhi’s prime minister designate Narendra Modi can’t have an excuse in inviting genocidal Sri Lanka’s president Mahinda Rajapaksa to the inauguration of his government, citing his invitation to all SAARC heads of governments. None of the States in India has ever indicted the head of government of a neighbouring country, as the Tamil Nadu State Assembly has unanimously resolved against Rajapaksa’s genocide of Eezham Tamils. The Rajapaksa case is a unique case India has never seen before, and that too considerably involving the previous Congress government at New Delhi. Tamil Nadu, having a duty in showing a protest in no uncertain terms to New Delhi that whether it wants its southern State or a genocidal State in the neighbourhood, need not care Mr. Modi’s self-invited diplomatic compulsions.

Mr. Narendra Modi has invited all SAARC Heads of State for the inauguration of his government on 26 May.

Mahinda Rajapaksa jumped at the opportunity.

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Mr. Nawaz Sharif may not honour Mr. Modi’s invitation. Pakistan will send only a representative. There are also contradicting reports on Thursday that Mr Sharif might attend.

However, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister, Mr Omar Abdulla has welcomed the invitation, hoping for a beginning of sustained talks. But he didn’t fail to add a note that what would have been the reaction of the BJP, had the invitation sent by Rahul Gandhi as prime minister designate.

Indian media reports were giving more weight to the Pakistan factor, citing BJP’s indication that Mr Modi would work to a re-crafted foreign policy.

India in the past could have never imagined inviting the head of government of Israel or apartheid South Africa.

In what way the Tamils have become a no issue to New Delhi is the question.

* * *

Mr Vaiko, a time-tested supporter of the cause of Eezham Tamils, and who has braved himself to ally with the BJP in Tamil Nadu in the last elections, has come out with a strong condemnation of the Modi invitation to Rajapaksa.

With "unexplainable grief" Vaiko asked Modi and BJP national president Rajnath Singh not to allow Rajapaksa to attend the swearing-in ceremony, as it would hurt the Tamils the world over, media reports in Chennai said.

Congress was shown the door by the people of Tamil Nadu for allegedly helping Colombo, Vaiko said.

Sri Lanka was not invited when BJP's A B Vajpayee was sworn-in in 1998-99 and the subsequent ceremonies to mark assuming of offices by the UPA in 2004 and 2009, Vaiko was citing.

* * *

If Rajapaksa were allowed to come that would herald a new phase of struggle and polarisation among Tamils.

It would be an opportunity for Tamils to register their point nationally in India and internationally, political activists in Chennai said, adding that there should be an end to New Delhi’s scapegoating of Tamils right from Nehru’s times.

Mahinda Rajapaksa perhaps wants sharpening of confrontation within India and Modi’s ‘diplomatic restructure’ may fail at the outset by the Rajapaksa jinx, political observers in Chennai commented.

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வியாழன், 22 மே, 2014

மோடி பதவி ஏற்பு விழாவில் இராசபக்சே: வெந்த புண்ணில் வேல் பாய்ச்சுவதா? - முதல்வர் கண்டனம்

மோடி பதவி ஏற்பு விழாவில் இராசபக்சே:  வெந்த புண்ணில் வேல் பாய்ச்சுவதா? - முதல்வர் கண்டனம்

தமிழக முதல் அமைச்சர் செயலலிதா வெளியிட்டுள்ள அறிக்கையில்  பின்வருமாறு தன் கண்டனத்தைத் தெரிவித்துள்ளார்.

புதிய பாரதத் தலைமையர் பதவியேற்பு நிகழ்ச்சிக்கு இலங்கை அதிபர்  இராசபக்சேவுக்கு இந்தியாவின் சார்பில் அழைப்பு விடுக்கப்பட்டு, அந்த அழைப்பை ஏற்று இலங்கை அதிபர் பதவியேற்பு நிகழ்ச்சியில் கலந்து கொள்ளப் போகிறார் என்ற கவலை தரும் செய்தியை ஊடகங்கள் வாயிலாகத் தெரிந்து கொண்டேன்.

இலங்கைத் தமிழர்  சிக்கலில், தமிழ்நாட்டு மக்கள், மற்றும் இந்தியாவிலும் வெளிநாடுகளிலும் வாழும் தமிழர்கள் ஆகியோரின் மனஎழுச்சி மற்றும் கொந்தளிப்பு அனைவரும் நன்கு அறிந்தவையே. நாடாளுமன்ற மக்களவைக்கு பொதுத் தேர்தல் நடைபெற்று, ஒரு சில நாட்களில் புதிய மத்திய அரசு பதவியேற்க இருக்கிறது என்றாலும், இந்த மாற்றம், தமிழ்நாடு மற்றும் இலங்கைக்கு இடையே ஏற்கெனவே உள்ள இறுக்கமான உறவில் எந்தவித மாற்றத்தையும் ஏற்படுத்தவில்லை.

இலங்கை உள்நாட்டுப் போரின் இறுதியில், இலங்கைத் தமிழர்களுக்கு எதிராக இலங்கை அதிபர்  இராசபக்சே அரசின் இலங்கை இராணுவத்தால் நிகழ்த்தப்பட்ட போர்க் குற்றங்கள், இனப்படுகொலை மற்றும் இன  அழிப்பு ஆகியவை குறித்து தமிழ்நாடு சட்டமன்றப் பேரவையில் கடந்த மூன்று ஆண்டுகளில் பல்வேறு தீர்மானங்கள் நிறைவேற்றப்பட்டதை இந்த நாடே, ஏன் இந்த உலகமே நன்கு அறியும்.

இலங்கை மீது பொருளாதாரத் தடை விதிக்க வேண்டுமென்று நாங்கள் கோரிக்கை விடுத்ததோடு, போர்க் குற்றங்கள் மற்றும் இனப் படுகொலை புரிந்தவர்களை, பன்னாட்டு  நீதிமன்றம் முன்பு நிறுத்தி,  உசாவலுக்கு அவர்களை உட்படுத்தும் வகையில் ஐக்கிய நாடுகள் சபையில் தீர்மானம் ஒன்றை இந்தியா முன்னின்று கொண்டு வர வேண்டும் என்று வலியுறுத்தினோம்.

ஆனால், முன்பிருந்த மத்திய அரசு, தமிழ்நாடு சட்டமன்றப் பேரவை நிறைவேற்றிய தீர்மானங்களின் மீது எவ்வித நடவடிக்கையும் எடுக்காமல் அலட்சியப்படுத்தி, தமிழர்களின் உணர்வுகளை மிதித்துவிட்டது. புதிதாக மத்தியில் அமையவிருக்கும் அரசு, தமிழர்கள் தொடர்பான  சிக்கல்களில் பரிவுடன் செயல்படுமென்றும், தமிழ்நாட்டுடன் நட்புணர்வு பாராட்டும் என்றும் நாங்கள் நம்பினோம்.

ஆனால், புதிய  தலைமையரும், புதிய  மத்திய அரசும் பதவியேற்று செயல்படத் தொடங்குவதற்கு முன்னரே, இந்தியத் தலைமையரின் பதவியேற்பு விழாவில் கலந்து கொள்வதற்காக இலங்கை அதிபருக்கு அழைப்பு விடுத்திருக்கிற இந்தத் தீப்பேறான செயல் தமிழ்நாட்டு மக்களை மிகவும் வருத்தமடையச் செய்துள்ளதோடு மட்டுமல்லாமல், அவர்களுடைய உணர்வுகளை மீண்டும் காயப்படுத்தியுள்ளது.  இந்தச் செயல் வெந்த புண்ணில் வேல் பாய்ச்சுவது போல் அமைந்துள்ளது.

புதிதாக மத்தியில் அமையவுள்ள அரசிடம் இதனை மிகுந்த மன வேதனையுடன் நாங்கள்  சுட்டிக்காட்ட விழைகிறோம். தவறான  அறிவுரையின்பேரில் அமைந்த இந்தச் செயல் தவிர்க்கப்பட்டிருந்தால், புதிதாக அமையவுள்ள மத்திய அரசு- தமிழ்நாடு அரசு ஆகியவற்றுக்கு இடையேயான உறவு சிறப்புடையதாக அமைந்திருக்கும்.

இவ்வாறு அவர் கூறியுள்ளார்.

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நரேந்திர மோடி பதவி ஏற்பு விழாவில் இராசபக்சேவை அழைக்காதீர் - வைகோ

நரேந்திர மோடி பதவி ஏற்பு விழாவில் இராசபக்சேவை  அழைக்காதீர் - வைகோ
நரேந்திரர் தலைமையாளராகப் பதவி ஏற்கும்  நிகழ்விற்குத் தெற்காசிய ஆட்சித் தலை வர்களை அழைத்துள்ளதாகவும் அந்தவகையில் இனப்படுகொலையாளி இராசகப்சேவை அழைத்திருப்பதாகவும் அவன் வர இருப்பதாகவும் செய்திகள் வருகின்றன. இதற்குத் தமிழகத் தலைவர்கள் எதிர்ப்பு தெரிவிப்பர் என்ற எண்ணம் மக்களிடையே இருந்தது.  அதற்கேற்ப,நரேந்திரர்(மோடி) பதவியேற்பு விழாவில்  இராசபக்சே பங்கேற்க கூடாது என ம.தி.மு.க.,பொதுச்செயலாளர் வைகோ தெரிவித்துள்ளார்.

இதுகுறித்து வைகோ வெளியிட்ட அறிக்கை:
 "தமிழகத்தின் வாழ்வாதாரங்களுக்கும், ஈழத்தமிழர்களுக்கும் மன்னிக்க முடியாத  இரண்டகம் - துரோகம் - செய்த காங்., கட்சி தேர்தலில் படுதோல்வியைச் சந்தித்தது. தமிழக மீனவர்கள் 578 பேருக்கு மேல் சிங்களக் கடற்படையால் கொல்லப்பட்டனர். இந்தச் சூழ்நிலையில், நரேந்திர(மோடி) தேசிய முற்போக்குக் கூட்டணி அரசு பதவி ஏற்கும் விழாவிற்கு, இலங்கை அதிபர்  இராசபக்சேவுக்கும் அழைப்பு அனுப்பப்பட்டு உள்ளதாகவும்,இராசபக்சே கலந்து கொள்ள இருப்பதாகவும் தெரிகிறது.
1998--99 ஆம் ஆண்டுகளில் வாசுபாய் அரசு பதவி ஏற்றபோதும், 2004,09 ஆண்டுகளில் ஐக்கிய முற்போக்குக் கூட்டணி அரசு பதவிஏற்றபோதும் இலங்கை அதிபர் அழைக்கப்படவில்லை.

எனவே, இராசபக்சேவை பதவி ஏற்பு விழாவில் பங்கு ஏற்க, அனுமதிக்க வேண்டா என நரேந்திர(மோடி),இராசுநாத்து(சிங்கு) முதலான தேசிய  மக்கள்நாயகக் கூட்டணிக் கட்சித் தலைவர்களைக் கேட்டுக்கொள்கிறேன்."
இவ்வாறு வைகோ தெரிவித்துள்ளார்.

  இனப்படுகொலைாயாளி வருகை தந்து, தமிழகத் தலைவர்கள் விழாஅரங்கில் அவரைப் புறக்கணிப்பின் அழைத்த இந்திய அரசிற்குச் சங்கடமாகும். அல்லது முகமன் கருதி, தமிழகத் தலைவர்கள் வணக்கம் தெரிவித்தாலோ பேசினாலோ இனப்படுகொலைக் கூட்டாளிக் கட்சித் தலைவர்களுக்கும் இவர்களுக்கும் வேறுபாடு இல்லை என்றாகும். இதனால், தொடக்கத்திலலேயே நரேந்திர(மோடி) அரசு தமிழ் மக்களின் புறக்கணிப்பிற்கு உள்ளாகும். எனவே, கொலையாளியை  எதற்கும் அழைக்காமல் புறக்கணிக்க வேண்டும்.

Indian corporate to build houses for Colombo

Indian corporate to build houses for Gotabhaya’s Colombo development

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 21 May 2014, 07:04 GMT]
Timed to the Indian election results, Gotabhaya Rajapaksa-controlled Urban Development Authority of Colombo has made an unconventional deal with a leading corporate house of India, the Tata Group, by giving a prime area of Colombo city on a 99 years lease ‘free of charge’, for the group to ‘build houses’. While Sri Lanka’s strategy is to bind India with the structural genocide of Eezham Tamils, through Colombo-centric interests and building Sinhala military capitals in Jaffna and Trincomalee, the Indian intelligence agencies deceptively tell Tamil activists that an ‘economic integration’ would bring in political solutions. The Colombo-backing stand of Observer Research Foundation has to be understood in the background of the actual happenings, said Tamil activists for alternative politics in the island.

The 400 million dollar operations of Tata Housing in the heart of Colombo city comes while New Delhi’s 50, 000 houses to war-torn Tamils in the North and East, promised 5 years ago, is either sabotaged or diverted to demographic genocide by Colombo.

Tata Housing will get 8 acres in Slave Island area of Colombo, where 3 acres will be used for providing housing to the evicted, in a floor-space equal or more than what is taken, in addition to providing rent money between 15,000 to 52,000 rupees per month for temporary accommodation during the period of construction.

Tata will be using the remaining 5 acres for building a commercial-cum-residential enclave, including a city hotel, posh residential apartments, commercial space and retail space for apparel, departmental stores, health & beauty care, multiplex, food courts and restaurants.

The first stage will be completed in 2 years time and the entire operation takes place on a consensual basis among the present residents, the UDA and Tata Housing, Colombo media reports said.

While the Tata Group has calculated strong ties with neighbours, ‘economic potential of Colombo-centric Sri Lanka’ and returns through future potential in real estate, the corporate will also seek Strategic Investment Project Status and tax concessions from Colombo.

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The striking contrast between the Indian corporate deal in Colombo and the India-backed Sinhala military appropriation of land in the country of Eezham Tamils, after genocidal massacre, incarceration in barbed-wire camps and refusal to resettlement, has to be carefully grasped, said Tamil activists for alternative politics.

Indian imperialism and corporatism could always achieve its ways through means of recognising the parity of the two nations and their territories in the island, rather than opting for genocide and structural genocide of one nation by the other.

The latter would never end the conflict in the given geopolitical context and more than any other power Indian imperialism and corporatism should have the bulk of the concern.

But, impelled by the greed for short-term benefits, carried away by the time-to-time geostrategic compulsions set by others, and with an inherent arrogance and bulldozing attitude inherited through British colonialism and associated Sanskritisation, a philosophy that is far away from moral high ground long prevails in India’s approach to the island.

It is unlikely that with a regime change there will be a change in the basic philosophy, unless a different philosophy to respect nations and peoples, to never contribute to genocide and to never stoop down to the level of backing a system as that of Colombo, is taught by the people to Indian imperialism and corporatism, for the betterment of India.

The edification process may be easier under a political regime than under a remote-controlled, esoteric and intelligence cum bureaucracy regime.

A conscious initiative of the people of Tamil Nadu in the philosophical edification of Indian imperialism and corporatism, in the case of the national question in the island, would benefit the entire region of South Asia in particular and humanity in general.

There is a historic opportunity.

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Earlier India’s intelligence outfits used to operate institutes and research organisations, staffed by retired intelligence personnel, largely for the purpose of political, military and strategic manoeuvrings. In the campaign against the cause of Eezham Tamils, the deployment of B. Raman and Col. Hariharan is well known.

Deployment of outfits jointly run by intelligence and corporates is a transformation that is seen today, as military interests and corporate interests overlap for the benefit of the latter, pushing back national interests or peoples’ interests.

One has to carefully grasp the fundamental dynamics behind the stand of Observer Research Foundation of India in backing the genocidal Sri Lankan State and the Rajapaksa regime. Its latest exercise was defending New Delhi’s abstention at UNHRC voting in Geneva.

Mr. Satyamoorthy of ORF, Chennai Chapter, operates in Colombo and Male.

The miscarriage of an Indian corporate GMR on the Maldives International Airport issue is internationally known.

The Indian corporate was insensitive to local sentiments and infringement into relatively smaller businesses of the locals.

The main problem is the absence of a principled corporate philosophy in India in respecting nations and peoples, or in shunning genocide and structural genocide.

Unfortunately Maldives that has to show solidarity with Eezham Tamils facing a shared situation in the neighbourhood steadily opts for backing the genocidal State in Colombo and the Rajapaksa regime.

Gajendrakumar calls for foolproof position, closer ties with Tamil Nadu

Gajendrakumar calls for foolproof position, closer ties with Tamil Nadu

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 20 May 2014, 17:17 GMT]
Tamils should make their position foolproof said Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam in an exclusive interview to TamilNet on 17 May in London. The problem the Tamils face is two fold. The first is geopolitics and the International Community's reasons for not wanting to recognise Tamils nationhood and sovereignty. The second is our own problem, where we have a party that claims to be the democratic representatives of Tamils, but deliberately chooses not to put forward positions that make Tamil sovereignty the fundamental basis for any political discourse. Giving a brief account on continuing oppression and militarization of the Tamil homeland and talking about manipulation of Tamil political opinion by international powers both in the island and in the diaspora, Mr Gajendrakumar called for a stronger network between Tamil Nadu and the Eezham Tamils to prevent such deviations.



There is no democracy in the ranks and files of the TNA. There are a few individuals being backed by certain powers who run the affairs. In the diaspora also there are organisations that are not answerable to the masses, being propped up in post-2009. There are elections held in the homeland, but the TNA is not democratic. In the diaspora there are no elections to have the masses connected to the organisations that do the politics, the TNPF leader said.

The people should come forward to create a situation to force the TNA to change its current course, he said.

“No solution that does not recognize our own sovereignty and our own nationhood will we agree to,” TNPF leader Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam said, adding that recognition of Tamil sovereignty and nationhood was the basis on which any solution can be found.

Criticizing the weakness of the recent UNHRC resolution in Geneva, Mr. Ponnambalam said that the ground reality in the homeland was getting worse. Oppression and persecution intensified, as have land-grabs and militarization and Sinhalicisation.

The ban of diaspora groups also affects homeland, because it has an impact on the remittance that they send to people in the homeland.

The Sri Lankan military is deployed to aid Sinhalicisation and that geopolitical reasons warrant militarization, he said, referring to Sri Lanka’s increased tilt towards China. Likewise, Sinhala nationalist agenda is also a primary cause to the accelerated structural genocide against the nation of Eezham Tamils.

“This particular government has taken Sri Lankan foreign policy into a different direction. It is very clearly taking on a very pro-Chinese tilt” he said, adding that this has caused concern in India, the USA and in the general West.

When asked about his opinion on how along with Beijing, New Delhi and Washington and international organizations that work for these Establishments refuse to accept the historical, earned and remedial sovereignty of the Eezham Tamil nation, he said “The Tamil people are very clear that it is through the recognition of the Tamil nation’s distinct sovereignty that any solution could be found... for their very existence that is fundamental.”

The problem was two-fold, he continued. One was geopolitics and the international community’s own reasons for not wanting to recognize it. Second was our own fault, he opined, referring to the TNA, who deliberately do not put Tamil sovereignty as their fundamental basis for the political discourse.

When questioned that whether this was not the same problem among some diaspora organizations who, despite having their freedom of expression, were not willing to place Tamil sovereignty as the centre of their discussion, Mr. Ponnambalam said: “I see what is happening in the disapora much the same way as what is happening in the homeland. You have the people who are very clear about what they want. And you have an organization that goes before people saying exactly what they want to hear, gets their vote and does something else.”

In the diaspora, he continued, organization with no mass support which emerged post-2009, had been propped up and heavily promoted by their governments.

He called for Tamil people to be more vigilant, as this would be the only check against international powers that would use contradictions within the Tamil community for their own purposes.

“If you take Geneva, if you take any other forum, when the Tamil issue is the justification for ‘Sri Lanka’ being discussed, but at the end of the day the Tamils actually have nothing there.”

“Our party has been very clear that we need to build a close rapport with Tamil Nadu. I think our biggest strength is Tamil Nadu.”

He drew a contrast with the TNA who would not work with Tamil Nadu and would work only with New Delhi.

If a good working relationship between Tamil Nadu, the diaspora and the homeland could be created, it would check those forces who are trying to manipulate Tamil opinion, he said.

When asked whether he was willing to give a practical leadership to the TNA, he was of the opinion that it was almost impossible to have an open dialogue and debate with them.

“Very unfortunately, the TNA is not a political party that is democratic. The party consists of certain key individuals who are backed by very strong, powerful countries and essentially do the bidding of those powers that be.”

Talking about undemocratic tendencies in the TNA, referring to the nomination TNA’s NPC CM Wigneswaran, he said that only Sumanthiran and Sampanthan had proposed his name, whereas the other coalition parties actually supported Mavai Senathirajah.

IF TNA has to be brought back on track, he said: “There has to be an alternate leadership that is created, that can actually stand for the truth, that exposes the TNA when it cheats the people, to a point where we become strong enough that the TNA’s own existence and its own popular support base becomes called into question.”

He also talked about how the 6th Amendment to the Sri Lankan unitary constitution prevented people from talking about the creation of a separate Tamil Eelam state.

He explained that in the limited political space available in island, his party was uncompromising on the fundamentals of nationhood and sovereignty.


Girl slain with Isaipiriya in SL military captivity identified

Girl slain with Isaipiriya in SL military captivity identified

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 20 May 2014, 04:56 GMT]
A girl seen held captive together with LTTE journalist Shoba (Isaippiriyaa) by the genocidal military of Sri Lanka and later seen slain, has been identified as 19-year-old Ushalini Gunalingam from Yoakapuram, Mallaavi in Vanni, news sources in Ki’linochchi told TamilNet Monday. The girl was not a LTTE fighter, although she had been recruited by the movement in 2008 for a few months, according to the relatives of the victim.
Isaipiriya and Ushalini
Shoba (Isaipiriya) and Ushalini Gunalingam [right]


Ushalini had left the movement and was with the family. But, the family had lost her during a chaotic displacement in the beginning of May 2009.

The parents, searching for their lost daughter, have been complaining to all the commissions, from the LLRC to the recent presidential commission, without any outcome.

Now the photos released in public domain on the Internet had reached the family establishing the fate of the missing girl.

The 53 Division of Sri Lanka Army reportedly captured Isaipiriya. The SL Defence Ministry had earlier claimed that the 53 Division had killed Isaipiriya at battlefront.

Isaipiriya was a media worker and she was not a combatant.

The killings of the two are part of a large-scale massacre committed with genocidal intent.

Chronology:

India gets prime minister of his own political stature

India gets prime minister of his own political stature

[TamilNet, Monday, 19 May 2014, 15:49 GMT]
After 10 years, India is getting a political prime minister of his own stature, routing out the Sonia-Rahul-Priyanka Congress Party, the government of which was run by a puppet prime minister and extra-parliamentary elements such as National Security Advisors, intelligence officials and bureaucrats. Apart from the debate on BJP’s Hindutva polity and the impact that might come with the brute majority given to it, the past experience of Eezham Tamils is that Non-Congress governments were much better in post-Indira Gandhi times. Mr. Narendra Modi’s predecessor Mr. A. B. Vajpayee earned the respect of Tamils, despite the virtual non-existence of his party in Tamil Nadu. Mr. Modi must have surely got the cue about the expectations behind the unprecedentedly overwhelming victory of Ms. Jayalalithaa in Tamil Nadu.
India Election
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India Election
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India Election
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A cartographical depiction of the poll pattern would tell the realities about what is meant by ‘national’ political parties in India.

Leaving Karnataka, where a regional party is yet to emerge, almost the entire South India and the larger part of Eastern India have voted for parties other than the BJP and Congress. While the ADMK, TRC and BJD, respectively swept through Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Orissa, the TDP (BJP ally), TRS and YSRC (the last two are recently formed) have shared Andhra and Telangana.

In Tamil Nadu, Ms. Jayalalithaa has proved a point in a remarkable way, by standing alone and winning 37 out of 39 seats. The subconscious sentiment in the polarisation is no secret.

The Tamil Nadu State Assembly, led by Ms. Jayalalithaa, has steadily been pursuing certain demands through unanimous resolutions repeatedly enacted. New Delhi and the so-called national parties persistently refused to respect the sentiments of the people of Tamil Nadu.

The Sonia Congress-led New Delhi Establishment, well known for its complicity in the genocide and on-going genocide of Eezham Tamils, came out with responses that were utter ridicule of the righteous sentiments in Tamil Nadu. It didn’t stop such acts even in the last minute of its exit, raising suspicions whether it was a government or personal whims and fancies of an extra-parliamentary junta that was handling the affairs of Eezham Tamils.

Proving a change of course in the foreign policy and in the implementation of it in the international arena may take a little time for the new government. But, Mr. Modi could come out with an immediate gesture of respecting the Tamil Nadu Assembly and the current Lok Sabha mandate in Tamil Nadu, by instituting an inquiry into the conduct of the past two Congress governments since 2004, on the affairs of the island.

Whatever the process and outcome of such an inquiry, bringing some key persons to accountability would certainly kindle a national discourse on Eezham Tamils that is hitherto suppressed, would bring in a national consensus on what to do, and would make extra-parliamentary elements and interests not to dare in future in meddling with a nation to the extent of the disappearance of 1,46,000 people.

Mr. Modi may have to be particularly careful about the line of Sushma Swarajs and Subramania Swamys in the party, and foundations like the ORF and corporate interests irresponsibly bulldozing righteous needs of the Eezham Tamil nation facing genocide and annihilation in the strategic neighbourhood. There is a lot of anger on the way the BJP was playing paly-paly with Rajapaksa and genocidal Colombo.

Reflecting on the 2014 elections, there is an opinion that had the change in the political will been seen in May 2009, a disaster could have been avoided or minimised in the island.

The last five years have seen a brutal and resolute engineering aimed at causing irreversible effects against the nation of Eezham Tamils, in the forms of militarisation, colonisation and structural genocide – all in active complicity of New Delhi.

The immediate task of Ms. Jayalalithaa is to make India to stop the structural genocide, followed by bringing in conditions for Eezham Tamils to exercise the right to self-determination.

Ms. Jayalalithaa getting the unprecedentedly overwhelming victory is largely due to a subconscious feeling in Tamil Nadu that the State, ignored of its sentiments by the Centre, should get a united strength to change the course at the Centre. Tamil Nadu failed to do that in 2009. Now, when it has done it, whether it would go wasted in the context of BJP getting absolute majority, is an anxiety, say political observers in Tamil Nadu.

Mr. Modi and Ms. Jayalalithaa have expressed mutual cooperation after the elections. Mr. Modi may still need support at the Rajya Sabha, where the BJP for the time being doesn’t have the majority. Ms. Jayalalithaa could also give two-third majority for Modi government in making fundamental changes at the centre.

Above all, Ms. Jayalalithaa could now boldly cite the mandate in mobilising the masses to convince the Centre, convince international forces and to disprove a bunch of media corporates and intelligence-operated ‘opinion makers’ who were long blighting the cause of Eezham Tamils in India as well as in the international arena.

Making use of the wave of change, a mass mobilisation transcending political parties should come forward in Tamil Nadu, to achieve something substantial in this regard without delay.

SL military ridicules Mu’l’ivaaykkaal observance even in temples

SL military ridicules Mu’l’ivaaykkaal observance even in temples

[TamilNet, Sunday, 18 May 2014, 23:13 GMT]
The military intelligence operatives of the occupying Sri Lanka Army deployed local goons to confront the elected Tamil representatives of the Tamil National Alliance and Tamil National Peoples Front from observing rituals at temples and churches in the North and East commemorating Mu’l’livaaykkaal Remembrance Day on Sunday. As a way of ridiculing, Sinhala soldiers entered into Nalloor Kanthasaami temple and ‘competed’ with Tamil representatives in making ‘ritual offerings’ at the temple. The Bishop of Jaffna was under pressure to stop lighting commemoration lamps at the churches. SL soldiers were deployed in front of temples and churches. However, Eezham Tamils in the North and East observed Mu’l’livaaykkaal Remembrance at their houses and businesses in an emotional manner, passing a strong message to the world.
Mu'l'livaaykkaal Remembrance in Jaffna
Tamil representatives sitting on the ground talking to media as SL military soldiers, without wearing military shirts, are watching them


The entire SL military apparatus in the North was deployed in blocking public events.
Earlier, the SL military was telling the people not to have any remembrance event at public places. The public was told to commemorate their dead at houses and temples.

But, on Sunday the people were told not to have any prayer at the temples or churches in remembrance of those who perished in the genocidal onslaught.



Tamil politicians, condemning the attitude of the occupying Sri Lankan forces, said that the conduct of the SL State and its armed forces on Mu'l'livaaykkaal Remembrance Day was only adding another evidence to the world in depicting the Sinhala exclusivist mind-set that doesn’t tolerate the self-respect of Eezham Tamils in the island.
Mu'l'livaaykkaal Remembrance in Jaffna


The Tamil politicians were present at Jaffna Cathedral, Kanthasaami Temple and Veera-maa-kaa’li temple in Nalloor after 6:00 p.m., conducting prayers, lighting of candles and conducting religious rituals paying respect to the dead.



A local squad operated by the SL military verbally abused the Tamil politicians, removing the coconuts from them, when Tamil politicians prepared to break coconuts into sherds at Veera-maa-kaa'li Amman temple in Nalloor.

Breaking coconut into sherds (Chitha’ru-theangkaay) in front of temples is a devotional religious ritual of Saivites in which emotions and will to remove obstacles are subconsciously expressed.

Political observers in the North say that the present Sinhala commander Major General Udaya Perera, occupying Jaffna, has earlier shown ‘expertise’ in oppressing operations when he was in charge of Ki'linochchi district after the Vanni war followed by getting ‘training’ in the USA.

When the Bishop of Jaffna came under pressure from the SL military, a section of the priests were rushed to Jaffna Cathedral to pass a message to avoid ‘controversies’, but the priests and Tamil representatives had already paid their tribute with lighting the candles, news sources told TamilNet.

SL soldiers deployed in front of worship places were instructed not to allow the tolling of bells in temples and churches.

The SL military intelligence operatives were busy in monitoring and following the journalists, civil activists and Tamil politicians.

A trader and Tamil politician Thuvaarakesvaran, who is the brother of an assassinated Tamil MP Thiyagarasa Maheswaran, had arranged for a special religious ritual for the families that had lost their kith and kin in the Vanni War. But, the SL military completely blocked the public from accessing Nakuleasavaram temple where the ritual was arranged.

NPC councillor Ananthi staged a sit in protest in front of a SL military barrier on the road to the temple.

All the Tamil politicians, except the paramilitary cum political parties, were united in the commemoration event on Sunday.

The ITAK (TNA) office at Martin Road, TNPF office at 3rd Cross Street and the office of a newly formed party known as Tamil National Progressive Party were under continuous surveillance by the SL military. All the by-lanes in the vicinity of these offices were blocked and no one was allowed to enter the offices. All the Tamil representatives came together to observe Mu'l'livaaykkaal Remembrance Day.



However, Tamil parliamentarians Suresh Premachandran, Sivasakthi Ananthan, S. Sritharan proceeded with the observance with public participation at the political offices situated in Vavuniyaa, Ki'linochchi and in Neerveali.
Mu'l'livaaykkaal Remembrance in Jaffna
NPC Chairman CVK Sivagnanam at Jaffna Cathedral
Mu'l'livaaykkaal Remembrance in Jaffna


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traditional medium of remembering the dead

Ananthi goes for traditional medium of remembering the dead on Mu'l'livaaykkaal Day

[TamilNet, Sunday, 18 May 2014, 08:38 GMT]
Northern Provincial Council (NPC) member Ananthi Sasistharan has been protesting in front of a Sri Lankan military barrier on Mu’l’ivaaykkaal Remembrance Day demanding access to Keerimalai Nakuleasvaram temple at Keerimalai for the families to perform rituals to the dead family members. The SL military has been blocking all the avenues to the ritual site rejecting the Tamil families from conducting the ritual during Mu’l’livaaykaal remembrance. Keerimalai is situated in Valikaamam North which has been subjected to militarisation and Sinhalicisation by the occupying SL military.

Deputy Head of Valikaamam North civic council, S. Shageevan, who is also the president of Valikaamam North uprooted peoples organisation, said there was only SL military soldiers in Keerimalai. No civilian has been allowed to enter the ritual site, he said taking part in the protest launched by Ms Ananthi Sasitharan.

Ms Ananthi has been staging a protest Sunday morning in front of a new barrier put up by the occupying Sinhala soldiers.

The main road from Thellippazhai junction to Keerimalai has been blocked by the SL military. The Sinhala soldiers were telling the Tamils that only external tourists were allowed to proceed further to Keerimalai.

The SL military has been suppressing the university students, academics, political activists and the common public from conducting any remembrance to the thousands who perished in the genocidal war on Vanni.

On Sunday, SL soldiers were also deployed in front of political offices and key places in the peninsula. SL military was also deployed in front of Tamil National Peoples Front (TNPF) office in Jaffna.

Keerimalai is a pilgrim centre and is considered a sacred place to perform rituals to ancestors.

The Siva temple established at this place by a sage called Nakula Muni is named Nakuleasvaram, which according to the chronicles of Jaffna, is one of earliest temples that existed prior to the arrival of Vijaya of the Pali chronicles.

Recently, the occupying Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) has seized lands to expand a military cantonment at Keerimalai.

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Tamils should project universality in Mu'l'livaaykkaal remembrance

Tamils should project universality in Mu'l'livaaykkaal remembrance

[TamilNet, Sunday, 18 May 2014, 07:08 GMT]
The Jaffna University Science Teachers’ Association (JUSTA) on Saturday condemned the Colombo government for oppressing Mu'l'livaaykkaal remembrance. One of the obverse impacts recognised by the JUSTA is that “it might lead to latent nostalgia for the LTTE, despite the anger against its holding the civilians hostage in the last stages of the war.” The JUSTA statement reeks of a deceptive twist deployed by the agencies of the West in covertly passing the blame. New Delhi was overt in oppressing any remembrance when its FM chose to visit Jaffna on the 2009 Heroes Day. Tamils should not slip in recognising and projecting the global struggle dimensions of remembering Mu'l'livaaykkaal, commented a Jaffna University academic.

Further comments from the Jaffna University academic:

If the oppression against Eezham Tamils as a nation continues in the island; if the militarisation and colonisation of their land continues in a hitherto unseen accelerated way, and if no hopes are seen on a political solution to the national question but what is seen is sheer structural genocide, then to what extent the continued agenda of the USA and India is fundamentally responsible for the situation in the last five years, has to be carefully perused by everyone.
According to the JUSTA statement, Maj. Gen. Udaya Perera told the Jaffna University VC, Deans and student leaders that “No [Mu'l'livaaykkaal] observance in the University would be permitted on the 18th, as any observance would amount to extolling the late LTTE leader Prabhakaran and would thus count as an inducement to terrorism.”

This military commander of genocidal Sri Lanka occupying Jaffna was ‘trained’ in the USA after the Mu'l'livaaykkaal War.

The diaspora in London was also instructed by some quarters to disassociate Tiger flag in Mu'l'livaaykkaal remembrance, informed circles say.

While Tamils are expected to erase every memory of their militant struggle or to desecrate it, the genocidal military of Sri Lanka becoming needed, getting pampered and being continuously licensed in the oppression of Eezham Tamils by all the concerned powers has to be understood without any pretensions.

With the given orientation of the concerned powers, this genocidal military and the militarisation of the country of Eezham Tamils will continue in escalated proportions and the oppression cum completion of structural genocide of Eezham Tamils is only a part of the vicious agenda.

Without any justice forthcoming, if Mu'l'livaaykkaal remembrance has to go beyond the militant legacy, then perhaps the remembrance should get the highlight of its deserving larger dimension.

Mu'l'livaaykkaal is a global symbol of the global injustice of the Establishments and their trade union parading in the name of United Nations.

Eezham Tamils should not be awakened to this larger reality and Mu'l'livaaykkaal should not get its deserving global significance is the major reason for the ‘LTTE talk’ and the oppression enacted through the agent military.

A careful observation would show a similar trend encouraged in the post-genocide literary output of Eezham Tamils too, so that there will be only accusations and disputes within them and the larger forces that are actively at work go untouched.

Why should Tamils speaking of the war, “in which neither side owned a monopoly of terrorism,” be such an explosive issue, asks the JUSTA statement, followed with an answer that it is because the ideological polarisation on the national question still remains.

Of course this is a local reason. But, while Tamils should be careful in gulping the IC paradigm of equating the war crimes of both sides, they should also grasp the reality that Tamils remembering the war in its proper perspective is a ‘sin’ because the side that directed the war to end it in genocide owns the ‘monopoly of counter terrorism’.

When Sinhalese remember the JVP they are not subjected to such a repression, points out the JUSTA statement. Ethnicity is certainly a reason. But remembering JVP is not as international as remembering Mu'l'livaaykkaal for forces operating in the island to get paranoid of their own injustices.

While some earlier academics of the Jaffna University Science Faculty, who were awarded by the West for their reporting, have found the fulfilment of their ‘human rights mission’ with the end of the Mu'l'livaaykkaal War, JUSTA coming out with the current state of oppression from the perspective of solutions to the national question, is highly appreciable. But the current realities demand larger, universalised understanding and projection of the struggle in facing the ultimate culprits responsible for the plight and in extracting justice.

Tamils will not do justice to their long history and heritage, and will not do justice to their posterity as well as to humanity, if they do not grasp the reality or pretend not seeing it and miss a great historic opportunity, by failing to project the symbol of Mu'l'livaaykkaal in its proper perspective and design their struggle appropriately.

Genocidal Sri Lanka celebrates ‘Vesak’ suppressing Mu’l’livaaykkal Remembrance

Genocidal Sri Lanka celebrates ‘Vesak’ suppressing Mu’l’livaaykkal Remembrance

[TamilNet, Saturday, 17 May 2014, 21:01 GMT]
The occupying Sinhala forces of the Sri Lankan State this year celebrated Buddhist Vesak in a massive scale in the occupied country of Eezham Tamils as never before. The commander of the occupying SL military in Jaffna organised a two day military event in Jaffna. New Delhi's Consul General in Jaffna Mr V Mahalingam and his officials were invited to an event held at the Open Air Theatre in front of the Jaffna Public Library together with SL State employees from the Northern Provincial Council and the University of Jaffna. Diaspora operatives collaborating with SL military were also seated as special guests at the event.
Vesak in Jaffna by SL military


While threatening the Eezham Tamils not to observe collective commemoration events in remembrance of the thousands of their kith and kin killed in the Vanni genocide five years ago, the SL military used Vesak celebrations this year as an opportunity to mark ‘Sinhala Buddhist’ victory over Eezham Tamils.

Entertainment programs, both by SL military personnel and dancers brought from South, were staged at the event where SL commander Major General Udaya Perera was present with his family.

The SL military used to celebrate the Vesak day also in the recent past. But, this year the military celebrations have been intensified in the five districts of North.
Vesak in Jaffna by SL military


Former commander and the military governor of North Maj Gen (retd) G.A. Chandrasiri was invited as a special guest together with SL minister and EPDP paramilitary group leader Douglas Devananda to the military event in Jaffna.

One of the SL government operated ‘diaspora’ operatives, recently exposed as ‘Tamil CNN Kannan’, was also seen seated in the front row as the special guest of Udaya Perera at the SL military staged Vesak event.
Vesak in Jaffna


In the meantime, Tamil rights activists said Vesak celebrations also reminded them of a massacre committed by the SL military on Vesak day in the Eastern city of Batticaloa in year 2000 adding that the ‘Vesak massacre’ is yet to receive the attention of the international community, they said.

Thirteen Eezham Tamils, including nine children from an orphanage were shot dead by Sri Lanka Army soldiers in Batticaloa city during the Vesak festival on 17 May in year 2000. The Tamil children were on a visit to Batticaloa from a Catholic Church run orphanage in Aayiththiya-malai to see the Vesak lanterns and festival decorations by the occupying SL military.

The SL military had admitted a year later that a drunken commanding officer had ordered his troops to open fire on civilians. However, there has been no investigations on the Vesak massacre of May 17, 2000.
Vesak in Jaffna


In the meantime, the Sinhala policemen in Jaffna blocked the elected Tamil representatives from observing a collective commemoration event inside the Northern Provincial Council and desecrated the floral tribute and the lamps when NPC councillors observed the event at the main entrance on Friday.

Tamil councillor marks Remembrance Day

Tamil councillor marks Remembrance Day at Mu’l’livaaykkaal West

[TamilNet, Saturday, 17 May 2014, 14:49 GMT]
Elected Northern Provincial Council (NPC) member Thurairasa Ravikaran from Mullaith-theevu on Saturday paid tribute to thousands of Eezham Tamils who perished facing the genocidal war 5 years ago in Vanni. The occupying Sri Lankan military soldiers were quick to discover the event and warned the TNA councillor not to proceed with the tribute. SL military intelligence operatives rushed to the spot with cameras taking video of the participants at Mul’l’ivaaykkaal West. The SL military officers said they had instructions not to allow any remembrance event to take place. However, Mr Ravikaran proceeded with the event stating that no body could stop him from gifting school children education material marking the remembrance of their kith and kin, who lost their lives in the war.
Mu'l'livaaykkaal Remembrance


The SL military soldiers at Mu’l’ivaaykkaal attempted to block the small gathering and passed message to the intelligence wing operatives who came to the location within a few minutes with video cameras.

SL military officers who came in motorbikes ordered the NPC member and the people to disperse.

However, Mr Ravikaran was quick to stage the event paying tribute to Tamil fighters and the people who perished in the genocidal war.

After confronting the SL military officers, the NPC member proceeded with the event gifting children education material in remembrance of their kith and kin, who had sacrificed their lives in the genocidal onslaught.

While the SL military was staging events paying tribute to their fallen, why Eezham Tamils are not even allowed to remember their dead, the Tamil councillor asked.
Mu'l'livaaykkaal Remembrance


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