Don’t visit Colombo, Ganesan tells NorthEast Tamils
http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=25932

Tamils resent surveillance in Colombo
http://www.dawn.com/2008/09/25/int14.htm

Sri Lanka: Is peace possible?
http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/keyword/Nationalist_and_National_Liberation/Liberation_Tigers_of_Tamil_Eelam/1666

If you still insist that the Tamils were never discriminated then you seem to have no touch with the reality. The insignificant Tamil bourgeois in Colombo are used by the imperialists to crush the Tamil peoples struggle for equality and self-determination. You repeatedly claiming that you are Tamil to make your argument shows your desperation to defend the racist policy of the Sinhalese government. Look at it from the perspective that they are humans and that they have an identity which them want to live by in peace and security.

“This transparent attempt at political damage control should fool no one. The expulsion of hundreds of innocent Tamils from Colombo is a logical product of the communal war, which Rajapakse has restarted and been waging since he narrowly won the presidency in November 2005. The government has reimposed tough security laws allowing the arbitrary detention without trial of “terrorist suspects,” giving the security forces wide powers to harass and persecute Tamils.

At the same time, hundreds of people, mainly Tamils, have been murdered or “disappeared” in circumstances that clearly implicate the military and associated paramilitaries. The Tamil media and journalists have been particular targets of these pro-government death squads. Virtually no one has been arrested or charged over any of these incidents, leading international human rights organisations to accuse the government of sanctioning a climate of impunity.

While Rajapakse claims to be waging a “war on terror” against the LTTE, the persecution of ordinary Tamils underscores the real purpose of the protracted war, which is to maintain the political and economic dominance of the island’s Sinhala ruling elites. Rajapakse and Wickremenayake have only stepped back from their latest repressive measure because it threatens to trigger protests at home and undermine support from the international backers of the war—the Bush administration in particular.”

When Rajapakse began his address in the parliament Tuesday around 10:00 a.m, people in Colombo and its suburbs lit crackers and fireworks.

Cordon and searches launched by SLA and police continued amidst celebration and festivities held by Sinhalese people.

Sri Lanka Air Force planes and helicopters flew above Colombo flying lion flags in celebration.

I have followed the plight of the Venezuelan people for years, at the hands of corrupt politicians and the greedy oil companies and the imperialists. Just like Chavez managed to get them off Venezuela, Sri lanka managed to get the LTTE and the Tamil fanatics off Sri Lanka.

Just like every time Chavez shows good results for the country and the people, the so called opposition start bashing the results, and sabotaging the growth of the country, Tamils have tried to sabotage every good thing in Sri Lanka. Just like the opposition in Venezuela, the Tamil fanatics never have anything constructive, they are just always in opposition, whining about so called Tamil grieviences . I am a Tamil, born in Jaffna and brought up in Colombo, I have never had any of these grieviences, these people are talking about. Please go to Sri Lanka and find out for yourself.

I don’t think the Venezuelan people, ie the masses are going to fall easily to Tamil propaganda and unfounded accusations and allegations. They read and research, and thanks to Chavez, alot of them can do that now. What the Tamil fanatics wanted was more like what Venezuela’s upper crust want. They just wanted to rule the majourity without the slightest consideration to the poor people.

If you are interested in what really happened in Sri Lanka, go to Sri Lanka and do some research yourself. Or go to any good library and find good old books and read, without reading Tamil fanatic’s propaganda.

Tamil fanatics always see everything on ethnic lines. They shout and whine about Tamil grieviences, they never bother to think about national grieviences or the suffering masses. They drain the energy out of good people in Sri lanka, and upto now, we have been unable to properly organise any socialistic movements, without the govt stampling us as terrorists. What Sri Lanka needs is help from all over the world, to get a fair and just government. Not this ethinic biased, propaganda.

The problem in Sri Lanka is not what the Tamils are saying. It is like most third world countries run by corrupt politicians. They really don’t care whether you are Tamil or Sinhala, they care only about their own pockets.

“LTTE themselves have said that they are anti-Marxists, because the SL govt trying to get the support of USA tried to label them so, in the 80’s.”

Can you please provide the source if they said that.

“Tamils share no ancestary with the Veddhas.”

From the website you provided (http://vedda.org/1-who.htm):

“Sri Lanka’s indigenous inhabitants, the Veddas — or Wanniya-laeto (‘forest-dwellers’) as they call themselves — preserve a direct line of descent from the island’s original Neolithic community dating from at least 16,000 BC and probably far earlier according to current scientific opinion.1
Even today, the surviving Wanniya-laeto community retains much of its own distinctive cyclic worldview, prehistoric cultural memory, and time-tested knowledge of their semi-evergreen dry monsoon forest habitat that has enabled their ancestor-revering culture to meet the diverse challenges to their collective identity and survival.”

According to geological history the island was attached to the Indian subcontinent and that to what is now the state of Tamil Nadu. I guess the Tamils or the ancestry of the Tamils just walked to the island.

“By the way the Tamils never had a homeland in Sri Lanka.”

Tough argument given that the Tamils had empire with great naval capacity and could see the island from the shore on a clear day.

“The Sinhalese people are the admixture of the Hele people”

Who are the Hele people?

“Does the author realsize that “American Indians had a vast homeland, stretching from Alberta to Chihuahua, Mexico, for centuries before the White man came to North America and for centuries afterwards.”

I think not only the author but everyone realizes that. That is why there needs to be a strong support for the native people of the land and we must help them in acquiring that support for them so that they can win back what is rightfully theirs.

“The best that Tamils can ever expect to have in Sri Lanka is a truly secular state where all of her people will be treasured as equals”

The Tamil people asked for equality but the Sinhalese population and the Sinhalese politicians never gave them that. Instead they stripped them even more pushing them into absolute slavery and humiliation. I think the following quote explains that quiet clearly:

“You must not run away with the thought that our sole objective is to establish Tamil Eelam. Tamil Eelam certainly remains an objective because we have learnt through bitter experience over the past several years that it is only by establishing a State of Tamil Eelam can Tamils live with self respect. But our vision is broader than that. Our vision is global. Wherever there is oppression, wherever there is violation of human dignity, whether in Africa or in Latin America, we are prepared to link hands with the oppressed and the under dog. When our vision is so global how can it fail to take into account the future good of the Sinhala people?… “ – Nadarajah Thangathurai’s Statement from the Dock (1 March 1983)

The LTTE and the Tamil fanatics change their story according to who they speak to. When they speak to right wing and other anti-communists, they say they are totally against Marxism and when they talk to left wing people, they say another story. :)

LTTE themselves have said that they are anti-Marxists, because the SL govt trying to get the support of USA tried to label them so, in the 80′s.

By the way the Tamils never had a homeland in Sri Lanka. The Tamil homeland is Tamilakam, present day Tamil Nadu. Tamil language, culture, customs everything originated in Tamilakam, not in Sri Lanka.

The Sinhalese people are the admixture of the Hele people, Veddahs and the people who brought the Prakrit language to Sri Lanka. The Sinhala language is a mixture of the Hele language also called Elu and the Prakrit language, of the North Indian colonisers. The Veddahs still speak a dialect of this language greatly influeced by the Sinhala language too. Their racial memory is that they are partly descendent from Prince Vijaya. They have been the protectors of the Sinhala royalty all throughout the South Indian raids and later the European colonisers. The British butchered these people in the thousands for their support to the Sinhalese. Tamils share no ancestary with the Veddhas.

See http://www. vedda.org

Does the author realsize that “American Indians had a vast homeland, stretching from Alberta to Chihuahua, Mexico, for centuries before the White man came to North America and for centuries afterwards.”

GET REAL my friend, Ron!

The best that Tamils can ever expect to have in Sri Lanka is a truly secular state where all of her people will be treasured as equals – but it will be ONE natio under one flag and no, there shall not be any Quebecs inside the tiny island. If what you truly wish is peace and equality ALL of the people on the island I suggest that you give this matter much broader thought – than your obvious biases.

In the name of “war on terror”, violence was imposed on 9/11 suspects and their hosting countries under the Bush doctraine. To achieve same objective, Obama administration is trying democratic process to bring 9/11 suspects under the civil law.

“war on terror” is “war of ideas” as NYTimes’ 6-series article explore the options.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/08/opinion/08FRIE.html

MLK’s dream, which is unimaginable at that time became reality, by President Obama’s election to oval office.
Obama will succeed in his approach as history shows.

“Wars are poor chisels for carving out peace” – MLK Jr

Tamils (Eezham nationals) in Srilanka have been living under oppressive sinhala regimes since 1948.
They have denied their basic civil rights, freedom and equal rights.
Srilankan president Mahinda Rajapakse conducted the war under Bush’s doctraine, ignoring the history.
Almost every state actor supported his so called “war on terror” under the guise of globalization and geopolitical interest. Unfortunately CUBA-ALBA also support this regime regardless of their revolutionary history and leftist ideals, I beleive they forsee economical benefits in doing so, very short sighted decision.

“Unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated stronger than evil triumphant” – MLK Jr

26.08.09 SLA war crimes eerily similar to Srebrenica Scorpions’ terro..
23.08.09 Boyle debunks Kohona’s war-crimes braggadocio
http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=30063
Winners are never tried for war crimes, says Colombo’s foreign secretary
http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=79&artid=30056

I found this writing by Nadesan Satyendra on his Tamilnation.org website on this issue and the Tamil people trying to keep the struggle in their hands and not let it get manipulated.

http://tamilnation.org/saty/091127maveerar_naal.htm
“…….For Tamils living in many lands and across distant seas, the 27th of November is the day on which they remember, honour and mourn those who have given their lives in the continuing Tamil struggle for freedom. It is the day marked by the death of Shankar in 1982 – the first death of a cadre of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
27 November 2009 marks the first Maaveerar Naal without the physical presence of Velupillai Pirabakaran – a leader who will live in the hearts and minds of generations of Tamils yet unborn as the undying and heroic symbol of Tamil resistance to alien rule.
…. the Tamil cultural renaissance of the latter part of the 19th century and the early 20th century, on the foundations built by Swaminatha Iyer from Tamil Nadu and Thamotherampillai from Tamil Eelam; the rise of the Dravida Tamil national movement of the first half of the 20th century led by Periyar and C.N.Annadurai; and the internationalisation of Tamil studies by the monumental efforts of Father Thaninayagam from Tamil Eelam; are but tributaries flowing into one river – the river of the growing togetherness of more than 80 million Tamil people – and this river is not about to flow backwards.
It is not surprising therefore that those who would conquer and rule the Tamil people continue their efforts to keep the Tamil nation divided because they know that a people are more easily subdued and assimilated if that people are divided into small digestible morsels.
The Sinhala Sri Lanka government seeks to divide Eelam Tamils into Colombo Tamils, Plantation Tamils, Batticaloa Tamils, Trincomalee Tamils, Vanni Tamils, Jaffna Tamils and so on. The New Delhi Indian government seeks to separate Eelam Tamils from Karnataka Tamils, from Bombay Tamils, from Tamil Nadu Tamils, from Kerala Tamils, from Andhra Tamils, from Manipur Tamils and so on. Western governments intent on securing their strategic interests in the Indian Ocean are concerned to encourage Eelam Tamils to see themselves as separate from their brothers and sisters in the Indian sub continent, because they know only too well the force that an undivided Tamil nation will wield in the Indian Ocean region.
And so, New Delhi as well as Western governments will encourage Tamils as a people to remain as supplicants and pleaders for justice and freedom. Having joined hands with Sinhala Sri Lanka in its genocidal onslaught on the people of Tamil Eelam, they will hold themselves out as brokers for peace and justice. That is understandable. Tamil supplicants and pleaders are useful weapons in the armoury of New Delhi and the West – weapons that may be used by each to advance each of their own strategic interests in the island of Sri Lanka, when the occasion so demands.
It is also understandable that New Delhi as well as Western governments will be concerned to ‘support’ the Tamil struggle so that they may direct the struggle to ‘grow in a particular direction’ and in that way manage it. To this end, these governments will at all times be vigilant to prevent the Tamil national movement from building its strength from its own people. Empires do not build partners. Kosova with NATO in command and East Timor with Australian armed forces are a few recent examples. Empires build colonies. That was true of the British empire. It is also true of the empires of today, including the Indian empire.
New Delhi as well as Western governments know only too well that a genuine leadership of the Tamil people will not come from English speaking Tamils speaking to other English speaking Tamils in English. They know it will not come from ‘part timers’ whose full time occupations are heavily dependent on retaining the goodwill of the ‘establishment’ in the states in which they reside. They know that such a ‘leadership’ being rootless will all the more readily become a willing tool (whether knowingly or unknowingly) of international actors and agencies who are concerned to advance their own interests in the Indian Ocean region. And for that very reason they will encourage the emergence of such a rootless ‘leadership’. After all internal subversion of national liberation movements is not something new.
………..It is right that Tamils are concerned about the horrendous war crimes committed by Sinhala Sri Lanka but adhering to the old adage ‘ march separately and strike together’, will enable us to preserve our own integrity at every stage of the marches ahead – preserve our integrity from later attacks by those who may for now befriend us to further their own agendas. Yes, the Tamil people too have an agenda. But that agenda is not a hidden agenda. It is not a secret agenda. It may be openly stated – it is freedom from alien rule.”

{Elli Wiesel made the following statement: “Wherever minorities are being persecuted we must raise our voices to protest. According to reliable sources, the Tamil people are being disenfranchised and victimized by the Sri Lanka authorities. This injustice must stop. The Tamil people must be allowed to live in peace and flourish in their homeland.”

If anyone doubts that “disenfranchised and victimized” in this case means genocide, will be glad to supply the proof.

The widow of Nobel Peace Prize winner Andrei Sakharov, Yelena Bonner, delivered a particularly strong pro-Israel speech at the Oslo Freedom Forum. She also asked

“Have you heard of any statement made by the President Obama that would have put pressure the government of Sri Lanka during the last 4 months of military assault on the Tamil Tigers? He could have saved lives, prevent humanitarian disaster and re-new negotiations. Did he? “

Dr. Ellyn Shander, MD, a Jewish humanitarian and activist who has worked in Sri Lanka, writes: “Today over 300,000 Tamils in Sri Lanka are imprisoned in concentration camps by their own government because they are a minority. They are treated as less than human. They are raped, abducted, starved, denied medicine, tortured and prevented from going back to their homeland in the north of their country. The similarity to Nazi techniques to extinguish the Jews is chilling. “Never again” seems hollow, as this genocide occurs before an apathetic international community .As governments rush to appease China, they enable the Sri Lankan -China alliance to extinguish an ancient people and their culture.

“The Tamil struggle is our struggle too. “

The most important point: Jews were the victims of a recent attempt, the holocaust, to exterminate them. Sri Lankan Tamils have been the victims of a similar attempt that began with independence in 1948 and is still going on. We hope that this painful connection gives us enough common experience that we Tamils may call on Jews for help.}

http://www.tamilsforobama.com/Letters/Tamil_J_letter.html

To even think of supporting a racist government like Sri Lanka by the countries of Latin America is disgusting. But the truth is that Latin America has knowingly or unknowingly supported Sri Lankan government and that needs to change.

The letter goes on to describe the similar histories of the two peoples. It notes “The Tamils and the Jews are both ancient peoples. The Tamils built the cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro in the Indus valley. These cities had cultural and trade ties to Mesopotamia when much of Jewish culture was located there. The two Tamil cities are believed to have declined from about 1900 BCE, so we might even be a little older.

“The first ‘Aryan invasion’ of our original homeland in Northern India took place in the 1500s BCE, and was only the first of several. Over centuries the center of Tamil culture shifted to southern India and Sri Lanka and currently includes a Tamil diaspora with settlers in almost every country of the world.”

A spokesman for Tamils for Obama said that he thought Jews could not help but make a connection between the Aryan invasion of the Indus valley and the Nazis, who identified themselves as Aryans.

The spokesman also noted that the linguistic connections were tentative. The letter says “The Hebrew word abba (dad) is similar to the Tamil word appa. The Hebrew word for mom is imma and the Tamil is amma. Whether this similarity shows a common origin, borrowing from a common source, or just coincidence we don’t know, but we hope it is the former.”

In the letter, Tamils for Obama noted that some of the same people who hate Jews don’t like Tamils either. It says “Saddam Hussein hated Jews and Israel. We can all remember the pictures of mass hangings of the Jews of Bagdad when Saddam ‘discovered’ that they were all Israeli spies. He also was a generous benefactor of the Colombo government that has been trying to exterminate the Sri Lankan Tamils. (Jews were about of 25% of the population of Baghdad before Saddam and his Baath party came to power; there are only a few dozen now. Tamils were more than 30% of the population of Ceylon in 1948 and are under 20% now, so Colombo is making progress.) Our enemies have made common cause, so perhaps we should, too. Iran and Libya, no friends of the Jews, are also among Colombo’s allies.”

HEBREWS IN OCCUPIED PALESTINE ARE SECOND CLASS CITIZENS. STOP LYING AT ONCE. WHY DON’T YOU BRING EXAMPLES FROM HATRED OF ZIONIST JEWS FOR THE PALESTINIANS?

STOP THE LIE OF MAKING ‘jew’ & tamil as one. The Kurds has used the same technique so the fools, Berbers. Suddently, all are ‘jews’ because zionists rule through proxy.
Stop the lies at once. It is disgusting.

http://www.sibernews.com/200908053417.html