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Second World Tamil Eelam Convention
1984 - Nanuet, New York Letter from LTTE
Leader, Velupillai Pirabakaran
to Dr.Winston Panchacharam, Conference Organiser
19 May 1984
[published in 'எனது மக்களின் விடுதலைக்காக',
September 1993, by LTTE, Jaffna]
 "...We
have received your kind letter. Many thanks... You are presently
engaged in the effort to organise the
Second World Thamil Eelam Convention. You have sent us an
invitation to participate in this Convention. On this matter it
is necessary that I make clear the position of our Organisation,
the current situation of the Tamil people and the present needs
of our struggle for freedom...
...It appears that one of the
objectives of the Convention is to unite the Liberation
Organisations and establish a single political-military
leadership for the struggle for Tamil Eelam. I welcome
efforts to bring about unity. However, it is my wish that such
efforts should be undertaken in Tamil Eelam. It is
necessary that those Liberation Organisations which have
established themselves permanently in Tamil Nadu and the
leadership of such organisations should move to Tamil Eelam. It
is in Tamil Eelam that the struggle is taking place and it is in
Tamil Eelam that we are prepared to discuss unity. We are not
prepared to discuss the strategies of our struggle seated in a
foreign land - and that too in the capital of US
imperialism and inside
the spider web (சிலந்தி வலை)
of the spy services of the C.I.A.. You are not unaware
that all the Liberation Organisations are united in the goal of
a socialist Tamil Eelam. However, there are differences in views
regarding military strategy and general tactics as to how this
goal is to be achieved. These are complex and difficult
issues - and concern military strategy and battlefield
experience. These are matters which the leadership of the
Liberation Organisations will need to discuss and exchange views
upon in a climate of mutual trust - and with much secrecy. These
are not matters that can be debated upon in an open
international conference, and that too in the United States..."
[see also
Second World Tamil Eelam Convention, 1984] |
