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Tamils - a Nation without a State
Karnataka
an estimated 2.8 million Tamils live in Karnataka
"Recognise Tamileelam" - Karnataka Thamizhar
Makkal Iyakkam, Bangalore, India கர்னாடக தமிழர்
மக்கள் இயக்கம்: ஈழத்தமிழர் படுகொலையை எதிர்த்து ஆர்ப்பாட்டம், பெங்களுரு, இந்தியா
Tamil News Centre, 20 October 2008 [see also
Tamil Nadu Going Eelam Way? ]
Karnataka Thamizhar Makkal Iyakkam held a sit in (Dharna) agitation before the
Gandhi statue on the M. G. Road in Bangalore on 20.10.2008 to voice against the
genocide unleashed on the Eelam Tamils and to support the cause of Eelam. Around
one thousand Karnataka Tamils participated.
Memorandum addressed to Dr. Manmohan Singh Hon'ble Prime Minister of India New
Delhi 110001 through His Excellency to the Governor of Karnataka read -
Stop the genocidal State terrorist violence on Eelam Tamils
This memorandum of ours is on the premeditated war let loose on the innocent
Tamil civilians by the Srilankan State that is being driven by the Mahavamsa
psyche of establishing an exclusively Sinhala and Buddhist theocratic State
through the violent means of ethnic cleansing.
Now it is an all out war on the Tamils, and no day passes without some news
or other leaking out in spite of a total black out by the Sinhala State by
not allowing the world's press media to be a witness and report on them. You
are indeed aware that food to the uprooted Tamils living without roofs over
them is being used as a weapon to starve them out and make them to move into
the government controlled areas. If allowed, the Tamils fleeing to Tamilnadu
would be in spates as refugees crossing the sea. Tamils face the inhuman and
indiscriminate bombing missions of MIG27, MIG 29 and Kfir sorties. The
attack is primarily aimed at the house dwellings, schools and other building
utilities of the innocent civilians, be it children, women and aged. The
pitch of the outrage is that of denying medicines and medical facilities to
those internally displaced civilians.
You may be aware that aiding the genocidal Sinhala State, militarily or
otherwise, amounts to being an active and willing accomplice in
exterminating the Tamils as a linguistic nationality and denying them their
basic human right of the right to self-determination.It is indeed history
that when Pakistan committed a genocide of comparatively lesser scale on the
Bengalees in the erstwhile East Pakistan, the Indian State intervened to
redeem the Bengalees to earn their right to self-determination. So, we
Tamils plead that a similar role could be played having in mind the
geo-political interest of India as a regional power.It is indeed a puzzle
for the Tamils here to see the intriguing and persisting silence on the part
of the Indian Government in not taking any action, whatsoever, when the
Srilankan Navy killed more than 300 fishermen of Tamilnadu over years; and
it did not even demand that the Srilankan Government pay due compensation to
the kith and kin of the deceased or maimed Tamil fishermen.
We the Tamils in Karnataka therefore plead before your esteemed office to
1) force the Srilankan State not to wage war on its own
Tamils;
2) stop joint patrolling favouring the Srilankan Navy;
3) stop supporting the genocidal Srilankan State, militarily or
otherwise;
4) withdraw forthwith the Indian military personnel who are assisting
the Sinhala State in waging war on the Eelam Tamils;
5) recognise the right of Eelam Tamils to self-determination and
recognise Tamileelam.
6) Safeguard the rights of Tamilnadu fishermen to fish in deep seas
beyond the Indian sea limits, as the fish resources have moved far away
due to ecological disturbances caused by the atomic power plants,
Tuththukudi Thermal Power Plant, destruction of the coral reefs and
mangrove forests and Tsunami.
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