Tamils - a Nation without a State
United Kingdom -
ஐக்கிய இராச்சியம்
- an estimated 100,000 Tamils live in Great Britain
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Christmas, New Year, Pongal Greetings from Crawley, United
Kingdom
25 December 2008
" It
was sixty years ago on 10 December 1948 that the United Nations
General Assembly adopted the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It was also sixty
years ago, on 4 February 1948, that the
British ended their colonial rule of the island of Ceylon
(Sri Lanka as it is now known) and handed over power to a
permanent Sinhala majority within the confines of a single
unitary state. And for the people of Tamil Eelam in the island
of Ceylon, it was also sixty years ago that British colonialism
was replaced by Sinhala colonialism.... For the
people of Tamil Eelam, the 60th Anniversary of Universal
Declaration of Human Rights is a painful reminder of the gap
between the words and deeds of the member states of the United
Nations - a gap made all too visible by
their responses to
Sinhala
Sri Lanka�s 60 year record of tyranny and oppression...
.. a tyranny
and oppression that led the people of Tamil Eelam to have
recourse, as
a last resort to rebellion and armed resistance, with all
the suffering that that resistance entailed, and
continues to entail.... Said all this, the Tamil people
continue to be mindful that
reason is not without force ...
Aspirations
for freedom and liberty are not easily quelled. They have
material force. This is the lesson of history. And it is this
lesson of history that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
set out to teach sixty years ago after the �untold sorrow� of
two world wars - the lesson that �recognition of the inherent
dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members
of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and
peace in the world� and the lesson that �if man is not to be
compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion
against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be
protected by the rule of law�. The last 60 years show that there
is a pressing need to continue to teach that lesson to the
member states of the United Nations."
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