Tamils - a Trans State Nation

DMK Human Chain Protest: Stop Genocide
- Kalaignar, Kalaignar Everywhere
but No Word of Support for Independent Tamil Eelam

Tamil News Centre 24 October 2008

[see also India-Sri Lanka Joint Press Release& Karunanidhi shows his hand  and We won�t stop military cooperation with Lanka says Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee together with Comment by tamilnation.org- " Many will see the current posturing (and ultimatums) by Jayalalitha and Karunanidhi in  Tamil Nadu as no more than a drama on a platform provided by New Delhi so that New Delhi may coerce President Rajapakse (and his JVP allies) to move away from the China-Iran-Pakistan axis... (Said that) The posturing by Jayalalitha and Karunanidhi (whatever may be their  motives) is, in the final analysis, an appeal to an underlying  Tamil national consciousness, and therefore their actions will help to nurture Tamil togetherness - and for that reason will be welcomed by many Tamils and used by them to further strengthen that Tamil togetherness.

Time does not stand still. 2008 is not 1984. And the togetherness of the Tamil people living in many lands has grown from year to year and that particular river is not about to flow backwards. It is a growing togetherness reflected in the widespread support that the ordinary people of Tamil Nadu have extended to the Tamil Eelam struggle for freedom from alien Sinhala rule  - a wide spread support across caste and religion and  given eloquent expression by persons such Bharathiraja, Director Seeman, Director Cheran, Vaiko, Nedumaran, Suba Veerapandiyan, Pulamaipithan, Ramadoss, Thol. Thirumavalavan, Arivumathi and many others

Some of  them have paid the price of being arrested and incarcerated for giving  expression to their feelings - arrested and incarcerated by the police of a Tamil Nadu government headed by Chief Minister Karunanithi.]

Kottum Mazhaiyil Makkalai Muttaal Akkiya Thalaivan
- கொட்டும் மழையில் மக்களை முட்டாளாக்கிய தலைவன்