We are challenged on one hand to look into the protection of these people, take care of their welfare, resettle them in their own homes in the soonest possible time, assist and support these people to get back to normalcy and find a new life for those people and cadres who have been disabled as a result of losing their limbs in the war.
On the other hand the road to realise the political challenges and win our goals based on the underlying principles of a Tamil Nation, our Homeland and our right to self determination is long and arduous. To confront this enormous challenge, the need of the hour is for the Tamil nation together in partnership with the Tamil Diaspora to work on a common plan of action under a common policy.
The Sri Lankan Government is denying the uniqueness of the Tamil Nation’s identity as One Nation and One people and attempting to imprison the the Tamil people under Sinhala hegemony. The Tamil Nation has now been pushed to the point of fighting to even preserve its national ethnic identity. This policy of the Sri Lankan Government is not only dangerous for the Tamil people of Eelam but also for the Muslims and up-country Tamils to preserve their identity. This propels the need for the Tamils of Eelam, Muslims and up-country Tamils to unite under a common strategy.
To confront the current phase of immense challenges, we need to take a look back at our past course of action. We need to learn from our experience. Despite the powerful and uplifting show of support demonstrated by the Tamil Diaspora and our brotheren in Tamil Nadu and the many diplomatic moves we were unable to move the nations of the world in support of our legitimate cause. We were only able to get these nations to voice their concerns and criticisms but were unable to get them to act to prevent the massacres or support our cause.
The Sinhala nation did not confront us alone in this fight. Instead, it conducted this war with the international community on its side, by understanding the world order, by using the Indian Ocean region’s geo-political structure in its favour and by taking into account the functions and limitations of the international frame work. Even recently, it has used the same approach to gain an upper hand and beat the resolution against it at the sitting of the Human Rights Council on 27th May 2009. It continues to successfully handle the international community to exert its hegemonistic power on the Tamils.
In the next phase of our fight we cannot gain victory by standing alone. How are we going to move the world in favour of our nation? As our National Leader had earlier spoken, the world order is not revolving on a just orbit but a on an orbit of self interest. How do we gain the support of the world’s nations in such an order? What are the opportunities available for us? What are the sorts of challenges that we need to confront? We need to begin to think of these in this new environment. As the world moves fast, there bound to be constant changes. These changes will also open the doors and create opportunities to liberate the Tamils of Eelam.
With this hope we need to nurture our spirit of freedom from being extinguished. By raising our voice for justice for our people among International Community against all the attrocities that have been commited by the Sri Lankan government and by keeping our liberation spirit alive, we have to move forward in our next phase of struggle with the support of our brotheren in Tamil Nadu and other parts of World and with the World people who are commited to the principle of justice.
Moving forward to next steps, confronting the obstacles and challenges ahead, is only possible if we begin to think together, speaking the truth with our people and understanding the realistic situation. It is important and fundamental for us to accept the opinions and advices of our people to lay out our path and contruct it."
