Tamils - a Trans State Nation..

"To us all towns are one, all men our kin.
Life's good comes not from others' gift, nor ill
Man's pains and pains' relief are from within.
Thus have we seen in visions of the wise !."
- Tamil Poem in Purananuru, circa 500 B.C 

BBC, Sky, and CNN are reporting the killing of our much respected and venerated leader Velupillai Prabhakaran and the top rungs of the leadership of the Tamil Liberation movement in the final and vengeful assault on them by the Sinhala forces of dark racism and imperial greed. TamilNet, however, reports that our leader is alive and well. There is so much of confusion about this in the media that our hearts bleed in sorrow at times and at other times hope in desperation.

Reports are coming out of deliberate executions in cold blood of some of the close associates of the Tamil leader without regard to the due process of the Geneva convention or the law. There is incontrovertible evidence that Nadesan, Pulledevan, Elango, and Charles Anthony were executed summarily when they surrendered to the blood-lustful Sri Lankan army, along with the wounded Tiger cadres.

If the incarceration and maltreatment of Muslim prisoners in Guantanamo Bay by the US was indefensible, the summary executions of surrendering Tamil military leaders must be deplored by all right thinking people and the culprits should be prosecuted for war crimes. We sincerely hope that our beloved leader has not been killed but in the event of his demise, this is a homage to him and all others with him extirpated without feeling or mercy in this evil war and an appreciation of their lives. All civilisations honour the dead and even those of their enemies and it is in this spirit that I write this eulogy for an outstanding leader of our times. The Sinhalese armed forces have vandalised the graves of our martyrs in our land that they have captured. Sadly it reflects more on their savagery and the distinct lack of a credible civilisation than anything we can say about our invaders.

We have to remember the good fight that these men and women fought on our behalf to bring justice to the Tamils of Sri Lanka and we should make it a point to honour them in our homes and in our lives. This was a golden generation of brave men and women who were not prepared to be trampled upon by a racist state and although they faced overwhelming odds, did not shrink from facing a vengeful enemy nor flee from an racially intoxicated bully.

Veritable heroes to be installed in the pantheon of Tamil history. Let it not be forgotten that the political objective of the Tamil Liberation movement was based on a mandate for a separate state given to the TULF by the Tamils in the General Election of 1977. Again, the the Tamil Liberation movement obtained its mandate through the support it gave to the TNA who received an overwhelming majority in the 2004 General Election.

This is a black day for us if indeed the Tamil leader has been killed. We have to grieve properly the loss of our beloved national leader and his closest men and women who have been eliminated by the Sinhala scoundrels. We are convinced that no law on earth can ban the honouring of the dead and that it is a psychological need for our spirits and our own souls to do so in love and in prayer. When historians come to record objectively the military achievements, social advancement and political emancipation of our people, Velupillai Prabaharan will rank as a great social and political innovator and hero no matter that the Sinhala extremists will try to portray him as a 'terrorist'. This is not the time and the place to record his glorious achievements and sacrifice but just a short elegy to his memory and a solemn pledge to continue with the struggle to free the Tamils from their bondage. Our leader Prabhaharan got us off our knees and restored our self confidence and honour.

If in fact the Tamil leaders have been killed and the movement destroyed, the world will see once again the re-emergence of the national trait of the Sinhala bully and thug that has lain dormant in fear of reprisals from the Tigers, getting ready again to intimidate and even kill the Tamils who live in Colombo and the South. It is reported that the British Foreign Secretary David Miliband has been called a terrorist and his effigies burnt on the streets of Colombo today. How much more at risk will be the Tamils living in Colombo among the Sinhala hoodlums and their political leaders? The average Sinhalese who professes not to want to kill an ant will once again roam the streets of Colombo to set fire to the Tamils and their homes. It is the responsibility of India and the Western powers who helped Sri Lanka to this military victory to exert their diplomatic and military pressure to warn Mahinda Rajapakse to desist from encouraging this conflagration. There should be no pussyfooting about by these powers and the Tamil Diaspora should warn our Foreign Secretaries about this possibility and ask their diplomatic missions in Colombo to keep a watchful eye over it.

The dynamics of our international situation has changed for the better for us although we have lost the military battle in Sri Lanka. The Tamil Diaspora is well established and politically strong in the host countries. Protests and demonstrations have brought our cause and our struggle to the fore in these countries.

There is a growing understanding of the moral justification of the Tamil cause. The public of Tamil Nadu have shown that they fully support our cause. Leading Western politicians like President Obama, the British and French Foreign Ministers and the UN Security Council have recognised that there has been a bloodbath among the civilians in the Vanni largely due to government military action and have called for War Crimes investigations.

The eyes of the world will be on Sri Lanka, and the Tamils will be no longer international non-entities going back as sycophants and slaves to the Sinhalese.

These Tamil leaders fought bravely against a blood soaked state and its bloodthirsty army for over twenty five years in an asymmetric war where the Sinhala Sri Lankan state used a vast arsenal of combat aircraft, warships, battle tanks, artillery, rockets, high explosive ammunition and chemical weapons with a standing army of over 200,000 personnel in a war waged against its own subjects, the Tamils, who were lightly armed and with a small fraction of the occupier's numbers but were possessed of righteous determination and courage. This has been a repeat of the Sinhala Goliath bent on devouring the Tamils by taking on the Tamil David who had only the proverbial sling.

The world had looked with disbelief while this small band of committed youth, both boys and girls, grew into a renowned militant outfit that held the armed services of a modern and ruthless state at bay for all of this time. The support it received from the Tamil community in the North and the East of Sri Lanka allowed it to repel the Sinhala Sri Lankan army from the North and the East and install its own form of government of a quasi Tamil state, that has passed into history as "Tamil Eelam'. The discipline, incorruptibility and intelligent mastery of military strategy by the late Tamil leader coupled with his innate ability to win the loyalty of his followers were the primary reasons for the success of the Tamil Liberation group in both its military achievements and the good governance of the putative Tamil state with all the accoutrements of statehood.

The early success of this Tamil resistance to racist Sinhala oppression was misunderstood by some in the West while the Sinhala Sri Lankan state set out deliberately to misrepresent its assault on the Tamils as a War on Terror. This baseless propaganda claim was orchestrated by the diplomatic missions of Sri Lanka throughout the world that eventually their lie became the apparent truth in the perception of the world governments and international media. Countries such as China, Pakistan, Israel, Russia, Ukraine and India supplied Sri Lanka with arms and armaments for their own selfish reasons that condemned the Tamils of Sri Lanka to facing a war of genocide where thousands of innocent Tamil civilians have been killed and their homes and property destroyed.

The military defeat of the Tamil Liberation Group at the hands of Sri Lanka's massed armed forces supplied by countries that have themselves got no deep democratic controls, must rank as a moral victory for a small but dedicated group of fighters with a fraction of the arms and resources of a modern state but who fought to defend their nation, language, culture and history with a commitment to a sacred cause of freedom and equal opportunity.

With satellite photographs and You Tube pictures and reports, the world has now seen the callous disregard to human life shown by the marauding army of the Sinhalese in its rampant progress through the villages and towns of the Tamils in the Vanni. This is war in which over 100,000 innocent Tamils have been killed by the Sinhala army, many thousands 'disappeared' without trace and countless thousands of our women and girls raped and many of them killed. The Sinhala Sri Lankan government in its vengeful desire to capture the last remaining pocket of land of the Tamils in the Vanni, embarked on a relentless bombardment of the people using its heavy artillery and planes. Hospitals were attacked, even canvas tents in which people were sheltering were bombed without any mercy or compunction and without regard to human lives lost or the misery caused. The pleas of President Obama and Hillary Clinton, of Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Foreign Secretary Miliband, UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, the EU and the French President and many others were all contemptuously ignored in the blood thirst to kill the Tamil people and capture our land.

There is a vast array of personal and pictorial evidence of this genocide available in the media, with NGOs and with some concerned men in the armed forces that can be used to prosecute the people responsible for such mass killings. There cannot be a clearer case of genocide than this and President Mahinda Rajapakse, his Defence Secretary Gothabaya Rajapakse and the Army Commander General Sarath Fonseka have to be arraigned before the International Criminal Court for War Crimes. The world owes a duty to the innocent dead and the living injured to bring these evil men to justice.

You know what the execrable Mahinda Rajapakse and his brother Gothabaya have in store for us after their disgraceful genocidal war. These are unscrupulous racist thugs who hold the reins of office now. I have heard from reliable sources that they have plans to gerrymander with the constituencies of the north and the east in general elections to be called, to make them larger which will result in a reduced number of Tamil MPs and entice some other MPs from the opposition, all with a view to obtaining a two-third majority to amend the constitution. That will spell the death knell of the Tamils as a people in their own homeland.

There are also plans extant to settle Sinhala soldiers in our areas and to change the demography of our traditional areas with a view to 'Sinhalising' them. Bo trees and statues of the Buddha have already started to be planted in our villages and towns to change the historical nature of these habitations. The only risible concession these brigands have in mind is the 13th Amendment to the constitution to appease our Indian overlords with smoke and mirrors to cover up the imperial hegemony of the Sinhala majority.

I would like to reproduce for your elucidation what Nadesan Satyendra had to say about it in his Tamil Nation web site.

"It is difficult to discuss the provisions of the 13th Amendment to the Sri Lanka Constitution seriously - they are so impossibly burlesque and farcical... Under the 13th Amendment power will continue to reside in a Sinhala dominated Central government, within the frame of an unitary constitution. It has created Provincial Ministers who will not exercise executive power but who will have executive power exercised 'through' them! At the same time it has created a Provincial Governor appointed by the Sri Lanka President (and holding office at his pleasure) who will exercise executive power in respect of provincial matters - a Provincial Governor who is also the administrative head of the provincial public service and who has control of the Provincial Finance Fund. And the 13th Amendment has created a Provincial Council without control of planning, without control of the provincial budget, without control of police and public order within the province, without control of disposition of state land within the province, without control of higher education and whose remaining meagre legislative powers are subject to the over riding will of the Central Parliament. Finally, the provisions of the Provincial Councils Act itself may be amended from time to time by a simple majority of members present and voting in Parliament."

Endowed with no real authority or power, this is the Mickey Mouse 13th Amendment devolution they have in mind for us in the NorthEast after their military victory and the rabid Sinhalese will vote for it.

The Diaspora must remain ever vigilant and campaign hard to expose these racist murderers and their devil's brew that they wish to serve our people. Sri Lanka must be put on notice for good behaviour.

The blood of our martyrs will consecrate our land and inexorably freedom will bloom once again.