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30 May 2005
One Hundred Tamils of the 20th Century:
Swami
Vipulananda - Extensively Revised
28 May 2005
Beyond Tamil Nation:
One World to include
Dr.Vandana Shiva on
The
Polarised World of Globalisation
(A
response to Friedman's Flat earth hypothesis)
"In his book
"The world is Flat" Friedman tries desperately to
argue that Globalisation is a leveller of inequalities
in societies. But when you only look at the worldwide
Web of information technology, and refuse to look at the
web of life, the food web, the web of community, the web
of local economies and local cultures which
Globalisation is destroying, it is easy to make false
and fallacious arguments that the world is flat. .."
more
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27 May 2005
Tamil National Forum - Sachi Sri Kantha from Japan on
Sinhalese-Muslim Riots of 1915 - A Synopsis
27 May 2005
Conflict Resolution: Tamil Eelam - Sri Lanka to include
J. S. Tissainayagam on
Chandrika’s Joint Mechanism & Tamil Aspirations
23 May 2005
Human Rights,
Humanitarian Law, & the Tamil Nation to include
23 May 2005
Democracy Continues, Sri Lanka Style to include
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Asian Human Rights Commission on Death Threats & Escalation
of Violence in Sri Lanka "The
increase in death threats and intimidation to activists and
journalists in Sri Lanka are alarming. In particular, there
is concern that the situation may degenerate into that
similar to the terror of the late 1980s.The law enforcement
authorities have lost all semblance of control, with
extrajudicial killings and death threats being made
openly..."more |
22 May 2005
Reflections
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On Language & the Irish Nation - Eamon de Valera, 1943
| " (Gaelic) is for us what no other
language can be. It is our very own.
It is more than a symbol, it is an
essential part of our nationhood. It has been
moulded by the thought of a hundred generations of our fore
bearers.
In it is stored the accumulated
experience of a people.. ..As the bearer to us of
a philosophy, ..rich in practical wisdom, the language today
is worth far too much to dream of letting it go. With the
language gone we could never again aspire to being more than
half a nation..."
more |
22 May 2005 Tamil National Forum
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1.
Sanmugam Sabesan from Australia
மூன்றாவது மொழிப் போரும் - எதிர்ப்பும்
to include English
Version - Third Language War & the Opposition
"..Let us have a look at the significant differences in the Third Language
war. The first two Language wars were against the imposition of Hindi
language, whilst the Third Language war is against the hegemony of the
English language.The first two wars were against the state, whilst the
current Language war is fought in the civil community. However, the most
significant difference is the fact that the current Language war is lead by
political movements representing the oppressed communities..."
more
2. Brian Senewiratne
from Australia -
Good wishes for Adrian Wijemanne’s 80th birthday
"...Adrian is one of very few Sinhalese (others being the late Bishop
Lakshman Wickremesinghe and my uncle the late Edmund Samarakkody) to have
freed themselves from the shackles of Sinhala chauvinism to campaign for the
right of Thamil people to live with equality, dignity and safety in the
country of their birth. This is not a fight between the Sinhalese and the
Thamils. It is a fight between injustice and justice..."
more |
20 May 2005 Struggle
for Tamil Eelam
to include
Shankar
Rajee (Nesadurai Thirunesan) - Founder-member of ENLF (Eelam
National Liberation Front) - collated and contributed by
Thirumal Thirunesan
19 May 2005 Tamil Nation Libray -
War, A
Continuation of Politics by Other Means to include
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Fredric Boyce - SOE's Ultimate Deception: Operation
Periwig
"In the closing months of the Second
World War in Europe, General Dwight D. Eisenhower exhorted
the Western Allied forces to redouble their efforts to break
the German will to resist. In considering this appeal,
General Gubbins, whose Special Operations Executive (SOE)
had accomplished much in the liberation of occupied
territory, was faced with a fundamental difficulty in the
case of Germany. Although some opposition to Nazism existed,
it was neither organised nor pro-Allied. He could not
see how he could foment administrative breakdown within the
Reich to assist the Allied forces in overrunning Germany.
Then someone had the idea of creating an entirely
fictional German resistance movement and `selling' it to
the Nazi security authorities..." |
19 May 2005
Revisited ...
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Concerning Violence - Frantz Fannon "National
liberation, national renaissance, the restoration of
nationhood to the people, commonwealth: whatever may be the
headings used or the new formulas introduced, decolonization
is always a violent phenomenon.
..Compromise is attractive to the nationalist
bourgeoisie.. He loudly proclaims that he has nothing to do
with these ... terrorists, these throatslitters.
At best, he shuts himself off in a
no-man's-land between the terrorists and the settlers and
willingly offers his services as go-between..Thus
it is that the
rear-guard of the national
struggle, that very party of people who have never
ceased to be on the other side in the fight, find
themselves somersaulted into the
vanguard of negotiations and compromise -
precisely because that party has taken very good care never
to break contact with colonialism..."
more |
17 May 2005
Relections
to include
| Clausewitz on War
- "Most men merely act on instinct and the amount of success
they achieve depends on the amount of talent they are born
with…. Yet, when it is not a question of acting oneself but
of persuading others in discussion the need is for clear
ideas and the ability to show their connection with each
other. So few people have yet acquired the necessary skill
at this that most discussions are futile bandying of words,
[which] either leave each man sticking to his own ideas or
they end with everyone agreeing, [just] for the sake of
agreement, on a compromise with nothing to be said for it.
Clear ideas do therefore have some practical value..." more |
17 May 2005
International
Relations in
the Age of Empire to include
War
- A Continuation of Politics by Other Means
15 May 2005 Tamil National Forum -
to include
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1.
Sanmugam Sabesan from Australia
மூன்றாவது மொழிப் போரும் - எதிர்ப்பும் "..இப்போது மூன்றாவது
மொழிப் போர்.இதில் உள்ள அடிப்படை வித்தியாசங்களை முதலில் கவனிப்போம்.
முதல் இரண்டு மொழிப் போராட்டங்களும், இந்தித் திணிப்புக்கு எதிராக
எழுந்தன. மூன்றாவது மொழிப் போர் ஆங்கில மேலாதிக்கத்திற்கு எதிராக
எழுந்துள்ளது. .."
more
2. Sachi Sri
Kantha from Japan -
Lessons
from the Vietnam War for Tamils: An Overview and a Few Personal
Thoughts
"If a few among the
younger generation of Tamils living in affluent nations become
interested in military science and pursue their research on the 20th
century wars, it will be a good tribute to the memory of
D.P.Sivaram
who was a pioneer in this field for the past 15 years or so."
more |
14 May 2005
Tamil Nation Library to include
 On
Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt "One
of the most salient features of our culture is that there is
so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us
contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for
granted. .. Bullshitting is not exactly lying, and bullshit
remains bullshit whether it's true or false. .. the
bullshitter does not reject the authority of the truth, as
the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no
attention to it at all. By virtue of this, bullshit is a
greater enemy of the truth than lies are..."
more |
12 May 2005
US & the Tamil
Struggle to include
'Material Support' for 'Terrorist' Organisations -
Testimony by Ahilan T. Arulanantham, American Civil
Liberties Union of Southern California before the
Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security of
the US House Judiciary Committee
"...Unlike our material support laws,
the tsunami did not differentiate between areas under
the LTTE’s control and those controlled by the Sri
Lankan government. Thousands of people living in
LTTE-held territory died, and hundreds of thousands more
were displaced into camps, many having lost some or all
of their family members and in urgent need of food,
shelter, and medical care...Sadly, though, our material
support laws contain no exception for support even if it
is necessary to save the lives of people who happen to
live in LTTE-held territory..."
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12 May 2005
Reflections to include
| "...meaning in life is not an
abstraction, but rather the specific meaning of a person's
life at a given moment... ..we can only know the big meaning
of our life in retrospect - at it's end, and this will be
dependent on all the little moments of actualized meaning
along the way. ..
self-actualization is possible only as a side effect of
self-transcendence..."
Viktor Frankl |
12 May 2005
Tamil Contribution to World Civilisation -
South Indian
Bronzes - Chola, Pallava, & Nayak Periods - Extensively Revised
11 May 2005
Media &
the Tamil Struggle
to include
10 May 2005
About Us
-
Today is the first year anniversary of the relaunch of
tamilnation.org,
an year ago on 10 May 2004. On looking back, we are reminded
of the quote from Victor Frankl which appeared
in our Reflections page
on our first launch on 10 May 1998 - a quote which, perhaps, bears
repetition, seven years later -
| "Don't aim at success - the more you aim
at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss
it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must
ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of
one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or
as the by product of one's surrender to a person other than
oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for
success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.
I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to
do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge.
Then you will live to see that in the long run - in the long
run, I say! - success will follow you precisely because you
had forgotten to think of it..."
Victor E. Frankl, who endured years of
unspeakable horror in Nazi death camps, writing in 'Man's
Search for Ultimate Meaning' |
8 May 2005 Tamil National Forum to
include
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1.Sanmugam
Sabesan
on
உருவாகுமா உறவு?
- India & the Sruggle for Tamil Eelam, and
2.
Dharmeratnam Sivaram
on
The psyche of the Sinhala
Nation
"..By allowing my friends
and me to stay in their house in Colombo, Chandrika and
her husband helped us to do our work in Southern Sri
Lanka. During that time Chandrika used to tell me, "Do
not speak to anyone who does not accept the
rights of the Tamils for self-determination."
( Her husband, Vijaya Kumaratunge, was kind and
supportive of our people and our liberation struggle,
but he was assassinated by the JVP).What happened to
this kind of Chandrika, the President? Why did she
unleash the horror of the "War
for Peace" on Tamils? If we have to find
explanations for all these, then we have to do an
in-depth analysis of the psyche of the Sinhala Nation.
Based on that alone can we firm up our approach on how
to deal with the Sinhala nation..."more
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6 May 2005 Tamil National Forum
Selected
Writings by
Dharmeratnam Sivaram
to include all eleven parts of 'On Tamil
Militarism' which appeared in the Lanka Guardian in 1992 - now
prepared by Sachi Sri Kantha for electronic record together
with
a Post Script
5 May 2005 One Hundred Tamils of
20th Century -
Dharmeratnam Sivaram (Taraki)
to include
3 May 2005 Tamil National Forum -
Selected
Writings by M.Thanapalasingham
to include
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சிவராமுடன் (தராக்கி) ஒரு நாள்
"..மதுவையும், மாமிசத்தையும் சுவைத்து அவற்றை வாழ்வின்
இயல்பாக்கியவள் ஒளவை. அதனை பாட்டுக்குப் பொருளாக்கிய
வெட்கப்படாத நேர்மை, உண்மையில் பற்றுறிதி, அறிவுத்திறன்
நிர்பந்தங்களுக்கு வளையாது வீரத்தைப் போற்றும் திண்ணம்
தமிழ்பற்று மண்பற்று என்பன எல்லாம் சேர்ந்த ஒளவை சிவராமிற்கு
ஆதர்சமாக இருந்ததைக் கண்டேன்..."
more |
2 May 2005
Reflections to include
| "...Tell me one operation of war which
is moral.... Sticking a bayonet into a man's belly, is that
moral? Then they say, well, of course strategic bombing
involved civilians. Civilians are always involved in
major wars. After all, previous wars ended up in the
besieging of major cities, and in besieging a city what was
the idea? To cut off all supplies, and the city held out if
it could until they'd eaten the last dog, cat, and sewer rat
and were all starving, and meanwhile the besieging forces
lobbed every missile they could lay their hands on into the
city, more or less regardless of where those missiles
landed, as an added incentive to surrender...."
Sir Arthur Harris, head of RAF Bomber
Command. 1942-45 quoted in War by
Gwynne Dyer,1986 |
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