30 November 2005 Tamil
National Forum to include
1.
Sanmugam Sabesan
writes from Australia -
மாவீரர்
தின உரை - 2005 - ஒரு பார்வை "தேசியத்
தலைவரின் உரையின் சாராம்சத்தை நாம்
1. சிங்கள மக்களின் நிலைப்பாடு
2. தமிழீழ மக்களின் நிலைப்பாடு
3. சமாதானப் பேச்சுக்களும் - அவற்றின் பின்புலமும்
4. சிறிலங்கா அரசின் நிழல்யுத்தம்
5. சர்வதேச சமூகத்துக்குரிய செய்திகள்
6. மகிந்த ராஜபக்ஸவின் கொள்கைகள்
7. மகிந்த ராஜபக்ஸவிற்கு ஒரு வாய்ப்பு
8. குறுகிய கால அவகாசம்
என்கின்ற எட்டுப் பகுதிகளாகப் பிரித்துத் தர்க்கிக்க விழைகின்றோம். "
more
2.
Sachi Sri
Kantha writes from Japan -
A
Flashback to LTTE Leader Pirabhakaran�s 1995 Interview "...Now
it has become a �must item� in Colombo, Chennai and elsewhere for the
�analysis peddlers� and the literate coolies of media moguls to study
and check the script of LTTE leader Pirabhakaran�s annual Heroes Day
Message. Here is a select list of half-baked opinions which have
appeared since November 27th..."
more
3.A
Visitor from USA-
Subject: Heard in Internet Circles
"Dear Sumane. ..First of all
Ana Pararajsingham
is an old Royalist few years younger to us. He was totally non racist
and came from a good Christian family. He is a FCMA. He used to work as
an accountant in Zambia and got immigration to Australia. He came back
with his wife of one year, on-route to Australia. He chose
July 1983
to make this journey. Both his house in Borella and his wife's house in
Wellawatte was torched and they lost most of their stuff but escaped
with their lives. He was in a camp in Methodist College in Colpetty
before he flew off. He really is a very nice regular guy. Of course now
he knows that living under a Sinhala government under any circumstances
is not a feasible option..."
more |
28 November 2005
Democracy
Continues Sri Lanka Style
President Mahinda Rajapakse at Katargama
(கதிர்காமம்) on 27 November 2005 |
28 November 2005
International Frame
& the Tamil Struggle to include
27 November 2005
Tamil Eelam Leader, Velupillai Pirabakaran - 2005 Maaveerar Naal Address in
Tamil, English Translation, in Audio and in Video
"அன்றும் சரி, இன்றும் சரி, தமிழரின் உணர்வுகளை,
அவர்களது வாழ்நிலை அவலங்களை, அவர்களது தேசிய அபிலாசைகளைச் சிங்களப்
பெரும்பான்மை இனம் புரிந்து கொள்ளவில்லை. புரிந்து கொள்ள
எத்தனிக்கவுமில்லை. புரிந்து கொள்ளும் ஆற்றலும் அறிவுத் திறனும் ஆன்ம
பக்குவமும் அவர்களிடம் இருப்பதாகவும் தெரியவில்லை..."
more |
26 November 2005 Tamil
National Forum to include
26 November 2005
Conflict Resolution: Sri Lanka - Tamil Eelam to include
1.
Nadesan Satyendra -
Sri Lanka Reneges on 2002 Oslo Declaration and on 2005 P-TOMS
Agreement "...Mr.Mahinda Rajapakse
is an honourable man. It is simply that as Sri Lanka President, he finds
it expedient to dishonour the undertakings that his country had given -
and resile from agreements that his country had signed. It appears that
he is intent on proving, yet again to the Tamil people something which
Sathasivam Krishnakumar said 14 years ago.."
more 2.
Eye of the storm? "...Within hours of the Sri Lanka�s election
commission announcing Mr. Rajapakse�s vote tally had surpassed the
requisite 50%, the new Norwegian government extended its congratulations
and extended a clear offer to resume peace facilitation. But
President-elect Rajapakse did not respond. Indeed, he did not even
acknowledge Oslo�s extended hand either at his swearing in speech or in
the days afterwards..."
more
3.
International Federation of Tamils -
Sri
Lanka Presidential Elections:
Back to Square One
-
"..The results of the recent Presidential election in Sri Lanka should
serve as an eyeopener to the International Community (IC) to see for
itself, the actual conditions prevailing in the island and formulate a
suitable and pragmatic policy re-structure, in order to install
permanent peace and promote development in the turbulent island and the
South Asia region..."
more |
25 November 2005
Tamilnation Library to include
Book
Release -
Pirabhakaran Phenomenon by Sachi Sri Kantha
- From the
Author - "A Book to Honor Pirabhakaran
- I have the pleasure in announcing to the readers that my Pirabhakaran
Phenomenon series [which had appeared in the electronic medium, from
2001 and 2003] has been edited, updated and compiled into a book with
physical dimensions. From November 26th, it is being offered as an
educational resource for the researchers, diplomats, journalists,
students and interested well wishers of Eelam Tamils. �A writer�s
greatest pleasure is revealing to people things they knew but did not
know they knew�, wrote one of my favorite humorists, Andy Rooney, an
American icon. In this book, I have tried my best to follow this dictum
of Rooney. What I have written about Pirabhakaran is �known� to all
Eelam Tamils. But, as Andy Rooney noted, I have tried to shed light on
Pirabhakaran�s character and skills which have escaped the glance of
many pundits..."
more |
25 November 2005
Reflections to
include
"...To remember the dead is the duty of
the living.. Our hope for freedom as a people and a nation should never
be de-linked from the past. Forgetfulness of the past is a social sin.
Memory is a virtue. .. The refusal to communicate or transmit an
experience that embodies the
collective suffering,
anguish, misery, helplessness, torture and even brutal death of a people
amounts to the betrayal of the very people. We have to struggle with
words against the mute silence of the international community that did
nothing to prevent the death of women and children. There are many
nations that crow loudly about human rights but these very nations
became accomplices in the genocidal scheme of the State of Sri
Lanka....�
Prof.
Chandrakanthan at the Maaveerar Memorial Service in Toronto, 28 November
2003 |
25 November 2005
Maaveerar
- மாவீரர்
-
அணையாத தீபங்கள்
to include
23 November 2005
One Hundred Tamils of the
20th Century
to include
Alvapillai: A Silent
Axle of the Colonial and post-colonial Ceylon Administration - nominated by
Sachi Sri Kantha
23 November 2005
Democracy
Continues Sri Lanka Style
Anura Bandaranaike &
Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapakse
கண்ணோடு கண் நோக்கின்,
வாய்ச் சோற்களின் பயன் என்ன? |
22 November 2005
International Frame
of Struggle for Tamil Eelam to include
Sri
Lanka Presidential Elections, US State Department & Reason "That
the US State Department is pained with the result of the Sri Lanka
Presidential election is understandable - "If only the Tamils had voted
for the US favoured 'market reform' candidate, Ranil Wickremasinghe, the
result would have been so different." Robert Burns wrote more than
two hundred years ago - �The best-laid plans of mice and men, often go
astray - And leave us naught but grief and pain, For promised joy.�
Denied of the promised joy, it appears that grief and pain has led the
US State Department to deny reason ..."
more
|
22 November 2005
Tamil National Forum
to include
Sanmugam Sabesan writes from Australia
ஒரு தேர்தல்
இரண்டு தீர்ப்புகள் "...தமது வாக்குகளை அளித்து
மகிந்த ராஜபக்சவிற்கு வெற்றியை வழங்கியவர்கள் தாங்கள் பேரினவாதிகள் என்றும்,
பேரினவாதத்திற்கும் அதன் செயற்பாடுகளுக்கும் ஆதரவானவர்கள் என்றும்
தெரிவித்துள்ளார்கள். அது வாக்களித்த அவர்களுடைய தீர்ப்பு. இந்த அரச அதிபர் தேர்தலை
புறக்கணித்து தமது வாக்குகளை அளிப்பதற்கு ஒட்டுமொத்தமாக மறுத்த தமிழ் மக்கள்
தாங்கள் பேரினவாதத்திற்கு அடிபணிய மாட்டோம் என்று அறிவித்துள்ளார்கள். இது
வாக்களிக்க மறுத்த தமிழ் மக்களின் தீர்ப்பு! ஒரு தேர்தல்-இரண்டு தீர்ப்புகள்!.."
more |
22 November 2005
Democracy
Continues Sri Lanak Style
to include
புலிகளின் அழுத்தத்தினால்தான் தமிழ் மக்கள் வாக்களிக்கவில்லையா? - க.வே.பாலகுமாரன்
20 November 2005
International
Frame & the Tamil Struggle to include
R.Cholan writes from USA on
Sri Lanka
Presidential Election and the International Community - "...A lot of
effort has gone into blaming �politicians� for the quagmire Sri Lanka is in,
much of this effort by the media and the peaceniks stationed in Colombo to
explain away election results and other such events.
�Politicians do what the electorate wants� and not the other way around.
What the Sinhala electorate in Sri Lanka wants is a �unitary government�, where
the Sinhala-Buddhist majority rules all aspects of everyone�s life in Sri Lanka
all the time, and all �others� have to put-up and shut-up. What I want to ask
the international community now is this. What exactly do you want the Tamil
people to do?.."
more |
20 November 2005
Democracy
Continues, Sri Lanka Style to include
The South
has Spoken - Statement by Australasian Federation of Tamil Associations
"..By boycotting the presidential election which pitted the openly chauvinistic
Mahinda Rajapakse against the equally anti-Tamil, Ranil Wickramasinghe,
the Tamil people have allowed the Sinhala South to have its say...
The overwhelming majority of the Sinhalese have thus voted for the man who
denies .. the Tamil people's right to self determination.."
more |
18 November 2005
Reflections to
include
''I was once asked by an Englishman connected with the
British Refugee Council: 'You say Tamil Eelam, but where are the boundaries of
this Tamil Eelam that you talk about? Show me.' I was taken aback by the
directness of the question. I thought for a while, searching for an appropriate
response. Then I replied: 'Take a map of the island. Take a paint brush and
paint all the areas where Sri Lanka has bombed and launched artillery attacks
during these past several years. When you have finished, the painted area that
you see - that is Tamil Eelam.'''
Sathasivam Krishnakumar, speaking in Zurich, on Maha Veerar Naal, in
November 1990, quoted in
Boundaries of Tamil Eelam |
18 November 2005
Re visited -
Sathyam Commentary, 7
Years Ago on Maaveerar Naal
17 November 2005
Democracy
Continues, Sri Lanka Style
to include
16 November 2005
Tamil National Forum
to include
15 November 2005
Reflections to
include
"...The fundamental meaning of war is
that it is the expression of a difference of opinion. The object of war must
therefore be defined as follows: the object of war is to
change the enemy's mind. This simple and almost platitudinous statement
is of supreme importance and a
failure to remember it has led to the most deplorable
efforts..." Sir Stephen King-Hall in
Defence of the Nuclear Age |
15 November 2005
Revisited: 12 Years Ago -
Sri Lanka's
Unwinnable War - Nadesan Satyendra,
December
1993
"....Instead of reading out chunks of Robert Thompson to his
restive Parliamentary colleagues, Prime Minister Wickremasinghe may have more
usefully heeded the words of his own Cabinet Minister, Savyamurthy Thondaman in
March 1992: ''If you mean defeating the LTTE, it could in my opinion be equated
to defeating every
single Tamil in the North-East. One thing is clear. You cannot isolate the
LTTE from the rest of the Tamil people. Wiping out the LTTE means wiping out the
Tamils. Until there are Tamils there will be a LTTE hard-core. Remember that the
LTTE... is seeking to express the aspirations of the Tamil people..''... That
is why Sri Lanka's war against the LTTE is unwinnable. .."
more |
14 November 2005
Selected Writings - Sanmugam Sabesan to include
அதிபர்
தேர்தல் ஒருபுறம் - அக்கறையின்மை மறுபுறம் "...தமிழீழ விடுதலைப்புலிகள்
கடைப்பிடித்து வந்துள்ள நெகிழ்ச்சிப் போக்கானது சமாதானத் தீர்வு குறித்த சர்வதேசக்
கருத்துக்களைப் புலிகள் அனுசரித்து வந்ததன் வெளிப்பாடே என்பதைச்
சம்பந்தப்பட்டவர்கள் புரிந்து கொள்ள வேண்டும். சர்வதேச வலைப் பின்னலில் புலிகள்
சிக்குண்டு விட்டார்கள் என்ற பொய்ப் பரப்புரை நெடுங்காலம் நிலைத்து நிற்காது....
அப்படி ஒரு சர்வதேச வலைப்பின்னலை சிங்கள தேசம்
உருவாக்குமானால் அதற்குள் சிக்குவதற்கு புலிகள் ஒன்றும் எலிகள் அல்ல..."
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14 November 2005
Democracy
Continues, Sri Lanka Style to include
One Party State in Sri Lanka:Political Ideology - Anti Tamil
"...Recent revelations have confirmed that there may be several political
parties in the Sinhala South, but only one ideology � being anti-Tamil. There is
the right wing United National Party (UNP), the supposedly socialist Sri Lanka
Freedom Party (SLFP), the so-called �Marxist� Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP),
the Marxists of yester-year, the Lanka Sama Samaga Party (LSSP), the political
party of not-so-clean-shaven men in yellow robes, the Jathika Hela Urumaya
(JHU), and many more of their ilk. In reality they are all different names for
one party policy � anti-Tamil. .."
more |
12 November 2005 Tamil National
Forum to include
1.
An
Expatriate Australian Tamil writes from Sydney
"A Piece of Advice to Prof. Dayan
Jayatilleke: Holier-than-thou attitude serves no peace - it
is not too late for a National Soul Search. Dear Prof.
Jayatilleke, I am not a Professor or any kind of intellect.
I am an ordinary Tamil living in a corner of the world. I
long for peace in my country of birth just as you do. On
reading the news item: �Realignment of Sinhala Nationalist
forces spells trouble for Sri Lanka Peace � Gajendrakumar�
[TamilNet, November 05, 2005], my heart urges me to share
with you some candid thoughts that came to my mind. And I
have elected to convey them to you as well as to other
�serious� peace seekers via the helpful cyber press..."
more
[including
Audio
Report of Washington Forum on �The Sri Lanka Peace
Process: Dead end or is there hope�]
2.
Sachi Sri Kantha
writes from Japan on the Expulsion
of Jaffna Muslims � Part 3: The Attributable Motive
3.
G.Amirthalingam writes from London -
Sri Lanka
- 500 years ago��!
"..It was exactly 500 years ago the first Europeans set foot
on Sri Lankan soil..." |
11 November 2005
Remembrance Day
Reflections
"...செயல்
இழக்கப் போகின்ற எங்கள் கைகளில் உள்ள
விளக்கை உங்களிடம் தருகின்றோம்.
அதனை உங்களுடையதாக உயர்த்தி பிடியுங்கள்.
இறந்து கொண்டிருக்கும் எங்களுடைய நம்பிக்கையை
நீங்கள் உடைப்பீர்களேயானால்
நாங்கள் தூங்கப் போவதில்லை.
ஆனால் இந்த பொப்பி மலர்கள்
FLANDERS FIELDS
ல் தொடர்ந்து பூத்துக் குலுங்கும்...."
more |
11 November 2005
Democracy Continues Sri Lanka Style
to include
News First Advertisement Hoarding in Colombo on the Presidential
Elections
PLEASE VOTE FOR ME |
|
GOD SAVE SRI LANKA |
9 November 2005
European Union & the Tamil Struggle
to include
8 November 2005 Tamil National
Forum to include
8 November 2005
Spirituality & the Tamil Nation to include
Dr R Sri Ravindrarajah
on
வெளிநாடுகளில் சைவசமய வழிபாடும், சிட்னியில் சைவசமயக்
கல்வியும் "சமயவாழ்வு வேறு, சமூகவாழ்வு வேறு என்று
வாழ்கின்ற காரணத்தினால் தான் மனிதசமூகம் பலவாறான இடர்ப்பாடுகளை
அனுபவித்து துன்படைகின்றது. ..மனித உரிமை மீறல், சமய
வழிபாட்டுச் சுதந்திரம் புறக்கணிப்பு, உயிர்க் கொலை, இயற்கை
அழிப்பு உலகெங்கும் பரவலாக நடைபெறுகின்றதைக் காணக்
கூடியதாகவுள்ளது.
படிப்பது தேவாரம் இடிப்பது சிவன் கோயில்
என்ற பழமொழியையும் தோற்றுவித்தவர்கள் சைவத் தமிழர்களே.
.."
more |
7 November 2005
Democracy Continues, Sri Lanka Style..
6 November 2005
Reflections to include
"...There is something within me
impelling me to cry out
my agony.
I have known humanity. I have studied
something of psychology though I have not read many
books on psychology. Such a man knows exactly what it is.
That something in me which never deceives me tells me now:
"You have to
stare
the world in the face, although the world may look at
you
with bloodshot eyes. Do not fear. Trust that little
thing which resides in the heart. " It says: 'Forsake
friends, wife, and all; but testify to that for which you
have lived, and
for which you
have to die. " -
from
Mahatma
Gandhi's Quit India speech, 1942 |
6 November 2005
One
Hundred Tamils of 20th Century -Charles
Jeyam Thamotheram
to include
5 November 2005
Tamil National Forum to include
1. Sara Ananthan from Australia on
Pragmatism and Idle Talk of Vedanta "Talking
about Vedanta appears to be a favourite past time amongst
some of us to lull others into inaction. But inaction leads
to lethargy and bondage as we can see in the plight of
Tamils from two thousand years of our history. Speaking for
the voiceless and the oppressed is Dharma. Asking for
equality and fighting against inequality is the birth right
of every human being. To hoodwink that right by invoking
Vedanta is amoral..."
more
2.
Sachi Sri Kantha
writes from Japan
On Checking the Pockets of Presidential Contenders
3. Velupillai
Thangavelu writes from Canada on
Chandrika Kumaratunga's War Crimes |
3 November 2005
Conflict Resolution
in Empire & Beyond to include
Wilton Park Conference on Engagement of Armed Groups in
Peace Processes
- Sponsored by Royal Norwegian
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, United States Agency for
International Development and Foreign and Commonwealth
Office Africa Directorate and Conflict Issues Group.
Preview of Programme for 9-11 December 2005 "Over
the last two decades, whether in the context of a peace
process or a humanitarian initiative, armed groups have
become key actors in efforts to ease suffering and rebuild
conflict-torn societies. Despite their participation in
numerous peace processes there is deep controversy about
appropriate responses to their actions and this has given
rise to some complex policy questions."..
more |
1 November 2005
Reflections to include
1 November 2005
Tamil National Forum to include
|