from Indira to Rajiv to Manmohan - an amoral phenomenon

�We have a very comprehensive relationship with Sri Lanka. In our anxiety to protect the civilians, we should not forget the strategic importance of this island to India's interests,... especially in view of attempts by countries like Pakistan and China to gain a strategic foothold in the island nation...Colombo had been told that India would 'look after your security requirements, provided you do not look around'. 'We cannot have a playground of international players in our backyard.' together with Comment by tamilnation.org : "It was after all Indian Foreign Secretary and National Security Adviser Dixit who described India's foreign policy in relation to the conflict in the island as amoral....And so today, Mr.Pranab Mukherjee declares with disarming franknessthat Sri Lanka has been told that New Delhi will extend military cooperation and also continue to train Sri Lanka forces provided that Sri Lanka does not 'look around' to Pakistan and China.... 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..." more

2. "'India loves to play all sides, and has always done that,' said Reva Bhalla, an analyst with the U.S. private intelligence firm Stratfor. 'They can cater to the Tamil politicians and benefit from the Tigers' military capability going down without taking too much political risk.' Underscoring India's dual-track approach to Sri Lanka, furious denials erupted from Colombo and New Delhi last month after two Indian radar technicians were injured in a Tiger assault on a Sri Lankan military base. Rajapaksa later said the men were providing after-sales service to radars India's Bharat Electronics sold to the military. India has also helped Sri Lanka intercept Tiger boats, which it considers a threat to national security..." C. Bryson Hull in India Rumbles over Sri Lanka war, but to what end?, 17 October 2008, Thomson Reuters [Comment by tamilnation.org But then, it is not only New Delhi that 'loves to play all sides' - and presumably, U.S. based intelligence firm Stratfor should know. See also Resolution of US Massachusetts House of Representatives Calling for the Restoration of the Separate Sovereign State of Tamil Eelam, June 1981]

K.Thiruselvam writes from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on the Sri Lankan Horror: "What I saw on television (Makkal TV) in the early morning hours (17 October 08) shook me to tears... Children in uniforms were each, seeking space to shelter. You could see, that even in calamity, the seniors helped lower the younger children into trenches...

Natteri Adigal in Merina News, October 2008 ""...if the fictitious concept of placing �country�s interests above human rights, ethnic pride and identity� continues to be promoted for long, it will be a matter of time for India too to meet the fate of USSR or Yugoslavia or now Sri Lanka... In 1965, when Tamil Nadu faced the possibility of military action from a powerful New Delhi, C.N.Annadurai opted to abandon his demand for full autonomy for states under a lose confederation with one currency but multiple ethnic, cultural and national identities Today, Tamil Nadu appears headed for revolutionary political changes in a culmination of a combination of events: For one, the two main Dravidian political outfits � Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), headed by three-time chief minister M Karunanidhi and All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), headed by former two-term CM Jayalalitha � are both reeling under overwhelming outrage among the Tamil population...The ground reality in Tamil Nadu is that almost every Tamil � belonging to whatever religion or strata � has a primary affinity to other Tamil-speaking people of whatever domicile or religion. .. Dravidian leaders, in their zeal to get on the right side of Delhi bosses, are seen to be conniving with New Delhi�s policy of aiding Sri Lankan government in exterminating Tamils...Developments in October will decide if New Delhi will be adding to the Kashmir imbroglio another hopeless embroilment in the South." more

"மக்களை தலைநிமிரச் செய்த தந்தை பெரியாரால் 'மவுண்ட் ரோடு மகாவிசுணு" என்று அடையாளம் காட்டப்பட்ட 'இந்து' நாளிதல், ஈழப்பிரச்சனை குறித்து மீண்டும் திருவாய் மலர்ந்திருக்கிறது. டிசம்பர் முதல் தேதி எழுதப்பட்டுள்ள தலையங்கம் 'பிரபாகரன் தலைமையேற்கும் வரை தமிழர் பிரச்சனை தீராது" என்று விதன்டாவாதம் செய்கிறது. " Mount Road Vishnu, India & Tamil Eelam - Savithri Narayan, Chennai, December 2007

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2. On Socialism for the Rich - John Bellamy Foster, 10 October 2008 "..As for the politics of nationalisation of banks in the US and UK, one should not confuse this - as is all too common - with socialism or even radicalism, unless one is talking about socialism for the rich... Marx said, in one of his ironic moments, that the only part of the national wealth that was held in common amongst all the people was the national debt. If the wealth is not shared, why should the public take on more debt, supporting the opulence at the top while the great majority of the people are seeing their basic conditions deteriorate?.." more

India & the Struggle for Tamil Eelam: Tamil Nation & the Unity of India - Nadesan Satyendra, February 2001 "...The break up of India, if it comes will not come from the efforts of tamilnation.org. It will come despite our efforts. It will come from a failure of political leaders in India to openly recognise that India is a multi national state - and recognise the enduring wisdom of the words of Pramatha Chaudhuri... The unity of India will not come simply by English speaking 'Indians' speaking to each other in English... (Again), the strength and unity of India lies not in the nuclear bomb, but in its peoples. Nuclear capability will not guarantee unity. The nuclear bomb did not prevent the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of the non-nuclear states of Latvia, Estonia and Georgia. There is a need to understand that a people's aspiration for equality and freedom is an energy which is in many ways more potent than that contained in a nuclear bomb... Those concerned to secure the unity of India will need to adopt a more 'principle centred' approach towards struggles for self determination in the Indian region.. ." more

நாட்டேரி அடிகள் writes from Tamil Nadu நான் ஆங்கில்த்தில் merinews.com இணைப்பக்கத்தில் எழுதிய Tamil Nadu Going Eelam Way? -I கட்டுரையை தங்கள் வலைப்பக்கத்தில் வெளியிட்டதிற்கு மிக்க ந்ன்றி. கட்டுரையின் இரண்டாம் பாகம் Tamil Nadu Going Eelam Way? - II பதிக்கப்பட்டுவிட்டது... இக்கட்டுரைகளைத் தமிழ்ப்படுத்தி வெளியிடுவது எதிரிகளாலும், இனவிரோதிகளாலும் உலகத்தமிழர்களைப் ப்ற்றி பரப்பப்பட்டுள்ள நச்சுக்கருத்துக்களையும் பொய்த் தகவல்களையும் (உலகத் தமிழர்களின் எண்ணத்தில் விதைக்கப்பட்டுள்ள தடுமாற்றங்களையும்கூட) முறியடைக்க உதவும் எனக் கருதுகிறேன். "தமிழ்நாட்டை 'தெற்கு காஷ்மீர'மாக்குவது இந்தியநலனுக்கு உகந்ததா?" எனத் தலைப்பிடலாம்.

Thousands of British Tamils Rally in London Parliament Square, 6 October 2008 "A large portion of the crowd were vociferous and chanted slogans such as "We want our soil" "We want Tamil Eelam" "Sri Lanka stop the bombing of Tamils" "Sri Lanka stop the killing of Tamils". People were spontaneously clapping and singing. Some cars hooted in support, when driving past." more

"We want our soil" "We want Tamil Eelam"

Is anyone listening?

Is anyone listening?
I have long dried my tears,
And the ashes I heaped upon my head
I have forgotten -
Show me a way out of these closing walls
Of my people's shame!
Is anyone, out there, listening ?

"War brings with it a particular social reality. Death, destruction and fear may prevail but so too does great courage and determined resistance. In war situations it is doubtful that anyone escapes without some effect on their perceptions of life. For some people, the particular social reality generated in wartime conditions should be captured as a documentary record of the particularity of those times. These records form part of the cultural heritage of humanity, for they seek to tell the world of a particular human condition " Voice of the Tigers, the Official Bulletin of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, February 1990

".. today, the US and India may find common cause in 'weakening' the Tamil Eelam struggle for freedom (and the LTTE) - but weaken it in such a way that thereafter each of them may successfully jockey (against each other) for position and influence in the Indian Ocean region. The 'weakening' in this context means the isolation and annihilation of Velupillai Pirabakaran and securing an LTTE under a 'reformed' leadership. B Raman, Additional Secretary (retired), Cabinet Secretariat, Government of India, New Delhi, and, presently, Director, Institute for Topical Studies, Chennai, and distinguished fellow and convener, Observer Research Foundation, Chennai Chapter spelt out New Delhi's own 'legitimate' aspiration in 2005 -

" I have been repeatedly writing that the Sri Lankan Tamils need an LTTE minus Prabakaran and that if the LTTE throws him out and gives up terrorism, India and Sri Lanka should be prepared to do business with it. Without the protective role of the LTTE, the Tamils would be at the mercy of the Sinhalese chauvinists. Statesmanship demands that the Sri Lankan leaders should work for such a denouement through special gestures to the Tamils and the other leaders of the LTTE." South Asia Analysis Group, New Delhi, Paper No. 1217, January 10, 2005

Raman's concern to protect the Tamil people from Sinhala chauvinism would have been heart warming but for the grim reality of the New Delhi sponsored comic opera of the 1988 Provincial Councils which showed the extent of New Delhi's willingness to appease Sinhala chauvinism and sacrifice Tamil interests in the altar of its own strategic interests...

The political reality is that, on the one hand, the US is mindful that it was after all President Jayawardene's 'growing togetherness' with the US which led to New Delhi's support of the Tamil militant movement in the early 1980s. At that time the US kept its oars in Tamil waters with efforts such as hoisting the Eelam flag in the State of Massachusetts. Today, the same US continues to speak of the 'legitimate aspirations' of the Tamil people. On the other hand, New Delhi has no desire to lose its ability to play the 'Tamil card' to keep Sri Lanka in line in the years to come - even after the successful annihilation of Velupillai Pirabakaran and the weakening of the LTTE. And so New Delhi too proclaims ad nauseam that they are concerned to secure the 'legitimate aspirations' of the Tamil people. Additionally it builds its own network amongst dissident Tamils in Sri Lanka, in Tamil Nadu and abroad to propagate its interests. It is within the interstices of this international frame that the struggle of the people of Tamil Eelam to be free from alien Sinhala rule continues under conditions of excruciating agony and suffering . And it is this same international frame which Sinhala Sri Lanka seeks to use to continue its genocidal onslaught on the Tamil people...Given all this (and more) there is a clear need to expose to the scrutiny of the Tamil people (yes, the Tamil people and not some other people) the stated claim of the international community (including New Delhi and its agents in Tamil Nadu) that they seek the 'best solution in human rights terms' and explore the unstated interests which the stated claim is directed to cover up - and secure..." Black Pebbles & White Pebbles - Nadesan Satyendra

Remembering Thiyagi Theelepan in Melbourne, Australia அவுஸ்திரேலியா விக்ரோரியா மாநிலத்தில் மெல்பேர்ண் நகரில் கடந்த 4.10.08 சனிக்கிழமை மாலை 6.00 மணிக்கு, தியாகி திலீபன் நினைவெழுச்சி நிகழ்வு மிகச் சிறப்பாக நடைபெற்றது. இந்த நிகழ்வுக்கு மண்டபம் முழுவதும் நிரம்பும் அளவிற்குப் பெருந்திரளான மக்கள் கலந்து கொண்டனர். more

"..Tamils of Eelam must achieve success by continuing to pursue their policies courageously as they have been doing for the past 30 years... The Eelam Tamils must stand firm and attain their final goal.. the people of Tamil Nadu had made great achievements but they were dwarfed by those of the LTTE..." Bharathiraja, 2004

"...The struggle for Tamil Eelam rests in three fronts or battlefields. The first battlefield is in Tamil Eelam. There the struggle is progressing with lives being put on line. The second battlefield is in the Tamil Diaspora living in many lands. The third battlefield is in India. A change in the policy of the Indian government will depend on a change in the approach of Tamil Nadu political parties. A change in the approach of Tamil Nadu political parties will depend on change amongst the people of Tamil Nadu..." Suba Veerapandiyan, 2008

"...தமிழீழ மக்களுக்கான பலம் உலக அரசுகள் என்ற கட்டமைப்புக்குள் இருக்க முடியாது... தமிழீழ பிரச்சனையின் தீர்வுக்கான சர்வதேசப் பாதை சென்னை - புதுடில்லி- உலகம் என மட்டுமே அமைய முடியும். " தமிழீழ ஆய்வாளர் மு.திருநாவுக்கரசு 2007

1. "No return to short-termism. No return to Tory boom and bust.. And it is precisely because we have taken the time and trouble to build the long term foundation for success, precisely because we have resisted short term lurches in policy, that we can today steer a course of stability at a time of uncertainty in the world economy without putting growth at risk...." UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown on Boom and Bust, Speech to Labour Party Conference, Eight Years ago in September 2000

2. "There is 'no clean solution' to the problem. The end is not in sight. I don't know how long it will take... Let's say there is a complete collapse. Does that mean the end of the world...the free market economy? No... From time to time you are going to get this kind of a problem... As an insurer, AIG was supposed to be a 'firewall' against the collapse of the financial system. But they also went into derivatives. Why not? Everyone was making money. This was a mania. Can such mania be tamed? Not likely. Human nature, greed, fear will always be there.' " Lee Kuan Yew at the Institute of Strategic Studies, London, 25 September 2008

3. "I believe that despite the enormous odds which exist, unflinching, unswerving, fierce intellectual determination, as citizens, to define real truth of our lives and our societies is a crucial obligation which devolves upon us all. It is in fact mandatory..." Art, Truth & Politics - Harold Pinter, Nobel Lecture, 2005

Sara Ananthan writes from Australia on Toxic Assets & Globalised World "The German Finance Minister�s statement to the parliament, 'The world will never be the same again' implies that the world will have to accommodate additional financial power centres... Uncle Sam�s toxic diplomacy cum statecraft is also being outsourced on to the second most populous nation and the rest of the world is being asked to bear the ultimate cost... It appears as in the case of shrewd, Uncle Sam's toxic asset adoption policy where the toxic asset is being socialized to spare the pain on the perpetrators.." more