"Whatever may be
said, whosoever may say it - to determine the truth of
it, is wisdom"-Thirukural
Whats New Archive -
March2009 -
Month Ending
March 2009
International
Frame & Tamil Eelam Struggle for
Freedom
1.
Arundhati Roy writes in the Times of
India on The silent horror of
the war in Sri Lanka"While the killing
continues, while tens of thousands of
people are being barricaded into
concentration camps, while more than
200,000 face starvation, and a genocide
waits to happen, there is dead silence
from this great country [India].
It�s a colossal
humanitarian tragedy. The world must
step in. Now. Before
it�s too late."
together
withComment
bytamilnation.org "Arundhati Roy's
comments will be welcomed by not only
Tamils but all those concerned to
secure freedom and justice for the
people of Tamil Eelam. Said that, the
'dead silence' of India and the
tardiness of the response by the
'world' is not because they are all
deaf. more
l to r: Rev.
Fr. S. J. Emmanuel, Jan
Jananayagam and Ana
Pararajasingham at the Press
Conference. Speakers who
addressed the delegates to the
Conference
included..
l to r: Rev
Jesse Jackson, Siobhan
McDonaugh MP, Lord Falconer
(former UK Lord Chancellor),
Des Browne, UK Special
Envoy
3. Peter Symonds
writes in the Word Socialist
Website on US, China ,War in Sri
Lanka & Diplomatic Posturing
"Last week UN
Security Council members Austria, Mexico
and Costa Rica, backed by the US and
Britain, called for an informal briefing
on the humanitarian crisis facing tens of
thousands of people trapped by the war in
northern Sri Lanka. China, supported by
Russia, blocked the move declaring that
it was "an internal matter" for Sri Lanka
and was not a threat to international
security. None of this diplomatic
posturing should be taken at face
value. All of a sudden Washington has
begun to express concern about the plight
of tens of thousands of civilians caught
in fighting as the Sri Lankan army closes
... The US media is now peddling a
similar line.. Until recently, however,
the US has quietly backed President
Rajapakse, the war and the military's
gross abuse of democratic rights. But as
the army made rapid advances into the
LTTE's remaining territory from early
January and the defeat of the LTTE
appeared likely, the US made a tactical
shift. It began to call for a "political
solution" to the conflict - a deal,
not with the
LTTE, but with sections of the
Tamil elite ... The "humanitarian"
issue has been raised as a means of
pressuring the Rajapakse regime to make
concessions... India and the US share
another common concern - the growing
influence of China in Sri Lanka.. Like
the US, China's manoeuvring in the UN is
guided by self-interest " more
Nations &
Nationalism
"... nationalism has
both shaped, and been shaped
by globalization. This
conference seeks to explore
the relationship between
nationalism and globalisation
in its various forms,
primarily focusing on the
impact of globalisation on
national identity, national
sovereignty, state-formation,
and the ways in which
nationalism has shaped
globalising processes..."
more
1. Sachi Sri
Kantha writes from Japan -An Allegorical Reading
of Gogol�s story
�The
Nose� (1836) - in Sri
Lankan Context"Will you care to
think that the North-East regions of Sri
Lankan island constitute the nose
(figuratively) of a face? Imagine then
for a while that the nose got separated
from the face, and what would be the
plight of the nose-less guy in this world
and his predicament? If you
haven�t read (even in
translation!) the hilarious story of
Russian satirist Nikolai Gogol
(1809-1852), its time to have a look at
it now." more
2.Revisited:
Wakeley Paul Chit Chat - A
Conversation Heard in Colombo 7 - 18
years ago...""Most of my relatives in
Colombo cast embarassed glances of
disapproval about my stand", said a
Colombo Seven expatriate. He was a
vociferous advocate of Eelam a separate
state for the North East of Sri Lanka.
"He" they exclaim, "is out of touch."
"These expatriates live in luxury while
we suffer." "Why are they supporting
these rebels?" "Don't they realize what
they are doing?" These are the
brilliantly critical comments of the so
called Tamil intellectual set of Colombo
7..."They have got
Provincial Councils - What more do they
want..." " more
International
Relations in the Age of Empire
India's New Found
Irrelevance - Harsh V.
Pant"Clearly, the new Administration in
Washington has little time for New Delhi.
India, however, needs to put its own
house in order before crying hoarse over
the changing winds in Washington... The
tragedy, however, is that the current
Indian political class seems utterly
incapable of providing the kind of
leadership that this moment in
India�s history
demands." more
Reflections
"...we have about 50%
of the world's wealth but only 6.3% of
its population. This disparity is
particularly great as between ourselves
and the peoples of Asia. In this
situation, we cannot fail to be the
object of envy and resentment. Our
real task in the coming period is to
devise a pattern of relationships which
will permit us to maintain this
position of disparity without
positive detriment to our national
security. To do so, we will have to
dispense with all sentimentality and
day-dreaming; and our attention will
have to be concentrated everywhere on
our immediate national objectives. We
need not deceive ourselves that we can
afford today the luxury of altruism and
world-benefaction... We should
dispense with the aspiration to
�be
liked� or to be
regarded as the repository of a
high-minded international
altruism...We should cease to talk
about vague and - for the Far East -
unreal objectives such as human rights,
the raising of the living standards,
and democratization.The day is
not far off when we are going to have
to deal in straight power concepts. The
less we are then hampered by idealistic
slogans, the better..."
George Kennan,
Director of Policy Planning of the U.S.
Dept. of State, State Department
Briefing, 1948
political power that
flows from the barrel of the
gun...
"..The question is
being asked by some: why is the
international community which was
willing to arm Sri Lanka and to ban the
LTTE, unwilling and/or unable to
prevent the genocide of Eelam Tamils?
Suffering is a great teacher and the
Tamil people are being taught that for
the governments of the so called IC,
human rights and humanitarian law are
but useful instruments to advance their
political and strategic interests.
The Tamil people are being taught
that political power flows through the
barrel of the gun.Whilst
the goal of securing peace through
justice is loudly proclaimed by the
international actors, real politick
leads them to deny the justice of the Tamil
Eelam struggle for freedom from alien
Sinhala rule .... The Tamil people
are being taught the truth of something
which Subhas Chandra
Bose said many years ago - Freedom
is not given, it is taken. Stephen
Covey was right when he
declared:'Borrowing strength builds
weakness. It builds weakness in the
borrower because it reinforces
dependence on external factors to get
things done. It builds weakness in the
person forced to acquiesce, stunting
the development of independent
reasoning, growth and internal
discipline. And finally it builds
weakness in the relationship. Fear
replaces cooperation, and both people
involved become more arbitrary and
defensive... ' 'Thongura' power is no
power. It builds weakness, stunts
independent growth and replaces
cooperation with fear..." Comment by Nadesan
Satyendra on the power that flows from
the barrel of the gun,
2009
Tamil
National Forum
T.Ratnakumar writes from
Singaporeதானம்
வாங்கிடக்
கூசிடுவான்
"சிறப்பு
மிகுந்த,
ஒவ்வொரு
தமிழனும்
கேட்டு
உணரவேண்டிய,
திருக்குறளை
அடிப்படையாகக்
கொண்ட,
1950
களில்
வெளிவந்த
ஒரு
தமிழ்ப்
பாட்டு.
'தமிழன்
என்றொரு
இனமுண்டு'
....
ஊதானம்,
கன்னிகா
தானம்,
சொர்ண
தானம்,
அன்ன
தானம்,
கோ
தானம்
மற்றும்
எல்லாத்
தானங்களிலும்
சிறந்த
தானம்
நிதானம்
தான் "
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Indictment
Against Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka's
Censorship, Disinformation & Murder
of JournalistsThe Gospel According to
Gotabhaya Amos Roberts in the
Australian, 23 March 2009 -"The sign on the army
spokesman's wall rang the first alarm
bells... For the foreign correspondent,
everything in Sri Lanka begins and ends
with the armed forces: where one can
travel; what one can film; even to whom
one can speak. And dealing with the
military is like travelling through the
looking glass, although a blunter analogy
would be with George Orwell's
1984...
... They (the Sri
Lanka military) lie brazenly and the lies
aren't even credible. The UN may tell
you that at least 2000 civilians have
been killed in fighting since January,
but Sri Lanka's Secretary of Defence,
Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, says there are
none....."
2. Sachi
Sri Kantha writes from
JapanKaruna in Politics:
From Brutus to Lepidus
"Karuna�s current
plight is that of Marcus Aemilius Lepidus
(? � d.13 BC), the third
member of the Second Triumvirate formed
after the assassination of Julius Caesar
(100-44 BC)...Marc Antony calls Lepidus
(behind his back) as,
�This is a slight,
unmeritable man ... He shall but bear
them as the ass bears gold
� To groan and sweat
under the business, Either led or driven,
as we point the way " more
"....Tamil nationalism in South India
and Sri Lanka can be described in
terms of two sets of ideas and
beliefs. The one, the purity and
uniqueness of Tamil language and
culture; the other, Tamil traditions
which exalt military virtues and
ideals. These ideals and beliefs have
dominated the vocabulary of
anti-Hindi and secessionist
agitations and propaganda of the
Dravidian movement in South India in
the [19]50�s and
[19]60�s.The
nationalism of the movement for Tamil
language rights and regional autonomy
in Sri Lanka was articulated in the
same vocabulary after 1956..."
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வீரர்கள்
வாழும்
திராவிட
நாட்டை
வென்றவர்
கிடையாது,
வேலும்
வாளும்
தாங்கிய
மறவர்
வீழ்ந்ததும்
கிடையாது...
"..The public habit
of judging the relations between states
from what appears in the papers adds to
the confusion. It must be remembered that
in international affairs things are not
often what they seem to be. ..A
communique which speaks of complete
agreement may only mean an agreement to
differ. Behind a smokescreen of hostile
propaganda diplomatic moves may be taking
place indicating a better understanding
of each other's position...."Sardar K.M.Pannikar,
Indian Ambassador to China from 1948 to
1952, and later Vice Chancellor, Mysore
University inPrinciples
and Practice of Diplomacy,
1956
Revisited
Indian Expansion:An
Outline - Dev Nathan "In analysing Indian
expansionism we must turn to three
levels at which the denial of the
rights of nationalities and nations
operates. The first is the
centralisation of powers in Delhi and
the economic, political and linguistic
- cultural suppression of non-Hindi
nationalities, manifested in the
blocking of the paths of development of
the existing or aspiring national
(regional) formations. The second is
the denial of the right of secession of
the border nationalities that either
wish to secede (Nagas and Mizos) or do
not accept their integration in India
(Kashmiris). The third is the whittling
down of the sovereignty of the
neighbouring small powers of South
Asia. ....The Indian state has formally
ended the independent existence of one
neighbour (Sikkim) and restricted the
independence of many of the others
(Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka) ... In
its attempt to establish a regional
hegemony, the Indian State has
enunciated a modified Monroe Doctrine.
While demanding that India must have
the predominant role in South Asian
matters, it has also insisted that none
of the neighbours should have relations
with external powers. India alone in
the region will maintain the external
links." more
Tamil National
Forum
1. Dr.Subramaniam Thambirajah writes from
United Kingdom"..Indian expansionism?
The Sinhala government asked for it. In
trying to fight their internal enemy, Sri
Lanka has invited a third party who is
now ready to dictate terms to them..."
more
2.
M.Thanapalasingham writes from
Australia
அழிவும்
ஆக்கமும்
-
தோல்வி
நிலையென
நினைத்தால்
வாழ்வின்
கனவை
மறக்கலாமா"...அன்னிய
சிங்கள
அடக்கு
முறையில்
இருந்து
விடுபடுவதற்கான
தமிழ்
மக்களின்
உரிமைப்போர்
இன்று
அழிவுகளின்
மத்தியில்
குரூரமான
கொடிய
காடசிகளை
எம்கண்முன்
காட்டி
நிற்கின்றது.
சொந்தச்
சகோதரர்கள்
அங்கு
கொத்துக்
கொத்தாக
மடிவதைத்
தினமும்
பார்த்து
செய்வதறியாது
துடிக்கும்
புலத்தமிழர்கள்
மனம்
சோர்ந்து
துன்பத்தில்
சுழல்வதை
காண்கின்றோம்.
இதே
கொடுமைகள்
ஆபிரிக்க
மக்களுக்கோ,
பாலஸ்தீனியர்களுக்கோ
நிகழும்போதும்
நாம்
உருகியிருப்போம்.
செஞசிலுவைச்
சங்கம்
போன்ற
அமைப்புக்களுக்கு
துயர்
துடைக்கும்
பணத்தை
அனுப்பி
ஒருவகை
மனச்சாந்தியும்
பெற்றிருப்போம்.
ஆனால்
எங்கள்
உடன்பிறப்புக்கள்
கொத்துக்
கொத்தாக
கொல்லப்படுவதானால்
எம்மால்
உறங்க
முடியவில்லை,
சிரிக்கமுடியவில்லை,
சாதாரண
வாழ்வின்
இன்பதுன்பங்களை
அனுபவிக்க
முடியவில்லை.
இது
இயற்கை.
தானாடாவிட்டாலும்
சதையாடும்
இரத்த
பாசம்."...
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Reflections
"...Pirabakaran
is a patient man. I have never seen
him waste his time. His brain is at
all times actively and ceaselessly
engaged with the issues that concern
the struggle..." Anita Pratap
Interview with Puthinam, 15 July
2008
"...
The nation is not only the condition of
culture, its fruitfulness, its
continuous renewal, and its deepening.
It is also a
necessity.It is the fight for
national existence which sets culture
moving and opens to it the doors of
creation... If man is known by his acts,
then we will say that the most urgent
thing today for the intellectual is to
build up his nation. If this building
up is true, that is to say if it
interprets the manifest will of the
people ... then the building of a
nation is of necessity accompanied by
the discovery and encouragement of
universalising values. Far from keeping
aloof from other nations, therefore, it
is national liberation which leads the
nation to play its part on the stage of
history. It is at the heart of
national consciousness that
international consciousness lives and
grows. And this two-fold emerging
is ultimately the source of all
culture..."
Frantz Fanon at the Congress of Black
African Writers,
1959
Comments
to include
From
Mike
Johnson[ [email protected] ]
Hi, It is pity that you guys are still
dreaming about a Tamil Nation. Please
look at this article and tell me why
you send these innocent kids to a war
for the sake of your "F***ing" day
dream? These kids do not deserve to
die. Why not you idiots leave the
countries you are living and go to the
battle field? You people are living in
luxury and day dreaming about a Tamil
Nation and let these kids die. Damn
you!
"...the international
community will wait till Tamil resistance
is sufficiently weakened or annihilated
before it
attempts to intervene 'on humanitarian
grounds' and in seeming response to
'world wide Tamil appeals'. Meanwhile
the IC will even welcome such world wide
appeals by Tamils as that will pave the
way (and establish useful contact points
amongst the Tamil diaspora) for IC's
eventual intervention with
'development aid' with the mantra of not
conflict resolution but 'conflict
transformation'."Nadesan Satyendra in
Sinhala Sri Lanka's Genocide of Eelam
Tamils - a Crime Against Humanity,
5 weeks ago on 29
January
2009
The Politics of Humanitarian
Intervention
US taps Delhi on
US-led invasion of Sri Lanka on
'evacuation mission', Telegraph,
Calcutta, 8 March 2009
"..The
Obama administration will sound out
foreign secretary Shiv Shankar Menon on
Monday, 9 March 2009 on
India�s support for a
US-led invasion of Sri Lanka to
evacuate nearly 200,000 Tamil civilians
trapped inside territory controlled by
the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
with precariously declining stocks of
food or medicine..spinmasters of the Obama
administration have quietly begun work
here to describe any such military
mission as a
�coalition
humanitarian task
force�. However, if
the humanitarian task force lands in
Sri Lanka before the LTTE lays down
arms as demanded by Colombo or without
agreement from the Tamil Tigers, who
may fire on the task force, its mission
will be tantamount to an invasion
leading to possible US
casualties." See alsoThe Politics of
Humanitarian Intervention - Nadesan
Satyendra, two weeks
ago on 24 February 2009
"... Now that Tamil
resistance has been weakened,
international actors who have armed and
trained Sinhala Sri Lanka's genocidal
armed forces believe that the time has
come to respond to the 'humanitarian
disaster' which they helped to create.
If the LTTE is totally annihilated,
they fear that they may lose an
important lever to ensure that Sri
Lanka 'plays ball' in the Indian Ocean
region. Again, they are concerned that
more genocide will create thousands
more martyrs. And they are right....
Genocide is not the path to secure
stability in the Indian Ocean region -
as the self immolation of
Muthukumar, Ravichandran, Thamil
Venthan,
Sivaprakasam and Murukuthasan
show.But it is not simply
stability that the international actors
are concerned with...Each of the
international actors are... concerned
to use the humanitarian disaster facing
the people of Tamil Eelam to embed
their own influence more securely in
the island of Sri Lanka (both in the Sinhala south
and in the Tamil north) - and so they
jockey amongst themselves as to how
best to intervene. Each is also
concerned that if one does not, the
other may.And it
is not everybody who will welcome an
intervention spearheaded by the
United States Pacific Command (US
PACOM). Hence the efforts to assemble a
'coalition of the willing'. The US
message to New Delhi was loud and
clear: 'We lead, you follow'..."
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Thousands of Tamil
Civilians Killed and Wounded - United
NationsAid agencies fear a humanitarian
disaster in the north-east..... "
Revisited: The Politics of Humanitarian
Intervention - Nadesan Satyendra, 24
February 2009 "The Tamil people
are being taught on the hard anvil of
death and suffering appropriately enough
in Buddhist Sri Lanka that human
rights and humanitarian laws are more
often than not, political instruments -
instruments which States use selectively
so that they may intervene to advance
their own perceived strategic
interests.After all the simplest thing
that the international actors could have
done to protect the Tamil people would
have been to remove the ban on the LTTE
so that the capacity of the people of
Tamil Eelam to resist the genocidal
onslaught launched on them by Sinhala Sri
Lanka may have been strengthened. The
simple and humane thing that the
international actors could have
donewas not to taunt the
struggles against terrorism with the
label terrorism but to adopt a
principle centered approach which
liberated political language and also
helped to liberate a people who have
taken up arms as
a last resort in
their struggle for freedom
from oppressive alien Sinhala rule.
.."
Tamil
Language & Literature
Revisitedபுலவர்
புலமைப்பித்தன்"சாதி
மல்லிப்
பூச்சரமே
சங்கத்
தமிழ்ப்
பாச்சரமே
ஆசையுள்ள
ஆசையடி
அவ்வளவு
ஆசையடி
எங்கெங்கே
முன்னே
வந்து
கண்ணே
நீ
கொஞ்சம்
கேட்டுக்கோ...
எனது
வீடு
எனது
வாழ்வு
என்று
வாழ்வது
வாழ்க்கையா
இருக்கும்
நாலு
சுவருக்குள்ளே
வாழ நீ
ஒரு
கைதியா
தேசம்
வேறல்ல
தாயும்
வேறல்லா
ஒன்றுதான்
தாயைக்
காப்பதும்
நாட்டைக்
காப்பதும்
ஒன்றுதான்.."
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Reflection
"Our lives begin to
end the day we become silent about
things that matter." - Martin Luther
King, Jr.
�Ten people who
speak make more noise than ten
thousand who are
silent.� - Napoleon
Bonaparte
- Shelling and aerial bombing by
the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) is
taking place 24 hours a day, every
day, including in safety
zones.
- More than
350,000 people are living in LTTE
controlled areas.
- The LTTE are
still willing to negotiate a
ceasefire with the GoSL, but will not
lay down their arms until the freedom
or self-determination of their people
is guaranteed.
- The LTTE say
they will not surrender. They say
they will keep fighting for the
freedom of the Tamils and for their
self determination and are confident
they will achieve this.
- The LTTE will
NOT allow a mass evacuation that has
been requested by the ICRC because
Tamil people should be able to live
in their land, and not be forced out.
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Terrorism: Australian Law &
Practise : The Trial of Australian Tamil
Community Workers
"A
difficulty for the prosecution has
been the status of the Liberation
Tigers of Tamil Eelam, more commonly
known as the Tamil Tigers... In a
bail hearing for the men in July
2007, Supreme Court judge Bernard
Bongiorno cast doubt on the
prosecution being able to convince a
jury that the LTTE was a terrorist
organisation ...There is debate over
whether the organisation is a
terrorist body or a separatist group
engaged in civil war. " more
Reflection
"..Tamil nationalism
in South India and Sri Lanka can be
described in terms of two sets of ideas
and beliefs. The one, the purity and
uniqueness of Tamil language and culture;
the other, Tamil traditions which exalt
military virtues and ideals. These ideals
and beliefs have dominated the vocabulary
of anti-Hindi and secessionist agitations
and propaganda of the Dravidian movement
in South India in the
[19]50�s and
[19]60�s. The
nationalism of the movement for Tamil
language rights and regional autonomy in
Sri Lanka was articulated in the same
vocabulary after 1956..." Dharmaretnam Sivaram on Tamil
Militarism
Tamil
Militarism
Revisited
Tamil Heroic Poetry: A
Comparative Study -
K.Kailasapathy "...what is of
interest to us here is that the bulk of
the heroic poetry which has come down to
us, portrays the emergence of the three
principal kingdoms from among innumerable
tribal organisations and village
communities. This epoch in a
nation�s history is
violent but brilliant, short-lived but
glorious, convulsive but opulent. As
elsewhere, the politics of the Tamil
Heroic Age were marked by the ascendancy
of an �energetic
military caste, which torn by internecine
conflicts of succession and inheritance
breaks loose from its tribal bonds into a
career of violent, self-assertive
individualism... (the) composite nature
of the Tamil heroic poems, and their
cherished recital by schools of bards -
of which we have some evidence - in due
course lead to what we may call a
�national consciousness
�, an idea of pan-Tamilian culture,
which in fact became a political concept
in historical times. In this sense, one
is naturally reminded of the gradual
evolution of a Greek national
consciousness arising out of the
recitation of the Iliad and the Odyssey
at the Panathenaea..." more
"..This essay is dedicated
to the memories of two Tamil scientists
and institution builders, Lieut. Col.
Appaiah Annai [I. Rasiah from Manipay]
and Prof. S. Raveendranath, who were
abducted by para-militaries affiliated
to the Sri Lankan army and were put to
death. For the record, Appaiah Annai,
abducted on Dec. 24, 1997, was a
home-grown weapon systems-tinkerer and
improviser, whose professional
qualification is tagged as garage
mechanic. Prof. Raveendranath, abducted
on Dec.15, 2005, was an agricultural
pest entomologist..." more
Proposed evacuation a
calculated ploy by Sri Lanka to uproot
Tamils from their traditional habitat -
B.Nadesan, LTTE Political
Head"I
ask if the UN, or India, or any other
country would ever promote uprooting and
relocating the people of Gaza as a
solution? And the Tamil people are
expected to willingly rush to these
barbed wired internment camps in these
surrounding situations? Is this what UN,
India and other nations are envisioning
for Tamils? The human shield term is a
propaganda used towards uprooting the
Tamil people from their traditional
habitat. The Tamil people have lived here
for generations and want to continue
living here and make a livelihood in
these lands. The Sri Lankan Government,
UN and other international community's
statements that claim to seek the well
being of Tamil people - in uprooting them
to forcibly and put them in barbed wired
military run camps is unprecedented... As
India also continues express calls for
safe passage of civilians and lukewarm
calls for truce, these are seen as
temporary measures and a blessing to
continue the military onslaught on the
Tamil Homeland by Colombo.." more
Reflection
"I have a high regard for the LTTE
for its discipline, dedication,
determination, motivation and technical
expertise... I was left with the
impression that the LTTE was the
expression of popular Tamil sentiment and
could not be destroyed, so long as that
sentiment remained... Our unit
and formation commanders too came under
the mental hypnosis of the LTTE. They
would graphically explain how well
entrenched the LTTE was in the minds of
the people, how ungrateful people were to
us, how elusive the LTTE was, how perfect
it was in the midst of the people and in
its actions, how effective was its grip
over the public and so on - virtually
admitting that it was an impossible task
and all our endeavours were pointless. "
- Lieutenant General S.C. Sardesh
Pande,UYSM, AVSM, Divisional
Commander of IPKF 54 Infantry Division in
Sri Lanka, later Deputy GOC, Headquarters
IPKF, Madrasin
"Assignment
Jaffna",
published in 1992
2.
V.Thangavelu writes from Canadaவேதாளம்
மீண்டும்
முருக்கை
மரத்தில்
"
இந்தியாவின்
உண்மை
முகம்
அம்பலமாகியுள்ளது.
சந்திமுனையில்
அல்ல.
இந்திய
நாடாளுமன்றத்தில்.
வாய்மொழியாக
அல்ல
எழுத்தில்...
வரதராசப்பெருமாள்
ஏறி
விழுந்த
குதிரையில்தான்
இப்போது
பிரணாப்
முகர்ஜி
தமிழ்மக்களை
ஏறிவிழச்
சொல்கிறார்.
தமிழீழ
மக்களது
அரசியல்
தலைவிதியை
எழுத
வேண்டியவர்கள்
எமது
மக்களே.
அதில்
தலையிட
யாருக்கும்
உரிமை
இல்லை..."
more
ஊடகங்கள்
மீதான
சிறிலங்காவின்
அரச
பயங்கரவாதம்
"...வெளிச்சம்
சஞ்சிகை,
புலிகளின்
குரல்
வானொலி,
ஈழநாதம்
பத்திரிகை,
மற்றும்
தொலைக்காட்சிகள்,
இணைய
ஊடகங்கள்
வழியாக
அரசியல்,
படைத்துறை
ஆய்வுகளை
வெளியிட்டு,
தாயக
விடுதலைப்
போராட்டத்தின்
கருத்துக்களைக்
கட்டியெழுப்பி
வந்த
சத்தியமூர்த்தி
அவர்களின்
உடலம்,
சவப்பெட்டி
கூட
இல்லாத
நிலையில்,
வெறும்
துணி
மட்டும்
போர்த்தப்பட்டு
இறுதி
நிகழ்வுகள்
நடைபெற்றமையானது
ஒரு
வரலாற்றுச்
சோகத்தைப்
பதிவு
செய்துள்ளது..."
more
Reflection
"..New
Delhi may want to recognise that given
the emerging bi polar world, and given
the strategic significance of the
Indian Ocean
region to both the US and China,
New Delhi may be powerless to prevent
'countries like Pakistan and China
gaining a strategic foothold in the
island nation'. .. Again, even if
India's Sonia Gandhi-Manmohan Singh
administration is content to play the
US client role, this may not have the
support of large segments of the
Indian polity - more so in an election
year. Given an emerging bi polar world,
India may go back to its old 'non
aligned' foreign policy approach and at
the same time strengthen its links with
its old friend, Russia. It is an
approach that for instance will have
the support of the Communist Party of
India... And in relation to the
conflict in the island of Sri
Lanka...New Delhi may want to recognise
.. that India's strategic interests in
an emerging bi polar world may be best
served by the creation of an
independent Tamil Eelam rather than by
preventing its formation.'' -
Nadesan Satyendra in
US - India - China: Changing Dynamics
& an Emerging Bi Polar
World
"சோனியா
காந்தியே!
எங்களையும்
கொலை
செய்!
நாங்களும்
தமிழர்களே!''
"காந்தி
தேசம்
கொடுக்குது!
புத்த
தேசம்
கொல்லுது!''
தடையை
நீக்கு!
தடையை
நீக்கு!
விடுதலைப்
புலிகள்
மீதான
தடையை
நீக்கு!'
"பதுங்குகுழியில்
தமிழனாம்!
குண்டுபோட
இந்தியனாம்!''
more
Sathyam
Commentary
1. Nadesan Satyendra on
The Politics of
Humanitarian Intervention"The Sinhala
owned Sri Lanka Sunday Times reported
on 22 February that thedonor Co-Chairs are
working out a coalition humanitarian
task force spearheaded by the United
States, to evacuate civilians trapped
in the fighting in the Vanni. It said
- "The purpose will be purely to
facilitate the movement of civilians
from the northeastern coast to a ship
in the deep seas. This is for transfer
to Internally Displaced Person (IDP)
centres or hospitals outside the battle
zones."The
proposed transfer to IDP centres may
need to be understood in the context of
the London Daily Telegraph report of 13
February 2009 "The Sri Lankan
government has been denounced over
plans to forcibly detain thousands of
Tamil civilians fleeing the country's
civil war in "concentration camps".
Officials have confirmed they will
establish several "welfare villages" to
house the estimated 200,000 Tamils
displaced from their homes by the Sri
Lankan army's "final offensive" against
the LTTE's stronghold on the north of
the Island. Senior officials have
however confirmed that those housed in
the villages will have no choice on
whether to stay in the camps."It
appears that what I wrote three weeks
ago in 'Sinhala Sri Lanka's
Genocide of Eelam Tamils - a Crime
Against Humanity',is now
coming to pass -
"...the international
community will wait till Tamil
resistance is sufficiently weakened
or annihilated before it attempts to
intervene 'on humanitarian grounds'
and in seeming response to 'world
wide Tamil appeals'. Meanwhile the
IC will even welcome such world wide
appeals by Tamils as that will pave
the way (and establish useful contact
points amongst the Tamil diaspora)
for IC's eventual intervention with
'development aid' with the mantra of
not conflict resolution but 'conflict
transformation'."
more
"In 1983, I stumbled
into a lecture on International Relations
at Cambridge University. The lecture was
by a visting German Professor. I forget
her name. But something that she said has
remained with me over the past several
years. She said: 'History shows that a bi
polar world will eventually become a uni
polar world. Then the uni polar world
will give way to a multi polar world. Out
of the multipolar world will come a new
bi polar world. And then that bipolar
world will give way to another unipolar
world and so on'. " more
International
Frame of Tamil Eelam Freedom
Struggle
2. இலங்கை
இனப்படுகொலையைக்
கண்டித்து
விஜயகாந்த்
தலைமையில்
மாபெரும்
பேரணி
-விஜயகாந்த்
-
"...இங்குள்ள
கட்சிகள்
இலங்கை
பிரச்சினையில்
நாடகமாடி
வருகின்றனர்.
சிறிலங்கா
அரச
தலைவர்
மகிந்த
ராஜபக்சவோ,
'விடுதலைப்
புலிகள்
ஆயுதங்களை
கீழே
போட்டால்தான்
போர்
நிறுத்தம்'
என்று
கூறுகின்றார்.
அதே
கருத்தைத்தான்
மத்திய
அமைச்சர்களான
பிரணாப்
முகர்ஜியும்,
சிதம்பரமும்
தெரிவிக்கின்றனர்.
பேச்சுவார்த்தை
மூலம்
அரசியல்
தீர்வு
வந்தால்தானே
விடுதலைப்
புலிகள்
ஆயுதங்களை
கீழே
போட
முடியும்.
ஆகையால்
பேச்சுவார்த்தை
மூலம்
பிரச்சினைக்கு
தீர்வு
கண்டுவிட்டு
அதன்
பிறகே
விடுதலைப்
புலிகளை
ஆயுதங்களை
கீழே
போட
சொல்ல
வேண்டும்.
அடுத்த
நாட்டு
பிரச்சினையில்
ஓரளவுக்குத்தான்
தலையிட
முடியும்
என்று
மத்திய
அரசு
கூறுகின்றது.
அப்படியானால்
இலங்கையுடன்
இந்தியா
எப்படி
ஒப்பந்தம்
போட்டது?
" more
Sathyam
Commentary
1. Ten Minute Read -
Nadesan SatyendraA Visitor from
Australia wrote on 20 February 2009 -
Vanakkam Mr. Satyendra. I read your
articles almost as soon as they appear.
They reflect many of the thoughts which
come to me (but perhaps not in such a
clear substantiated fashion). Your
open letter to Senator
Kerry is another excellent piece. I
am in deep pain and I am saddened to see
in our demonstrations many are still
talking and shouting about 'feed and
save' - its the call of 'pichhai vendam
nayaipidi' - as if demanding our right
to self determination was pichhai. Some
have woken up to what you have been
saying. But some who are interested have
sadly said that your articles are too
long for them and too complicated. What
to do? We are all in the age of 3 minute
news clips and we do not want to engage
our intellectual faculties. May be
sometimes a short piece (10 minute read)
directed to our English educated youth in
the diaspora might help to focus their
minds. Sorry for asking this. Thanks.
more
"... the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee may want to
examine whether US strategic interests
in an emerging multi lateral world and in
particular in the Indian Ocean region
will be advanced by preventing the
emergence of new states or whether, on
the contrary, US strategic interests
will be furthered by recognising that
self determination is
not a destabilising concept. Central
governments of existing states may have
the power that flows from the barrel of
the gun, but a feeling or thought such as
democracy, the aspiration towards
liberty, is not without material
force. . If democracy means the rule
of the people, by the people, for the
people, then the principle of self
determination secures that no one people
may rule another - and herein lies its
enduring appeal. Steadfastly defending
the inviolability of territorial
boundaries of existing states, regardless
of how and when they were determined may
not be the path to a stable world order.
There is a need to defend the very real
values that a people stand for and speak
from the heart to the hearts of those
people. These are the values which the
Obama administration has pledged to
uphold. And it was for these values that
more than two hundred years ago, the
signatories of the US Declaration of
Independence suffered - and some paid
the ultimate price... It
is for those same values that tens of
thousands of Tamils both young and old
have fought and given their lives. They
have given their lives so that their
brothers and sisters may live in freedom
- freedom from ruleby a permanent alien Sinhala
majority within the confines of a single
state.. Said that, the struggle for
Tamil Eelam is not about a search for
historical first causes - a search that
will end in the stone age and in a
discussion about original sin. Neither is
the struggle for Tamil Eelam an
invitation to engage in the politics of
the last atrocity. Nor is the struggle
for an independent Tamil Eelam about what
the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam may
have done or may not have done - though I
together with millions of Tamils not only
in Tamil Eelam but also in many lands and
across distant seas will bow our heads in
all humility and continue to recognise
Velupillai Pirabakaran and the LTTE
(warts and all) as the undying symbols of
Tamil resistance to alien Sinhala rule...
" more
ஜெவ்(Jeff)மற்(Mutt)(நல்ல
பொலிசும்
கெட்ட
பொலிசும்)இவர்களின்
செயல்பாடுகளும்-தமிழீழ
தேசிய
விடுதலைப்
போராட்டமும்
சர்வதேச
சமூகம்
வகிக்கும்
பாத்திரங்களும்-தமிழாக்கம்-ம.தனபாலசிங்கம்,அவுஸ்திரேலியா-
"இக்கட்டுரை
தமிழ்நேசன்
இணையத்தளத்தில்
திரு
நடேசன்
சத்தியேந்தரா
அவர்களால்
எழுதப்பட்டThe Jeff
and Mutt Actஎன்னும்
ஆங்கிலக்
கட்டுரையின்
தமிழாக்கம்.இன்றைய
நிலையில்
சோர்வடைந்து
விடாமல்
தெளிவுடன்
இயங்க
இவை
போன்ற
வாசிப்பு
அவசியமாகும்.தமிழீழத்
தேசிய
விடுதலைப்
போராட்டத்தில்
பங்காளிகளாகச்
செயல்படுவோருக்கு
இது
ஒரு
வழிகாட்டியாக
இருக்கும்
என்னும்
ஆதர்சத்தால்
தமிழாக்கம்
செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளது."more
India &
the Tamil Eelam Struggle for Freedom
1. Abbey Naidoo,
Durban-based attorney in South Africa
Post, 'Disunited in
Diversity'"India has revealed a duplicitous
and murderous collaboration with the
genocidal regime in power in Colombo. Not
only deaf to the pleas and cries of its
own Tamil population to intervene in this
murderous onslaught, it actively assists
the regime in the supply of military
hardware, the training of strike-aircraft
pilots, the supply of military expertise,
and the provision of military advisors on
the ground." more