Thursday 30 June 2011

26-06-2011 சென்னை மெரினா கடற்கரையில் மே 17 இயக்கம் நினைவஞ்சலி






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Sunday 12 June 2011

Sri Lanka committed genocide of Tamils: Arundhati Roy

Sri Lanka committed genocide of Tamils: Arundhati Roy







Thanks : Tamilnet News


Taking part in a meeting organized by a London based Tamil media association in Southall in London on Saturday, celebrated writer Arundhati Roy termed the war on Eezham Tamils in the island of Sri Lanka as genocide that was allowed to happen by the world. "The most horrific things I have seen and testimonies I have read are from Sri Lanka," she said. Ms. Roy, known for championing the cause of the Aathivaasis (indigenous tribes), emphasized how similar sorts of patterns of annihilation were taking place in India too. "There is a whole universe of fractured morality between what people say and what people do. As the Indian military, and platoons and platoons of policemen are displacing the Aathivaasis in the back of everyone's mind are the graves of Tamils in Sri Lanka," she said.

Arundhati Roy
"When I visited Sri Lanka, it horrified me to see how everything had closed over that war." She observed how in all the celebration of the booming economy, "there was a deep silence over what happened."

The meet was organised by International Association of Tamil Journalists (IATJ) in London.

Roy also spoke on how the West found "moral reasons" to attack few regimes, and why certain "war crimes" were acceptable whereas others were not. She also lamented the manner in which the Sri Lankan model of genocide was inspirational to other states in the region. "Other governments are looking at the Government of Sri Lanka and thinking, if not talking: If they have done it, why can't we”, Roy said.

She also pointed out that while people have the right to resort to arms, one should also look into what are the values of the people who have picked up arms. When somebody does that [resort to armed resistance], they are also responsible for what happened to the Tamil people.

"The most horrific things I have seen and testimonies I have read are from Sri Lanka" she said and expressed her angst over how the Sri Lankan state forces targeted hospitals, and bombed people after forcing them to move into a No Fire Zone. "The world allowed this to happen, and it will continue to allow this to happen" she said.

While Roy suggested that she was "somebody who believed in the diversity of resistances" she also spoke about the need to ask serious questions about violent resistance. She said it was strategically important to ask, "What went wrong." She asked, "Was it the concentration of power in too few hands."

"There is no point into looking for condemnation or sympathy—because it is merely lip service," she said. Speaking of the need to enter a process of introspection, Roy said, "It is not just life that has been destroyed, but also a form of resistance."

She attacked mainstream Tamil politicians in Tamil Nadu who have made their careers talking about Eelam. She labelled their concern as "rubbish" and said that they had done little beyond whipping up hollow identity and cashing it. She spoke of how Eezham Tamil refugees in Tamil Nadu were "treated like animals", and of the hardship they had to face on a daily basis. "I have visited those camps and it is a terrible sight to see," she said and contrasted how the normally vociferous Tamil politicians were silent on the plight of the refugees.

Responding to questions from the audience, she charmed them with her sharp insight on resistance struggles and expressed sympathy to the sufferings undergone by Eezham Tamils. She shared the experience of struggle for self-determination in Kashmir, Manipur and Nagaland, and also the struggle against big dams and against corporate take-overs of forests.

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சிறீலங்காவில் நடைபெற்றது இனப்படுகொலையே - அருந்ததி ராய்

சிறீலங்காவில் நடைபெற்றது இனப்படுகொலையே எனவும், அங்கு இடம்பெற்ற இக்கொடுமையைப் போல் ஒன்றை தான் வேறெங்கும் கண்டதில்லை எனவும் பிரபல எழுத்தாளரான அருந்ததி ராய் லண்டனில் நடைபெற்ற தமிழர்களுடனான சந்திப்பொன்றில் பேசுகையில் கூறினார்.




சர்வதேச தமிழ் செய்தியாளர் ஒன்றியத்தின் ஏற்பாட்டில் லண்டன் சவுத்ஹோல் பகுதியில் நடைபெற்ற இச்சந்திப்பில் லண்டன் வாழ் புலம்பெயர் தமிழர்களும், சிங்கள ஊடகவியலாளர்கள் சிலரும் கலந்து கொண்டிருந்தனர்.

அவர் அங்கு தொடர்ந்து கூறுகையில்,

எங்களுக்கு தெரியும், அங்கே நடந்த கொடிய போரைப்பற்றி. வைத்தியசாலைகள் மீது குண்டுவீச்சு, எறிகணை தாக்குதல்கள் நடாத்தப்பட்டது. குறுகிய திறந்த வெளி நிலப்பரப்பை போர் அற்ற பாதுகாப்பு பிரதேசமாக அறிவித்து அப்பகுதிகளுக்குள் மக்களை வரச்சொல்லி பின் அப்பகுதிக்குள் தாக்குதல் மேற்கொள்ளப்பட்டதும் எமக்கு தெரியும் எனவும்,

சர்வதேச நாடுகள் தமது பொருளாதார மற்றும் இராணுவ நலன்சார்ந்த தந்திரோபாய ரீதியில் சிறீலங்காவில் இவ்வாறான கொடிய போருக்கும், அதனூடான இனப்படுகொலைக்கும் அனுமதித்துள்ளதாகவும், சிறீலங்காவில் நடைபெற்றதை முன்மாதிரியாக பின்பற்றி பிராந்திய நாடுகளும் செயற்பட வாய்ப்பை ஏற்படுத்தியுள்ளது எனவும் அவர் மேலும் தெரிவித்தார்.

இலங்கைத் தமிழர்களின் இன்னல்களை சொல்லிக்கொண்டு அரசியலில் தம்மை நிலைநிறுத்திக்கொண்ட தமிழக தலைவர்களை தான் நன்கு அறிந்துள்ளதாகவும், அதேவேளை தமிழகத்தில் உள்ள இலங்கை அகதிகள் தங்கியுள்ள முகாம்களுக்கு தான் சென்ற போது அங்கு அவர்கள் மிருகங்களைப்போல் நடாத்தப்படுவதை தான் கண்டதாகவும், இந்த விடயத்தில் தமிழக அரசியல்வாதிகள் அக்கறை கொள்ளவில்லை எனவும் அருந்ததி ராய் மேலும் தெரிவித்தார்.

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Eezham liberation is geopolitical priority for Tamil Nadu:

Eezham liberation is geopolitical priority for Tamil Nadu:

If the people of Tamil Nadu are vigilant enough of the nature and aims of the geopolitical forces operate in the region, then they will realise that call for independence of Eezham Tamils should get priority over war crimes investigation and indictment of Mahinda Rajapaksa, said Mr. Thirumurukan Gandhi of the May 17 Movement of Tamil Nadu, while discussing the UN report in Chennai last month. The whole world, except Tamil Nadu, knows that the power to change the paradigm lies in Tamil Nadu, he further said. Thirumurukan’s analysis coming from grassroot thinking in Tamil Nadu was refreshing, while ‘analysis groups’ in Chennai and some international organizations backed by establishments aiming to capitalize the war crimes to their interests truncate the ultimate justice of liberation to the affected, said political observers in the island and in the diaspora.

Geopolitical analysis or regional political analysis of quality was rarely made from Tamil perspectives in Tamil Nadu in the past. Such analyses were always a monopoly of a so-called ‘national’ minded clan and their media in India.

Much of the sufferings of Tamils in India and outside, and the diplomatic woes of India in its southern flank were due to this lacuna, as analyses coming from Tamil Nadu perspectives meeting the rigours of international norms were never highlighted or they didn’t come at all, rising above the din of empty political rhetoric.

The way a new genre of Tamil analysts discussed the UN panel report last month in Chennai was very refreshing, amazingly transparent in the content of truth and casts away conventional analyses or psy-ops coming from enslaved universities, funded organizations and intelligence-operated strategic ‘think tanks’ into dustbin, commented an academic in Jaffna.

The most dangerous of the ‘analysis campaign’ after the genocidal war in Vanni is shedding crocodile tears for the war crimes to get political acceptance to post-war agendas, but refusing to examine why the affected should not be liberated and independent.

If successive constitutions since British times and post-British times have failed for more than a hundred years on the national question in the island, and if the logical end has reached the point of genocide, then there is no point in accusing the implementation of the present constitution or harping on constitutional reforms. There is something wrong with the very existence of this state as a single unit.

When the very word ‘Sri Lanka,’ ever since its constitutional inception, is associated with a genocidal state, anyone with common sense could tell why the Tamils can’t be ‘Sri Lankans’ in the island. Saying, “Tamils can be Sri Lankans” at this stage is only another way of putting an agenda to exterminate the nation of Eezham Tamils in the island.

Why don’t the political science pundits who always think of power interests tell us what global or civilization-benefits are there for humanity by Eezham Tamils not claiming their independence even when they face genocide, the academic in Jaffna asked.

Raman and Hariharan have lost the credibility with the war ending in genocide. So, there will be another set of analysts with seemingly new paradigms but with the old agenda, the academic further said.

The investigation on war crimes, covering all those who were involved with the crimes, is a responsibility of world humanity primarily for its own sake, if it wants progress from the suffocating state and power system of today. Even after becoming two states the Eezham Tamils and the Sinhalese have to strike reconciliation on their own, for their own survival in one island. But anyone concerned with war crimes or reconciliation today cannot pretend ignorance that neither a genuine war-crimes investigation nor genuine reconciliation is possible when the Eezham Tamils don’t have independence first.

The responsibility of Tamil Nadu, based on Tamil perspectives, which Tamil Nadu alone could do, is more than identifying itself with the global responsibility of war crimes investigation. The government of Ms. Jayalalitha may have taken carefully calculated initial steps in the right direction, but it should not be deviated by vicious forces that have a record of doing mischief in the region is the concern of global Tamils.

Thirumurukan Gandhi, K. Aiyanathan, Prof Paul Newman, Devasahayam, Rajendra Chozhan, Priya Thampi, Arul Ezhilan, Pandimadevi and DSS Mani, who have discussed the UN panel report in Thiyagaraya Nagar, Chennai on May 28, have boldly and explicitly brought out the intriguing aspects that affect affairs from moving in the right direction and what Tamil Nadu should do about them.

Such analyses should also reach the outside world for the benefit of global public opinion, the Jaffna academic commented, adding that with such quality of awakening and new thinking, the next generation of Tamil Nadu cannot be taken for a ride or be contained by anyone, without yielding into aspirations that are righteous.



Thanks : Tamilnet News Article dated 12June

http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=79&artid=34047

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The following are some points brought out by Thirumurukan in his analysis. The links for the full speeches of Thirumurukan and the other analysts in Tamil are given at the end:

Thirumurukan Gandhi
Thirumurukan Gandhi
There was genocide before the war and there is genocide after the war. Before there was a militant organization to counter it, now there is nobody. The genocide that takes place after the war needs our full attention.

Tamil Nadu should be aware of its geopolitical importance to take right moves, while the land of Tamils is fast becoming another Afghanistan in South Asia.

China that sets the String of Pearls and aspire for Blue-water Navy and the USA that now orchestrates regime changes to save its image and to control Chinese inroads are not really against each other. They only practice containment and in the process people perish.

Ilangkai (Sri Lanka) is in the highlight now as it is going to set the trend elsewhere. The next in line is the Karen nation in Burma.

The US and the EU broke the peace talks in the island. The US knows all what had happened during the war. There was close understanding between the US and the Rajapaksa regime and the US gave arms to Colombo through Israel.

The US needs the entire east coast of Sri Lanka.

Corruption is a weapon to bring in instability and corruption is encouraged to bring in instability. Corruption cannot be the cause for revolution but revolution can have corruption.

The popular uprisings in the world, including the Jasmine Revolution in West Asia and North Africa are planned and hijacked by the US, only to change the leaders and to escape the anti-US sentiments in the world.

They prepared Rajapaksa to destroy the LTTE. After the LTTE, Rajapaksa is not needed and the powers now bring in the war crimes investigation to ‘punish’ him. Rajapaksa is not our concern, but Tamil Eelam is our concern. Our fear is whether Tamils will get their justice. The US is known for differentiating punishment to the ‘criminal’ from delivery of justice to the victim.

The political replacement that took place in Tamil Nadu is analogous. They need some one acceptable in Tamil Nadu to endorse their agenda.

All except Tamils know that Tamil Nadu is the key factor.

The West may now hand over the task of ‘political solution’ to India. As it does now and then, India will dust the 13th Amendment.

There are three Tamil entities to handle.

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) in the island will be handled both by India and the USA.

Whatever they impose in the island should find endorsement in Tamil Nadu. As Karunanidhi has lost the credibility there should be some one else who could evoke hopes in Tamil Nadu. Tamils need to be watchful. Tamil Nadu has already gone into global politics.

When the Tamil Nadu State Government is handled, there will be no one to raise voice in the Assembly.

The Communist Party of India (CPI) may talk, but it too looks at the issue within the framework of a ‘united Sri Lanka’.

Vaiko was purposefully sidelined earlier and now, as there shouldn’t exist anyone within the Assembly to raise the name Tamil Eelam.

The third entity, the diaspora and its committed section, is already pressurised heavily in many systematic ways in the West. When the stage is set, Rudrakumaran will be forced to accept what is set by the agenda.

When the BBC and the CNN blare out the virtues of the solution, the voices in Tamil Nadu will be feeble.

Our support to the war crimes investigation of the UN should be conditional. The UN panel report is incomplete, as it has not recognized the genocide in the island. Merely a regime change effected by the war crimes investigation cannot bring in lasting solutions to Eezham Tamils.

2,50,000 Tamils have been killed in the war of decades. Accepting wanting solutions is not doing justice to the killed.

We live in historic times.

Like SJV Chelvanayagam was firm in 1976 in Vaddukkoaddai Resolution calling for Tamil Eelam, like Pirapaharan was firm in 1987 against hoodwink solutions, Tamil Nadu has to be firm now.

May 17 Movement's meeting on UN Expert Panel report





The war crimes the UN now speaks of, is not an isolated event. The root has to be addressed and answered. Governments in India and Sri Lanka always set the agenda and we in Tamil Nadu only respond to passing events of the agenda. Immersed in immediate issues we fail to raise the voice for the fundamental issue – the independence of Tamil Eelam.

Eezham Tamils have democratically mandated the Vaddukkoaddai Resolution and have re-mandated it in the diaspora recently.

War crimes investigation may be welcomed. But, without the recognition of the genocide and without the recognition that a national question was the reason, the investigation is meaningless.

Let those who don’t agree conduct a referendum through the UN and see.

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தமிழீழ விடுதலையும் ஐநா நிபுணர் குழு அறிக்கையும் - கருத்தரங்கம் -
தலைப்பு : சர்வதேச அரசியல் சதியில் சிக்கும் தமிழீழ விடுதலை-நாள்- 29 -5-2011
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தலைப்பு : ஐ.நா அறிக்கையும் ஊடகமும்



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பேராசிரியர் திரு.பால் நியூ மேன் உரை

தலைப்பு : ஐ நா அறிக்கையும் மனித உரிமைப்போரும்


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Saturday 4 June 2011

Vaiko Speech




Detailed News : click here Thanks Tamilnet

Thanks IBN Live (India )