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for the Tamil community and cannot be
disregarded in anyway as an isolated
incident or unsubstantiated issue" -
Jayadevan writes to Editor of Sangam.org
Sangam.org
USA
I note with dismay that I did not receive a response to my earlier email in which I
responded to a very serious charge made by Mr Anna Pararajasingam in a
letter posted in your website on 7 April 2005.
As a supporter of the LTTE my experience in Vanni needs to be told to our
people. It will give an opportunity for the Tamil people at least to discuss their
problems among themselves. This interaction is needed to see whether Tamil
people could go forward as a nation of people following the glorious victories
we achieved with enormous human and material sacrifices. Whatever secrecy
that may be needed for a military situation cannot be applied to a civil society at
the time when there is considerable hope prevailing to find a just solution to the
political aspirations of the Tamil people.
My experience in Vanni is an experience for the Tamil community and cannot
be disregarded in anyway as an isolated incident or unsubstantiated issue as
AP suggests. Having worked tirelessly to espouse the Tamil cause, despite
hostilities from the very same organization which I revered, it is best we Tamils
take stock of the situation we are in now. As expatriate Tamils, we have a major
role to play to correct the situation from deteriorating further. Failing which, we
will be condemned historically for our farcical conduct of using our own people
in our motherland as fodder.
Let not the Tamil struggle be classed as a proxy war of the expatriate Tamils. It
should not end with mere financial support. There should be some check and
balance to reflect our representative voices as nation of people. History must
not condemn the present generation that we expatriate Tamils fought a proxy
war only giving the financial backing and did it from far away from the Eelam
arena. A healthy interaction has to take place to ensure that as Tamils we are
serious in our conduct. ‘Gun ho’ conduct against our own people by the
battlefield cadres has to be vehemently opposed in a civil society and it is
important that proper check and balance is placed to ensure our people are
respected and treated as human beings by our own people.
It is true that the Tamil media should play a key role to safeguard this
fundamental issue. The media cannot conduct itself as apologist and or cannot
be a silent spectator when human rights of the very same Tamil people are
violated by the LTTE as happened to me. Your website remains fundamentally
exposed on this.
My comments cannot be considered in any way as anti-LTTE or anti-Tamil
struggle. It will be travesty of justice if the questioning voices in the Tamil
community keep silent any more. We will be condemned for ever for not
correcting an adverse situation at the opportune moment.
I take this opportunity to thank for the laudatory role played by Mr D B S Jeyaraj
for bringing my sufferings to an open debate. He of course I know is a
condemned person for standing up on many issues as a journalist. I am
forwarding this letter for his attention.
Yours sincerely
R Jayadevan
London Eeelap Patheeswarar Temple Issue
April 7th will be etched in Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam annals as
a day of defeat. This humiliating defeat was not suffered in the
battlefields of Tamil Eelam. The enemy was not the armed forces of
an oppressive Sinhala Buddhist hegemonistic state.The victor this
time was none other than "Dharma Devathai" or the Goddess of
Justice. Truth and Justice prevailed in a British Court. Tiger minions
in London brought upon themselves a wholly unnecessary , self -
inflicted debacle. Bharati' s immortal lines "Tharmathin Vaalvathanai
Soothu Kavvum; Tharmam marupadiyum vellum" became true!
Jeyadevan Affair
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam political commissar Suppiah Paramu
Thamilselvan has condemned his colleague Veerakulasingham
Manivannan alias Castro over the Rajasingham Jeyadevan affair.
Forty - nine year old Jeyadevan - a British resident - was inveigled
into the Wanni through false pretences and held in tiger custody for
59 days from Jan 8th to Mar 9th. The accountant cum businessman
was coerced into transferring control of a Hindu temple in London to
a tiger front - Sivayogam Trust. He was released due to British
pressure on the LTTE hierarchy.
Eelappatheeswarar Temple
The controversy surrounding the Alperton Eelappatheeswarar Hindu
temple has entered a new phase last week with activists of the
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam organization in London going to
courts over the issue. In a striking example of dramatic irony the very
same LTTE that violated a number of legal norms in misappropriating
the Sivan temple is now trying to use the British judicial system to
strengthen its hold over it.
or Sri Lanka or anywhere been raised with me
by British officials," Mr. Balasingham said.
[Tamilnet]
Jeyadevan with the Brits
The Rajasingham Jeyadevan affair has predictably evoked much
heat amid the Tamil expatriate community particularly in Britain. This
is because Jeyadevn is a well - known Tamil nationalist in London.
The methodology employed to coerce him into transferring control of
a Hindu temple has shocked most people. If this could happen to
Jeyadevan it could happen to us too is the dominant thought and
speech in these circles.
Release Rajasingham Jeyadevan
The Castro - Shanthan - Seevaratnam axis with backing from Anton
Balasingham began a campaign - both overt and covert in nature -
aimed at bringing several Tamil administered British institutions under
direct LTTE control. Seevaratnam was to be the "front person" under
whom most of these were" legally "acquired. Given the fact that the
LTTE is banned as a terrorist organization under British law the tigers
were bold indeed in embarking on such a course. This brazen
cocksureness is due to an impression that there wont be a
crackdown on them in Britain as long as that peace process
continues.
Rajasingham Jeyadevan Affair
By D.B.S. Jeyaraj
The arrest, detention, interrogation, duress, coercion, mental
torture and criminal misappropriation of property suffered by a
London based Sri Lankan Tamil Rajasingham Jeyadevan at the
hands of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam has exposed several
fault lines of an organization claiming to fight for Tamil liberation.
The pain and agony undergone by this British resident in the Wanni
is all the more pathetic because Jeyadevan was a man who
supported the LTTE wholeheartedly in the past and was never found
wanting in espousing the Tamil cause.
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