The people who most deprived the ordinary Tamil mother from seeing her children prosper and pursue normal lives were the very “savious” of the Tamil nation – the LTTE. It was Prabhakaren and his organisation that deprived the ordinary Tamil from leading a normal life. For three decades Tamil parents in the North and East were not able to have the same aspirations for their children as parents in the rest of SL had. All they could hope was for them to be trained in the art of war from a tender age and perhaps achieve “fame” through the act of blowing themselves up for the gratification of a leader who was leading them headlong towards a cataclysmic disaster.

That educated Tamils in the diaspora contributed towards this only highlights the fact that being educated and wealthy does not equate to wisdom !

Yes, the conditions in the IDP’s are very poor. If the diaspora however are truly interested in the welfare of those wretched villages who are interned, then accusing the GoSL of genocide is not the most effective way of helping them. Perhaps the funds that the diaspora so diligently sent the LTTE to buy wapons should now be chanelled into rebuilding the infrastructure in the Wanni and other areas so as to speed up the resettlement process.