Comments on: Peace to pieces: An engineered wreck

By: Raj, Canada

Raj, Canada — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 18:33:28 +0000

Who are the authors of the ICG report?

By: Eelath Thamil Raj, Canada

Eelath Thamil Raj, Canada — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 16:32:36 +0000

Without seeking the IC for help; why not we ourselves do the needful. And, that is to get rid of the Armed forces from Thamil Eelam. This can be done since, the Sinhala forces do not have the basics of any kind of warefare. Having had experience with them, they are nothing but an gorup of tin soldiers. In fact, their Air Force consist of poor quality pilots and they can be blown out of the sky. I know it since I know their capabilities.

By: Wicrema Weereratne

Wicrema Weereratne — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 07:07:38 +0000

I agree that Tamils in the North of Sri lanka deserve self-rule to some extent short of seceding from the island. However, the burning issue here is, what happens to the other 60% of Tamils who continue to co-exist with Singhalese in other parts of the country? In my opinion, they continue to enjoy the same privileges as the other communities if not better. Tamils dominate the retail spear in these areas courtesy of the Singhalese tolerating them. If Tamils decide to sever links with the Singhalese legitimately, would your people vacate the rest of the country or will you leave it in your agenda to systematically marginalize the Singhalese into a minority by annihilating them? I find it hard to fathom why you Tamils demand the right for freedom when you are already enjoying it. The people in the North and East are being subjected to utmost suffering and pain not by the actions of security forces, but only due to the despot murderous attitude of the Tamil Tiger terrorists. It will be interesting to note the views of the Colombo Tamils who live in utmost comfort if only they could be liberated from the brutal clutches of their fellow leader.

By: N

Sat, 02 Dec 2006 11:59:38 +0000

I would love it to be true that ‘We can be dragged towards a solution by the international community armed with a sledgehammer.’ And that the IC is willing to do that.

Sadly it seems to me that it is the IC that is dragging the its feet in order to optimise their interests.

By: M.Thiru, South East Asia

M.Thiru, South East Asia — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 10:43:15 +0000

Dear doctor,

It is interesting that you are asking for a sledge hammer from IC, may I ask against whom ? Why should it be on both, When there is sledge hammer treatment already against the Tamils & Tamil leader/s by the Sinhalese leaders with the support of IC for many years now.

I kindly request you to do more study on the three events listed below and personally enlighten them to the IC perhaps directly through Tony Blair and Nicholas Burns and post the outcome on the web. Then I believe you will have your credibility re- established among many rational Tamils who have self respect.

Although it is impossible in SL because of the mahavamsa mind of the rulers, at least PMK leader in TN , India , make some sense when he pressed the Centre for referendum among Tamils under normalcy after implementing the CFA fully.

1. Statement by S.J.V.Chelvanayakam Q.C. M.P. leader of the Tamil United Liberation Front after winning the by-election for the Kankesanturai Parliamentary seat, held belatedly on 7 February 1975, two years after he had resigned the seat to seek a mandate for Tamil Eelam

“Throughout the ages the Sinhalese and Tamils in the country lived as distinct sovereign people till they were brought under foreign domination. It should be remembered that the Tamils were in the vanguard of the struggle for independence in the full confidence that they also will regain their freedom. We have for the last 25 years made every effort to secure our political rights on the basis of equality with the Sinhalese in a united Ceylon.”

“It is a regrettable fact that successive Sinhalese governments have used the power that flows from independence to deny us our fundamental rights and reduce us to the position of a subject people. These governments have been able to do so only by using against the Tamils the sovereignty common to the Sinhalese and the Tamils.”

“I wish to announce to my people and to the country that I consider the verdict at this election as a mandate that the Tamil Eelam nation should exercise the sovereignty already vested in the Tamil people and become free.”

2. TAMIL EELAM: RIGHT TO SELF DETERMINATION
Vaddukodai Resolution

“This convention resolves that restoration and reconstitution of the Free, Sovereign, Secular Socialist State of TAMIL EELAM based on the right of self determination inherent to every nation has become inevitable in order to safeguard the very existence of the Tamil Nation in this Country.”

Political Resolution unanimously adopted at the First National Convention of the Tamil United Liberation Front held at Pannakam (Vaddukoddai Constituency) on 14 May 1976 presided over by Mr. S.J.V. Chelvanayakam, Q.C, M.P.

3. The final humiliation – the TULF accepted the 6th Amendment oath which it had spurned in 1983 – and it was rejected by the Tamil people at 1989 elections…

At the elections held in 1989 after the enactment of the 13th Amendment to the Sri Lanka Constitution, the TULF which had won a resounding victory at the 1977 General Elections for Tamil Eelam, went down to an equally resounding defeat. Amirthalingam was rejected by the Tamil people and that too, at an election conducted with the active presence of the Indian Peace Keeping Force. India, by this time had begun to rely on the armed EPRLF and Varadarajaperumal as its ally to progess its policy objectives.