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பத்மநாபா தியாகியா என்பதுகுறித்து தனக்கென ஒரு அபிப்பிராயத்தை வைத்திருப்பதும் அதனை தெரிவிப்பதும் சுதர்சனின் உரிமை. ஆனால், சுதர்சனுடைய கட்டுரையில் தெரிவிக்கப்பட்டுள்ள தகவல்கள் பல தவறானவை. இது போன்ற தவறான தகவல்களை வைத்திருக்கும் யாரும் சரியான முடிவிற்கு வருவது சாத்தியமில்லை. 

ஆனால் சுதர்சன் தெரிவித்துள்ள தகவல்களின் உண்மை தன்மை குறித்து சுதர்சனுக்கும், சுதர்சனின் கட்டுரையை இணையத் தளங்களில் பார்வையிடுபவர்களுக்கும் தெரியப்படுத்த விரும்புகின்றேன்.  

புத்மநாபா மத்தியகுழு கூட்டம் ஒன்றில்  அல்லது கட்சி உறுப்பினர்களுடனான கலந்துரையாடல் ஒன்றில் கலந்து கொண்டிருந்த போது படுகொலைச் சம்பவம் நிகழ்ந்ததாக கூறுவது உண்மையில்லை. அவர் தனது குடும்ப வைபவம் ஒன்றில் கலந்துகொள்வதற்காகவே சென்னை வந்திருந்தார். அவர் திருமணமாணம் செய்துகொண்ட பின்னர் அவரது பாவனைக்காக கட்சி வழங்கியிருந்த தொடர்மாடி குடியிருப்பிலுள்ள ஒரு வாடகை வீட்டிலேயே சம்பவம் நிகழ்ந்தது. 

மக்கள் ஆய்வுப்பிரிவு ஈபிஆர்எல்எவ் இன் கட்டமைப்பில் உள்ள இராணுவ பிரிவு, அரசியல் பிரிவு போன்ற ஒரு பிரிவு இதற்கு தலைமை ஏற்றிருந்தவர் கிழக்கு மாகாணத்தை சேர்ந்த மத்திய குழு உறுப்பினர் மணி. மக்கள் ஆய்வுப் பிரிவின் நடைமுறைத்தவறுகள் காரணமாக தோழர்கள் சிலருக்கு அதிருப்தியும், கருத்துமாறுபாடுகளும் எழுந்திருந்தது உண்மை அது கட்சிக்குள் விமர்சனங்களை முன்வைப்பதற்கு தடையாகவோ, அச்சுறுத்தலாகவோ, யாரையும் தடுத்துவைத்து சித்திரவதைப்படுத்தியதாகவோ, படுகொலை செய்ததாகவோ எதுவுமில்லை. அத்தகைய நடவடிக்கைகளுக்கு ஆதரவாக ஈபிஆர்எல்எவ் கட்சி உறுப்பினர்களை உள்ளடக்கிய கட்சிசபை தோழர்கள் யாருக்கும் இடமளித்ததும் இல்லை. 

கடத்தப்பட்ட தோழர் ரமேஸ் விடுவிக்கப்பட்டதுதான் ஈபிஆர்எல்எவ் இன் வரலாறு. 

ஈபிஆர்எல்எவ் இற்குள் உட்கட்சிப் போராட்டம் இந்திய அரசுடனான உறவு குறித்தோ அல்லது வேறேதும் தத்துவார்த்த பிரச்சினைகள் தொடர்பானதோ அல்ல. நடைமுறை சார்ந்த பிரச்சினைகள், கட்சியில் பொறுப்பான பதவி நிலைகளில் உள்ளவர்களின் நடத்தைகள் தொடர்பான பிரச்சினைகள் குறித்தே அவை இருந்திருக்கின்றன. முற்போக்கான அணி, பிற்போக்கான அணி என இரண்டு அணிகளுக்கிடையில் இந்த போராட்டம் இடம்பெறவில்லை. கருத்து வேறுபாடு கொண்டிருந்த இரு அணிகளிலும் சரியுhன கருத்துக்கள், நடைமுறைகளும், தவறான கருத்துக்கள் நடைமுறைகளும் இருந்திருக்கின்றன. எனவே இவ்வாறு இரு அணிகளாக கோஷ்டி சேர்ப்பதற்கு எதிராகவே பெரும்பாலான கட்சி உறுப்பினர்கள் இருந்தார்கள். இது எல்லா அமைப்புக்களிலும் எல்லா காலங்களிலும் இருப்பது போன்ற சரிக்கும் பிழைக்கும் இடையிலான ஒரு போராட்டம் தான். 

புத்மநாபாவும், சுரேஸ் பிரேமச்சந்திரனும் ஒரு அணியில் இருந்ததாக கூறுவதிலும் உண்மையில்லை. நடைமுறை சார்ந்த விடயங்களில் கட்சிக்குள் கருத்து வேறுபாடு கொண்டிருந்த இரு அணிகளுக்கிடையில் இணக்கப்பாட்டை ஏற்படுத்துவதற்கான முயற்சிகளையே பத்மநாபா மேற்கொண்டார். 

1986 ஆம்  ஆண்டில் டக்ளஸ் தேவானந்தா யாழ்ப்பாணத்திலிருந்தார் எனவே கட்சி வேலைகளுக்கான நிதியினை கட்சியின் அனைத்துப் பிரிவினரும் அவரிடமிருந்தே பெற்றுக்கொண்டன.  கட்சியின் இராணுவப்பிரிவான மக்கள் விடுதலைப் படைக்கு டக்ளஸ் தேவானந்தாவே பிரதம தளபதியாக இருந்தமையால் அனைத்து ஆயுதங்களும் அவரது தீர்மானத்தின் படியே பகிரப்பட்டது. எனவே 1986 ஆம் ஆண்டில் டக்ள்ஸ் தேவாந்தாவிற்கான ஈ.பி.ஆர்.எல்.எப் தலைமையின் பணம் மற்றும் ஆயுதக் கொடுப்பனவுகள் நிறுத்தப்பட்டதாக சுதர்சன் தெரிவித்திருப்பது பச்சை பொய். 1986 நடுப்பகுதியில் தோழர் தேவா மேலும் சில தோழர்களுடன் இந்தியாவிற்கு புறப்பட்டு சென்ற பின்னரே தோழர் கபூரிடம் ஆயுதங்கள் வழங்கப்பட்டன. 

உட்கட்சி போராட்டம் நடத்திய ஜனநாயக மற்றும் முற்போக்கு இளைஞர் சக்திகள் டக்ளஸிற்கு ஆதரவு வழங்கியதாக கூறுவதிலும் உண்மையில்லை. இது பற்றி ஏற்கனவே குறிப்பிட்டுள்ளதால் மீண்டும் அதுபற்றிறி எழுத அவசியமில்லை. 

உட்கட்சி போராட்டத்தில் ஈடுபட்ட இளைஞர்களை புலிகள் தேடி தேடி அழித்ததாக கூறுவதிலும் உண்மையில்லை. எல்லா ஈபிஆர்எல்எவ் அங்கத்தவர்களும் ஒரே விதமான ஆபத்தை எதிர் நோக்கினார்கள். ஆயுதப் பயிற்சி பெற்ற ஆயுதங்களை வைத்திருந்த இராணுவ பிரிவை சேர்ந்த அங்கத்தவர்களே பெரும்பாலும் கொல்லப்பட்டிருக்கிறார்கள். ஈபிஆர்எல்எவ் உறுப்பினர்கள் எல்லோரும் சிறைவாசம் சித்திரவதைகளை அனுபவித்திருக்கிறார்கள். சிறைகளில் கொல்லப்பட்டுமிருக்கிறார்கள். 

உட்கட்சி போராட்டம் நடத்தியவர்களில் பலர் புலிகளின் தாக்குதலை தொடர்ந்து இந்தியாவிற்கும் வெளிநாடுகளுக்கும் சென்றதுடன் போராட்டத்திற்கான மற்றொரு வழிமுறையை முன்வைத்த இறுதிக் குரல்களும் அடங்கிப் போய் விட்டதாக சுதர்சன் குறிப்பிட்டிருக்கிறார். 

அது என்ன மற்றொரு வழிமுறை? ஆதனை யார் முன்வைத்தார்கள் என்று சுதர்சன் கூறுவாரா?  1986ம் ஆண்டு மார்கழி 13ம் திகதி புலிகள் தாக்குதல் தொடுக்கும் வரை போராட்டத்திற்கான மற்றொரு வழிமுறையை எந்த ஒரு ஈபிஆர்எல்எவ் நபரும் முன்வைக்கவில்லை. புலிகளின் தாக்குதலை தொடர்ந்து பலர் இயக்க நடவடிக்கைகளிலிருந்து விலகிக்கொண்டாhர்கள், வெளிநாடுகளுக்கு செல்ல வாய்ப்பிருந்தவர்கள் வெளிநாடுகளுக்கு சென்றார்கள், கல்வி கற்கவும் தொழில் செய்யவும் வாய்ப்பிருந்தவர்கள் அதனை தொடர்ந்தார்கள். பெரும்பான்மையானவர்கள் பார்வையாளர்களாக மௌனமாயிருந்தார்கள்.

இயக்கத்திலிருந்து விலகி கொண்டவர்கள் புலிகளின் அச்சுறுத்தலுக்கு பயந்து ஒதுங்கிக் கொண்டவர்கள் இருக்கிறார்கள்.  புலிகளின் அச்சுறுத்தல் இருப்பது தெரிந்தும் ஈபிஆர்எல்எவ் தலைவர்கள் நிதானமாக நடந்துகொள்ளவில்லை, புலிகளுக்கு தக்க பதிலடி கொடுக்கவில்லை என்ற காரணத்தினால் ஒதுங்கி கொண்டவர்கள் இருக்கிறார்கள், தமிழ் மக்களின் விடுதலைக்காக தம்மை அர்ப்பணித்து போராடியதுடன் எந்தக் குற்றமும் இழைக்காத தம்மை புலிகள் தாக்கியதை, சித்திரவதை செய்வதை, கொன்றொழித்ததை தமிழ் மக்கள் சும்மா பார்த்துக்கொண்டிருந்ததை அல்லது புலிகளுக்கு ஊக்கமளித்ததை கண்டு போராட்டத்தின் மீது  வெறுப்படைந்து ஒதுங்கி கொண்டவர்கள் இருக்கிறார்கள் ஆனால், உள்ளுரில் இருந்தாலும் வெளிநாடுகளுக்கு சென்றிருந்தாலும் இவ்வாறு விலகியிருந்த பலர், புலிகளின் அச்சுறுத்தலுக்கு முகங்கொடுத்து இந்திய இலங்கை ஒப்பந்தத்தை ஏற்று ஈபிஆர்எல்எவ் மீண்டும் செயற்பட முன்வந்தபோது திரும்பவும் ஈபிஆர்எல்எவ் இன் நடவடிக்கைகளுடன் தம்மை இணைத்துக்கொண்டவர்களே அதிகம். ஓன்று அவர்கள் ஈபிஆர்எல்எவ் இன் நடவடிக்கைகளுடன் நேரடியாக பங்கெடுத்துக்கொண்டிருக்கிறார்கள் அல்லது ஈபிஆர்எல்எவ் இன் நடவடிக்கைகளுக்கு ஆதரவு நல்குபவர்களாக, அந் நடவடிக்கைகளுக்கு உடன்பாடானவர்களாக இருந்திருக்கிறார்கள். இந்திய இராணுவம் நிலைகொண்டிருந்த காலத்தில் இடம்பெற்ற சம்பவங்கள் குறித்து விமர்சனங்களை முன்வைப்பவர்களாயிருக்கிறார்கள். இதற்கு புறம்பானவர்களை எமது கைகளின் விரல்களுக்குள் அடக்கிவிடலாம். 

ஈபிஆர்எல்எவ் மீது புலிகள் தாக்குதல் நடாத்தி 27 வருடங்கள் கடந்து விட்டன. தோழர் பத்மநாபா புலிகளால் படுகொலை செய்யப்பட்டு 23 வருடங்கள் கடந்துவிட்டன. 

இன்றைக்கும் உலக நாடுகள் பலவற்றிலும், தமிழ் மக்கள் அகதிகளாக வாழும் தமிழ் நாட்டிலும், இலங்கையில் பல இடங்களிலும் தோழர் பத்மநாபாவின் நினைவு தினம் ஸ்தாபன ரீதியாகவும் அதற்கு புறம்பாகவும் அனுஷ்டிக்கப்படுகிறதென்றால் அதற்கான காரணங்கள் குறித்து ஒரு கணம் சிந்திக்குமாறு கட்டுரையாளரையும், வாசிப்பவர்களையும் கேட்டுக்கொள்கிறேன். 

இலங்கையில் உருவான தேசிய விடுதலை இயக்கங்களுள் முதல் முதலாக கிராம மட்டங்களில் வெகுசன அமைப்புக்களை உருவாக்கிக்கொண்டது ஈழ மக்கள் புரட்சிகர விடுதலை முன்னணியே (நுPசுடுகு) ஆகும்.

கிராமிய அமைப்புக்கள், மாணவர் அமைப்புக்கள், பெண்கள் அமைப்புக்கள் என்று வடக்கிலும் கிழக்கிலும் மக்கள் எழுச்சியை தோற்றுவிப்பதற்கான அடிப்படைகளை நுPசுடுகு உருவாக்கிக் கொண்டது. ஒவ்வொரு அமைப்பிற்கும் உள்ளக வெளியகப் வெளியீடுகள், அரசியல் வகுப்புக்கள் நடத்தப்பட்டன. ஏன கட்டுரையாளர் குறிப்பிட்டிருந்தபடி இவற்றை என்ன நோக்கத்துடன் ஈபிஆர்எல்எவ் மேற்கொண்டதோ அதே நொக்தத்தை எய்துவதற்கான குறிக்கோளுடன் அந்த நடவடிக்கைகளில் ஈடுபட்ட தோழர்கள் பலர் இன்னும் எஞ்சியுள்ளனர். அத்தகைய குறிக்கோளை கொண்ட பல தோழர்கள் அவர்களின் பணிகளுக்கு பக்கபலமாயும் உள்ளனர். தோழர் பத்மநாபாவின் தியாகம் வீண்போகாது. 

கொல்லப்படுபவர்கள் எல்லோருமே துரோகிகள் எனவும் சமூகவிரோதிகள் எனவும் மக்களை நம்பச் செய்யும் பணியை புலிகள் வெற்றிகரமாக செய்து வந்தார்கள். அதே பாணியில் கட்டுரையாளர் தோழர் பத்மநாபாவை துரோகியாக்கி முடித்துள்ளார். பத்மநாபாவை கொலை செய்த துப்பாக்கிகளுக்கு பின்னால் இந்தியாவின் மறைகரம் இருப்பதாகவும் கட்டுரையாளர் சந்தேகம் வெளியிட்டிருக்கிறார். தோழர் பத்மநாபவின் வழி வந்த எவருக்கும் அந்த சந்தேகம் இல்லை. கொலையாளிகளும், அதன் பின்னணியில் இருந்தவர்களும் புலிகளே. 

 

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நண்பரே கட்டுரையில் பெரும்பகுதியோடு நீங்கள் முரண்படவில்லை போல தெரிகிறது. சில நுண்ணிய தகவல்களில் மட்டும் முரண்படுகிறீர்கள். இதை விட இந்திய இராணுவம் வந்த போது நடந்த சம்பவங்களைத் தோண்டிப்பார்த்தால் இலங்கையில் போர்க்குற்றம் புரிந்தவர்களில் தொன்மையானவர்களுள் வரதராசப் பெருமாளும் பிரேமச்சந்திரனும் அடங்குவர்.

இன்றும் உயிருடன் வாழும் இந்த இருவரும் இவர்களுக்கு இணையாக செயற்பட்டவர்களும் தண்டிக்கப் படவேண்டிய நிலையில் நீங்களோ விமர்சனத்துக்கு உரியது என்பதோடு நிறுத்திக்கொள்கிறீர்கள்.

புலிகள் செய்த கொலைகள் மக்கள் குலத்துக்கு எதிரானது தான். சித்திரவதை, அழிப்பு முகாம்கள், கொலைகள் போன்ற இதுவரை தமிழ்ப் பகுதிகளில் நடக்காதவைகளை எல்லம் அவர்கள் செய்திருக்கிறார்கள். அப்படித்தான் விடுதலை கிடைக்கும் என அவர்கள் நம்பி மிருகத்தனமாக மாறினார்கள். ஈ.பி.ஆர்.எல்.எப் இதை விடுதலையின் பேராலா செய்தார்கள் இந்திய ஆக்கிரமிப்பு இராணுவத்தின் பேரால் அல்லவா செய்தார்கள்.

ஒரு ஆக்கிரமிப்பு இராணுவத்தை விட குரூரமாக ஈபிஆர் எல் எப் இந்திய இராணுவத்தோடு சேர்ந்து அழிப்பு நடத்தியது. சந்திக்கு சந்தி சோதனைச் சாவடிகளைப் போட்டு மக்களை சந்தேகமனர்வர்களைப் பிடித்து சித்திரவதை செய்து கொன்றது. யாழ்ப்பாணம், சுன்னாக, மல்லாகம், வல்லைச் சந்தி, சிறுப்பிட்டி, மருதனாமடம், திருனெல்வேலி ஆகிய இடங்கள் சாதாரண மக்கள் அருகே கூட செல்ல முடியாத மரணக் கோட்டைகளாகத் திகழ்ந்தன.

நாபா இடதுசாரியாக இருந்து இதற்குப் போராடமுடியவில்லை என்றால் அதற்காக தற்கொலை செய்து செத்திருக்கலாம். இன்று நாபாவை இடதுசாரி என்றால் இடதுசாரிகள் தற்கொலை செய்துகொள்ளலாம்.

நாபாவைக் கொலை செய்தது புலிகள் தான். வெற்று முட்டைக்கோது போன்ற புலிகளின் தலைமை யாரும் பயன்படுத்திக்கொள்ளக் கூடிய நிலையிலேயே இருந்தது. கடைசிவரை பயன்படுத்திக்கொண்டது இந்திய அரசுமட்டும்தான் . அனுராதபுரக் கொலை, சிங்கள் மக்கள் மீதான தாக்குதல், ஆனையிறவுத் தாக்குதல், மாத்தையா கொலை, பத்மநாபா கொலை,ரஜீவ் கொலை, முள்ளிவாய்க்காலில் திரளான மக்கள் மீது புலிகள் நடத்திய தாக்குதல் போன்ற எல்லா முக்கிய நடவடிக்கைகளிலும் இந்திய அரசே பின்னணியில் செயல்பட்டது.

நாபாவின் ஆரம்பகால பங்களிப்பும் தியாகங்களும் நிராகரிக்கப்பட முடியாதவை அதே வேளை அவர் தண்டிக்கப்பட வேண்டிய போர்க்குற்றவாளி. அந்தப் போர்க்குற்றவாளியைத் தண்டிப்பதற்கு புலிகளுக்கோ அன்றி இந்திய அரசுக்கோ எந்த உரிமையிம் இல்லை.

நாபாவின் அஞ்சலி நிகழ்விகளுக்கு கூட்டம் சேர்வதால் அவர் செய்தவை நியாயம் என்கிறீர்கள். உலகம் முழுவதும் அதிகமாக கூட்டம் சேர்வது புலிகளின் நிகழ்வுகளுக்கே என்கிறார்கள். அப்போ புலிகள் உங்களை விட நியாயமானவர்களோ?

மக்கள் ஆய்வுப் பிரிவு இராணுவப் பிரிவு அதனோடு உறுப்பினர்கள் முரண்பட்டார்கள் என்றெல்லாம் கதைவிடாதீர்கள். அவர்களின் உளவு நடவடிக்கைகளை சம்ப்வங்களின் கோர்ப்பாகக் கூட என்னால் முன்வைக்க முடியும். அதற்கு தோழர் மணி மத்திய குழுவிலிருந்து நியமிக்கப்பட்டார் என்பது உண்மை ஆனால் அதனை ஜேம்சும் சுரேசும் தான் தலைமைதாங்கினார்கள்.

 

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தாயா வாத்தி இலங்கையரசின் கைதி அவரின் அறிக்கையை கணக்கில் எடுக்கின்ற மொக்கு கூட்டமாய் இருக்கிறியள்.

வாந்தி எடுப்பதுதான் கொண்ட கொள்கை என்றால் .....

கண்டதையும் விழுங்கவேண்டும்.

கெட்டதில்  இருந்து நல்லதை தரம்  பிரிப்பது ... அது மனிதர்களுக்கும் அறிவுள்ள சில விலங்கிட்கும் உகந்த வேலை.

கனடா தியாக்கியகுள் தின புகைப்படம் 

இந்த சன நெரிசளுக்குள்ளும் ...

 

அசௌகாரியம் பாராது உரையாற்றிய நண்பர்களுக்கு நன்றிகள் !

 

 

இந்த சன நெரிசளுக்குள்ளும் ...

 

அசௌகாரியம் பாராது உரையாற்றிய நண்பர்களுக்கு நன்றிகள் !

 

முடியல .....      

நான் எங்கே முண்ணுக்கு முரணாக எழுதினேன்?...நான் என்னத்தை சொல்ல வந்தனான் என்று கிளிப் பிள்ளைக்கு சொன்ன மாதிரியும் விளங்காத மாதிரி எழுதுகிறீர்கள்? எங்கே முரண்பட்டு எழுதி இருக்கேன் என காட்டுங்கள் பார்ப்போம்.

 

 

அவருக்கு கூட்டத்திற்கு போவதற்கான அழைப்பு எப்பவோ வந்திருக்கலாம்.விபரங்களை அறிவதற்காக,தனக்கு தெரியாததை தெரிந்து கொள்வதற்காக போட்டும் வாங்கி இருக்கலாம்ஆனால் அதில் என்ன தப்பு என்று தான் எனக்கு விளங்கவில்லை

 

 

 

 

நான் என்ன எழுதியிருக்கன் அதற்கு நீங்கள் என்ன பதில் எழுதியிருக்கிறீங்கள்...விளங்காதர்வர்கள் என்டால் சொல்லிப் புரிய வைக்கலாம் ஆனால் விளங்காத மாதிரி நடிக்கிறவர்களை ஒன்றும் செய்ய முடியாது.

 

 

 

என்னை விட இந்த கருத்துக்களை விபரமாக, முழுவதாக எழுதுபவர் ஒருவர் இருந்தால் நான் அவருக்கு தலை வணங்குகிறேன். நான் எழுதியிருப்பது புரியவில்லை?

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கனடா தியாக்கியகுள் தின புகைப்படம் 

கிழமைக் கணக்காக (குறைந்த பட்சம்)  யாழைப்படித்துவிட்டு போய் இவர்களுக்கு உரையாற்றுவதிலும் பார்க்க , அங்கு சென்று" யாழைப் போய் படியுங்கோடா மொக்கு கூட்டங்களே"  என்று சொல்லிவிட்டு தியேட்டர் ஒன்றுக்கு போயிருக்கலாமே. அதை விடுவம் அரச்சுன் என்ன கண்டுபிடித்தார் அங்கே? யாழ் மொக்கு கூட்டமா அல்லது அவர் யாழைப்படித்துவிட்டு சென்று உதையாற்றியதை கேட்க வந்தவர்கள் மொக்கு கூட்டமா?

Edited June 25, 201312 yr by மல்லையூரான்

கூட்டதிற்கு வரும் மக்கள் எண்ணிக்கையை வைத்து அதன் தரம் கணிப்பதில் என்றும் உடன்பாடில்லை .சிங்கங்கள் பத்து வாறது ஆயிரம் பண்டிகள் வருவதிலும் திறம் .

சிலரின் அலப்பறை தாங்கமுடியல ,நாங்கள் எழுதுவதும் அவருக்கு விளங்கல அவர் எழுதுவதும் எங்களுக்கு விளங்கல இப்படியே பந்தி பந்தியாக அவர் எழுதுவதை வாசிப்பதை விட்டுவிட்டேன் .

மிக ஆரோக்கியமாக எங்களையும் விமர்சியுங்கள் என்று அவர்கள் வைத்த கூட்டம் எல்லோருக்கும் ஒரு முன்னோடி .

நான் எழுதுவது விழங்காவிட்டல் போகுது. நீங்கள் அந்த சிங்க கூட்டத்திடமிருந்து திரும்பி வந்தது சந்தோசம். இரண்டே இந்தப் பாடு. நீங்கள் பத்து வந்த இடத்திற்கு போனவர் ஆச்சே.(அருமையான சந்திப்பு)

 

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கனடா தியாக்கியகுள் தின புகைப்படம் [/size]

 

மண்டையள் மட்டும் பெரிதாகக் தெரிகின்றது. இதுவே நாட்டில் நடந்திருந்தால் என்ன கதியாகியிருக்கும் !! நல்லகாலம் இப்படியான நிகழ்வுகள் புலம்பெயர்ந்த நாட்டில் நடக்கின்றது.

கூட்டதிற்கு வரும் மக்கள் எண்ணிக்கையை வைத்து அதன் தரம் கணிப்பதில் என்றும் உடன்பாடில்லை .சிங்கங்கள் பத்து வாறது ஆயிரம் பண்டிகள் வருவதிலும் திறம் .

சிலரின் அலப்பறை தாங்கமுடியல ,நாங்கள் எழுதுவதும் அவருக்கு விளங்கல அவர் எழுதுவதும் எங்களுக்கு விளங்கல இப்படியே பந்தி பந்தியாக அவர் எழுதுவதை வாசிப்பதை விட்டுவிட்டேன் .

மிக ஆரோக்கியமாக எங்களையும் விமர்சியுங்கள் என்று அவர்கள் வைத்த கூட்டம் எல்லோருக்கும் ஒரு முன்னோடி .

தாங்க முடியவில்லை ....... தாங்க முடியவில்லை.

இவங்களுக்கு இரக்கமே இல்லையா?

எங்களை பார்க்க இவர்களுக்கு பாவமாக தெரியவில்லையா?? 

 

 

மண்டையள் மட்டும் பெரிதாகக் தெரிகின்றது. இதுவே நாட்டில் நடந்திருந்தால் என்ன கதியாகியிருக்கும் !! நல்லகாலம் இப்படியான நிகழ்வுகள் புலம்பெயர்ந்த நாட்டில் நடக்கின்றது.

 

முகம் தெரியக்கூடியதாக படத்தை போட்டிருக்கலாம்....கனடாவில் வாழ்ந்து கொண்டு ஏன் பயப்படுவான்....யாதும் ஊரே யாவரும் பாரீர்.....என்ற கொள்கையில் ....இப்ப புலி இல்லை இருந்தும் ஏன் இந்த பயம்

 

வணக்கம் எல்லாருக்கும்! உதென்ன வயோதிபர்சங்க கூட்டமா? 

 

மொத்தம் பதினெட்டு பேர் இருக்கிறார்கள்...

ஒருவேளை இது 'பதினெட்டுபட்டி நாட்டாமைகள்' குழுக் கூட்டமோ? 

 

ஆத்மாகமாக அஞ்சலி செய்ய நாலுபேர்கள் இருந்தாலே பெரியவிடயம் .

கொத்து ரோட்டி கடை போட்டு காஞ்சிபுரம் கட்டிக் காட்டி அஞ்சலி செய்ய இது வியாபாரம் இல்லை .

சிறு பிள்ளை வேளாண்மை வீடு வந்து சேராது என்பது சான்றோர் வாக்கு  அதுதான் ஞானப்பழங்கள் கூடியிருக்கினம் .

 

புத்தன் உந்த படத்தை எடுத்தும் இணைத்ததும் புலம் பெயர்  புலனாய்வு  படை . பின்னால் இருந்து  அரைகுறையில் எடுத்து இணைத்திருக்கின்றார் .(பொட்டம்மான் உயிரோட தான் இருக்கின்றார் போல கிடக்கு)

 

 

 
 
மண்டையள் மட்டும் பெரிதாகக் தெரிகின்றது. இதுவே நாட்டில் நடந்திருந்தால் என்ன கதியாகியிருக்கும் !! நல்லகாலம் இப்படியான நிகழ்வுகள் புலம்பெயர்ந்த நாட்டில் நடக்கின்றது.

மண்டயன் குழு என்றால் என்ன, சிங்கம் பத்து என்றால் என்ன, இது நாடில் நடந்திருந்தால் தீர்ப்பு ஒன்றுதான். அது வெள்ளைவான். இந்தியா பணம் கொடுத்தாலும் இந்தியா போட்ட இரசாயனகுண்டால் இனி எல்லாம் புலம் பெயர் நிலத்தில் மட்டும்தான்.

புத்தன் உந்த படத்தை எடுத்தும் இணைத்ததும் புலம் பெயர்  புலனாய்வு  படை . பின்னால் இருந்து  அரைகுறையில் எடுத்து இணைத்திருக்கின்றார் .(பொட்டம்மான் உயிரோட தான் இருக்கின்றார் போல கிடக்கு)

 

அம்மான் சிங்கன்டாப்பா அதுசரி யார் அந்த பச்சை டிசேர்ட்டுடன் மேடையில் பேசுவது.....பெயர் தெரிந்தால் அறியதரவும் ..நண்பன்போலகிடக்கு

Edited June 25, 201312 yr by putthan

ஒருவரின் மரணத்திற்கு சந்தோசப்படுவது என்பது ஒரு மனநோய் என்பார்கள். ஆனால் நான் இன்றுவரைக்கும் பத்மநாபாவின் மரணத்தினை ஒட்டி மிகவும் சந்தோசப்பட்டுக் கொண்டு இருக்கின்றேன். ஒருவரின் சாவுக்கு பட்டாசு கொளுத்தி மகிழ்ந்தது இவரது சாவுக்குத்தான்.

 

பதின்ம வயதின் ஆரம்பகாலங்களில் இந்திய ஏவல் படைகளின் அட்டூளியங்களுக்குள் வாழ்ந்த என்னைப்போன்ற ஆயிரக்கணக்கானோருக்கு பத்மநாபா என்ற படுகொலையாளனின் மரணம் சந்தோசத்தினைத் தான் தந்து இருக்கும்.

 

அவர் ஆத்மா (என்று ஒன்று இருந்தால்) எக்காலத்திலும் சாந்தி அடையாது அந்தரித்துக் கொள்ளட்டும்!

ஒருவரின் மரணத்திற்கு சந்தோசப்படுவது என்பது ஒரு மனநோய் என்பார்கள். ஆனால் நான் இன்றுவரைக்கும் பத்மநாபாவின் மரணத்தினை ஒட்டி மிகவும் சந்தோசப்பட்டுக் கொண்டு இருக்கின்றேன். ஒருவரின் சாவுக்கு பட்டாசு கொளுத்தி மகிழ்ந்தது இவரது சாவுக்குத்தான்.

 

பதின்ம வயதின் ஆரம்பகாலங்களில் இந்திய ஏவல் படைகளின் அட்டூளியங்களுக்குள் வாழ்ந்த என்னைப்போன்ற ஆயிரக்கணக்கானோருக்கு பத்மநாபா என்ற படுகொலையாளனின் மரணம் சந்தோசத்தினைத் தான் தந்து இருக்கும்.

 

அவர் ஆத்மா (என்று ஒன்று இருந்தால்) எக்காலத்திலும் சாந்தி அடையாது அந்தரித்துக் கொள்ளட்டும்!

 

எங்கள் ஊரில் இவர்களின் அட்டகாசத்தை நேரில் பார்த்தவன்

ஒருவரின் மரணத்திற்கு சந்தோசப்படுவது என்பது ஒரு மனநோய் என்பார்கள். ஆனால் நான் இன்றுவரைக்கும் பத்மநாபாவின் மரணத்தினை ஒட்டி மிகவும் சந்தோசப்பட்டுக் கொண்டு இருக்கின்றேன். ஒருவரின் சாவுக்கு பட்டாசு கொளுத்தி மகிழ்ந்தது இவரது சாவுக்குத்தான்.

 

பதின்ம வயதின் ஆரம்பகாலங்களில் இந்திய ஏவல் படைகளின் அட்டூளியங்களுக்குள் வாழ்ந்த என்னைப்போன்ற ஆயிரக்கணக்கானோருக்கு பத்மநாபா என்ற படுகொலையாளனின் மரணம் சந்தோசத்தினைத் தான் தந்து இருக்கும்.

 

அவர் ஆத்மா (என்று ஒன்று இருந்தால்) எக்காலத்திலும் சாந்தி அடையாது அந்தரித்துக் கொள்ளட்டும்!

உண்மைதான் நிழலி ,இதே உங்கள் கருத்தை வைக்கும் பலரை சந்தித்திருக்கின்றேன்.கூட்டத்தில் கூட ஒருவர் அதை சொன்னார் (ஈ பி யால் கடத்தப்பட்டவர் ) .இதே நிலைமை அனைத்து இயக்க தலைமைகளுக்கும் பொருந்தும் .உமா இறந்ததற்கு சந்தோசப்பட்ட புளொட் தோழர்களை பார்த்திருக்கின்றேன்.

ஆனால் இவர்கள் எல்லோரையும் விட  பிரபாகரன் இறந்ததற்கு சந்தோசப்படவர்கள் தொகை அதிகம் என நினைக்கின்றேன்  அதுவும் அப்படி எதிரி கையில் அகப்பட்டு இறந்ததை பார்த்து சந்தோசப்பட்டவர்கள் மிக அதிகம் .

ஆத்மாகமாக அஞ்சலி செய்ய நாலுபேர்கள் இருந்தாலே பெரியவிடயம் .

கொத்து ரோட்டி கடை போட்டு காஞ்சிபுரம் கட்டிக் காட்டி அஞ்சலி செய்ய இது வியாபாரம் இல்லை .

 

 

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குடிக்க கப் வேறு...

 

இது எதற்கு அண்ணை தியாகம் செய்ய....

 

விளங்கப்படுத்தினால்

ஒன்றரை லட்சம் பேர் வரும் இடத்தில் அவை எதற்கு என்று தானாக விளங்கும்...

ஒருவரின் மரணத்திற்கு சந்தோசப்படுவது என்பது ஒரு மனநோய் என்பார்கள். ஆனால் நான் இன்றுவரைக்கும் பத்மநாபாவின் மரணத்தினை ஒட்டி மிகவும் சந்தோசப்பட்டுக் கொண்டு இருக்கின்றேன். ஒருவரின் சாவுக்கு பட்டாசு கொளுத்தி மகிழ்ந்தது இவரது சாவுக்குத்தான்.

 

பதின்ம வயதின் ஆரம்பகாலங்களில் இந்திய ஏவல் படைகளின் அட்டூளியங்களுக்குள் வாழ்ந்த என்னைப்போன்ற ஆயிரக்கணக்கானோருக்கு பத்மநாபா என்ற படுகொலையாளனின் மரணம் சந்தோசத்தினைத் தான் தந்து இருக்கும்.

 

அவர் ஆத்மா (என்று ஒன்று இருந்தால்) எக்காலத்திலும் சாந்தி அடையாது அந்தரித்துக் கொள்ளட்டும்!

உண்மைதான் இவர்கள் தமிழருக்கு செய்த கொடுமைகளை நானும் நேரில் பார்த்தவன் . இந்திய ராணுவ வருகை பல உத்தமர்களை இந்த உலகிற்கு காட்டியது. இல்லை என்றால் நாமும் ஏமாந்து இருப்போம் இவர்கள் நல்லவர்கள் என்று. நான் காறி  உமிழும் இறந்த  ஒட்டுகுழு தலைவர் என்றால் அது நாபா மட்டுமே. புலிகளை கொல்ல  வக்கில்லாமல் எமது இனத்தை கொடும் சித்திரவைகள் கொலைகள் பாலியல் வல்லுறவுகள் என்று அந்நியனுடன் சேர்ந்து தனது தோழர்கள் செய்ய ரசிச்ச படுபாவி. இவனுக்கு எல்லாம் எதுக்கு மக்கள் விடுதலை?

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உண்மைதான் நிழலி ,இதே உங்கள் கருத்தை வைக்கும் பலரை சந்தித்திருக்கின்றேன்.கூட்டத்தில் கூட ஒருவர் அதை சொன்னார் (ஈ பி யால் கடத்தப்பட்டவர் ) .இதே நிலைமை அனைத்து இயக்க தலைமைகளுக்கும் பொருந்தும் .உமா இறந்ததற்கு சந்தோசப்பட்ட புளொட் தோழர்களை பார்த்திருக்கின்றேன்.

ஆனால் இவர்கள் எல்லோரையும் விட  பிரபாகரன் இறந்ததற்கு சந்தோசப்படவர்கள் தொகை அதிகம் என நினைக்கின்றேன்  அதுவும் அப்படி எதிரி கையில் அகப்பட்டு இறந்ததை பார்த்து சந்தோசப்பட்டவர்கள் மிக அதிகம் .

மலை யுடன் மடுவை  சேர்த்து பார்க்கும் அர்யுன் அவர்களின் அறிவை மெச்சுகிறேன் உலகில் கோடிக்கணக்கான  தமிழர்களின் நெஞ்சில் குடி இருக்கும் தேசியத் தலைவர் எங்கே?  நாபா எங்கே? 

Edited June 25, 201312 yr by இணையவன்

 

மலை யுடன் மடுவை  சேர்த்து பார்க்கும் அர்யுன் அவர்களின் அறிவை மெச்சுகிறேன் உலகில் கோடிக்கணக்கான  தமிழர்களின் நெஞ்சில் குடி இருக்கும் தேசியத் தலைவர் எங்கே?  நாபா எங்கே? 

 

 

ஒருவன் வாழ்ந்ததன் பலன்

அவனுக்காக அழுபவர்களால்தான் நிச்சயிக்கப்படுகிறது

நான் அழுதவர்களை  கணக்கில் எடுக்கின்றேன்

அவர் சிரித்தவர்களை  கணக்கில் எடுக்கின்றார்

இங்கும் நீங்கள் குறிப்பிட்டது பேல மலைக்கும் மடுவுக்கும் உள்ள வித்தியாசம் தான்

அவரவர் சுயநல  நோக்கங்கள் பொது வாழ்வுக்கு ஒவ்வாதவை.

இரண்டையும் புரியாதவர்களிடம் மினக்கெட்டு நேரம் பொன்னானது தம்பி.

Edited June 25, 201312 yr by இணையவன்
மேற்கோள் தணிக்கை செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளது.

 

 

ALL INDIA CONGRESS COMMITTEE

DELHI

RAJIV GANDHI, M.P

PRESIDENT

I met Thiru K. Pathmanabna in Delhi just a few days before his tragic assassination. It is hardly believable that one so young, so bright, so full of life, with so much to contribute to his people, should no longer be with us. That our Government was unable to provide him protection is a matter of national shame. We extend our sincerest sympathies to his wife and the other members of his family.

Our Sri Lanka policy was designed to ensure the safety and security of the Tamils and the full realisation oy them of their human rights and the full exercise of their political rights within a united Sri Lanka and in all those parts of the island where the Tamil population is predominant. The Indo-Sri Lanka Agreement of 1987 opened the doors to this dream becoming a reality. Unfortunately, the doors have been banged shut upon us on account both of mistakes made by the Sri Lanka Government as well as the National Front Government in India.

Thiru Pathmanabha shared a birthday with my mother. Both fell martyrs to a great cause. I pay my tribute to his .memory.

 

NATWAR SINGH

 

A SOURCE OF INSPIRATION

V. Natwar Singh, former Minister of state , Government of India

The Late mr. K. Pathmanabha was a young dedicated and dynamic leader of the EPRLF. He was murdered in cold blood.

He had a bright future beforehim.He would have contributed much forresolving the ethnic poblem in Sri Lanka and bring peace to histroubled land.

His example will be a source ofinspiration to many who wish to put on end to the rule of the gun. Mr.Pathmanabha gave his lifeserving the cause he cherished.

 

 

MOHIT SEN

 

Remembering Comrade Pathmanabha

Mohit Sen, General Secretary, United Communist Party of India.

The Eelam People’s Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF) is an extraordinary organisation. It is the product and the vanguard of the Tamil people of Sri Lanka who have fought so valiantly for their identity and their rights. But it has always seen this struggle in the light and perspective of the broader battle of the progressive forces of Sri Lanka and the entire region. Indeed it is one of those national revolutionary organisations which had a firm historical and internationalist outlook without losing its attachment to its people and land.

Long before the current wave of reform and renewal of the ideology of Marxism-Lenin­ism in the direction of increasing universali-sation, the EPRLF based itself on an ideol­ogy that was similar if not identical. Yet these unassuming revolutionaries never ceased to seek to learn from those they regarded as somehow more learned.

The EPRLF demonstrated through its practice and if one may say, through its agony that it could continue the use of weapons for democratic administration. If they had to face a severe setback this was inspite of all that they were and all that they had done. After all, the victory of the national front in the general elections of 1989 was not of their choice or doing.

All this has been written because the martyr and hero and personal friend, Pathmanabha was the embodiment and indeed, the architect of all the virtue and strength of the organisation which he headed. And it is, therefore, not only the EPRLF which has lost so priceless a leader. The revolutionaries of Sri Lanka, India and the world have lost a great leader by his physical elimination. And so many, including the present writer,

have lost a gentle and dear companion. We shall be much lonelier without him.

I had heard of comrade Pathmanabha, some time before I met him. In particular, the late comrade M.Kalyana sundaram - not a person given to exaggeration-was highly appreciative of his steadiness, strength and humility. TRR, as the crusading editor of “Makkal Kural” and “News Today” is affectionately known, spoke with more than his usual gusto of his qualities.

And then I saw him in Madras. The whole experience has remained deeply etched in my memory. My two younger comrades, Dalit and Bhasker had arranged a meeting in 1986 in honour of Nelson Mandela at a place where many of the young militants of the EPRLF had gathered. It was a rainy day and when the meeting had begun the lights failed, so it was in the light of burning candles that I saw this bearded young leader listening intently amidst those younger cadres. After that I had many meetings with him and his colleagues. We discussed so much, not only about Sri Lanka and India but about the entire world revolutionary process. It was an invigorating experience giving flesh and blood to the concept of revolutionary internationalism.

Comrade Pathmanabha was totally non-sectarian and realistic. He knew what the strength of different parties and forces in India were. As the leader of a party which was playing the crucial role not just in the North Eastern provinces of Sri Lanka and the entire island but in cementing the relations between India and his country and people, he knew with whom he had to maintain close relations. This also applied to the organised left forces in India.

Yet he understood what international support meant to our party, the United Communist Party of India. when it was in the process of formation. We shall never forget the solidarity the EPRLF displayed at that time. Regardless of what might be the reactions of the established communist parties, whose support it cherished and was grateful for, Comrade Pathmanabha sent not just greeting but a high power delegation. In a sense, we had done nothing to deserve such an expression of fraternity beyond being their brothers and fellow fighters. The EPRLF set an example from which much mightier and older revolutionary parties would and have begun to draw appropriate lessons. Tactical considerations degenerate into opportunism when principles and limits are abandoned. Comrade Padmanabha as the leader of the EPRLF, did not do that. He helped the UCPI greatly but suffered no loss himself and for the EPRLF since the struggle they waged, could not be by passed by anybody. He proved that principle and nobility pays.

After that there were many meetings with comrade Pathmanabha. The later ones were in days of great difficulty for all of us who refused to reconcile with the counter revolutionary destabilisers unlike some much stronger constituents of the left. For the EPRLF, in particular, extrordinary skill was received to try to salvage as much as possible and for as long as possible the gains that had been made, what skill and courage they displayed. Despite them the process of deterioration could not be stopped. But there is a reality of historical and people’s memory which resumes itself at an appropriate time. Principled and realistic effort is never wasted.

It was at this time that on the 12th of this June we met for the last time. Comrade Pathmanabha came later than scheduled, much later an obvious necessity of security as I later realised. Other friends were also there. The main theme of the Discussion.

was how to alert public opinion in India about the danger to the security of the entire region that was building up because of the LTTE’s fascist like drive for power and the rampant chauvinism of the Sinhala Government. What the Rajiv Gandhi - Jaya wardhana accord had managed to forestall was now in danger of staging a comeback. The EPRLF leader was well aware of the dubious role being played by the DMK Government but since it was a part of the ruling National Front, circumspection and tact were obviously in need in relations with it. Among others, Sri. P.N. Haksar and Sri. Nikhil Chakravarthy were among those who had helped by advice and in other ways. The non partisan and statesmanlike approach of Sri. Rajiv Gandhi was highly appreciated.

All this serious talk did not prevent the eruption of heavy laughter when we both warned our young comrade Elangovan about the “perils’ which awaited him in Norway where he was proceeding to attend a summer camp. We both told him to come back soon.

Comrade Pathmanabha said that we would again soon in Madras where the Central Committee of the UCPI was to have its session from June 26 to 28. He wanted to meet all our comrades. I told him that it would be an inspiration and honour for us.

And as he rose to bid good by and we shook hands, we asked him to be careful. He smiled and nodded in assent. And then he went to his death. It is a tragedy and disgrace for all of us that we failed to protect so good and precious a friend.

The EPRLF is not alone in its great sorrow and immense loss. We of the UCPI, in particular are utterly stricken and would take long to fully recover. Yet that comrade Pathmanabha built will endure and will be with us on the day of triumph whenever that inevitable day comes. Nothing and nobody will be forgotten then and in whatever long stretch of time and space we have to traverse to reach there.

 

 

HARKISHAN SING SURJEET

 

He was aware of imperialistic Intrigues

HARKISHAN SING SURJEET

Member Political Bureau, Communist Party Of India (Marxist)

I had the opportunity to get acquainted with late K.Pathmanabha, the General Secretary of the EPRLF in the course of political discussion with many leaders of the Tamil groups of Sri Lanka in connection with the complex problems of Sri Lanka. I was impressed by Pathmanabha’s sincerity, seriousness and dedication to the cause of democracy. He had sober attitude to the difficult problems faced by the Sri Lankan Tamils in their tortuous struggle for protecting their democratic rights and for safeguarding of their ethnic identity.

K. Pathmanabha had a balanced approach to these problems. He had clear perception that the problems of the Tamils would be solved only in cooperation with the Left and democratic forces of Sri Lanka. He did his best to fight narrow chauvinist tendencies within the movement. He realised the importance of friendship with India. He was constantly aware of the dangers of imperialist intrigues. All these perceptions helped the EPRLF and many other Tamil groups to take firm political positions in favour of the India - Sri Lanka Agreement. He upheld the Accord as the solution to the Sri Lankan problem in a manner providing for the safeguarding of the interests of the Tamil people while at the same time ensuring the unity and integrity of Sri Lanka.

The setting up of the North East Provincial Council was a measure which came about due to the leadership provided by Pathmanabha and the EPRLF. Unfortunately the refusal by the Sri Lankan government to devolve powers sabotaged its functioning.

K.Pathmanabha and the EPRLF under his leadership strived their best to get the accord implemented even in the midst of most vicious attacks on it from reactionary Sinhalese and Tamil chauvinist forces. He tried till the end to unite all sections of the Tamils to struggle for their just cause. For this reason K.Padmanabha and some of his colleagues became the victims of the bullets of the cowardly assassins at Madras.

The tragic death of this devoted fighter for a just cause is undoubtedly a great loss to the democratic and progressive forces in Sri Lanka. Let me express the hope that progressive sections of the Tamil youth would draw inspiration from the ideals and concepts for which K.Pathmanabha laid down his life.

 

 

K.P. SILVA

 

His Death has Created Void in

Sri Lankan Politics

K.P.Silva, General Secretary, Communist Party of Sri Lanka.

The tragic death of K.Pathmanabha , Secretary General of the Eelam People’s revolutionary Liberation Front has created a void in Sri Lankan politics that is hard to be filled.

Pathmanabha was one of the most prominent leaders of the new generation of Tamil politicians who came to the fore with the intensification of the struggle of the Tamil people for their national rights. His dedication and sincerity to the cause of the Tamil people are widely acknowledged. He died a martyr to that cause which he expoused all his adult life.

Under the influence of Marxist thought Pathmanabha led the EPRLF to make a realistic re-appraisal of the course of the struggle of the Sri Lankan Tamil people for self determination and social emanicipation. He concluded that the Sri Lankan Tamil people would be best served by exercising their right of self determination by seeking autonomy for the Tamil nationality within a united Sri Lanka and by cooperating with the progressive sections of the Sinhala people for its realisation.

Contacts between the CPSL and EPRLF grew under Padmanabha’s stewardship of the EPRLF. Despite differences on several issues we had fruitful cooperation with the EPRLF on a number of matters of national and regional importance.

Padmanabha led the EPRLF to support the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord, surrender its weapons and enter the democratic process, when elections were held for the North-East Provincial Council Pathmanabha was at helm of of an alliance of Tamil Political parties which boldly participated in the elections and thereby helped to begin the devolutionary process. He was also behind the fight of the EPRLF led administration of the North East Provincial Council for proper and effectful devolution.

It was the Government’s reluctance to devolve necessary powers to the North-East Provincial Council and its act of undermining the authority of the Council in concert with the LTTE that further complicated the efforts to find a political solution to the remaining problems of the Tamil Nationality. The present war as well as the brutal assassination of Pathmanabha were the results of this destructive policy of the Government.

Pathmanabha’s contribution to the fight for the national rights of the Tamil people, towards the restoration of national unity and finding a political solution to the demands of the Tamil nationality will always be remembered.

 

 

M. FAROOQI

 

One of the Noblest sons of the Tamil People

M.Farooqi, Secretary, National Council, Communist Party of India

The brutal assasination of Comrade. K.Pathmanabha, General Secretary of EPRLF by a killer gang believed to be belonging to LTTE in Madras was a heavy personal loss for me. I knew him for some time. I had met him only a couple of days before he was assassinated. I have a very good impression of him. He was one of the noblest sons of the Tamil people of Sri Lanka and a great champion and fighter of their legitimate rights. Comrade Pathmanabha’s dedication for the just cause of Sri Lanka’s Tamil people will always be remembered by his own people as well as the Indian people.

 

 

HECTOR ABHAYAVARDHANA

 

Killing was the hight of Anty - Sociality

Hector Abhayavardhana, Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP)

It is no exaggeration to characterise the assassination in Madras on 19 June 1990 of K.Pathmanbha. Secretary-General of the EPRLF, and 14 of his principal associates as an act of supreme folly. There is little doubt today that this act was the work of the LTTE. A recent newspaper report referred to the arrest of a number of men in Tamilnadu, some of whom were alleged to be members of the LTTE, on suspicion of involvement in this assasination.

Pathmanbha did not figure prominently in the events that constituted the recent history of the struggle of the Tamil people for their national rights in Sri Lanka. He chose not to occupy a place too close to the footlights. There were others to figure in the more prominent parts and assume the necessary responsibility. But Pathmanbha was the leader of his party and at the time of his assassination he was in council with members of his executive committee assembled at his residence. The assassins literally invaded a private residence and ruthlessly shot down everybody within reach.

Pathmanabha was not. perhaps, as popular in Tamilnadu as Prabhakaran, his antagonist. And even if Prabhakaran’s LTTE appeared to enjoy the patronage of the Tamilnadu Chief Minister, this did not provide him with let or licence to invade private residences and kill people inside them with impunity. There were signs for quite some time that the people of Tamilnadu generally were beginning to be impatient with the boorish manners and open commission of crimes in both public and private places by heavily armed LTTE gangs. But the murder of Pathmanbha and his 14 associates was the highest of anti sociality: if tolerated, it would make social existence itself impossible.

Speaking for myself, I did not have the privilege of knowing Pathmanbha personally, though I did know some of the members of his party. I am certain, however, that he wouldnot look for any tears to be shed on his behalf. What, perhaps, would most concern him is the sorry pass at which social existence has arrived in Sri Lanka. For Pathmanabha and his 14 comrades were not the only victims of savagery that passes as politics in our country in recent times. The LTTE appears to believe that the killing of their most prominent political opponents constitutes the shortest cut to power. The murder of TULF leaders Amirthalingam and Yogeswaran and EPRLF MP Sam Thambimuthu and his wife may never have taken place for concern that the Government of Sri Lanka and its police force have displayed in regard to them. And though public admission of responsibility for many of these murders has been made by the LTTE, that has not deterred the President of Sri Lanka from consorting with LTTE leaders as his state guests and negotiating with them as harbingers of peace.

 

 

VASUDEVA NANAYAKKARA

 

History alone Would Peace him in high Position

VASUDEVA NANAYAKKARA, M.P., LEADER, NAVA SAMA SAMAJA PARTY (NSSP)

Comrade Pathmanbha is no more. He along with 13 other EPRLF comrades, was gunned down recently in Madras by the LTTE, which knows no end of killing of its opponents, there by exposing its own political nakedness and losing rather than gaining popular support. Comrade Nabha led the EPRLF as its Secretary - General from its inception. He will always by remembered by the progressive forces for leading the EPRLF along anticapitalist and anti - imperialist lines as the wayout for the Tamil-speaking people.

When what was originally the EPLF, before long, metamorphoses into the EPRLF, that in itself provided a pointer as to the progressive nature of the path the organisation was beginning to tread. The EPRLF started working patiently to mobilise the people, particularly all downtrodden layers, the peasants, the tody workers and all working people and thereby inter-twined the national liberation struggle with working class struggles. This alone speakes well of the maturing perspectives of Comrade Pathmanbha who eschewed parochialism and identified the EPRLF with the problems faced by the working class and peasant masses in the South.

We of the NSSP who have been unswervingly in the forefront of the fight for self-determination of the Tamil speaking people, and complete equality for them, have naturally defended the aspirations which Comrade Pathmanbha sought to achieve for the Tamil speaking people. However, that has in no way deterred us from criticising the EPRLF whenever it was, and is, necessary to do so. Comrade Nabha himself cautioned the rank and file of his organisation way back in the mid - 1980s to “keep correcting themselves through self- criticism, love the people and win over their affection without which it would not be possible to mobilise the masses”. The best tribute one can pay Comrade Pathmanbha is to live up to his expectations always. Under Comrade Nabha’s guidance, the EPRLF strove very hard to get adequate powers for the North - East Provincial Council which could have obviated their desire for the unnecessary dependence on the IPKF. The reactionary UNP Govt’s refusal to devolve due powers in good season led to a situation where Comrade Nabha who brought the EPRLF into mainstream politics had to leave the country for want of security. So the Premadasa Govt. is largely responsible for the murder of Comrade Nabha, in that it is no secret that the Govt. connived with the LTTE at all stages of the events that finally led up to the murder of Comrades Pathmanbha. Yogasankari and others.

The criminals will be indicated by history and history alone would place Comrade

Nabha in the high position he verily deserves.

The NSSP pays homage to Comrade Nabha’s memory.

 

P.N. HAKSAR

 

Crusader of Interracial Unity

P.N. Haksar, 4/9, Shanti Niketan, New Delhi -110 021.

I have visited Sri Lanka only once in my life. That single visit generated within me conflicting emotions. I was enchanted by the beauty of the island and the grace of its people. At the same time I returned with a sense of tragedy brooding over the island that the exquisitely fair and beautiful island of Sri Lanka should be so unnecessarily full of ethnic conflict. I simply could not understand why the Sinhala and Tamil could not live together work together and share together the joys and sorrows of living. I was horrified to find that a totally false racial ideology was being built up to permanently divide “Aryan Sinhala from the Dravidian Tamils” and the division was sought to be reinforced by alleged divide between the Hindus and the Buddhists.

The brooding sense of tragedy to which I have referred takes on a sharper edge when I recall the face of 39 year old Shri K. Pathmanabha whose life has been so cruelly extinguished by bullet. On the few occasions that I met him in Delhi, I was deeply moved by Shri. Pathmanabha’s warmth and humanity. Despite all odds, he continued to believe that Sri Lankans and Tamils could work together and that each could live with a dignity in that island.

Pathmanabaha’s crucifixion would, I devoutly hope, make those in power in Sri Lanka think once again about the need of reconciliation rather than continue stoking of conflicts by inciting Sinhalese, who constitute the majority against small minority of Tamils who should be able to live in peace and tranquility without loss of their identity. I believe that Shri Pathmnanabha continued to have faith in that sort of a vision. I should like to pay my homage to his life and work.

 

 

G.G. PONNAMBALAM

 

Physically Eliminated but

Politically very much alive

G.G.Ponnambalam (Jr.), General Secretary, All Ceylon Tamil Congress.

I have not had the occasion to meet the late Mr. K.Pathmanabha personally nor to speak to him. Therefore, this appreciation of Mr. Pathmanabha is. for that reason, limited.

Mr. Pathmanabha was the leader of the Eelam People’s Revolutionary Liberation Front, a recognised political party of this country, which is fighting for the rights of the Tamil speaking people. Even though politically we might have our strong differences of opinion with the party which Mr.Pathmanabha was a leader. We say that no party can claim, even for a moment, to be the sole representatives of the Tamils. We do not subscribe to Divine Right to Rule Theory.

We, the refore, appreciate all the good efforts made by Mr. Pathmanabha and his party for the liberation of the Tamils from oppression.

Any party which has entered the democratic process has a right to voice its opinion, and nobody has the right to silence that opinion with a gun. Anybody who chooses the gun to silence political opinion or opposition only proclaims to the World his own lamentable inadequacy and bankruptcy to eliminate his opponent politically. To this extent, therefore, it could be said that though Mr. Pathmanabha has been eliminated physically, politically he is very much alive.

 

 

A. RAGHAVAN

 

A Patriot Moulded in Anti-Imperialism

A. Raghavan, Chief of Delhi Bureau, BLITZ

It was shocking that he died so young. But what elevated my spirit when I read the news was a surge of memory that so many social reformers and revolutionaries died so young.

I had the privilege of meeting Comrade Pathmanabha a couple of times in our office. His colleagues used to communicate to us what was topical about the Eelam struggle. Nabha, a man of few words. spoke seldom, only when he must to stress a point. As a journalist I had noticed the same taciturnity among some of those engaged in the Telengana armed struggle.

As a student he took the same route as some of the radical Indian leaders with whom I am familiar. To London for study and then back to the barrack, not to any berth, generally longed for by the middle classes.

Tamil Eelam was very dear to Comrade Pathmanabha but I found in him not a trace of pan-Tamil racialism. Nor was he an India baiter as some other Eelam leaders have been. As a patriot moulded in anti-imperialism, he could visualise and fight for a Tamil setup in a larger framework. On this he differed from many of his contemporaries. I imagine that it was for this crucial difference of approach towards a Tamil homeland Nabha had to die at the hands of chauvinists of both Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu. Even a single meeting with him will convince anybody that Pathmanabha, who headed a fighting organisation like the EPRLF, was very modest in his personal behaviour and extremely unassuming. So it was no surprise to me that when the North-Eastern provincial council was formed he declined the offer of its chief ministership.

I am convinced that the Tamils fighting for a place under the sun in Sri Lanka will finally accept Comrade Pathmanabha’s perspective. In that event his martyrdom may not have gone in vain.

 

 

Professor S.D. MUNI

 

FIGHTER FOR A CAUSE

S.D.Muni, Professor, South Asia Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

It was a hot, sultry evening in June. When I answered the door bell, I saw Ketheeswaran and Shanthan of the EPRLF standing at the threshold. Behind them was a tall, well built young man whose face reflected self-confidence, mixed with a deep-down concern. Yes, he was Comrade Pathmanabha or comrade. Nabha, as he was affectionately called by his friends and associates the leader and builder of EPRLF. I took a few seconds to recognise him because he had shaved off his beard that used to give him a robust revolutionary look. Despite his decision to shave-off his beard, clearly an attempt to conceal his identity, he was more than casual in his sense of personal security. This became evident when he was assassinated in Madras only three days after this brief meeting I had with him in my house.

Why was the LTTE gunning for him? The clash was certainly more than that of personality or power ambitions. It centered mainly on two points related to the approach towards the Tamil question and its resolution in the Sri Lankan context. One was regarding the Lilt’s insistence on a political order that allowed no room for dissent or pluralism. This was not acceptable to comrade. Nabha and his EPRLF. For they stood for social justice and equality for Tamil community in relation to the Sinhalese, on the one hand, and to the deprived sections within the Tamil society which had always been hierarchical ridden with caste and status differentiation.

While both LTTE and the EPRLF agreed to on the necessity of armed struggle for liberating the Tamils and undoing their discrimination in the hands of Sinhala chauvinism, they had divergent perspectives on the organisation of Tamil polity and society. The LTTE had no respect for democratic order and, therefore, did not hesitate in taking recourse to arms in silencing any dissent against their pursuit for hegemony. The EPRLF looked for a just, plural and democratic socio-political order for the Tamils. This explains why comrade. Nabha though reluctantly, was willing to work with the LTTE within the framework of a democratic structure. Not only was the LTTE invited to contest provincial council elections, but even later, the EPRLF was willing to accomodate the LTTE representatives into the North-East Provincial Council, so as to promote the overall cause of the Tamils.

A critical difference of opinion between comrade. Nabha and his EPRLF, on one hand, and the LTTE, on the other, lay in their respective approaches towards India in securing help for resolving the Tamil issue. The LTTE sought to use India in a manner that was to wider Tamil interests, as well as India’s own security concerns. Its primary motive was the pursuit for absolute hegemony. That is why the LTTE did not want to give the India-Sri Lanka Agreement of 1987 a chance and even went to the extent of taking to arms against the IPKF. The LTTE also did not hesitate to join hands with the Sri Lankan Government purely for technical reasons of pushing out the IPKF and humiliating India as a consequence. The LTTE no doubt achieved its objective, but only at the cost of larger Tamil interests, as the recent developments in Sri Lanka clearly reveal. comrade. Nabha, on the other hand, followed a far more realistic and mature approach. He too had been trained abroad and exposed to various internationalist perspectives. But he realised that it was in India alone that the Tamils of Sri Lanka could find a committed well-wisher. In addition, his own anti-Imperialist outlook converged with that of India’s own anti-Imperialist credentials. That is why comrade. Nabha accepted the Indo-Sri Lanka Agreement of July 1987, not withstanding his reservations on some of its key aspects and also notwithstanding his understanding that the Colombo regime could not be trusted. His commitment to India’s role in the search for a long-lasting solution to Tamil question in Sri

Lanka was so deep that he willingly suffered the humiliation of having to leave his soil and live in exile as a refugee in India .

It is indeed unfortunate that the political change in India in 1989 allowed the decision- makers in Delhi to ignore the vitality and significance of the alliance forged by comradc. Nabha with India. It is a sad reflection on India’s political insensitivity that comrade. Nabha was brutaly killed on Indian soil and in a State ruled by Tamils.

The on-going breakdown of all civilisational norms in the North and East of Sri Lanka arising out of the LTTE- Clombo war, should now lead Delhi and Colombo of recognising the need for a balanced and far-sighted approach adopted by comrade. Nabha and his EPRLF New Delhi must start according dignity and respect to the EPRLF cadres staying in India India must also impress upon Colombo the need to take the help of the saner forces amongs the Sri Lankan Tamils, such as the EPRLF, no in its so-called drive for eliminating the LTTE but for impressing moderation on the LTTE and for finding a respectable, just and viable solution to the Tamil question. This would be the best tribute that can be paid to comrade. Nabha who lived, struggled and eventually sacrificed his life for the rights and respect of the Tamils, particularly the deprived and down-trodden among them.

 

 

SUMIT CHAKRAVARTHY

 

THE HUMAN TOUCH

Sumit Chakravarthy, Editor, Mainstream.

I had returned home quite late that night when the telephone rang. Ketheswaran was at the other end. He spoke in his deep sorrow voice trying to conceal his emotions to the best of his ability. “Have you heard the terrible news? Comrade Pathmanabha and several of our comrades have been gunned down and killed in Madras around 7PM this evening.” And then he narrated the incident as he had come to learn from his colleagues in the Eelam People’s Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF) in Madras.

One could hardly believe him. It was incredable that ‘Nabha’ as K.Pathmanabha - the EPRLF Secretary - General- was known to his close friends, and several of his party men had been butchered in the city of Madras, on Indian soil. Only the other day he was at my place in New Delhi with Khetes and Premachandran, the EPRLF MP who has now succeeded Nabha in the Party. I had offered him Bengali sweets and he ate with relish. The same evening I had taken them out for dinner and we exchanged views on so many developments - from the upsurge of democracy in Eastern Europe, Nepal and Burma to the far-reaching changes in USSR, from the dismal scenario in Sri Lanka to the unfolding events in this country, and of course the frightening prospects of yet another Indo-Pak war.

Nabha spoke little. But he was an intent observer and listener. He had charming face and used to sport a beard that he had shaved off the last time I met him. What was most striking was his magnetic personality.

He has always inspired confidence. And above all, his sincerity of purpose was beyond question.

A mass leader par excellence his live-wire contacts with his people, especially in the eastern part of Sri Lanka (in Trincomalee in particular), endowed him with an extraordinary popularity that stemmed not from the barrel of the gun but dedicated service to the public.

Whenever he was in New Delhi he would make it a point to meet all his friends and acquaintances, young and old. I was privileged to be among them. A man of few words Nabha expressed himself through the warmth of his embrace. It came as a deep shock to all of us that, Nabha, who was married only a year ago, should have his promising life cut short so tragically in the city of Madras from where his wife hailed. Nabha was much more than a Sri Lankan Tamil militant leader. It has the breath of his vision that endeared him to different persons who came in touch with him here. He was always advocated close ties with progressive Sinhales while fighting for the legitimate rights of the Sri Lankan Tamils. At the same time he desired intimate relations with democratic forces in India. He was the finest embodiment of nationalism imbued with the spirit of internationalism in the highest humanist tradition.

We shall forever Miss. Nabha and always cherish his memory. His tragic end should spur us all to exert our maximum and call a halt to the bitter fratricidal bloodshed in Sri Lanka.

 

 

The Political Department, PFLP

 

Comrade Nabha is the Soul of Eelam People

The Political Department, PFLP

Dear Comrades,

Through this small message, we in P.F.L.P. would like to mention few facts about comrade Nabha. So many people had written about the freedom fighters. Today we will narrate about something special and the special in our opinion is that he contributed something to his people’s struggle against imperialisim and world reactionary forces. So, we request the comrades in E.P.R.L.F. to forgive us because the words will never satisfy the soul of comrade Nabha.

Today on his 39th birthday anniversary we must note that comrade Nabha since his childhood had thought about his people’s right, he faced the sufferings with his people from the reactionary forces and the Government at that time. So it was always in his mind and life, how to get freedom for his people. The truly real solution to the Tamil question was a total revolution and this should be through forming a new party i.e., the EPRLF (at the organisers conference in 1981 Comrade Nabha was elected its Secretary - General). As an immediate priority he organised the frontal organisations of EPRLF in particular the Rural Workers and peasants front and the Eelam women’s Front etc. And we would also note that comrade Nabha has built up very well the military wing within the EPRLF and he was in high contact and good man of armed struggle and at the same time a man of peace.

Dear Readers,

The above mentioned few words of facts are very less compared to his great work and struggle for the party and the people of Eelam directly. This will indicate why the reactionary forces will send the dirty hands to massacre comrade Nabha and his comrades. But we in PFLP believe that comrade Nabha is the soul of Eelam people, and Eelam will get hundreds and thousands of Nabhas to lead and direct their struggle till they get their freedom and victory.

Once again we, the Palestenian people and the PFLP wish the Eelam people and EPRLF victory and victory.

 

 

M.H.M. ASHRAFF

 

A DYNAMIC PERSONALITY

M.H.M. ASHRAFF. M.P., Leader, Sri Lanka Muslim Congress

Although I knew Comrade Padmanabha only for a brief time, he has left behind in my mind pleasant memories and deep rooted positive impressions. By all standards he was a gentleman par excellence. Within a militant out-fit lay his melting heart for human sufferings. The normal qualities of obstinacy, hardihood, intolerance etc. that are synonymous with an average militant were alien to him. Whilst fighting for the liberation of the oppressed Tamil community, he was revolting against those who were working towards the birth of the ugly tail chauvinism in order to suppress the defenceless Tamil speaking Muslims who lived in the Northern and Eastern Provinces of Sri Lanka. He not only believed in the equality between two individuals; but also in the collective political equality between the Tamil and the Muslim communities. He firmly believed in recognizing and respecting the distinct and separate political identity of the Muslims. He realized the need to workout an early solution to the ethnic question which would be acceptable to the Tamils and the Muslims. He was also conscious of the dangers of allowing the Sinhala chauvinists to take advantage of the difference between the Tamils and Muslims in their effort to deny to both these communities their reasonable share in the political affairs of Sri Lanka. His demise is a great loss to the suffering Muslim community. The respect that the Tamil community could pay to Comrade Padmanabha is to strive towards the realization of his ideals. On behalf of the Muslim community, I take this opportunity to salute his commitment and cause.

 

S.H. VANKATRAMANI

 

Bad Coins Drive the Good out of Circulation

S.H. Venkatramani, Sr. Correspondent.

Comrade. K.Pathmanabha will go down in journalistic files as the deceased Secretary General of the Eelam People’s Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF). The media is used to scratching at the surface. After all, “Medium” is the message.

But Mr.Paadmanabha - Comrade Nabha to EPRLF cadres, Sri Lankan Tamils, and countless admirers around the world was more than just a leader of a Sri Lankan Tamil militant group. In an age when expediency is increasingly becoming the guiding principle in politics, here was a rare bird committed to certain principles and a definite political ideology. He was firmly moored to a leftist political philosophy and wedded to the ideas of equity and distributive justice.

Unlike the leaders of other Tamil militant groups, Comrade Nabha was not at all motivated by a desperate desire to carve out a pocket burrough for himself. True, his EPRLF also initially positioned itself as a group fighting for Eelam. But Eelam, for Mr. Pathmanabha, was not a geographical area to be physically liberated from the clutches of Sri Lankan soldiers. It was a revolutionary political philosophy which motivated him. And he always saw Eelam in the geo -political context of the Indian subcontinent, unlike other Tamil militant leaders who couldn’t see beyond the nozzles of their revolvers.

Most Tamil militants didn’t know, and even now don’t know to make the transition from the militancy to politics. But here was the leader of a militant group who was first and foremost a political ideologue, and who took to militancy as means to subserve his political ideology.

In most political parties themselves, not to speak of militant and guerilla groups, the ideological fervour gets diluted down the line. This doesn’t happen with the EPRLF. comrade. Nabha was able to keep the group knit by a shared commitment to a common political ideology. And for all that, he was unassuming and soft spoken.

There was perhaps an element of inevitability about his falling a victim to the assassin’s bullets. In politics, as in economics, Gresham’s law holds: bad coins drive the good out of circulation. And comrade. Nabha was sterling material.

 

 

Dr. VICKRAMABAHU KARUNARATNA

 

LTTE EXPLODES ITS OWN CLAIM

Dr. Vickremabahu Karunaratne, General Secretary, Nava Sama Samaja Party.

The brutal murder of EPRLF Secretary General K. Pathmanabha, Jaffna District M.P., V.K. Yogasankari, North-East Provincial Council Finance Minister, Kirupakaran and other leaders of the EPRLF by the LTTE exposes the nature of the LTTE regime in the North-East. It further explodes the claim of the Tigers that they are the sole representatives of the Tamil speaking people. If so, why on earth do they carry out brutal annihilation of all those politicians who are opposed to them? They want to become the sole representatives of the Tamils in Sri Lanka not by consent, but by ruthless repression of all other viewpoint, in particular by murdering Left and socialist Tamil leaders like A.K. Annamalai, Vijayananthan etc.

Tigers have created a new oppressive society where, they have become the Brahmin ruling caste. Those who do not submit passively to their dictatorship are eliminated ruthlessly as ‘parayas’ who disobey the lords. It is the Premadasa regime which helped them to establish total hegemony in the Tamil - speaking areas, with Tamil leaders such as Amirthalingam and Yogeswaran being murdered almost at the doorstep of the Presidential palace. Premadasa wanted to make use of the LTTE to stabilise his reactionary regime.

Now these two reactionary regimes have started a war, with all the untold hard ship and misery it inflicts on the Tamil speaking people in particular and on all working people in general, with the intention of perpetuating their powers separately.

The only way out of this endless misery is to overthrow these reactionary regimes and to establish a revolutionary Left Government capable of delivering democracy, equality and the right of self-determination to all nationalities.

Meanwhile, the present senseless war could well have been avoided if the Premadasa Government had taken meaningful steps to devolve powers on the North-East Provincial Government in good time.

 

 

Professor PETER SCHALK

 

His Path is a way for Peace in Sri Lanka

Professor Peter Schalk

Uppsala University, Sweden

The Tamil liberation struggle is like so many other liberation struggles of suppressed people in history and all over the world seemingly deemed to pass through a period of moral corruption brutalisation and perfidy. During such a period it is very difficult to reinforce the ideals of humanity and of the original political ideas. Comrade Pathmanabha was a revolutionary who had learned the techniques and tactics of the armed liberation struggle in the Middle East and who also applied them without hesitation in Lanka. But comrade Pathmanabha always subordinated the execution of armed struggle to his original political ideas and humanitarian ideals. Armed struggle never became an end in itself for him.

Three things I shall always connect with comrade Pathmanabha, his humanism which brought him close to the people and prevented him from participating in the killing of Sinhala civilians, of his own comrades and drug trafficking, and his political internationalism which resulted in a practical co operation with progressive Sinhala forces on a socialist basis. He had found a key, as to how to avoid the trap of falling into Tamil chauvinism and into diluted and rootless internationalism. This makes him a rare and exemplary Tamil revolutionary. We are deeply indebted to him to cultivate his heritage and to teach it to a younger generation involved in the Tamil liberation struggle and to the Sinhalese. It is also necessary that his heritage shall be known to the Western world. I am deeply greatful to have met comrade Pathmanaba , a great human being whose path should be trod by those who want peace in Lanka.

 

 

WALTER KELLER

 

RECALLING ‘NABHA’

Walter Keller, Journalist, West Germany

I was just reading the ‘Broken Palmyrah’ which was published by some very courageous people from Jaffna, including Rajani Tiranagama, the slain activist of the University Teachers for human rights as the news came in about ‘Nabha’s death. The ‘Broken Palmyrah ‘ gives an account of the political fratricide , gives an insight into the brutal killings of the ‘Tigers’ with Nabha and his other comrades, yet more members of another Tamil organisation have perished . As an out sider of the struggle, but at the same time as a permanent observer for the last 15 years I have first met Pathmanabha a few years ago. when he was staying in India. Though, poetically very often not agreeing with his organisation, the EPRLF, I had very high

esteem for him as an honest and sincere man, fighting for a cause without attaching that quantum of Tamil Nationalism or even Chauvinism to his activities. In fact, ‘Nabha’ and the EPRLF were one of the first from the Tamil movements to extend solidarity and friendship to progressive Sinhalese organisations in the South of Sri Lanka. And the EPRLF is probably the only militant Tamil group without a record of atrocities in the form of killing Sinhalese civilians in retaliation for Tamil killings by the forces. ‘Nabha’ was a humble man - a man, who seldom whished to come to the forefront. And yet, his leaderhsip was accepted by his followers. If not for him, EPRLF would have broken up some time back: ‘Nabha’ held it together. I shall remember him, the friend of mine, and wish to extent my deepest sympathies to his wife and all his family members.

 

 

M.K.ABBO YUSUF

 

A Hero of our Epoch

M.K. Abbo Yusuf.,

Former Transport Minister, North East Provincial Government.

It will not be an exaggeration if we claim that the humanity that is at the threshold of the 21st century is exceptionally weak, because it could not save the life of a great personality like Comrade. K. Pathmanaba. Inspite of the remarkable achievements of science and technology so far made in the sphere of its socio - economic development.

Comrade. Pathmanaba’s death is an eloquent example of the weakness of the development of human civilisation in the recorded history full of stone age barbarism.

All those who are the contemporaries of Comrade. Pathmanaba will admit that he was one of the historic products of the present human development of an overall nature.

It is the logic of history that confirms the fact that the wealth produced by time, if used rationally will cause no destruction to humanity. The evidence of the death of Comrade. Pathmanaba in the cruel hands of LTTE’s fascism expresses the irony that the same wealth produced by time is equally responsible for destruction too.

Comrade Pathmanaba, in very simple terms, symbolised the human friendship in all it’s warmth and charm. It is

evident when we proudly claim that it is the greatest achievement of life to be a contemporary of Comrade Pathmanaba.

The eventful life Comrade Pathmanaba is the lively expression of the grim determination of all the comrades who are selflessly gathering below the banner of “Democratic Socialist Eelam” for the emancipation of our toiling masses. He has left a lasting impression of the stamp of his life’s truth on all of us.

The people who caused the death of Comrade. Pathmanaba will come to know the ferocity with which this death has given life to a revolutionary that will be all out to liquidate the heinous, gruesome and fascist crime of barbarism that was exhibitted by this death.

Comrade Pathmanaba was the product of the struggle that later became the inalienable part of his life and spirit. He was such a firm believer in Marxism - Leninism that made him to comprehend totally the content and form of the present worldwide democratic assault of socialism on capitalism. He flawlessly anticipated the future victory of communism over the total collapse of imperialism and its

appendages. Though he spoke very little in his short and sweet life, he achieved great feats. He was a pilgrim with a definite mission at the cross roads of our epochal history leading all of us towards a victorious struggle to establish socialism all over the world, by saving our national struggle from the influence of bourgeois nationalism. His marriage to Comrade. Anandhi exhibhitted his harmonious will to manure the pasture of revolution with his wedded life and to eradicate the influence of celebacy over revolutionary struggles of our times.

By his childlike smile, his love that kindled the feelings of all who got acquainted with him, his relentless corporation that influenced to work hard, his revolutionary determination to face all the challenges of our age, his understanding of the human weakness, his ability to identify human talents, his outlook that made him to love all humanity by transcending all the barriers of race, caste, language and religion and by his wisdom in accepting the scientific Marxist - Leninist ideology as the beacon of our struggle, Comrade Pathmanaba has become the hero of our epoch. He will live forever in all our hearts in all its depth and width inspite of his premature death.

 

 

DAYAN JAYATILLEKA

 

The political philosophy and

Praxis of K. Pathmanabha

Dayan Jayatilleka,

Asst. Secretary,, Political Bureau, Sri Lanka Mahajana Party (SLMP)

Comrade Pathmanabha was first of all a revolutionary, a Marxist-Leninist, a national liberationist and a humani-tarian socialist. If we were to forget his characteristics we would then also forget his contribution. Pathmanabha was not just another leader of the Tamil national movement cut down by the LTTE. He was more, and this we should always remember.

Comrade Pathmanabha’s political career goes back to the first years of the decade of 1970’s. He participated in the activities of the rising Tamil student and youth fronts, in protest against the racist policies implemented by the United Front Government of the day. It is this Government, consisting of so called progressives and left parties, that reinforced the foundation of the Tamil Eelam demand, the cornerstone of which was laid by the Bandaranaike policy of Sinhala Only in 1956. Comrade Pathmanabha participated in the early 70’s in the campaigns of agitation launched against media wise and district wise standardisation and discriminatory 1972 Constitution.

His specific contribution to the Tamil nationalist movement and the progressive movement of Sri Lanka as a whole, begins however, in the mid 70’s. He was one of the founders of the very first socialist oriented organisa-tion within the Tamil national libera-tion movement. This was the Eela Viduthalai Munnani Iyakkam or Eelam Liberation Organisation founded in 1974/75. This organisation was formed as a result of the attempts by Pathmanabha and others to give the Tamil nationalist movement a mass base. He was one of the groups of youth militants who were the first to break with the bourgeois and parliamentary policies of Tamil United Front. I think we must stress this fact, since both Velupillai Prabakaran and Uma Maheswaran remained within the political and ideological ambit of bourgeois TULF politics, until much later in the struggle.

Pathmanabha and others attempted to take the message of Tamil national liberation into the countryside and among the working people. In doing so they encountered a fundamental prob­lem. What would the struggle for Tamil Eelam bring to the workers and peas­ants, particularly the peasantry and those suffering from caste oppression? It is in answer to this question that the political philosophy of Pathmanabha took a sharp turn to the left. This is why the Eela Viduthalai Iyakkam was formed as a social oriented organisa­tion dedicated to the cause of Tamil national liberation.

Pathmanabha believed in the unity of theory and practice and as such the ELO resorted to the tactic of armed ex­propriations. He participated person­ally in the Puloly Bank operation, which was one of the first such in the history of the Tamil resistance. In the immedi­ate aftermath of that armed expropria­tion, Pathmanabha who was on the run, was sheltered, protected and assisted by the people of the area. This deepened his love for and respect for

the so called common or ordinary people. He realised that the people could be a great source of protection and even of wisdom for the national liberation struggle. His pro-people orientation deepened qualitatively as a result of this experience.

The Eela Viduthalai Iyakkam did not survive the repression unleashed as a result of the Puloly Bank operation. As the organisation disintegrated. Comrade Pathmanabha left the country and went to England. He agreed, due to the pressure of his family, to recommence his studies and registered as a student of Accountancy while in London.

But from the very first day he reached England he was a manifestly restless young man. His thoughts were en­tirely devoted to the task of getting back to his native land as soon as possible. When in London, all his free time, social contacts and his personal interactions were devoted to the at­tempt to win over friends and acquain­tances to the cause of the national liberation struggle. It was while in London that he joined and in fact helped to form the General Union of Eelam Students (GUES) and the EROS. He was in the first batch of Tamil militant activists to receive training from the Palestinian Liberation Or­ganisation in Lebanon. His experiences and those of his comrades in Beirut left in him a permanent love for the Palestinian struggle. Almost a decade later, when he was the head of fairly strong Liberation Organisation him­self, he did his very best to give moral, material and political support to the Palestinian fighters. It was during this spell with the Palestinians that Com­rade Pathmanabha also developed a strong sense of solidarity with the Eritrean liberation struggle.

Comrade Pathmanabha made his journey back in 1978. Before retum-

ing to Sri Lanka he spent sometime in India laying a firm foundation for the subsequent activities of his organi-sation. His political work in India is also noteworthy, because until that time the connections between Tamil fighters and India had been with smugglers and social bandits and also with the most hard core Tamilnadu nationalists. Pathmanabha, however, established firm links with Marxist Leninist revolutionary elements in Southern India. He learnt much from them himself but his choice of allies is further testimony to his ideological and political clarity and his socialist revolutionary commitment.

Having set up a GUES committee in Madras under Comrade Suresh, he returned to Sri Lanka, working politically not only in Jaffna but also in the hill country. Comrade Pathmanabha made serious and extensive efforts to recruit Tamil youth from the plantaions and those from the Colombo schools for the cause of Tamil national liberation. In doing so he broke with the narrowly limited, Jaffna centric outlook of other Tamil national liberation fighters. Pathmanabha also made a very serious attempt to establish contacts with Sinhala revolutionaries. He met many such and tried to convince them of the need to support the cause of Tamil self determination. He was not successful in most cases. However, what is important is that he had departed completely from any kind of narrow Tamil nationalism or chauvinism.

From these earliest days in 1978, when we first met in Peradeniya, he was very clear that the Tamil national liberation struggle was the first step and stage of an overall socialist revolution throughout Sri Lanka. The Tamil struggle itself would make the transition from its democratic stage and culminate in the sett ting up of a

socialist Tamil Eelam. Of these two propositions Pathmanabha was very convinced and these ideas were ones which he had arrived at independently. His attempt to link up with Sinhala revolutionaries was in consequence of this strategic vision of his.

In 1981, he broke with EROS on the question of the lack of democratic centralism. While that was the issue on which the rupture took place, the founding of the EPRLF permitted Comrade Pathmanabha to operation-alise his own distinctive conception of the national liberation struggle. He attempted to give the struggle both a socialist political education as well as a base in a network of mass organisa­tions. This is why he was insistent on the need to set up an array of popular organisations such as the Rural Work-ers and Peasants Front, the Eelam Women’s Liberation Front, the Fisher-ies Workers Front and the Plantation Proletarian Front. These mas organi­sations he later attempted to group in a single Popular block called- the Eelam People’s Liberation Front. This was in 1983.

He was very clear that the armed or­ganisation should be based and drawn from the mass organisations and be under the political leadership of the party. Hence his adherence to Mao’s triad of the party, the Army and the United Front. But it was not a dog­matic Maoism. as his idea of the sepa-rate mass organisations subsequently grouped in a popular bloc demon-strates. I believe that he had evolved his own synthesis of the ideas of the PFLP of Dr. George Habash. of the Eritreans and of the Indian Marxist Leninist organisations. As a Marxist, he had great respect and love for Stalin, Mao, the Vietnamese and particularly for Che and Fidel.

Certainly it is obvious that he was not able to fulfill his goals in this regard. It

is obvious that this organisational structure did not function in the way it was meant to and should have. This was due to sets of reasons. One set of reasons consists of avoidable subjective mistakes and organisational errors. The other set of reasons are those due to the trap of history and geography.

Comrade Pathmanabha, like all of us, inherited historically determined con­ditions and circumstances. He was attempting to build a socialist national liberation organisation within an eth­nic and social formation that was characterised by conservatism and ossified social structures. His attempt to fight against caste domination and class exploitation, together with his insistence on the need for women’s emancipation within the national lib­eration struggle, earned the EPRLF the enormous hostility of entrenched, privileged social strata within the Tamil nation. The result of this was the narrowing of the economic resource base of EPRLF.

When in the aftermath of July 1983 the militant movements sought refuge in South India and made their base there, the EPRLF was distinguished by its refusal to compromise on its ideological convictions. All the other groups benefitted from the largesse of the Tamil Nadu state government and the most nationalistic, even chauvinistic, political and bourgeois elements in Tamil Nadu. Comrade Pathmanabha’s steadfast refusal to attack Sinhala civilian targets in Colombo or elsewhere did not endear him to bourgeois Tamil nationalists in India or the West who were bank rolling the terrorist operations which were undertaken by some other groups despite their verbal commitment to the principles of Marxism.

I feel that the belatedness of the EPRLFs attempt to develop a powerful military apparatus was also due to

Comrade Pathmanabha’s own philo­sophical conviction that what was most important was a mass struggle, mass organisations and a correct political orientation. It would have been very easy for him, trained in Lebanon by the Palestinians, to have plunged into the ‘prestige race’ of launching military attacks on Sinhala targets. But I believe he restrained himself and consciously refrained from succumb-ing to a militaristic deviation. Perhaps he foresaw in some way the brutalisa-tion that was to set in. in the Tamil liberation struggle. Whatever the rea-son. I would say that history has vin-dicated Pathmanabha’s refusal to take the easy path of militarism at the expense of politics and mass organisa­tion.

When the LTTE launched its attack on Anuradhapura in 1985 and then again on the TELO in May 1986 Pathmanabha and the EPRLF took a very clear position. On both these occasions Pathmanabha went against the tide. He extended full support and solidarity to the TELO and his was the only group to have a hartal in protest at the killing of TELO cadres by the Tigers. He would not have been unmindful of this. But nonetheless he adhered to principles. He did the right thing in the face of injustice.

I would say that Comrade Pathmanabha’s greatness resides not only in his positive achievements but most certainly in the wrong things he consciously desisted from doing. The EPRLF under his leadership did not engage in the killings of Sinhala civilians. It refused to engage in drug smuggling as a source of revenue. On this last issue, the otherwise so gentle Nabha was very firm.

He upheld the idea of the death sen­tence for any members of the EPRLF who engaged in drug trafficking. He used to say that “all that we do, all our

struggles are based on love for human beings and the ideals of humanism. Drug trafficking results in the destruc­tion of the lives of great many human beings in other countries. This makes nonsense of ideals to which we are committed”. This indicates very clearly the humanism that infused the social­ist revolutionary commitment of Comrade Pathmanabha. His refusal to permit internal killings, at the time when other pseudo-socialist organisa­tions in the Tamil Eelam movement were maintaining torture chambers and death camps, attests to his fidelity for the cause of democracy, while his refusal to entertain the idea of killing Sinhala civilians is testimony to his internationalism.

The fact that Comrade Pathmanabha was himself deeply involved in the attempt to construct a join revolution-ary project of Sinhalese and Tamils and did not sub-contract this task to this or that glib ideologue as did other Tamil liberation organisations, is fur-ther proof of his deep personal com-mitment to the goal of what he called the ‘total revolution’ in Sri Lanka. It is not only physically that Pathmanabha stood head and shoulders above other leaders of the Tamil liberation move-ment but also in his internationalism and his humanism. The evolution of the world Communist and Revolution-ary Movement has vindicated Path-manabha’s own ideological formation and synthesis. Pathmanabha stood for, believed in and acted with demo-cratic, humane socialism, which is an ideal the world Marxist Movement has now endorsed as its goal.

In his humanism, Pathmanabha was like Vijaya Kumaranatunge, who was himself profoundly anti-racist and internationalist and totally committed to the idea of a democratic socialism.

Viewing comrade Pathmanabha in his­torical perspective is no easy task since

there are a great many personal memories and experiences that we have shared in our odyssey. But that is a much longer story, for a different time. I will say that Comrade Pathmanabha was certainly one of the outstanding Marxists produced by the Tamil na-tion of this country - the others being Comrades Vaidyalingam, Kandiah and Shanmugathasan. But I could say that none of these other Marxists had the opportunity or perhaps the capacity and motivation to unite theory with armed revolutionary practice. In that sense it would not be inaccurate to say that Comrade Pathmanabha was the greatest Marxist - Leninist revolution-ary leader produced by the Tamil community. I would even go further. If I am asked who was the greatest revo-lutionary Marxist - Leninist leader that we have produced in Sri Lanka, ‘I cannot think of anyone but Pathmanabha.

The detailed analytical assessment of Comrade Pathmanabha is the task for another forum. But let me say that understanding Pathmanabha brings us face to face with a great many problems of revolutionary strategy and theory of political philosophy and practice - be it the relationship be-tween the political and the military, the party and the united front, the maximum and the minimum pro-gramme, internationalism and nation-alism, socialism and humanism, rela-tions with bourgeois state, and the crisis of the World Communist Move-ment. Pathmanaba’s practice and thinking involved all of that and much more. Understanding Pathmanaba would shed light on the history of Tamil liberation struggles, the nature of the Tamil social formation, the his-tory of the Sri Lankan revolutionary process, the political processes of South

Asia and the trajectories of the revolu­tionary movements of this complex, violent part of the world and the world as a whole.

Pathmanaba has left behind his or­ganisation which has proved its re­markable resilience whenever it was attacked by the fascist LTTE. He has left his organisation behind in the hands of his close comrade-in-arms Comrade Suresh Premachandran. But above all Pathmanaba has left us with his example. He was never a talker and a writer. But what he stood for, he acted out and acted upon. Therefore we have to gather together, systema­tise and share our reminiscences of Pathmanaba. And above all we have to follow his example. The Tigers may have killed Comrade Pathmanaba, but as Vijaya Kumaranatunge said at the funeral of Nandana Marasinghe, They may kill the Liberationist, but they cannot kill the liberation struggle. For the liberation struggle is eternal.” Someday when the peoples’ revolu­tionary forces of the Sinhala. the Tamil and the Muslim communities wage their combined struggle against reac­tion and Imperialism, the world will know this - for surely at some decisive stage and determinant moment of the struggle, they will unfurl the twin banners of Vijaya and Pathmanaba!

Pathmanaba’s moral and ethical stature does not diminish but grows with each passing day as we reflect on the civilisational crisis of our country and our revolutionary movements. I will conclude this, having searched for a slogan which may synthesise Pathmanaba’s ideas, his theory and practice, our own historic, existential encounter and Indubitable future re encounter. And that slogan is this -SOCIALIST REVOLUTION OR DEATH!

 

என்ர   சகோதரரைப்பற்றி  இவை சொல்லியே  தெரிந்து கொள்ளணும்.........

அர்யுன் அண்ணா சும்மா இருக்கும்போது இதுகளையும் பாருங்கோ மொக்கு கூட்டங்கள்  என்ன செய்தவை எண்டு அப்ப தான் தெரியும் உங்களுக்கு . பாவம் நீங்கள் தான் 83.84 இல் நாட்டை விட்டு போய்ட்டீங்களே 

 

Edited June 25, 201312 yr by யாழ்அன்பு

என்ர   சகோதரரைப்பற்றி  இவை சொல்லியே  தெரிந்து கொள்ளணும்.........

சொல்ல ஆட்கள் இல்லாவிட்டால் உப்பிடித்தான் சொல்லவேண்டும் .உங்கள் நாலு பேர்தான் உங்கள் உலகமே .

குண்டு சட்டிக்குள் குதிரை ஓட்டியவர்கள் என்பதும் இதுதான் .

ஒரு BBC,CNN இல் இருந்து செய்திகளை இணைக்கலாமே ,எப்ப பார்த்தாலும் தங்களை தாங்களே புகழ் பாடி விட்ட வீடியோவில் இருந்தும் பத்திரிகைகளிலும் இருந்தும் இணைப்பு .இருக்கின்றது பத்தாது இன்னமும் வெளியிடபோகின்றார்களாம்