கொழும்பில் மின்சாரம் துண்டிப்பு, மிகைஒலி விமானத் தாக்குதல்

The Defense Of Our People

By: Brian Senewiratne - Australia

Courtesy: TamilCanadian - September 1, 2007

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At a recent talk to expatriate Tamils, I was asked, “What is the LTTE (Tamil Tigers) doing?” I chose to answer the question with another, “What are you doing”. The answer is “Nothing, other than hallucinating about Eelam and trying to shift the responsibility for its achievement, to the LTTE”.

What can we do?

A great deal.

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I launched a series of DVDs (I have lost count – I think about half a dozen) - to show the world what has been happening to our Tamil people (yes, they are my people as much as they are yours).

I opened the batting in every DVD with, “I am a Sinhalese from the majority community. I am not a ember of the brutalised Tamil people. My concerns are entirely humanitarian. I quit Sri Lanka some 30 years ago and who runs that country, whether it is Mahinda Rajapakse or any one else, is of no concern to me as long as it is run without bloodshed, chaos and the extensive violation of human rights and the taking of the country to a fascist dictatorship and economic ruin, fighting an unnecessary war.”

In the updated and expanded DVDs (July 2007), I included a piece on the ‘War of National Liberation of the Tamil people’ and pointed out that what was going on was a War, whether the GOSL admitted this or not. If it is a ‘War’, Humanitarian Law applies and the participants (GOSL and LTTE) are combatants. Banning one side and calling them ‘terrorists’ is not only unhelpful (since you cannot negotiate with terrorists), but on Humanitarian Law, is illegal.

The DVDs vary in length (and depth), from 120min to 20min. The long one is comprehensive, covering everything from Vijaya, the grandson of a lion who founded the Sinhala race(!), to Mahinda Rajapakse, today’s Dutugemunu, the Sinhalese worrier from the same area that Rajapakse comes from, who killed the just Tamil king Ellala. This DVD is too long for people in a hurry, or with a short attention-span i.e politicians.

The shortest, International Appeal to stop bloodshed in the Tamil Areas is for the ‘tell-me-about-it-in-a-few-words’ people.

I begged of people to have a copy of this DVD on the desk of every politician and decision-maker in every country. Was it done? No. Why not? Because the expatriate community cannot see the importance of the absolute need to show the world the ground situation in the North and East. So, the GOSL gets away with mass murder, bordering on Genocide.

In June 2007, I was in Geneva for the UN Human Rights Council meeting, where I addressed some 15,000 people who protested outside the UN building, in pouring rain (there’s dedication for you). I would go again for the September meeting if I could have afforded the fare. I cannot, thanks to the trumped-up charge by the Brisbane City Council which I have referred to.

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The day after the massive protest (the largest Geneva has ever seen), I was in the UN lobbying the diplomats and others, from a number of countries. Almost every one of the 30 people I saw, asked me for the DVDs which they had heard about, but not seen. Did I give them a copy? No, I did not. Why not? Because none was available. There’s poor organisation for you.

Opposing us was the sleek Sri Lankan Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva, promoting the GOSL and its murderous Armed Forces, ironically called ‘Security Forces. He was backed up by the Sri Lankan Attorney General, Solicitor General, an array of Rajapakse’s Ministers, spewing out disinformation by the bucket load, and handing out glossy brochures which had even more lies.

It is this stark difference in approach by the two sides, which makes the Tamil struggle remain a struggle, and why a brutal, indeed bestial, regime survives.

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