பயங்கரவாதிகளுக்கும், சுதந்திரப் போராளிகளுக்கும் இடையில் தெளிவான வேறுபாடுகள் இருப்பதாக கனடாவில் நடைபெற்ற பொங்குதமிழ் நிகழ்வில் இலங்கையைப் பிறப்பிடமாகக் கொண்ட அவுஸ்ரேலிய மருத்துவர் பிரான் செனவிரட்ன தெரிவித்திருப்பதாக கனேடியப் பத்திரிகையான ‘நஷனல் போஸ்ட்’ செய்தி வெளியிட்டுள்ளது.

இலங்கையின் வடபகுதியை தனியான சுதந்திர அலகாகப் பிரகடனப்படுத்தவேண்டுமென கனடாவின் டவுன்ஸ் வியூ மைதானத்தில் நடைபெற்ற பொங்குதமிழ் நிகழ்வில் முக்கிய உரையாற்றிய அவுஸ்ரேலிய மருத்துவர் பிரான் செனவிரட்ன கூறியிருந்ததாக அந்தச் செய்தியில் குறிப்பிடப்பட்டுள்ளது.

“இதனைவிட இலங்கையின் இனப்பிரச்சினைக்கு மாற்றுத் தீர்வு இல்லை” என அவர் கூறியதாகவும் அதில் தெரிவிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.

உலங்குவானூர்திகள் குண்டுத் தாக்குதல்களை நடத்தும் ஒளிப்படங்களைக் காண்பித்து இங்கு செனவிரட்ன, இலங்கை அரசாங்கம் தமிழ் மக்களுக்கு எதிராக பல கொலைகளைச் செய்துவருகின்றது எனக் குற்றஞ்சாட்டியதாக நஷனல் போஸ்ட் செய்தியில் குறிப்பிடப்பட்டுள்ளது.

“பயங்கரவாதத்துக்கும், சுதந்திரப் போராட்டத்துக்கும் இடையில் தெளிவான வித்தியாசம் உள்ளது” எனச் சுட்டிக்காட்டியிருக்கும் அவர்,

தமிழ் மக்களின் சுதந்திரப் போராட்டத்துக்கு எதிராக அனைத்து மக்களும் ஒன்றிணையவேண்டுமெனக் கோரிக்கை விடுத்ததாகவும் அந்தச் செய்தியில் கூறப்பட்டுள்ளது.

உலகத் தமிழர் அமைப்பு கனேடிய அரசாங்கத்தால் மூடப்பட்டமைக்கும் பொங்குதமிழ் நிகழ்வில் கண்டனங்கள் வெளியிடப்பட்டிருந்ததுடன், கனடாவில் நடைபெற்ற பொங்குதமிழ் நிகழ்வில் பெருமளவானவர்கள் கலந்துகொண்டதாகவும்,

இந்த நிகழ்வு நடைபெறும் இடம் இறுதி நேரத்திலேயே அறிவிக்கப்பட்டதாகவும் நஷனல் போஸ்ட் செய்தியில் குறிப்பிடப்பட்டுள்ளது.

பொங்குதமிழ் நிகழ்வுக்குப் பொலிஸார் அனுமதி வழங்கக் கூடாது என ஐக்கிய இலங்கைத் தேசிய அமைப்பு கோரிக்கை விடுத்துள்ளபோதும்,

அது ஏற்றுக்கொள்ளப்படவில்லையெனவ

நசனல் போஸ்ட் சொன்னது போல நீங்கள் தலைப்பிட்டிருக்கிறியள். பிரயன் செனவிரத்தினா தான் சொன்னார் , நசனல் போஸ்ட்டின் கருத்தல்ல.

.

தமிழ் மக்களின் சுதந்திரப் போராட்டத்துக்கு [size="3"]எதிராக அனைத்து மக்களும் ஒன்றிணையவேண்டுமெனக் கோரிக்கை விடுத்ததாகவும் அந்தச் செய்தியில் கூறப்பட்டுள்ளது.

http://isoorya.blogspot.com/ http://isoorya.blogspot.com/ http://isoorya.blogspot.com/

???????????

Canadian Tamils hold rally, condemn Ottawa’s ban

Stewart Bell, Canwest News Service

Published: Sunday, July 06, 2008

Story tools presented by

Stewart Bell/National PostThousands of Canadian Tamils rallied at Downsview Park in Toronto, calling for the creation of a separate homeland for Tamils in Sri Lanka, July 5, 2008.

TORONTO -- Waving the flag of the Tamil Tigers guerrillas, thousands of Canadian Tamils gathered this weekend for their first rally since the federal government shocked the community by outlawing a Toronto-based Tamil non-profit group under the Anti-Terrorism Act.

A statement issued by the event's organizers condemned the government for last month's decision to ban the World Tamil Movement as a suspected financial front for the Tigers, and called on Canada to recognize guerrilla-held areas of northern Sri Lanka as an independent state, called Tamil Eelam.

"There is no other solution to this conflict," said Brian Senewiratne, a medical doctor from Australia who was the keynote speaker, addressing the large crowd at Downsview Park from a giant stage.

The Sri Lankan-born physician, who showed video clips of helicopter gunships firing rockets, called the Sri Lankan government a "murderous, barbaric regime" that was at war "against the Tamil people."

He said the Tamil Tigers, also known as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, or LTTE, were a legitimate liberation movement. "There is a very clear distinction between terrorism and freedom fighters."

He urged the crowd to get more involved in the fight for Tamil independence.

"What I want to do is move you from watching things happen to making things happen." Canada's decision to ban the Tamil Tigers "has to be challenged," he said.

The rally was just the latest of many similar events that have taken place across Canada over the past decade but it came at a critical time: as the Tigers are apparently losing ground steadily on the battlefield and the Conservatives in Ottawa are taking a firm stand against Tamil Tigers activities in Canada.

Following a five-year RCMP investigation, Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day announced in June that the government had placed the World Tamil Movement, which had offices in Toronto and Montreal, on Canada's list of outlawed terrorist groups because of evidence it was financing the Tigers.

The location of the rally was not announced until late Friday afternoon. The Sri Lankan United National Association of Canada had written to police asking them to cancel the event's permit because the Tigers are an outlawed terrorist group under Canadian law.

Participants were bussed in from around the region. They ranged from young children to the elderly, and carried signs that read: "O Canada you have a responsibility," and "Don't label us as terrorists."

Organizer Thiru Thiruchelvam said the location was only announced at the last minute because the event kept growing and they had to find a venue to accommodate the expected crowds.

"What we want is peace," said Mr. Thiruchelvam, who told how his 19-year-old son was killed by Sri Lankan government forces. "We are asking the Canadian government to get involved."

Sri Lankan Consul General Bandula Jayasekara denied Senewiratne's claim that Sri Lanka was at war with the Tamil people.

"The LTTE has killed more Tamil leaders than anyone else," he said. "Unfortunately the LTTE, a ruthless terrorist organization, has brought its ruthless war to Canada."

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=636567

நாசனல் போஸ்ட் தனது நஞ்சை இப்படி கக்கியுள்ளது.

National Post Editorial Board: Terror-friendly Tamils on parade

Posted: July 07, 2008, 6:01 PM by Yoni Goldstein

Editorial board

It’s the sort of sight that too often makes Canadian politicians go weak in the spine: ethnic voters rallying for a parochial, unsavoury cause.

Over the weekend, thousands of Tamil Canadians gathered in a Toronto park to denounce Ottawa’s decision to outlaw the World Tamil Movement (WTM), which the RCMP believes is nothing but a fundraising front for the Tamil Tigers, a Sri Lankan-based terrorist group that has been outlawed in Canada since 2006.

Even by the standards of terrorist insurgencies, the Tigers are a brutal organization — a creepy cult-like outfit that habitually engages in massacres of civilians, and abducts children to fight on the front lines of its 25-year-old campaign against Sri Lanka’s government. Its leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran, can fairly be described as the Hassan Nasrallah of South Asia.

Since much of the funding that enables the Tigers to fight their war comes from expatriate Tamils, the stakes in Canada are high. This nation is home to several hundred thousand Sri Lankan migrants of Tamil extraction. Many of them, small business owners in particular, have in the past been strong-armed by Tamil thugs into contributing war funds for the Tigers. (Those same entrepreneurs reportedly were told to shutter their stores over the weekend — to ensure a better turnout at the rally.) Should the Tories give in to the pro-Tiger lobby by legalizing the group, they would reopen the financial floodgates, which would in turn result in more weaponry for the Tigers, and therefore more dead Sri Lankans.

Since 1984, the Tigers have dispatched nearly 400 suicide bombers. The Black Tigers — the Tamils’ suicide-bombing wing — is not particular about whom it presses into service. Men, women and children are all seen as potential human bombs.

Last year, a female suicide bomber walked into Sri Lanka’s defence headquarters pretending to be pregnant. But her tummy bulge in fact contained explosives. She missed killing the Sri Lankan chief of staff, but managed to take out 11 others. Just last month, in two separate attacks, Black Tiger bombers killed 27 passengers on civilian buses. This is the sort of cowardly tactic commonly employed by the men and women who were hailed as “freedom fighters” from the podium at last weekend’s Toronto rally.

But over the last four months, the Tamils have suffered serious military losses. They have been largely expelled from their strongholds on the country’s east coast, while some of their bases and arms depots in the north have been overrun by government forces. One of their senior commanders was sniped by a government rifleman. And over the weekend, 40 Tigers died when Sri Lankan soldiers captured an LTTE operations centre, perhaps their largest.

A contributing factor to the Tigers’ poor battlefield performance may be traced to Canada’s own government: As Canada, and other nations, have worked harder to shut off the flow of money to the Tigers from inside Western nations, Colombo has been able to establish a decisive advantage for the first time in a decade or more. Stephen Harper and his Conservatives should be proud that they took a stand against Tiger fund-raising. The Liberals, under both Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin, never had the political courage to stand up to Toronto-based Tamil voters. In some cases, Liberal glad-handers even showed up at Tiger-friendly events.

It is a shameful legacy, one that implicated every Liberal Cabinet member of the era — including several who loved to speechify against terrorism in other parts of the world. But Mr. Harper is cut from different cloth.

Canada has always been a nation of immigrants, one that welcomes newcomers from all over the world. But traditionally, the price of admission was that newcomers left their murderous old-world disputes at the door. In recent years, we have forgotten to charge this fee. The result: disgraceful displays such as last weekend’s rally — in which a group of Canadians unashamedly shouted slogans in support of a terrorist group.

It is enough to give multiculturalism a bad name.

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/f...-on-parade.aspx

நசனல் போஸ்ட் சொன்னது போல நீங்கள் தலைப்பிட்டிருக்கிறியள். பிரயன் செனவிரத்தினா தான் சொன்னார் , நசனல் போஸ்ட்டின் கருத்தல்ல.

சரியாகத் தானே தலைப்பிடப்பட்டுள்ளது.

Tamil Canadians - Canadian Tamils

இப்படி இரு வேறு பதங்கள் பாவிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளனவே.. ஏன்..??!

But over the last four months, the Tamils have suffered serious military losses. They have been largely expelled from their strongholds on the country’s east coast, while some of their bases and arms depots in the north have been overrun by government forces. One of their senior commanders was sniped by a government rifleman. And over the weekend, 40 Tigers died when Sri Lankan soldiers captured an LTTE operations centre, perhaps their largest.

A contributing factor to the Tigers’ poor battlefield performance may be traced to Canada’s own government: As Canada, and other nations, have worked harder to shut off the flow of money to the Tigers from inside Western nations, Colombo has been able to establish a decisive advantage for the first time in a decade or more. Stephen Harper and his Conservatives should be proud that they took a stand against Tiger fund-raising. The Liberals, under both Jean Chrtien and Paul Martin, never had the political courage to stand up to Toronto-based Tamil voters. In some cases, Liberal glad-handers even showed up at Tiger-friendly events.

கனடா அரசும் தாயகத்தில் போர்க்களத்தில் போராளிகளின் வெற்றியை வைத்துத்தான் தமிழ் மக்களின் நலனைத் தீர்மானிக்கும் போல..!

அது எந்தத் தளபதி இராணுவத்தால் சுட்டு வீழ்த்தப்பட்டவர்..???!

Edited July 8, 200817 yr by nedukkalapoovan

நஞ்சைக் கக்கிய நசனல் போஸ்ட் பத்திரிகையின் ஆசிரியர் தலையங்கத்துக்கு உங்களின் கண்டனங்களைத் தெரிவியுங்கள்.

அது எந்தத் தளபதி இராணுவத்தால் சுட்டு வீழ்த்தப்பட்டவர்..???!

கேணல் ரமணன் அவர்கள் சினைப்பர் தாக்குதலிலேயே வீரச்சாவைத் தழுவிக் கொண்டார்.

நசனல் போஸ்ட்டில் பூபாளபிள்ளை அவர்கள் எழுதிய ஆக்கம்

Tamil protesters had legitimate grievances

Re: Terror-Friendly Tamils on Parade, editorial, July 8.

Tamil Canadians were taken aback by this editorial. Canada is a nation built on immigration; apart from the aboriginals, every Canadian can trace their ancestry to a foreign land. It is audacious to expect that immigrant communities would simply "leave their baggage behind." The scars of the armed conflict in Sri Lanka that has been raging for over 25 years is part of the lived experiences of Tamil-Canadians, much like the Holocaust is very much a part of the Jewish diaspora's history or the Armenian genocide is a part of that community's collective memory. These memories and experiences cannot be simply left behind.

The only difference is that in Sri Lanka these atrocities continue to take place and many Tamil Canadians still bear fresh wounds that have not yet healed. When members of the Tamil community in Canada gather by the thousands to express their discontent at government policies, they are perfectly within their rights to exercise this freedom.

These are rights that were denied to Tamils in Sri Lanka. Perhaps it should be brought to your attention that Sri Lanka has been ranked as the third most dangerous place for journalists. Sri Lanka has also been condemned for its brutal human rights record by several international actors and was recently kicked out of the UN Human Rights Council.

Canada is world renowned for its peace-building role and the Canadian media is perceived as neutral and objective in portraying foreign conflicts. Not only does this editorial stance run counter to Canadian values, but it is also a dangerous weapon to place in the hands of the government of Sri Lanka, a regime that continues to pursue a military approach to the conflict within its borders.

David Pooplapillai, Canadian Tamil Congress, Toronto.

http://www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/s....html?id=641416

Tamil protesters had legitimate grievances

The UN, Human Rights Watch, Louise Arbour and others have all condemned the Sri Lankan government for its oppression of a people, the Tamils in the north and east of Sri Lanka. These citizens are only asking the numerically higher Singhalese in the south to let them be, to let the Tamils govern themselves, as it is their inalienable right. Implying that the 30 or 40 thousand Tamil-Canadians who gathered last Sunday in Toronto support terrorists is ignorant and unfortunate. Please get both sides of the story before you go to print.

Kail. T. Rajah, Toronto.

http://www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/s....html?id=641418

Tamil protesters had legitimate grievances

Democracy can lead to quite a dangerous situation in a multi-ethnic society like Sri Lanka, unless it is accompanied by economic and political policies to protect diverse groups. Where ethnic identities coincide with economic and/or social identities, instability of one sort or another is likely. Today, as many as 338,000 Sri Lankans are dead and two million more have been displaced. Tamil-Canadians are asking Canada to pressure Sri Lanka to put forward an acceptable political solution to end 60 years of occupation.

Ganes Selva, Toronto.

http://www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/s....html?id=641419