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உங்கள் கருத்துக்களை பதிவு செய்ய உதவும் கருத்துக்கள்

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அண்மைக்காலமாக ஊடகங்களில் எமது விடுதலை போராட்டமாக வரும் கட்டுரைகளுக்கு கருத்து தெரிவிப்பதில் சிங்களவர்களே முன்னணியில் உள்ளனர். இதை ஓரளவு நிவர்த்தி செய்யும் எண்ணத்துடன் கீழ்வரும் கருத்துக்கள் முன்வைக்கப்படலாம். இவை "பொதுவான கருத்துக்களே".

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Sovereignty implies rights and obligations, and that Sri Lankan state have a basic responsibility to protect its citizens from genocide and mass atrocities. No government has the right to use national sovereignty as a shield behind which it can murder its own people. The challenge for the world community is not only to state this principle, but to implement it!

The plight of the Tamil people has always been just that – the plight of the Tamil people. Put simply, the onus has consistently fallen on Tamils to draw light to their own humanitarian cause. Of course, who better to speak for Tamils than Tamils themselves but the problem lies in the reality that the cause is not solely theirs but a cause familiar to all of humankind. And I thank You for bringing this to the world!

This is Genocide! For over two decades there has been on-and-off conflict between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), who are fighting for a separate homeland for minority Tamils in the north and east of the island, Tamil Eelam. At least 100 000 people have been killed in the insurgency and scores more displaced. Recent military advances by the government into the northern region has trapped some 300 000 civilians. More than 2000 deaths, including more than 500 children, have occurred in the protected areas due to artillery bombings. We all have a common responsibility to raise our voice to safe innocent civilians.

Consider the protests organized world-wide in recent weeks in response to the escalating violence, the headlines they made and the message delivered: "Tamils protest 'genocide.'" This is to suggest this is a Tamil issue that pertains only to Tamils. The seeming expression of indifference to the crisis is not intentional. It is the result of unawareness, fuelled by the natural tendency to dismiss all that, which does not "hit close to home." But when 300 000-plus civilians face imminent genocide, it becomes my issue!

Our tax dollars, our diplomatic support from our own government is going to the government of Sri Lanka, giving them essentially diplomatic immunity and support for what they're doing to the Tamil population in Sri Lanka. Therefore, I urge my government to use all in its arsenal to stop genocide!

Sri Lanka has expelled all UN and other international aid agencies, prevented journalists from visiting war torn areas, blocked basic necessities such as food and medicine, and has been using heavy bombs, including cluster bombs, against innocent civilians. Hospitals and "safe zones" are not spared. The ICRC and UNHCR are very concerned about the mounting civilian casualties. The international community, including my country, has been calling for an immediate ceasefire; but Sri Lanka has rejected it. The root cause of the problem is the failure of the Sri Lankan leaders to offer a decent federal solution, like Canada, to Tamils in Sri Lanka, not the other way around. I challenge Sri Lanka to come out and openly promote a federal model, a viable political solution, and Tamil Diaspora will support it!

Sri Lanka's Defense Secretary, Gotabaya Rajapakse, also a US Citizen, tells the Skynews "No hospital should operate outside the Safety Zone…everything beyond the safety is a legitimate target? These are serious crimes against humanity! This is proving his responsibility of carrying out ruthless genocidal acts against Tamils civilians by his security forces! He should be punished for thsi under US law!

"We urge you to take steps to reestablish accountability and the rule of law in Sri Lanka. Investigations have been promised before but have been futile. At times government officials have not appeared diligent, as happened in the investigation of the killing of NGO workers assisted by the International Eminent Persons Group." - The six US ambassadors to Sri Lanka Marion Creekmore (1989-92), Teresita Schaffer (1992-95), A. Peter Burleigh (1995-97), Shaun Donnelly (1997-2000), Ashley Wills (2000-03) and Jeffrey Lunstead (2003-06). 24 Jan 2009

I have read this report released in December 2008 by Secretary Albright and Secretary Cohen served in an administration that grappled with genocide in Rwanda and ethnic cleansing in the Balkans, has convinced me personally believing it is Genocide of Tamils in Sri Lanka. http://www.ushmm.org/conscience/taskforce/pdf/report.pdf

On 8 December 2008 the New York based, Genocide Prevention Project released a ''red alert'' list of 8 countries that included Sri Lanka along with Sudan, Myanmar, Somalia, Iraq, Pakistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Afghanistan. Are all the persons behind this "Terrorists Sympathizers?" I don't think so.

In Sri Lanka, the Colombo Government will have to genuinely devolve a high degree of political authority to its Tamil minority, if not as a separate state then at least as a genuinely autonomous and unified region. - Associate Professor Damien Kingsbury is associate head (research) of the School of International and Political Studies at Deakin University.Jan 6, 2009.

The Office of War Crimes Issues of the U.S. State Department has added Sri Lanka under its watch list of Genocide. http://www.state.gov/s/wci/

"the bottom line is, you can't lump all terrorists together. … what the Tamil Tigers are fighting for in Sri Lanka, or the Basque separatists in Spain, or the insurgents in al-Anbar province may only be connected by tactics." - Ms Hillary Clinton

25 years after Genocide'83 - "... I don't think the people in the North and East are subjected to any injustice...In any democratic country the majority should rule the country. This country will be ruled by the Sinhalese community which is the majority representing 74 percent of the population..." Sri Lanka Army Commander Lt. General Sarath Fonseka On Democracy and Sinhala Hegemony - 19 July 2008

In its history, Sri Lankan Government failed to implement every single agreements it had with Tamils. After failing all the attempts, Tamils democratically decided to free from the Sri Lanka in 1977. But, Sri Lankan government used force and violence to crush the Tamils since 1948. Sri Lankan government killed Tamils long before Tamil Tigers were born.

Sri Lankan State aided colonization of the Tamil homeland with Sinhala people, from the time of independence has continued unabated despite agreements entered into by successive prime ministers with the Tamil political leadership.

Sri Lanka's Genocidal policies against Tamils systematically imposed: a) Disfranchisement in 1948 b) Sinhala colonization scheme in 1948 c) Sinhala only act in 1956 d) Standardization in 1972 e) Largest pogrom against Tamils in 1983, more than 3000 killed f) War against Tamils since, more than 100,000 killed 2millions displaced. Injured over 50, 000 Tamils! Disappeared over 28, 000 Tamils! Raped over 12,600 Tamil women and girls!!

Tamil militancy was born out of Sinhala exclusivist policies implemented by successive governments. The LTTE was not the first group to demand a separate state for Tamils and, it is unlikely to be the last if the root causes of the ethnic unrest are not tackled.

Colombo needs to convince Tamils that Sri Lanka seeks to be a truly inclusive state and they have a future in it. The battle for minds has to be fought alongside the war for territory. Until that happens, there is a lots of room for support of LTTE.

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நன்றி எம்பணியை மிகச்சுலபமாக்கிவிட்டீர்கள்.

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நன்றி !

Edited by Valvai Mainthan

US wants an end to hostilities in Sri Lanka

Washington, Feb 23 (PTI) Pressing for a political settlement to the Sri Lankan conflict, the US today said it would like to see an end to hostilities in the country's north, where a large number of civilians have been caught in the war zone.

"Eventually you need to have a political framework that deals with some of the questions that are being put forth by various parties in the country," State Department Deputy Spokesman, Robert Wood, told reporters.

"We just want to see, again, an end to hostilities. We want to see civilians protected, you know, as protected as best they can be protected in this conflict. And we want to be able to deal effectively with the humanitarian situation that we're very concerned about," he said.

Terming the humanitarian situation in Sri Lanka as one of the primary concerns of the US, Wood said America would like to have both the Sri Lankan government and the LTTE discuss ways to end the hostilities.

"We're worried about IDPs, what happens to them. We're worried about civilians that are caught up in the hostilities that are going on," he said.

Asked if the US has offered to negotiate between the two sides, Wood said, it has not been asked to so far.

"We will do what we can to support efforts to end the conflict. But in the end, the two sides have got to, as I said, discuss ways of ending this conflict and bringing a cessation to hostilities," Wood said. PTI

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