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இலங்கைக்கான அமெரிக்க தூதுவர் எனக்கு அனுப்பிய பதில்

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  • கருத்துக்கள உறுப்பினர்கள்

சுருக்கமாக சொன்னால் நாங்கள் செய்வதையே தொடர்ந்து செய்வோம். புலம்பெயர்ந்தவர்களாகியே நீங்கள் புலிகளை ஆதரிக்க கூடாது

Re:U.S. Troops Plan Evacuation in Sri Lanka: Sign Death Warrants for Hundreds of Thousands, Support Ethnic Cleansing

Thank you for your message and your concerns, which we share. The top priority of the United States is ensuring the safety and well-being of the tens of thousands of civilians who are in the safe zone or otherwise trapped by fighting in the North. On the humanitarian front we have contributed over $28 million in food assistance through the World Food Program and are currently exploring other ways we can ease the humanitarian crisis. A humanitarian assistance team was here last month to conduct a survey of the situation and explore options of how the U.S. can best support the needs of the civilians. The United States has not been asked to provide any military assets to assist civilians.

You suggested the safe zone be expanded. Neither the U.S., the UN, nor any of the other key countries and organizations working to help relieve the plight of civilians trapped in the North support this idea. UN Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs John Holmes was in Sri Lanka at the end of February. He toured the camps for internally displaced people in Vavuniya, and met with IDPs, NGOs, and representatives of diplomatic missions, including me. In a subsequent briefing to the UN Security Council, Holmes made several observations:

1. The situation of IDPs caught in the safe zone is dire--food, medical supplies, clean water, sanitation facilities and shelter are now extremely short and ICRC and UN efforts to provide food and medicine and evacuate wounded must continue;

2. The LTTE should allow the civilians to leave the conflict zone in the North in accordance with international humanitarian law;

3. The Government and LTTE should allow unhindered access to the safe zone to deliver humanitarian supplies;

4. The Government should continue to ensure that: treatment of IDPs in camps around Vavuniya meets international standards, the capacity to accept new IDPs is increased, IDPs are allowed freedom of movement; and IDPs are resettled in their original villages as soon as possible; and

5. The Government assured him the UNHCR and ICRC would be present and involved in the screening process to ensure full accountability of those who leave the Vanni.

U.S. perspectives on the situation mirror Undersecretary Holmes’ observations. We and other donors will continue to ensure that our assistance for these IDPs supports these objectives.

As we look ahead, the most important priority is for the LTTE to allow civilians to leave the war zone in the North in accordance with international humanitarian law. We, the other Co-Chair countries, and India also have called on the LTTE to lay down its arms and renounce violence, accept the Government’s pledge of amnesty, and have its members and sympathizers inside and outside of Sri Lanka make the transition to a political, not a military, force. A viable, long-term political solution is required. Much of the burden lies with the Government of Sri Lanka to work together with a range of Tamil political voices inside and outside of Sri Lanka to reach a power sharing political arrangement whereby the aspirations of Tamils and other minorities are preserved, promoted, and protected within a united Sri Lanka. But the burden also lies with Tamils, including you as a member of the Diaspora. There have been many legitimate grievances over the decades by Tamils in Sri Lanka. To address these grievances, the Diaspora can be most effective by engaging in a constructive political dialogue with the Government, not by supporting violent and nondemocratic elements such as the LTTE.

Sincerely,

Robert O. Blake

U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka

  • கருத்துக்கள உறவுகள்

இவர்களுக்கு எல்லாம் எழுதிப்போட்டு என்னத்தை வெட்டி விழுத்தப் போறியள் என்றதுதான் எனக்குப் புரியல்ல.

விடுதலைப்புலிகள் தமக்கு சவால் மிக்க சக்திகள் என்பதால்.. தமது வல்லாதிக்க நலனுக்கு இடையூறான சக்திகள் என்பதால் அவர்களை ஜனநாயகத்துக்கு மாறான கூறு என்று இவர்கள் உச்சரிக்கிறார்கள். தமிழ் மக்கள் கேட்பது சுதந்திரம். பாழாப் போன அமெரிக ஜனநாயகம் அல்ல..! இதை உவருக்கு தெளியப்படுத்த விரும்பிறவை ஒருக்கா தெளிவுபடுத்தி விடுங்கோ. எமக்கு ஜனநாயகம் அவசியமில்லை. சுதந்திரமே அவசியம்..!

தமிழர்களை அழிப்பதன் மூலமே சிறீலங்காவில் தனது நலனை பாதுகாக்க முடியும் என்று ரெனோல் றேகன் காலத்திலேயே அமெரிக்கா முடிவெடுத்து ஜே ஆர் அரசுக்கு புலிகளை அழிக்க சகல விதமான உதவிகளையும் செய்து வந்தது. இப்போதும் அதையே தொடர்கிறது. அவங்கதான் கண்ணை மூடிட்டு கதைக்கிறாங்க என்றால் அவங்களில் காலில் போய் விழும் நாம் என்ன முட்டாள்களா..??!

அடிப்பவனின் காலில் போய் கிடந்து கெஞ்சி.. எந்த தேசமும்.. மக்களும் விடுதலை பெற்றதாக வரலாறில்லை. அப்படி ஒரு வரலாறு எழுதப்பட முடியாது. :)

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