'Eelam' should be removed from Tamil party names:Lanka opposition

by israeli.agent | May 30, 2009 at 10:38 pm

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Sri Lanka's major opposition , UNP (United National Party) asked the government to forbid the Tamil political parties from using the dreaded world 'Eelam' in their name.

At present many Tamil parties has got the word 'Eelam' with their name.

The UNP leader Dayasiri Jayasekara said that instead of forcing the illusion of living in a separate land, the Tamil parties should focus on bringing and integrating the Tamils to the mainstream of Sri Lankan society.

He urged the Tamil parties to work towards removing the concept called "Eelam" itself from their minds.

Sri Lanka's main opposition party has asked government to initiate steps to "defeat politically" the 'Eelam' ideology after the security forces' comprehensive victory over the LTTE which had been fighting for a separate state.

Now that the LTTE leadership, including its chief V Prabhakaran, had been finished, there was an urgent need to look at various ways of defeating the concept of 'Eelam' or a separate Tamil homeland through political means, United National Party (UNP) leader Dayasiri Jayasekara said.

It was high time the government politically defeated the 'Eelam' ideology, he said, adding pressure should be mounted on concerned parties to remove 'Eelam' word from their names.

He was referring to Eeelam People's Democratic Party (EPDP), Tamil Eelam Liberation Organisation (TELO), Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF), People Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE) and Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students (EROS).

"Action needs to be taken regarding political parties carrying the name Eelam. The LTTE has imposed this concept on the minds of people who lived in the North and East.

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Hiranya Malwatta

at 23:17 on May 30th, 2009

Wonder what kind of dance Dayasiri Jayasekara is trying to play now? Problem with the current UNP is that none of their words can be taken at face value. They always try to play some double game. Now trying to win a bit of popularity by saying this?

Don't think it's good to tell Tamil parties to change their party names. Shouldn't it be upto them to decide what the names should be?

StopSriLankanStateTerrorism

at 22:57 on May 30th, 2009

What is the next thing? They are going to remove 'Tamil' from Tamil parties names? Hypocrites.

Hiranya Malwatta

at 23:13 on May 30th, 2009

@ Terrorism >

Lovely words you have in your profile -

"Stop the Killing of Tamils by the Sri Lankan government
Stop the oppression of Tamils by the Sri Lankan government
Stop the war loving monks politics
Monks should preach peace not WAR
Monks should not be in the parliament
Tamils want to live in peace in their houses. Not in detention camps"

How about adding "Stop Killing of Sinhalese Muslims Tamils by Tamil militants" and "Stop beating WAR drums from foreign lands" to the list.

BTW lovely profile pic - definitely suits your values. Good luck from me on your venture !!

StopSriLankanStateTerrorism

at 00:29 on May 31st, 2009

How many sinhalese and muslims are killed this year?Who do your refer to by "Tamil militants" LTTE is history now, so you must be referring to karuna aka Rajapakse's friend?

About the profile pic. It definitely suits the Sri Lankan sate!

Hiranya Malwatta

at 01:42 on May 31st, 2009

LTTE in the Wanni jungles is history. Who says the rest of them LTTEers blowing up towns is no more? 'Panama' shop owner in Majestic City, Colombo has just been discovered as one of the chief organizers of Bombs in Colombo. I'm sure you also play a big role in LTTE activities whoever you are.

"How many sinhalese and muslims are killed this year?" This year? Oh so we are only allowed to count the deaths this year, is it? Fine, if you say so.

"About the profile pic. It definitely suits the Sri Lankan sate!" LOL ! but the fact is, it is YOUR profile pic only :-D no better place for it to be :-D I will call you "Doggy" hereafter, for ease, since it is in your profile pic. Calling anyone "terrorism" for short leaves a bad taste in my mouth :-|

lalith

at 08:46 on May 31st, 2009

..............Terrorism,

I think you are over reacting. I don't see anybody said about removing the word Tamil from the names of those parties.

Sri Lanka needs Tamil parties. But certainly not terrorist parties.

Kalangalan

at 23:32 on May 31st, 2009

Sri Lanka needs Tamil parties. But certainly not terrorist parties./

correct. Come to next point.

Srilanka needs Tamils in the country. But not terrorists.

Who are all terrorists? those who ask their rights......!

So , Sri Lanka needs Tamils those who never ask any rights.

That means Srilanka needs Tamil Slaves. You just got it.

Kill the rest of the tamils those asks rights as you classify the terrorists.

I just wonder why all sinhalese NP acts like neutrals....most Sinhalese in Srilanka never been neutral and happy about the military win over Tamils.

Please kill rest of the tamils as soon as possible , then there will be no ethnic conflict and you can get the fund for rebuilding the great Sinhalese only nation which is your Dream.

israeli.agent

at 00:45 on June 1st, 2009

Who are the terrorists? Only those who ask for wrongs by means of violence.

Sri Lanka don't need those and not many of them are left either. There is a fraction of truth in your statement. The British brought a lot of tamils as slaves (what a derogatory term is 'plantation tamil' ). Maybe the Brits have used some serious genetic manipulating technique because still a vary small minority of the tamils are longing for the British to rule them.

Terrorists always asked for the wrong and they got them. That too how..! If you go back a little through history, you can see how Sri Lankan government dealt with Sinhalese Terroists. Exactly the similar way LTTE terrorists too dealt with.

Rest of the things is just taken from the script written by Vairamuthu. Good ones, but does not carry any significance at the present scenario.

How is the weather in Chennai? Is it raining there?

.Agent.