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Tamil Hunger Strike ends in UK on 24th day after strong promises
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by Tamiya | April 10, 2009 at 04:16 am
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Updated: May 2, 2009
Parameswaran Subramanyam has ended his hunger strike on his 24th day and was taken to hospital immediately.
He has decided to end the strike after a firm word from the UK government to end the war in Sri Lanka and to bring ceasefire to Sri Lanka.
Parameswaran Subramanyam, 28, ended his fast shortly after midday, minutes before David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, addressed MPs in the Commons. Mr Miliband returned from Sri Lanka earlier today, where his calls for ceasefire and humanitarian access were rejected by the President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Mr Subramanyam had not eaten since April 7 in protest at the ongoing conflict in Sri Lanka. He had also refused liquids for days at a time. Doctors gave warning that his kidneys could fail at any moment if he continued. Five members of his family were killed in bombing shortly before he began his fast and he had repeatedly vowed to fast until ceasefire or death. Today he was finally persuaded to end the fast by friends and politicians including Simon Hughes, the Liberal Democrat MP.
Updated: April 26, 2009
Tamil hunger striker 'could die in a week' Oliver Shah, Sunday 26 April 2009
A Tamil student on hunger strike outside Parliament Square may have only a week to live, the doctor looking after him warned yesterday.
Prarameswaren Subramaniam, 28, has refused food for 20 days in protest at the Sri Lankan government's continuing military assault on Tamil separatists. Speaking from the makeshift camp opposite Westminster, Dr Sellappah Nallanathar, of St Peter's Hospital, Surrey, said that his vital organs would begin to fail if he maintained his fast for another week.
"It's going to be difficult," he added. "I'm asking him to take small sips of water and it's the water that is keeping him going. Even with the water this morning, we had to try a few times before he would take it. If he doesn't want to [take food] we can't force him. He's determined to carry on."
Updated: April 25, 2009
Parameswaran continues fast for the 18th day in London [TamilNet, Saturday, 25 April 2009, 09:56 GMT]
The fast unto death protest by Parameswaran Subramnaiyam observed to draw the attention of the International Community to the ongoing catastrophe in Sri Lanka, reached its 18th day Friday as the diaspora Tamils in Britain continue their protest demonstration in the Parliament Square in London for the 19th day, sources in London said. Many people from various nationalities visit and express their support and sympathy for the cause for which the Tamils are demonstrating, the sources added.
“I will continue to support you until your struggle wins,” one of the foreigners who keep visiting Parameswaran said in a gesture of solidarity.
The persons who visit Parameswaran consider his fast unto death as an act of noble sacrifice to alleviate the sufferings of the Tamils in Vanni being killed, maimed and injured in the relentless, inhuman war waged against them by the government of Sri Lanka, the sources added.
The International Committee against the Disappearance of Tamils is to launch a protest demonstration 25 Saturday April from 11:00 a.m to 12:00 noon in Trafalgar Square in London demanding justice for the Tamils who have gone missing in Sri Lanka.
Disaspora Tamils in their thousands are expected to join in the above demonstration.
Update April 19, 2009:
Diaspora youth hunger strike ignites mass struggle for Eezham [TamilNet, Sunday, 19 April 2009, 13:05 GMT]
The fast to death protest by Parameswaran Subramaniyan to draw attention of the International Community to the ongoing catastrophe in Sri Lanka, has reached the 13th day on Sunday. Thousands of Tamils of all ages and all walks of life have been pouring into the Parliament Square throughout the campaign, expressing their support to hunger strikers and their demands put forward to the British Government. The hunger strike launched by Parameswaran and Sivatharsan Sivakumaravel has become a key point of confluence drawing not only the first and second generation of Tamils in UK, but also attracting active participation of third generation of Tamils in the Eezham cause.
Two Tamils youth are on Hunger Strike in London - Refusing Food & Water for 72 hours - Kidneys about to fail.
Beginning at 10 PM (22.00 h) British Summer Time (BST) on Day One of the Protest, Monday 6 April 2009, two Tamil youth, Sivatharsan Sivakumaravel, 21 (on right in photo) and Parameswarn Subramaniyan, 28 (on left) ate their last meal and embarked on a “Hunger Strike ʻtil our Last Breath”.
Parameswarn Subramaniyan stated that, "Two days ago the Sri Lankan government was bombing with poison gas, chemical gas. In that bomb, nearly my whole family - five members of my family - is dead.” In an interview with the Evening Standard (UK) he stated, “My mother, brother and sisters were killed two days ago in Vanni by the Sri Lankans, using poison gas. They say they are attacking the LTTE [the Tamil Tigers] but there have been pictures of these dead babies in the papers.”
The the latest attack on Tamils civilians are carried out by the Sri Lankan Army alongside with the Indian Army, Wanni sources said. The current power of stopping the war on Tamils, many confirm, actually lies in the hands of the current congress government in India. Many higher Indian Officials and Army officials are in Sri Lanka'a capital Colombo to discuss the latest war. More than 250 Indian Army have died on the war zone and their bodies were sent to Pune and Chennai in complete coverup, sources added.
The latest attacks, including chemical weapons, on Tamils civilians deems to be violating human rights and war ethics. It is expected that the coming few days will produce Tamils civilians casualties in thousands as the Tamils civilians are trapped in a small piece of "safety zone".
The ʻhunger strikersʼ distributed the following document articulating their demands:
Sri Lanka Crisis:
Action Plan Needed Immediately:
1. Immediate and permanent ceasefire
2. Food and medical aid should be allowed to reach the civilians immediately with international monitoring committees and allow Mercy Mission to Vanni
3. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and UK Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, arrange to meet our representatives.
4. Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam are our sole representatives and UK government should lift the ban on LTTE.
5. UN should call for an immediate referendum to the Tamils regarding whether they want separate nation or to remain as Sri Lanka
Otherwise there will be Hunger strike till we breathe our last breath
Mr Sivakumaravel, whose grandmother and cousins are in Sri Lanka, had not been able to make any contact with them. "I don't know what’s happened to them," he said. "Suddenly the Sri Lankan government is killing all Tamil people in what they call the 'safe zone'. They started using banned bombs and chemical weapons.
"There is a genocide happening there, Britain knows it well. This is not against terrorism; it is a war against Tamil people. They are killing all Tamil people."
The Tamil demonstrators were demanding an immediate ceasefire in Sri Lanka where the government has forced Tamil Tiger rebels into one final stronghold on the island. The United Nations said that around 100,000 civilians were trapped in the warzone and at risk of harm.
Protesters in Westminster claimed the army was attempting a genocide against Tamils in Sri Lanka but the Sri Lankan government insists that it can no longer respect the partial ceasefire if it is to extinguish the threat of a terrorist organisation.
David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, said: “Recent reports suggesting that the Sri Lankan military have now captured all the territory outside the so-called ’no-fire zone’ and that fighting is now going on inside the zone, where the civilian population is concentrated, are deeply worrying.”
Update: April 11, 2009 - Sri Lanka Stop the War: Youth Hunger Strike in the UK
Both men agreed to start drinking water after UK MP Simon Hughes promises to bring efforts to stop the war in Sri Lanka.
Both men agreed to start drinking water after Liberal Democrat MP Simon Hughes said he would try to arrange for a delegation of protesters to visit the UN, Washington and Brussels with Des Browne, the government's special envoy to Sri Lanka, for talks.
Mr Hughes said Mr Sivakumaraval had agreed to accept some food on the condition that he could join Des Browne at the talks, and hoped to speak at a rally after the march.
The MP added that he was negotiating with police to let the protesters continue their occupation for another week.
Mr Hughes said: "Politicians from across the parties in the UK are willing to work with the community here to try to get political movement in the next few days.
"I'm grateful the two young men have agreed to take fluids now while negotiations continue.
"The evidence from Sri Lanka is that we're on the edge of more serious loss of life and real urgency is needed if we are to have a chance of avoiding more bloodshed and the loss of hundreds more lives."
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James Edward (not verified)at 06:12 on April 10th, 2009
Ceasefire could not hurt anybody.
Immediate and permanant ceasefire sounds good to me.
at 06:56 on April 10th, 2009
I pray for the Tamils in Sri Lanka. And I have some sinhala Friends here in Canada. I will try to ask them whether they can help to stop this Sri Lankan government state terrorism.
at 07:44 on April 10th, 2009
From today's Ottawa Citizen:
As Tamil protesters continued their siege on downtown Ottawa, Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon called on Sri Lanka to halt its military offensive against Tamil rebels to allow civilians an escape. "We've asked for an immediate ceasefire," Cannon told reporters. "We're very worried, of course, of the hostilities that are taking place, but particularly worried for the civilians that are in the combat zone."
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon delivered a similar message Thursday to Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Speaking by telephone, Ban expressed concern about the 250,000 Tamil civilians trapped in the country's war-torn northeast.
at 08:01 on April 10th, 2009
Do you have a link for the second piece of information?
at 10:01 on April 10th, 2009
All posting here, please remember to be respectful of other contributors.
at 10:06 on April 10th, 2009
Tamils in Sri Lanka are struggling for freedom in Sri Lanka for over 60 years now.
Tamils first used non-violence means to fight the oppression.
LTTE only came and got stronger after 1983 Black July - when the Sri Lankn Government state sponsored terrorism burnt 3000 Tamils alive, vandelized their livelihood and send them to the North and East as refugees.
LTTE has used military means to protect Tamils interest in Sri Lanka.
LTT has sat down with the previous Sri Lankan Government for peace talks for 2002 - 2006.
However, the current Sri Lankan Governement has pulled out from the peace process even when the LTTE continued to ask for peace process; The Sri Lankan Government accused the Norwegian mediators as white 'tigers' since they supported certain requests of the LTTE.
Since then he current Sri Lankan Government has killed 4 Tamil Parliamentarians 1. Mr. Joseph Pararajasingham, MP, Batticaloa District (in December 2005), 2. Mr.Nadarajah Raviraj, MP, Jaffna District (in November 2006), 3. Mr. T. Maheswaran, MP, Colombo District (in January 2008) and 4. Mr. Kiddnan Sivanesan, MP, Jaffna District (in March 2008).
1. http://www.tamilnation.org/hundredtamils/pararajasingham.htm
2. http://www.ahrchk.net/statements/mainfile.php/2006statements/822/?print=yes
3. http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-01-01-3514995787_x.htm
4. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7282205.stm
Since then the Sri Lankan Government has killed over 14 journalists.
Kidnapping, killing, torture, and rape are the norm of life to Tamils in Sri Lanka.
The Hunger Strikers are asking for, and I don't find any of them violating anybody's rights.
1. Immediate and permanent ceasefire
2. Food and medical aid should be allowed to reach the civilians immediately with international monitoring committees and allow Mercy Mission to Vanni
3. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and UK Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, arrange to meet our representatives.
4. Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam are our sole representatives and UK government should lift the ban on LTTE.
5. UN should call for an immediate referendum to the Tamils regarding whether they want separate nation or to remain as Sri Lanka
at 10:27 on April 10th, 2009
What is the point in destroying LTTE at the cost of more than 4000 innocent civilians and still continuing the killing ? Why is sri lankan governemt not bothered about the civilians ..since they are ethnic minorities and no one will question ?
at 13:11 on April 10th, 2009
Through this war Sri Lanka will not achieve a stable peace in the island. Only solution to this conflict is to STOP this war with a permanent truce. Allow humanitarian assistance to the internally displaced people, rehabilitation back to THEIR OWN LAND. Start a political process to truly deliver a political solution with the UN mediation. This is not an issue of terrorism. It is a political conflict that need a political solution. Any civilised nation will not bomb it's own civilians, no matter what is their political opinion.
In India, we have problems in Kashmir and North East. Even though India has a bad human record on its military operations in these conflicts, there is no aerial bombings, chemical bombings and artillery shelling on the people. International law do not allows any country to bomb its civilians. There is no inalienable rights for any nation to attack and persecute the people. People have inalienable civil, political rights in international law. Make the leaders to understand that they will have to face the trial in Hague for the crimes they are doing now. It will be a shame for the nation when that moment comes. Sri Lanka may have support now from some of the super powers and India, but that will go away one day. Sudan, once received support from China, but now what happened to the President of Sudan? Rajapakse's should learn from this.
If the war is for peace, even after capturing all the areas that the LTTE held, why there is no political proposal from the government as it promised? It is evident that the Sri Lankan state is not willing to deliver a peaceful political solution. Killing the LTTE or finishing them off will escalate this conflict further. Prabaharan or LTTE is not the problem, they are an outcome of a problem. The problem is the constitutional frame work and the state oppression that Tamils face after the independence. That can be solved through delivering political solutions and a negotiation.
If the government do not extend hand to end the war immediately through a cease-fire, negotiated political solution, peace and reconcilliation among both Sinhalese and Tamils, it will be an infinite and decisive struggle for Eelam and this conflict will never end.
at 20:05 on April 10th, 2009
"Through this war Sri Lanka will not achieve a stable peace in the island."
Please say clearly. The LTTE politician in Tamilnadu don't want peace. It is them who saw the seeds of hatred in Sri Lanka, but poor Sri Lanakan Tamils are reaping the bullets now.
"In India, we have problems in Kashmir and North East. Even though........"
In India no terrorist organization have Battle tanks, Hovisters, APC, Speed boats, Submarines and hell..! a frigging "Air farse". No terrorists organizations are getting the kind of extortion money that as LTTE gets from "disaporans". No belt bombs either.
"Prabaharan or LTTE is not the problem, they are an outcome of a problem."
This is the only problem right now.
.Agent.
at 19:10 on April 10th, 2009
OK: I have a suggestion. How about that thug and would-be dictator, Prabakharan walking out and surrendering. That would end it all. And the Tamils could eventually go back to their homes to start a new life.
at 19:21 on April 10th, 2009
That will never happen. Even if LTTE surrenders, sri lanka will not spare tamils. The media blockout will continue. International communities will watch while sri lankan army shell all tamils.United nation will come with an updated count of civilians casualties. But what is the use of that counts?? The objective of sri lanka is to kill all tamils from sri lanka. They are pretending as if it is a war with LTTE. Do you think those 4000 tamils including 1000 childerns who are killed so far in safe zone are LTTE ?? . No
at 21:24 on April 10th, 2009
Hi gerrypopplestone:
The real issue here is not Prabakharan, but the Sri Lankan Government who aided Prabakharan and LTTE to exist as the Tamils representatives so far.
The government has made it a point to kill Tamils MPs and journalists who voiced Tamils' rights in Sri Lanka: there have been 4 Tamil MPs killed and 14 journalists killed in the last 4 years. If Tamils MPs and journalists could not voice Tamils' rights, then Tamils have no choice but to stick with their rebel force. It is only a case of survival of the fittest here.
LTTE was in peace talk with the previous Ranil Government 2002 - 2006. Why the Sri Lankan Government was in peace talk with "terrorists" ?
The Sri Lankan Governement accepted the same LTTE as Tamils representatives during these 2002 - 2006 years of peace talk.
Why did the current Sri Lankan Government pulled out from the peace talk hastily to deliver all-military-solution to Tamils?
Over 100,000 Tamils have died so far due to Sri Lankan Government's oppression towards Tamils. Then each and every Tamil has a family member or friend died in the Sri Lankan Government state-sponsored terrorism like 1983 Black July - in which 3000 Tamils were burnt alive or the latest attack on Tamil civilians.
One of the Hunger Striker has lost 5 members in the latest chemical weapon attack by the Sri Lankan Army. Parameswarn Subramaniyan stated that,“My mother, brother and sisters were killed two days ago in Vanni by the Sri Lankans, using poison gas."
Tamils are desperately hanging on to LTTE because LTTE sat down for peace talks with the Sri Lankan Government and the LTTE have relatively kept the Sri Lankan Army's atrocities away from Tamils regions so far. Tamils' feelings towards LTTE are partially gratitude, but primarily for pure survival in Sri Lanka.
Sri Lankan Army is well know for its rape and torture: documented by the Amnesty International - (1) Sri Lanka: Rape in custody and (2) Sri Lanka: Fear of torture / medical concern / death in custody
(1) http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/ASA37/010/1999/en
(2) http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/ASA37/010/1999/en
Sri Lanka: Amnesty International calls on the United Nations Human Rights Council to address violations - 4 September 2007
http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGASA370192007&lang=e
CORRESPONDENT REPORT - Voice of America - 20-Jul-2000
Tamils have lost 4 Tamils MPs in the last four years, killed by the same Sri Lankan Government just because they talked for Tamils' rights in Sri Lanka. Even a Sinhalese journalist and the Editor of the Sunday Leader - Lasantha was killed because he spoke out for the military war on Tamils; Lasantha is also a freelance writer for the Times.
If journalists and MPs are killed for talking about Tamils' rights, then who is left to represent Tamils?
Tamils won't ask Prabakaran to surrender since they see LTTE as their representatives, not as the Sri Lankan Government which has conveniently charged them as "terrorists", "thug" or "would-be dictator".
at 19:20 on April 10th, 2009
An independent analysis of the situation from Pakistan.Quoting only those parts I feel important.
The glorious growth of LTTE.
Source: dawn.com
About the welfare villages that LTTE loudwriters accuse as "concentration camps"
Source: dawn.com
And finally something the "Diasporans" must understand.
Source: dawn.com
.Agent
at 20:15 on April 10th, 2009
Agent,
You never care about tamil people I guess. Please understand if you don't support/help tamil people who are being killed by Sri Lankan governement....then how do they live with you in same country.... Sinhaless have to raise your voice against Sri Lankan government. They look like a more dangerous government in the world...... Please trust me....it is not good for you guys to keep this terror government in power......
at 20:36 on April 10th, 2009
Tranroy, I do care about tamil people. But I don't support Tamil eelam because that is based on a myth of cultural and linguistic superiority of tamils. But I care coconut about LTTE and their supporters. Sinhalese are tired and drained of this unnecessary war, but this was thrusted upon them. Sinhalese are convinced that only with the end of LTTE , there will be peace.
Ofcourse this is a terror government. But the terror is only for LTTE.
.Agent.
at 21:33 on April 10th, 2009
You do?!!
Why not ask the Sri Lankan Government to at least allow free media to report on the war zones?
That is the only and one and only request from Tamils.
We don't want to fight this media war, let the real journalists do it.
At the least let the Tamils deaths be documented by the free media and who have bombed & shelled Tamils civilians mercilessly while the Tamils civilians have been starved for weeks. At the least these Tamils civilians in the war zones do deserve that final respect, don't they?!
at 12:11 on April 11th, 2009
Agent....I can't believe this.... UN & human right groups tell that Sri lankan government killllllllllllls 100s of Tamil children and women every day..... You don't believe even UN & human right groups???!!!!!!!!!!!! May be you only believe your terror Sri Lankan government??/!!!. Please ...come..on...come... out....try to forget that ...you ..are sinhalee.... Please help tamil children & women by giving pressure to Sri Lankan goverment to stop this terror act.
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John Doe (not verified)at 00:00 on April 11th, 2009
Agent doesn't know the history of the freedom struggle in Sri Lanka. I don't think Agent hates tamils either. In his mind he believes he's doing the right thing. Agent, you should research matters throughly before you comment on them. Keep in mind the GoSL has a strong record of propaganda etc. LTTE fought against discriminatinon, before a government that marginilized and murdered tamils. Another 2 things you must understand is that many (not all) sinhala people do have animosity towards tamils. One is the religious ideas of Theravada Buddism that the sinhala believe the island belongs to them inspite tamils having lived there first. Second is the isolation they feel from being on a island with no real cultural connections to the outside world (compared to tamils who have Tamil nadu right above). Furthermore, israeli agent, considering the LTTE is to Sri Lanka what Hamas etc are to Israel, I'd expect you've given in to a bias here which you must overcome.
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Charya Jayaratne (not verified)at 02:30 on April 20th, 2009
hello am a student whos younger than you think however i have plenty of ideas about the terrific wars that is going on in the country...i would like to share my ideas and get a review point for my question too...
As with an uncertain number of Tamil ‘civilians’ trapped within the beleaguered and shrinking LTTE territory, Sri Lankan Tamils in the island as well as across the globe are understandably concerned about the fate of their brethren. Even those who are hostile to the LTTE have responded emotionally to this situation. The issue I raise is whether emotion and humanitarian concern have eclipsed realism and factuality.
I GOT A QUESTION , IF YOU CARE TO GIVE ME POINTS PLEASE DO SO..
Why is it that the people who complain about being tarred as LTTE apologists for criticizing Mahinda, are the same people who label others as Mahinda apologists for pointing out Western shortcomings and hypocrisy?
war must be elliminated for such inocent lives are at risk....dont blame the one whos protecting you...dont compare the hero with another looser.....dont insult the country for your insulting yourself in return!....take it from me!
at 20:30 on April 25th, 2009
The hunger strike continues for 20 days.. Doctors warn he could die in a week !!
Source: guardian.co.uk
at 02:53 on April 26th, 2009
Thank you Senthil5000 for the update.
I have included the update in the main post.
at 09:28 on April 26th, 2009
Sri Lankas are very mush open to share, discuss and accommodate aspirations of fellow Sri Lankans irrespective of whatever community they belong to. There is a grate degree of tolerance amongst all communities to each others way of life. This does not mean we the Sri Lankans will continue to tolerate the LTTE terrorism forever nor we will require the opinion of the NON CITIZENS of this soil to shape up the future political contour of the Sri Lankan Nation.
Tamiya you MUST answer my questions below
If the LTTE are militants and not Terrorists as you claim, and the issue they have is political and with the GOSL and its paid army.
1. Why did they kill so many hundreds of Muslims inside the places of their religious worship? (eg. Kathankudy & Erawoor massacres) They are not a party to this conflict.
2. Why do they continue to kill innocent unarmed Sinhalese, Tamils, Muslims and civilians belonging to all communities in all parts of the country?
3. Why did they ethnically cleans the ETTE held territory? Dose not this show your unwillingness for cohabitation even in the areas you claim to be your homeland.
4. Why the LTTE cannot muster and brainwash enough cadre to fight the Army form the grown up adult Tamils (who can make decisions for themselves) but is compelled to resort to kidnapping of children of school going age to fill their military cadre?
5. Why have they to forcibly conscript one member form each family? (Simply no mother or father wants to see their children killed whether they are terrorists or not)
6. Why the 7-8 % of Indian Tamil population live in Sri Lanka does not support & accept the LTTE as their representatives?
And finally, if it was alright for the LTTE to eliminate all moderate Tamil leadership and the other militant groups fighting for Tamil aspirations and to do all of the above what I have raised in my questions to become the sole representative of the Tamil people, it is perfectly alright for the GOSL to annihilate the LTTE to become the sole representative of the Tamil people.
at 09:40 on April 26th, 2009
The Non-citizens you are referring to are still Citizens of Tamil Eelam; these Tamils fled Sri Lanka due to lack of freedom and rights after decades of oppression carried out by the Sri Lankan state terrorism.
Give me one good reason why the Sri Lankan Sinhaelse government is oppressing Tamils for last 60 years? Killing, torturing and raping over 100,000 Tamils lives.
Just in last 3 months, the Sri Lankan government has systematically trapped and killed over 20,000 Tamils, says a leaked UN document.
Above all, why the Sinhalese hate and kill Tamils so much can't let Tamils live in peace in a Tamil Eelam seperated from Sinhalese? Tamils did have their own independent state until 1833, why not let them have their own state again and bring relative peace to the Island?
If you can reasonably without using propaganda answer these questions, then I will bother answer yours.
In the Sri Lankan history Tamils have lost over 100,000 Tamils lives. The Sinhalese State Terror has more explaning to do than Tamils or LTTE.
Self defense is not a crime. That is what LTTE's actions are to Tamils.
at 09:38 on May 1st, 2009
"The Non-citizens you are referring to are still Citizens of Tamil Eelam;"
This Dumeel-Peelam was never any country, not now a country and never going to be a country - unless the disaporans buy some desert and build one on their own over there. So the so called citizen of Dumeel-Peelam are not a civizen of any country, not even the country were the live displaying their "political refugee" wounds.
It is the LTTE terrorists who are oppressing Tamils, killing torturing and rapeing Sri Lankan civilians over last 33 years.
LTTE terrorists are the one who trapped citizen in the warzone because they needed "company" to save their own rear and they are "choo pirave" that they just wet their lungis seeing any real army.
Sinhalese hate only LTTE terrorists and supports. They live peacefully with normal tamils.
Find out how many Sinhalese, Muslims, tamils life lost because of LTTE's killing. The entier world knows that there is not even a single organization that can match LTTE terrorists in cruetly.
Self defence is not a crime. That is what Sri Lankans are doing against LTTE terrorists.
.Agent.
at 12:21 on April 26th, 2009
Tamiya,
Please answer the questions without running away. Do not try to erase the ground reality by simply hiding behind the word Propaganda
All your questions are answered in
http://www.fbi.gov/page2/jan08/tamil_tigers011008.html
at 13:17 on April 26th, 2009
A little part from the Article mentioned above
Source: fbi.gov
at 12:50 on April 26th, 2009
Prameswaran and the whole world hopes Obama will save the tamils. There may be a massacare of 10,000 tomorrow
He speaks to tamilnet ...
http://www.tamilnet.com/img/publish/2009/04/Parameswaran_S.mp3
at 14:17 on April 26th, 2009
Very simple formula to end the suffering of Tamils in the NFZ
Please ask Bruce Fein to convince the US government to offer your Great Sun Goat asylum in the US.
Very simple formula - Worth Trying
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Deleksan Ratnasabapathy (not verified)at 12:13 on April 28th, 2009
this is not fair tamils have to be treated like this.This is not what tamil people want.As im sure about that.tamil people need a immediate ceasefire!!!!!!!!as you think tamil people arent terrorists sinhalese are terrorists.this is complete genocide
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gujarat live (not verified)at 08:26 on May 1st, 2009
Jim!! If they could protest at home they would. in fact they wouldnt be in the UK. The UK government has been v aware for the past 20 yrs on the tamil situation hence the number of refugees here but what people want is an acknowledgement by the west of the situation in SL at the v least.