The Sri Lanka (SL) Rajapakse brothers are most deserving of a Nobel peace prize for their world class genocide; so should the ‘in the loop’ Sonia and her Congress. Sonia/Congress’ role is disguised behind Gothabhaya’s ‘in the loop’ hint and Mahinda Rajapakse reminding Delhi ‘we fought your war and won’. Sonia/Congress supporting the ongoing SL genocide on the Eelam Tamils elated over the loss of the live safety net of the Eelam Tamils (the rebel fighters) wasted no time voting at the UNHRC May 2009 applauding SL for defeating the Tamil rebels and attempted to kill off international initiatives to end the Tamil misery SL was inflicting on the Tamils. The vote took place within a couple of days of the Tamils grieving for the loss of their saviors; a hurt suffered by the Tamils worldwide. .
SL’s much uglier and gruesome genocide is on parade today despite international action (UNHRC’s monitoring of SL’s promised ‘reconciliation’ measures) following UNHRC censure in the March session. It also exposes the stilled silence that Sonia/MM Singh observes when atrocities are committed to erase off the Tamil homelands in the North and East of SL. The diaspora, the humanist media and NGO’s continue to expose SL’s sham ‘reconciliation’; to counter whom Rajapakse hired Swapan Dasgupta’s to discredit the dispora with his critique ‘Sri Lankan diaspora powers Tamil politics’ (The Pioneer). A well informed Rajesh Venugopal quoted from Dayan Jayatileka’s ‘From devolution to the deep blue sea’ (in the Hindu) ‘It’s not the Tamils stalling settlement in Sri Lanka’ almost contradicts Swapan’s story. So does another analyst with his story ‘Will Modi and BJP continue UPA’s policy of supporting Sri Lanka genocide’ in Merinews. This latter piece is carried in leading media outlets like indiatimes, timesof india, rediff, economictimes, dnaindia amongst numerous others. .
The widely known seven plus decades of trauma the Buddhist/Sinhala inflicted on the defenseless Eelam Tamils has left deep scars in the Tamil psyche. The growing military presence in the Tamil homelands at its crudest was to intensify the ethnic cleansing of Eelam Tamils using killings, maimings, oppression and most painfully driving the Tamils from their homes initially to the safety of their traditional Tamil homelands, later overseas but since 2009 the South. The scotched earth destruction of homes, farms and other life sustaining assets impoverished a once prosperous community. Repeated violence forced displacements, the savage hallmarks of SL’s genocide, was to secure the submission of Tamils in SL into forsaking the Tamil cause to avoid the misery of spending days, weeks, months and years as destitute, starving and homeless roadside vagrants in SL.
The contribution to the SL genocide of MK Narayanan (Sonia rewarded MK with Governorship of West Bengal) was to instigate the January/May 2009 massacres of tens of thousands of a Tamil civilians, enticing/entrapping the Tamils and its resistance leadership into MK’s ‘no fire zone’ for aerial bombardment leaving those trapped all dead. Over 300 000 surviving civilians in the zone were herded into MK’s Menik farm barb wire fenced concentration camps interned for more than a year starving and illicitly fed by the diaspora through indirect channels, namely bribing the camp army guards. Threat to life aside, SL’s state terror silenced the Tamils throughout SL putting to shame the terror experienced by victims of genocides in Yugoslavia and Sudan. SL excelled in fortifying a total news blackout, regimenting the local media into silence and the locking out the foreign media totally. This explains why the international community (helpless unlike Delhi) was unable to react in a timely manner as it did in Yugoslavia or in Sudan to minimise the severity of the massacres and oppression. To the voiceless Tamils, SL became a big concentration camp within which were layers of other mini-camps dotting every inch where the Tamils live. There is no SL let down on the militarization of Tamil homelands.
Swapan claims that the military ‘operates ‘below the radar’..(this is SL’s shrewd PR exercise to misinform biased or gullible visitors) also showing off a network of new military infra-structure – roads and buildings. While the construction of the 50 000 Delhi funded housing is still dragging on, the extra lavish military infrastructure was completed in record time. The priority accorded by the military was the construction of Buddhist temples replacing deliberately destroyed Hindu temples for housing new Buddhist/Sinhala settlements. This is a form of trans-migration practiced by Suharto’s Indonesia that resulted in the independence of East Timor thanks to the humanity of Australia. The safety of the Buddhist/Singalas is SL’s upper most concern. Sinhala/Buddhist settlements in such numbers in the North are bound to erase the historical reality of a predominantly Hindu Tamil identity demographically. There is nothing to prevent apologists like Swapan most concerned over separatist sentiments in TN to urge Sonia/Congress to adopt the Rajapakse ethnic cleansing model and displace the prospering Tamils of TN with Buddhist Sinhalas from Lanka. As a precedent TN/India absorbed nearly a million disenfranchised SL Indian Tamils in 1947/8.
Besides the first SL disenfranchisement of the Indian Tamils the repeated numerous progroms also disenfranchised other Tamils without legislation. The Presidential system deprived the Tamils of any voice in SL governance reducing the 30 per cent political representation of Tamils at the time of independence to 6 per cent today? The 1.3 million (or a 43 per cent) drop is attributable to ethnic cleansing; killings accounting to 100 000 and more. According to the fudged SL statistics the Tamils in SL of 6 per cent, is a sharp reduction from 12.7 per cent at independence in 1947.
The desperate cry of the Tamils for help was heard worldwide who saved the lives of over 1.0 million fleeing SL overseas and now the diaspora Tamils. The international community to prevent SL from taking advantage of the loophole in their refugee policies shifted to policies apply pressurure on SL to end its genocide or face proceedings for human right abuses and/or war crimes in international courts. There are reports that the SL Defense establishment commissions illicit boats and still sends refugees overseas. .
The sudden loss through massacre of the Tamil rebel leadership on the ground in May 2009 exposes the lives of those left behind to grave danger. However to save these lives the scope of the Tamil cause is being widened to almost embrace a separate Eelam to end SL’s grave murderous genocide crimes. The diaspora is spontaneously rallying in strength to thus upstage the Tamil cause in eyes of the international community for its own voice, the voice of Tamil Eelam. This call for a state of Eelam will assume importance to supplement progress on international measures to bring SL to account for its genocide crimes presently hamstrung by Sonia/Congress and its apologists.
Sadly the constraints of the diaspora living in different countries in getting together to give more traction with international organizations and governments’ require hard work to inform the world community on the growing scale of horror of the SL genocide to earn the unstinted support of international community into widening the scope of the Tamil cause to end the genocide in SL once and for all. The diaspora needs to go an extra mile to cultivate direct links with political party (ies) and/or organizations in TN and the international community supporting the Tamil cause.
For the stumbling block, the Sonia/Congress, the nature of coalition politics in India is about to change anytime that once the Sonia/Congress/ South Block/ Narayanan factor lose relevance in Delhi, the strengthened TN mainstream Tamilians’ influence under a non UPA rule will deliver redress to the Eelam Tamils. Only a non-UPA guarantee on SL’s compliance with safeguards underwritten internationally will prevent SL genocide killings of Tamils on the scale India and the international community (except Swapan) witnessed since 2009.The diaspora that has to strive further to nurture and restore the history blessed strong Eelam Tamil SL and TN/India religious and cultural bondage.
A Delhi dominated by corrupt self seeking politicians (Sonia’s Congress) and fawning bureaucrats (MK) are struggling to please the Rajapakses to prevent any more secrets on Mullivaykkal and other massacres and Menik farm human rights abuses entering the public domain. Swapan ‘Sri Lanka for all its sins today is one of those countries which we can call a friend’. Is it Sri Lanka or Sonia Delhi that is keen on the Indo-SL friendship; in which case as one analyst mourns Delhi..has reduced the stature of India in the eyes of its neighbours in their efforts to please..India did nothing to stop the genocide of Sri Lankan Tamils..’ Nachchiappans, Chidambarams and Swapan’s Colombo contact are all anti-Tamil chettiars who parrot the success story of SL’s reconciliation works for what purpose? An analyst provides the answer ‘A UPA requires rosy pictures on Rajapakses’ reconciliation works, to extricate from accountability proceedings not only the Rajapakses but also the Sonia team for involvement in the SL/Rajapakse crimes…(allowing) a can of worms’ implicating the Sonia team. ‘The Rajapakses have a successful record buying out numerous high powered Delhi politicians …South Block bureaucrats …and a long list of apologists that Swapan in an interview to the Niti radio admits ‘that policy had the basic tacit concurrence …of India ..the LTTE wasn’t really an ordinary separatist movement..it had the ability to create safe haven in Tamil Nadu..that endangers Indian security’. Even the Rajapakses dollars had not invented such an outrageous and comical story. This is Sonia/Congress story and Swapan its loyal apologist’. Would Swapan now urge UPA3 to target TN following closely the Rajapakse model in dealing with separatism India-wide including Kashmir?
The issue of the Eelam Tamil genocide would have been a closed chapter had the Sonia/UPA/Swapan stories been totally believed by Indians. The tenacity of a million plus Tamil diaspora effectively countered such damaging mis-information about Eelam Tamils. The misinformation of paid apologists has and will continue to fail in sabotaging the work of humanist bodies like the UNHRC and the NGOs to prevent en masse killings of Tamils as it happened in the past. How much patience will Sonia/Congress show towards the truancy of the Rajapakses over the 1987 Indi-SL Accord 13th Amendment. In view of her complicity in the SL crimes does she have much of a choise. Without toeing the Swapan line that SL is a ‘friend of India’ story! Rajiv’s only legacy the 13th Amendment is being mutilated beyond recognition despite Sonia/MM Singh’s witnessing the drama in horror.
Post May 2009 developments point to the Vaddukkottai Resolution for Eelam Tamil autonomy that TNA authored, remains the bedrock of the Tamil cause, its relevance being more urgent today after the experience of the brutality of Buddhist/Sinhala massacres littered genocide. Full support for the Tamils/TNA would ensure that suspect imposters (wearing the moderates’ sheep skin) do not hijack and compromise on the core Tamil cause agenda.
vssubramaniam