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“International community should recognise Tamil Freedom Sruggle”

Over 2000 delegates from the eight Tamil districts congregated at Vavuniya yesterday, 27 July 2005 and resolved that the International Community should recognise the Tamil Freedom Struggle and help to provide a political environment that would ensure the self determination right of the Tamil people and help to regain the Tamil sovereignty lost during the sixteenth century.

A wider cross section of people from all walks of life, representing the eight Tamil districts and representatives from the hill country plantation sector and the Western Province participated on behalf of the Tamil people living in those areas. Religious dignitaries representing Hindu, Christian and Muslim faith participated in the conference and contributed immensely with their research findings on problems related to the Tamil freedom struggle, causes that motivated the Tamil youth to take up arms, injustices perpetrated by Colombo on the Tamil people from pre-independence days and state violence and terrorism let loose during peaceful ‘Satyagraha’ in the Tamil districts and in Galle Face grounds in the South that culminated in state orchestrated communal pogroms against the Tamil people.

Upcountry Peoples’ Front Leader Mr.P.Chandrasekaran, M.P. urged the Tamil people to band together at an important historical juncture like this and strengthen the hands of the Tamil National Leader Mr.V.Pirapaharan to take forward the freedom struggle. “The ce ase fire period, unfortunately, has been a period during which the Tamil people continued to demonstrate their commitment to peace, but the government did not reciprocate in building up the peace momentum and the Tamils are left with no other alternative than to join hands and fight against state oppression” said the Plantation leader and parliamentarian Chandrasekaran.

“The uppermost question in the minds of the Tamil people today is whether a war would erupt again and if so what is going to happen to the buildings that come up in the areas free of military occupation” said Mr.Selvam Adaikkalanathan Wanni district TNA legislator and continued that if that is to happen the Tamil people will have to rely on the Tamil National Air Force to ward off aerial bombing by the SLAF. “We are only asking the international community to assess the ground realities and act without delay so that the tiny space available may be made use of to avert a war crisis” said Mr.Adaikkalanathan.

Western Province Peoples’ Front Leader Mr.Mano Ganeshan, quoting from past political blunders said that the senior Tamil Leader Late Mr.S.J.V.Chelvanayagam who entered into two pacts consecutively with the SLFP and the UNP, on finding that both the parties deceived the Tamils by abrogating the pacts, lamented in despair that God alone can help the Tamil people, but, Mr.Ganeshan continued, the Tamil people have been safeguarded by the freedom fighters and it is they who can win the freedom. Professionals and academics on a variety of subjects submitted research papers relating to the political struggle of the Tamil people from the state council days with special reference to communal pogroms in which Tamils were killed in thousands and their property ransacked and the genocidal pattern of state military activities that resulted in the burning of the Jaffna Library, aerial bombardment of churches, temples and schools where refugees were housed.

28 July 2005

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