
Oh! international community! What is your response?
Editorial-Uthayan Daily: 1st December 2005
Leader of the LTTE, in his Maveerar day talk, has given some
clear, definitive messages to Sri Lanka's new political
leadership. At the same time, those who have analyzed his
talk in some depth will also see that beyond the messages
given to the Sri Lankan leadership, LTTE leader has also
attempted to clarify some matters for the benefit of the
international community. In this respect his Maveerar day
speech is also a lesson to the international community that
has given them some solid facts.
LTTE leader points our at the very start of his talk that he
is disappointed and saddened that not only the Sinhala
nation but also the international community has failed to
understand, the immense sacrifices made by the Tamil people
for the liberation of the Tamil nation, the spiritual
strength and greatness of those sacrifices, and its
historical importance. He also explained in his speech that although Tamils knew
that they will not get justice from the Sinhala political
leadership, and that Tamils were determined to fight for
their own rights, it was because of the international
community that the Tamils agreed to hold peace talks with
the Sinhala leadership. At some point the pressure given by India, later the
pressure given by the international community, an
opportunity to gain international acceptance as a liberation
movement, an opportunity to internationalize the freedom
struggle and thus gain recognition for that struggle, to
show to the world that the LTTE is not a war mongering group
but is one that firmly believes in the soft approach, and to
prove to the international community that Sinhala leaders
will not put forward a just solution to the Tamil
aspirations, these are the reasons for LTTE participation in
the peace talks says the LTTE leader. In other words, the LTTE leader is reminding the
international community that it is because of that
international community; a national liberation movement
halted its struggle and kept opened the doors for peace
talks. What did the international community do for the Tamils? How
did it conduct itself? LTTE leader brings out in the open
the answers to these questions. When the Sinhala leadership, failed to participate in the
peace talks with honesty, behind the peace illusion
suppressed the freedom struggle, and secretly let loose a
shadow war against that liberation movement, thus practicing
its customary thuggish conduct, the international community
pretended not to see it and was watching it with amusement. It is not just this, the international community is going
beyond this to cause further harm. Sinhala leaders are ignoring the ground reality and the
political truth that LTTE is a liberation movement fighting
for the liberation of a people, and is trying to portray it
as a terrorist organization.
“We are disappointed and sad to note that some international governments, having been influenced by this false propaganda, continue to retain our organisation on their terrorist list. Biased positions taken by powerful nations acting as guardians of the peace process, in excluding and alienating our liberation organisation as a ‘terrorist outfit’ and supporting the interests of the Sri Lankan state, severely affected the balance of power relations between the parties in conflict at the peace negotiations.” LTTE leader by stating these truths is pointing his finger
at the international community. He brings out yet again, this time in the Maveerar day talk,
the international community's grave mistake in misusing
the term "terrorism" by giving it a wrong meaning and
then using it against political struggles that are just. “The international community cannot ignore these proclamations of a unified nation calling for the recognition of their right to self-determination, of their right to rule themselves. Our people aspire to determine their own political status. Having been subjected to decades of systematic state repression, they call upon the international community to recognise their political aspirations.” Oh! international community!! what is your answer?
01 December 2005
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