Tamils All Over The World Will Always Miss You, Comrade Roy

Suren Surendiran

Below we give Tamil Representative Suren Surendiran’s Speech (transcript) at the State Funeral of South African Late Minister R L (Roy) Padayachie

Vanakkam,
Your Excellency the President, Hon Prime Minister, Ministers, Deputy Ministers, Sally, Comrade Roy’s Family, Fellow Comrades, Friends, Ladies and Gentlemen

To be asked to speak today, to be part of this event in memory of Comrade Roy, is both humbling and a privilege. My wife and I flew in from London, to represent the Tamil people in the island of Sri Lanka and around the world, as members of Global Tamil Forum, at this memorial of a remarkable individual, who is greatly admired as a man of enormous energy, who gave his all, to free his people, he loved.

It was Comrade Roy, who convinced the Global Tamil Forum with his revolutionary experience and urged a large section of Tamil people of my generation, that it was our sacred duty, to help our fellow brothers and sisters in their emancipation, from the evils of oppression.

And it was Comrade Roy, who set out for my generation, that we all have a duty, to meet obligations that arise from

v Our social originsYou watch his speech @ 1:01 here

v Our mutual solidarity

v The claims of justice

And today, we want to honour the legacy, of Comrade Roy. Read More