Black Flag Day in Tamil Nadu Expresses Solidarity with Eelam Tamils
Political Perspective by Tim King Salem-News.com
[TamilNet, Monday, 04 March 2013, 23:34 GMT]
Thousands of Eezham Tamils from across Europe, who took part in a rally at Geneva on Monday demanded a UN sponsored referendum for a sovereign Tamil Eelam. In the meantime, sections of protestors, who confluenced in Geneva, approached the hotel where TNA politicians, who had come to attend a conference, were residing. Parliamentarians Maavai Seanthirajah and Ariyanethran were encircled by the people who questioned them on the compromising polity forgetting fundamentals adopted by the TNA leadership. According to informed circles, TNA leader Mr Sampanthan in London last week has claimed that the US government use to extend invitations for talks only to him and to Mr Sumanthiran.
Mr Sampanthan has also claimed in London that he usually takes Mr Suresh Premachandran of the EPRLF and Mr Selvam Adaikkalanathan of the TELO to meetings with foreign diplomats. But, the US invitations come only to him and to Mr. Sumanthiran.
During the rally in Geneva on Monday, those who faced the brunt of questions from the diaspora were only Mr Maavai Senathirajah and Mr Ariyanenthiran of the TNA. Mr Suresh Premachandran and Mr Selvam Adaikkalanathan who had also gone to Geneva managed to avoid the scene.
Political Perspective by Tim King Salem-News.com
Americans remain in the dark about the war crimes, ethnic cleansing and Genocide of Sri Lankan Tamils.
Black Flag day for Tamil Eelam
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(SACRAMENTO, CA) - Salem-News.com will join media in India to observe Black Flag Day on the 4th March 2013. We do not let a single day pass without lamenting the fate of Sri Lankan Tamils who were slaughtered without mercy by the government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) in the final months of the country's 26-year long civil war.
Courtesy: blogs.timeslive.co.za
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Any journalist, particularly those of us who have covered war operations, should bear in mind that the GoSL remains indifferent to its role in slaughtering more than 160,000 Tamil people in an effort to crush a long running resistance program carried out by The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
It seems the first and most important target has consistently been the brave media personnel (both Tamil and Sinhalese) who refused to cower and play by the government's rules.
The killing that took place in this island nation was nearly unprecedented.
Keenly aware of the tragic Genocide that eradicated Sri Lankan Tamils, the Chennai Press met on March 2nd to plan for this observation.
The Press Club's G. Kurinji stated:
Tamil Tiger graves in Jaffna, Tamil Eelam. Courtesy: smh.com.au
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- "On behalf of our Makkal Nalvazhvu Iyakkam, we are informed that on March 4th Black flag demonstrations will be held throughout Tamil Nadu to express our solidarity to the Tamil Eelam (Tamil Eezham) cause. In Chennai we are going to besiege Sri Lankan High Commission office and demand that it should be closed once for all."
Those planning a similar approach in the USA can meet at the Sri Lankan embassy, 2148 Wyoming Ave NW Washington, DC. In Canada, the Sri Lanka embassy is located at: 333 Laurier Ave W #1204 Ottawa, Ontario.
Regarding the event in Tamil Nadu, India, G. Kurinji says optimism is running high.
- "There is tremendous response for our call and almost all the political parties and social and democratic movements have supported us firmly."
Sadly, most Americans remain in the dark about the war crimes, ethnic cleansing and Genocide of Sri Lankan Tamils. The U.S. government is responsible for setting up the final demise. Of course it is no surprise that war crime presidents like George W. Bush and Tony Blair and Majinda Rajapakse stick together like glue, they are all guilty of the same crimes and deserve the harshest and most unsympathetic punishment for engineering this conflict indirectly and directly in the case of Rajapakse.
Tim King as Keynote Speaker at last year's FeTNA (Federation of Tamil
Sangams of North America) in Baltimore discussing Sri Lanka's war crimes against media before 3,000 Tamils from North America, India and Sri Lanka. |
Most of all, it is the sneering cruel streak of cowardly domination that is so rife in this mostly Buddhist country.
Sri Lanka and now Burma, have shown us that Buddhism is in fact in many cases (countless), a warring philosophy that embraces rape, murder, child torture and extreme inhumanity.
Are these Buddhists a representation of the faith and belief system? I sincerely doubt it. Of course they no better represent Buddhism than the American drones and a false flag war in Iraq represents Christianity; Israel's ethnic cleansing of Arab Muslims and Christians is no expression of Judaism. The enemies are the radical religious zealots and they come in all sizes and shapes.
As time progresses, from my perspective as the editor of Salem-News.com, these times are changing. Syria is on the verge of retaking power from the terrorist rebel groups who have killed so many with the blessings of the west, Israel is being outed continually for torture deaths, and good old Sri Lanka is back in war crime court, with large numbers of high powered officials from the UN Human Rights Commission on down, pushing for accountability.
My message, as one of the only American journos who has reported the crimes of this war, is to keep going, push push push! Call for accountability, take part in the Boycott of all Sri Lankan goods, boycott everything to do with this country. Urge your political leaders to end the suffering, because it did not end when Sri Lanka defeated the Tamil Tigers. Sex crimes and crimes against humanity are a daily occurence along with murder and torture and the dreaded 'white vanning' of those who ask the wrong questions. It is time to bring the Rajapakse regime to justice.
(Note: Links to all of Tim King's articles on the Sri Lankan Tamil Genocide are listed below these photos)
Special thanks to Chennai Press Club, Dr. Paul Newman and Visvanathan Sivam
Thousands rallying in Geneva question TNA MPs on compromise
[TamilNet, Monday, 04 March 2013, 23:34 GMT]Thousands of Eezham Tamils from across Europe, who took part in a rally at Geneva on Monday demanded a UN sponsored referendum for a sovereign Tamil Eelam. In the meantime, sections of protestors, who confluenced in Geneva, approached the hotel where TNA politicians, who had come to attend a conference, were residing. Parliamentarians Maavai Seanthirajah and Ariyanethran were encircled by the people who questioned them on the compromising polity forgetting fundamentals adopted by the TNA leadership. According to informed circles, TNA leader Mr Sampanthan in London last week has claimed that the US government use to extend invitations for talks only to him and to Mr Sumanthiran. Mr Sampanthan has also claimed in London that he usually takes Mr Suresh Premachandran of the EPRLF and Mr Selvam Adaikkalanathan of the TELO to meetings with foreign diplomats. But, the US invitations come only to him and to Mr. Sumanthiran.
During the rally in Geneva on Monday, those who faced the brunt of questions from the diaspora were only Mr Maavai Senathirajah and Mr Ariyanenthiran of the TNA. Mr Suresh Premachandran and Mr Selvam Adaikkalanathan who had also gone to Geneva managed to avoid the scene.
A vast majority of the protestors were youth in the diaspora.
Speaking to TamilNet from Geneva, grassroots activist Gobi Sivanthan from the UK, who is also leading the ‘Tamil Van’ tour of Europe to educate masses on the internationally abetted genocide of Eezham Tamils, said that the youth remain firm and that they brook no compromise by any sections of the global establishments or their agents in the diaspora on the fundamentals of the struggle.
The protestors had also placed other demands which included an independent international investigation on Sri Lanka on the charges of genocide.
They also called for an immediate release of all Eezham Tamil political prisoners who are in the custody of the genocide accused Sri Lankan state.
The protestors had also placed other demands which included an independent international investigation on Sri Lanka on the charges of genocide.
They also called for an immediate release of all Eezham Tamil political prisoners who are in the custody of the genocide accused Sri Lankan state.
