South African initiative props up ‘Sri Lankan’ identity
[TamilNet, Friday, 06 September 2013, 06:42 GMT]A geopolitical axis of South Africa-Colombo-Singapore, held a “Dialogue promotion amongst Sri Lankans,” by convening a meeting of different political and academic stakeholders at Singapore last week. The very orientation of the axis, as the conference title implies, was to prop up the Sri Lankan State and to make Eezham Tamils to compromise with ‘Sri Lankan’ identity, despite decades of genocide and on-going genocide, Tamil observers in the island said. At least two Establishments of the West, Switzerland and Norway are said to be backing the South Africa process that has an 18 months history behind it. Eezham Tamils have rejected the Sri Lankan identity at the very official introduction of it along with the 1972 republican constitution.
According to a press release from the South African convenors, titled “Dialogue promotion amongst Sri Lankans,” the process is dubbed as “In Transformation Initiative,” (ITI).
