Tamils' struggle for freedom and equality in Sri lanka
The Tamils have a recorded history that goes back two millennia. From the beginning
of the recorded history, the southern part of the Indian sub-continent as well as
the North and Eastern part of Sri Lanka have been the homelands of the Tamils. Today
Tamils stand as the ‘oppressed, forgotten and voiceless people’ of Sri Lanka.
When Sri Lanka got independence from the British rulers in 1948, Tamil leaders full
heartedly embraced united island of Sri Lanka as the future for Tamils despite the
pre-colonial nature of Tamil kingdoms. Tamils’ trust on united Island of country
evaporated to those leaders dismay when subsequent majority parties implemented
policies that are discriminatory. Some of those policies are state sponsored colonization,
Sinhala only language policy and standardization in university education. For more
than 35 years peaceful protests were suppressed with iron hands and organized riots
against general Tamil population.
S Lanka video prompts probe calls - BBC News
Sri Lanka is facing fresh calls for an international human rights inquiry after video emerged apparently showing extra-judicial killings by troops.
This video contains some disturbing images
Today more than 300,000 people including 55,000 children and 30,000 badly injured
have been detained in what is termed as internments camps by the government of Sri
Lanka hidden from outside world. Doctors who served the people have been jailed.
Catholic priests barred from leaving the internment camps for no reason.
Tamils are held in barbed wire nazi like concentration Camps in Sri Lanka Tortured
and abused!!!
The threat to Sri Lanka's Tamils Courtesy "Channel 4 News, UK"
Jonathan Miller reports from Sri Lanka on fears for the wellbeing of the Tamil population
in the wake of the routing last month of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. The
accompanying report contains extremely distressing images
The threat to Sri Lanka's Tamils Courtesy "Channel 4 News, UK"
Channel 4 News reports (secret video footage) from a camp in the northern Sri Lankan
city of Vavuniya ,
where Tamil refugees have been taken. Shocking claims have emerged of shortages
of food and water, dead bodies left where they have fallen, women separated from
their families, and even sexual abuse.More
Hand over jurisdiction for all Internment Camps to the United Nations High Commissioner
for Refugees;
Allow the return of Civilians to their homes immediately with the assistance of
NGO’s;
Allow land mine clearing teams to the Vanni Region;
Allow an international assessment team comprised of professionals, NGO’s, governments,
with International Tamil Diaspora involvement to the Country for assessment of long
term needs of the communities;
Dismantle the para-military groups operating in the North and East of Sri Lanka
and confiscate their weaponry;
Dismantle the High Security Zones in the Northern Peninsula to allow some of the
IDP’s to return to their traditional villages;
Allow for international Monitors to assess and investigate human rights violations;
and war crimes;
Fulfill the political aspirations of the Tamil people of the Island.
Former Associate Deputy Attoney General for USA Bruce Fein Speaks about Tamils Need
for Independence
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