Dear Mr. Wharton MP

Scotakton South

Greetings

As a British Tamil, who has lived in UK for over four decades, have passed the Shakespearean’s four scores and ten. I could not resist sending you my quick note of resentment over your subtle innocent like presentation, much of which was obvious propaganda message on behalf of Srilankan government. Please forgive me for writing this directly.

I certainly know how difficult it is for you to understand an internal conflict in a far off land, such as in Sri Lanka.Much of which does not appear in UK media. We the Tamil expatriates-Diaspora are willing to expose this internal conflict to get the attention of the International community. However, I would really appreciate your time and attention to this unimaginable tragedy during an un-witnessed war unleashed on the vulnerable minority population in Sri Lanka.

Your uncomfortable focus on the events described in the short presentation, where you apportion the blame on Tamils for the military conflict for removal of terrorism is a sad reflection of political duplicity. UK need to be on the right side of history, with a balanced understanding of the internal conflict that was created by British Colonial system, imposing the parliamentary democracy. Mr. Wharton, despite Britain being the home of parliamentary democracy, it was that democracy that had help inflict a pernicious system of iniquity on my people following independence in 1948. You want to be a friend of Srilanka because of your personal interest, it doesn’t matter to us or for any geo-political or trade interest that is your business. However, It is sad that you are unable to recognize the humanity of the Tamils and their birth rights that need to be resolved for a lasting political solution, peace and stability.

Why do Sinhalese politicians deny these truth? Ceylon/Sri Lanka has been in ethnic turmoil, since independence in 1948- that is 63 years. Why do they speak only of the last 30 years? Why don’t they speak about the previous 30 years. Because, these Southern politicians had to portray themselves as the victims of Tamil terrorism. They had the need to hide state terrorism their felony on the Tamils. They needed to cover all their undemocratic legislatures passed to discriminate and marginalise Tamils from their citizenship rights, governance in order to subjugate the Tamils of Indian Origin and the indigenous Tamils. Thus, to cover up their misdemeanours to felony, they persists on painting the Tamil’s liberation struggle as terrorism by using gullible people like you and PR companies in the UK &USA to consolidate their malicious misinformation as the truth.

Tamils lost their sovereignty and territorial land to Portuguese in 1621. this was handed down to Dutch in1658 and to British in1798. Three kingdoms in the Island were unified in 1833 by British for easy administration. This unified Country was handed to a parliamentary democratic rule, which the majority community Sinhalese grabbed and started to marginalise the Tamils from the governance due to their numerical strength and has continued ethnic cleansing in the name of civil riots but it was racial riots to reduce the number of Tamils. This planned State terrorism helped migration of Tamils,over 200,000 killed to dwindle the number further. These were the state terrorism unleashed to make the Island a Mono Ethnic Sinhala Buddhist country. Our cries from 1956 to date has not been heard by people like you it is ‘Like the ostrich that buries its head in the sand’.

Tamils have no powerful lobbies, media outlets or wealth to oppose Government of Srilanka. We have endured in the past six decades the taste of oppression, subjugation and false propaganda such as ‘fighting terrorism’. The undisputable truth is, that the Tamils faced state terrorism. The pain and loss suffered by Tamils during pogroms of 1958,1977,1983 and during the racial war from 1978-2009. Please believe, Tamils were the victims of overwhelmingly state’s racial discrimination and calculated ethnic cleansing to make Srilanka solely a mono ethnic Sinhala Buddhist country. This has been the ‘Mind set’ of all the Sinhala politicians, based on the 6th century Mahavamsa Chronicle. Unfortunately during the independence negotiations with Britain; Tamils had no statesmen like Hon. Jinnah of India who stood his grounds and won the partition for the Muslims [Pakistan].

I am sure Mr.Wharton you are well aware, by the end of April 2011; The United Nations Secretary General released his 3-member Expert Panel Report on Sri Lanka, describing the shameful conduct of the war and the awful scenes of brutality to civilians from prolonged starvation, obstruction to humanitarian assistance. The ‘abuses to corpses’ during the conflict, shelling and aerial bombing of hospitals and in no fire-zones on the Channel 4 documentary. According to the report by Gordon Weiss up to 40,000 were killed in the last few days of the war. Since the time the 200 plus-page report was released, the Sri Lankan government has been spending millions of dollars and advising its missions abroad to carrying out effective campaigns to portray Sri Lanka as a safer place and to cover up all what it has done to the Tamil population.

It is very heartbreaking for me hear and see the desperate Tamil civilians still begging for freedom and liberty in their own ancestral homeland. Two years after the war it is very crucial to this section of oppressed and vulnerable society the world around not to be ignorant of the crimes inflicted on them. But, as human society, we need to know that people can only take so much oppression and sufferings under oppressive regimes and we have a common responsibility not to promote evil policies and not to bear some of the guilt for those injustices whether they are in Darfur, Bosnia, Libya or Sri Lanka.

Thank you for your Patience

Best Wishes

Yours Sincerely

Dr. V.Rajayogeswaran[Raj}

Vice Chairman Global Peace Support Group UK

Peace Advocacy Group