"SELF DETERMINATION IS KEY TO THE WORLD PEACE"
: Just give “peace” a chance in Sri Lanka, Letter Nov. 9
Sri Lanka High Commissioner Chitranganee Wagiswara tries to justify the war crimes by the government against Tamil civilians by asserting that Tamil Tigers were terrorists. She is by implication accepting that war crimes were committed by both Sri Lankan army and the Tamil Tigers. Terrorism by a rebel group cannot justify war crimes by Sri Lankan government on her civilians.
Ms Wagiswara’s description of the Sri Lankan communities as “peace loving” is a cruel joke. The Tamil majority areas of Sri Lanka (Eelam) are under a massive Sinhalese army of occupation, who are harassing and trampling on the rights of the Tamils after the surrender of the Tamil Tigers in May 2009.
Even the provincial governors of the two Tamil provinces are army generals accused of war crimes. Tamil government agents are being replaced by Sinhalese and the government is colonizing Tamil lands by bringing in Sinhalese from the south with army patronage.
Some 300,000 Tamils were forcibly kept like cattle in detention camps and many are still languishing in camps. Mahinda Rajapakse recently passed a law demanding title deeds from the one million Tamils who fled the country.
Foreign reporters are not allowed freely into Tamil provinces, to hide the facts, and only selected writers are allowed. The Sri Lankan government is spending large sums of money to convince the international community that everything is “peaceful” in Sri Lanka. Since independence in 1948, several laws have been enacted by the Sinhalese majority to deny the Tamils voting rights, citizenship rights, language rights, equal education and employment rights.
Sinhalese thugs, police and army organized the slaughter of Tamils and destruction, rape and plunder of Tamil properties all over the island, in 1956, 1958, 1971, 1977, culminating in 1983, forcing mass exodus of Tamils from Sinhalese areas and out of the country. The Tamil youth in desperation took up arms and one such group was LTTE (Tamil Tigers).
Absence of war is not peace for Tamils, who are kidnapped, tortured, humiliated and treated as third-class citizens. We Tamils thank our Prime Minister Stephen Harper for putting his foot down against human rights violations by the Rajapakse government. An injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere.
S. Makenthiran, Mississauga
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