Saturday, 5 November 2011, 16:35

(Who ever applicable?)
Dear Mr. Balasundaram,


May I take a few minutes of your valuable time to place a pointer

of the genocidal agenda of Rajapakse regime.

The GOSL Citizenship Act No. 18 of 1948 provides for the Birth Registration of a child born to Sri Lanka parents, outside its shores, via an application

being made to the Embassy where the child was born. The Act provides

such a Registered Child as one of Sri Lanka descent and this temporary

status is valid till the child attains 22 yrs. of age, when she/he must

confirm acceptance of Citizenship thereafter. A Certificate of

Registration is provided by the Ministry (now MoD) to the applicant once the

Birth is simultaneously Registered by the Registrar General of Births.

A Birth Certificate too is sent to the applicant parents. The parents

may then include the childs name in the passport of one parents or

obtain an individual Passport in the name of the child from the relevant

Embassy.

This apparently has been put on hold by Mahinda Rajapakse – after his

debacle at Oxford Univarsity UK last. Legally none are being registered

and when the Controller of Emigration was questioned sometime ago he declared that there were 35,000 pending. This may have risen to over

60,000 by now. It is presumed, by me , that 95% of the applicants are

TAMILS. The Embassy issues the usual receipt for the charges made.

Thus the Govt. gets its due income but no action as a hold is in place.

As the law stands it may form a back-log to be resolved, however the

chances of Tamils being identified as Tamil Citizens of a State is being

manipulated – a structured genocidal activity without the knowledge

of its people.

I suggest that you make contact with a retired tamil Officer from the

Emmigration Dept. ( Citizenship Div.) and make a pronouncement having studied it, in our interest. Discussion at the SL embassy in UK may reveal

more information.

The TNA should be aware of this situation but more pressing matters makes

them skip any Diaspora related Tamil problem, I guess?

Thanking you for your time and interest.

Yours truly,

S.Mahendra

(Switzerland)

PS: I wrote this ealier to Dr. Arulanantham (USA Tamils org.)