Sri Lankan Tamils will not settle for anything less than a separate Eelam as they had already paid the highest price towards achieving the goal, DMK president M. Karunanidhi claimed on Tuesday.
“The prospects of a political solution and devolution of power remain only on paper and the Sri Lankan government does not even have the basic honesty of fulfilling the promises made on world forums. Sri Lankan Tamils have given lakhs of lives in sacrifice towards achieving the goal. Tamils have lost everything in their own country, lost their relatives and roam the streets of many countries as orphans and refugees. They have paid the highest price,” Mr Karunanidhi said in a statement here.
The DMK leader, who favours the formation of a separate Eelam on the lines of East Timor, Kosovo, South Sudan and Montenegro, said efforts made by moderate Tamil leaders, such as A. Amirthalingam to find a peaceful solution, were nipped in the bud and agreements with them were thrown to the winds.
“The armed struggle was crushed by unprecedented military deployment. Sinhalese majoritarianism does not show an iota of interest in giving equal rights to the Tamils,” Mr Karunanidhi said, reacting to the argument of BJP leader Sushma Swaraj and CPI(M) MP T.K. Rangarajan that Tamil leaders were not for a separate Eelam.
Mr. Karunanidhi, an ally of the Congress-led UPA at the Centre, said as far as the Sri Lankan Tamils were concerned, he had not asked India to intervene the way it did in Bangladesh. “I just want India and the United Nations to intervene and conduct a referendum for the formation of a separate Eelam,” he said.
Ah, that cat is out of the bag. So, the REAL intentions of the Tamil leaders are now known. They don't want anything less than Eelam! This is exactly why devolution is a VERY difficult process. SL leaders know that deep down Tamil leaders (not all, mind you, but the extremists) want to break up the country, and thus, their (SL govt's') extreme hesitancy in drawing up legislation that could in any way be used by the Tamil leaders as a pathway to a breakup of the country.
Tamil tamil tamil. Are they the only ones who suffered during the past
30 years? What about the Sinhalese, the Muslims and all others who were
butchered by the terrorist tigers? Just because they are silent do not
for a moment think that they have no hatred towards terrorist tiger
sponsors and apologists.
Keep dreaming karunanidhi - but like the old saying goes ..........
"dont make dreams your master".
We now need all of Tamil Nadu including AIDMK,CPI(M),PMK,MMDK etc and All India (Congress (I) and BJP) united in calling for an Independent Tamil Eelam so Tamils can live without fear of anti-Tamil race riots, intimidation by the state's armed forces in all walks of civilin life in the North East, and discrimnation by Colombo. Creation of Tamil Eelam, as DMK says, will be India's next Bangaladesh.
Ramachandran, Karunanidhi, Jayalitha, Nedumaran, and Waiko have aided and sheltered LTTE to carry out thousands of killings in Sri Lanka.
These people popularize EELAM ideologies just to win votes in India by stirring primitive tribalism, and "We Tamil" mentality
India has the biggest Tamil population, and the Tamils in India do not have even the basic rights that the Tamils in Sri Lanka have. Tamil is not an official language in India. But it is in Sri Lanka.
These Tamilnadu bankrupt politicians know that if they talk about an EELAM in India, they would be jailed. For convenience, they shout for an EELAM in Sri Lanka. Their second step is to make Tamilnadu an independent country.
India beware of these racist, primitive, and tribal Tamilnadu politicians.
It is nice to see DMK raising the important issues of tamils in parliment. Wishing the tamils good luck.
International community knows Sri Lankan Tamils cannot live with majority any more after long running structural genocide. But they are not willing to isolate the Tamils and it is very strange. We all believe only way to safeguard minority rights is to call for referendom for issolation.
Referendom for separation is the best option to find peaceful solution to the ethnic conflict.
Who nipped the moderates and all other elements in the name of Eelam. Now they have lost
the terror war and want the world with the help of the west who always fish in troubled
waters to get the Eelam for them, then they will shout to annex Tamil nadu to it. South of
Srilanka too will be swallowed later in the process, world should be awake to these
Tamil moves.
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