In a letter sent to Secretary Clinton, President Obama, and appropriate elected officials on Friday, June 5 by Tamils for Obama that since the Tamil Tigers are no longer a functioning organization (their leaders are all dead, according to the Sri Lankan government) they should be taken off lists kept by the U.S. and other governments of terrorist organizations and their supporters. The aid organizations' presence on such lists keeps them from conveying funds and humanitarian help to Tamil war victims.
New York (PRWEB) June 5, 2009 -- The Tamil Tigers are gone, wrote Tamils for Obama in a letter to U.S. officials. Humanitarian organizations that were once accused of being Tiger fronts should be allowed to help the Tamil war victims who need their help.
The letter was sent to Secretary Clinton, President Obama, and appropriate elected officials on Friday, June 5 by Tamils for Obama. The letter said that since the Tamil Tigers are no longer a functioning organization and their leaders are all dead, according to the Sri Lankan government, the Tigers should be taken off lists kept by the U.S. and other governments of terrorist organizations and their supporters.
The presence on such lists of Tamil Rehabilitation Organization (TRO) and other aid organizations keeps them from conveying funds and humanitarian help to Tamil war victims. Tamils for Obama, a politically active group of Tamil Americans who were early supporters of candidate Obama, urged that the TRO and similar organizations be struck off any list of terrorist fronts which the U.S. still maintains. A spokesman for Tamils for Obama explained that they hope that if the U.S. removes them from the list of terrorist fronts, other countries may do likewise.
After the tsunami of 2004, former presidents Bill Clinton and George H. W. Bush worked with the TRO and praised the organization's efforts.
To read the letter go to: www.Tamilsforobama.com/Letters/Taken_off_list.html.
Tamils are an ethnic group living mainly in the northeast of Sri Lanka and southern India. During the final weeks of the recent civil war, the Sri Lankan government killed about 1,000 Tamil civilians per day, according to the United Nations, and about 30,000 in 2009. Tamils are a minority population in Sri Lanka, and have borne the brunt of a civil war they regard as genocide. One-third of the Tamil population has fled the island and formed a substantial diaspora overseas. Tamils for Obama is comprised of Tamils who have settled in the U.S. or who were born in the U.S.
To contact the group, call at (617) 765- 4394 and speak to, or leave a message for, the Communication Director, Tamils for Obama.
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