வியாழன், 16 ஆகஸ்ட், 2012

Parity of status to Tamils as a nation is the only way

Don't expect justice by changing regimes that deson't recognise Tamils as Nation: Gajendrakumar

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 15 August 2012, 21:16 GMT]
Parity of status to Tamils as a nation is the only way to restore justice in the island. It is meaningless to expect that ‘internal justice’ would come from any regime in Colombo, said Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam, a former parliamentarian and the leader of the Tamil National Peoples Front (TNPF) addressing the participants of a protest organised by the party on Wednesday to condemn the slaying of the Tamil political prisoner Delruxon Mariyathas and Nimalarooban. Wednesday's protest gains significance as the SL military and police that attempted to curb the protest in front of Jaffna were not able to suppress it through their ‘friendly magistrate’ as they managed to do earlier in curbing a protest at the same site by the TNPF.



Tamil political prisoners were slain en masse in Welikade [in 1983] when a different party was in power in Colombo. The Bindunuwewa prison massacre took place under another regime [in 2000]. Now, the slaying of Nimalarooban and Delruxon in the prisons of the Sri Lankan State has taken place under the Rajapaksa regime. One cannot expect justice from any government in Colombo without the recognition that Tamils constitute a Nation on par with the Sinhala nation in the island, Mr. Ponnambalam said, both at his address at the funeral of Delruxon on Saturday and at the TNPF-organised protest held in front of the Jaffna bus stand on Wednesday.


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