Eezham Tamils in Canada evolve common position on Tamil activism

[TamilNet, Friday, 18 April 2014, 21:31 GMT]
In a move interpreted as a sharp response to Sri Lanka's war on Tamil diaspora, more than 80 Tamil community organizations from across Canada have come together in an initiative to create a consensus outlining their collective position and guiding principles on Tamil struggle-centric engagement. The Tamil Assembly rejected the proscription of 16 Tamil diaspora organizations along with 424 individuals by the Government of Sri Lanka and said: The ongoing genocide of the Tamil nation is aided and abetted by institutions, governments, and bodies outside the purview of the Sri Lankan state structure, making them complicit in the ongoing genocide. These external actors have a responsibility to halt the ongoing genocide of the Tamil nation and guarantee the collective rights of the Tamils.

The General Assembly organizers said that the consensus document, prepared through a five-months process, was received as a timely move when it was presented to all the participating grassroots, community and political organisations in Canada at the confluence event held in the Toronto City Hall Council Chamber on Sunday April 13.

The document will also serve as the reference document on topics relevant and of importance to members of federal, provincial and municipal politics on the common position of the Eezham Tamils in Canada, they further said.

The current Sri Lankan constitution, especially the 6th amendment, prevents the representatives of the Tamil nation domiciled in the island from freely articulating the political aspirations of the Eelam Tamils, the document said.

“Any just solution for the Eelam Tamils cannot be confined to the existing parameters of the Sri Lankan constitution and must be based on the recognition of Eelam Tamils as a nation.”

“Any just solution for the Eelam Tamil nation will rightfully incorporate a just and equitable resolution on the question of the Muslim community and other communities in the Tamil homeland,” the document further said.

Extensive consultations were undertaken for five months leading up to the General Assembly to arrive at the points for consensus, the organisers said.

These consultations were with a wide spectrum of social, cultural and political based community organizations and their representatives.

Once the common message was drafted, the General Assembly convened to formally discuss and ratify the points for consensus.

“Tamil organizations engaged in this process to further strengthen the collective voice of the Tamil community in Canada and build a common ground for communicating this collective voice to interested parties who seek engagement with the community. They further committed to actively communicate, disseminate and promote the consensus reached at this General Assembly as the official position of the Tamil Community in Canada,” commented Professor Sri Ranjan, the chairperson for the National Council of Canadian Tamils (NCCT).

The Assembly also saw the participation of elected officials from all levels of government who came to observe the proceedings and lend their support to Eezham Tamils in Canada.

The Assembly was unanimous in their adoption of all 34 points for consensus. The points are divided into sections discussing; historical context, international community responsibility, Canadian Government responsibility, the role of the Tamil diaspora, and the effects of proscribing Tamil community activism. They were drafted compiling recent and historical resolutions, motions and other documents the Tamil community in Canada has participated in before.

The General Assembly organizers will be in touch with the participant organizations and observers to cooperatively work together in advancing the interests of the Tamil community in Canada, professor Sri Ranjan said.

The consensus document is to be officially released in the coming week to the public and used in the future for the purposes of strengthening the political and community interests of Eezham Tamils in their homeland, in Canada and elsewhere.

Below are the 34 points adopted as the official position of the Tamil Community in Canada at the Tamil Community General Assembly:

Historical Context:

1. The Eelam Tamils are a nation in the island called Ceylon since the times of the earliest known documentary and archaeological evidences, culminating in having their historically and geographically defined homeland, distinct language, culture and collective consciousness.
   
2. They temporarily lost their sovereignty to Portuguese (1505) colonial conquest, followed by the Dutch (1656) and the British (1818) and did not regain it at the end of the European colonialism in 1948.
   
3. They have a continued history of democratically struggling to share their sovereignty with the Sinhala nation for 30 years since the independence of Ceylon, the failure of which culminated in the historic Vaddukkodai Resolution of 1976, which was endorsed by a mandate of the Eelam Tamil nation in the 1977 parliamentary general elections.
   
4. The abject failure of the non-violent and peaceful democratic struggle (1948-1983), due to state oppression and state-aided pogroms against unarmed Tamil civilians, led to another 30 years of militant struggle which culminated in Eelam Tamils earning their sovereignty in a de facto state that was tacitly recognized in an internationally-recognized Peace Accord in 2002.
   
5. The Tamil political body identified by the de facto state winning the elections in 2004 shows the endorsement of Eelam Tamils to the de facto state that came into being by earned sovereignty.
   
6. Tipping the balance against the de facto state which led to war crimes and on-going genocide is now indirectly acknowledged by the UN’s internal review panel report (Petrie Report) and Norway’s evaluation report of the peace process.
   
7. Under the guise of a “post-conflict reconciliation” charade, Sri Lanka is continuing a systematic and accelerated process of genocide in the militarily occupied Tamil homeland in the North and East of the island.
   
8. Women and children are the most vulnerable in the context of military occupation and an ongoing genocide. Documented evidence reveals widespread and systematic rape of Tamil women as part of the collective genocidal policy of the Sri Lankan state.
   
9. The current ground realities in the Tamil homeland, include heavy militarization, accelerated State-aided Sinhala colonization, and structural abuse of Eelam Tamils, all targeted to destroy the identity of the Tamil nation and the territorial contiguity of the Tamil homeland.
   
10. The current Sri Lankan constitution, especially the 6th amendment, prevents the representatives of the Tamil nation domiciled in the island from freely articulating the political aspirations of the Eelam Tamils.
    
11. Any just solution for the Eelam Tamils cannot be confined to the existing parameters of the Sri Lankan constitution and must be based on the recognition of Eelam Tamils as a nation.
    
12. Any just solution for the Eelam Tamil nation will rightfully incorporate a just and equitable resolution on the question of the Muslim community and other communities in the Tamil homeland.
    
    Responsibility of the international community to guarantee justice to Eelam Tamils:
    
13. Following the United Nations Internal Review, the Secretary General of the United Nations accepted the United Nation’s failure to protect the Tamil people in the island.
    
14. The international community must recognize and guarantee the collective rights of the Tamil nation. Such a guarantee must be considered only on the acknowledgement of the Eelam Tamils as a nation, with their distinct territoriality in the North and East of the island.
    
15. There needs to be an immediate and complete removal of the Sri Lankan military and security forces from the Tamil homeland, including the disarming of the paramilitaries.
    
16. The United Nations has the responsibility of maintaining a local presence in assisting the Tamils of the North and East to sustain their livelihood in the face of genocide. The removal of impartial international aid organizations from the North and East makes it easier for the Sri Lankan military to forcibly acquire Tamil-owned lands.
    
17. Any internal mechanism by the Sri Lankan state like the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission to address the systemic injustices meted out to the Tamils is fundamentally flawed, and only an independent international investigation into the charges of genocide and crimes against humanity, as espoused in the 2010/2013 Permanent People’s Tribunal’s findings, can bring justice to the victims.
    
18. Despite efforts to address issues of truth, accountability and justice in Sri Lanka, the international community has not yet expressed a political will to pursue an international investigation in the spirit of finding a solution to the national question of Eelam Tamils. Limiting the scope of any potential inquiry to just war crimes could result only in a regime change, with investigations not having the authority to hold all those culpable to account. An investigation into the crime of genocide would be most likely to create the environment conducive for genuine justice and accountability.
    
    The Permanent People’s Tribunal has concluded that Sri Lanka is guilty of Genocide for the following reasons:
    
    

    (a) Killing members of the group, which includes massacres, indiscriminate shelling, the strategy of herding civilians into so called “No Fire Zones” for the purpose of massive killings, targeted assassinations of outspoken Eelam Tamil civil leaders who were capable of articulating the Sri Lankan genocide project to the outside world.
    
    (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group, including acts of torture, inhumane or degrading treatment, sexual violence including rape, interrogations combined with beatings, threats of death, and harm that damages health or causes disfigurement or injury.
    
    (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part, including expulsions of the victims from their homes, seizures of private lands, declaring vast areas as military High Security Zone (HSZ) to facilitate the military acquisition of Tamil land.
    
    Further, the Tribunal considered evidence related to;
    
    (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group including forced sterilization and coerced contraception of Eelam Tamil women. Further investigation is required on the extent of this practice in other regions before a determination is made on whether these could be considered genocidal acts.

19. There is an immediate need for an internationally supported transitional administration to halt the ongoing genocide of Eelam Tamils.
    
20. The provincial councils are not a solution to the political aspirations of Tamils. The recent provincial council elections displayed the rejection from the Tamil people to be ruled by the Colombo regime. The Tamil people voted for the de-militarization of the North and East, the preservation of the territorial contiguity of the Tamil homeland, the right to remember those who sacrificed their lives in the Tamil liberation struggle, and a political solution not compromising their inalienable right to self-determination. Further, Sri Lanka is a unitary state structure; the executive powers are with the President. The President, through their appointed Governor can revoke any decisions or powers of the provincial council.
21. To provide the political space for Eelam Tamils to express their political aspirations, an internationally monitored referendum should be conducted among Eelam Tamils of North and East descent in the island of Sri Lanka, in the diaspora and among the refugees in India and elsewhere, to arrive at a just political solution.
    
22. A referendum has been used historically to determine the political will of many nations. The Tamils in the homeland cannot articulate their real political aspirations without the 6th amendment of the Sri Lankan constitution being repealed. The Tamil diaspora and refugees in Tamil Nadu, who are also part of the Tamil nation, is the only people who can advance the claim for a referendum without fear of persecution. Until the Sri Lankan government repeals the 6th amendment Eelam Tamils under occupation cannot freely express their political aspirations. A referendum provides the Tamil Nation with a mechanism for them to exercise their inalienable right to choose their own political destiny.
    
23. The ongoing genocide of the Tamil nation is aided and abetted by institutions, governments, and bodies outside the purview of the Sri Lankan state structure, making them complicit in the ongoing genocide. These external actors have a responsibility to halt the ongoing genocide of the Tamil nation and guarantee the collective rights of the Tamils.
    
    The responsibility of the Tamil diaspora:
    
24. To be the political voice for Tamils in the homeland who are denied the fundamental right to freely articulate their political aspirations due to the 6th amendment and the absence of a safe political space.
    
25. To continue assisting Tamils in the homeland sustain their existence in the face of genocide. The diaspora continues their assistance through various grassroots non-governmental organizations, charities, temples, village associations and school associations.
    
    Acknowledging the efforts made by the Canadian government towards truth, accountability and justice in Sri Lanka, the Tamil community urges the Canadian government to pursue the following as productive next steps:
    
26. Acknowledge that any internal mechanism by the Sri Lankan state to address the systemic injustices meted out to the Tamils is fundamentally flawed.
    
27. Actively call for the establishment of an independent, international, and impartial investigation into the charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes to ensure truth, accountability and justice in Sri Lanka.
    
28. Pursue alternative strategies such as diplomatic and economic sanctions as well as travel restrictions for Government of Sri Lanka officials.
    
29. Acknowledge that only a political solution based on the recognition of the Tamil people as a nation with the right to self-determination can result in justice and accountability.
    
30. Support the call from the Tamil community for a transitional administration and an internationally monitored referendum on the national question of Eelam Tamils.
    
31. Acknowledge that despite the armed conflict ending in 2009, the threat of persecution remains a reality for Tamils in the island. This should be weighted heavily in claimants’ case proceedings regarding political asylum and refugee status.
    
    The Tamil community’s expectations from Canadian municipalities and provinces:
    
32. To continue the cooperative relationship between Canadian municipalities and provinces to further strengthen the support structures for the Tamil community across Canada in areas of social, cultural and economic development.
    
    The effects of proscribing Tamil community activism:
    
33. The Tamil community rejects the proscription of 16 Tamil diaspora organizations along with 424 individuals by the Government of Sri Lanka. The list of organizations includes the National Council of Canadian Tamils, Tamil Youth Organization, the Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam and the Canadian Tamil Congress. This serves as a preventative measure for the Tamil diaspora to continue campaigning for the right to self-determination of the Tamil nation. This reactionary measure adopted by the Government of Sri Lanka reflects its lack of commitment towards genuine truth, accountability and justice.
    
34. The proscription of Tamil diaspora organizations and individuals by the Sri Lankan government is an attempt to weaken the campaign for a just political solution for Eelam Tamils. This decision draws its lineage from the proscription of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, which has had consequential effects on the lives of Tamil Canadians in their social, cultural and political spheres. The discourse of terrorism continues to be used to deny, suppress and intimidate Tamil Canadians against confidently exercising their constitutional rights. Further, it prevents human rights campaigners from building international support to stop the genocide of the Eelam Tamil nation.

SL military assassinated 3 ex-LTTE members after deception, entrapment

[TamilNet, Thursday, 17 April 2014, 13:26 GMT]
After getting the family members of the three slain ex-LTTE members in Nedungkea'ni to identify the victims, the Sri Lankan authorities have refused to hand over their dead bodies to the families to conduct a decent funeral. The family members who were allowed to identify the said the victims were shot in close range. Meanwhile, reliable sources in Vanni and Jaffna told TamilNet that they were not slain in a clash as the SL military has claimed, but caught in advance. It is believed that a Tamil person, who was working as the SL military intelligence officer at Kokkaavil camp in Vanni, was also slain in the sting operation. His identity is yet to be confirmed. The operation has been headed by an under cover operative now working for Sri Lankan military intelligence. He is known as Kalaiyan, an informed source told TamilNet Thursday.

Sundaralingam Kajeepan was one of the slain victims. Known as Theyveekan, he was a pilot of the Air Tigers before May 2009. There is no independent verification to assert the various claims surrounding his modus operandi after 2009. It is also not known how he was associated with the others who have been assassinated together with him.

However, the other two ex-LTTE members, both of whom were known to each other in the past, Navaratnam Navaneethan alias Appan or Thiru from Punnaalaik-kadduvan from Jaffna district and Selvanayagam Kajeepan from Trincomalee district, were linked by operative Kalaiyan who is working with the Sri Lankan military intelligence in a project to ‘revive the LTTE’.

The mission probably sought to create, monitor and keep the forces under containment with a purpose. This purpose seems to have been achieved during the UN Human Rights Council session in Geneva last month.

The operative was being used in a sting operation to approach Tamils in homeland, Tamil Nadu and diaspora, stating clearly that nothing other than an armed struggle would work - with an aim of diverting resources and entrapping anyone who may have such tendencies.

A nexus has prevailed between the Sri Lankan and Indian intelligence outfits on this mission.

Kalaiyan has also been allowed access to India through a deal between the Sri Lankan and the Indian intelligence agencies, the informed sources further say.

Projecting the end of the mission as a successful counter-insurgency operation, the SL military has also slain one of their intelligence officers who was a Tamil.

The SL operative Kalaiyan, who was also a former LTTE member, has been talking to various people of ‘reviving the LTTE’. He was in the LTTE as a deputy district head of an important division of the movement in the past and was now wandering around and encouraging ex-LTTE members, particularly those who had not been caught by the Sri Lankan military at the end of the genocidal onslaught on Vanni in 2009.

Chronology:

17.04.14  SL military assassinated 3 ex-LTTE members after d..

16.04.14  Alarming trend of ‘hostage taking’ by Colombo’s TI..

12.04.14  SL military threatens former LTTE members, civilia..

11.04.14  Colombo stages smokescreen operations to divert gl..

31.03.14  SL military rule stepped up in North, wartime rest..

27.03.14  SL military detains 28 Tamils in 2 weeks

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கல்வியகங்களில் தமிழ் மட்டுமே பயிற்றுமொழியாக இருக்க வேண்டும்!

தமிழ்நாட்டில் தமிழர்க்கான தமிழர்களின் கோயில்களில் தமிழே வழிபடுமொழியாக இருக்க வேண்டும்!

தமிழில் பிற  மொழி எழுத்துகளும் பிற மொழிச் சொற்களும் கலப்பது தடுக்கப்பட வேண்டும்!

ஊடகங்கள் வாயிலான தமிழ்க்கொலைகள் தடுக்கப்பட்டுத் தமிழ்த்தூய்மை காக்கப்பட வேண்டும்!

தமிழ் அமைப்புகளில் தமிழ்ப்புலமை மிக்கத் தமிழ்ப்பற்றாளர்களான தமிழர்களையே அமர்த்த வேண்டும்!

முதன்மைப் பதவிகளில்  தமிழர் நலன் நாடும் தமிழர்களையே அமர்த்த வேண்டும்!

ஈழத்தமிழர்களைச் சிறைக் கொட்டடிகளான முகாம்களில் இருந்து அகற்றி இயல்பு வாழ்க்கை வாழ வழி வகுக்க வேண்டும்!

மூன்றாண்டுகளுக்கு மேல் வெளிவரும் தமிழ் இலக்கிய இதழ்களுக்கு அரசு விளம்பரங்கள் வழங்கப்பட வேண்டும்!

தமிழ்நாட்டில், தமிழக அரசு, மத்திய அரசு, பிற அரசு, தனியார், அயலார் போன்ற எவ்வகைப் பாகுபாடுமின்றி எல்லா நிலைகளிலும் தமிழே ஆட்சி மொழியாக இருக்க வேண்டும்!

தமிழ்நாட்டிலுள்ள அனைத்து நிலை நீதி மன்றங்களிலும் தமிழே அலுவல்மொழியாகவும் வழக்காடு மொழியாகவும் திகழ வேண்டும்!

தமிழ்நாட்டின் தலைநகரைச் சென்னை என அழைக்க வழி வகுத்தும் மெட்ராசு என்ற பெயரில் இயங்கும் நிறுவனங்கள் பெயர்களை மாற்றி அவற்றையும் சென்னை என்றே அழைக்கச் செய்ய வேண்டும்!

தமிழ்நாட்டின் உயர்நீதிமன்றமும் அதன் கிளையும் தமிழ்நாட்டு உயர்நீதி மன்றம் என்றே அழைக்கப்பட வேண்டும்!

உயர்நிலைப்பள்ளிகளில் பிற மொழிப் பாடம் எடுத்துப் படிக்கும் முறைக்கு முற்றுப்புள்ளி இட வேண்டும்!

மருத்துவம், பொறியியல் முதலான தொழிற் கல்விகளுக்குத் தகுதி மதிப்பெண்களுடன் தமிழ் மதிப்பெண்களில் பத்து விழுக்காடு சேர்க்கப்பட வேண்டும்!

தொழிற் கல்வியகங்களில் தமிழ்மொழிப்பாடம் வைக்கப்பட வேண்டும்!

தமிழ்நாட்டில் பாடமாக உள்ள பிறமொழிப் பாடப்புத்தகங்களில் தமிழக இலக்கியச்  செழுமை, பண்பாட்டுச் சிறப்பு, வரலாற்று உயர்வு, தமிழறிஞர்கள்-தமிழ்ப்புலவர்கள் வரலாறு  முதலானவை பாடங்களாக இடம் பெற வேண்டும்!

தமிழர் நலன் தொடர்பான கூட்டங்களில் பங்கேற்கும் பொறுப்பிலுள்ள அதிகாரிகள் தமிழரல்லாதவர்களாக இருப்பின், அவர்களுக்கு அடுத்த நிலையிலுள்ள தமிழறிந்த தமிழ் அதிகாரிகளைப் பங்கேற்கச் செய்ய வேண்டும்!

தமிழக அரசு சார்பில் மத்திய அரசு மீதும், சிங்கள் அரசு மீதும் வழக்கு தொடுத்து தமிழக மீனவர்களுக்கான இழப்பீடுகளைப் பெற்றுத் தர வேண்டும்! தமிழக மீனவர்கள் படுகொலை செய்யப்படுவதும் துன்புறுத்தப்படுவதும் தடுத்து நிறுத்தப்படவேண்டும்!

தமிழர்கள் வாழும் நாடுகளில் தமிழறிந்தவர்களையே தூதர்களாக நியமிக்க மத்திய அரசிடம் வலியுறுத்த வேண்டும்!

தமிழர் வாழும் நாடுகள் எங்கும் தமிழ்ப்பண்ப்பாட்டு உறவகங்களை ஏற்படுத்தி அவர்களின் மொழி, இன, வாழ்வியல் நலன்களுக்கு உதவ வேண்டும்!

மொழிப்போர் முதலான தமிழக வரலாறு பாடங்களில் சேர்க்கப்பட வேண்டும்!

வரலாறு, புவியியல் பாடங்களில் தமிழக வரலாறும் புவியமைப்புமே தொடக்கப் பாடமாக அமையச் செய்ய வேண்டும்!

அறிவியல் பாடங்களில் தமிழ்அறிவியல் இடம் பெறும் வகையில் பாடத்திட்டங்களை மாற்றி அமைக்க வேண்டும்!

செயல்பாடின்றி இருக்கும் அறிவியல் தமிழ் மன்றம் முதலான தமிழ் அமைப்புகள் சிறப்பாகச் செயல்பட வழி வகை செய்ய வேண்டும்!

சிறந்த படிப்பாளியான அவர், தமிழ் அறிஞர்களின் நூல்களைப் படித்துத்  தமிழுக்கு எல்லா வகையிலும் தொண்டாற்ற வேண்டும்!

எங்கும் தமிழ்! எதிலும் தமிழ்! என்னும் ஆரவார முழக்கம் உண்மையிலேயே நடைமுறையாக்கப்பட வேண்டும்!

ஒல்லும்  வகை யெல்லாம் தமிழ், தமிழர் நலன் காக்கப்படவும் பேணப்படவும்   சிறப்பாகப் பணியாற்ற தலைமைச் செயலர் திரு மோகன் வருகீசு சுங்கத்து, இ.ஆ.ப. அவர்களை வாழ்த்தி வரவேற்கிறோம்!

கலங்காது கண்ட வினைக்கண் துளங்காது
தூக்கங் கடிந்து செயல். – திருக்குறள் 668

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ஏப்பிரல் 13, கி.பி. 2014

Alarming trend of ‘hostage taking’ by Colombo

Alarming trend of ‘hostage taking’ by Colombo’s TID investigators: Lawyers

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 16 April 2014, 09:54 GMT]
The military intelligence of occupying Colombo is keeping the family members of alleged suspects as hostages in detention camps irrespective of their age, gender and irrespective of any connection to those the military claims as suspects involved in the revival of the armed struggle, Colombo-based lawyers representing the victims said in a note sent to human rights defenders. The lawyers described the trend as alarming. Not only the freedom of movement, but also the freedom of having visitors in their residences is seriously affected in Mullaiththeevu and Ki’linochchi districts in particular, the lawyers said.

Detailing the condition of those detained, the note also said that there is a heavy presence of military and intelligence units in Mullaiththeevu and Ki’linochchi districts.

“When there are visitors to a house, the head of the household has to report to the Grama Seveka and the A.G.A and take the visitors to such officials for registration. This situation is worse than that prevailed during war time and this has caused immense fear in the people and has virtually frozen HRDs and the civil society organizations,” the note further said.

The soldiers often enter the residences of people under the pretext of obtaining information. The lawyers say that this practice has almost become a routine operation, harassing civilians in the two districts.

“The ordinary life is seriously affected with frequent cordon and search operations, checkpoints and arrests without reasonable suspicion.”

“Men and women who underwent rehabilitation are again directed to report to Army camps and police stations,” the lawyers said in the note.

More than 65 people were ‘arrested’ in abduction style by the Sri Lankan military intelligence operatives who claim their identity as ‘Terrorist Investigation Division’ (TID) officers from the SL Police Department, news sources in Ki'linochchi told TamilNet.

Only a few of them, around 8 people including a woman, have been released from the custody so far. All the eight released were from Jaffna and ‘arrested’ in Colombo.

The TID runs various interrogation offices at various locations in addition to having an embedded presence at the police stations across the North and East.

Genocidal Sri Lanka schemes corporate Sinhalicisation choking Jaffna and Vanni

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 15 April 2014, 23:30 GMT]
While the occupying Sri Lankan military has been constructing hotels and resorts along the coastal strips of the occupied country of Eezham Tamils from Ampaa’rai to Puththa’lam for military run affairs, a systematic corporate programme of coastal land grab is being schemed by Colombo’s ministries under the direct supervision by SL presidential sibling Basil Rajapaksa, the minister of ‘Economic Development’ and Namal Rajapaksa, the son of SL president Mahinda Rajapaksa. The latest design is to choke Jaffna by turning the narrow strip of Chu’ndikku’lam sandbar, which links the peninsula with Vanni mainland, into a Sinhala colony with new resorts, prawn farming industry and state of the art houses to tolerate any disaster with the guarantee from the SL disaster management ministry with the backing of occupying SL military.

Denying access to Tamil fishermen who have been using the strip for seasonal fishing and refusing resettlement to the few Tamils who have been uprooted from Chu’ndikku’lam, the SL military is already housing Sinhala fishermen from South to engage in fishing along the coast.

Since the area has been already declared as bird sanctuary and extended into one of the largest ‘natural parks’ by the occupying Colombo through involving the SL ministry of wildlife resources conservation, the transformation is taking place with a low profile under a strict militarised environment, Tamil civil officials in Jaffna said.

Sandwiched between the resourceful Jaffna lagoon and the deep sea at a strategic location, the Chu’ndikku’lam sandbar is becoming a major hub Colombo’s Sinhalicisation, committing demographic genocide and corporate exploitation in the country of Eezham Tamils, the civil officials further said.

The Sri Lankan Government Agent of Jaffna Mr Sunthararam Arumainayakam and Maruthangkea’ni Divisional Secretary were invited to a workshop held at a military camp on 06 and 07 April. The workshop, exploring the possibilities of constructing disaster-managed houses on the strip, was organised by the SL ministries of disaster management and economic development. SL Minister Basil Rajapaksa was flown to the site in a Sri Lanka Air Force helicopter to attend the workshop and a series of meetings.

A military-built resort is already in operation between Keavil and Chu’ndik-ku’lam.

The new programme of corporate Sinhalicisation is targeting a 10 km long narrow strip.

The postmaster of Chu’ndikku’lam, who was uprooted from the area, is living in Point Pedro. He has been denied access to his residence at Chu’ndik-ku’lam. Likewise, Tamil fishermen from the nearby fishing villages are denied access to engage in seasonal fishing from their huts at the strip.

A recently schemed expansion of the ‘Natural Park’ will also be targeting Ki’linochchi and Mullaiththeevu districts, the Tamil civil officials in Ki’lnochchi said.

Constructing resorts and settling Sinhalese as workers at these ‘tourist’ facilities with the offer of housing and thriving business opportunities has been a tactic adopted by Colombo after the genocidal war in 2009.

Similar programmes are being carried out at Kaangkeasanthu’rai (KKS), Kaarai-nakar, Ooraaththu’rai, Neduntheevu in Jaffna district. Similar schemes have also been reported in Trincomalee, Batticaloa and Ampaa’rai districts in the East.

The so-called devolved powers of the 13th Amendment and the provincial council system backed by India and the Geneva process spearheaded by the USA which removed even the term de-militarisation from the resolution, have completely failed to address the structural genocide being committed on the nation of Eezham Tamils after the genocidal war in 2009, commented Tamil civil sources in Jaffna.

Terror squad assaults Tamil journalist in Vadamaraadchi, Jaffna

[TamilNet, Monday, 14 April 2014, 23:43 GMT]
A squad, believed to be operated by the Sri Lankan military intelligence on Monday evening chased and attacked 29-year-old Sivagnanam Selvatheepan, a leading journalist in Vadamaraadchi. When the journalist attempted to escape from the squad, the attackers chased him on foot and assaulted him causing severe internal injuries to his head. The squad also broke one of his legs. The brutal assault comes just one week after the so-called Terrorist Investigation Division (TID) of occupying Colombo had obtained his motorbike registration number, identity card number and cell phone details through Nelliyadi police in Jaffna.

Journalist Selvasivan Sivagnanam at Manthikai hospital

Four masked men who followed him in two motorbikes on Jaffna – Point Pedro Road, interrupted him at Pu’raap-po’rukki, a locality in the open landscape of Vallai. “Are you the reporter,” they asked and started to assault Selvatheepan with iron rods and batons.

Mr Selvatheepan, who is also a sportsman, narrowly escaped from the squad and alerted his friends to come to his rescue, the journalist told fellow reporters, who visited him at Manthikai hospital.

The attack took place around 8:00 p.m. while he was returning home after visiting his mother at Neerveali on Chiththirai New Year Day.

Mr Selvatheepan is a regular contributor of news reports to Valampuri and Yarl Thinakkural. He has also been contributing to Colombo based Virakeasari paper, media sources in Jaffna told TamilNet.

In November 2013, an unknown squad chose to attack the residence of the chairman of Karaveddi Piratheasa Chapai after the civic body marking the remembrance of the tens of thousands, who had sacrificed their lives for the liberation of the nation of Eezham Tamils. The attack in November came after the news was reported in the press with photos.

Selvatheepn recently alerted senior journalists in Jaffna that occupying SL military was monitoring his movements after his coverage of land grab.

The journalist had appeared in front of the so-called Lessons Learned and Reconciliation Commission, openly witnessing about his missing brother, who was allegedly abducted by paramilitary Karuna group. He witnessed in front of the LLRC panel explaining how he had been held captive for three months by the paramilitary group in the past. His father doing business in the South was also harassed by the paramilitary, he had told the LLRC.

Following renewed threats to his life in recent times, Mr Selvatheepan decided to seek protection outside the island. But, he was denied such protection, Tamil journalists in Jaffna told TamilNet.

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SL land grab of Tamil-owned property continues in East

[TamilNet, Sunday, 13 April 2014, 00:07 GMT]
Building of new military camps and command centers, and forced, illegal acquisition of Tamil-owned lands, continue unabated in the Amapaa'rai district after the conclusion of the war in 2009, T. Kalaiyarasan, an elected member of the Eastern Province Municipal Council, said this week, commenting on the Colombo-directed policy of land-grab of ancestral land belonging to Tamils by Sri Lanka military, sources in the East said. Kalaiyarasan also noted that Colombo, while ignoring the plight of Tamil people affected by war, appeared to be pursuing with single-minded determination in stealing Tamil-owned lands in different districts of Tamil homeland, including the East.

Sri Lanka military has forcefully grabbed 50 acres of Tamil ancestral lands belonging to 43 Tamils in the Malvaththai radio broadcasting corporation in the Chammaan-thu'rai Piratheasa Chapai (PS) division, and have built large scale buildings, Kalaiyarasan pointed out.

"These lands were in possession of Tamil families for more than 30 years, and have been maintained by these families. The families have all the required legal documents and deeds attesting to their legal ownership. While there is already a expansive military camp close to the Malvaththai area, Colombo does not have any compelling need to build another military camp in the land grabbed from Tamils," Kalaiyarasan said.

Kalaiyarasan also said that in Naavithan-ve'li Pirathreasa Chapai divsion the Sri Lanka military is making moves to grab 10 acres of land belonging to the Irrigation sector to expand and reinforce the existing military camp.

In 2012, new military installations have also been built in the Periya Neelaava'nai, Kalmunai, Kaa'rai-theevu, and Thirukkoayil PS divisions in Ampaa'rai district, Kalaiyarasan said.

"During the 1983 anti-Tamil pogroms, 183 acres of Tamil ancestral agricultural land in the Thoddaach-churukki-vaddai, and 197 acres of Tamil lands in Malaiyadi-veddai were forcefully acquired by a Buddhist Monk, and were distributed to Sinhala settlers for cultivation. Tamil owners in these villages possess the necessary legal deeds establishing their ownership," Kalaiyarasan pointed out.

"When as the result of Tamil-owners filing legal action the Court issued orders directing that the illegally appropriated lands be given back to the legal owners, Colombo used the bogey of terrorism to block Tamils from cultivating their own lands. Currently while Colombo proclaims that peace has returned, Colombo has not taken any step to return the appropriated lands to the legal owners," Kalaiyarasan added.

SL military threatens former LTTE members, civilians from Batticaloa

[TamilNet, Saturday, 12 April 2014, 14:38 GMT]
The occupying Sri Lankan military intelligence operatives have detained 3 Eezham Tamils from Batticaloa district in recent days. A couple and their kids living in Vavuniyaa were detained by the so-called Terrorist Investigation Division, interrogated at Vavuniyaa TID office and later transferred to Boossa detention in Colombo. The arrest was made in Vavuniyaa on 06 April. Both, the husband and wife were former LTTE members in Batticaloa who had left the movement before the defection of Karuna. They were arrested in Vavuniyaa where they were employed. Their three children have been handed over to the grand parents in Aayithiya-malai, news sources in Batticaloa said.

Those who detained in Vavuniyaa were identified as 41-year-old Loganathan Veerakuddi from Aayiththiya-malai and 30-year-old Maheswari Krishnapillai from Chanthi-ve’li.

A 36-year-old civilian, Ravichandran Krishnapillai, who was earlier arrested by the Sri Lankan military in 2001 and released in 2004 was again arrested in Chanthi-ve’li on 06 April.

All former LTTE members living in Kokkaddichchoalai were forced to attend a meeting by the SL military on 08 April.

“Do not accept the opinion of the Tamil Diaspora. The white people are trying to arm you through the Tamil diaspora to wage another war. Don’t succumb to their agenda,” was a message repeatedly delivered at the meeting by the paramilitary and military intelligence operatives, according to those who were forced to attend the meeting.

Genocidal military deceives Tamil students in Jaffna, Vanni

[TamilNet, Saturday, 12 April 2014, 13:47 GMT]
The occupying Sri Lankan military is waging a targeted campaign in Jaffna and Vanni to deceive and recruit Tamil youth between 18 and 22 years to substandard assignments within the genocidal military. The SL military has been collecting the lists of students who didn’t succeed in their GCE (O/L) exams and is engaged in a targeted campaign, promising driver and data-entry jobs for 30,000 rupees a month. At some places Tamil schoolteachers are being forced to ‘encourage’ the students to enlist themselves in the military. The SL military officers coming from Palaali military base have been allowed into schools in uniform to conduct propaganda meetings.

The Director of Jaffna Technical College situated at Kokkuvil, Mr Yogarajan, who has been a supporter of SL President Rajapaksa, has allowed the occupying SL military officers to visit the college during the classes and provide recruitment lectures to students. He is also compelling some students to join Colombo’s genocidal military.

The students’ union representatives at the Technical College have raised their voice against Mr Yogarajan, who lost in the recent elections representing the UPFA.

The village (GS) officers are also under pressure from the SL military to identify and enlist Tamil students.

Earlier, the SL military targeted Tamil women twice. The few enlisted Tamil women were taken on parade, provided military training against their will, kept in closed locations and allegedly exploited by the SL military.

The so-called Terrorist Investigation Division operatives targeted those who voiced against the ill treatment of Tamil women.

In the last drive only 45 Tamil women were enlisted in the false ‘reconciliation’ show.

Now, the SL military is looking for both boys and girls making them “dropouts” from the schools and colleges, a student representative from Jaffna Technical College told TamilNet Saturday.

Colombo stages smokescreen operations to divert global focus on crimes: TNA councillor

[TamilNet, Friday, 11 April 2014, 18:26 GMT]
The so-called revival or regrouping of the LTTE and the arrests made during the sessions in Geneva, targeting of rights activists, and now claiming the episode over by killing three alleged ex LTTE members under suspicious circumstances, looks like a political smokescreen operation carefully managed by the Sri Lankan military intelligence, blames TNA councillor and former parliamentarian M.K. Shivajilingam. The reaction comes after the Sri Lankan military claimed that it had slain three LTTE members who were re-organising the movement. The killings seem to have taken place in Nedungkea’ni in Mulaiththeevu district. But, the dead bodies were taken to Sinhala colony Padaviya division in Anuradhapura district. No independent journalists have been allowed to witness the episode or those slain at the claimed site where the cordon and search operation had taken place, he said.

Colombo was claiming that it was about to reduce the military presence in North and East just ahead of the UN Human Rights Council session. Then, a Terrorist Investigation Division (TID) operation was clamped down on Tamils who were active in voicing for their missing family members. Search operations, threats of abductions, forced recruitment of Tamil women to SL military training and proscription of democratic organisations and activists in the Tamil diaspora were staged in an aggressive and pre-planned order, Mr Shivajilingam said.

“Now, the SL militarisation has been stepped up all over the Northern and Eastern provinces. While we are told certain stories through media, the SL military is constructing a new camp here,” he told TamilNet from the coastal village of Valveddiththu'rai (VVT) Friday evening.

The SL military claimed it had slain three former LTTE members at a hideout in Nedungkea’ni in the early hours of Friday. The SL military spokesman in Colombo was telling media in Colombo that a Sri Lankan soldier was also killed in the clash. Later, he changed the version stating that the soldier was killed on a separate incident. In the SL Defence ministry write-up there was no mention at all of any SLA casualty, Tamil journalists in the North observed.

They also said that journalists of a popular Jaffna daily were told two days ago by the SL military that it had arrested one of the ‘wanted’ men it now claims as slain today.

Also, just one day before the alleged encounter, Colombo government claimed that 65 people detained in the past five weeks, including 10 women and children, as ‘LTTE suspects’.

The dead bodies of the former LTTE members are to be inspected by Judicial Medical Officers who are not Tamils, news sources in Vavuniyaa said alluding that the SL military was trying to cover up something.

The SL military said it had identified two of the killed as Sundaralingam Kajeepan and as Selvanayagam Kajeepan.

There was no independent verification to assert what really had transpired behind the scenes of the alleged encounter in the early hours of Friday, Tamil sources in Vavuniyaa and Mullaiththeevu told TamilNet.

Badurdeen squad threatens Tamil newspaper editor in Mannaar

[TamilNet, Thursday, 10 April 2014, 23:15 GMT]
A squad led by UPFA provincial councillor from Mannaar Rifghan Badurdeen, who is the brother of controversial SL minister Rishard Badurdeen, entered the office of the ‘Puthiyavan’ newspaper in Mannaar on Thursday and issued death threat to its editor SV Sivakaran, who is also the leader of the youth wing of the Ilankai Thamizh Arasuk Kadchi (ITAK). The squad, led by Rifghan Badurdeen also threatened to curb the distribution of the newspaper and to set fire to the office, which is situated at Chinnak-kadai on Mannaar main road, the editor of the paper said.

The Badurdeen squad, already known for inciting violence and hatred between various Tamil speaking communities in Mannaar, has issued death threat to the paper editor following an article on land grab in Mannaar.

Tamil landowners have lodged complaints with the SL police and SL Human Rights Commission against Rifghan Badurdeen and his squad involved in illegal encroachment of their lands.

But, there has been no action against the illegal land grab, as the squad causing disharmony in the district, is being protected by Rishard Badurdeen, the gangster minister from Mannaar.

Two years ago, SL minister Badurdeen went on record in SL parliament issuing a threatening statement against the Bishop of Mannaar causing widespread protests against him in the North.

Mr Sivakaran has filed a complaint with Mannaar Police on the threat issued to him and the paper.

Puthiyavan paper, recently launched in Mannaar, is an independent voice, the editor says.

The paper has also voiced its criticism on the conduct of the elitist politicians of the Tamil National Alliance and the inability of the Northern Provincial Council (NPC) in taking forward the Tamil politics. It became a topic of discussion at a recent meeting held in Jaffna for TNA councillors of the NPC.

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Colombo’s Gazette confirms colonial rule over Tamils

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 09 April 2014, 22:54 GMT]
Apart from its atrocious content, the Tamil version of genocidal Sri Lanka’s extraordinary Gazette declaration, dated 21 March and signed by Gotabhaya Rajapaksa itself is an evidence for the State’s non-rightful rule over Eezham Tamils and their territory in the island. If a State doesn’t know how to properly spell the names of places it claims as ‘integral’ parts of its country, that only shows an alien rule and questions the very right of the State to rule over that territory, commented Tamil activists for alternative politics in the island, citing the way many of the Tamil villages and places in the island are notified in the Gazette that individually lists out around 400 Tamils in the diaspora as ‘threats’ to its genocidal and colonial rule.

The mutilation of the identity of a people’s living space in Colombo’s Gazette shows the continuity of the rule of the Portuguese, the Dutch and the English. The Sinhala-Buddhist State now continues the legacy with the partnership of imperialist New Delhi, the activists said.

After partnering genocide in war, New Delhi imperialism brought its former President and Thirukku’ral expert A. P. J. Abdul Kalam to Colombo to showcase a Three Language Formula to detract any changes in the unitary character of the genocidal State and to smokescreen the on-going structural genocide, the activists further said.

A part of the addresses given in the Gazette notification seem to have been obtained from the listed people themselves, either when they had visited the island or in some other occasion. Such addresses given in Tamil were reproduced correctly. But, on other instances, the presentation of the addresses with mutilated place names seems to be the work of Sinhala intelligence officials of the occupying regime, to whom the places were just alien.

Misspelt place names: (correct spellings are given within parentheses):

Place names missing conjuncts:

• [Tamil] Extraordinary Gazette notification by the SL State (854/41)

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[TamilNet, Wednesday, 09 April 2014, 21:47 GMT]
A key operative of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s ruling UPFA and two of his close associates have been arrested in Mullaiththeevu by the SL police on 05 April following reports from Australia that they were operating a human trafficking agency. The UPFA operative, who is a close confidante of Namal Rajapaksa, was identified as 45-year-old Arul Jenyberd, who lost in the NPC elections on UPFA ticket. In the meantime, the Terrorist Investigation Division (TID) has arrested a group of fishermen on the following day at Polika’ndi in Point Pedro on allegations that they had bought a boat from money obtained from overseas, in an attempt to project them as having ‘LTTE’ connections. More than 50 people have been arrested within the last 5 weeks on various allegations by the TID.

Earlier, the occupying SL military had installed Arul Jenyberd as the president of Mullaiththeevu Fisheries Society.

More than 15 million rupees in the possession of the society during the times of the de-facto state run by the LTTE, was withdrawn from various bank accounts and exploited by the occupying Colombo through the UPFA operative, informed sources told TamilNet.

Four others, including two of his close associates, 38-year-old Mariyathas Fredrick Johnsen and 34-year-old Mariyathas Antony, have also been detained on the same day.

The other three of the arrested are 32-year-old Anton Iruthayarasa Selvarasa, 45-year-old Vincent Mariyathas Alakarasa and 53-year-old Nakappu Michaelpillai.

The arrests come in the wake of reports coming from Australia demanding action against the individuals. There are also lawsuits being filed by affected victims who have returned to the island, the sources further said.

After exploiting the UPFA-aligned individuals from Mullaiththeevu, Colombo is now ‘punishing’ a section of them to divert any attention on UPFA leaders involvement in the human trafficking project. The SL Navy is also getting a share of the income.

However, the TID is attempting, as usual, to divert the attention away from the Mullaiththeevu group towards another group of fishermen who were detained on Sunday at Point Pedro. Two of them, 47-year-old Reginold Pathirinathan and 38-year-old Vincent Benedict Pathirinathan belong to the same family. In the meantime, another member of the same family, 30-year-old Alamenro Pathirinatha has also been arrested, the sources in Vadamaraadchi said.

In Thenmaraadchi, a manger of a Cooperative Society at Meesaalai and two of his family members have been detained by the SL police. The SL police is not providing on the whereabouts of those who were taken away.

The SL military and its TID have arrested more than 50 people on various charges within the last 5 weeks.

Chronology:

09.04.14  Namal Rajapaksa’s Mullaiththeevu operative detaine..

08.07.12  New refugee vessels head for Australia from Jaffna..

22.06.12  Rajapaksa's son starts human trafficking from Vann..

இணைவதை யாராலும் தடுக்க முடியாது – கலாநிதி இராம் சிவலிங்கம்

இலக்குவனார் திருவள்ளுவன்      13 ஏப்பிரல் 2014      கருத்திற்காக..

புலத்தில் வாழும் இலட்சியவாதிகளும், தன்மானத் தமிழர்களும் இணைவதை யாராலும் தடுக்க முடியாது

– கலாநிதி இராம் சிவலிங்கம்

 

  விலங்குகள் அகற்றப்பட்டு விடுதலையான எம் ஈழத் தாயின் மடியிலே; உங்களோடு சேர்ந்து நானும் அயர்ந்து உறங்க வேண்டும் என்ற ஆவலில்தானே எமது அரசியல் போரை முன்னெடுத்துச் செல்லவல்ல தகைமையும், தகுதியும் கொண்ட தன்மானத் தமிழரை இணைந்து  செயற்பட வருமாறு பல முறை அறைகூவினேன். நீதி வேண்டும் உலகம் எமக்காகப் போராடும்போது,  எமது பங்கை நாம் செய்யத் தவறினால், எமது குடிவழி எம்மை மதிக்குமா அல்லது மன்னிக்குமா? என வருந்தியவேளை சிங்கள அரசின் அறிக்கை வெளியானது.

  பதினாறு அமைப்புகளையும்,  அவற்றைச் சார்ந்த நானூற்று இருபத்து   நான்கு உறுப்பினர்களையும் பயங்கரவாதிகள் எனச் சித்திரப்படுத்தும்  சிங்கள அரசின் பட்டியலில்;  தேவை காரணமாகச்  சிலர் சேர்க்கப்பட்டதும், அதிலும் மேலான காரணத்திற்காகப் பலர் நீக்கப்பட்டதும் வியப்பானதல்ல! ஆனால், இந்த அறிக்கையும் பட்டியலும், சிங்கள அரசின் பதற்ற நிலையைத்   தெளிவாகக் காட்டியதுதான் வியப்பானது!

  எமக்குத்  தேவையான அடையாளத்தை முள்ளிவாய்க்கால் தந்து ஐந்து ஆண்டுகளாகியும் தேசமீட்புக்கான எதையுமே செய்யாது , மற்றவர்களையும் செய்யவிடாது, புலம்பெயர் மக்களின் உணர்வுகளைக் கட்டிப்போட்ட இந்த அணிகளும், அதன் தலமைகளும் பயங்கரமான கில்லாடிகளேயன்றி அவர்கள் பயங்கரவாதிகள் அல்ல என்ற உண்மையைக்கூட இந்தச் சிங்கள அரசால் புரிய முடியவில்லையா? ஆண்டுக்கு ஒரு மாநாடும், வருடத்திற்கு இரண்டு இரவுவிருந்தும் நடாத்துவதே தேசமீட்புக்கான அரசியல் போராட்டம் என நம்பிச் செயற்படும் அந்த அப்பாவிகள் பயங்கரவாதிகளா?

  சிங்கள அரசின் பட்டியலில் குறிப்பிட்ட அமைப்புகளும், சங்கங்களும் அதில் அங்கம் வகிக்கும் தமிழர்களும் பயங்கரவாதிகளென்றால்; அவர்களுக்குத் தஞ்சம் கொடுத்த நாடுகளையும், அந்த அமைப்புகளை சட்டபூர்வமாக இயங்க  இசைவு வழங்கிய அரசுகளையும் மனிதமே இல்லா சிங்கள அரசு அவமதிப்பதாக உங்களுக்குத் தோன்றவில்லையா?

 ஐ.நா அவையின் மனித உரிமை மீறலுக்கான  பன்னாட்டு விசாரணை தீர்மானமாகியது கண்டு கலங்கித், தடுமாறி நிற்கும் சிங்கள அரசு, போர்க்குற்ற விசாரணைக்கான தீர்மானம் ஐ.நா வில் நிறைவேறும்போது என்ன செய்யப்போகிறார்கள்? ஓடி ஒழிவார்களா அல்லது ஓலமிட்டு ஒப்பாரி வைப்பார்களா?

 வெளிநாட்டுத் தமிழர்களை அச்சுறுத்தி விரட்டிவிட்டு, வாழ்வாதாரமற்று வாழத் துடிக்கும் எம்  ஈழம்வாழ்  உறவுகளை தனிமைப்படுத்தி, அடக்குமுறை மூலம், பயங்கரவாதம் என்ற போர்வையிலே அவர்களை  அழிக்க சிங்கள அரசு வகுத்த திட்டத்தில் ஒன்றே இந்த அறிக்கையும், பட்டியலுமாகும்.  இதில்,  எதுவுமே பலிக்காது  என்பதை இந்தக் கொடியவர்கள் அறியும் நாள் வெகு தொலைவில் இல்லை. ‘கலியுகக் காலம்’ என்றாலும் அதற்கும் ஓர் எல்லை உண்டல்லவா.

  தாம் தமிழர் என்பதை அடியோடு மறந்து, ஆங்கிலத்தில் பேசி, சிங்களத்தில் சிரித்து, சிங்களவரோடு சிங்களவராய் வாழ்ந்த  கொழும்புத் தமிழர்களுக்கு  சிங்கள அரசுகள் கற்பித்த பாடத்தை யாரால் மறக்க முடியும்? தமிழராய்ப் பிறந்த ஒரே காரணத்திற்காக, இனக்கலவரம் என்ற போர்வையிலே,  சிங்களக் காடையரின் உதவியுடன், காலத்துக்குக் காலம், சிங்கள அரசும், அதன் படைகளும்  நடாத்திய இனஅழிப்பின் எதிரொலியே இன்று நாம் காணும் ஈழம்வாழ் உறவுகளின் இணையில்லா ஒற்றுமை.

  வெளிநாட்டில் செயற்படும் புலம்பெயர் தமிழர்களையும், அவர்களின் அமைப்புக்களையும் எதிரியாகப் பார்க்கும் இந்த அர்சும்  எமக்குள் ஓர் புரிந்துணர்வை/ஒற்றுமையை கொண்டு வருவது உறுதி!  புலத்தில் வாழும் இலட்சியவாதிகளும், தன்மானத் தமிழர்களும் இணைந்து செயற்படுவதை யாரால் தடுக்க முடியும்? நன்றி.

 

கலாநிதி இராம் சிவலிங்கம்

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இலக்குவனார் திருவள்ளுவன்      13 ஏப்பிரல் 2014      கருத்திற்காக..

 

மதுரை உசிலம்பட்டி அருகே மதுரையை ஆண்ட திருமலை நாயக்க மன்னன் வேட்டைக்குச் செல்லும் அரிய சிற்பங்கள் கண்டறியப்பட்டுள்ளதாக தமிழ்ப் பல்கலைக்கழக துணைவேந்தர் முனைவர் ம.திருமலை தெரிவித்துள்ளார்.

“தமிழக அரசு நல்கைத் திட்டமான “தென்கல்லக நாட்டின் தொன்மையும் சிறப்பும்” என்ற ஆய்வுத்திட்டக் களப் பணிக்காக, தமிழ்ப் பல்கலைக் கழகக் கல்வெட்டியல்-தொல்லியல்துறை உதவிப் பேராசிரியர் முனைவர் பா.செயக்குமார்  கள ஆய்வுமேற்கொண்டார்.

அப்பொழுது மதுரை மாவட்டம், உசிலம்பட்டி வட்டம், கொடிக்குளத்தில், திருமலை(நாயக்க) மன்னரின் (கி.பி.1623- 1659) அரிய சிற்பங்கள் கண்டறியப்பட்டன எனத் தமிழ்ப்பல்கலைக்கழகத் துணைவேந்தர் முனைவர் திருமலை தெரிவித்தார்.

“திருமலை நாயக்கர் சிறந்த போர்வீரனாகவும், குதிரை ஏற்றத்திலும், வேட்டையாடுவதிலும் சிறந்தவராகவும் இருந்துள்ளார். மதுரை நகரை ஒட்டிய அடர்ந்த காடு, மலைப் பகுதிகளான நாகமலை, மேலக்கால், விக்கிரமங்கலம், கொடிக்குளம் பகுதிகளில் திருமலை (நாயக்கர்) மன்னர்,  அடிக்கடி வேட்டையாடிய செய்திகள் ஏற்கெனவே சில செப்புப் பட்டயங்களில் காணப்பட்டுள்ளன. மேலும், இந்தக் காட்டில் உள்ள புலிகளால் பொதுமக்களுக்கு மிகுந்த தொல்லை இருந்ததாகச் சான்றுகள் தெரிவிக்கின்றன.  இதனை உறுதிப்படுத்தும் வகையில்  திருமலை மன்னர் வேட்டையாடுவது போன்ற சிற்பங்கள் கிடைத்துள்ளன.

நேர்த்தியான, கனமான கற்பல கைகளில் நாயக்கர் காலக் கலை நுட்பத்துடன் சிற்பங்கள் இரண்டும் வடிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளன. கிட்டத்தட்ட 400 ஆண்டுகள் மண்ணில் புதைந்து கிடந்ததால் முகத்தில் சற்று தேய்மானம் ஏற்பட்டுள்ளது.

ஒரு சிற்பத்தில் உயர் வகையைச் சேர்ந்த, பெருமிதமான தோற்றத் தையுடைய ஆண் குதிரையின் மீது அமர்ந்துள்ள மன்னன் திருமலை, விறைப்புடன் கூடிய அக்குதிரையைத் தனது கட்டுப்பாட்டில் கொண்டுவருவது போலவும், கீழே நிற்கும் பணியாள் மன்னனுக்கு உதவுவது போலவும் காட்டப்பட்டுள்ளன. அருகில், பெண் ஒருவர் அச்சத்துடன் நிற்பதுபோலவும், நாய் ஒன்றும் காட்டப்பட்டுள்ளன. இச்சிற்பம் மன்னன் குதிரை ஏற்றத்தில் சிறந்தவர் என்பதைக் காட்டுவதோடு, குதிரையில் வேட்டைக்குச் செல்கின்ற காட்சியையும் நினைவூட்டுவதாக உள்ளது.

அடுத்த சிற்பத்தில் மன்னன் திருமலை நடந்து செல்வதுபோலவும், வில்லின் நாணினை இழுத்து அம்பினை எய்துவது போலவும் காட்டப்பட்டுள்ளன. மன்னனின் வலப்பக்கத் தோளின் பின்புறம் தூணி  எனப்படும் அம்புகள் வைக்கும் கூடு காட்டப்பட்டுள்ளது. இச்சிற்பத்தில் ஒரு பெண் அச்சமுடன் மன்னனின் பின்னால் செல்வது போலவும் காட்டப்பட்டுள்ளது.

இரண்டு சிற்பங்களிலும் மன்னனின் தோற்றம், ஆடை அணிகலன்கள்  ஆகியனஎளிய மனிதனின் தோற்றமல்லாது, அரசனுக்குரிய தோற்றத்தைக் காட்டுகின்றன. நாயக்கர் காலச் சிற்பக்கலை பாணிக்கு இவ்விரு சிற்பங்களும் சிறந்த சான்றுகளாகும்.

திருமலை நாயக்கரைக் குதிரை வீரராகவும் வேட்டையாடுபவராக வும் வெளிப்படுத்தும் சிற்பங்கள் கண்டுபிடிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளமை இதுவே முதல் முறை” எனத் தெரிவித்துள்ளார் துணைவேந்தர் திருமலை.

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