Ananthy urges Pope to see genocide, get answers from local, international players
[TamilNet, Sunday, 11 January 2015, 13:59 GMT]
As Pope Francis is scheduled to visit the island from Tuesday to Thursday, NPC Councillor Ms Ananthy Sasitharan, urged him to grasp the underlying factor of the conflict in the island, i.e. genocide and sought his help in getting answers from the government in Colombo and the international players, including the UN, the Co-chairs and India. “I hope Your Holiness is aware that there is an ideology behind the genocidal process,” she wrote in a letter addressed to the Pope on Saturday. She was citing a key case of Fr Francis Joseph towards the end of the war in perceiving the dimensions and said: “The Catholic Church, having witnesses among the people, has a moral duty to safeguard the people from the protracted crime of genocide.”
As Pope Francis is scheduled to visit the island from Tuesday to Thursday, NPC Councillor Ms Ananthy Sasitharan, urged him to grasp the underlying factor of the conflict in the island, i.e. genocide and sought his help in getting answers from the government in Colombo and the international players, including the UN, the Co-chairs and India. “I hope Your Holiness is aware that there is an ideology behind the genocidal process,” she wrote in a letter addressed to the Pope on Saturday. She was citing a key case of Fr Francis Joseph towards the end of the war in perceiving the dimensions and said: “The Catholic Church, having witnesses among the people, has a moral duty to safeguard the people from the protracted crime of genocide.”
Ananthi Sasitharan
“During your visit, the Sri Lankan
political leaders, including the newly sworn-in President Maithiripala
Sirisena, who was the deputy defence minister during the genocidal
onslaught when Fr Francis Joseph was taken away by his military, will be
fighting for the opportunity to kiss your hand and get your blessings.
Just as his predecessor Mahinda Rajapksa, who invited you to the island
amidst his election plan, the political leaders and their military
commanders of the Colombo government are seeking to protect themselves
and their system from its crime of genocide,” Ms Ananthy said in her
letter.
Pope Francis
“Tamils are not a minority in our
own traditional homeland, which is subjected to systematic Sinhala
Buddhist colonisation with a genocidal motive,” Ananthy further said in
her letter adding that “transforming Tamils into their [Sinhala State's]
‘minorities’ was their first step in the genocide.”
Meanwhile, following the presidential victory of Mr Maithiripala Sirisena, officially supported by the TNA, the NPC Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran in a statement on Friday, harping on the usage ‘minorities’ and without any mention to the genocide or war-crimes investigation, was pinning hopes on the new government in Colombo.
Full text of Ananthy's letter to Pope follows:
Meanwhile, following the presidential victory of Mr Maithiripala Sirisena, officially supported by the TNA, the NPC Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran in a statement on Friday, harping on the usage ‘minorities’ and without any mention to the genocide or war-crimes investigation, was pinning hopes on the new government in Colombo.
Full text of Ananthy's letter to Pope follows:
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