வியாழன், 15 ஜனவரி, 2015

Ananthy urges Pope to see genocide, get answers from local, international players

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.”
Ananthi Sasitharan
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
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:

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