TNA activist killed in Mullaiththeevu

[TamilNet, Monday, 16 September 2013, 19:25 GMT]
A 35-year-old Tamil National Alliance (TNA) activist, Mr Rasiah Kavithan, also known as Suresh, was killed by a criminal squad associated with the ruling UPFA of the Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa in Mullaiththeevu on Monday around 6:00 p.m., initial reports from Vanni said. The killing has taken place while the sons of the SL President, Namal Rajapaksa MP and Yoshitha Rajapaksa (SL Navy), have been spearheading the election campaign in Mullaiththeevu district for the ruling UPFA. A UPFA supporter and an operative of the SL military intelligence, Mr Raja Karuna, is contesting the elections in Ma'nal-aa'ru. The election campaign undertaken by Rasiah Kavithan on behalf of the TNA was challenging the UPFA in Mullaiththeevu.

Two persons of a criminal squad associated with Raja Karuna have been detained by the SL police, but political influence is being exerted on the SL police to free the culprits from the custody, the reports further said.

The two persons, alleged of killing Mr Kavithan, have been running illegal sand scooping and timber cutting in Mullaiththeevu with the backing of SL military.

Tension prevails in Mullaiththeevu following the killing.

The SL police has handed over the dead body to the mortuary of the Puthuk-kudiyiruppu hospital.

In the meantime, the occupying SL military has stepped up harassments on young activists engaged in election campaign for TNA throughout the Northern province.

Around 50 TNA supporters were detained by the SL police in Vavuniyaa on Monday with the intention of disrupting the election campaign of the TNA, news sources in Vavuniyaa said.

Already, four persons were detained by the SL police in Thenmaraadchi in Jaffna last week on false allegations. They were produced in the courts on Monday and released on bail.

Suresh calls upon diaspora youth

Suresh calls upon diaspora youth to respond to Jaffna University situation

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 05 December 2012, 20:12 GMT]
Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarian and Eelam People Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF) leader Suresh Premachandran in a video interview to TamilNet this week, called upon the diaspora youth studying in the Western World to take up the matter of SL military oppression of Jaffna University students with the Western governments, in order to push them to prevail upon Colombo’s undemocratic activities. Meanwhile, diaspora circles especially in the UK and in Canada now realize how in the last three years Colombo’s agents have succeeded in hijacking, silencing and deviating the diaspora alumni associations of the leading schools of Eezham Tamils. They also cited at the strange silence of an alumni association started in the UK in the name of the Jaffna University.



Suresh in his interview said that every people have the right to remember kith and kin lost in a war. The Sri Lankan military conducts a function every year to remember its fallen soldiers. The JVP is having its own day to remember its lost comrades, he cited.

The Tamils have lost nearly 300,000 in the 35-years war. They have every right to remember their dead. When the Jaffna University students were peacefully remembering the fallen heroes, the SL military and police entered into the gents as well as ladies hostels and assaulted the students, including girls. Even a silent demonstration the following day was attacked. Around 10 university students including girls were injured and were brought to the hospital, the TNA parliamentarian said.

Four students have been arrested. They have 11 more names in the list and they search knocking doors in midnight. They book them under Prevention of Terrorism Act, Suresh said

Out of 20 divisions (200, 000 soldiers) of Sri Lanka’s military, 15 divisions (150,000) are stationed in the North alone, where the population today is just 500, 000. You have to send this Army away from this soil, Suresh further said.

Chronology:

05.12.12  Suresh calls upon diaspora youth to respond to Jaf..

04.12.12  Jaffna demonstration backing students demands IC a..

03.12.12  SL military threatens senior faculty members of Ja..

02.12.12  EPC TNA councilor condemns attack on University st..

01.12.12  Paramilitary allegedly backed by India effects arr..

30.11.12  Canadian organizations condemn attack on students ..

29.11.12  SLA attack on Tamil students is ‘additional’ issue..

29.11.12  TNA parliamentarian, university students question ..

28.11.12  Peaceful student protest attacked by SL military i..

28.11.12  Ladies’ hostel lights Common Flame, bells stun SL .

Conforming to mandate more important than getting offices of position: Suresh

[TamilNet, Sunday, 01 April 2012, 23:54 GMT]
It was a last resort for the democratic political struggle of Thanthai Chelva to call for the independence of Tamil Eelam in 1976, after a series of political deceits and finally his 6-point demand following the 1972 constitution to resolve the Tamil question within a united Sri Lanka was also rejected, said Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarian Suresh Premachandran, while speaking at the 114th birth anniversary of SJV Chelvanayakam in Jaffna on Saturday. But after Tamils paying a heavy price in the armed struggle only the world has now started looking at the issue, which has now become international. TNA has the mandate and responsibility at a crucial time and it should not make even a small slip. Petty offices of position are not the answer to the price paid by our people. We are conscious of the mandate given to us by our people, he further said.

Political observers in the island told TamilNet on Sunday that Premachandran’s address was directed at those who claim main role in TNA politics with policies that were abandoned even by Thanthai Chelva and also not caring the new dimensions that have come through the armed struggle.

Suresh Premachandran's address should also be seen in the light of the reported invitation extended to Mr. Sampanthan to visit US to meet the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, political observers further said.

Last year’s Chelva anniversary address of the TNA was made at Colombo by its nominated parliamentarian Mr. MA Sumanthiran.

This year, Chelvanayakam birth anniversary events were held in Jaffna, Ki’linochchi and in the East.

Besides Mr Suresh Premachandran TNA parliamentarian as well as leader of the EPRLF, the event in Jaffna on Saturday was addressed by TNA parliamentarian Maavai Senathirajah and Prof SK Sitrampalam of the ITAK, V. Anandasangaree of the TULF, K. Sivajilingam of the TELO, Tharmalingam Sitharthan of the PLOTE and by former parliamentarian Mr Solomon Cyril.

In the 30 years of war, Tamils have lost the lives of nearly 300,000 people and around 40,000 combatants. In the Vanni war alone 147,000 people went unaccounted, Premachandran said, pointed out that solutions should do justice to the loses.

Even after all what had happened larger forces harp on federal solutions. Tamils should have self-rule for their freedom. Unless Tamils regain their sovereignty that was not given to them back by the British, they could never have self-respect, equality and peace, was the reality that impelled Thanthai Chelva to call for Tamil Eelam through democratic means, Premachandran further said in his address.

2ND LEAD (ADDS VIDEO)

We always requested international investigation: TNA’s Suresh Premachandran

[TamilNet, Sunday, 11 March 2012, 18:40 GMT]
“We have been to various countries like United State of America, Great Britain, Canada and South Africa, and we requested those countries that there must be an international investigation on the accountability, because the LLRC report does not have anything about the accountability as such,” said TNA parliamentarian Mr Suresh Premachandran in conducting a press meet at the TNA office, which is also the EPRLF office, in Jaffna on Sunday. On TNA’s talks with the SL government, Premachandran said Colombo has not yet fulfilled an understanding between Sampanthan and Rajapaksa that a bilateral agreement on solutions should precede before the TNA naming participants to the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC). Without third party mediation the talks are futile, as SL doesn’t want to settle the problem through power sharing, Premachandran said.



“For more than a year we were negotiating with the SL government but we couldn’t move an inch, because the government doesn’t want to share power with Tamils.

“Under these circumstances, if you want to continue the talks, then I strongly feel that there must be a third-party mediation.

“Only when there is a third-party mediation the international community will come to know what actually the government is up to […] Otherwise, this can go on for another year and the government might say so many things.

“In the future, if you want to continue the talks and if the International Community seriously want to see any progress, I strongly feel we need a third party mediation in the talks,” Mr Premachandran said in English at the press meet.

A day before on Saturday, conducting a press meet in Jaffna, the leader of Tamil National People’s Front (TNPF), Mr Gajendrakumar Ponnabalam, denouncing the US-tabled resolution at Geneva as “extremely disappointing and counter-productive”, said that justice could only come from independent international investigation.

* * *

Meanwhile, talking in Tamil at the press conference on Sunday, Mr. Premachandran discussed at length the internal differences in perception inside the TNA on the issue of the Alliance not going to Geneva in making a campaign.

The following are translated summary of his discussion with the press in Tamil:

During the first week of February the opinion among most of the TNA parliamentarians was in favour of participating at the UNHRC sessions in Geneva.

Without holding any further meeting with the parliamentarians if there were any reviews in the decision, Mr. Sampanthan [TNA parliamentary group leader] issued a press statement on February 25, that the TNA would not go to Geneva.

Myself, and the other leaders of the Alliance, Selvam Adaikkalanathan and Maavai Senadhiraja were in India at that time. The other parliamentarians were in their constituencies. Mr. Sumanthiran [the nominated parliamentarian] contacted us over the phone to readout the press statement.

As the statement was against the earlier opinion of most of the parliamentarians, I told him not to release the statement and hold another meeting.

Selvam came to know about the statement through me and he also told Sumanthiran to hold on. Maavai who was in Trichy didn’t know anything. The other parliamentarians in the island were informed over the phone through Sumanthiran.

However, rejecting our opinion, the statement was released on February 25. This shows the anti-democratic tendencies inside the alliance and also the urgency to come out with such a statement.

Later, several reasons were said:

If the TNA goes to Geneva violence may erupt against Tamils was one of the reasons said.

Speaking to BBC, Sumanthiran said that the international community advised against TNA going to Geneva.

There was no invitation; going to Geneva at the sponsorship of another is below the prestige of the TNA that is recognized by the USA and India; there is nothing to achieve by going to Geneva, we have sent letters to the 47-member countries – these were some other reasons said.

The question is that to whom the hasty statement announcing the non-participation of the TNA was beneficial.

Sri Lanka government made the maximum use of it for its campaign at Geneva. Colombo advised that others too should follow the example of the TNA. An image was projected that the TNA has found agreement with the SL government.

Contradictions within the TNA and in media appeared thereafter. The trust of people in the TNA became the casualty. A parliamentary group meeting was convened and even there, Mr Sampanthan insisted on not going to Geneva, citing the advice of the international community. The decision was imposed to save the unity of the TNA.

But the diaspora wanted our presence.

As a political party we have no space in the sessions. But sponsored by registered human rights organizations, we could have gone to make a campaign inside and outside of the UNHRC.

We don’t need to get permission from anyone to do this, and SL government cannot project it as against the sovereignty of its state. During 1988-89 JVP times, the current SL President Mahinda Rajapaksa and SL minister Vasudeva who were then in the opposition went to the same UN human rights session to argue for the human rights of the Sinhalese.

TNA was formed to win the rights of the Tamil people. That’s why people overwhelmingly elected us. After getting elected by people, if anyone says that our status has now gone up, because the USA and India recognise us, and we should not make our campaign, standing at the gates in Geneva, it is a wrong argument.

I speak on length at these issues not to weaken the TNA or to accuse individuals, but to enlighten the people. Only an enlightened people could course-correct their polity, Suresh Premachandran said.

* * *

On Saturday, at the TNPF press meet, Mr Gajendrakumar said that the closing date at Geneva for registering the names of the participants through registered human rights organisations was Feb 24. Since there was an expectation that the TNA would go, others were not concentrating on it. But, as the TNA chose to announce its decision on Feb 25, even substitutes also could not be arranged, Gajendrakumar said

Many things making an impact could be said within the 5 minutes time one gets in the session. On earlier occasions many freedom fighters have used the UNHRC forum in such a way, Gajendrakumar further said.

But the actual problem of the TNA was what to tell at Geneva – without contradicting the US agenda and at the same time not going against the pulse of Tamils, commented a political observer who went through both the press meets in Jaffna.

Chronology:

11.03.12  We always requested international investigation: T..

11.03.12  LLRC-based resolution extremely disappointing: Gaj..

10.03.12  Tamil Nadu activists caution diaspora of the US-re..

09.03.12  US-resolution inadequate, India should seize oppor..

08.03.12  US-resolution binds Tamils to less than the 13th A..

07.03.12  World socialists reject both US-backed resolution ..

06.03.12  Thousands gather in Geneva denouncing deceptive de..

06.03.12  Tamil Nadu demands India to declare Rajapaksa guil..

06.03.12  Sumanthiran, Sritharan contradict reasoning Geneva..

05.03.12  West has to concede to Tamils its failure of ‘war ..

02.03.12  US demand on Sri Lanka is not enough: UNSG Panel o..

01.03.12  US, Sri Lanka squabble whether hang or slaughter E..

29.02.12  Enragement over US-India stand results in Sumanthi..

27.02.12  SL colonial governor coordinates anti-UN demonstra..

26.02.12  Peace academic denounces US-LLRC formula, urges al..

25.02.12  TNA plans boycotting UNHRC, requests people to rem..

25.02.12  US ‘tables’ Rajapaksa formula while pretending pre..

24.02.12  UNHRC sessions open on Monday amidst US–Sri Lanka ..

18.02.12  TNA tries to sell Indo-US pre-emption to Eezham Ta..

16.02.12  Sumanthiran comes forward to save Rajapaksa from i..

22.01.12  TNA should use its Tamil national mandate: Bishop ..

01.01.12  Majority ITAK members welcome civil society report..

13.12.11  TNA leadership faces admonition from civil society..

Tea to kalmadi and suspension to prison officer: சுரேசு கல்மாடிக்குத் தேநீர் வழங்கிய விவகாரம்: திகார் சிறை அதிகாரி நீக்கம்

அரசியல் கைதிகளின் உறவினர்கள் வரும்பொழுது தம் அறையிலேயே சந்திப்பிற்கு ஏற்பாடு செய்தல், உணவு வகைகளை உட்கொள்ளச் செய்தல், தாமும் உடன் உண்ணல் போன்ற செயல்கள் வழக்கத்தில் உள்ளன. அந்த நடைமுறையைத்தான் பின்பற்றி உள்ளார். கோடையில் மழையாகவும் பாலையில் சோலையாகவும்  இவை அவர்களுக்கு அமைந்து விடுகின்றன. ஏழைச் சிறைவாசிகளுக்கு இந்த வாய்ப்பு இருப்பதில்லை. எனவே, ஒரு வகையில் சட்டத்தின் முன்னர் சமன்மை பேணப்படவில்லை என்றாலும் வழக்காற்று அடிப்படையில் நடந்திருப்பின் தண்டிப்பதை விட அனைத்துச் சிறைகளுக்கும் அறிவுரை வழங்குதல் வேண்டும்.
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சுரேஷ் கல்மாடிக்கு தேநீர் வழங்கிய விவகாரம்: திஹார் சிறை அதிகாரி நீக்கம்

First Published : 02 Jul 2011 01:24:51 PM IST

Last Updated : 02 Jul 2011 01:27:05 PM IST

புதுதில்லி, ஜூலை 2- காமன்வெல்த் போட்டி ஊழல் தொடர்பாக கைது செய்யப்பட்டுள்ள சுரேஷ் கல்மாடிக்கு தில்லி திஹார் சிறையின் கண்காணிப்பாளர் தனது அறையில் தேநீர் வழங்கிய விவகாரம் பெரும் சர்ச்சையை ஏற்படுத்தியுள்ளது.ஓரிரு நாட்களுக்கு முன்னர், திஹார் சிறை கண்காணிப்பாளர் தனது அறையில் கல்மாடியை அமர வைத்து அவருக்கு தேநீரும் பிஸ்கட்டும் வழங்கியதாக தகவல் வெளியானது. இதையடுத்து, அந்த அதிகாரி பொறுப்பில் இருந்து விலக்கப்பட்டுள்ளார்.இதனிடையே, இச்சம்பவம் குறித்து விசாரணை நடத்தி 48 மணி நேரத்திற்குள் தனக்கு அறிக்கை சமர்ப்பிக்கும்படி கண்காணிப்பு பொறுப்பு அதிகாரிக்கு திஹார் சிறையின் கூடுதல் டிஜிபி ஆர்.என். சர்மா உத்தரவிட்டுள்ளார்.திஹார் சிறையில் பல முக்கிய நபர்கள் உட்பட ஏராளமான குற்றவாளிகள் அடைக்கப்பட்டுள்ள நிலையில், கல்மாடிக்கு மட்டும் சிறை விதிமுறைகளை மீறி தனிச் சலுகை காட்டப்படதாக எழுந்துள்ள புகார் தில்லி வட்டாரத்தில் பெரும் பரபரப்பை ஏற்படுத்தியுள்ளது.

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சிறை துறையின் சட்டம் தெரியாமல் கருத்து கூறுவது சரியாக இருக்காது.

By Gangadharan
7/2/2011 8:24:00 PM

தேநீரும் பிஸ்கட்டும் சுரேஷ் கல்மாடி தில்லி திஹார் சிறையின் கண்காணிப்பாளருக்கு சம்திங் கொடுத்து இருப்பாரு ?

By mirudan
7/2/2011 3:16:00 PM

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