மீனவர் மீது தாக்குதல்: இலங்கையுடன் கடுமையாகப் பேசுங்கள்:முதல்வர் செ.

மீனவர் மீது தாக்குதல்: இலங்கையுடன் கடுமையாகப் பேசுங்கள்:முதல்வர் ஜெ.,

 

 

சென்னை: ""தமிழக மீனவர்களுக்கு அச்ச உணர்வை ஏற்படுத்தி, மீன் பிடிக்க விடாமல் செய்ய வேண்டும் என்ற திட்டத்துடன், அவர்கள் மீது தாக்குதல் நடத்தப்படுகிறது. இலங்கை அரசுடன் பிரதமர் கடுமையாகப் பேச வேண்டும்'' என, பிரதமருக்கு எழுதியுள்ள கடிதத்தில், முதல்வர் வலியுறுத்தியுள்ளார்.

பிரதமர் மன்மோகன் சிங்குக்கு, முதல்வர் ஜெயலலிதா எழுதிய கடிதம்:பாக் ஜலசந்தி பகுதியில், தங்கள் பாரம்பரிய மீன்பிடித் தொழிலை, தமிழக மீனவர்கள் மேற்கொள்ளும்போது, இலங்கை கடற்படையினர் மற்றும் கூலிப்படையினர், தினமும் அவர்கள் மீது தாக்குதல் நடத்துவதால், மீனவர்களின் பாதுகாப்பு குறித்த மிகுந்த கவலையுடன், இக்கடிதத்தை எழுதுகிறேன்.இந்த அரசு பொறுப்பேற்றது முதல், தமிழக மீனவர்கள் மீது, இலங்கை அதிகாரிகள் தாக்குதல் நடத்துவது, சித்ரவதை செய்வது போன்ற சம்பவங்கள் அதிகரித்துள்ளது பற்றி, ஏற்கனவே தங்கள் கவனத்திற்குக் கொண்டு வந்திருந்தேன்.சென்னை வந்த, இந்திய வெளியுறவுத் துறை செயலர் ரஞ்சன் மத்தாயிடமும், நேரடியாக இதுபற்றி விளக்கியிருந்தேன். நியூயார்க்கில், இலங்கை அதிபரை தாங்கள் சந்தித்தபோது, இவ்விஷயம் பற்றி கவலை தெரிவித்ததாகவும், இதுபோன்ற சம்பவங்கள் பற்றி தீவிரமாக விசாரிப்பதாக, இலங்கை அரசு உறுதியளித்ததாகவும், எனக்கு எழுதிய கடிதத்தில் குறிப்பிட்டிருந்தீர்கள்.

ஆனால், தமிழக அரசு மற்றும் மத்திய அரசின் இதுபோன்ற கவலைகள் அனைத்தும், இலங்கை அரசைப் பொறுத்தவரை, செவிடன் காதில் ஊதியது போல, எவ்விதப் பலனும் அளிக்கவில்லை. கடந்த மே மாதத்தில் இருந்து, இதுவரை, 22 தாக்குதல் சம்பவங்கள், தமிழக மீனவர்கள் மீது நடந்துள்ளன.இதில், கடந்த மாதம் 10ம் தேதி, தங்களுக்கு நான் கடிதம் எழுதிய பின், ஆறு பெரிய தாக்குதல் சம்பவங்கள் நடந்துள்ளன.தமிழக மீனவர்கள், பாக் ஜலசந்தி பகுதியில், மீன்பிடித் தொழிலில் ஈடுபட விடாமல் தடுக்க வேண்டும் என்பதற்காக, அவர்களை அச்சமூட்டும் திட்டத்துடன், இலங்கை கடற்படையினரும், கூலிப்படையினரும் திட்டமிட்டு, ஒரே மாதிரியான தாக்குதலை நடத்தி வருவதாகத் தெரிகிறது.

கடும் நடவடிக்கை தேவை: மத்திய அரசிடம் தொடர்ந்து முறையிட்டும், வெளியுறவு ரீதியான முயற்சிகளை மேற்கொண்டும், இதுபோன்ற தாக்குதல்கள் தொடருவதால், தமிழகம் முழுவதும், மீனவ சமுதாயத்தினரிடம், மிகுந்த கவலையும், அசாதாரண சூழ்நிலையும் நிலவி வருகிறது.எனவே, இலங்கை அரசுக்கு எதிராக, கடுமையான நிலையை பிரதமர் எடுக்க வேண்டும். மீனவர்கள் மீது, இதுபோன்ற தாக்குதல் தொடரக்கூடாது என, கடுமையான வார்த்தைகள் மற்றும் நடவடிக்கைகள் மூலம், தங்களது கண்டனத்தைத் தெரிவிக்க வேண்டும்.இப்பிரச்னையை, தமிழகப் பிரச்னையாக ஒதுக்கிவிடாமல், தேசிய பிரச்னையாகக் கருத வேண்டுமென, ஏற்கனவே நான் குறிப்பிட்டுள்ளதை, மீண்டும் வலியுறுத்துகிறேன்.இவ்வாறு, ஜெயலலிதா தெரிவித்துள்ளார்.

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US, India deploy ‘entry-refusal’ weapon against Tamil solidarity

[TamilNet, Saturday, 05 November 2011, 23:19 GMT]
Tamil Nadu film director and leader of the Naam Thamizhar Movement that upholds the cause of Eezham Tamils, Mr. Seeman, was refused of landing permission in the USA when he went to participate in a Tamil conference organized by three US-based diaspora associations of both Tamil Nadu and Eezham Tamils. Mr. Seeman was given with a valid visa to visit the USA but was refused entry at the New York airport on Saturday. Last month, the President of the Global Tamil Forum (GTF), the diaspora-based umbrella organisation of Eezham Tamils, Rev. Fr. S J. Emmanuel, was refused entry at Chennai airport when he travelled from Europe, despite having valid multiple entry visa to India. Whether the USA and India, long known for the misuse of visa by the Establishments, cooperate or compete in capturing Tamil polity for their agendas is the emerging question.

Naam Thamizhar Seeman

The US Tamil conference “Thamizhar Changkamam 2011” (the Tamil confluence) on Saturday was organized by three US-based diaspora associations, World Tamil Organization, US Tamil Political Action Council (USTPAC) and Ilangkai Thamil Sangam (Sangam) at Crown Plaza in New Jersey.

The conference was scheduled to discuss, improving lives of Tamils, war crimes investigations and coordination of activities.

According to the programme of the conference, Mr. Seeman was to deliver the keynote address besides speeches by the visiting TNA parliamentarians.

Mr. Seeman was refused entry at the New York airport on Saturday early hours.

Rev. Fr. S.J. Emmanuel

When asked for reasons, Mr. Seeman was told that his connections with the LTTE would be a security threat to the USA, said a press statement from Naam Thamizhar, asking why then the US embassy in India had given him the visa.

The press statement said that Mr. Seeman was invited by the World Tamil Organization and accused that the deportation was at the behest of elements working against the Tamil nation.

While selectively deport war-torn Tamils engaged in socio-political organisation, both the USA and India on the other hand competitively build their own ‘networks’ and NGO blocs among Eezham Tamils.

Meanwhile, internationally accused war criminals of Sri Lanka travel freely to both the countries.

Writing in Guardian on 30 September 2011, about States abusing visa to counter righteous struggles of peoples, Arundhati Roy said: “Our lungs are gradually being depleted of oxygen. Perhaps it's time use whatever breath remains in our bodies to say: Open the bloody gates."

In September this year, veteran US journalist and author, David Barsamian, founder and director of Alternative Radio, and a person having cultural contacts with India for well over 45 years, was refused landing permission in New Delhi. His entry was refused for reasons not revealed to him.

In last November, a US Professor of Anthropology, Richard Shapiro, who has his family in India, was stopped from entering India and he was not even replied to his queries when he could again return to India.

Arundhati Roy says Kashmir question was the reason for the refusal of entry to both the US visitors.

Arundhati Roy

The complaint against David Barasamian according to "official sources" is that he had reported on events in Jammu and Kashmir during his last visit to India and that these reports were "not based on facts," Arundhati cited Indian officials.

“Who decides which "facts" are correct and which are not? Would Barsamian have been deported if the conversations he recorded had been in praise of the impressive turnouts in Kashmir's elections, instead of about daily life in the densest military occupation in the world (an estimated 600,000 actively deployed armed personnel for a population of 10 million people),” asks Arundhati. [The intensity of SL military occupation of the country of Eezham Tamils is worse than that of Kashmir cited by Arundhati]

The deportation of Prof Shapiro “was probably a way of punishing his partner, Angana Chatterji, who is a co-convenor of the international peoples' tribunal on human rights and justice which first chronicled the existence of unmarked mass graves in Kashmir, Arundhati said.

More than 60 prominent intellectuals, academics, journalists and writers, including Prof. Noam Chomsky, who condemned the deportations in September 2011 said that “We are dismayed that this power to send people back from the airport is slowly becoming a weapon, used to discipline and silence people who draw any kind of attention to uncomfortable truths about India.”

“We demand that the right to travel and the right to free exchange of ideas between scholars, journalists, artists, and human rights defenders be respected and protected, and that government agents not authorize the denial of entry and eviction of visitors to India, or monitor their movement. Free exchange of ideas is one of the most basic human rights and values in free democratic societies. Freedom of travel is one of the most important avenues for furthering such exchange among peoples. Recognizing this, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which India has ratified, protects freedom of expression, right to travel and scientific exchange,” said the September statement of Indian academics and journalists.

Whatever said to India is also applicable to the USA, perhaps in a more underlined way, because of the latter’s international involvements.

But, what one wonders is that how many in the USA, and how many among the ‘All India’ Indians will voice against what their Establishments are doing to Eezham Tamils in intimidating and hijacking their efforts to come out from genocide and annihilation of their nation.

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External Links:

HARDNEWS:		DAVID BARSAMIAN’S DEPORTATION: Statement of Protest
The Guardian:		The dead begin to speak up in India

Media opinion urges Philippines to follow genocidal Sri Lanka

[TamilNet, Sunday, 06 November 2011, 12:15 GMT]
Philippines should follow Sri Lanka’s model in getting Chinese assistance and annihilate the Moro National Liberation Front (MILF) fighting for the nation of Muslims in Philippines, urges an Outlook column appeared in Philippine Daily Inquirer, Thursday. A similar outlook in Burma’s military government against the Karen nationalists has been pointed out in many media reports after the genocidal war against the nation of Eezham Tamils in the island of Sri Lanka. The US and India, by setting the stage, by finishing a national war to genocidal end and by continue sitting on political and criminal justice, have inspired a host of rogue States to follow the genocidal path, but ironically the ill-gotten gains of the ‘inspiration’ goes to China, commented a political science academic in the Tamil diaspora.

Saying “If you want peace, prepare for war” the Philippine Daily Inquirer columnist Rigoberto Tiglao points out, “What isn’t widely known though is that the Sri Lankan army won against the Tamils with China’s massive assistance, amounting to $1 billion in military and financial aid annually from 2005 to 2009, allowing it to increase its military budget by 40 percent and its army’s size by 70 percent.” “Too bad that President Aquino hasn’t exactly warmed up to China for us to request military aid from that emerging superpower, what with his saber-rattling over the Spratleys issue and his government’s bungling that resulted in the deaths of eight Chinese tourists,” the columnist argues in favour of even sacrificing the national interests of Philippines in the South China Sea in exchange for the genocidal passion of annihilating the nation of his siblings.

Exactly the model followed and is being followed by Mahinda Rajapaksa by not conceding sovereignty of the nation of Eezham Tamils but losing it to every X, Y and Z.

The Inquirer Opinion columnist admires Rajapaksa for ‘wiping out’ the Tamil Tigers in an ‘all-out war’ “despite the international hue and cry against the government’s offensive by peace advocates and human rights organizations.”

The columnist is wrong. There was no hue and cry until the war was over. It was genocide without witness. The West and India looked after the media and the organizations. Philippines may need them too and may need the skill to later blackmail them by showing the China card, if it wants to follow the Rajapaksa Path.

After the war, the commander of the occupying SL military in Jaffna, Maj. Gen. Mahinda Hathurusinghe, who was presiding over the structural genocide of Eezham Tamils, was awarded Guci Peace Prize in Philippines. The SL Army paraded the ‘award’ as Asian Nobel Peace Prize.

Burma was the first country Mahinda Rajapaksa chose to visit with a large entourage, immediately after the war.

Over the course of centuries the West has learnt to largely sort out its national questions and has grown up. To lead the human civilization it should develop a paradigm to help the other parts of the world to deliver justice to national questions wherever the question is chronic. By facilitating genocide and annihilation of nations no imperialism will be ultimately successful. Sri Lanka and independence of Eezham Tamils is a paradigm setting case in proving credibility for world leadership, the diaspora academic commented.

Sinhalese forcibly take over paddy lands of Tamils in Thennaimaravadi

[TamilNet, Sunday, 06 November 2011, 03:38 GMT]
Some resettled Tamil farmers in Thennaimaravadi village were taken aback in the weekend to see their paddy lands they prepared for sowing for the forthcoming Maha cultivation had been sown by Sinhalese encroachers at the instance of the Sri Lanka Army stationed in the area. They fear this is a part of a covert plan by Colombo government to forcibly take over paddy lands in the traditional Tamil village Thennaimaravadi, located at the narrow boundary between Mullaiththeevu and Trincomalee districts that links the Northern and Eastern territories of the country of Eezham Tamils.

The encroachment of Sinhalese has been reported to the Kuchchave'li Divisional Secretary and to Provincial Land Authority by the resettled Tamil families promptly.

According to DS sources, Sinhalese villagers located close to Thennaimaravadi have been asked not to enter paddy fields of Tamils in the village for one week till the dispute is settled. Sinhalese encroachers claim that they have been doing cultivation in these lands as the entire Tamil community of Thennaimaravadi village had fled to elsewhere due to the conflict.

The village once flourished with paddy cultivation and animal husbandry has been slowly returning to normalcy with the return of some Tamil families uprooted due to conflict and military operation by the Sri Lanka Army since 1984.

Majority of uprooted Tamil families are still residing at Ponnakar, a settlement put up by them at Mu'l'liyava'lai in Mullaiththeevu district waiting for their turn to resettle in their lands in Thennaimaravadi.

Thennaimaravadi, located strategically between the north and eastern province borders was the scene of intense colonization activity in 1984 by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) in a planned attempt to drive a wedge in the contiguity of Tamil presence across the provincial borders. 

Thennaimaravadi was the first Tamil village completely displaced in the Trincomalee district following the SL state sponsored Black July pogroms in 1983. At that time more than two hundred Tamil families were living in the village.

Several new Sinhala settlements, Padavi Siripura, Sri Tissapura, Samanpura, Gemunupura and Sinhapura, were established in state lands in the north of Trincomalee district located close to Thennaimaravadi village thus making the Tamil population a minority in the area.

Hundreds of families fled when soldiers of the Sinhala dominated Sri Lanka Army assisted by Sinhala home guards entered into Thennaimaravadi on 1st December 1984, from the nearby “Sinhapura,” (meaning the town of the Lion) one of the new Sinhala settlements which is located close to the Thennaimaravadi village under the state aided colonization scheme after the British left the island.

Five Tamil villagers were shot and killed by SL army soldiers and Sinhala homeguards 
 on 01 December 1984, the first day of the attack. Immediately, rest of the village fled into the jungles to save their lives. When they returned to their homes the SL soldiers rounded them up and opened fire. At least thirteen Tamil villagers were shot dead by the army and home guards.

On December 4, hundreds of families who fled towards the jungle for the second time, started their journey with available belongings leaving their cattle and other properties in their homes towards Mullaith-theevu district.

On their way, they reached Akkaraive'li, Koddakea'ni Pi'l'laiyaar Koayil, Kokkuth-thoduvaay and finally reached Mu'l'liyava'lai, where they put up huts and named it “Ponnakar”.

Even now, Thennaimaravadi displaced families live at “Ponnakar” in Mu'l'liyava'lai awaiting the day of resettlement in their own village, displaced Tamil sources said. 

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