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Subject: The sad reality for Tamils in Sri Lanka
Necromancer    5/18/2009 1:24:01 PM
Will there be any reasonable hope for justice and equality or is leaving Sri Lanka a smarter option?
 
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grichens       5/18/2009 4:24:11 PM
Such a loaded question.  Any Tamil who believes that Prabhakaran gave them a better chance for justice and equality alive than dead is likely better off leaving Sri Lanka. 
 
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Necromancer    Well its the fire or the frying pan here isn't it?   5/18/2009 5:13:03 PM
What did Prabhakaran promise? what did Sri Lankan government promise now? And what did Sri Lankan government promise while under LTTE pressure, and what did it do before LTTE- would be interesting if true facts were revealed. All in all this assures a Tamil diaspora from Italy to Canada to Australia. This will be just brushed under the carpet of history. Sigh...
 
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Necromancer    Now you tell me what should the Tamils look forward to? "Soft Ethnic Cleansing"   5/19/2009 12:11:11 AM

Such a loaded question.  Any Tamil who believes that Prabhakaran gave them a better chance for justice and equality alive than dead is likely better off leaving Sri Lanka. 

There are whispers in Washington, based on reliable briefings by Sri Lankan officials, that Rajapaksa's secret strategy is to repopulate areas vacated by Tamils during the fighting with ethnic Sinhalese the same way Han Chinese changed the demographics of Tibet in the last few decades.

Prabhakaran told a journalist in 1986 that his primary role model was Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose in his power and resplendent as the head of the Indian National Army. His other role model, according to this journalist, was Clint Eastwood in his tough guy roles in the Dirty Harry movies.

With the prospect that DMK will have a key role in the next UPA government, South Block was today trying to look beyond the mopping up of any residual Tamil resistance in Sri Lanka and, instead, urging Colombo not to engage in what may amount to soft ethnic cleansing of areas where Prabhakaran wanted to concentrate his Eelam homeland.

?This is the moment when the root causes of conflict in Sri Lanka can be addressed,? India said in a statement. ?This would include political steps towards the effective devolution of power within the Sri Lankan Constitution so that Sri Lankans of all communities, including the Tamils, can feel at home and lead lives of dignity of their own free will.?

The statement, especially New Delhi's emphasis on the devolution of power to Tamils, suggested that India too may be aware of Rajapaksa's plans to change Sri Lanka's demographics in such a way that Tamils cannot ask for a homeland any more.
 

 
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grichens       5/19/2009 9:01:52 AM
So where does the LTTE's killing of Neelan Tiruchelvam fit into your narrative?  Do you consider him a traitor for undermining the Eelam cause?
 
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Necromancer    grichens   5/19/2009 11:22:08 AM

So where does the LTTE's killing of Neelan Tiruchelvam fit into your narrative?  Do you consider him a traitor for undermining the Eelam cause?

I am not affiliated with Sri Lanka and have no detailed knowledge as such. But I do have engineers working for me in Tamil Nadu who said this "Well now the terrorists are gone the Sri Lanka government should move to restoring Tamil rights" it seems the Sri Lanka government has not discussed that yet but is intent on Tibetizing the Tamil problem (these engineers are naive). And nobody seems to care. So my view is that the Tamils would be equal citizens only if they split from Sri Lanka. I have no faith in the Sri Lankan government on this issue, it seems Tamils are doomed to be second class citizens. So if you like democracy and equal rights for all, pluralism and all that good stuff who was most likely to give it to the Tamils? - I think anyone that delivers a separate state.
 
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