Tamils are slaves in India: LTTE leader
March 18th, 2008 - 5:14 pm ICT by admin ( 1 comment )
Colombo, March 18 (IANS) A leader of the Tamil Tigers has alleged that Tamils in India are not a free people but are slaves of the Indian state, according to a media report Tuesday. “In ancient times the whole of India was a Tamil land. And the Chola kings (from Tamil Nadu) ruled over Sri Lanka for 70 years. Today, the Tamils are slaves in India and are fighting for their liberation in Sri Lanka,” Tamil daily “Sudar Oli” quoted Thamilendhi as saying.
Thamilendhi is the “finance commissar” of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
He was speaking in Kilinochchi at the launch of a Tamil book, “Let us Move Towards the Frontiers of Tamil Eelam”, written by Anbuselvan.
Thamilendhi’s comment came close on the heels of a strident anti-India statement in which the LTTE accused New Delhi of assisting Colombo to commit “genocide” against the Tamils.
Thamilendhi’s remarks are significant because he is part of the non-military inner circle in the LTTE that also includes political wing chief B. Nadesan and intelligence chief Pottu Amman.
Detailing the plight of the Tamils in the world, Thamilendhi said that in Malyasia the community was left with no option but to come to the streets and protest.
In the West, the migrant Tamil population was in danger of losing its ethnicity and language. He blamed disunity among the Tamils and a tendency to trust other communities for their plight, whether in India, Sri Lanka or Malaysia.
Thamilendhi pointed out that the demand for a separate Tamil Eelam in Sri Lanka was not new
“In the past, we had failed in our duty to secure an independent Tamil Eelam. If our present struggle does not succeed, the Tamils all over the world will surely perish,” he warned.
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August 6th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
[He blamed disunity among the Tamils and a tendency to trust other communities for their plight, whether in India, Sri Lanka or Malaysia]
The above statement succinctly explains the fallacy of tamil terrorists argument. Tamils as individuals always knew that the host communities that they lived with trusted them and let them live among them without discrimination and harrassment. These other communities did not promote or maintained the various caste and social divisions that tamil society and culture practised amongst themselves. In other words the host communities treated everyone as an equal, and that is why the tamils themselves trusted them more than their own kind. This is a fact, and I can vouch for that myself from personal experience. What the social menace prabhakaran was doing was creating a divison amongst its own people, and in the process acting as their dictator, something which tamils shunned and walked away from. Prabhakaran may be trying to revive past glory of Chola kingdom, which after all lasted only 70 years. First Prabhakaran is a fool to think that he could take back 1,000 years the 21st century world that we live in today. Secondly, 70-years of glory is not much in the history of mankind, just a mere stain in the fabric of Earth. It is just NOT SIGNIFICANT to be recreated. Even larger kingdoms that lasted for several thousand years, such as in Egypt, had come to nothing. If Prabhakaran wants to create a state for Tamils, he has already got one. Its called Tamil nadu. If he is clever enough, he should try and wrestle TN out of India’s hands. Then we can see how clever he is? In Sri Lanka he is just a bully, trying to intimidate a smaller nation through his thuggery and campaign of murder and massacres of a Buddhist population who are simply passive people. God, yours or mine, can see what is just and what is NOT. he will see to it that Prabhakaran will destroy himself through his campaign of hatred. Anger and hate destroys the very person who carries them. We see its results today in Sri Lanka. Prabhakaran will be lucky to get even the 6-ft plot that every dead person traditionally gets as a human right.