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Sri Lanka: One Island Two Nations
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Thiranjala Weerasinghe sj.- One Island Two Nations
?????????????????????????????????????????????????Monday, July 24, 2017
Sri Lanka: We must welcome GTF effort and they must go further
( July 23, 2017, London, Sri Lanka Guardian) The
right thinking people must welcome the initiative of the Global Tamil
Forum (GTF) to help provide medical assistance for the flood affected
areas of Southern Sri Lanka in partnership with the pioneering Sarvodaya
Shramadana Movement. This effort must be strengthened further by the
GTF to involve in far reaching post war socio-economic work with the
engagement with the cross section of the community organisations
overseas.
Many individuals, organisations and expatriate enterprises have
undertaken sustainable socio-economic projects without any political
fanfare and glamour. Their efforts too must be welcome and publicised in
an effective way to widen the scope of engagement of the expatriate
Tamils.
There are Tamil organisations and individuals providing funds for the
flood victims. Even one leading organisation have gone to the extent of
funding for purchase educational materials for the flood affected school
children.
As an evolvement of the pre-war International Federation of Tamils (IFT)
which was the international political arm of British Tamil Association
(now British Tamil Forum) the progressing GTF and the BTF must ensure to
address the crying demand of the expatriates to crystallise the
unaccounted pre-war funds collected under duress and held in individual
fund raising operatives names and commit them for the sustainable post
war development work in Sri Lanka.
Both GTF and BTF must publicly display their stand to account for the
hidden funds and publicise their programme of work to utilise them for
good and positive purposes in Sri Lanka. If the funds are not with them
or their network of operatives, they must make public pronouncements
without further delay. Any operative unwilling to co-operate must be
named and shamed to ensure they are made to respond to the cry.