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Friday, July 8, 2011
Why should we care about the suffering of Tamils?
By Jody McIntyre Friday, 8 July 2011
On Tuesday 14 June, a shocking, heart-wrenching documentary was shown on Channel 4. ‘Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields’, broadcast just after 11pm, displayed what presenter Jon Snow described as “devastating evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity, and a powerful case for bring those guilty of these crimes to justice.” I remember the massive Tamil demonstrations in London in April 2009, during what many of them viewed as genocide in progress. Day after day, a Tamil community of hundreds of thousands would descend on Parliament Square, laying the Houses of Parliament to siege on several occasions. For weeks on end, the Tamil community occupied the Square, in an attempt to raise awareness of the suffering and destruction their families were facing. I slept in the Square on some nights, the air cold and the grass damp with dew, feeling inspired by their determination and resilience. Full Story>>>
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July 7, 2011
by Saman Indrajith
The TNA said in Parliament, on Thursday, that the Tamil people are willing to live as equal citizens within a united and undivided Sri Lanka.
TNA Group Leader R. Sampanthan, moving an adjournment motion on the current situation in the Northern and Eastern provinces, said that two years have lapsed since the armed struggle, demanding the right of self-determination, had been defeated and the time had now come for the government to provide just and equal treatment to Tamil people and consider them as citizens of Sri Lanka.
The dismal failure of successive governments to recognize and respect the democratic rights of the Tamil people and the persistent demand of the Tamil people for just and equal treatment as Sri Lankan citizens, that has been the root cause for such ethnic violence, to be unleashed against the Tamil people, he said.
The TNA leader invited the attention of the House, the Government and the country "to the imperative need to address the core issues of the conflict and to evolve an acceptable political solution that will bring about genuine reconciliation and harmony amongst the different communities and peoples who inhabit Sri Lanka. Indeed, the only way to ensure permanent peace to evolve an acceptable political solution that will address such genuine reconciliation and harmony amongst the different communities and peoples inhabiting Sri Lanka."
Sampanthan urged the government to address core causes of the conflict, to implement a structured programme to enable to displaced and affected people to rebuild and recommence their lives and to take immediate action to reverse, rectify and redress the several actions that have adverse political, economic, social and cultural consequences to the Tamil people.
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Time to treat Tamil people as equals - TNA
July 7, 2011by Saman Indrajith
The TNA said in Parliament, on Thursday, that the Tamil people are willing to live as equal citizens within a united and undivided Sri Lanka.
TNA Group Leader R. Sampanthan, moving an adjournment motion on the current situation in the Northern and Eastern provinces, said that two years have lapsed since the armed struggle, demanding the right of self-determination, had been defeated and the time had now come for the government to provide just and equal treatment to Tamil people and consider them as citizens of Sri Lanka.
The dismal failure of successive governments to recognize and respect the democratic rights of the Tamil people and the persistent demand of the Tamil people for just and equal treatment as Sri Lankan citizens, that has been the root cause for such ethnic violence, to be unleashed against the Tamil people, he said.
The TNA leader invited the attention of the House, the Government and the country "to the imperative need to address the core issues of the conflict and to evolve an acceptable political solution that will bring about genuine reconciliation and harmony amongst the different communities and peoples who inhabit Sri Lanka. Indeed, the only way to ensure permanent peace to evolve an acceptable political solution that will address such genuine reconciliation and harmony amongst the different communities and peoples inhabiting Sri Lanka."
Sampanthan urged the government to address core causes of the conflict, to implement a structured programme to enable to displaced and affected people to rebuild and recommence their lives and to take immediate action to reverse, rectify and redress the several actions that have adverse political, economic, social and cultural consequences to the Tamil people.
