On May 18, 2009 has passed into history and memory of the Tamil population of Sri Lanka Northwest as the date and the day most heinous of 4000 years of existence, both cultural and religious minority erroneously considered this 'ethnic'. Why?Obviously by geopolitics. The history of the Tamils, the Jaffna University and Library dates back to 4,000 years of culture. Cultural repression has labored to sweep the map, as if they had never existed, like the Franco regime in Spain had come to burn the library of Salamanca and the University of Granada, or if the dictatorship of the military regime in Argentina had looted and destroyed historical documents Jesuit Missions of the library of the Archbishop of Cordoba. Put in perspective, that is exactly what has happened to this ancient culture of the Tamils.The tragedy of this minority community has been his own intellectual development, cultural and, above all, the entrepreneurial spirit that made them stand out in a region smaller than the Province of Tucuman in Argentina, surrounded from the north and northeast of the sub Asia and the omnipotent power of India, who made sure geopolitical control of the territories-national Indian Ocean, while the Republic of China, on the other side of the natural barrier of another minority orogenic also repressed, Nepal, followed suit and secured the northern Asia.
To all this, the 'Islamic state' of Pakistan plays the role of 'competitor' with India but with one crucial difference, their 'friendship' with the Western powers will geopolitical conditions to support the Islamists in southern Sri Lanka and ignore the second largest minority among northern Tamils, Tamils Muslims. Here in lies the tragedy of these people. Neither the Tamil Christians have been saved from the massacre and extermination by the Sinhalese Buddhists in southern Sri Lanka. One example among hundreds of others, is the Archbishop of Mannar, Rayappu Father, who survived almost a fugitive and has compiled a list of missing and murdered Tamils 146,679 between 2008 and 2009, of which 40,000 deaths occurred in the fateful 48 hours final assault on Tamil enclave by the army of Sri Lanka. What puts the final number of missing and murdered around 200 000 in 1983. As a result, about 300,000 Tamils civilians were interned in concentration camps-data confirmed this January 24, 2012 by the official spokesman for the Tamil Forum, and rape and sexual harassment all kinds of women interned in concentration camps, their property and belongings looted. Worse, the territory populated by Singalies re. In other words, the Tamils are now being stripped of the cultural space of an ancient civilization that has had to pay a high price on one side of being multicultural, so very progressive, and yet so vulnerable and exposed to the powerful geopolitical interests in the region and on the other, have resisted oppression by appealing to methods that in many areas gave rise to analytical consideration, quite simply, as terrorists. Which inevitably leads to thoroughly investigate and question the very social fabric of the Tamil community and the army of the Tamil Tigers who resisted to keep the area free from Eelam (Tamil homeland). The LTTE: Tamil Tigers TheLTTE's abbreviated acronym textual translation 'Liberation Tamil Tigers Eelam (Liberation Tigers for Tamil Eelam). Since its inception recruited youth from middle class and better educated. The idea of liberation war intellectuals who regarded the Tamils
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Civilian victims of the bombing in Sri Lanka in May 2009 |
Sri Lanka Army as a military oppressor, was born in the cloisters of one of the oldest universities in the world, the Jaffna Library, which dates back to 4,000 years ago and enjoyed among the first civilizations to keep a written record of their culture in 'papyrus' palm leaves.Unfortunately we have to refer to the past because the current military regime's repression proceeded to burn all that much historical material. The question that stands out is 'when he started all this barbarism and the spiral of terrorist violence, according to from which side it looks'.Terrorists subversive or terrorist state?
To find the answer, you have to put your finger on the yaga, ask questions that may be uncomfortable, hurtful, controversial.You have to navigate through the interviews with honesty, sincerity and experience of not offending anyone with questions that can cause deep pain to those interviewed. During the first contact, facilitated by former Argentine exile refuge in England, Charlie Moore, led to a meeting of this correspondent with members of the Tamil Party in Exile. This first interview lasted over five hours. After walking around for over an hour and a half around the English countryside, due to a car navigation finally arrived at the site of contact.
Sitting in the passenger seat, my 'driver' Tamil, with whom this correspondent made contact, he confided that his brother, a former police officer of the former Tamil Eelam liberated zone was finally identified within one of the many fields concentration of the civil community, currently around 30 to 50 thousand, was arrested and taken to jail to just two months ago, that's almost two years after the war ended, which was assented to and confirmed by another passenger Tamil sitting behind me. But if the conflict has ended since the Tamil Tigers decimated in May 2009, why and what the goal of selective repression so oppressive? The answer seems to lie back in a kind of strategy alignment and extermination of the Tamil minority. To explain this situation requires saturate the most recent historical past and the events that precipitated the violence in a community that has stood for religious tolerance and social-cultural succumbed been completed, but not defeated, by the military regime's oppression para-military today.
1958: ten years after Sri Lanka's independence from the old English colonial rule, ethnic and cultural relations began to crack in the former colony known as Ceylon. Saw the first attacks and acts of violence against Tamils, especially in the south of the island of Sri Lanka and in the capital Colombo.
1977: Tension flared again and the business and properties of Tamils in the south were again looted and burned, especially in the capital.
1980: armed struggle begins with the appearance of the Tigers-LTTE, with the first group of only a handful of fighters.
1983: unbridled violence erupts. Since 1980 the democratic government elected by the majority Sinhalese | Buddhists, gradually slipped into the abyss of state terrorism. Note that in the Constitution of Sri Lanka, unlike India and Pakistan, Human Rights were not recognized as so neither the Geneva, 1959 regarding "prisoners of war. ' In July 1983 the LTTE Tigers detonated a mine planted on the path of an army convoy, causing casualties among the thirteen military personnel. What set off the blood orgy of unimaginable proportions. In the days that followed, between 5,000 and 10,000 members of the Tamil civilians were killed by the army, police and paramilitary groups. Known as the 'Black July' most political parties representing the two most important of Tamils were arrested, imprisoned, tortured and in many cases killed, including the general secretary Dr. Velekadai, who according to party sources consulted Tamil here England had never been sympathetic to the armed struggle and the LTTE Tigers.He was also burned by the police the historic Jaffna library. From then on, began the conflict that led to a war 'civil'.1984: after the assassination of Indira Gandhi by the Sikhs of northern India, the Tamils have lost the little support they could enjoy in India and the former Soviet state of the friend turned to the United States and the West. With the succession of Ragiv Gandhi was cut the supply line of weapons to the LTTE Tamils, because government at the highest levels of the political establishment in Delhi (capital of India), considered that the independence of Sri Lanka Tamils could lead to an insurrection Tamil state in South India, a region of at least 150 times larger than the territory of Eelam in Sri Lanka. Again, and for different reasons, the LTTE were rowing against the current. From then on the Tamil Tigers were left to fend for themselves and especially their own limited resources, they would not be able to keep for themselves their fighting force for much longer. In other words, they had their days numbered. It was in this instance when, in a last desperate muffled slap of oxygen to win, the Tigers Eelam Tamils seek a peaceful and offered to demobilize. And here is where, politically and tactically, they made the double mistake of his campaign release, according to self-criticism expressed by members of that organization, in the first instance, instead of seeking a solution to the conflict with the military regime in Sri Lanka should have sought to negotiate with the 'masters' of the puppet capital of Colombo, Sri Lanka in Delhi, India's political establishment.
In fact, following the agreement of 'pacification' the military regime took the opportunity to mobilize and deploy to more than 40,000 troops in the Tamil Eelam, according to spokesmen Tiger fighters and verified by sources unsympathetic to the armed organization. From then on began the decline of the Tigers and territorial occupation army the military regime in Sri Lanka, which resulted in the internment camps of the entire population, about 300,000 civilian survivors after 30,000 deaths during the assault Eelam final location and occupation by the army of Sri Lanka's
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