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Ban the LTTE in Europe: Expat `Tamil Democrats`
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piranha
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23 Nov 2005 14:55:34 GMT Report for Abuse
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Maninder,
If you think that elections in Sri Lanka equals to democracy, you are a bigger fool than the fools who get duped by the Sri Lankan politicians at every election.
All you hear from the Sri Lanksn poliicians at election times are promises, promises and more false promises. Add to this, anti Tamil racism and you have a winning formula.
The majority of the Sri Lankan electorate is uneducated rural peasntry. They keep falling for the promises of these cunning and devious politicians again and again.
The Tamils are a much more educated lot than the Sinhalese and they know what democracy is. The biggest problem with the Tamils is that they have never been united in their fight against the Sinhala governments who have tried to subjugate them since independence.
The tactic of the LTTE in preventing the Tamils from voting at the presidential election was valid and understandable. The LTTE wanted the Sinhala people to elect their own president without the support of the Tamils, in order to gauge the actual support among the Sinhala people for or against a federal solution.
The LTTE has proved its point and the Sinhala masses have chosen to continue to support Sinhala Buddhist chauvinism. Now the entire world knows why the LTTE is fighting for a separate state. Many of the world powers including India were dismayed by the election of Mahinda.
Freedom first and democracy second, and that, I believe, is the philosophy of the LTTE. |
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23 Nov 2005 15:45:54 GMT Report for Abuse
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Gaja,
may be you misunderstood.
This is not the way to solve this problem. In short, Prabah should be punished for terrorising the world and political leaders must come to the table. that is the solution.
thanks anyway. |
tamilcanuck
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23 Nov 2005 18:21:17 GMT Report for Abuse
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| Its only because of the LTTE that the tamils plight has been internationalised. a lot of folks dont seem to understand the ground reality and seem to think with the heart instead of their head. a good example is the current election and how folks voted. |
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23 Nov 2005 18:28:39 GMT Report for Abuse
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HEY GUYS,WATCH WHAT YOU SAY,
A POOR GUY GOT HIS HANDS CHOPPED FOR VOTING BY THE LTTE TERRORISTS,NO WONDER THE GOONS(THE ECO REFUGEES) IN THIS FORUM IS SH@T SCARED WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THEM IF THEY DISAGREE WITH THE HYENAS(MUST NOT INSULT THE JUNGLE TIGER,WHO ONLY KILLS WHEN ITS HUNGRY).EVEN THEY DONT LIVE IN VANNI. |
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23 Nov 2005 18:36:00 GMT Report for Abuse
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Learn to respect others and get respected. dont take your frustartion and start calling out names. How come there is no news reagrding this so called arm chopping on BBC especilally since a BBC jouirnalist was seen asking questions.
use of all capitals is a form of shouting. (general public forum practice) |
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23 Nov 2005 19:23:32 GMT Report for Abuse
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| Good Article old puli... Shows that the LTTE is laying the foundation for global ban... |
Gaja
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23 Nov 2005 21:31:50 GMT Report for Abuse
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Thank you Oldpuli. Below is the letter I wrote to the Australian Prime Minister over this.
love
gaja
GAJA LAKSHMI PARAMASIVAM
AUSTRALIAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT
906/ 56, Carr Street; Coogee N.S.W. 2034; Australia ;
Email gajalakshmi_param@bigpond.com ; Phone 61 2 9315 7417
The John Howard, MP
Prime Minister
Parliament House
Canberra
24 November 2005
Dear Mr. Howard,
New terror raids target Tamils
By Cameron Stewart and Patrick Walters
November 24, 2005
I refer to the above news article, which reports 'POLICE launched new anti-terror raids across Melbourne yesterday investigating a group suspected of giving assistance to overseas terrorist organisation the Tamil Tigers.'
My husband heard the news on 2GB and I learnt the rest of the details through an Australian Internet friend. Mr. Howard, based on my own experiences with the Police, I am very concerned that your government has given the Australian Police the 'Subjective Power' to damage those who genuinely contribute to independence and freedom.
This week I heard Professor Rohan Gunaratne, advise Australians that there will be Terrorism here in Australia. Now the above raids confirm my worst fears - that Professor Gunaratne's subjective theories have been given 'form' by the Australian Police, looking for 'business'.
If indeed the Tamil Tigers were planning on attacking Australia, then there is reason for you and your government to work against that. But in this instance, you are 'importing' terrorism through the Sri Lankan government and its agents such as Professor Gunaratne.
The Tamil Tigers are seeking to be independent in their homeland in SRI LANKA. If indeed, the International groups involved in Terrorism are linked through their Muslim culture and hence the International risk, then your actions against the Tamils supporting the Tigers proves that you are trying to make the Tamil Tigers International Terrorists, by accusing them here in Australia without them having committed a crime to hurt the Australian public. Their actions may indirectly hurt the Sri Lankans. But that does not come under your jurisdiction. People such as Professor Rohan Gunaratne have infiltrated your government to hurt Australian Tamils.
Mr. Howard, if you seek to know the thinking of the Tamil Tigers, you need to partner those who are close to them and not those who are distant from them. It suits Professor Gunaratne to make this an International issue - even though he knows very well that the Tigers are against the Sri Lankan government only and extreme Sinhalese.
As an Australian, I am very concerned that you are continuing to treat us like Sri Lankans / Tamils. When the NSW Police arrested and imprisoned me, they described me as Sri Lankan. It was a statement of FACT to them. That FACT was based on their thinking without them doing the WORK to know my nationality as per the LAW. Despite my repeated protests they continued to list me as Sri Lankan. I finally contacted the Sri Lankan Consul General who offered to come over to the Police Station, before the Police changed my status to Australian.
This illustrates the weakness of our Police force. Some, if not all, of the Tamils accused may not be considered Terrorists in Sri Lanka. The above report says 'It is understood that the people raided were not plotting a terror attack in Australia.'
What is wrong in Sri Lanka may not be wrong in Australia and v.v. YOU have seriously erred in allowing the Police and ASIO to work through you. You failed to do enough independent work to know whether these new laws were needed or not.
Mr. Howard, I have never given money directly to the Tamil Tigers. But I have given money to many social causes through agencies that are connected to the Tamil Tigers. I myself have worked with the Tamil Tigers through the UNDP and later assisted them to draw up the Tsunami proposals in Eastern Sri Lanka. Am I then guilty of promoting Terrorism? If yes, then you are more guilty of aiding the Muslims through current humanitarian aid to Pakistan, through the government.
Mr. Howard, please appreciate that we face problems similar to yours. If you separate us and we feel separated, your problems become our opportunities and v.v.
If you had included us in your thinking, you would not fear us. Currently you are making the same mistakes that the Sri Lankan government made. The latest Presidential elections have proven that the Tamils had the balancing power to elect the President. THAT was the proof that Tamils have worked genuinely at the National level - largely through Public Administration at all levels.
If you are not careful, you will import the Sri Lankan government's problems into Australia. That is how you have now made the Tamil Tigers your business. Until the issue is in thinking mode, there is room for an intellectual solution and therefore 'internal' reconciliation. The above raids have made the issue a problem for Australian Government. It will continue to be a problem if you do not include the work of Asian migrants in your administration and government. When you gave the subjective power to the Police, you ought to have given the parallel of it to the leaders of the ethnic communities that you considered a danger to Australian society. THAT Mr.Howard is genuine democracy. You are continuing to promote autocracy - just like the Vice Chancellor of the University of New South Wales who had me arrested by Police who sent me to prison and had me listed as a mentally ill person. You get the behaviour you reward Mr. Howard.
If Police Administration had been strong, they would not have needed subjective laws to arrest terrorists. Had you included migrants in your Public Administration AT THEIR EARNED LEVELS, your administration would have corrected the mistakes before they became a problem. Once it is seen to be a problem, we need to take sides. Most Asian migrants are against you on this Mr. Howard. If you continue like this, you will divide the country into two. I warned you in 1999 but you failed to hear me. I even took you to court, but you dismissed me as being insignificant and lacking in substance. I am warning you again Mr. Howard. If you continue along this path, Australians will be divided like Sri Lanka and America - whose governments you blindly support.
What action do you propose to take against the Australians who are working with the Tigers in Sri Lanka' I have seen Ausaid staff attending meetings linked with Tamil Tigers. The Sri Lankan government is working with the Tigers. So long as it is for those purposes, you have no mandate to punish Tiger supporters. By the way, are you going to arrest the Australian High Commissioner who shared his wisdom and knowledge with the Tiger Supporters in Mankerny, Batticaloa - in Eastern Sri Lanka? That is a strong Tiger area - enough to warrant continued army surveillance.
Are you going to arrest me Mr. Howard - because I do share my goodwill with the Tigers. You cannot separate the Tigers from the Tamils because they have sacrificed deeply for what they genuinely believed in. This may not seem right to you and others and even to themselves as they open up to the outside world. But so long as they do not target Australians, you had no right to arrest / raid them.
I foresaw this kind of problem when I was arrested by the Police. When a decision is subjective various persons down the line would give it their own interpretation. My warning has now been proven right. I will now have go strongly show others how to covert their pain into economic benefits - through compensation for unlawful arrests and raids - so we do not harbor feelings of revenge - however just they may be as per the system of Natural Justice.
Mr. Howard, it is important for you to know the Truth before you bring about subjective laws. Objective laws would stand on their own merit. Sometimes it is necessary to connect to the bad - to know the Truth. So long as you connect to the bad through their goodness, you will be protected. I have done this with many Australians. You owe it to do likewise with Asian migrants. Otherwise you will give us the balance of power to decide between you and your opposition.
You are promoting Terrorism through premature Anti Terrorism measures. It?s like doctors forcing medication based on theory. If the Asian migrants are bad as per the law before the Anti Terrorism laws ? then you need to address it through Public Administration ? especially with those of us who demonstrate our wisdom in Public Administration and those of us who follow the law at a higher level than the common Australian citizen.
Yours sincerely,
Gaja Lakshmi Paramasivam
CC: All Concerned including Race Discrimination Commissioner
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23 Nov 2005 22:01:36 GMT Report for Abuse
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Thank you Oldpuli. Tigers killed also my brother (cousin) Krishna. But Tamils now have no choice but to participate at the National level through the Tigers. At that level one has to look at Truth and not at good and bad; right and wrong.
I have not seen any killings by Tigers. But I have heard of them as I have heard of government killings also. So long as the Tiger killings are less than the government killings, I will speak from the Tiger side. Otherwise I cannot participate at that level - but only as an individual.
May be you were meant to 'see' and I was not. The Truth is all over this world. We become aware of it as per our own seeking and deservedness. I could have not learnt about this piece of vital information if not for my husband listening to the radio. I believe that Swami rewarded me for making a small sacrifice for His happiness in this world. I forewent a small pleasure and as usual He rewarded me with a big opportunity. I have been meaning to write about Rohan Gunaratne's involvement in Australian matters - and Swami led me to the material. That's a big birthday present.
Oldpuli, try seeing yourself as part of Tamils and not as a Tiger member or enemy. You have much to offer and you need to lose consciousness of the narrower definitions. Become part of the bigger community of Tamils. Don't stagnate at the lower level. All it needs is for you to think you are one. You do not need others' certification.
As for Mr. Howard responding to me - he will formally through his staff and informally through his mind. You will see the outcomes through the reforms to the Anti Terrorism Act.
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ma gaja
Edited By - Gaja - 23 Nov 2005 22:06:44 GMT |
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23 Nov 2005 22:20:06 GMT Report for Abuse
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Thank you Oldpuli. We have to be good to the good and smart to the bad - whichever side they are on. That way you take their goodside and become powerful and convert their bad side into good intelligence / lesson. Until you know someone as an individual see them as a Tamil rather than being blind to them.
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23 Nov 2005 22:38:19 GMT Report for Abuse
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| Looks like some tamils people support LTTE from heart & soul without even witnessing the brutal murders and intimidation and harassment of free thinking tamils who treasure their right to live and express their opinion. If you support a ungrateful facists to gain your rights, you will only get a facist rule by a mentally retarded who thinks he is the gods gift to tamils. Whichever you pet a snake, it will bite. All these dreamers abroad, come and step in to N/E Sri lanka as se whether you are welcome there. The youth live there will evenly angry with all of you just as they angry with the govt.for pushing them to a war and waging a war they don't want. They think you are traiters and covers your asses whilst they have to sacrifice their whole life, family under the facists rule. Tamils have to stand on their feet sooner or later for their voice to be respected, otherwise your war machine will have no support from any other than Norway as the world is against terrorism and your rights will be buried together with the downfall of LTTE which will happen eventually. LTTE has no existance in a democratic world. Tamils rights have to be protected against the terrorists like LTTE who wants war only for their own survival. They won't liberate anybody. Liberty will reach tamils in a world less LTTE. |
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