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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 Hon Philip Ruddock, MP
Attorney General
Parliament House
Canberra.

04 September 2006

Dear Mr. Ruddock,

FBI accuses Tamils in Australia of helping LTTE

I refer to the above report in the International media. It is very upsetting to read such reports especially at a time when our own people are getting killed by Government Forces in Sri Lanka.

Australian authorities have not worked out how to measure Racial Discrimination in their own country. My history with Australian governments and their agencies stand testimony to this. The attached letter to the Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Commission shows the level of backwardness of Australians in Racism issues. By promoting the genocide of Tamils in Sri Lanka, your government is adding to its negative karma in Racism.

This is a Race based war. Only those who are themselves clean of racism have the authority to umpire this war. All others who are getting involved are taking sides. Majority Tamils would not go against the Tigers because they KNOW that the Tigers believe in their cause. They KNOW because the Tigers brought to the world?s notice the discrimination pain that Tamils had felt over many years. Having tried to use the intellectual administrative path here in Australia, I know how difficult it is for minorities to even get the attention of the authorities in power.

I was born in a higher caste in Sri Lanka?s North and I therefore did not suffer from caste pain. My position there was more like yourself as an Individual here in Australia. But I did speak strongly against caste based divisions even as a child. I argued with my own father who continued to ban the lower caste from drawing water from the well in the compound of our family temple. Now, I have influenced my family to not only improve the well for the use of all people living around the temple, but also to donate land so they would have electricity and tap water facilities. During my last visit in July this year, I helped them complete the proposal for classes in Human Values to be conducted weekly at the temple. The funding for this goes from my husband through his family.

It is well known in that area that most of the residents are Tiger supporters. In fact there was some opposition to our land being donated for Community purposes and I diffused it by refusing to donate the land until I had majority residents? signatures supporting the donation. Last week I heard that one of the adjoining land owners has blocked one of the access paths to the temple. This is reported to have happened during curfew times when the classes could not be conducted. I have now written to the person apparently in charge of those adjoining lands, questioning whether the legal boundaries were respected and if yes, whether we could buy a small portion of land to towards a footpath and thus continue to give access to the devotees from that side of the temple.

The reason could be political ? National or Local ? or purely personal for selfish reasons. It is the same difficulty that the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission faces in knowing whether Subjective discrimination is due to political reasons, due to local racism or for personal selfishness/convenience.

Given that I do not know the parties concerned, I chose to rectify the situation ? which you commonly call reconciliation ? rather than ?judge? in favour of the complainant who plays a leading role in our work around the temple. I did likewise when they expressed anxiety against the army presence. I said to speak to the army and ?show? them that they were not afraid of the army. Because I feel Sri Lankan, I knew intuitively that the army officers were also feeling anxiety in that Tiger area. This was often confirmed by the army officers showing appreciation when I speak to them in Sinhalese. Has anyone in YOUR government tried to connect to the Tigers through their representatives here ? before you brought charges against Tiger supporters? If you do not do that, we Tamils also must consciously and expressly block our intuitive connections to anyone in Australian Government circles and merely work and operate at the logical level and remain detached from Australian Government Service. To the physically driven this may make us look un-Australian. But the intellectually driven would know that we are intellectual Australians ready to move up to the International level beyond the level to which our government has limited itself to.

The report against the Tigers says ?TRO's head in Australia, a Melbourne-based gynaecologist named Rajan Rasiah, has, however, said that the TRO had no choice but to cooperate with the Tamil Tigers in directing charitable contributions because they controlled northeastern parts of Sri Lanka.?

I agree that this is a reality and will remain such, so long as the Government lives in denial that Tamils have been denied their earned status due to Racial prejudice. So long as Tamils submitted to majority rule and / or the Sinhalese overrode intellectual and logical decisions through majority power, Racial prejudice will continue in Sri Lanka. Any member of minority group seeking equal status needs to be heavily driven by Intellectual rule. This is true here in Australia also. But like in Australia, in Sri Lanka too, there is a point beyond which majority rule takes over intellectual rule due to political convenience and due to weak Public Administration. Unless such members are facilitated and actively promoted to participate in International activities, they would seek to extract their earned benefits locally and that would be acceptable as per the system of Natural Justice. One such measure is political grouping against majority government. Your moves against the Tigers indicates your fears that your political groups would lose power due to such migrant groupings ? especially if they form a coalition with Muslims in this country who are strongly connected to Muslims in other countries such as Malaysia and Indonesia.

The Sri Lankan government has been declared a Racially biased government. Yet, Australian government is seeking to be blind to that because they consider the government to be of their class / caste. When you have participated in the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, you would automatically have wisdom in the elimination of all birth related factors in making Public Assessments and Judgments. Otherwise you have the duty to limit yourself to your birth groups ? which is what the Tigers are asking for.

As indicated in the attached letter to the Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Commission, Australians are now suffering from Children abusing their parents because they promoted the Rights of Children beyond the needed levels. The physically driven parents become dependent on their children beyond a certain point in life. The Australian government has failed to recognize this reality and has actively worked against such natural inclinations on the assumption that Australians are intellectually driven. As per my observations majority Australians are physically driven. They therefore must flow with natural tendencies which include parents becoming dependent on their children when they become physically weak. Parents must be facilitated to do this Gracefully.

As you are aware, I was arrested by the NSW Police under the instructions of the Vice Chancellor of the University of New South Wales, who was NOT intellectually driven. The result is that I am now banned from the University of New South Wales, have been listed as a mentally ill person and carry a prison and criminal record. When I was arrested by the Police, it was no longer a mere Racial issue but became a Humanitarian issue. Likewise the Tamil issue. Yet, the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission continues to treat related complaints as purely Equal Opportunity complaints rather than Human Rights complaints. I doubt that they would have ruled this about themselves. Would you have remained silent Mr. Ruddock had this happened to your daughter in Indonesia or in Sri Lanka where many White Australians are working?

Last week I was asked by a senior Tamil for advice regarding the kidnapping of a Tamil businessman who donates generously towards Hindu temple activities here in Australia as well as there in Sri Lanka. I was asked to use my spiritual feelings and advise the relatives of the kidnapped person. I asked whether the person was politically inclined and was told that he was not. I was informed that some thought that the ?Karuna group? from the East might have been responsible. I said it was a difficult one but promised to pray and meditate. Knowing the complexity of the problem I did not hope for an answer. But I did have a dream connected to Nallur temple in North and from which I worked out the answer for myself and for those who were seeking from me. As per that dream he was not targeted specifically on political basis. The group was from North. He had the ability to free himself on personal basis because he did not have the burden of any political group?s karma. There is much significance in this at the National and International levels. It is like the Racism issue in Australia which is now being expressed by the government as a Terrorism issue. If the person who was kidnapped had had political affiliations, it would have been difficult for us to realize his freedom through prayers. Likewise when an Australian is strongly politically affiliated to one side or the other.

Your government seems to be upset by the Tamils in Australia helping the Tigers in Sri Lanka. But what real solutions have you facilitated for Asian migrants to reach the highest levels of participation as individuals on merit basis rather than as part of a political group? Your moves against alleged Terrorism is to a large degree a block placed in the flow of benefits going back to Sri Lanka?s North and East. This is not different to your help to the Sri Lankan army that buys weapons that kill Tamils. In both instances a part of the money would go towards arms. But no member of the Australian government has the right to question an Australian doing this when the Australian government condones and funds the purchase of weapons and people to kill Tamils. Only those who have done all they could to ensure that any resources provided by them are spent on specific humanitarian and commercial projects have the right to question either side. Otherwise your hasty expressions would lead to political expressions against Australian governments or more and more negative karma through pain caused to genuine Australians like myself.

Your colleague, Mr. Costello indicated on the Sunday program that we should leave our past behind. It sounded very much like a Pauline Hanson statement. Yes, he has the right to ask for that only and only when he leave his English past behind him. The other question is whether Australia will be so rich and active without International problems imported through migrants.

We need to first examine our own past and its influence on our current actions. This is what Jesus said. If you are a true Christian please respect His message. Like the Racism game, the Terrorism game can be played only by those who continue to qualify. If you pamper your own within Australia you disqualify Australia from the International game.

Yours sincerely,

Gaja Lakshmi Paramasivam

CC: All Concerned, including:
The Hon Kofi Annan ? Secretary General of the United Nations
The Hon John von Dousa, QC ? President, Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Commission