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Karuna says no split but Pillayan stands by DM story
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By Rajasingham Jayadevan
The situation in the uncleared LTTE controlled area in Sri Lanka for families with children have become grave. Desperate and highhanded efforts of the LTTE recruiters to grab children at their will for military training have opened another chapter in the LTTE war efforts to use unwilling innocent civilians as human fodder. The legitimacy of the Tamil peoples demand for justice, freedom and unhindered participation to be part of inclusive society in Sri Lanka has been waylaid by the LTTE and their mere survival is now at stake in the hands of LTTE which projects itself as the champion to win the legitimate rights for the Tamil people.
Few parents after loosing their children to the LTTE recently, have escaped to the vibrant boarder town of Vavuniya and are desperately trying to seek help for their children?s release from LTTE captivity.
One mother called me from Vavuniya early this morning (28/5) and was emotively crying to seek my help to release her son from LTTE captivity for military training to capture the northern Jaffna peninsula. When I asked how she obtained my telephone number, she said her relative in London gave her to speak to me. She was sobbing and was speaking with subdued voice and repeatedly asked me to help release her son from LTTE captivity.
She said she has five children and the LTTE have forcefully taken away one of her sons recently. ?Before they were only taking one child from a family and they are now going for more? she said. ?A family having four or more children have to part with their two children in their current recruitment drive? she further said.
She had left behind her four daughters in Vanni-the heartland of the LTTE, to seek help to release her son. She was pleading throughout her conversation and was saying ?they will come again to grab my daughters. I do not know what to do?. She was saying in desperation: help me! help me!! help me ! many times. Her cry spoke volume of suffering the innocent civilian population is experiencing in Vanni at present.
I had to console her by saying that I will raise her cry with the International Human Rights organisations and asked her whether she could speak to them if she was approached. ?I will do anything to save my children? was her emotive cry before we ended our conversation.
With the precarious situating looming for the people in Jaffna, and bearing in mind the callous disregard to international human rights and humanitarian laws by the LTTE, I spoke to some Tamils in the Diaspora in the UK, Germany, Denmark, Switzerland and France. There was general consensus among those I spoke to that there is wide spread abuse of human rights in Vanni and my conversations unravelled the predicament facing the people in Vanni and Jaffna. Child recruitment by the LTTE is the worrying comment I heard from everyone I spoke to. Some of them have relatives in Vanni and Kilinochchi and all confirmed the same pattern of forceful recruitment currently undertaken by the LTTE.
It was clear the LTTE has become desperate and is carrying out a massive recruitment drive to energise its lost grounds. One who had deep rooted family connection in Vanni said the LTTE has annulled all marriages after August 2006 in the areas it is controlling. A young girl who got married in February this year has been taken away by the LTTE despite pleading ?I am two months pregnant and am unwell?. She was taken away forcefully and the recruiters had said ?there is no problem in her joining for training as their rigorous military exercise will clear the foetus in her womb?.
Having heard the painful and sordid stories of the few I contacted, I felt so saddened that these people have to live under such appalling environment. Day by day they are loosing hope and no one is able to come to their aide. The situation has become so desperate that substantial international focus must be given to end the human tragedy facing this section of the people. Only the international effort could help these people.
It will be timely if United Nations backed international monitoring agencies make their strong presence in Vavuniya, Trincomalee, Batlicaloa and Jaffna towns for the people to come forward and tell their experiences. Remote dealing of the crisis of this magnitude by simple press releases now and then has not brought any salvation to the people. Pro-active international monitoring could only help understand the enormity of the crisis facing the people. Time has come for the LTTE to allow access to international agencies to investigate and respond to the needs of the people. |
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Tuesday?s blast in the district of Vavuniya, 260 kilometres (160 miles) north of Colombo, was believed to be an accidental detonation, a police official in the area said by telephone.
?We believe that those killed were trying to rig up a Claymore mine,? a police source in the area said, adding that at least two of the victims appeared to be members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
The explosion caused extensive damage to a house in the area, police said. |
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29 May 2007 08:04:47 GMT Report for Abuse
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Rajasingham Jeyadevan, the Undial Kallan; please listen to his crap, he is a crook suitable to be in the Rajapakse camp!!
Edited By - Robins - 29 May 2007 08:05:16 GMT |
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29 May 2007 08:09:55 GMT Report for Abuse
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Pandaravanniyan
Jeyathevan is an outright crook, it is simple as that!! |
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29 May 2007 08:11:23 GMT Report for Abuse
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If you are thinking about quick making millions of money then you should Join Sri Lankan Politics.
OR,
just be the trustee of local Hindu temple as jayadevan aka Undial kallan did...
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29 May 2007 08:12:38 GMT Report for Abuse
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Jeyathevan is an outright crook, it is simple as that!!
used to be Coorks + Murderers...now a solo crook??
he must have given up the friendship of murderers no?
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Edited By - Pera - 29 May 2007 08:13:30 GMT |
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29 May 2007 08:21:34 GMT Report for Abuse
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| Rasak, its time to chase away the WETAMILS from colombo,
This is naked racism. Tamil speaking people have been chased from their homes and villages in the ethnic cleansing agenda of the successive Sinhala governments. Manalaru has been completely cleansed and was renamed 'Weli Oya' and the population ratio in the East is altered from 6% to 32% in a matter of 4 decades.
In 1985 Maradana Muslim thugs brought in to Batticaloa in 4 lorry loads to attack and chase Tamils but racists are blind to Sinhalese colonisation. |
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29 May 2007 08:25:10 GMT Report for Abuse
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United Nations backed international monitoring agencies make their strong presence in Vavuniya, Trincomalee, Batlicaloa and Jaffna towns for the people to come forward and tell their experiences.
But the Sri Lankan govt is vehemently opposing UN peace keepers and threaten the parents with deaths if they tell the NGOs that SLA and Karuna kidnap their children. |
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29 May 2007 08:25:46 GMT Report for Abuse
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Berty
You are constantly coping and pasting even minor GOSL corruptions in LNP. But never dare to put anything related to LTTE.
Are you scared ???? or May be you are a wolf in sheep cloth??????? |
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29 May 2007 08:38:17 GMT Report for Abuse
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| A strong slap to Karuna......what has happened to his europe tour? I am still waiting with a kalli mullu maalai :( |
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