The Hon Kevin Rudd, MP
Prime Minister
Parliament House
Canberra.

16 April 2009

Dear Mr. Rudd,

Australia`s Dues to Sri Lanka

I write further to my previous communications on this issue in relation to which, Australian government has chosen to ban the Tamil Tigers as a terrorist group. Based on that decision, there is ongoing legal action against some Tamil members on the claim that they collected monies to finance the armed combat by the Tamil Tigers.

The latest report from social leaders in the Indian Subcontinent states as follows: (Appendix 1)

` The Sri Lankan government is using banned and illegal weapons and munitions, including thermobaric bombs, which kill vast numbers of people across a wide territory. Sri Lankan security forces have a long record of using cluster bombs and engaging in targeted aerial bombings of civilian areas, which are banned under the Geneva Conventions. The Sri Lankan government has never denied the use of cluster bombs. `

I am not an expert on armed warfare. In fact, I prevent the influence of arms into my `home, family and feelings`. Two sides to the conflict must have Equal Opportunity to acquire and use arms before it could be the basis on which one judges. Given that the Tigers are banned as terrorists, we would not have an official structure through which to judge. Hence one needs to resort to Truth and its flow through the feelings of victims of the actions of the two sides.

Like with racial discrimination, it is difficult to prove the cause of terrorism actions. Australian Courts that dismissed my complaints of racial discrimination dismissed me on the basis that I did not establish that racism was the cause of actions that produced Objectively measurable effects establishing much damage to my earned benefits and opportunities. Going by the `effects` of the Sri Lankan war, The civilians on the side at the receiving end of the Government`s attacks is suffering far more damage than the civilians on the side of the government, through the attacks of armed Tamils including those who are now holding ministerial positions. They were terrorists when you banned them and now they are part of the Government. This establishes that the Sri Lankan government`s claims of terrorism were not reliable. By focusing on external people over whom we did not have influence, the Australian government neglected its own criminals at home and hence the escalation of criminal activities at home. It happens naturally. When you use the name `terrorists` to a group less criminal than your own home criminals, you automatically give the latter the impression that they are less punishable than the terrorists. If you seek to help the Tamil Tigers and their supporters, you need to first remove that `terrorism` label. Otherwise there is no credibility to your Administration.

If on the other hand you seek to `serve` rather than manage, it is important to pick the most humanitarian avenue through which to provide that service. There are no rights and wrongs to true service. To become a service we need to work beyond the existing structures of administration and actually develop through our work a new support position.

So far Australia has been doing business with Sri Lanka. There has been little humanitarian service even though the war victims. You give money but not yourself. You take the status that you have given money.

Migrants from Sri Lanka have brought with them at least their habitual faith and trust in government of Australia until proven otherwise. To the extent of that faith you owe Sri Lanka basic humanitarian service not through the government which is part of the war but through the civilians and organizations that are not part of either side. That independence is essential to provide humanitarian services. If you help through the group that protested with Tiger flags, you would be helping the war efforts, because armed combat is in the blood of Tigers. Likewise the current Sri Lankan Government.

If you seek to do more and participate in the Peace process you need to first address the racism issue here in your home nation. Be true to yourself and you will know that we are not clean of racial discrimination at the national level and therefore we are part of the terrorism problem. When you own the problem you automatically have the solution for yourself.

That is what I did. I found out the level of racism at the highest levels of Australian Public Service through my defeats in courts. By accepting that as the limits of our current system, I owned the problem for which I already had the opportunity for the next generation.

If you connect to the migrants of Sri Lankan origin, you would know that they are busy with accumulation of wealth and status to which mainstream Australians respond favorably. That is your clue to helping Sri Lankans come out of the war. Help them become financially self sufficient each group in their `home` environments. Beyond that it is up to them to seek and learn to live with other cultures as we do here in Australia. By accepting the label of criminal, for peaceful assembly, I connect to the minds of criminals naturally. Hence, I cure them naturally to that extent without any costs to others. That is the deepest service that happens naturally.

Hence please own the Sri Lankan problem before sharing your status for that is what the two sides to the war are seeking from you, the US and the UN. If you share your status with anyone of Sri Lankan origin, before you share that with me, the one who has paid a high price for upholding Equal Opportunity principles in Australia, you would be abusing your position power. Only those who invest have the right to draw. If you `give` without prior investment, it would indicate that you think they are poorer than you which Sri Lanka is not not after the high cost of lives whilst you continued with your business as usual. One who is truly global, would go rushing to the aid of the person in need anyway they can.

Yours sincerely

Gaja Lakshmi Paramasivam
CC: All concerned

Appendix 1

RESPECTED AND expert UN bodies have investigated and brought out reports about different aspects of the breakdown of democratic and judicial systems.

Recently, on February 9, 2009, 10 top UN experts issued a statement sharing the deep concern of the United Nations high commissioner for human rights over the rapidly deteriorating conditions facing civilians in the Vanni region and the significant number of civilian casualties. They also deplored the restrictions on humanitarian access to conflict areas which heightens the ongoing serious violations of the most basic economic and social rights.

We are extremely concerned that in this racist, genocidal war, the Sri Lankan government is using banned and illegal weapons and munitions, including thermobaric bombs, which kill vast numbers of people across a wide territory. Sri Lankan security forces have a long record of using cluster bombs and engaging in targeted aerial bombings of civilian areas, which are banned under the Geneva Conventions. The Sri Lankan government has never denied the use of cluster bombs.

Across the world, there is a tremendous outpouring of anguish and agony at the prospects that surviving Tamil civilians will be annihilated through the use of weapons of mass destruction. It is therefore critical that the UN urgently intervene and restrain the Sri Lankan government from using banned bombs, explosives and weaponry.

It is very important that the truth about the actual use of these weapons of mass destruction, including thermobaric bombs, be independently verified and the source of supply identified. If, indeed, these horrific weapons have been used, the international community should immediately initiate prosecution of the highest functionaries of the Sri Lankan state, and the government of the country that supplied these bombs, for the commission of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

We would also like to point out that the humanitarian crisis has been made worse because the Sri Lankan government has banned independent observers of UN agencies, the International Committee of the Red Cross and other independent institutions from operating in the war zone. It is of utmost importance that independent observers are sent both to monitor the situation as also to ensure humanitarian aid reaches the area.

The innocent Tamil civilians have been living a precarious life, without food, water and health supplies for the last several weeks. Emaciated, starved, severely malnourished and seriously injured, the women, children, aged persons and remaining men are already dying. They deserve the protection that can be offered by concerned world citizens who, by demanding an end to the war, will also be asserting a chance for these innocent men, women and children to live.

As citizens of South Asia, we therefore demand that the UN and the international community effectively intervene to ensure immediate cessation of the brutal and savage war in Sri Lanka and ensure immediate humanitarian relief to the suffering thousands caught in the middle of the war.

We also call upon the governments in the South Asian region--the government of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and Maldives--to intervene forcefully to stop the genocidal war that threatens peace not just in Sri Lanka, but in all of South Asia.

Jointly issued by: K.G. Kannabiran, national president, PUCL, Hyderabad Justice Rajinder Sachar, former chief Justice, Delhi High Court Arundhati Roy, New Delhi Pushkar Raj, general secretary, PUCL Pamela Philipose, Women`s Feature Service Swami Agnivesh, New Delhi Prof. Amit Bhaduri, professor emeritus, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Rev. P.J. Lawrence, bishop of the Church of South India, Diocese of Nandyal Praful Bidwai, columnist, New Delhi Sumit Chakravorty, edit...