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BinKunda, Did you get asylum in the US claiming that LTTE was after you ? Are you cleaning your American white master s toilet. If the answers are no, no then there might be others like you ( tamils or Sinhalese).

BinKunda, Did you get asylum in the US claiming that LTTE was after you ? Are you cleaning your American white master s toilet. If the answers are no, no then there might be others like you ( tamils or Sinhalese).

The history of LTTE reveals a discernible pattern in its relations with religious institutions: it has ruthlessly attacked and killed Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists but hardly ever touched Christians. It has never confronted the Churches the way it has taken on the other three main religionists.

In fact, it has had a very cozy relationship with the Churches. Though the LTTE has raided and taken over Hindu Temples by force in Western countries it has never dared to touch a single Christian church run by the Jaffna Tamils abroad. The Christian churches are considered to be richer than the Hindu Temples. Nevertheless, the fear of severe backlash from the dominant Christian governments and Christian communities abroad has prevented the LTTE from grabbing Christian Churches.

In any case there has been no necessity for the LTTE to act against the Churches because they have been the backbone of LTTE politics in Western countries. The LTTE does not want to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs. Some of the leading Christian priests have acted as front men for the LTTE in Western countries. Fr. S. J. Emmanuel, former Vicar General of Jaffna, who is now residing in Germany, is a prime example of the Church joining hands with the LTTE. He is on record saying that he is first a Tamil and then a Christian. Once he compared Prabhakaran to Jesus. He not only campaigns for the LTTE abroad but he is also the first to claim that he is writing a theology for Tamils only. Imitating the radical priests of Latin America he is supposed to write a new liberation theology praising Prabhakaran. He was followed by S.
Jebanesan, Bishop of the Church of South India (CSI), who said that he too was working on a theology for the Tamils. A theology only for the Tamils excludes Sinhala Christians.

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Quite early, LTTE joined hands with Radio Veritas, a worldwide Catholic broadcasting station. The Hindustan Times (May 25, 1999) reported that the Voice of Tigers (VOT) has established on Sunday 23rd a coordinating office to tie up Radio Veritas at St. Sebastian Church in Mallavi located in the Wanni. The rationale behind the tiie-up is that it will give VOT access to the vast audience of Radio Veritas. Nearly 850,000 Sri Lankan Tamils living as refugees or migrants across the globe ro tune in to Radio Veritas, because it gives sensational 'Eelam Tamil' news, often ahead of the BBC Tamil service Tamil Osai, said the Hindustan Times. Radio Veritas is a Catholic outfit run by the Asian Catholic Bishops Conference. The Tamil wing of the Catholic church in Sri Lanka has been active agents of Tamil separatism. They have been in the forefront manufacturing excuses and covering up for the political crimes of the LTTE.

Tamil Christian priests have infiltrated the Churches in Western countries and through them they propagated pro-LTTE politics. A good example is that Prof. S. Chandrakanthan attached to the Theology Department of the Toronto University, Canada. He is a political fundamentalist disguised in Christian robes. To him Christianity is merely a vehicle to propagate separatist politics and white-wash LTTE crimes against humanity.

In Australia, for instance, the LTTE got a foothold in the Uniting Church through Prof. Christie Eliezer who was a lay preacher of the Uniting Church. His proxy was Rev. Dick Wootton who was viewed as card-carrying member of the LTTE. He had an office in the Headquarters of the Uniting Church in the city of Melbourne. Finally, the Uniting Church eased him out after strong protests from Sri Lankans who demanded that the Uniting Church must Unite and not Divide .

Though the separatist movement claims to have its roots in the Jaffna Hindu Tamils, it has always had a strong element of Christians either leading it or influencing it. Its very first leader, S. J. V.
Chelvanayakam, was an Anglican. However, when the Church of South India established its branch in Sri Lanka he switched over from the Anglican to CSI because of its ethnic leanings. Chelvanayakam preferred to be linked with Tamils of South India than with the Anglicans, most of whom were Sinhalese in Sri Lanka. Chelvanayakam mono-ethnic politics extended to every aspect of his life. He did not want to buy a house in Colombo fearing that his children would be influenced by the multicultural forces that would liberalize their thinking and attitudes. He did not want Tamil public servants to learn Sinhala fearing that the Sinhala influence would make them less amenable to separatist politics. He did not want to attend the Christian God s church fearing that the God in Sinhala-dominated Churches would dilute the Tamil identity and make them children of a Sinhala God rather than a Tamil God. In short, he was the arch symbol of racism designed to separate communities.

The seeds of dissension sown by Chelvanayakam saw his political descendants blow up the Sacred Temple of the Tooth in Kandy, massacring Muslim praying in Kathakudy in the East, shooting in broad daylight a Japanese Buddhist monk who went on a mission of peace in the north, spraying bullets on Buddhist pilgrims at the Sacred Bo Tree in Anuradhapura and the list is unending. But his political children dared not touch the Christians. They are too powerful and the backlash against them would be too hard to bear.

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Chelvanayakam, was an Anglican. However, when the Church of South India established its branch in Sri Lanka he switched over from the Anglican to CSI because of its ethnic leanings. Chelvanayakam preferred to be linked with Tamils of South India than with the Anglicans, most of whom were Sinhalese in Sri Lanka. Chelvanayakam mono-ethnic politics extended to every aspect of his life. He did not want to buy a house in Colombo fearing that his children would be influenced by the multicultural forces that would liberalize their thinking and attitudes. He did not want Tamil public servants to learn Sinhala fearing that the Sinhala influence would make them less amenable to separatist politics. He did not want to attend the Christian God s church fearing that the God in Sinhala-dominated Churches would dilute the Tamil identity and make them children of a Sinhala God rather than a Tamil God. In short, he was the arch symbol of racism designed to separate communities.

Following the Sri Lankan army's rapid advances in January 1987, the L.T.T.E. felt a pressing need to hit back. On the 14th of February an ingenious attempt was made on the Navatkuli army camp. The Andreisz Company which was located next to the Navatkuli camp used to supply drinking water to the Sri Lankan army. The L.T.T.E. took over the company's water bowser and placed charges in its tank, which would explode when the water dropped to a certain level. According to reports the water tank by some freak developed a leak. The bowser was taken into a lane at Kaithady. According to one report a welder was brought to repair the leak. By some accident the bowser exploded. Amongst the ten L.T.T.E. persons killed were three senior leaders, Kugan, Curdles and Vasu. The presence of Kugan who was second in command to Prabhakaran and close to him, suggests that Prabhakaran was in direct command of the operation. Forty civilians were reportedly killed. The operation had to be abandoned. The L.T.T.E. announced the deaths through loud speakers and its notice boards. A disturbing aspect of this announcement was that the civilian deaths were not mentioned.

On 16 April 1987, 150 Sinhalese, many of them civilians returning to Trincomalee after new year festivities at Anuradhapura, were off-loaded from their buses and massacred at Kituluttuwa. The L.T.T.E. was widely blamed and the government claimed that the massacre was led by L.T.T.E.'s Pulendran. Shortly afterwards, on 21 April, a car bomb exploded at the Pettah bus stand in Colombo, killing over 100 civilians. The attack was widely attributed to a Tamil militant group, believed to be either the E.R.O.S. or the L.T.T.E.. International opinion drifted away from sympathy for Tamils, towards approving a Sri Lankan government crack down on Tamil militants.