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Divisions in the left emerge
[ BBC ] [ 13:48 GMT, Oct. 2, 2005 ]
Batty Weerakoon of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party(LSSP) says that SLFP and UNP should come into a undetstanding on the county's ethnic problem before the presidential elections. "No promise can be fulfilled without finding a solution to the national question", he told Sandesaya. LSSP stand is that we should take forward the proposals President Kumaratnge has introduced and try to achieve peace in the country. Weerakoon said that their party supported the SLFP and not an individual. Whatever the agreements entered into individually can not be accepted. Also, he said, that they could not climbe onto a nationalistic platform.
Tamil Rights Unique
[ Illangai Thamizh Sangam ] [ 13:52 GMT, Oct. 2, 2005 ]
We Tamils have history, archeology and ancient literature to support our existence as an independent country in the past. However, in history you can never find a "Palestinian" King or Queen or an independent Palestinian nation. In fact, Jews have just as solid a history to justify their self-determination in that land. The Bible is one of the evidences. ( Just like the Mahavamsa, some people do not believe that the Bible can be taken as historical fact, but rather as myth that may or may not have some historical basis. These myths have an important role to play in our ethical and cultural being in the contemporary world, but if used as justification for 'God's will' can lead to injustice. -- Editor) Even during the time of Jesus Christ we can never spot the existence of "Palestinian" people. During the British mandate even the Jews were called "Palestinians," only "administrative boundaries" existed, but never an independent Palestinian country and the Jewish newspaper Jerusalem Post was then known as Palestinian Post.
'EU should review its decision in the interest of peace' - Trincomalee Tamil peoples' forum
[ LTTE Peace Secretariat ] [ 13:54 GMT, Oct. 2, 2005 ]
Tamil people view the action of EU as an incentive to the government of Sri Lanka to continue its discriminatory treatment and would no doubt place them again in a vulnerable situation of facing military oppression. The Tamil determination to fight against military oppression climaxed with the LTTE successfully evicting the occupying forces from major parts of the Tamil Homeland, placing the LTTE in a very stronger position. It is at this stage the Cease Fire Agreement (CFA) was entered into with the encouragement and support given by the international community. Cease-fire having not produced any tangible benefits that could create normalcy in the life of a people battered by two decades of war, remains just a promise more on the breach and pushing the war affected people into the abyss of frustration.
Jaffna University Students Union warns return to war if EU retains the ban on travel for LTTE
Jaffna University Students union has issued a statement warning resumption of war unless EU re-examines and removes its travel of LTTE members. Their statement further said,
The decision of the EU has shocked the Tamil people.
The Sri Lankan government has been trying hard to stop the truth about, the struggle of the Tamil people and the enormity of the government's human rights violations reaching the international community. It enacted laws and placed restrictions on our ability to inform the international community. As a result, international community, unable to fully appraise the situation, has in the past banned our sole representatives the LTTE as terrorists. It is to overcome this and to inform the international community about our just struggle and to show them that LTTE is our sole representatives that we the University community launched the first Pongu Thamil event in 2001. It is because the Tamil people have held series of similar Pongu Thamil events wherever they lived and because of the military victories of the LTTE that the opportunity for the ceasefire was created.
The government suspecting that the LTTE members will be able to travel around the world and inform the international community about our just struggle has tried in various ways to force the Tamil side to withdraw from the peace process. It failed to implement the ceasefire agreements and colluded with paramilitaries to murder LTTE members who were doing political work.
We have informed the international community the disinterest of the government in the peace process. People are gathering district by district in unprecedented numbers to request the international community to understand the Vavuniya declaration and act accordingly.
The European Union's failure to hear our appeal for our rights and instead placing their confidence in the false propaganda of the government and ban our sole representatives has shocked us. We the Jaffna University Student's Union on behalf of the Tamil people appeal to the EU to,
-understand our just struggle for our rights,
-understand the enormity of the human rights violations committed by the government on the Tamil people and
-remove the one sided ban on our sole representatives, the LTTE, who are fighting for our rights.
The failure by the EU to change its stance of accepting the State terrorism of the government will shake the already questionable ceasefire and create an environment for the resumption of war.
Lack of resources, insensitive police and media, exacerbate Jaffna's child abuse
[ Northeastern Monthly ] [ 20:43 GMT, Oct. 2, 2005 ]
One of the biggest provocations for the mistreatment of young children is because people are compelled to live in cramped conditions where the lack of physical space and the invasion of privacy result in abuse 'physical, sexual and psychological. The government does not give anything worth mentioning. Thus the huge task of monitoring child welfare in Jaffna is circumscribed an acute lack of resources, said Surendrakumaran. The inability of the NGOs to address the main issues involving child abuse and welfare despite the number of them purportedly working in this area has raised many concerns, partly on their ability to work in coordination with each other. 'We are in the process of drawing up plans to effectively monitor the work NGOs and INGOs are doing. Hopefully it will yield fruitful results, said Surendrakumaran.
EU ban : No impact on peace facilitation
[ Sunday Observer ] [ 20:57 GMT, Oct. 2, 2005 ]
The European Union travel ban on the LTTE will not impact on the role of the Norwegian peace facilitators, a Norwegian Embassy spokeswoman said. "We are not party to the declaration...The ban will not have any impact on us," Norwegian Embassy spokeswoman Kjersti Tromsdal told the Sunday Observer. Norway is not a member state of the European Union. "Our role remains unchanged," she said adding Norwegians would resume peace diplomacy once Oslo finalises its coalition government. Former Head of the Mission of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission Trond Furuhovde will visit the island, as scheduled, in the middle of this month to consult the government and the LTTE on reviewing the Ceasefire Agreement. The 25 nation European Union last Tuesday announced a travel ban on the LTTE delegations visiting the member states, while threatening a complete ban on the Tigers.
EU Ban - Dangerous and One-sided
[ TamilCanadian ] [ 21:20 GMT, Oct. 2, 2005 ]
The problem with western organizations like the EU is that there is already an in-built bias towards formally established states and lack of understanding of non-state forces. In the case of Sri Lanka, despite the atrocities committed by the government against the Tamil people, the benefit of doubt is always given to the so-called elected government. There is little or no understanding as to why the LTTE emerged in the first place to represent the true aspirations of the Tamil people, the difficult circumstances under which the LTTE struggled to protect the integrity and dignity of Tamils and why it is so vital that a permanent peace would not be derived if the sentiments and sufferings of the aggrieved people are not considered. The EU's ban is an example of how an insensitive and powerful regional organization seeks to impose its views to subvert and neutralize the Tamil struggle. Tamils in Sri Lanka have fought for many years and they will continue to support the LTTE for many years to come if they suspect their rights might be compromised by some international conspiracy.
Tamils & Chrisitians Short-Changed Again?
[ TamilCanadian ] [ 21:30 GMT, Oct. 2, 2005 ]
As indicated earlier, unless and until the stranglehold of Sinhala-Buddhist majoritarianism is tamed, there is little hope of resolving these issues. An interesting phenomenon being witnessed is where large sections of Sinhala-Christians who find it discriminatory when their churches are attacked and desecrated, at least tacitly acquiescing by turning a blind eye to the far more serious and widespread discrimination and harassment perpetrated on Tamils. One wonders as to what chance there is for the Tamils of this country when even Sinhala-Christians are targeted for discrimination and the two presidential candidates are not willing to even take a stand on the obnoxious anti-conversion bill which has been presented to parliament!
[ BBC ] [ 13:48 GMT, Oct. 2, 2005 ]
Batty Weerakoon of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party(LSSP) says that SLFP and UNP should come into a undetstanding on the county's ethnic problem before the presidential elections. "No promise can be fulfilled without finding a solution to the national question", he told Sandesaya. LSSP stand is that we should take forward the proposals President Kumaratnge has introduced and try to achieve peace in the country. Weerakoon said that their party supported the SLFP and not an individual. Whatever the agreements entered into individually can not be accepted. Also, he said, that they could not climbe onto a nationalistic platform.
Tamil Rights Unique
[ Illangai Thamizh Sangam ] [ 13:52 GMT, Oct. 2, 2005 ]
We Tamils have history, archeology and ancient literature to support our existence as an independent country in the past. However, in history you can never find a "Palestinian" King or Queen or an independent Palestinian nation. In fact, Jews have just as solid a history to justify their self-determination in that land. The Bible is one of the evidences. ( Just like the Mahavamsa, some people do not believe that the Bible can be taken as historical fact, but rather as myth that may or may not have some historical basis. These myths have an important role to play in our ethical and cultural being in the contemporary world, but if used as justification for 'God's will' can lead to injustice. -- Editor) Even during the time of Jesus Christ we can never spot the existence of "Palestinian" people. During the British mandate even the Jews were called "Palestinians," only "administrative boundaries" existed, but never an independent Palestinian country and the Jewish newspaper Jerusalem Post was then known as Palestinian Post.
'EU should review its decision in the interest of peace' - Trincomalee Tamil peoples' forum
[ LTTE Peace Secretariat ] [ 13:54 GMT, Oct. 2, 2005 ]
Tamil people view the action of EU as an incentive to the government of Sri Lanka to continue its discriminatory treatment and would no doubt place them again in a vulnerable situation of facing military oppression. The Tamil determination to fight against military oppression climaxed with the LTTE successfully evicting the occupying forces from major parts of the Tamil Homeland, placing the LTTE in a very stronger position. It is at this stage the Cease Fire Agreement (CFA) was entered into with the encouragement and support given by the international community. Cease-fire having not produced any tangible benefits that could create normalcy in the life of a people battered by two decades of war, remains just a promise more on the breach and pushing the war affected people into the abyss of frustration.
Jaffna University Students Union warns return to war if EU retains the ban on travel for LTTE
Jaffna University Students union has issued a statement warning resumption of war unless EU re-examines and removes its travel of LTTE members. Their statement further said,
The decision of the EU has shocked the Tamil people.
The Sri Lankan government has been trying hard to stop the truth about, the struggle of the Tamil people and the enormity of the government's human rights violations reaching the international community. It enacted laws and placed restrictions on our ability to inform the international community. As a result, international community, unable to fully appraise the situation, has in the past banned our sole representatives the LTTE as terrorists. It is to overcome this and to inform the international community about our just struggle and to show them that LTTE is our sole representatives that we the University community launched the first Pongu Thamil event in 2001. It is because the Tamil people have held series of similar Pongu Thamil events wherever they lived and because of the military victories of the LTTE that the opportunity for the ceasefire was created.
The government suspecting that the LTTE members will be able to travel around the world and inform the international community about our just struggle has tried in various ways to force the Tamil side to withdraw from the peace process. It failed to implement the ceasefire agreements and colluded with paramilitaries to murder LTTE members who were doing political work.
We have informed the international community the disinterest of the government in the peace process. People are gathering district by district in unprecedented numbers to request the international community to understand the Vavuniya declaration and act accordingly.
The European Union's failure to hear our appeal for our rights and instead placing their confidence in the false propaganda of the government and ban our sole representatives has shocked us. We the Jaffna University Student's Union on behalf of the Tamil people appeal to the EU to,
-understand our just struggle for our rights,
-understand the enormity of the human rights violations committed by the government on the Tamil people and
-remove the one sided ban on our sole representatives, the LTTE, who are fighting for our rights.
The failure by the EU to change its stance of accepting the State terrorism of the government will shake the already questionable ceasefire and create an environment for the resumption of war.
Lack of resources, insensitive police and media, exacerbate Jaffna's child abuse
[ Northeastern Monthly ] [ 20:43 GMT, Oct. 2, 2005 ]
One of the biggest provocations for the mistreatment of young children is because people are compelled to live in cramped conditions where the lack of physical space and the invasion of privacy result in abuse 'physical, sexual and psychological. The government does not give anything worth mentioning. Thus the huge task of monitoring child welfare in Jaffna is circumscribed an acute lack of resources, said Surendrakumaran. The inability of the NGOs to address the main issues involving child abuse and welfare despite the number of them purportedly working in this area has raised many concerns, partly on their ability to work in coordination with each other. 'We are in the process of drawing up plans to effectively monitor the work NGOs and INGOs are doing. Hopefully it will yield fruitful results, said Surendrakumaran.
EU ban : No impact on peace facilitation
[ Sunday Observer ] [ 20:57 GMT, Oct. 2, 2005 ]
The European Union travel ban on the LTTE will not impact on the role of the Norwegian peace facilitators, a Norwegian Embassy spokeswoman said. "We are not party to the declaration...The ban will not have any impact on us," Norwegian Embassy spokeswoman Kjersti Tromsdal told the Sunday Observer. Norway is not a member state of the European Union. "Our role remains unchanged," she said adding Norwegians would resume peace diplomacy once Oslo finalises its coalition government. Former Head of the Mission of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission Trond Furuhovde will visit the island, as scheduled, in the middle of this month to consult the government and the LTTE on reviewing the Ceasefire Agreement. The 25 nation European Union last Tuesday announced a travel ban on the LTTE delegations visiting the member states, while threatening a complete ban on the Tigers.
EU Ban - Dangerous and One-sided
[ TamilCanadian ] [ 21:20 GMT, Oct. 2, 2005 ]
The problem with western organizations like the EU is that there is already an in-built bias towards formally established states and lack of understanding of non-state forces. In the case of Sri Lanka, despite the atrocities committed by the government against the Tamil people, the benefit of doubt is always given to the so-called elected government. There is little or no understanding as to why the LTTE emerged in the first place to represent the true aspirations of the Tamil people, the difficult circumstances under which the LTTE struggled to protect the integrity and dignity of Tamils and why it is so vital that a permanent peace would not be derived if the sentiments and sufferings of the aggrieved people are not considered. The EU's ban is an example of how an insensitive and powerful regional organization seeks to impose its views to subvert and neutralize the Tamil struggle. Tamils in Sri Lanka have fought for many years and they will continue to support the LTTE for many years to come if they suspect their rights might be compromised by some international conspiracy.
Tamils & Chrisitians Short-Changed Again?
[ TamilCanadian ] [ 21:30 GMT, Oct. 2, 2005 ]
As indicated earlier, unless and until the stranglehold of Sinhala-Buddhist majoritarianism is tamed, there is little hope of resolving these issues. An interesting phenomenon being witnessed is where large sections of Sinhala-Christians who find it discriminatory when their churches are attacked and desecrated, at least tacitly acquiescing by turning a blind eye to the far more serious and widespread discrimination and harassment perpetrated on Tamils. One wonders as to what chance there is for the Tamils of this country when even Sinhala-Christians are targeted for discrimination and the two presidential candidates are not willing to even take a stand on the obnoxious anti-conversion bill which has been presented to parliament!