Eelam Is A Dead End
The LTTE herding human beings
The LTTE is not fighting for the rights of anyone in Sri Lanka, besides themselves. I say this not as rhetoric, but as, well, politics. They have their own self-interest. If they were interested in the suffering Tamil civilians they would let them go. Instead, the ‘thirst of Tigers is Tamil eelam motherland‘. In diaspora protests abroad that is their solution to this bloody stalemate. Tamil Eelam, and separation from Sri Lanka. Well, I think they’re insane. This is not the time or the way to establish borders. Right now we need to preserve our common humanity. Then we need to learn to live together in a united Sri Lanka. The LTTE’s Eelam seems to involve sacrificing all the Tamils there. That’s no home for anybody.
The LTTE’s goal is not the comfort or the preservation of the Tamil people trapped in the warzone. The LTTE’s goal is Tamil Eelam. It’s important to understand this. The LTTE will literally kill all the Tamils on the ground to achieve Eelam. They will recruit soldiers, kill dissidents and impoverish and enslave their own people for that goal. People may support that, but at this point I think it’s frankly insane.
Now is not the time for Eelam. Now is the time for humanity, and life. The LTTE should let the human shields in the warzone go and surrender. The diaspora and internationals should firmly disavow them and instead of protesting and suing in foreign lands, they should come here and engage with this democracy.
I know it’s a mess, but if they put half of their effort into the relief effort then so many people might not die and suffer. If they put one third of their effort into Sri Lankan democracy then it might not suck so much. There is a rational solution and there is an emotional solution, but when people are dying for dry rations, I think you need to choose. Is the Sri Lankan government fucking over the Tamil people? Yes. Will this continue for a while? Yes. But we at least have a chance and, yes, the ability to change it. Living with the Sri Lankan state sucks for me too, but they don’t herd me into the warzone and use me as a human shield. Which I appreciate. Furthermore, I can actually protest and try to change the place with only a marginal fear of death. The LTTE will not change even if it means the death of every Tamil in ‘Eelam’.
Seriously, I understand the Eelam thing and I’m sorry it didn’t work out. The rational guys who thought about it non-violently and legitimately are dead. It’s become Valhalla and the LTTE suicidal valkyries. Please help us rebuild Sri Lanka.
Hey Indi, the battle is over, but have the aspirations for Eelam ended with it?
I think Tamils tried everything peacefully. They tried Gandian style civil disobedience too. None of that works. So they have no other options other than use violence. I’m not talking about Sri Lanka by the way; I’m talking about Canada in few more years.
Sam,
sounding like a cut-rate mark steyn serves no purpose other than comedy–and this is no laughing matter.
Herding children and women into Gardiner Expressway is no lauging matter either.Nice way to show that you are not LTTE .Way to go about getting rid of the child solder women abuse stigma.
Nayagan ,
it may sound like comedy, but unfortunately it is not a laughing matter.
That’s an old slogan, “thamilarin thakam thamililam thayakam”. The thirst of the Tamils is the Tamil Eelam motherland. It rhymes in Tamil, so it sounds much cooler. I’ve not heard the Tiger variant of it before, but I don’t really move in those circles.
Sam: Essentially, what’s happened is that the protests initially started with a rather broad base – just about all Tamils, including normally apolitical ones and even many who loathe the Tigers with a passion were out there, because they all had friends relatives in the Vanni for whose safety they were terrified. In recent weeks, however, they’ve been taken over by the hardcore pro-LTTE elements. That’s why the tactics have grown much nastier (stopping traffic, smashing up embassies, and so on). D.B.S. Jeyaraj has an excellent analysis of this in this week’s issue of an Indian magazine. You’re quite right, this isn’t good for the Tamil diaspora at all, and the people who’re behind it don’t realise just how much damage it has already done to the image of local Tamils in the western countries where they live.
Found the article online – it’s from Frontline:
http://www.flonnet.com/stories/20090522261002600.htm
Sam,
if i’m understanding you correctly, you’re implying that diabetes-stricken aunties, university students, shopkeepers and white collar professionals will, as a matter of course and nature, rise up, double-fisting ak-47s and then demand Eelam in Canada?
I would let Sam speak for him self but It seems to that he is implying that they have crossed the “Gandhian line” by putting women and specially children in harms way.So if the Canadian government is not responding ,what is the next step ?Throwing stones at mounties ?How about painting tamil “Sri” on Ontario number plates?
I don’t support the protests but it’s curious that you believe women and children are being put in harms way. This isn’t Sri Lanka, women have voices here and, if you watch the coverage of the protests (especially the Gardiner one) you’ll note that most of the organizers and speakers are females who look like they’re in their 20′s. These protests are a bit mindless, but they’re weirdly egalitarian too.
“”The protest had blocked the highway and put the safety of the protesters and innocent bystanders — including women and small children — at risk,” the Liberal leader said.”
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/632277
You said…
“This isn’t Sri Lanka, women have voices here ”
Yes twomen do have voices in Canada.Unofortunately it is other Canadian women.
About Sri Lankan Tamil women you have come up with some evidence to convince me.
Show me any Sri Lankan Tamil woman who has spoken against LTTE except Rajini Thirangama’s sister.
Also you might want to show me a young Tamil girl who is brave enough to kiss a white boy in public around Scarborough.(A bus stop would be sufficient).
This is a community who is controlled by gissipy aunties and fubu wearing street thugs who try hard to project an image of a african american street thug (they cannot last a day in a real hood ).
No. They won’t rise up like that – that is not how it work. They provide opportunity to a leadership to rise up. And the leadership can make even children, to blow themselves up. Everything starts by disregarding the country you live in.
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chandare,
the reason you don’t see lorry loads of tamil women “speaking up” is because they didn’t have the fucking time to do it. I suppose you, who must have tons of cash stored in each cheek, can afford to “speak out” whenever you feel like it. Try balancing family, bills, acculturation and all the other ‘minor’ details while making it in a foreign country.
Also, before your crocodile tears for the ‘poor tamil children,’ it was folks like you, patrolling the nets like a flock of Fonsekas for Freedom, who attempted to harass, reveal personal details of and intimidate anyone who showed even the slightest bit of support for those who were being assailed on all sides by violence. Remember Sonali in New Orleans? You’re despicable and have no credibility.
Nayagan,
Do not get your wires crossed.I have never patrolled the net for police work.I have never intimidated anybody.Please refer comment thread “Sonali in New Orleans”.I remembered your name from past conversation as a person who could have a dialog.That is why I commented .I do not have time to patrol net.I just check kottu ,Sepia mutiny and Indi site once in a while .
WTF about Personal details?
Jees you must got really confused.
If leaving a comment is a indimidation then indi’s blog must be the fucking Gitmo.
woo. siege mentality much, Nagayan? Watch out, there is an SL agent waiting to kill your traitorous ass dead. He’s hiding under your bed, go take a look.
Yeah, that was sub par humor. I reserve my threats of genocide for people who really deserve it. Like indi and the nut jobs commenting at defencenet (I’m not picking sides, i hate all of you about the same)
Actually SL Army High Command, an agent of the sl GOV’T ‘detained’ my geriatric and dementia-stricken great aunt and uncle only this past fall. I suppose I should expect no added scrutiny as a tamil male with functional arms and legs whilst flitting through checkpoints in Colombo.
I don’t don’t imagine SL agents are out there trying to get me–there are plenty of tamils who still worship Prabs and would fuck me over if they knew I thought him rightly drawn-and-quartered fucker.
Sounds like you think you have balls–threating genocide and all. try moving to a country where you don’t speak the language, raise a family, join middle class and have the time to debate tards on the net.
boo fucking hoo nayagan. when you have done something that has not been attempted by thousands if not a million sri lankans already, then please brag about it on the internet. till then you can keep on handing out business cards saying you debate tards on the internet. i’m sure that goes down a treat with the ladies.
ahh, it’s attitudes like that which will keep the more entrepreneurial sections of the diaspora from coming back–the petty, unfunny, pointless circle jerk that is a sri lankan conversation.
aww my poor entrepreneurial baby. your ickle feelings got hurt by a nasty trolltard on the internet? Spare us your aggrandization and sweeping generalizations, come back with an argument next time.
sure, just be certain to not ring the outside world for help while you rot in a socialist, command-economy, constitutionally illiberal, banana republic like SL.
But don’t worry, we’ll be around eventually to lend you money–IMF and yuans are going straight into Basil’s front pocket. Lalith has other concerns on his mind, no?
Completely agree with Sam . That is where Canada is heading definitely. Just give it another 5 or 8 years and the Canadian Tamils will want a Elam there too.
Also I wonder why Elam cannot be established in Tamil Nadu. They have millions more Tamils than Sri Lanka and also have a separate state. So why reinvent the wheel ? It is simply a matter of logistics. Providing transport to India surely cannot be so difficult ??
Colombo Tamils are very wise than this Jaffna mob. We have learnt to live with everyone and accumulate wealth.
After all everyone knows that you are only effected by war in Sri Lanka if you are poor.
It is the poor youth of the south that kill the poor youth of the north. The rich on both sides are fine including the children of our dear self proclaimed leader who has died trying to represent me , a favour which I NEVER asked.
I couldn’t agree more with Ayla…. ahahahah the self proclaimed menace for which all the fools in the world fall in to. Can people be so naive?
What did the Sinhalese gain out of fighting the LTTE? Certainly, they (Sinhalese) control the whole island now. But control does not necessarily equate to prosperity. The main issue is that there doesn’t seem to be a concrete plan to develop the island. “Development” seems to be in the hands of a tiny elite, and not the people as a whole. Development has turned into a major profit-making venture, be it “Hambantota Port” or “Mihin Airlines.” I am not saying the LTTE could have done any better, but it’s hard to say they could have done much worse.