Sinhalese Fishermen Rescue Tamil Refugees in the deep sea off Mannar

Sri Lanka never had a issue of racism but terrorism; exemplifying the reality in Sri Lankan conflict, a group of Sinhalese fisherman rescued fleeing Tamil villagers who were drowning in the middle of the sea on the  19th of May at around 11p.m. The group of Tamil refugees included members of three families who had been fleeing to India due to the increase of violence in the North and East.

Savarimuttu Subramanium, the leader of the fleeing families, said the group was   fleeing  their village, Thirikpadaloor in Trincomalle, since two villagers were hacked to death at the vegetable market, Trincomalee a few days ago.

The group of  18 civilians including two babies (two months), two little girls, three women and eleven men had fled their village on the 17th and came to MANNAR seeking refuge from possible violence creators . Later the group had joined another two civilians who seemed be engaged in human smuggling to India and left the MANNAR shore in a small fishing vessel around 4.p.m. on the  19th  of May. Due to the rough seas, usually experienced in Southwest monsoon, the boat had capsized after 7 hours of sailing and its 20 passengers were drowning when Sinhalese fishermen rescued them.

S Kumaleshan, who handled the boat said: "LTTE come and attack and flee away. Then the army, navy and police come and beat us. We hoped our children will be safe at least in India".

According to the rescued villagers, many villagers in the eastern part of the country have already left for Tamil Nadu in India hoping for a life without claymore mines and shell attacks.

The villagers blamed the LTTE for instigating violence and making them suffer from an unwanted war, and also to the government on its failure to stop violence against the Tamil community in the country.

A Sinhalese fisherman among the group of rescuers said, "We initially thought it was a LTTE boat. We were afraid. But we heard shouting for help and we saw the women and the children in the boat". The stark realty of the incident is that the reason for those innocent Tamil civilians to risk their lives in fleeing  their homeland, is the terrorism; the fear felt by those Sinhalese fishermen prior to rescuing  these Tamil people was also the same terrorism; but it is certainly not the "Sinhalese racism" that  enable the saving of 20 precious lives of innocent Tamil people .

It’s almost high time the world awoke to the reality that the Sinhalese people  are very much concern about their country’s Tamil brethren. What more glaring example than this very heart rendering rescue of so many precious lives; 20 hapless Tamil people destined to drown in the mighty Indian ocean. This is compassion, empathy and sympathy at its ever high, that which has throughout the ages of history been the hallmark of the traditional Sinhala people, the world always knew. Source: Ministry of Defence – Sri Lanka
 

Join us or Die – LTTE kills Tamil children who refuse to join

LTTE terrorists killed a 12 year old school child who refused join LTTE by shooting in the night on 20th May at ERAVUR. The child was in his sleep at his Grandmother’s residence when the group of terrorists grabbed him out and shot to death.

The dead child named S. Sathyan ,a student of Valaichenai Hindu College had been forced to join LTTE by the LTTE’s "Baby brigade" recruiters for several times. It has been revealed that the child had refused the LTTE orders and was seeking refuge at his grand mother’s house.

The civilians in the area said that the LTTE has intensified child conscription as to  avenge the depleting support of Tamil community to the Terror organization and requested the Human rights activists to take prompt action against this grave crime. It is evident that LTTE leadership is desperately looking  for more children, specially from the EASTERN province, to utilize as "one way" fighters in the "final war" .

LTTE leadership has been using children recruited from the Eastern province in their " first wave of attack" ,of which these cadres utilized are not expected to return from the battlefield. Source: Ministry of Defence – Sri Lanka
 

Erasing The Tamil Leadership…

By A.P. Sagarika

Tigers have not fought any real war against the Colombo government. Instead it was more keen on cascading the potential leadership of Tamil Nationalism to assure it’s so called “Sole Representative” phenomena.

Curtailing the truth and scattering Sinhalese phobia was used to tarnish the brotherhood of the Sinhalese, against the doubtful Tamil community. Though it looked as a struggle against the Sinhalese governance in the early stages , the whirlpool of uncertainty has reassembled it as a struggle for survival by the terrorists in the present context.

It is he who betrayed Tamil Nationalism , baptizing the terrorist struggle with blood and bullet, assassinating former JAFFNA Mayor ALFRED DURAIYAPAH in 27^th July 1975. The struggle which he later called a freedom fight against the COLOMBO Government , lime lighted with the above assassination of a Tamil fellowship itself.

Prabakaran, from the initial stage feared fair competition. Suffered with a social fear that Tamil leadership would deteriorate his legitimacy over the Tamil community. The doubt and suspicion haunted in the tiger supremo’s mind over the Tamil intellectuals led the fearsome tiger paw to a chain of brutal and dreadful killings and sabotages leaving no choice for intellectuals , except to seek refuge or get gunned down by shadow killers.

P’karan, the traitor of Tamils, abandoned revising Tamil nationalism , and clutched bombs and ammunitions to penetrate into the rising Tamil leadership. More darker was the story; it was identified the assassinations of potential Tamil leadership, Tamil intellectuals, civilians and children were  being used as a fertilizer to harvest sympathy among the global community, aiding their terror activities world wide. This was a practice continued at any cost. More often the Tamil civilians were used as a bate against the intense opposition by the international community. Recently a new methodology was identified; even pro – LTTE mediators were ghostly killed, whose deaths the Tigers find more profitable towards their survival effort.

Prabakaran has being almost successful in erasing the potential Tamil leadership , with a handful left to oppose him against his treachery over the Tamil community. Pro – LTTE media has adopted a safer passage along with the Tiger terrorism. IT IS BETTER LIVING WITH THE DEVIL RATHER BEING HAUNTED, they might have thought.

The following are evidences of the Tiger Supremo’s hatred over the Tamil leadership. Astonishingly, the static’s show a fearsome percentage of seventy seven percent (77%) killing rate over the Tamil leaders by the LTTE terrorists from 1975 to 2006 excluding the failed attempts.

Hence it is vested upon you to decide whether to continue funding such terrorism, or refrain from any further contribution.

                               

Erasing of Tamil National Leadership (1975 – 2006)
Name	Post Held	Date Assassinated
Joseph Pararajasingham	Tamil National Alliance (TNA) MP, Batticaloa	25 December 2005
Lakshman Kadirgamar	Foreign Affairs Minister	12 August 2005
M.L. Baithullah	Peoples Alliance Candidate	02 October 2000
Cheliyan Perimpanayakam	Peoples Alliance Candidate & Former Mayor, Batticoloa	10 September 2000
C.V Goonaratne	Federal Minister, Industrial Development	07 June 2000
Aruna De Silva	Deputy Mayor, Dehiwala	07 June 2000
Marias Anton Aka David	Peoples’s Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE) leader, Mannar	10 December 1999
Atputharajah Nadarajah, Alias Ramesh	Eelam Peoples’s Democratic Party (EPDP) leader	02 November 1999
Nagalingam Manikkadasan	Military wing leader, PLOTE	02 September 1999
Neelan Thiruchelvam	MP and TULF leader	29 July 1999
Muthulingam Ganesh Kumar a.k.a Razeek	Leader, Razeek group, Batticaloa	29 May 1999
Ponnuyhurai Sivapalan	Jaffna Mayor, succeeded Yogeswaran	11 September 1998
S. Shanmuganadan	MP	15 July 198
Ms. Sarojini Yogeswaran	Jaffna Mayor	17 May 1998
Mohammad Maharoof	Member of Parliament (MP), Trincomalee	20 July 1997
Arunachalam Thangathurai	MP, Trincomalee	05 July 1997
Thomas Anton	Deputy Mayor, Batticaloa	26 October 195
Karavai Kandamasamy	Deputy Chairman, Democratic Peoples’s Liberation Front	31 December 1994
Gamini Disanayake	Presidential candidate, UNP	24 October 1994
G.M. Premachandra	MP	24 October 1994
Weerasinghe Mallimarachchi	MP	24 October 1994
Dr. Ganini Wijesekarea	MP	24 October 1994
Ossie Abeygunasekara	MP	24 October 1994
Ranasinghe Premadassa	President, Sri Lanka	01 May 1993
Rajiv Gandhi	Former Prime Minister, India	22 May 1991
Ranjan Wijeratne	Ministr of State, Defence, Sri Lanka	02 March 1991
K Kanagaratnam	MP, Eastern Province	15 July 1990
K Padmanabha	General Secretary, Eelam Peoples Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF)	19 June 1990
V Yogasankari	MP, Jaffna	19 June 1990
P. Kirubakaran	Finance Minister, North East Provincial Council	19 June 1990
Sam Tambimuttu	MP, Batticaloa	07 May 1990
T. Ganeshalingam	Minister, North East Provincial Council	28 June 1990
A. Amirithalingam	General Secretary, TULF	13 July 1989
V. Yogeswaran	Former MP, Jaffna	13 July 1989
A. Majeed	Former MP, Mutur	13 November 1987
Sri Sabarathnam	TELO Leader	06 May 1986
K. Alalasunderam	MP, Kopay	03 September 1985
V. Dharmalingam	MP, Manipay	03 September 1985
A. Thiyagarajah	MP, Vaddukoddai	25 May 1981
Alfred Duraiyapah	Former Mayor, Jaffna	27 July 1975

Prominent Tamil political leaders assassinated by LTTE since the Ceasefire Agreement
Date and Place of the Assassination	Name of the Political Leader
December 21, 2002 – Batticaloa	Poopalapillai Alaguthurai – Porathivu Pradeshiya Sabha member
April 18, 2003 – Batticaloa	Marimuththu Rajalingam – Chairman of the Aalaiyadivembu Pradheshiya Sabha
June 13, 2003 – Jaffna	Kandiah Subathiran – Former member of the dissolved Jaffna Municipal Council
March 01, 2004 – Batticaloa	S. Sunderampilli – UNF candidate for Batticaloa district
March 01, 2004 – Batticaloa	Ponniah Yogendran
March 30, 2004 – Batticaloa	Rajan Sathiyamoorthy – TNA candidate for Batticaloa district
July 21, 2004 – Batticaloa	Velayutham Raveendran – Amparai District, Organiser
July 31, 2004 – Colombo	Kandiah Yogarasa
August 10, 2004 – Trincomalee	Athmalingam Ramani – Deputy Organiser
August 11, 2004 – Batticaloa	Seniththamby Yogarajan
August 16, 2004 – Colombo	K Balanadarajah
September 11, 2004 – Jaffna	Maivan Chandramohan – Chairman of the Achchuweli Pradeshiya Sabha
September 18, 2004 – Colombo	Thambithurai Sivakumar
September 23, 2004 – Colombo	Somasundaram Varnakulasingham – Central Committee member
September 27, 2004 – Jaffna	Valli Sundaram
October 19, 2004 – Batticaloa	Kingsley Rajanayagam
August 12, 2005 – Colombo	Lakshman Kadiragamar – Foreign Affairs Minister
December 25, 2005 – Batticaloa	Joseph Pararajasingham – Member of Parliament

Source: Ministry of Defence – Sri Lanka