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Mr Lee Scott MP, Chair APPG for Tamils, Ilford North Constituency
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Rt Hon Chris Grayling MP, Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor
Rt Hon Chris Grayling MP, Epsom and Ewell Constituency, Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor attended the Annual Dinner 2015 jointly organised by the APPG for Tamils and the British Tamils forum
SL winning was Norway failing: Norway report team leader
| While releasing the evaluation report on Norway’s failed peace process in Sri Lanka on Friday, the team leader of the evaluation panel, Gunnar M. Sørbø, outlining the main findings of the report said “The collapse of talks and the subsequent military victory were as much a story of the LTTE ‘losing’, as of the government ‘winning’, or the Norwegians ‘failing’. |
| The social anthropologist also came out with a profound reality the nation of Eezham Tamils were encountering for ages but hardly realized by the outsiders, when he said that apart from the other factors that failed the peace facilitation, “there were also patterns and structures and some of them were ‘old tricks in the Sri Lankan book’, so there was no excuse for not anticipating them, or for lacking a strategy to deal with them.” “I think there is a difference though between the unfolding of unpredictable events that could not be foreseen, and, on the other hand, long-term features of the Sri Lankan political system, or the economy, or the role of NGOs in Sri Lankan society, for example, where knowledge is and was available and where we would expect that a facilitator or anybody else intervening in Sri Lankan affairs would command such knowledge as the basis for making hopefully sound judgments,” Sørbø said. He was arguing in favour of Norway withdrawing from the peace process at an earlier stage. “Norwegian withdrawal as official facilitator would not have changed events in any major way. But it would have clarified the situation and sent a clear signal to domestic and international parties,” he said. Sørbø cited a statement of Erik Solheim that was not followed in practice. In April 2001, Erik Solheim pronounced that “If one day we become convinced that one side or both are not serious and only use our efforts as a cover for fooling the world, we will discontinue our efforts.” Erik Solheim was the minister in charge of Sri Lanka peace process in 2009. Sørbø said that ethical issues should have been in the forefront of a Norwegian discussion on withdrawal, as peace efforts are about life and death. “The Ministry has communicated to us that such issues were indeed on the table continuously, but this is not much reflected in the (rich) archives nor from the interviews we held,” the evaluation team leader said. Mr. Erik Solheim has also often gone on record in the post-war times in saying that there was a political solution on the table but the LTTE missed it. Explaining the title of the report, “Pawns of Peace,” which paints a picture of Norway as a victim, Sørbø said the metaphor of the chess piece could be interpreted in two ways: first that external interveners are never neutral referees but active players in a peace process and second, pawns tend to be minor (rather than game changing players), but they can also become significant players at certain moments in the game, when power is evenly balanced – they can tip the game in one direction or another. “Another meaning of the term is someone being used to further the purposes of others,” Sørbø said. Earlier in his speech, Sørbø said, “Norway became increasingly exposed, used as a pawn in domestic politics but also by external players who found it convenient for Norway to continue its role while silently accepting that the Sri Lankan government pursued “war for peace”. Sørbø concluded saying, “peace must be made primarily by domestic actors who take the risks and bear the costs of peacemaking.” Is it a new strategy for washing hands of the responsibilities to Eezham Tamils victimized by Norway’s peace facilitation, for normalizing relationship with genocidal Sri Lanka and for providing silent abetment to Sri Lanka’s furtherance of structural genocide or is it a naive way of accepting the fact that ‘peace’ in united Sri Lanka is not possible, wonder Eezham Tamils |
Mr. Seeman, was refused of landing permission in the USA
Tamil Nadu film director and leader of the Naam Thamizhar Movement that upholds the cause of Eezham Tamils, Mr. Seeman, was refused of landing permission in the USA when he went to participate in a Tamil conference organized by three US-based diaspora associations of both Tamil Nadu and Eezham Tamils. Mr. Seeman was given with a valid visa to visit the USA but was refused entry at the New York airport on Saturday. Last month, the President of the Global Tamil Forum (GTF), the diaspora-based umbrella organisation of Eezham Tamils, Rev. Fr. S J. Emmanuel, was refused entry at Chennai airport when he travelled from Europe, despite having valid multiple entry visa to India. Whether the USA and India, long known for the misuse of visa by the Establishments, cooperate or compete in capturing Tamil polity for their agendas is the emerging question.
The US Tamil conference “Thamizhar Changkamam 2011” (the Tamil confluence) on Saturday was organized by three US-based diaspora associations, World Tamil Organization, US Tamil Political Action Council (USTPAC) and Ilangkai Thamil Sangam (Sangam) at Crown Plaza in New Jersey.
The conference was scheduled to discuss, improving lives of Tamils, war crimes investigations and coordination of activities.
According to the programme of the conference, Mr. Seeman was to deliver the keynote address besides speeches by the visiting TNA parliamentarians.
Mr. Seeman was refused entry at the New York airport on Saturday early hours.
When asked for reasons, Mr. Seeman was told that his connections with the LTTE would be a security threat to the USA, said a press statement from Naam Thamizhar, asking why then the US embassy in India had given him the visa.
The press statement said that Mr. Seeman was invited by the World Tamil Organization and accused that the deportation was at the behest of elements working against the Tamil nation.
While selectively deport war-torn Tamils engaged in socio-political organisation, both the USA and India on the other hand competitively build their own ‘networks’ and NGO blocs among Eezham Tamils.
Meanwhile, internationally accused war criminals of Sri Lanka travel freely to both the countries.
Writing in Guardian on 30 September 2011, about States abusing visa to counter righteous struggles of peoples, Arundhati Roy said: “Our lungs are gradually being depleted of oxygen. Perhaps it's time use whatever breath remains in our bodies to say: Open the bloody gates."
In September this year, veteran US journalist and author, David Barsamian, founder and director of Alternative Radio, and a person having cultural contacts with India for well over 45 years, was refused landing permission in New Delhi. His entry was refused for reasons not revealed to him.
In last November, a US Professor of Anthropology, Richard Shapiro, who has his family in India, was stopped from entering India and he was not even replied to his queries when he could again return to India.
Arundhati Roy says Kashmir question was the reason for the refusal of entry to both the US visitors.
The complaint against David Barasamian according to "official sources" is that he had reported on events in Jammu and Kashmir during his last visit to India and that these reports were "not based on facts," Arundhati cited Indian officials.
“Who decides which "facts" are correct and which are not? Would Barsamian have been deported if the conversations he recorded had been in praise of the impressive turnouts in Kashmir's elections, instead of about daily life in the densest military occupation in the world (an estimated 600,000 actively deployed armed personnel for a population of 10 million people),” asks Arundhati. [The intensity of SL military occupation of the country of Eezham Tamils is worse than that of Kashmir cited by Arundhati]
The deportation of Prof Shapiro “was probably a way of punishing his partner, Angana Chatterji, who is a co-convenor of the international peoples' tribunal on human rights and justice which first chronicled the existence of unmarked mass graves in Kashmir, Arundhati said.
More than 60 prominent intellectuals, academics, journalists and writers, including Prof. Noam Chomsky, who condemned the deportations in September 2011 said that “We are dismayed that this power to send people back from the airport is slowly becoming a weapon, used to discipline and silence people who draw any kind of attention to uncomfortable truths about India.”
“We demand that the right to travel and the right to free exchange of ideas between scholars, journalists, artists, and human rights defenders be respected and protected, and that government agents not authorize the denial of entry and eviction of visitors to India, or monitor their movement. Free exchange of ideas is one of the most basic human rights and values in free democratic societies. Freedom of travel is one of the most important avenues for furthering such exchange among peoples. Recognizing this, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which India has ratified, protects freedom of expression, right to travel and scientific exchange,” said the September statement of Indian academics and journalists.
Whatever said to India is also applicable to the USA, perhaps in a more underlined way, because of the latter’s international involvements.
But, what one wonders is that how many in the USA, and how many among the ‘All India’ Indians will voice against what their Establishments are doing to Eezham Tamils in intimidating and hijacking their efforts to come out from genocide and annihilation of their nation.
Source Tamil net http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=79&artid=34591
Naam Thamizhar Seeman
The conference was scheduled to discuss, improving lives of Tamils, war crimes investigations and coordination of activities.
According to the programme of the conference, Mr. Seeman was to deliver the keynote address besides speeches by the visiting TNA parliamentarians.
Mr. Seeman was refused entry at the New York airport on Saturday early hours.
Rev. Fr. S.J. Emmanuel
The press statement said that Mr. Seeman was invited by the World Tamil Organization and accused that the deportation was at the behest of elements working against the Tamil nation.
While selectively deport war-torn Tamils engaged in socio-political organisation, both the USA and India on the other hand competitively build their own ‘networks’ and NGO blocs among Eezham Tamils.
Meanwhile, internationally accused war criminals of Sri Lanka travel freely to both the countries.
Writing in Guardian on 30 September 2011, about States abusing visa to counter righteous struggles of peoples, Arundhati Roy said: “Our lungs are gradually being depleted of oxygen. Perhaps it's time use whatever breath remains in our bodies to say: Open the bloody gates."
In September this year, veteran US journalist and author, David Barsamian, founder and director of Alternative Radio, and a person having cultural contacts with India for well over 45 years, was refused landing permission in New Delhi. His entry was refused for reasons not revealed to him.
In last November, a US Professor of Anthropology, Richard Shapiro, who has his family in India, was stopped from entering India and he was not even replied to his queries when he could again return to India.
Arundhati Roy says Kashmir question was the reason for the refusal of entry to both the US visitors.
Arundhati Roy
“Who decides which "facts" are correct and which are not? Would Barsamian have been deported if the conversations he recorded had been in praise of the impressive turnouts in Kashmir's elections, instead of about daily life in the densest military occupation in the world (an estimated 600,000 actively deployed armed personnel for a population of 10 million people),” asks Arundhati. [The intensity of SL military occupation of the country of Eezham Tamils is worse than that of Kashmir cited by Arundhati]
The deportation of Prof Shapiro “was probably a way of punishing his partner, Angana Chatterji, who is a co-convenor of the international peoples' tribunal on human rights and justice which first chronicled the existence of unmarked mass graves in Kashmir, Arundhati said.
More than 60 prominent intellectuals, academics, journalists and writers, including Prof. Noam Chomsky, who condemned the deportations in September 2011 said that “We are dismayed that this power to send people back from the airport is slowly becoming a weapon, used to discipline and silence people who draw any kind of attention to uncomfortable truths about India.”
“We demand that the right to travel and the right to free exchange of ideas between scholars, journalists, artists, and human rights defenders be respected and protected, and that government agents not authorize the denial of entry and eviction of visitors to India, or monitor their movement. Free exchange of ideas is one of the most basic human rights and values in free democratic societies. Freedom of travel is one of the most important avenues for furthering such exchange among peoples. Recognizing this, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which India has ratified, protects freedom of expression, right to travel and scientific exchange,” said the September statement of Indian academics and journalists.
Whatever said to India is also applicable to the USA, perhaps in a more underlined way, because of the latter’s international involvements.
But, what one wonders is that how many in the USA, and how many among the ‘All India’ Indians will voice against what their Establishments are doing to Eezham Tamils in intimidating and hijacking their efforts to come out from genocide and annihilation of their nation.
Source Tamil net http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=79&artid=34591
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The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has written to Elections Commissioner Mahinda Deshapriya expressing fears over the conduct of a free and fair election
US High Commission in India apologies for the statement released by the Deputy High Commissioner
United State Embassy in India disappointed about the statement released by the Deputy US High Commissioner of India.
While speaking in the S.R.M.University Deputy High Commissioner Morin Savo said that she had been visited to the India 20 years back for an educational tour during that time she visited to the Orissa by train and it was a 24 hour journey but since after the 72 hours she didn't complete her journey then she became dark and ugly like Tamil people.
However US High Commission in India apologies for the statement released by the Deputy High Commissioner.
While speaking in the S.R.M.University Deputy High Commissioner Morin Savo said that she had been visited to the India 20 years back for an educational tour during that time she visited to the Orissa by train and it was a 24 hour journey but since after the 72 hours she didn't complete her journey then she became dark and ugly like Tamil people.
However US High Commission in India apologies for the statement released by the Deputy High Commissioner.
violence against Eezham Tamils carried out with genocidal intentions
In the meantime, a military backed or military participated racket of bringing Tamil girls from the North and East for running brothels in the south has also been reported in several instances, but civil society workers are unable to come out with presentable evidences.
Recently, Fort Police in Colombo took into custody two Tamil girls from Vanni, after a ‘broker’ who had brought them to Colombo with promises of employment had abandoned them. A lawyer, contacted by the police, handed over the girls to their family. Incidents like these often go unreported, civil sources in Colombo said.
In January 2011, Women's Development Centre, Jaffna, and Paalnilai Chamaththuva Amaippu (Gender Equality Group), cautioned residents in the North to be aware of employment offers targeting women are being made without any guarantees of transparency or contracts. The caution came after SL Army commanders in North were engaged in campaigning among the rural populations in the North that they were offering employment to Tamil women in the garments industry in the South.
In the meantime, National Child Protection Authority (NCPA) Chairperson Anoma Dissanayake in Colombo has come with an official acknowledgement of the crime for the first time.
On Sunday, the Sunday Times and Virakesari newspaper in Colombo have come out detailed reports on a sexual racket that exploited Eezham Tamil girls Vanni and East .
The racket was brought to the notice to the NCPA through the police after a 16-year-old Tamil girl from Mullaiththeevu, who ran away from the National Hospital in Colombo, where she was warded for an operation to prevent pregnancy, revealed the details.
“Based on the information provided by the runaway girl, police raided a brothel in Maradana and found eight girls between the ages of 16 and 24 being used as prostitutes,” The Sunday Times reported citing the NCPA president.
A midwife of the Colombo National Hospital had been looking after the girls in the brothel. “She was in charge of giving them contraceptives and looking into their medical needs. She had the assistance of a doctor as well,” Ms. Dissanayake told paper.
Of the nine girls in custody, six are from North and one from East. At least one of them was brought from the barbed-wire internment camp in Vavuniyaa. Two of the victims are underaged girls.
Meanwhile, Virakesari Tamil daily reported that two of the victims were found afflicted by Sexually Transmitted Diseases.
Killing large number of men and exploiting women of a nation is an age-old tactic of carrying out genocide. The genocide in the so-called post-war period is more nuanced and pathetic than the earlier one, civil society workers said.
Greedy establishments of many countries, now rush to Colombo, singing the song ‘the war is over’. Even a country like Vietnam that has seen the worst of such violence is not an exception, the civil society workers further said.
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