Ranjith Soysa

The Senator LR was speaking in the Australian Senate supporting the separatist Tamil Tiger fronts recently when she mistakenly introduced maha veer day as the remembrance day for the ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…- Tamils all round the worldƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚ whereas it is a day observedƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  byƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  the Tamil Tiger fronts and their followers to hark back to the memories of the brutal terrorism in Sri Lanka. The vast majority of the Sri Lankan Tamils and the millions of other Tamils did not bother at all about the day which was the birthday of Prabahakaran, the leader of the Tamil Tiger terrorists who is responsible of killing more Tamils than any other known figure in the history of Tamils and the person who recruited the ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ most number of Tamil children as child soldiers who were used as cannon fodder. ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ The Senator after fumbling badly about the day mentioned that even she, one of the main promoters of the LTTE fronts failed to join them and be beside them!

The Senator as expected criticised the world community for the ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”¹…”betraying the grief and the feelingƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢ of the Tamil community (sic).ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  She fabricates a number of specific acts of discrimination and brutality said to be faced by the present day Tamils in Si Lanka including sexual abuse and exploitation of women and land garb! Her figment of imagination knows no bounds when it comes to defend her case whereas the Tamils and other ethnic groups in Sri Lanka lead peaceful lives compared to the days when Prabhakaran and his criminal gang were exploding bombs in the city centresƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  with utmost hatred towards the humanity.

The Senator laments about AustraliaƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s friendly relations with Sri Lanka ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”¹…”in order to stop Tamil from fleeing Sri Lanka ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”¹…”with least considerations for the AustraliaƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”¹…”s national border control challenged by human smuggler activities. She pretends to ignore that some of the Tamils who arrived by boats have returned to Sri Lanka without facing any harassment in Sri Lanka and how the Australian Immigration authorities work in close co-operation with Sri Lankan counterparts to discourage risking the lives in dangerous pursuit of traveling to Australia by boats lured by the human smugglers.ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  In her excitement to promote the cause of the LTTE fronts , the Senator even ventures to speculate in alleging that the murder of Nadarajah a.k.a Parithi , a LTTE activist in France , was ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-orchestrated by Sri Lankan government officials ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”¹…”. However, the seasoned LTTE watchers are of the view that Nadarajah was a victim of the intense factional rivalry among the LTTE activists in Europe. In any case , the French authorities are investigating the issue and the Senator in AustraliaƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  counsels the French authorities ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…- to be thorough and transparentƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚ in investigating these crimes!

SubsequentƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  efforts of the Senator is to quote Charles Petrie report. BBC broadcasting and others as to the ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”¹…”killings in Sri Lanka during the last phase ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”¹…” of the LTTE defeat at the hands of the Sri Lankan government . According to her credible information she put the death toll between 146, 679 and 70.000. The figure of 146,679 was given by Dr Sam Pari , spokesperson of Tamil Congress who is said to be a LTTE associateƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  based on calculations made by the church leaders. ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ These figures concocted by various interested group working day and night to destabilize Sri Lanka are challenged by the UN report which confirmed the death toll to be 7721 during the period Jan 2009 to May 2009 while the household survey conducted by the Dept of CensusƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  arrived at a figure of 7449ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  as the war related total deaths . It was the Channel 4 and then the Guardian which came out with speculations multiplying the figures to tens of thousands. The Senator dismisses the UN figure ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-as an insultƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚.

All those who are conversant with the LTTEƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢sƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ intransigence and the their firm belief in the ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”¹…”armed cadres and suicide bombersƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢ wereƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  aware of the fact that a final clash was inevitable. In fact,ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  in the Internal Review Panel report of the UN it is confirmed thatƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  by January 2009 UN was of the opinion that the LTTE was going to lose and it worked out a plan for surrender of the LTTE. The LTTE was living in aƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  dream ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ world of their own and had their own plans to defeat the Government and kept on issuing statement after statement ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ how and when the SLG forces will be driven away from their Eelam territory!. Prabahakaran was planning for a massacre and foreign intervention to carve out his separate state. It is appropriate, to quote from an article by an investigative journalist,ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  Kath Noble who has captured the mindset of the LTTE leader vividly. ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚¦..If the West had not abused the memory of Rwanda so often, Prabhakaran might have chosen a different tactic. He might have abandoned the idea of holding onto territory instead of retreating into ever smaller area of land ,DRAGGING WITH HIM AT GUN POINT THOSE 300.000 PLUS CIVILIANS CONSCRIPTING MORE AND MORE OF THEM AND SENDING THEM TO THE FRONTLINE TO DIE, while compelling the rest to cower in bunkers with too little to eat and limited medical supplies as his cadres fired from among them at the Sri Lankan forces ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚¦..He might have gone back to the jungles and waged a guerrilla war.(Of course .he might have done exactly the same thing ON THE BASIS THAT THERE IS NOTHING LIKE A MASASCRE TO MOBLIZE FUTURE GENERATIONS. HE CLEARLY DID NOT CARE AS MUCH ABOUT HUMAN LIFE ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚¦)ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚

The Senator LR has no clue about the war waged in Sri Lanka except the notes she receive from the LTTE fronts and their representatives. The fact ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ that the LTTE was attempting for a massacre while the ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ timely intervention of the Sri Lankan forces saved nearly 300,000 Tamil civilians HAS BEEN FORGOTTEN by the likes of the Senator RH andƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  her tribe of cronies .They areƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  attempting in vain to shift the blame ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ to the Sri Lanka forces for the demise of the LTTE.

The Senator has a last fling at General Svaendra de Silva , a representative for Sri Lanka at the UN and the Rear Admiral Tissara Samarasinghe , the High Commissioner for Sri Lanka in Australia attacking themƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  of human rights violations whereas it is on record how these two gentlemen rescued the Tamil civilians from the ruthless grip of the Tamil Tigers in addition to the humanitarian services extended by them. ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ Both, the General De Silva and Rear Admiral Samarasinghe continue to deliver the services expected of them to the satisfaction of concerned parties.

Before rushing to sound the bugle of the LTTE fronts the Senator LR should spendƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  some timeƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  studying Sri Lanka today and compare the dark days in which the LTTE was dictating the terms ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ to all Sri Lankans.

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚