Indian PM Modi demolishes Pro-LTTE Tamil Eelam Homeland/ Self-Determination bid
Posted on February 15th, 2021
Separatist Tamil politicians, the LTTE and the LTTE Diaspora have been painstakingly building up an argument that conforms to the UN definition criteria for self-determination to claim a separate state. That bid has now come to a standstill with India claiming Tamils to be their brothers & sisters. Sri Lanka was never under Indian rule in any time of its history. Following colonial rule, both India & Sri Lanka obtained ‘independence’ from invader rule. That colonials dumped unaccountable number of South Indians into Sri Lanka is nothing no one can deny. These forcibly brought South Indians were repatriated in several phases and the remaining to be repatriated under the Indo-Lanka Accord have yet to be complete. The choice was given to Tamils – those wishing to remain in Sri Lanka, can remain as Sri Lankan citizens. Those wishing to return to India can do so as Indian citizens. When India’s PM says our sisters and brothers referring to Sri Lankan Tamils, he is claiming these Tamils to be Indian. In so doing, his statement has now demolished the bid for self-determination by pro-LTTE TNA & Diaspora and reverts the self-determination quest back to Tamil Nadu where a Tamil State is already created and waiting to be declared ‘independent’. In attempting to balkanize Sri Lanka, the insidious plans of India are boomeranging on India to balkanize India first! When that happens India will no longer hold super power status.
The last time we checked both India & Sri Lanka were sovereign nations.
That sovereignty, entailed mutual respect for each other’s territorial integrity and sovereignty.
Citizens of India were citizens of India
Citizens of Sri Lanka were citizens of Sri Lanka.
However, when a leader of another country states that his government will ensure that Tamil ‘brothers & sisters’ live with equality, justice, peace and dignity, we have to wonder what he is talking about.
Its well & fine to be talking about the Tamil ‘brothers & sisters’ in Tamil Nadu but Tamil ‘brothers & sisters’ in Sri Lanka warrants some clarification.
If the aspiration of the Tamil ‘brothers & sisters’ in Tamil Nadu & Sri Lanka are the same then definitely that aspiration for a separate Tamil Homeland must be nowhere else but in Tamil Nadu. Our island has no room for 76million people but out of the 2.2million Tamils, those aspiring for a Tamil Homeland are more than welcome to go to India.
The Indian PM may well like to look at the development in Tamil Nadu before Jaffna. What Jaffna looks like now and what Jaffna looked like before May 2009, is something that no one would even today imagine. That appreciation must go to the Mahinda Rajapakse government.
It is unfortunate that India’s bilateral relations with Sri Lanka is concentrated only on Tamils and India takes pains to highlight what India grants/donates to Tamils only. In a country of 28 states, it is a pity India is taking one state’s aspiration linking that to a sovereign state and 2.2m Tamils ignoring over 19m Sri Lankans.
But, the Indian PM’s statement is taken positively, as it has completely demolished the myth of a Tamil Homeland in Sri Lanka.
As Sri Lanka is a sovereign country there is no Greater Eelam.
We have always held the position that there cannot be 2 homelands for the same ethnic group in 2 different countries.
This means Tamils in Tamil Nadu and Tamils in Sri Lanka cannot demand 2 separate Tamil Homelands on the same premise.
It questions where Tamils evolved as that is the place for the Tamil Homeland.
Obviously by Indian PM’s statement, Tamils did not evolve in Sri Lanka.
It is their immigrant status that Indian PM wishes to protect. However, we can confidently say that the Tamils in Sri Lanka are living in far better conditions than the Tamils in Tamil Nadu.
But the Tamils who want to live as Sri Lankans are more than welcome to remain in Sri Lanka as Sri Lankan citizens.
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Wouldn’t it be better for the Indian PM to look after the Indian Tamil brothers & sisters first?
However, we are very thankful to the Indian PM for making this statement.
The LTTE/TNA and Diaspora lobby had been biting fingers on how to prove the 40,000 dead in UNHRC and scuttled that bogus allegation by plugging numerous other non-conflict related allegations that were aligned to and complimented the objectives of the LTTE Diaspora who wanted the issue to be used as a bridge to flood economic migrants as asylum seekers to the West, while for the West it was a means of exerting gun-boat diplomacy and forcing themselves on Sri Lanka politically-economically-socially.
What India fails to realize is that using the gun-boat diplomacy upon Sri Lanka, the West’s quest to balkanize India is very much in action and India may well like to look at the impact the conversion foot soldiers are making coupled with the conversions to Islam as well.
There is little point warning India, because India’s bureaucracy is more occupied in destabilizing Sri Lanka, scuttling Sri Lanka’s developing and obsessed with trampling Sri Lanka’s growth, that India doesn’t realize that its foundations are being slowly but surely dislodged.
Returning to the matter at hand, with UNHRC circus recommencing, it is definitely a gift horse by India to showcase that the LTTE lobbyists now have no grounds for any homeland in Sri Lanka as India embraces Sri Lanka’s Tamils as theirs! This is better than India voting against Sri Lanka at UNHRC this year!
Shenali D Waduge
February 15th, 2021 at 9:40 am
We should NEVER trust India to look after majority Sinhalese interest. India has always been sympathetic to Tamils, because of their local politics in Tamil Nadu.
India knows that one day Tamil Nadu will demand separation which started in 1950s by the Tamil politicians. It never went away. It is the politicians in TN that encourage pro-LTTE Tamils to fight for a Tamil state in SL, so that one day they can push India to accept a Tamil homeland in India.
SL should NEVER give into the demands of the West, India, and the Tamil Diaspora. SL is a sovereign nation and welcome anyone to live in the country as Sri Lankans regardless of their ethnicity, religion, etc. If they cannot accept that they free to leave the country and live in another country they prefer.
The biggest problem we have is our political leaders who are spineless and gutless to fight back decade of anti-SL propaganda that have been generated by the pro-LTTE Tamil Diaspora and their supporters and the NGOs in the West.
February 16th, 2021 at 2:24 pm
Points to Ponder :
1. India’s Caste System is over 3,000 yrs old.
2. Tamil Nadu (and the rest of India) still puts Caste on birth certificates. To get things done in TN with the govt there, birth certificates must be produced.
3. Is Sri Lanka paying dearly for caste/poverty problems of some Tamil people ?
4. The 13-A was imposed by India on the JRJ govt under Duress and is therefore null and void. Why keep it ?
5. Do Tamil Nadu people still come to Sri Lanka as cheap labor ?
6. Why don’t the Sri Lanka tea estates use machines to pluck tea, as done in all other tea growing countries ?
7. Regional organisations such as SAARC etc ought to stand together when issues of economy, security etc happen. Do they ? If so, what have these organisations done to protect/help in Sri Lanka’s current crisis with the UNHRC over the war with the terrorist group the LTTE ?
8. Are those Tamil people who were carried away by the Dec 2004 Tsunami also counted as ‘gone missing in the war/killed by govt forces’ ? over 30,000 died islandwide in the Tsunami of Dec 2004.
9. Tamil Nadu is twice the size of Sri Lanka and can accommodate all its people.
February 16th, 2021 at 3:38 pm
If Modi offers his ” brothers and sisters” in Sri Lanka citizenship in India, how many of them will take up that offer to settle down in that CESSPIT called India? If the mother land of the Tamils is Tamil Nadu, why so many have come to Sri Lanka as “Kallatonies” and doing well as mudalalies. Modi has shown what a MODAYA he is.
February 16th, 2021 at 7:48 pm
Isn’t the region called India a colonial construct?. Those living there must have been cowards. Even an African slave called Malik Ambar could come there via Damascus using the silk route and overpower the locals and establish an empire for himself.
What to talk of their imperial ambitions?.
February 17th, 2021 at 8:09 am
It appears some of our leaders also have developed the slave mentality and started lying to the people. This evening’s revelation is another sugar coated pill to the citizens. They think that all our people are stupid as they are:
Now it seems discussions are underway to take over the oil tanks in Trinco and develop them as a joint venture with India to supply fuel to Indian ships. This is another way of giving Trinco to India because they have given some islands to China and also to escape the Geneva thing.
There should not be any discussions with Indians who are the creators of all the problems in our country. We saw how the Colombo tamil speakers ganged up and demonstrated against the GOSL when it was announced that ECT will not be given to Adani.
These are the challenges to the Sinhalas to surmounts. Even a deaf person can read the lips of our leaders when they make statements and understand their true intent: to put everybody under the jackboot and do whatever they want.