DMK may submit Teso resolution

The Centre’s objection not withstanding, the DMK may go ahead with its plan to submit the resolutions passed by it at the last Tamil Eelam Supporters’ Organisation (Teso) meet to UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon. Among other things, Teso calls on the international body to conduct an enquiry into the alleged war crimes carried out by the Sri Lankan Army during the war with the LTTE. According to sources, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse, during his recent visit to India, had prevailed on Indian leaders to rein in those Tamil parties that seek to internationalise the Tamil problem. Accordingly, minister of state in the PMO Narayanasamy called on DMK chief Karunanidhi a week back to impress on him the need to act over the issue keeping in mind India’s relations with its southern neighbour, sources added. Mr Narayansamy also discussed the question of the DMK availing the two cabinet berths lying vacant since the resignations of A. Raja and Dayanidhi Maran over the 2G scam.
Sources mentioned that while the octogenarian refused to avail any ministerial positions at this point, he didn’t commit himself on the question of going slow against Sri Lanka.
DMK sources say that any indication that the party is dilly-dallying over the matter would amount to playing into the hands of the outfits’ opponents who accuse the DMK supremo of treating the issue with kid gloves.
It is with this in mind that the DMK has convened the second Teso conference on Monday, sources said.
As per the plan, DMK’s heir-apparent and former chief minister M.K. Stalin would personally leave for the UN to submit the resolutions along with senior party leader T.R. Baalu. The duo, on their way back, also would visit Geneva to hand over a copy of the same resolutions to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHCR). One of the key resolutions is that of conducting a political referendum in the Tamil dominated areas of north and east of the Island nation.

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Jayalalithaa's position and

Jayalalithaa's position and the sentiments in Tamil Nadu and indeed among those around the civilized world who believe in the rule of law and human rights, is far deeper than what the writer portrays and what I would expect of your writing.

Sri Lankan Rajapakse regime is a Sinhala Buddhist Apartheid regime similar to the White South African racist regime and all ties must be severed including diplomatic, cultural, sports and isolate Sri Lanka until an independent international human rights and war crimes investigation is conducted and those who responsible for the crimes against humanity are brought to face the Law. If most nations including India were against the White South African regime, Sri Lankan Rajapakse regime must be isolated until human rights are respected, rule of law applied equally, and elimination of terrorism laws.

The following are core issues that should be understood by the reader.

1. The source of the fundamental conflict.
-Tamils of Sri Lanka(SL) like the Jews in Nazi Germany were a high achieving minority that were discriminated against after independence in 1948 as a permanent minority under a unitary constitution controlled by the Sinhala majority. The Tamils were a separate nation before British colonization - a state of self determination that they have a right to return to.
-SL Government supported Pogroms very few years not unlike that against the Jews in Nazi Germany since the 1950s till the 1980s. An armed resistance followed against government supported atrocities.

2. The methods used by the SL government used to suppress it.
- Towards the end of the civil war in May 2009, among other atrocities, it is alleged that there was a pre-meditated murder of about 70,000 Tamil civilians. The SL Government declared safe zones where civilians rushed and these were subsequently shelled by the SL Government.
- Food and medicine were limited or entirely cut off by the SL Government, from the Tamil civilian populations in some regions.
-Concentration camps were set up for Tamil civilians for many months after the war with limited food and medicine. Even now 3 years after the war many Tamil communities cannot return to their old homes. Sinhala colonists have been encouraged by the Government to use the properties of the displaced Tamils.

3. Suppression of the truth.
- The UN report written by 3 eminent jurists Marzuki Darusman (Indonesia), Yasmin Sooka (South Africa), Steven R. Ratner (USA) concluded that the "conduct of the war represented a grave assault on the entire regime of international law designed to protect individual dignity during both war and peace".
-In stark contrast to the investigations that followed immediately following te 2nd World War and the shocking Holocaust that was revealed. Sri Lanka has effectively stone walled any investigations of the war crimes and likely Genocide.
- Mis-information propagated by the media aligned and often paid for by the Sri Lankan government to cover up and indeed suppress investigations.
- All calls for justice under international law are called actions by LTTE (the dominant armed Tamil separatist movement) supporters and apologists.
- Killing and "disappearances" of forthright journalists in Sri Lanka

Overall a useful resource for those interested in understanding the issues is short talk by an outsider - former UN employee Gordon Weiss who was closely monitoring the events for the UN in Sri Lanka during the conflict.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7uzRNl8NByo

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