Stand Together

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Whatever the Tamil Tigers have done or not done, one thing is beyond question. They stood between a succession of murderous Sinhalese governments and the Tamil people.

The Sinhala government's claim that the "entire problem in Sri Lanka is (Tamil) terrorism", and that once the 'terrorists' are "wiped out", the land will be flowing with milk and honey, has not happened. The Tamil people are being brutalised as never before, an Army of Occupation is running the Tamil areas (and behaving as such), and the country, far from flowing with milk and honey, is spiralling down into chaos.

The expatriate Tamil community, more than a million strong, is the most powerful 'weapon' that the Tamils in the Sri Lanka North and East have today. There is not the slightest doubt that President Rajapaksa fears them more than he fears any other body or group, in or outside, Sri Lanka.

The greatest problem with the expatriate Tamils is their infighting. They most certainly lack leadership. A totally committed expatriate Tamil friend of mine put this better than I can. He said, "The Tamil boat is sailing with no captain". To this I would add, "and without a rudder too".

The rich (the Rajapaksa brothers and their supporters) are getting richer and moving upwards to the 'super-rich' level by stealing from the country. The poor, irrespective of ethnicity, are getting poorer by the day, and barely able to survive.

No Totalitarian regime in history has lasted for ever. The Rajapaksa regime is no exception. The end will come, it must. The question is whether it will come before terrible damage is done to Sri Lanka as a whole and to the Tamil people in particular.

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing".

by dr. brian seneviratne

Nickelback When We Stand Together

Lyrics:
One more depending on a prayer
And we all look away
People pretending everywhere
It's just another day

There's bullets flying through the air
And they still carry on
We watch it happen over there
And then just turn it off

We must stand together
There's no getting even
Hand in hand forever
That's when we all win
That's, that's, that's when we all win
That's, that's, that's when we all win

They tell us everything's alright
And we just go along
How can we fall asleep at night
When something's clearly wrong

When we could feed a starving world
With what we throw away
But all we serve are empty words
That always taste the same

We must stand together
There's no getting even
Hand in hand forever
That's when we all win
That's, that's, that's when we all win
That's, that's, that's when we all win

The right thing to guide us
Is right here inside us
No one can divide us
When the light is leading on
But just like a heartbeat
The drumbeat carries on...
And the drumbeat carries on...

We must stand together
There's no getting even
Hand in hand forever
That's when we all win
That's, that's, that's when we all win
That's, that's, that's when we all win

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• tamil
• eelam
• prabhakaran
• unite
• ltte
• liberation
• tigers
• viduthalai
• puligal
• srilanka
• ceylon