MULLIVAIKAAL 53.215 TAMILS EXECUTED

The situation in Sri Lanka has changed dramatically. Now, the Tamils are without leadership. They are victims of greater oppression with about 300,000 Tamils in internment camps. Access to the camps is denied to the world community and even to local NGOs and media by Sri Lanka. While the LTTE fought on behalf of Tamil freedom militarily, the Tamils in Sri Lanka and elsewhere faced difficult times. The Tamil Diaspora are seen as not only supporting the LTTE, but are viewed by Sri Lanka as members of the LTTE as well. In the immediate aftermath of the defeat of the Tamil militant leadership and in the wake of the untold suffering and injustices of the Tamil people in the Vanni, there is fluidity in the thinking among the Tamils as to what form the Tamil clamour for self-determination and freedom should take.

We are in the third phase of the Tamil struggle with the political centre of gravity shifted outside of Sri Lanka. The Tamil provisional leadership has announced that they have renounced violence and shall support diplomatic actions by establishing a Provisional Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (PTGTE). This is one of the proposals put forward and is left to be seen whether the diasporic Tamils will choose to continue to proceed with the LTTE baggage or shed it to explore other avenues as proposed by other political activists, thinkers, and analysts. There is now a cauldron of political thinking on the future struggle of the Tamils.

The PTGTE is the first step of next phases the successors of the LTTEs struggle for Tamil Eelam. Besides its political ideology, there is also the question of the credentials and the credibility of their leadership as befitting the original leadership. The question is also whether the idea has been hastily conceived. There is information of a plethora of meetings and groups being held amongst the Tamil Diasporas the world over. There is also the idea of the independent Democratic Republic of Tamil Eelam in Exile which is also gaining very wide acceptance. One such organisation is the World Tamil Congress advocating Tamils join the organisation at the country level as individuals and not as nominated groups, leaving behind the past images. The details of the structure are still to be worked out, but the idea is to have electoral colleges to elect representatives at the country level to be represented at the world Tamil Congress.

The Tamil Diasporas hope that a workable consensus will be reached before forging ahead. It would indeed be a tragedy if there is a repetition of the spectacle of the militant organisations fighting with each other as in the early 1980s and thus undermining the Tamil cause. Reaching consensus is a painful, arduous, and tedious process involving much patience and tolerance, but is well worth it.

The concept of the Tamil homeland springs from the fact the programme of marginalising Tamils began from the day Sri Lanka was granted independence with sate sponsored massacres in1956. It has become increasingly clear that the Tamil and Sinhala people cannot live in harmony under a unitary form of government; on the other hand, two independent states will be able to exist side by side with harmony and prosperity.

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