The Tamil Resolve - a New Zenith

The brutality of the Sinhala army and their blatant disregard for Tamil lives and limbs has reached a new level. The deliberate recklessness with which refugees in churches, patients in hospitals and children in school-yards are savagely attacked and killed under Chandrika's presidency is a new peak. The defiance of the people of Thamileelam, in the face of such cruelty, is also a new zenith. Well over six hundred thousand people fleeing an army, that they were told was coming to rescue them from these awful Tigers, is unprecedented; something that did not happen even during the brutal occupation of Jaffna by the Indian army!

The solidarity and cohesion that these events has created among the Tamil Diaspora is also unprecedented. Thousands upon thousands of Tamils marching in Toronto, New York, Geneva, London, Ottawa, Canberra, and now in Thamil Nadu, is conclusive attestation to the new level of consolidation of the Tamil mindset. The Ilankai Tamil Sangam has also experienced this phenomenon, in our own small way, with enraged callers wanting to help.

But, despite such clear and unambiguous expression of this heightened Tamil will, a few Tamil errand boys, living in Colombo at the mercy of the Sinhala government, are visiting the Tamils all over the world, trying to reverse the trend. They want the Tamils to embrace the colonially imposed Sri Lankan state, where the Tamils will always be a minority; A system, where the Sinhala majority will give to the Tamils - what they think is right, when they think it is right, and how much they think is right. In 1949 they said it was right to disenfranchise a million Tamils; In 1956 they decreed that the Tamil's language doesn't deserve equality with theirs; In 1961 they decided that Tamil children didn't deserve equal access to education; the list is endless

Now in 1995, a smooth talking but vicious matron, literally of the same genetic make up as the previous persecutors, has ordained what is good for the Tamils. She plans to ask the Sinhala parliamentarians and the Sinhala population to determine if the Tamil people deserve what she plans to dish out to them. When Tamils failed to readily accept her design and her charity, she decided to brutalize the entire Tamil population.

In 1977 the Tamil people voted to secede and form a separate state. If this was Quebec or Scotland, Thamileelam would have easily become a separate nation state! In 1995, the Tamils have shown once again that they do not want anything from the Sinhala people or their army. What more proof does one need, than the spectacle of well over half a million people fleeing on foot to escape a force, that has not behaved any different from a foreign invading army - which in reality they are.

The Sinhala government ruling from Colombo has lost its moral authority to govern the Tamil people. A government that needs to use its army, airforce and navy, and for so long, to enforce compliance of a people cannot be called its government.

Once again the Tamil people have spoken.