[ Vavuniya News Media, 05/21/09 01:09 AM GMT,
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Birds have now stopped singing in a land called Vanni. Sun, moon and the stars in the sky have hidden their faces. Angel of death flew over the skies of Vanni and took the lives of more than twenty five thousand innocent Tamil men, women and children in a single day.
[ Vavuniya News Media, 11/27/07 06:48 AM GMT,
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The leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), V Pirapaharan, in his annual Heroes' Day statement placed a heavy responsibility on the shoulders of the international community for the breakdown of the peace process. He said that the involvement of the international community to resolve the Tamil national question has been unhelpful and added that their failure to condemn unambiguously the military path of the current regime has created the present situation in the island. He asserted that the propping up of the genocidal Sinhala State by the international community through economic aid, military aid and subtle diplomatic efforts will be counterproductive.
"The history of the past sixty years has brought us to a point that makes separation a necessary condition to renegotiate a union on an equal basis," writes Ampalam in the concluding part of his opinion column. "We live in a time witnessing the European nation states that gave birth to modern nationalism and fought two world wars, involving the entire world for the sake of their nationalistic competition, coming together as European Union. The Asean countries have set a similar agenda. Such wonders became possible when there were no conquests or outside interferences. Perhaps it is much easier to come together and achieve unity if the concerned parties are free to choose," he writes.
The isolation of the LTTE and active assistance for a military option against it by the International Community, may lead the LTTE and the people backing it with no option other than facing the situation. The repercussions are sure to threaten Indian security for a long time to come. The major responsibility lies with the governments concerned in avoiding a catastrophe to the already suffering masses of Sri Lanka. The gap between the Government of India and the LTTE is a serious impediment in bringing out a balance in the crisis management. A situation of having outraged people on either side of the Palk Strait is unaffordable to Indian security, writes Opinion Columnist Ampalam.
The peace talk failed because agreements were not implemented, and then the peace process failed because the international community that supported the peace process doesn’t seems to care about Tamils rights or even Tamils lives. The hawk Sinhala government that is under no pressure from international community conveniently ignored all the agreements, and went rampage and killed more than 300 Tamils in the last three months. None of the peace actors raise concern about these atrocities with Srilankan state terrorists. Even the SLMM that initially released a statement to blame the Sinhala government for the extrajudicial killings retreated their statements for some “unknown” reasons. All these “green” signals from the international players boosted the Sinhala hawk leadership to wage a low intensive war against Tamils.