posted June 17, 2000 02:32 PM            

Two weeks ago, the Ottawa's the so called Civil War Celebration was cancelled in the original venue at Bronson Centre, because Mr. Keerthi Abeyaratne who works in that instutute managed to convinved the Hall officials to cancell the hall. But, the celebration successfully went on the same day as planned in another bigger venue in Ottawa.

A week ago, the biggest celebration of all with over 20,000 tickets sold, supposed to have taken place at Toronto's Molson Ams Theatre with guest speakers from Tamil Nadu, India.

BUT, the PIMP Commision in Ottawa was managed to call the AMP Theatre friday afternoon and BOMB Threat over phone if the Celebration went on last week.

Canadians are very sensitive to BOMB threats. So they cancelled the Celebration at the last minutes.

As I mentioned here many many times, more our people are oppressed by this Sinhala people, OUR Tamil people tend to wake up more and fight for their rights.

The FACT officials last week promissed. We only had 20,000 seats in Molson Amp Theatre, BUT next week we are determined to go ahead with the Celebration with 40,000 capacity.

As planned, the celebration is about to take place IN THE MASS OUTDOOR GROUND, INFRONT OF THE NONE OTHER THAN ONTARIO(TORONTO) PALIAMENT BUILDING.

NOW, your PIMP Commission had better off let us celebrate the event inside the Molson Stadium so no one would have known this has taken place, BUT NOW, the whole world is going to find out that over 40,000 Tamil People came to this TAMIL VICTORY CELEBRATION!!

I hope Your PIMP Commission have learned a lession from this!!!

LIVE BROARDCASE OF THIS EVEN will be stating in about half hour(Canada Time Saturday June 17,00 @ 3 p.m.) from now. You can listen to this live broadcast in one of the following two TAMIL Radio Stations in TORONTO thru INTERNET:

www.itbcnet.net

or

www.ctbc.com

Ranjan Reporting Live from
the Nation's Capital
Ottawa, Canada

posted June 17, 2000 02:51 PM            

Today(Saturday), The Toronto Ruling Member of Parliament appeared in the CFMT's Ceylon TV weekend broatcast and said,

"About 150,000 Canadian Tamil Eelam people's were affected by One(Sinhala) person's BOMB Threat. We Canadians WILL NOT TOLERATE this kind of Bomb threats and then he called the Toronto Police Chief and requested him to find that (Sinhala) Perperturator and bring him to JUSTICE. And the police Chief promiosed to do JUST THAT."

And the Canadian Universities Tamil Students Union(CUTSU) did a press conference inside the Ontario Parliament and said,

posted June 17, 2000 05:13 PM            

Tamil Eelam National Flag is now being raised by a prominent Member of Parliament while Tamil Eelam National Anthem is being played in the Background in the open Stage.

Next, Canadian National Flag was raised by another Member of Parliament along with Canadian National Anthem.

Tamil Eelam Flags can be seen every where infront of Ontario Parliament along with the Canadian National Flag.

Many Canadian TV Stationed are there to Broadcast this event.

posted June 19, 2000 12:06 AM            

EELAM Flag will fly only in EELAM & Rest of the world!!

I have to say that RED-Yellow-Black Eelam Flag besides the beautifull Red&White Canadian Flag, IT REALLY LOOKED FATASTICS INFRONT OF THE ONTARIO PARLIAMENT YESTERDAY.

AND WE COLLECTED MONEY TOO YESTERDAY, THIS TIME EVERY CANADIANS SHOW THE TAMILS VOLUTARY FUNDRAISING PUBLICKLY. NOT ONLY FOR US, WE ALSO RAISED MONEY & FOODS FOR CANADIAN HOMELESSES AND GAVE THEM INFRONT OF MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT?

A Singer SANG a Liberation Tamil Song Continuously for few hours asking people to donte to EELAM LIBERATION while people lined up to the front of the stage to give the money to FACT & WTM members.

We also BASHED OUT NATIONAL POST LOUD AND CLEAR IN THE LOUDSPEAKER.

TAMIL VOICE CANNOT BE CRUSHED IN CANADA!!

Do you know who co-signed the outdoor parliament groung for this meeting: The Toronto Member of Parliament.

One Tamil stood up on the stage and said: National Post, you said there are 8000 Tigers in Toronto. You are wrong. Look here, there are 30,000 Tigers here and another 150,000 Tigers in Canada.

AND a Statement was read in Englisg by Canadian Universities Tamils Student Union,

"On behalf of the 150,000 Tamils in Canada,
we like you to know, TIGERS ARE OUR TRUE VOICE BUT THEY ARE VOICELESS, FIRST TIME, WE ARE OPENLY GIVING OUR FULL SUPPORT TO THE LIBERATION TIGERS OF TAMIL EELAM AND IT'S LEADER MR.PRABAHARAN"

posted June 19, 2000 01:28 AM            

frankly ... we dont care where else u fly ealam flags ... as long as not in SL dont care ... if other countries happy to take terrorists in its their problem...

posted June 20, 2000 08:51 AM            

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By M.R. Narayan Swamy International Herald Tribune
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SINGAPORE - For 25 years, Tamil Tiger guerrillas have fought relentlessly to carve out a separate state inthe north and northeast of Sri Lanka, where most members of the Tamil minority live. They have developed a war-fighting organization with supply and support lines that connect it not just to other countries in Asia but to Europe and North America as well.
Velupillai Prabhakaran, the leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, comes from a middle-class family in Jaffna, in northern Sri Lanka. When the armed separatist struggle started in the early 1970s, he commanded some 20 members and fewer weapons. The LTTE, set up in secrecy in 1976, is now believed to number from 7,000 to 10,000 men and women.

They forced Indian army peacekeepers out of Sri Lanka's northeast in 1987 and are now in the midst of another heavy battle with the armed forces of the Sri Lankan government for control of the Jaffna peninsula - the heart of Eelam, the Tamil homeland.

The Tigers have a naval wing and also a large reservoir of suicide bombers known as Black Tigers, whose speciality is getting close to selected targets and then blowing themselves up. Recruits take an oath of loyalty to Mr. Prabhakaran.

No member can leave without authorization. Defectors are punished, often with death. Cadres take a vow not to smoke or use alcohol. They are taught to kill themselves by biting a vial of cyanide if captured.

The strict discipline, tight-knit organization and fanatical devotion to the cause of Tamil nationalism help to explain the Tigers' durability. Like a Communist Party, they are divided into military and political departments, but the difference is often blurred. Most political wing members carry arms and also double as fighters.

The intelligence wing is the true elite, a shadowy force that gathers political information, tracks the movements of key targets and masterminds execution of enemies.

Senior leaders of the LTTE report directly to Mr. Prabhakaran, access to whom is tightly controlled. Messages from his operational headquarters in the dense jungle of the Jaffna peninsula, known as ''Camp One Four,'' are via high-frequency radio. He seldom speaks directly on LTTE communication sets, which are monitored by the Indian and Sri Lankan governments. The base itself is closely guarded and mined.

The Tigers draw support from the estimated 500,000Sri Lankan Tamils abroad, many of whom emigrated or left as political refugees. They are scattered around the globe. The largest concentration, some 150,000, is in Canada. The LTTE taps the Tamil diaspora for money, propaganda assistance and patriotic support.

Items like medicines and diesel fuel come from the neighboring Indian state of Tamil Nadu, where support for the Tiger cause runs deep among sections of its Tamil population of 60 million.

Smuggling and a chain of legitimate front businesses in other countries, ranging from gas stations and restaurants to trucking and computer companies, are another major source of funds. The Tigers have been waging propaganda war on the Internet since 1994. Supporters operate dozens of Web sites, in English and Tamil. Battlefield reports often appear first on the Web.

The Tigers began to buyarms abroad in the mid-1980s. Today they are probably the biggest nongovernmental buyer in Southeast Asia, getting guns and ammunition from guerrilla groups and others in the region, including Burma, Cambodia and Thailand. The weaponsare dropped close to the Sri Lankan coast in cargo ships covertly owned by the Tigers with legitimate business as a camouflage.

The Sri Lankan government alleges that Burma and, more recently, Thailand have become staging areas for the gun running. Some years ago, Burmese military authorities closed down an LTTE training center on a small island off the Burmese coast. The recent seizure of a small submarine being built on the Thai island of Phuket has again focused attention on Thailand's role.

Besides automatic assault rifles, the Tigers make extensive use of long-range artillery and heavy mortars. They have some tanks and armored vehicles captured from Sri Lankan troops. They are reported to have acquired surface-to-air missiles.

Part of their strength lies in a multi-layered organization that is difficult to unravel and penetrate. It still operates openly in Britain and many other Western countries, despite the ruthless use of violence to achieve its aims. The Sri Lankan government wants Europe to follow the lead of the United States, where the LTTE is outlawed as a terrorist group.

The writer, a journalist based in Singapore, is author of ''Tigers of Lanka.'' He contributed this comment to the International Herald Tribune.