posted March 14, 2001 03:55 PM            

Prabhakaran may be considered a military genius though he did not come out of any military academy......

If he had not allowed his struggle for the liberation of his people to go beyond a war against an official army....then he would have undoubetedly become a person respected by the Sinhalese....he will be remembered by the world as a freedom fighter"

posted March 14, 2001 04:58 PM         

He has claimed in one of his rare interviews, that his heroes are Napolean,Alexandar, Chandra Bose and Bhagat Singh. It is significant that Mahathma Gandhi and Nehru whose pictures hang in practically every Tamil home in Jaffna, are not Prabhakaran's role models. So are the Sunderalinghams,
Chelvanayakams, Ponnambalams and Naganathans, who fought to preserve the privileges enjoyed by their class and caste, under the colonial rule.
Prabhakaran's hatred of that class and caste is due to his conviction that those
high caste affluent leaders exploited the people of Jaffna, (particularly low
caste poor people) for them to lead a pukka sahib life style in Colombo.

As a teenager, Prabhakaran grew up in the highly stratified Jaffna society, with
three major handicaps, his caste, class and very poor education. Prabhakaran belongs to Karaiyar or deep sea fisherman's caste. This caste is way below the dominant Brahman and Vellala caste.

Due to evolving caste system from the late sixties, even a low caste person could rise with affluence and high academic achievement.
Prabhakaran was conscious that these two gates were not open to him. As a low caste, poor youth with very little education, Prabhakaran faced the full impact of the social hostility.

While the high caste Brahmins and Vellalas have sought to maintain their socio, politico and economic dominance, Prabhakaran and his followers are clearly pursuing two escape routes to gain freedom from oppression.

As an unemployed teenager, lacking the traditional ambition of Jaffna youth to
achieve high academic qualifications, Prabhakaran had the opportunities to
witness and feel the pain of injustices caused by the Jaffna society.

Prabhakaran would have also learned that whereas there has been anti high caste movements in South India, the high castes of Jaffna have not experienced such opposition.

Prabhakaran has earned the title enigmatic figure largely due to the failure by political analysts to comprehend this mysterious puzzle. As BBC in their web
site on Eelam states, Prabhakaran to his followers is a freedom fighter struggling for Tamil emancipation from Sinhala oppression. Tamil nationalism in Prabhakaran is obviously the overriding motivating force when he attacks the Sinhalese and assassinates even an Indian leader like Rajiv Gandhi. His assassination of leaders of other militant Tamil groups such as EPRLF,PLOTE and TULF including democratically elected members of parliament and two mayors of Jaffna, cannot be explained by Tamil nationalism. Nor is it correct to explain such crimes as the work of a megalomaniac who does not tolerate rivals. Caste rivalry is the root cause.

Naturally Prabhakaran and his fellow Karaiyars view the Vellala imposed restrictions as symbols of subjection, which are as oppressive if not more oppressive, than the alleged discrimination against the Tamils by the Sinhalese.

Caste system is closely linked to religious rituals - which could offend a sensitive youth exposed to western concepts of equality. Thus Vellalas are the patrons of temples providing funds for construction and maintenance and during religious rituals the priests serve the Vellalas first and rest thereafter.
The very low caste, are not allowed even to enter the temple. As is well known even Professor Sunderlingham sued a low caste Tamil for desecrating a Hindu temple by entering it.

Just as Prabhakaran's war against the caste system has won the support of thelow caste including low caste based political perties of south India, his Maxist ideology has won the support of well known leftists of several western countries. Among them are Ms C.Parker of USA Ms Deidre Mc Connel of
UK and Prof. John Neilson of Germany.

Clearly, what Prabhakaran is dreaming of is a casteless and classless state of Eelam. As Prabhakaran has realized, the low caste people of Jaffna could overcome the oppression by the Vellalas by seizing control of the land - a symbol of Vellala superiority - destroying the socio-politico economic
domination of the Vellalas and establishing
a Marxist state, human rights freedom of expression an independent judiciary,
individual ownership of property will have no place in the Eelam of Prabhakaran's dreams.

posted March 14, 2001 07:29 PM         

(Titles copied from his Buisness Card)

posted March 14, 2001 07:38 PM            

First of all, Prabaharan was not from a poor family, His familly the sole sort of owners of the Huge VVT Sivan Hindu Temple and they are very wealthy.

So are the Sunderalinghams,
Chelvanayakams, Ponnambalams and Naganathans, fought 30 yrs NON-VIOLENTLY with you Animal Hearted People to get tamils Rights, they could not achive anything from you people. What do you want us to do, just hang their pictures in our homes and wait for you NASTY people to come and kill us, rope us and rape us....NOT ANY MORE CASPER....TIGERS ARE HERE TO PROTECT US?

WHY DO YOU THINK THERE ARE NO MORE RIOTES IN COLOMBO? Then you will have to listen to our Tigers in the form of Central Bank Bombing.

EYE FOR AND EYE CASPER!!

posted March 14, 2001 11:16 PM            

Hi Vijay,
What do you know about Victor Ivan? Victor Ivan is a spy of CIA who is working for a divided country. Vasantha Raja well known LTTE spokesman is a good friend of Victor Ivan. He is paid for everything he writes in favour of LTTE.

posted March 19, 2001 07:00 AM            

"Ask not what Eelam has Done for you, Ask What you have done for Eelam"