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Topic: UDI EELAM ON NOV.24, 2005, MAVEERAR SPEECH
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ANANDAN ARUMUGAM
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posted November 11, 2005 12:30 PM
  
Tigers escape from Jaffna jail
LTTE have abducted two inmates from Jaffna prison
Police in northern Sri Lanka have expressed concern of the increasing violence run up to the presidential elections.
Suspected armed Tamil Tigers have abducted two LTTE suspects after breaking into Jaffna prison, officials said.According to prison officials, suspected sea Tiger Ramasamy Suwendran and LTTE informant Ganesh Kamalanadan were forcibly released by two gunmen broke into the prison. Meanwhile, a police constable has succumbed to injuries at the hospital after being shot at Thinnaveli, Jaffna by two unidentified gunmen. EU monitoring mission Police accused the LTTE pistol gun of carrying out the assassination. Head of European Union Monitoring Mission John Cushnahan has on Friday met government officials as well as parliamentarians in a monitoring visit to Jaffna. He was told by Mavai Senadhirajah, Tamil National Alliance (TNA) for Jaffna district, that it is difficult to guarantee a violence-free election though the TNA and Tamil Tigers do not play any role in the November 17 elections. The TNA and the LTTE have ruled out endorsing any presidential candidate. Incidents such as a bomb attack on the residence of Suresh Premachandra, General Secretary of EPRLF, posters in Jaffna district urging the voters to boycott the elections means Jaffna’s security situation is uncertain, Senadirajah has told Cushnahan.
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pakaya
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posted November 12, 2005 02:11 AM
“Presidential election is irrelevant to the Tamil people”
Head of the LTTE political wing Mr.Tamilselvan
“Presidential election of Sri Lanka is totally irrelevant to the Tamil people at this juncture when they are frustrated with the unproductive Cease Fire Agreement and the denial of post-tsunami humanitarian aid in an equitable manner” said Mr.S.P.Tamilselvan, Head of the LTTE Political Wing in an interview with the media after meeting with Tamil National Alliance Legislators yesterday, 10 November 2005 at Kioinochchi. Excerpts: We met with the TNA legislators today and had a lengthy discussion on the current political situation. It was unanimously decided that the Tamil people make their own decision about participation in the election. Generally, the trend appears to be one of apathy towards the election for obvious reasons. Governments to which both the major contestants in the presidential election belong to, have been in power at one time or other during the cease fire period of three and a half years and their record of performance vis-à-vis progress in the peace process have been abject failure. The Tamil people have historical lessons about every election that was held in this country and this presidential election is no exception in that respect. Ironically enough, both the parties are competing with each other in putting the hard line attitude before the electorate and whoever wins is therefore immaterial to the Tamil people. The outgoing president’s eleven year term could be described as the darketst period for the Tamil people. She began on a peace platform and duplicitly let loose a war on the Tamil people, calling it a ‘war for peace’, the peace tag for international consumption. It is during her regime thaa the Tamil people faced the most inhuman displacement overnight of more than 500,000 people, disappearance of over 600 youths who ended up in mass graves. It is her presidency that was responsible for the dissolution of parliament at a time the then government was preparing to take up the ISGA proposals for discussion as mandated by the Tamil people. When it comes to the dellivery of peace dividend normalcy in terms of the CFA, the UNF government had its share of omissions and its leader, the UNP contestant for presidency now has hurt the feelings of the Tamil people by confining his visit to Jaffna only to the military complex in the High Security Zone and focussing his attention on prioritising military interests in the same way the SLFP candidate did. So, the Tamil people don’t see any difference between the two and it is the story of the devil and the deep sea. Responsible members of the UNP have now admitted that their government worked to create a division in the LTTE. Our position is that there is no division in the organization and it is only a disciplinary action against Karuna’s wrong doings that led to Karuna running away and working with the government military now. In this complex situation, we don’t see a necessity to advise the Tamil people on the elections. They are preoccupied with their day–to-day life struggle in a post-war and post-tsunami situation and chanage of presidency in Colombo, judging from what the contenders promise to deliver, is totally irrelevant to them. On the question of international observers, if they visit areas that are not under military occupation, we would provide them all the support, if that is needed in any way. They can very well see for themselves the Tamil peoples’ enthusiasm or otherwise. Commenting on the media reports that Norway is planning to move away from the leadership position of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission, Mr.Tamilselvan said that it is only ‘media speculation’ and wishful thinking of extremist elements that are interested in the disruption of the peace process and continuity of the CFA. Reading the pulse of the people through the latest Tamil Uprisings, we feel that the Tamil people are so frustrated and lost faith in the Sri Lankan polity and therefore the presidential election would only be a non-event for them.” 11 November 2005 |
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pakaya
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posted November 20, 2005 01:43 AM
Rebels see victory in Rajapakse win
Web posted at: 11/20/2005 1:50:34
Source ::: Agencies
JAFFNA: A senior Sri Lankan Tamil Tiger rebel said the election of hardline Mahinda Rajapakse as the island’s new president had paved the way for a final rebel victory, a radio transcript given to Reuters yesterday said.
Rajapakse narrowly beat main opposition candidate Ranil Wickremesinghe after the Tigers apparently boycotted Thursday’s vote. More than half a million Tamils who had been expected to back Wickremesinghe were kept away from polling stations.
“Mahinda Rajapakse’s victory at the presidential election has provided the opportunity for Tamil Eelam National Leader V Prabhakaran’s victory,” senior Tiger V Balakumaran told the Tigers’ radio station on Friday. The rebels gave the transcript to Reuters.
Observers say the three-year-old ceasefire has recently come under pressure, with grenade attacks on army sentry points common in the north and east and the rebels suspected of killing the foreign minister in August, but monitors say they expect the truce to hold.
Analysts and observers said the Tigers had not wanted Wickremesinghe, broker of the ceasefire that halted two decades of war, to regain power claiming a mandate from the Tamil people.
Balakumaran said the election bought back memories of the 1956 election victory of Sri Lanka Freedom Party leader S W R D Bandaranaike, or “Banda”, whom they blame for kick-starting ethnic Sinhalese violence against them that led to eventual war.
“It is because of 1956 the seeds of the Tamil freedom struggle were sown,” he said. “It is true that Banda is the creator of Prabhakaran. Similarly Mahinda’s victory is going to pave the way for Prabhakaran’s victory. Banda started it. Mahinda Banda is going to end it.”
Mahinda Rajapakse was sworn in yesterday pledging to talk peace with the Tamil Tigers, but the rebels painted him as an enemy and said negotiating with the majority Sinhalese was impossible.
Rajapakse won Thursday’s poll with a slim margin after over half a million minority Tamil voters expected to back the more conciliatory opposition leader Ranil Wickremesinghe stayed away after a boycott enforced by the rebels.
In the war-shattered streets of the northern government stronghold of Jaffna, hemmed in by the de facto state a 2002 truce left the Tigers, some nervous residents angry at being scared away from voting feared a return to war.
“I am disappointed,” 59-year-old public servant Navaratnam Kutanesan told Reuters.
“Even though I did not vote I expected Ranil to win. Now we have to get ready for war now Mahinda has won. His allies are all anti-Tamil. It will be a racist government.”
Rajapakse allied himself to hardline Marxists and Sinhalese nationalists who detest the Tigers, but insists he wants long-term peace.
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