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Tamil Nationalism and Tamil Identity
Related to country: Sri Lanka

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Vanakkam, it has occured to me that the cause of Tamil Nationalism and indeed the whole of the debate on the issue of Tamil identity seems to be centred on the 3 million Tamil people who are a minority in Sri Lanka (which has a total population of 18 million).

While it is true that outside of India, the Sri Lankan Tamil population is the largest Tamil community; it remains that it is in fact 3 million out of 250 million Dravidian people.

The obvious question about why we have not simply relocated the 3 million Sri Lankan Tamils to South Africa, Australia, Canada, India or elsewhere... thus ending the genocide and the war - remains unanswered.

The further more common sense suggestion of relocating 15 million Tamils from India to Sri Lanka so as to change the ethnic balance has also not been considered.

What we have is an ongoing war, and the genocide against Tamil people; and we have this issue of Sri Lanka and its offshore oil or gas fields and the interest in these fields by all of the other nations which produce, consume and trade oil and gas.

So who benefits from this conflict? If we were to supply the LTTE with the means to secure the borders of Tamil Eelam and the means to re-integrate Karuna and the other Sri Lankan Tamils living outside of Tamil Eelam; that would be the end of the war and the genocide - alternatively if the LTTE acquired the means to threaten to wage nuclear war - that would be the end of the pogram of genocide against Tamil people.

But why is the rest of the world so eager to allow this conflict to continue? as in all other conflict countries, the conflict is a smoke screen to distract the locals while their resources and raw materials are being plundered and exported at rock bottom prices with any beneficiation and value added processing.

And in Sri Lanka it is no different, for as long as the war continues, the Government of Sri Lanka and the LTTE can be paid in weapons for the oil, gas, tea and other things which are sold to buy bullets and bombs.

Just think about that the next time you drink a cup of tea; how much blood is your cup?

Nanri Vanakkam

October 29, 2008 | 5:50 PM Comments  0 comments





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