புலி போட்டுது. அது தான் உண்மை. இனியாவது ஆக வேண்டியதை பாப்பம்

“She valued life and felt sorry when anyone was killed ‑ be it a militant from any one of the groups or an Indian soldier”.

“Students went about putting up defiant posters all over Jaffna. Three well attended commemorations mee­tings were held ‑ University of Jaffna (2nd October), Jaffna College (4th October), Chundikuli Girls’ College (6th October). The last was very encou­raging in view of the feeling and help forthcoming from staff members and senior girls. On the morning of 2nd October, the Vice Chancellor and the Dean of Arts led the largest demonstration in the history of the univer­sity. Up to almost the time the demonstration set off, the general opinion was that it would be lucky to have two hundred participants. The eventual figure ran into thousands. All this took place against a backdrop of terror and fear of the unknown.”

Shankar, that is a trifle harsh comment. The civil war also indirectly enabled many to gain refugee status and settle in Western countries, thereby gaining better education and job opportunities and a higher standard of living, than if they had stayed back and entered the meat processing plant. Ironically, with their new found wealth in the West, many actually sponsored keeping the meat processing plant going at full speed back home.

the 4 coauthors should be commended for documenting events during that period and have done an invaluable service to the tamils.

as for the book itself a review by sachi srikantha states as follows

“Overall, I do applaud the authors for providing an excellent chronological synopsis of events which happened in the Jaffna peninsula from 1983 to 1989. This is the most notable contribution of this book to the history of Eelam Tamils”.

he also has made some points that made a lasting impression on me. i give it below

“There is a story, probably apocryphal, about the successful mission of Swami Vivekananda to Chicago in 1893. One American industrialist invited Swami to visit his newly built meat-processing plant. The massive plant had been designed with a huge inlet with a diameter of 15 ft on one extreme and four smaller outlets with a diameter of 2 ft on the other extreme.

The industrialist boasted to Swami: “We push live cattle into the inlet at this end and in 10 minutes, we get clean meat, bones, hide and waste material separately in the four outlets from that end. What do you think of this production line?”

Without missing a beat, the great Swami delivered the kicker: “That’s fine. But, if you send back the clean meat, bones, hide and the waste material from that end, can you retrieve the live cattle at this end?”

The overall theme of the book, Broken Palmyra, reflects the concern Swami Vivekananda had for the live cattle in this story. In essence, “What went wrong? Had we been led by a casual acceptance of violence as a tool to disregard the value of all life?” (p.184).

One can also equate the symbolism of the meat-processing plant of the Chicago industrialist to the lives of youth who happened to be in the Jaffna peninsula in the 1980s decade. All had been pushed into the meat-processing plant (equated to the Eelam struggle) and the products which were delivered in the outlets seem to be of diverse categories; some meat, some bones, some hide and some waste material.”

you have to look at it from their history. compared to jaffna tamils they have come to srilanka fairly recently. they were the poorest of the poor in india and regardless of their living conditions, none of them would regret coming to srilanka. everything is relative, you know. the up country is the most beautiful part of srilanka and they are doing a valuable service to the country by contributing to the tea industry. work is difficult and backbreaking, but at least there is employment. though they are poorly paid , compare it with joining the ltte and having to sacrifice their lives for no pay at all, except maybe a good brainwash from prabha and pottu. and in addition to that these two might start suspecting that they are RAW agents and torture and shoot them one day.

they are indeed poor , but not stupid.

Shankar, the SL Indian Tamil youth could have left the hill country and joined the LTTE in the north if they wanted to. After all, if LTTE could have created the independent state, the SL Indian Tamils could have migrated en masse from the hill country ( surrounded by Sinhalese, as you say ) to the new independent Tamil nation, devoid Sinhalese, and leaving behind their poor living conditions forever.

Perhaps the right question to ask is, inspite of their poor living conditions in the tea estates ( far worse than the living conditions in Jaffna in the 1970s ), why were they as a community, not attracted to the concept of an independent Tamil Eelam?

I am sure the SL Indian Tamils want not only better living conditions, but also better job and education opportunities as well.

you state that the indian tamils should have joined in the struggle, because of the conditions they live in.

what you have forgotten to look at is their geographical situation. why don’t you take a map of srilanka and see where they are living, surrounded by sinhalese. why do you think that thondaman did a bunk out of the TULF when they decided on seperation in the vaddukodai resolution.

indian tamils only need better living conditions, not seperation.

# 136
” I fully support the call that the Youths should take control of the struggle again…”

From where do we get the youths and support?…because…

ரெலோ எதிரி. ஈபி எதிரி. மகிந்த எதிரி. இந்தியா எதிரி. அமெரிக்கா எதிரி. ஜரோப்பா எதிரி. முஸ்லிம்கள் எதிரி. கருணா, பிள்ளையான் எதிரி. புளட் எதிரி.
புளியம் பொக்கணை பொன்னம்மாக்கா மகளை அனுப்ப மறுத்ததாலை அவவும் எதிரி…
அசையும் அசைய சொத்து எழுதிதர் மறுத்த அனைவரும் எதிரி…

ரஜனி மாதிரி உள்ளதை சொன்ன அனைவரும் எதிரி…