LTTE hypocrites continue to make full use of child soldiers in the
frontline
By: Nesan Shankar Raji, London, Sri Lanka Guardian
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Innocent Sri Lankan children are working
out side the 4'-11'' height Tiger leader Prabhakaran such as
slaves |
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) are
continually making full use of young male and female child soldiers to
defend their Front-Lines from the Sri Lankan Armed Forces. I do not know
why, the LTTE
cries out to the International Community and accuses the Government of
Sri Lanka of Human Rights abuses when the LTTE themselves
are abusing the Human Rights of young teenagers who deserve a better
quality of life free from the very high possibility of a very short
life-span by being forced out on the battlefield. More and more, young
Sri Lankan Tamils are fleeing Sri Lanka, our motherland because they
fear being recruited by the LTTE. This is fact! The declaration of Eelam
War (IV) is the biggest mistake the LTTE leader Prabhakaran could have
made and has cost the lives of over 4,000 people. Human life to the LTTE
means nothing, Human Rights, Freedom of Speech, Democracy and Pluralism
means nothing. They make full use of their front Human Rights
organisations worldwide for their own propaganda purposes to fuel their
campaign and support amongst the Sri Lankan Tamil speaking Diaspora
which is fast dwindling.
The LTTE have always waved the Human Rights issue when
they have been near military and political defeat. It is entirely
hypocritical of them to have appointed a Human Rights Spokesperson Ms N.
Selvi, a female soldier, a champion of Human Rights for Terrorist
Fascists who has no understanding whatsoever of the pain and anguish of
a mother who has either lost her son or daughter in the battlefield
after being recruited by the LTTE.
There are tens of thousands of our people starving in
Sri Lanka because of the LTTE's military campaign; many thousands of
civilians are displaced from their home villages. There is a lack of
sanitation and basic facilities for our people in the refugee camps. All
these unbearable sufferings, because of the LTTE's, plight to achieve
Eelam. Prabhakaran knows only too well that neither he or the LTTE will
never deliver Eelam. The fact of the matter is that he is not man enough
to admit this and on the same token will never settle for anything less
that Eelam. Therefore any solution between the LTTE and the Government
of Sri Lanka would always be deemed "interim". The LTTE has been
deceiving the Sri Lankan Diaspora for decades now. These sufferings',
being faced is definitely not what our community wants and the other
communities of Sri Lanka. This is why we as an organisation are actively
working in Sri Lanka once again and abroad for our people and to help
protect the interests of the Sri Lankan Tamil speaking community.
EROS urges the Sri Lankan Tamil speaking community to
open their eyes wide and observe what is really going on in Sri Lanka.
The LTTE have transitioned from a movement of freedom fighters to a
movement of Fascists. The LTTE will never achieve their goal in
delivering Eelam to the Tamil speaking people, they will only bring tens
of thousands of more deaths and bloodshed. Is this what we really want?
What will be left of our community's population in our motherland I do
not know for it has plundered to ridiculous levels ever since the LTTE
embarked on their journey of killing off rival democratic politicians,
political groups and claiming to be the sole representatives of the Sri
Lankan Tamil speaking people.
EROS has always advocated that all Tamil speaking
people are Eelavar's. Eelam is our traditional homeland, there is no
question about it, but that's all in the past now. This does not mean to
say that we do not recognise the North-East as our traditional homeland,
we do but we must learn to live amongst one another in peace. The Sri
Lankan Tamil speaking community do deserve to have regional autonomy,
but it should not be at the price of death and destruction in our
homeland. This can be achieved through constructive political dialogue
with the Government of Sri Lanka.
The only barrier to this is that the LTTE must admit
political defeat and will never hand over its arms. It is the LTTE that
has alienated the Sri Lankan Muslim community from the Tamil community
by acts of sheer Genocide and ethnic cleansing. EROS is working towards
addressing the grievances of the Muslim community and re-integrating the
Tamil speaking Muslims back into our community and encouraging
reconciliation.
We need your support and encouragement. We are an
independent organisation and political party with a good name and
reputation amongst our community. We will do what's right for our
community and help bridge the gap between other communities in Sri
Lanka. We must learn to be Sri Lankan first and our ethnicity, religion
etc should come secondary. Secularism must be encouraged and promoted in
Sri Lanka. There can never be peace in Sri Lanka if the LTTE remains as
a military outfit and continues to fight for a separate state. They will
always come in the way of true and ever lasting peace in Sri Lanka.
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