By Romesh Coomarasuwamy
It is a great tragedy to note that the Ealam Seeking Tamil Diaspora never thought about consequences of war. It seems as if they never read the Rules on War. They happily funded and fully equipped their Tamil Terrorist organization the Liberation Tamil Tigers to wage war against the people of Sri Lanka. But did they give thought to what would happen to their people in their haste for revenge?
The LTTE conscripted Tamil civilians to fight for them. LTTE leader depended on the Tamil Diaspora living in foreign lands for the finances required to continue his endeavors. Isn’t it sad to know that they never felt any sympathy towards their own people? Waging war is not easy, human lives were at stake. The carders who were conscripted, wasn’t their basic human rights violated by these Eelamists? Their right to live! Didn’t Human rights apply to these innocent children when the Tamil Diaspora sponsored their infamous Terrorists organization LTTE (Liberation of Tamil Ealam) to recruit these young ones to fight a brutal war?
The Tamil Tigers have recruited at least 3,516 children since the start of the February 2002 ceasefire with the government, according to cases documented by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). The agency states that this figure represents only a portion of the total number of children recruited.
Link: https://www.hrw.org/news/2004/11/11/sri-lanka-tamil-tigers-forcibly-recruit-child-soldiers
CRY FOR FAKE HUMAN RIGHTS
Where were these Human Right activists, NGOs Amnesty International, Red Cross, Channel 4 and others who are now screaming Genocide and crying war crimes from the top of their lungs then?. Ealmists are trying to pin all crimes, even noticeable ones that they committed on their own people, on the Sri Lankan Army and the Government of Sri Lanka.
Why didn’t their hearts melt during the 1983-2009 when these children were forcibly recruited? Where was their human rights cry for these children at that time? They happily encouraged their Terrorist group to carry on their goals regardless of what would happen to the conscripted children and cadre. Didn’t the Ealam Diaspora have a heart or was greed more important than sympathy for one’s own race? Did they not think these children deserved a better life, such as an education a loving and safe home other than be forced to be in a jungle fighting on behalf of some greedy goal.
During the height of the war the Tamil Diaspora Eelamists never objected to the children been conscripted by the LTTE, and they never complained to any authority that this was happening and that it should be stopped. Instead they encouraged their terrorists by funding them even more and cheered them on the streets of cities across the world. What’s worse is that the Tamil Diaspora living in foreign countries educated their own children in foreign schools and universities and gave them a luxurious life while the ordinary poor Tamil children living in Sri Lanka was conscripted to basically commit suicide on behalf of them.
The US documentary on child soldiers clearly tells us a gruesome tale of the lives of these young children.
TGTE LEADER’S PROTECTION
Their lack of empathy left many families without at least one child during the 1983-2009 war. No one knows how many children went willingly to their deaths or how many children were forced to give up their young life or how many children obeyed their parent’s request to sacrifice themselves for this God forbidden cause called Ealam. Giving one’s life is an ultimate sacrifice says their new leader, former International Legal advisor to Prabakaran, Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran who lives a luxurious life in the city of New York USA today! He boasts that he is shielded by the US constitution. Did these children have anything to protect them?
WHERE IS THE MONEY COMING FROM
Did the Tamil Diaspora Eelamists pay compensation to these families? The Tiger lawyer in 2016 with Sarah Stodder during a lunch interview at a place called “Curry Hill in Manhattan New York posted in Asia Politics, boasted that there are 77 million Tamils around the world, indicated that he hopes to build a soft power against the Government of Sri Lanka. It is a well-known fact that the diaspora allegedly contributes financially to their cause on a monthly basis via “Ealam Tax” and this is why we wonder then, how can he completely forget all these families that sacrificed their middle child or all of their children or the whole family to their suicide mission and not receive any money as compensation in return.
We must question why they did not give these families at least sufficient money for the enormous sacrifice they made towards their cause regardless of the outcome? Instead they choose to spend it on allegedly buying white political favours rather than give the collected money to those who they sponsored to terrorize for nothing at all.
WHAT DID THEY RECEIVE
Wouldn’t one wonder what their cause is all about if not the Tamil People? They are saying to the world and anyone who will listen that they are not TERRORISTS but are freedom fighters. What is freedom to an ordinary person, isn’t it to be free to live a happy life the right to live, to educate your children be healthy and work, and to live in peace? Have the LTTE or the TGTE (Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam) been able to provide this to the Tamil people at least for one day? The answer is no, the LTTE was a dictatorship, Tamil people had to obey the orders given by the LTTE chief or else live the consequences and if they didn’t they would be murdered or beaten or hurt badly. From what we can see so far the TGTE follows in the same ideology and footpath. Therefore, only way out for the ordinary Tamil person to live without fear of being bullied into submission is for foreign Governments around the world to Ban the TGTE also, thus protecting the democratic rights of the Tamil people as a whole.
I must stress here that neither the LTTE nor the TGTE represent all of the Tamil population, there are those of us that do not consider them as our representatives. They are both Terrorist organizations meaning their agenda are aligned with Terrorism. Trying to separate a country forcibly does amount to Terrorism. Most Tamils do not hold this view but are not afraid to speak up.
WHAT THEY REALLY EARNED
Post war the Mental hospital is filled with people, parents and young children whose lives have been turned upside down by the these Terrorists who called themselves Freedom fighters. Where were the human rights for these people then? What was the freedom they have earned after 30years in battle with a democratically elected Government? The trauma these terrorists caused these ordinary Tamil people has been so unbearable that they have completely lost their minds. Therefore one can only determine that all they have earned for these innocent people is a trip to the mental asylum.
The children who escaped the clutches of the LTTE have often explained how brutal their lives were on ground. Some were told to carry their guns half the size of their body and move forward, if you head back they were warned that they would be shot by the LTTE themselves. So saying NO was not an allowed Freedom and human rights did not apply then to these child soldiers. Children young as 9 years old were given training to use guns and they had no choice.
LTTE child soldiers loading a mortar. PC: Youtube
ADELE BALASINGHAM’S ROLE
Adele Balasingham the Australian Born Nurse who now hides in the United Kingdom and lives a pretty comfortable life helped trained these young women. She trained the baby brigade and the battalion called the Black Tigers.
BLACK TIGER MASSACARES
Most times they did not use heavy weapons such as guns, for the fear of being heard by the Sri Lankan Army. Instead they were trained to use knives and other means of killing. Most villages were attacked during the night and many were defenceless. Children were hung from their necks and pregnant mothers were stabbed in their bellies, thus cleansing a full Generation of Sri Lankan people perhaps this is what you might rightfully call a real Genocide. The Systematic killing of villages and carrying out numerous massacres is an absolute Genocide indeed.
LTTE’s Baby Brigade
Ruthless tigers using children to carry out dangerous actions on the battlefronts!
WHERE IS THE FREEDOM?
The TGTE is the new face of the LTTE whose agenda is to pretty much walk in the same footpath that of the LTTE, their flag and their cause is also the same. But their goal is not to give freedom to the Tamil people but to gain power by dishing money to white political campaigns; they target weak Government officials to further their power game. In order to gain a position in the world stage Sri Lanka is their only bait. That is their agenda. Their goal is power and greed. Every Tamil person is just a ladder to achieve their goals. In the end the Tamil Children who fought in the war never had a thing called Human Rights, so why should we have the need to extend human rights to people who never gave a damn about their own people in the first place? The Tamil Diaspora willingly participated in the funding of the war, they came on media and they went on rallying and they still campaign for their greedy cause Eelam. If Human Rights were there goal how did they think it was okay to send a child to a battle field? A great question to all the White Politicians to think about and answer. Where were the Human Rights for those children?
UNICEF confirms death of child soldiers here:
https://www.unicef.org/media/media_20424.html#:~:text=The%20children%20were%2017%20and,when%20she%20was%20just%2016.
An ex-LTTE child soldier speaks:
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