Is “Tamil Genocide Education Week” a blessing or a curse to the Tamil Eelam separatists ?

By R. Sundaralingam

Ever since the end of the arms conflict in Sri Lanka in May 2009, actions such as rehabilitation, resettlement, reconciliation and peacebuilding has been the fore front of headlines in all corners of the world. Sri Lanka militarily defeated one of the most ruthless terrorists organisations (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam-LTTE) in the world successfully. Their propaganda engine with multi-million dollars of blood money successfully painted the Eelam victim card while the LTTE used suicide bombers and child soldiers to kill innocent civilians. LTTE were responsible for ethic cleansing of Sinhalese and Muslims from the North-East of Sri Lanka from 1948-2009 and also eradicating any Tamil political parties that did not adhere to LTTE ideology. (see ref article by V. Anandasangaree)

Some Tamil diaspora who arrived as refugees to Canada,  had some experiences of losing a family or friend during the arms conflict, had not experienced any social connection to Sinhalese culture or had personal friendships or relationships with Sinhalese. LTTE’s propaganda machine had indoctrinated hatred towards Sinhalese. LTTE had destabilized and over time eradicated the inter-group relations of Tamils-Sinhalese in the North-East of Sri Lanka.

The Eelam struggle is about ethnic cleansing Sinhalese and Muslims from the north-east of Sri Lanka and establishing a state solely for Tamil eelam. How is this not infringing on sovereignty of Sri Lanka? How is this not interfering with the tremendous post war rehabilitation effort? We have seen many politicians speak about Eelam struggle without verifying facts. Eelam struggle is a racist separatist movement.

In Canada, several groups of effected persons gathered and mourned their losses since the 1980s at various dates usually celebrated by LTTE in the north-east provinces and imported into Canada. It was a political capitalization that a new movement of identifying the Tamil lives lost (mostly LTTE comrades)  as a “genocide” for risky polarized political exposure. Even Tamil political parties and many scolars in Sri Lanka rejected this claim.  United Nations alsong with Canadian government does not recognize the end days of the conflict as “genocide”.

The political lobbyists used political exposure and pressured various Tamil groups to work to get Bill 104 drafted. The risk assessment likely had included what-if scenarios of what-if the bill gets challenged in court and the big lie exposed? If the Tamil genocide narrative gets defeated in court what will this serve the purpose of those actually mourning the loss?  What if the Tamil Genocide narrative gets defeated, what will it do for all the politicians that rallied? Who will be ultimately be blamed for making all those effected look like fools? It will likely fall on those that helped draft the Bill 104 or those that actually raised their hand to approve it?

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