Constitutionally recognise Tamil homeland to prove bona fides, exiled poet tells Colombo
[TamilNet, Wednesday, 29 April 2015, 17:40 GMT]
“We [Eezham Tamils] are not [people of two] provinces. We are [the
people of] a homeland. This reality is constitutionally not recognised
in the Constitution. Would the Sinhala rulers of Sri Lanka ever be
prepared to constitutionally recognise the joint North-East as the
homeland of Tamils,” questioned exiled Eezham Tamil poet Kasi Anandan on
Wednesday, speaking from Chennai, in an Internet-based video address on
the occasion of a memorial event held in Batticaloa on the 10th
anniversary of the assassinated TamilNet Senior Editor and popular
columnist Sivaram Dharmeratnam (Taraki). The current Sinhala rulers [in
the island of Sri Lanka] are only talking about ‘Tamils in the North’
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witnessing this as an increasing tendency in the recent times. They want
the Tamils to deviate from upholding the joint North-East as the
homeland of Eezham Tamils. <br/><br/>Maamanithar Taraki
Sivaram worked against this occupation of Tamil homeland,” the exiled
poet from Batticaloa, who had known Sivaram from his childhood, said in
his address. <br/><br/>On Wednesday, the Tamil journalists
from the East and the North were jointly marking the 10th Anniversary of
Sivaram's Assassination with the participation of journalists from
South in the city of Batticaloa. <br/><br/>Tamils will never
give up their inalienable right to fight for the territorial integrity
of their homeland, the poet claimed in his video address.
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A section of the participants at the memorial event in Batticaloa
“Tamil Eelam has been one and the
same during the times of Thanthai Chelvanayakam and Thalaivar
Pirapaharan. It will continue to remain so,” Kasi Anandan said.
“Sivaram was posthumously honoured as Maamanithar by Tamil Eelam National Leader Velupillai Pirapaharan,” Kasi Anandan said.
“When your sovereignty is threatened and compromised, you wage a defensive struggle (kaakkum poaraaddam). But, when your homeland is partly or fully destroyed, you opt to wage a struggle to retrieve the lost homeland (meedkum poaraaddam),” the Poet said.
Today, 75 percent of Tamil Eelam has been structurally and demographically colonised by the occupying Sri Lankan State and the Tamils in the homeland are now waging a struggle to retrieve their lost homeland, Kasi Anandan asserted.
“Sivaram was not armed with weapons in his fight,” the poet said.
“Sivaram was posthumously honoured as Maamanithar by Tamil Eelam National Leader Velupillai Pirapaharan,” Kasi Anandan said.
“When your sovereignty is threatened and compromised, you wage a defensive struggle (kaakkum poaraaddam). But, when your homeland is partly or fully destroyed, you opt to wage a struggle to retrieve the lost homeland (meedkum poaraaddam),” the Poet said.
Today, 75 percent of Tamil Eelam has been structurally and demographically colonised by the occupying Sri Lankan State and the Tamils in the homeland are now waging a struggle to retrieve their lost homeland, Kasi Anandan asserted.
“Sivaram was not armed with weapons in his fight,” the poet said.
Sivaram was not driven by racial emotions, the poet who is known as the Emotional Poet of Eezham Tamils, said.
“Sivaram
was neutral. Tamils have always respected the existence of the Sinhala
nation in the island. Sivaram never had any intention to think anything
against the nation of Sinhalese,” he said. Sivaram wanted the Tamils
and the Sinhalese to mutually respect each other’s distinct sovereignty
to peacefully co-exist as nations in the island, he further said.
Kasi Anandan's address at the 10th memorial event held in Batticaloa
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