{"id":87224,"date":"2013-05-17T13:14:05","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T07:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=87224"},"modified":"2013-06-01T14:48:13","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T09:18:13","slug":"four-years-ago-the-sinhalam-robbed-our-dignity-denied-our-right-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/four-years-ago-the-sinhalam-robbed-our-dignity-denied-our-right-to-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Years Ago The Sinhalam Robbed Our Dignity, Denied Our Right To Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Visuvanathan+Rudrakumaran&amp;x=7&amp;y=3\">Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran<\/a><\/span> &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_67382\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/two-state-solution-eminently-compatible-with-interests-of-tamil-and-sinhala-people\/visuvanathan-rudrakumaran-colombo-telegraph\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-67382\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67382\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-67382\" title=\"Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran Colombo Telegraph\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Visuvanathan-Rudrakumaran-Colombo-Telegraph-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Visuvanathan-Rudrakumaran-Colombo-Telegraph-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Visuvanathan-Rudrakumaran-Colombo-Telegraph-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-67382\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PM - TGTE - Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Vanakkam,<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Distinguished guests, fellow members of the Transnational Government, brothers and sisters, holding the sacred memory of our martyrs in my heart, I greet you on behalf of the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Transnational+Government+of+Tamil+Eelam&amp;x=7&amp;y=1\">Transnational\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Transnational+Government+of+Tamil+Eelam&amp;x=7&amp;y=1\">Government of Tamil Eelam<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Four years ago on this day we witnessed the climax of a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=genocide&amp;x=5&amp;y=4\">genocide<\/a><\/span> of our people in our own land. Four years ago the Sri Lankan government denied our right to life; four years ago the Sinhalam robbed our dignity. Four years ago the Sinhala politico military establishment imposed untold suffering on our people in violation of humanitarian law and civilized norms in an attempt to destroy our political aspirations. The pain and humiliation of those days are still raw in the heart of the Tamil nation. Mullivaikal has etched a permanent place in the collective memory of the Tamil nation just as the word holocaust in the collective memory of the Jewish people. This week\u2019s memorial events are being undertaken centered around the Tamil National Mourning Day.<\/p>\n<p>We are all here with such heavy hearts. We are here not just to pool our collective wisdom and knowledge, but to share among us that knowledge and the refine thoughts of the recent years to strategize for a noble cause. Even though our cause was always a\u00a0just one, we were overwhelmed in the battlefield due to duplicitous diplomacy. We are here to find ways and means as to how truthful diplomacy can be employed to secure justice that has been denied for us and our departed brothers and sisters. We are here, taking into account the evolving international jurisprudence and the politics surrounding of that jurisprudence to find ways and means to secure justice for our people.<\/p>\n<p>Even though our brethren exhibited immeasurable valor and sacrifices to the utmost kind, we were overwhelmed in the battlefield. Might, however, is not right. We are here keeping in mind the maxim often stated by our National Leader that the world does not revolve on the axis of \u201ctharmam\u201d, but on the axis of interests. We are here to find ways and means how we can coalesce, how we can converge that Tamil political interest and the status quo powers\u2019 geo-political interests. Even though the Tamil nation is now deprived of our hard power &#8211; our military power &#8211; we are here in the knowledge that\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">power does not necessarily always mean hard power. The question is how we can exercise our soft power of augmented by Mullivaikal ? How we can exploit our soft power in a smart way? We are here to find ways and means as to how we can change the existing \u2018Sino-, Indo-, Sri Lanka- Triangular Paradigm\u2019 in which the Tamil nation is an object to a new \u2018quadrilateral paradigm\u2019 having four vantage points, namely China, India, Sri Lanka and global Tamils. When we convert our status from object to being a remarkable subject, we will be in a position to influence the course of events.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Distinguished guests who are gathered here are not just intellectuals, professionals and academics, but also activists in their own rights. We will work with unity of purpose amongst ourselves and with others who share our ideals to move our cause forward. With our knowledge and commitment we have in this august assembly can contribute to the birth of a free Tamil nation With dedication and unwavering determination, as an\u00a0honor to the cries of Mullivaikal, I inaugurate this Conference.<br \/>\nThirst of the Tamils is Tamil Eelam<\/p>\n<p><em>*TGTE Prime Minister&#8217;s\u00a0inauguration speech May 15th conference &#8211; Tamil Week<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":67382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,2938],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-editorial","category-popular"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Four Years Ago The Sinhalam Robbed Our Dignity, Denied Our Right To Life - 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