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      LTTE HORRENDOUS TERRORISTS SHOULD BE BANNED - UNIQUE REQUEST OF THE GOVERNMENTS OF USA,UK,FRANCE,INDIA,SAUDI ARABIA,JAPAN,CHINA,AUSTRALIA,SRI LANKA AND CANADA

Tamil terrorists in Sri Lanka have been waging a terrorist campaign in northern and eastern parts of the country, claim they are fighting for an ‘exclusive’ Tamil Homeland to protect the Tamil People from the ‘oppression’ and ‘discrimination’ by the Sinhalese. They also try to defend their terrorist acts as legitimate freedom struggle. Their line of 'reasoning' proceeds on the palpably nonsensical assumption that if a relatively large number of people commit an unimaginable number of the most abhorrent of crimes over a long period of time in pursuance of a treasonous objective, their cause must necessarily be just, and that they must, therefore, be rewarded for their endeavors by being granted at least a very substantial part of their demands. - i.e. that if a small gang of people commit a relatively small number of crimes, they are criminals who must be apprehended and punished, but that if a relatively large gang of people commit an enormous number of crimes, they are not criminals in need of punishment but 'militants' or 'freedom fighters' in need of reward. It would also follow from this line of 'reasoning' that the cause of Franco, of Hitler, of Ian Smith of the Red Guards and of Pol Pot must all have been just.

There is one significant fact about the demands of not only the LTTE but also of all the other secessionists such as the so called 'moderate' Tamil parties which claim to have come into the ‘democratic process’. That fact is that they are restricted to a demand for 'autonomy' and 'self-rule' for the Tamils in the Northern and Eastern Provinces by means of the creation of an independent sovereign state, or an autonomous federated state within a Federal Union with loose links with the Central Government as 'a viable alternative' to a separate state. It would follow from the nature and content of their demands and the context in which they are made, that according to their perception, the grant of autonomy to the Tamils in the Northern and Eastern Provinces alone would 'liberate' the Tamils from the 'oppressive domination' of the Sinhalese, and enable them to live 'with dignity' as 'equals' with the Sinhalese, and be, therefore, a panacea for all the grievances which they allege are peculiar to the Tamils of Sri Lanka. However, all the Tamils of Sri Lanka do not live in the Northern and Eastern Provinces - far from it. According to the last census of 1981, 27.37% of all Sri Lanka Tamils, 90.85% of all Indian Tamils, and 53.2% of all Tamils live in the seven Provinces outside the Northern and Eastern Provinces in each of which the Sinhalese constitute the overwhelming majority.

If, as is alleged, all Tamils in Sri Lanka are oppressed by the Sinhalese and relegated to the status of second class citizens, how would the creation of either a sovereign independent State of Tamil Eelam or of an autonomous Tamil State under a federal constitution in the Northern and Eastern Provinces, whether on the lines proposed in the 'Package' or otherwise, provide a remedy for the alleged grievances of over half the Tamil Population of Sri Lanka who reside in the seven Provinces outside the Northern and Eastern Provinces?

No one, not even the most extreme of the Tamil Secessionists expects or conceives of there being a mass exodus of all Tamils living in the Western, Southern, Uva, Sabaragamuwa, Central, North Central, and North Western Provinces to the Northern and Eastern Provinces with the establishment of either a sovereign and independent State of Tamil Eelam or an autonomous Tamil State under a federal constitution in those two Provinces. The likelihood of all or even a significant number of the Tamils living in these seven Provinces packing bag and baggage, giving up their businesses, professional practices and their employment and uprooting themselves from their hearths and homes to trek northwards or eastwards to start their lives afresh under the 'benign' rule of Prabhakaran or any of his ilk is manifestly non-existent.

Thus, the causes the LTTE are fighting for, even if granted or achieved, will not redress any of the alleged grievances alleged to be suffered and continued to be suffered by the Tamils living outside the North and East who account for more than half the Tamil Population of the Country. Yet no demands are made by the Secessionists for or on behalf of these Tamils. According to the propaganda of the secessionists however, all Tamils in Sri Lanka, and not only those living northwards or eastwards of the provincial boundaries of the Northern and Eastern Provinces are oppressed and in need of 'liberation'. Since the entire content of their demand and the object sought to be achieved by their struggle has nothing to offer to more than half the Tamils of Sri Lanka, it must follow that the campaign of the Secessionists and the on-going civil war have nothing to do with alleviating any alleged grievances of the Tamils which are alleged to be peculiar to them.

Another glaring circumstance which confirms further, the fact that the civil war in which we are now embroiled is not one that is being waged to secure 'justice' for the allegedly 'oppressed' Tamils is to be found in the brutalities and genocidal attacks inflicted on the Muslims of the Northern and Eastern Provinces as well as of the adjacent North Central Province by Tamil Secessionists. Even assuming the unassumable, namely, that it was necessary for alleged Tamil 'Freedom Fighters' to butcher Sinhalese babies in arms and other defenceless Sinhalese civilians with 'assembly line efficiency' in well planned 'military' operations in order to 'liberate' the Tamils from 'Sinhalese oppression', it is beyond comprehension and even imagination how the infliction of similar atrocities on Muslim civilians could have been necessary to achieve that end .

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