It has been nine years, since more than 450,000 Tamil people were corralled into a coastal village in the north eastern corner of the island of Sri Lanka, which the Sri Lankan state had designated as “no fire zone” and pounded with heavy artillery from land, sea and air, killing nearly a third of them and maiming tens of thousands more.
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9ஆம் ஆண்டு முள்ளிவாய்க்கால் இன அழிப்பு நினைவு கூறல்!
இலங்கைத் தீவின் வடக்கு கிழக்கில் பல்லாயிரம் வருடங்கள் வாழ்ந்து வரும் தமிழ் இனத்தின் தொன்மையும் செழுமையும் நிறைந்த வரலாறு, பண்பாடு, வாழ்வியல் பதிவுகளை சிதைத்து அழித்து எம் மக்களின் நிகழ்கால எதிர்கால அரசியல். சமூக, பொருளாதார, கலாச்சார கூட்டு விருப்பத் தெரிவுகளை நிர்மூலமாக்கி தமிழ் மக்கள் ஒரு தேசமாக ஒன்றாக வாழ்வதை மறுதலித்து கடந்த கால அழிவுகளிலிருந்து என்றுமே மீண்டெழ முடியாத பலவீனமான சமூகமாக கையறு நிலையில் தொடர்ந்து வைத்திருக்க முனையும் கட்டமைக்கப்பட்ட இன அழிப்பு தொடர்கின்றது.
ATC, BTF & USTPAC Call for Strong Action to End Anti-Muslim Attacks in Sri Lanka & Address Root Causes
March 09, 2018 London, Washington DC, Canberra: The US Tamil Political Action Council (USTPAC), the British Tamils Forum (BTF) and the Australian Tamil Congress (ATC) express our deepest sympathies to the victims of the recent anti-Muslim pogrom in the Kandy and Amparai districts in Sri Lanka. We are deeply frustrated that ethnic violence continues, reinforcing the profound insecurity, which citizens who are neither Sinhalese and nor Buddhist feel on this multi-ethnic island. In the past two weeks Muslim homes, businesses and mosques have been destroyed in targeted attacks, with loss of lives, scores injured and substantial damage to personal property.
Open letter from the Tamil Diaspora Organisations to Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under Secretary General for UN Peacekeeping Operations, New York
We, the undersigned, urge you to stop the planned deployment to Lebanon on Sunday 18 February 2018 of a commander of the Sri Lankan commander who has frontline combat command responsibility in the final phase of the civil war in Sri Lanka in 2008-9. We believe that, under the UN’s current vetting criteria, this commander should have been screened out of all UN peacekeeping duties. We note that the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka has been asked to vet UN peacekeepers from Sri Lanka, but consider that ultimately the responsibility lies with your department as it seeks to ensure that only “individuals with the highest standards of integrity, competence and efficiency” are hired according to UN standards.
Protest outside the Foreign and Commonwealth Office calling to withdraw diplomatic papers and remove Sri Lanka’s Defence Attaché Brigadier Priyanka Fernando from the UK.
A joint protest was organised on 09.02.2018 by the British Tamils Forum and other Tamils Orgs outside the Foreign and Commonwealth Office calling to withdraw diplomatic papers and remove Sri Lanka’s Defence Attaché Brigadier Priyanka Fernando from the UK.
British Tamil Orgs write to the Home Secretary and the Secretary of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs
A joint letter to the Home Secretary and the Secretary of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs as this matter is directly relevant to both of those offices.
As you may be aware, organisations supporting this request were formed in response to the worsening humanitarian crisis of the Tamil people in Sri Lanka. We function with the specific intention of securing justice for the Tamil people in Sri Lanka, preventing further human rights abuses and ensuring that third parties such as the UK government fulfil their obligations under international law in taking action to halt the systematic and gross violations of human rights being perpetrated against the Tamil people by the Sri Lankan Government.
லண்டனில் மாபெரும் எழுச்சிப் போராட்டப் பேரணி
எதிர்வரும் வெள்ளிக்கிழமை அன்று 09-02-2018 லண்டனில் மாபெரும் போராட்ட பேரணி ஒன்று ஏற்பாடு செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளது. இப் பேரணி ஆனது பிரித்தானியாவைத் தளமாக கொண்டு இயங்கும் பல அமைப்புகள் ஒன்றிணைந்து இலங்கை அரசின் பயங்கரவாத செயல்பாட்டை பிரித்தானிய அரசிற்கும் மற்றும் சர்வதேச நாடுகளுக்கும் எடுத்துரைக்கும் வண்ணம் நடாத்த உள்ளனர்.
Sri Lanka’s Defence Attaché Brigadier Priyanka Fernando threatened to kill the British Tamil protesters
The British Tamils Forum sincerely thank the members of APPG for Tamils, Rt. Hon Joan Ryan MP, Siobhain Mcdonald MP, Paul Scully MP and Sir Ed Davey MP for writing to the Foreign Secretary Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP calling to withdraw diplomatic papers and remove Sri Lanka’s Defence Attaché Brigadier Priyanka Fernando from the UK. We are yet to see any action by our government for that call.
Tamil Diaspora Organizations call for action on the eve of Sri Lanka’s 70th Independence Day
On February 4 Sri Lanka marks its 70th year of independence from Britain. Historically, this day has been a painful one for the Tamils both who live in Sri Lanka and those who have been forced into exile by discrimination and anti-Tamil violence. Tamil dignitaries and politicians did not attend the ceremonies celebrating the event from 1972 to 2014 in protest for the exclusion of the Tamil population from the political, economic, and cultural life of the country and the elimination of protections for non-Sinhalese Buddhist communities left embedded in the constitution at independence.
Tamil Thai Pongal celebrations at the House of Parliament, London 2018
For the first time in the history of the British parliament, Tamil Thai Pongal day was celebrated at the Jubilee Room, House of Parliament, Westminster, London, SW1A 0AA on the 17th of January 2018.This celebration was jointly hosted by the All Party Parliamentary Group for Tamils (APPG T) and the British Tamils Forum (BTF).