{"id":13216,"date":"2009-06-23T00:05:43","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T00:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesamnet.co.uk\/?p=13216"},"modified":"2009-06-23T00:17:17","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T00:17:17","slug":"trans-national-government-of-tamil-ealam-mohamed-nisthar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thesamnet.co.uk\/?p=13216","title":{"rendered":"TRANS-NATIONAL GOVERNMENT OF TAMIL EALAM : Mohamed Nisthar"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Jan<\/a>\"Selvarasa_Pathmanathan\"<\/a>\"Uruthrakumaran_V\"<\/a>You\u2019re fired! This exclamation may be familiar with the viewers of Sir Alan Sugar\u2019s \u201cApprentice\u201d\u00a0 on the BBC. However its speciality can\u2019t be fully comprehended\u00a0 by readers and\u00a0 non viewers alike , because the exclamation itself doesn\u2019t\u00a0 reveal anything other than its literal meaning. But the way Sir Alan Sugar says\u00a0 it definitely carries many clear messages to the person it\u2019s said to.\u00a0 No matter one\u2019s social standing, academic achievements, physical appearance, their field of expertise or the nature of their indefatigability. If Sir Sugar says \u201cyou\u2019re fired\u201d he means it for a particular reason. So what relevance does the above have\u00a0 with the \u201cTrans – national government of Tamil Ealam \u201d a spontaneous question may emerge in the readers\u2019 mind. Wait a minute, I\u2019ll take you through and you may spot the relevance.<\/p>\n

I recently happened to read an article on You Tube\u00a0 that a group of Tamil Tigers and\/or pro tiger Tamils urge the Tamil populous worldwide to support creating a trans-national government of Tamil Ealam.\u00a0 And\u00a0 before people asked them back \u201cdid you mean Tamil Ealam government in exile\u201d, the group explained it is not as such, but it\u2019s an unprecedented experiment to create\u00a0 a body which may take the Tamils towards having the Tamil Ealam government in exile. In a nutshell, my understanding is Ithuthaan athu aahawe athuthaan ithu (this is that thus that\u00a0 is this). Whether the experiment will produce a desired outcome or not, they mean that it will ultimately be a Tamil Ealam government in exile (TEGiE).\u00a0(\u00a0 \u0baa\u0bc1\u0bb2\u0bae\u0bcd\u0baa\u0bc6\u0baf\u0bb0\u0bcd \u0ba4\u0bc7\u0b9a\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0ba4\u0bae\u0bbf\u0bb4\u0bc0\u0bb4 \u0b85\u0bb0\u0b9a\u0bbe\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bae\u0bcd \u0b85\u0bae\u0bc8\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95 \u0b9a\u0b9f\u0bcd\u0b9f \u0b85\u0bb1\u0bbf\u0b9e\u0bb0\u0bcd \u0b89\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bbf\u0bb0\u0b95\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bbe\u0bb0\u0bcd \u0ba4\u0bb2\u0bc8\u0bae\u0bc8\u0baf\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0b9a\u0bc6\u0baf\u0bb1\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bc1\u0bb4\u0bc1 : \u0ba4\u0bb5\u0bbf\u0baa\u0bc1 \u0b85\u0ba9\u0bc8\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bc1\u0bb2\u0b95 \u0b87\u0ba3\u0bc8\u0baa\u0bcd\u0baa\u0bbe\u0bb3\u0bb0\u0bcd \u0baa\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0bae\u0ba8\u0bbe\u0ba4\u0ba9\u0bcd<\/font><\/a>\u00a0)<\/p>\n

Therefore we assess straightaway the necessity and viability of the government in exile. One of the designers of the mass engagement with the Tamils Tigers, Basil Rajapaksa, publicly announced that he will curtail the idea of the TEGiE to the limit of a day dream. By this statement it appears that the first and foremost obstacle has already been laid before the inception of the exile government. My concern is not what Basil Rajapaksa said or may do, but what made the group come up with the idea without a need for it. What did\u00a0 they learn from the experiments they did for the last quarter of a century. Why they think it is the right time to set up such a political organ, whereas a solid political platform\u00a0 is already in existence\u00a0 in Sri Lanka and crucially will it make any difference\u00a0 and did they think of its eventualities.<\/p>\n

They may come up with their usual\u00a0 answers that they can\u2019t reveal all those for some precautionary reasons. We put aside the reasons the group may give us and see what the\u00a0 International Law says about a government in exile, in brief \u201cGovernment in exile normally claims to be legitimate government of\u00a0 a\u00a0 territory, which was taken from them by subjugation. And the intended government in exile\u00a0 may operate in foreign soils, maintain diplomatic sort of relationship with states and other political and non political entities, if the counterpart\u00a0 is willing to engage with such an exile government\u201d<\/p>\n

After all the creation and functioning of an exile government is purely a political consideration with some legal consequences. Precise examples are Ache special territory (Indonesia), autonomous\u00a0 Republic of Abkhazia (Georgia), Transnitria (Moldova), Nagorno Karabah ( Azerbaijan), Somaliland (Somalia),\u00a0 Tibet (Tibet\/China) and State of Palestine ( occupied\u00a0 territory, including current state of Israel,\u00a0 by Zionist Jews) . In almost all cases it is a pompous idea except the State of Palestine according to the international community.\u00a0\u00a0
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\nIn a Sri Lankan political context no reasonable person would\u00a0 take issues with a political experiment as long as it does not keep the IDPs behind the barbed wire camps forever, claim deaths in scores, make people lose their limps in Tamils\u2019 native places. We hope the working committee for the so called TEGiE dare not make the situation worsen and don\u2019t do their experiment at the expense of the IDPs. They also should not forget the sufferings the IDPs face are partly attributable to the Tamils Tigers\u2019 30 years long experiments.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Therefore my\u00a0 questions to this group are , can the \u201cwould be\u201d Tamil Ealam government in exile establish that their territory has\u00a0 been taken by military conquest, putting an end to their functioning government in their territory at the time of the conquest in the\u00a0 first place? If they had a fully functioning government, had that been recognised at least by a member state of the United Nation? Had the country maintained a bilateral or multilateral relationship with the international community? Had that government complied with international law as it invokes the same for its existence. The list of questions is non exhaustive, but the answer is simply a big no.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s see what one of the key members of the TEGiE, an attorney-at – law( solicitor) Mr. V.Uruthrakumaran\u00a0 puts in his statement.\u00a0 ( \u0ba8\u0bbe\u0b9f\u0bc1 \u0b95\u0b9f\u0ba8\u0bcd\u0ba4 \u0ba4\u0bae\u0bbf\u0bb4\u0bc0\u0bb4 \u0b85\u0bb0\u0b9a\u0bc1 \u0b85\u0bae\u0bc8\u0baa\u0bcd\u0baa\u0ba4\u0bb1\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bbe\u0ba9 \u0bae\u0bc1\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0ba9\u0bc7\u0bb1\u0bcd\u0baa\u0bbe\u0b9f\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0bc1\u0b9a\u0bcd \u0b9a\u0bc6\u0baf\u0bb1\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bc1\u0bb4\u0bc1: \u0bb5\u0bbf. \u0b89\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bbf\u0bb0\u0b95\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bbe\u0bb0\u0ba9\u0bcd<\/font><\/a>\u00a0)According to him the\u00a0 constitution of the TEGiE will be based on the \u201cVattukkotai Declaration\u201d and the draft put forward for the formation of the \u201cInterim Self Governing Authority\u201d (ISGA). The former did not address the multiethnic nature of Sri Lanka and deliberately reduced it to a dual ethnic state status and their one time dream land of Tamil Ealam therefore is a mono -ethnic state.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The latter went a step ahead and denied any one\u2019s participation other than the tiger Tamils, perhaps the tiger Tamils think the\u00a0 \u201cTamilness\u201d of other Tamils to be tested before they are considered in the political process. The advisory committee, full of pro tiger professors and doctors, underpins the question of possible \u201cTamilness\u201d of\u00a0 other Tamils. Therefore the above two pieces of near legislative precedents are fundamentally flawed.\u00a0 Any future political set up derives from these concealed vitriolic documents are dangerous to the harmony among the Tamils and between the minority Tamils and the minority Moors (religiously Muslim), who are also indigenous inhabitants of the east, north and north-west of Sri Lanka. The inclusiveness, Mr. V.Uruthrakumaran\u00a0 emphasized in his statement is simply a window dressing and nothing else. If the working committee is serious enough to work on the principle\u00a0 of \u201cinclusiveness\u201d then they ought to amend the above documents, even for the hypothetical functions of the TEGiE.<\/p>\n

It is also pertinent\u00a0 to state two more interesting things I saw in the nine points statement made by Mr. Uruthrakumaran. The first one is\u00a0 \u201cworking with partnership with the Tamils National Alliance (TNA)\u201d. The TNA have been in the Sri Lankan parliament as the representatives of the Tamils, in fact they were the proxies of the Tamil Tigers. The TNA made Tamil voters boycott the presidential election saying it was for the Singhalese parliament and nothing to do with the Tamils, whilst warming up Singhalese parliament\u2019s seats. How can sound minded Tamil voters accept that the TNA is their representatives in the Sri Lankan parliament. TNA\u2019s claim to be democratically elected Tamils\u2019 representatives can be confirmed only if they step down with immediate effect and stand again in by election and prove to the wider world the voters\u2019 unambiguous\u00a0 position. Until such thing happens the choice of the TNA for a partnership program is a grievous mistake in any future political proposals.<\/p>\n

The second point, more interesting than the previous one, is \u201cbuilding a political program with the participation of Muslim representatives\u201d. It goes against the very norm of the Tamil Tigers\u2019 political advisor, late Mr. Anton Balasingam, who rejected the demand to accommodating the Moors as a party to the peace process at the outset. This very fact reflected in the draft for the ISGA, for which Mr. V.Uruthrakumaran was the master mind.\u00a0 As far as the Tamil Tigers are concerned the Moors are a \u201ccultural group\u201d or \u201cTamil speaking Muslims\u201d (a status co-ownership for the language barred and reduced\u00a0 from full ethnicity) How would Mr. Uruthrakumaran expect the Moors to participate in any thing with the tiger Tamils, whilst the purge of mistrust between these two distinct ethnics, part and parcel of the demography in the north, east and north-west,\u00a0 has not been done fully.<\/p>\n

Though the groaning tiger faced, crossed guns behind the tiger head and with the bulleted circumference Maroon coloured flag, the items, which Emperor\u00a0 Cholan had no knowledge of whatsoever, is under scrutiny; the geographical map of the Tamil Ealam also attracts comments.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The territory line starts from the south east of Sri Lanka, goes up all the way to Jaffna peninsula and takes a turn towards north west beyond Mannar and goes futher down through Horse Mountain (Kuthiraimalai) up to Kochchikade Bridge (northern\u00a0 boundary of Negombo). Is it\u00a0 the flag hoisted in front of the office of the TEGiE and is it the map hung behind the big table of the executive committee. Will the people of the east be ready to merge themselves with dictatorship type of tiger Tamil people of the north, and how the TEGiE will prove with evidence that the area south to Mannar and to the north of the Negombo suburb had been the legitimate territory of the Tamils or at least Tamil Kings had control of it. The task seems be very difficult and complex.<\/p>\n

By and large the TEGiE will be added in the list of Old Boys Associations and\u00a0 British Tamils Sports Associations if they totally ingnore the people in the land we talk about. It\u2019s important that any interested politician comes forward with clean hands, free from perceived political opinion of the tiger, with a sense of commitment, without hidden agenda and from the midst of the people who had been experiencing the political calamity. The group has to go back to the very basics. Even though the upcoming elections in the war affected region are premature, it will be a definite scene that the Tamils will enthustically line up to cast their vote. If it happens then it\u2019ll be a clear sign of\u00a0 choice they have in their minds. It\u2019ll also be an indicator that they prefer any home grown solution (as it\u2019s said by the president) rather than an exported one by their umbilical cord relatives from overseas.<\/p>\n

Tamil voters\u2019 position was confirmed in the recent European Parliamentary\u00a0 election especially in England. The so called human rights campaigner and possible executive committee member of TEGiE,\u00a0 Ms. Jan Jananayagam openly said in an interview on a Tamil radio that she had no other things in her election manifesto other than the \u201cTamils genocide issue\u201d, however two weeks later she came up with a list of environmental, economic and political issues as her concerns for the EP election.\u00a0 The fine opportunism. ( \u0b8e\u0b9f\u0bc1\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4 \u0b95\u0bbe\u0bb0\u0bbf\u0baf\u0bae\u0bcd \u0b85\u0ba9\u0bc8\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd \u0bb5\u0bc6\u0bb1\u0bcd\u0bb1\u0bbf!? \u2018\u0bb5\u0ba3\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bbe \u0bae\u0ba3\u0bcd\u2019 \u0bb5\u0bb0\u0bbf\u0b9a\u0bc8\u0baf\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0b9c\u0ba9\u0ba9\u0bbf \u0b9c\u0ba9\u0ba8\u0bbe\u0baf\u0b95\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bbf\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0b85\u0bb0\u0b9a\u0bbf\u0baf\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0b95\u0baa\u0bcd\u0baa\u0bb2\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd \u0b95\u0bb5\u0bbf\u0bb4\u0bcd\u0ba8\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0ba4\u0bc1!!! : \u0bb0\u0bbf \u0b95\u0bca\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0bb8\u0bcd\u0bb0\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0bb0\u0bc8\u0ba9\u0bcd<\/font><\/a>\u00a0)<\/p>\n

She then went on, at an interview at Riz Khan show in the Aljazeera TV, as a response to a question\u00a0 \u201cwhat do you say about the killing of innocent people by the Tamil tigers\u201d, saying,\u00a0 go and ask tigers, an appalling answer.\u00a0 The president Rajapaksa gave a\u00a0 political answer (a lie) \u201cmaybe a 100 people died in the crossfire\u201d to a similar question put to him\u00a0 at a different\u00a0 occasion. But Ms. Jananayagam could have given\u00a0 at least a diplomatic answer (a polished lie- which I\u2019m not encouraging) such as \u201cit is very hard to get first hand evidence due to the intensified fight in the region therefore\u00a0 it\u2019s not right to comment on the allegation of tigers\u2019 killing of innocent people\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 The Tamil and non Tamil\u00a0 voters rightly identified that her human rights perceptions\u00a0 are very different from what they see as human rights and she lost the election when she equated the humans rights to Tamils\u2019 only human rights and the Tamils\u2019 only human rights to the tigers\u2019 only human rights.<\/p>\n

So in Sir Alan Suger\u2019s view anybody to be entrusted with a specific task that person should be identified without any mistake. In \u201c Apprentice\u201d Sir Alan Suger\u2019s task is to see a person\u2019s suitability in the business sense; that the person should strictly observe business ethics without any trick or crook\u00a0 while working hard to maximise the profit margin. If the job is done to his satisfaction without any doubt then that person is entrusted for the task otherwise he mercilessly says you\u2019re fired and viewers no doubt agree with his decision.<\/p>\n

The Tamils have been cheated by one after the other experiments, sugar coated venomous promises, unchecked reliances and money motivated tasks. Until the Tamils stand up and say you\u2019re fired to the untested actors they can\u2019t eradicate the political sufferings so easily. As the TEGiE have not come up with any plausible answers to the many questions posed, the only thing which remains to be said is \u2018You\u2019re Fired!\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You\u2019re fired! This exclamation may be familiar with the viewers of Sir Alan Sugar\u2019s \u201cApprentice\u201d\u00a0 on the BBC. However its speciality can\u2019t be fully comprehended\u00a0 by readers and\u00a0 non viewers alike , because the exclamation itself doesn\u2019t\u00a0 reveal anything other than its literal meaning. But the way Sir Alan Sugar says\u00a0 it definitely carries many clear messages to the person it\u2019s said to.\u00a0 No matter one\u2019s social standing, academic achievements, physical appearance, their field of expertise or the nature of their indefatigability. If Sir Sugar says \u201cyou\u2019re fired\u201d he means it for a particular reason. So what relevance does the above have\u00a0 with the \u201cTrans – national government of Tamil Ealam \u201d a spontaneous question may emerge in the readers\u2019 mind. Wait a minute, I\u2019ll take you through and you may spot the relevance. I recently happened to read an article on You Tube\u00a0 that a group of Tamil Tigers and\/or pro tiger Tamils urge the Tamil populous worldwide to support creating a trans-national government of Tamil Ealam.\u00a0 And\u00a0 before people asked them back \u201cdid you mean Tamil Ealam government in exile\u201d, the group explained it is not as such, but it\u2019s an unprecedented experiment to create\u00a0 a body which …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[102,40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesamnet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesamnet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesamnet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesamnet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesamnet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesamnet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesamnet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesamnet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesamnet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}