sangam.org/articles/view2/589.html Believe in the Birth of Tamil Eelam Chorus: Nampungal Tamil Eelam Nallai Pirakum Naatin Adimai Vilanku Therrikum Believe, Tamil Eelam is to be born tomorrow Shattering the shackles of our nation’s servitude. 1. Paaril Tamilmann veeram pirakum Pahaivan oodum sethi kitaikum Tamil soil will emerge gallantly among the nations News of our fleeing enemies… Read more »
Monthly Archives: October 2004
TRO’s Annual Event in NJ Oct. 23
TRO’s Fifth Annual Event on Saturday Oct 23, 2004, New Jersey sangam.org/articles/view2/588.html Dear Friends, Tamils Rehabilitation Organization (TRO) invites you for the fifth fund raising dinner and fine Tamil music concert. The cease-fire in our homeland has brought an end to the senseless killing. But the suffering of our people who have endured years of… Read more »
Pirapaharan 2, Chapter 19: Burying the TULF
by T. Sabaratnam, October 8, 2004 (Volume 2) Burying the TULF sangam.org/articles/view2/587.html In Lake House, there was jubilation when the story of the TULF satyagraha held in Jaffna on 25 July spread. The joy infected the Sinhala people as radio and television broadcast the news. I was at the weekly press briefing at the Information Department when… Read more »
Only Inflicting Pain Pays
Tamils should recall old lessons: only inflicting pain pays by J. S. Tissainayagam – Comment, Northeastern Monthly, October 8, 2004 sangam.org/articles/view2/586.html Tamils have forgotten a golden rule that has come down during the 20-year armed struggle, between the Tamil guerrilla groups and the Sri Lankan state. In the 1980s, before signing of the Indo-Lanka Accord… Read more »
Tamil Diaspora
by V. Sivasupramaniam, October 7, 2004 sangam.org/articles/view2/585.html Diaspora comes from the Greek word ‘diaspeirein’ to mean disperse or scatter. Diaspora is the dispersal or the scattering of persons with a common identity such as culture and language in different directions. Diaspora transcends all its variations. The diaspora maintains and nurtures their civilisational and cultural distinctiveness and… Read more »
Reporting from Vanni, Part 1
by K. Mylvaganam, October 6, 2004 sangam.org/articles/view2/584.html I was back in heaven (Vanni) for three wonderful months. Only those who have been here will understand what I mean. You are in a homely atmosphere listening to Tamil music and Tamil being spoken everywhere. The only time I did not enjoy this music is when the… Read more »
by a former child soldier – a Poem
by Peter P. sangam.org/articles/view2/583.html We are the people We are the leaders And they They say it’s their rights We say it’s their rights They say release We say releasing them They say don’t recruit We say stop recruiting them They say protect We say protecting them They say education We see ruined schools They… Read more »
Do Not Cry – a Poem
by Prem J., October 6, 2004 https://www.sangam.org/articles/view2/582.html This is quite a tough and controversial poem, so if you are squeamish, please move on to the next item. — Editor From the author — Here is a song I wrote to people who ignorantly stand for non-violence. In no way does this support the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Yes,… Read more »
President Chandrika’s Address to the Asia Society
in New York by Nadodi, October 6, 2004 sangam.org/articles/view2/581.html http://www.asiasociety.org/speeches/kumaratunga04.html The caption given to the news item about President’s speech at the Asia Society on September 20 in the Yahoo India news was “LTTE must give up Tamil Eelam demand: Kumaratunga.” This statement of the President is totally out of place and indicates how Kumaratunge… Read more »
Inspiration and Hope: The Youth of Sri Lanka
by Greg Buie, October 5, 2004 sangam.org/articles/view2/580.html As I prepared for my summer adventure in my comfortable Southern California home, I had a hard time imagining what sorts of experiences I was in store for in Sri Lanka. Yet, in a state of unchallenged enthusiasm and naiveté, I excitedly boarded the plane to this country,… Read more »
Back to Basics for S.Lanka’s ‘Mine Sweepers’
By Simon Gardner sangam.org/articles/view2/579.html THADDUVANKODDY, Sri Lanka, Oct 5 (Reuters) – In a remote sun-baked corner of northern Sri Lanka, farmers are pioneering an unlikely new weapon in the fight to clear hundreds of thousands of landmines strewn during two decades of civil war. Across a no man’s land littered with mines, small groups of Sri… Read more »
An Analysis of SLFP Objections to the ISGA Proposals
By Wakeley Paul, Esq., October 4, 2004 sangam.org/articles/view2/577.html The SLFP’s initial flap over the Interim Self-Governing Administration (ISGA) proposals, suggesting that the proposals are nothing but a stepping stone toward separation, is one more example of the Sinhalese effort to blunt their sins and desire to perpetuate the concept of Sinhalese supremacy. The Sinhalese also… Read more »
Response to President Kumaratunga’s UN Address
by M. Nadarajan, October 4, 2004 sangam.org/articles/view2/576.html The headline in the Daily News reporting the President’s speech quoted her as saying “My government has got a clear mandate for peace.” She said that at numerous elections her government had obtained that mandate. She did not say whether that included the last elections of April 2004, when her… Read more »
Remembering Mahatma Gandhi on his 135th Anniversary of Birth
by Sachi Sri Kantha, October 1, 2004 https://www.sangam.org/articles/view2/578.html During the past 40 years, I have read hundreds of popular articles, reasearch papers and a dozen books on Mahatma Gandhi. Among all the portrayals made of this great human being by academics, acquaintances, politicians and journalists, I suppose if I’m asked what I consider as the… Read more »
Pirapaharan 2, Chapter 18: Tamils Lose Faith in Talks
by T. Sabaratnam, October 1, 2004 (Volume 2) sangam.org/articles/view2/575.html Three Lessons Tamil people drew three important lessons from the All Party Conference (APC) of 1984. They were: the Sinhala leadership and the Buddhist clergy are unwilling to accommodate Tamil aspirations; Sinhala leaders are not interested in a political settlement; the safety and security of the Tamil… Read more »
Is Uncle Sam’s ‘No Fly List’ a Net to Supress Voice?
Elicited Responses by Sachi Sri Kantha, October 1, 2004 sangam.org/articles/view2/574.html Introduction It seems that my Turin travelogue, “I Got Trapped in the Secret ‘No Fly List’ of the Transportation Security Administration” (posted on September 1) hit a nerve among quite a number of Eelam Tamils and non-Tamils. I very much appreciate the phone calls and… Read more »
The Worst Weapon of Mass Destruction
Thinakural Editorial, Colombo, Sept. 22, 2004 Translation by M. Thiru sangam.org/articles/view2/573.html A Summit among world leaders to discuss World Hunger took place at the UN Headquarters last Monday (20/09/04), the day before the commencement of the United Nation’s 59th General Assembly session. More than 100 nations participated in this summit, of which more than 50… Read more »