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Ilankai Tamil Sangam

Association of Tamils of Sri Lanka in the USA

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Dignity

by Chandi Sinnathurai

How long will you bomb us?

And try your best to destroy us?

Yet in the rubbles  

And in the stench of death

You have created for us

We will quietly stand

We will rise up

Raise our heads to the sky

And shout FREEDOM!

 

How long will you shackle us?

With your immoral laws based on apartheid views?

How long will you present us to the world

As ruthless terrorists and wild mannered beasts?

O, Cinhala friends, we don’t hate you

But it’s your hatred that has made us strong

Don’t get us wrong; you will never break our spirit.

We will quietly stand

We will rise up

Raise our hands to the sky

And cry FREEDOM!

 

How long will you rape us?

Our land and the sea, our women and children?

Katpu is something that we guard with honour

Yet with your terror you want to humiliate us…

How long will you intimidate us; shoot and kill us

Like stray dogs in our homelands?

How long will you make us to fight for our survival?

How often will you forget that we too are a proud nation?

How many times do you want us to tell you?

That we too are human beings

Yet you constantly ask us

To prove our humanity!

That’s simply a proof of your arrogant vanity

We will quietly stand

We will rise up

Raise our being to the sky

And whisper THAMIL  EELAM!

Dedicated to Talaivar