Isolate  Tamil National Alliance (TNA) until they denounce Vaddukoddai resolution.  Let Srilanka not bend to TNA’s pressure tactics.

(By Lenin Benedict- Toronto)

It was on the 14th May  of 1976, at Vaddukoddai, the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) under  the Chairmanship of S.J.V.Chelvanayakam Q.C, M.P (K.K.S) adopted the  Vaddukoddai Resolution, which radicalized the entire Tamil population of  the North and east, which also played a greater role in militarizing  the Tamil youths and diminished the political role of the Tamil community. Since this day, the former TULF and the present TNA has never participated or practiced a constructive politics but destructive  politics which has brought the Tamil community to Mullivaikal.

The seed for Mullivaikal tragedy was sown by S.J.V.Chelvanayakam on 14th of May

1976 which reads as below: “This Convention directs the Action Committee of the TAMIL UNITED LIBERATION FRONT to formulate a plan  of action and launch without undue delay the struggle for winning the  sovereignty and freedom of the Tamil Nation; And this Convention calls  upon the Tamil Nation in general and the Tamil youth in particular to  come forward to throw themselves fully into the sacred fight for freedom  and to flinch not till the goal of a sovereign state of TAMIL EELAM is  reached.”

At the 34th Commemoration of S.J.V.Chelvanayakam, in his key note address TNA parliamentarian Sumanthiran has said that Srilanka constitution needs  radical changes articulating the same policy of SJV, as a tribute to his  ideology for a separate state. The motive behind the commemoration is  to remind the Tamil community and revive the old TULF separate homeland  policy and the present TNA stand for the same cause to ensure the  community does not take a moderate stand. It should be noted that the  Vaddukoddai resolution hasn’t mention the country or Government as  Srilanka but as Sinhala State as usually called by Tamil Nationalist at  all occasions. It is so obvious to note that from the 14^th May of 1976 until this date the Sinhala State has been paying salary to  all those elected under TULF earlier and latter under TNA for preaching  their separatist ideology and been granted place of residence at the  expense of Sinhala Tax payers in Colombo itself which is the capital of  Sinhala State.

If these so called saviors of the  Tamils want to preach and fight for their right, they should get their  pay from Tamil Diaspora who is their real masters whom pumped billions  of dollars to run the separatist war and not from the Sinhala state. To  occupy a seat in Sinhala parliament and get handful of salary from  Sinhala government is nothing wrong to these shameful Tamil  Nationalist. But living together with Sinhala people or working along  with the Sinhala State is a matter of dignity to them. Recently the TNA  leader Sampanthan has threatened the GOSL that if the Government does  not comes out with proper solution the TNA has to find alternative  methods. Let Sampanthan boldly tell what alternative method he or his  party has in mind? Is he threatening the sovereign state of Srilanka?  Has he forgotten their destructive politics have taken a toll of  thousands of lives in Srilanka and the country is still struggling to  overcome the loss in all front. Does he not know what happened to his  National leader, for the crime against Srilankans and especially crime against his own Tamil People?

As mentioned in the Vaddukoddai  resolution, the separatist fight for freedom is called as sacred fight  by TULF and requested the Tamil youths to come forward to throw  themselves till the goal of a sovereign state of Tamil Eelam is reached.  The present TNA parliamentarians have tirelessly working for it and even taken this message all over the world for a separate country. Let  Srilanka stop engaging with this separatist and isolate them from  political arena. Let not the Government of Srilanka give up to TNA’s  political pressure. Letting TNA to pressure on the Sovereign State of  Srilanka within Srilanka allow the external powers to pressurize  externally. It’s the duty of the democratically elected GOSL not to bend  or give up to all these pressure within and outside but to oppose with  all its constitutional power to safeguard the interest of all  Srilankans. The Srilankan Government should talk to TNA, only if it denounces the Vaddukoddai resolution which called for a Separate State.  First of all let Srilanka take a bold stand to shun the separatist  entering the Parliament with their separatist agenda in the expense of  Srilankans.