T.Maheswaran will be remembered as a man who used politics to make money and used money to help people and to speak loudly for the Tamils whenever the occassion warraned.

TNA members will be rembered as bumsuckers of the LTTE and as Tamils who sold their souls to safeguard their own lives.

Ananda Sangaree will be remembered as the great Tamil leader who withstood the terror of LTTE bravely and spoke for the real aspirations of the Tamil peope.

Prabakaran will be remembered as the maniac who killed more Tamils than the Sri Lankan armed forces merely to achieve his pipedream of Eeelam.

Kadirgamar will be remembered as the only person who exposed the true nature of the LTTE to the world..
He wii also be remembered for the efforts he took to erase the horrendous image of Sri Lanka created globally by the Governments after the 1983 pogrom.

All Sinhalese leaders who ruled the country uptodate, will be remembered for their subservience to the chauvinistic and racial elements in the country and failing to recognise and address the true grievances of the minority communities, specially that of the Tamils,
which has resulted in massive destruction of human lives, resources and infrastrucure and put back the country hundred years behind.

dont dare compare him with people like Raviraj or joseph pararajasingham, for all their mistakes in the past, they never profitted from the misery of the tamil people like maheswaran.

meheswaran was a cameleon who showed the LTTE his face and the GoSL his tail. and he looted the innocent tamils.
i dont welcome his killing but i have no time to mourn him either

What our leaders do not even reflect for a moment is that this life so transient, the next minute or a second one could go out like lightening. Some Tamil leaders typically have made a full time job of betrayal. What one needs to do that is to bend over backwards (or even forwards) to satisfy the new raj, whoever it may be, or how stupid he would be, do their dirty chores and make a shameful appearance with some position to the downtrodden fellow beings least realising that people can read between the lines (in fact it is so obvious that there is no need even for that).

If they could reflect, even as late as this, on the possibility of a few paragraphs that would be assigned to them in the history, that our children (bothe Sinhalese and Tamils, not tomention the Muslims)would read and curse.

Thank you for that thoughtful writing of yours.
I do agree with you completely. It was dissapoiting to see the expatriate tamils being silence about his murder.
In toronto there was a memorial service organized lastweek. I am not sure if all medias coverd it; as much as the should.
this is what we Tamils are lacking… not united unless it’s told or approved by authorities.

I am not against many points you gave above. But can you please tell us what was the reason he wanted to stick with UNP?

I think you have misundertood the Obama’s ‘problem of others’. He was referring from the previous era, where we have fighting against kingdoms, then colonism and then cold-war issues between superpowers. Now we have equally powered groups and where they disagree on each others issues/rights etc.

If you see T. Maheswaran’s issue like this, you can apply it between you and your parents or spouse. It is there from the history, not 21st century’s issue.

Just because public remembrance are not held does not mean he is not in the hearts of the Tamil community. Personally I can tell you that people respected him for standing within the UNP and speaking out for the Tamils. He will be remembered if the Tamils achieve their goal of Elam, if not he is just another alien force annihilated for the good of the Sinhalese.