However, despite international community’s severe and repeated admonitions to the Sri Lankan government the massacres of Tamil civilians in the safe zone continue unabated. Every day on average over 50 civilians, including women and children, are being slaughtered by the marauding Sinhala Army. As I write this comment today, already 131 civilians, including 32 children, have been killed in the safe zone. This is not an untypical scenario in the safe zone these days.

Schools, hospitals and places of worship too have been bombed and destroyed, in the Vanni. People are dying of starvation. There is no food, water and medicine reaching those hapless people, for months. Sanitation is non-existent. The government is using food and medicine as a weapon of war, against Tamil civilians. There have been deaths owing to starvation in the safe zone. Lack of sanitation also presents a breeding ground for all kinds of epidemics such as dysentery, cholera, hepatitis, viral fevers, to mention but a few.

The Sinhala Political Establishment has always had genocidal intent against Tamils at its heart. It is not only JR Jayawardene who is guilty of it when he unleashed his premeditated pogrom against Tamils in July 1983. The genocide he and his senior colleagues in government unleashed is the culmination of years of genocidal thinking. Ever since 1983 it has become easier for the Sinhala Political Establishment to vent their genocidal urge in a civil war.

The relentless vilification of Tamils by the Sinhala-Buddhist supremacist fraternity has led to the belief even by ordinary Sinhala masses that Tamils do not belong to the island – Tamils belong to Tamil Nadu and not to Sri Lanka is what the Sinhalese are made to believe.

This belief has resulted in steadily intensifying persecution of Tamils, from colonising their homeland with Sinhala ex-convicts and ex-servicemen to denial of education and employment opportunities to Tamil youth, not to mention the devastation wrought by the Sinhala Only Act of 1956, which continued to widen the gulf between Tamils and Sinhalese ever since.

It is this presumptuous belief that Tamils are second class citizens and that they don’t belong this island that led to successive Sinhala governments ordering the Sinhala Army to invade Tamil homelands without any hesitation or compunction whatsoever, to prosecute a brutal war.

For over quarter of a century now successive Sri Lankan governments have continued to hoodwink the international community with the promise of rapprochement with the Tamils, when the real intention is to buy time to kill as many Tamils as possible with the funding, military and diplomatic assistance of the international community. The misplaced belief by the international community that Sri Lankan sovereignty is being threatened by a bunch of Tamil terrorists followed by the West’s war on terror have all connived so far to undermine the Tamil Liberation Struggle for self-determination, for the last quarter of a century.

Prior to that, all peaceful efforts by Tamil politicians have been met with violence on the part of the government. This state of affairs has eventually led to the Vaddukoddai Resolution of 1976 by the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) to escalate the Struggle to demand separate state of Tamil Eelam! This declaration was based on the historical fact that it was the British colonial government in Sri Lanka that unified two different nations of Sinhalese and Tamils under one government for administrative convenience in 1831.Not only that, the British failed to develop the Tamil homeland economically which left the Tamils economically dependent on Sinhala south.

Standing in the 1977 Parliamentary elections on a separate state platform the TULF won a resounding mandate to demand secession, from the Sinhala Sri Lankan state.

It is also during the declaration of Vaddukoddai Resolution that the leader of TULF, S.J.V Chelvanayagam, further declared that no solution to the Tamil National Question could be found within the legal and constitutional framework of Sri Lanka. And, thus effectively blessing an armed uprising by Tamil militants against the fascist state of Sri Lanka. The rest, as they say, is history.

It is quite clear that the Sinhala Sri Lankan state is pouring out every drop of its poisonous genocidal venom against Tamils. Tamils in safe zone are worst affected as they are concentrated in a small area.

Hence, there is only one source of terrorism in Sri Lanka, which is the state terrorism – which again is the mother-of-all terrorisms! No less a person than former Australian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka, Howard Debenham would support my contention:

Little hope of an enduring end to Sinhalese victimisation of Sri Lanka's Tamils ~ by Howard Debenham

As far as I can tell, the LTTE works with two clear goals in mind: the first is to free the Tamil people from the oppression of fascist, genocidal, terrorist state of Sri Lanka; second of course is the upliftment of Tamils as a independent nation.

Sir, what is urgently required is the end to war and humanitarian assistance to reach those people who are starved, deprived of medicine, sanitation, and to cap it all are massacred in large numbers by relentless bombing and shelling by the fascist Sinhala Army.

What business does the fascist Sinhala Army have in Tamil homeland? When are the fascist Sinhala government going to demilitarize Tamil homeland?

But, first I urge you kindly to canvass opinion amongst the international community to put an end to this unending war and provide humanitarian assistance to those Tamil people who have been repeatedly displaced and have suffered untold hardships for over two decades or more, as a matter of urgency.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank: Secretary Hilary Clinton for having a strong word with President Rajapakse on behalf of the hundreds of thousands of suffering Tamils; Senator Richard Lugar for taking interest in the welfare of Tamils; Ambassador Richard Boucher for insisting that there is such a thing as a Tamil homeland in the north and east of Sri Lanka and that the Tamils have an inalienable right to self-determination, when the Sinhala racists denied its existence whilst their Tamil sycophants looked on; Dr Susan Rice for endeavouring to have a Security Council debate on Sri Lanka to highlight carnage unleashed on Tamils by the genocidal Colombo Sinhala government to the world; many of your fellow Senators and Congressmen who have shown consistent support over the years to end the war and negotiate a peaceful settlement; and above all President Obama, despite busy schedule of work moving so quickly and so early on in his presidency to address the issue of Sri Lanka.

God bless America!

Yours sincerely

P Shantikumar
London