LTTE Diaspora Dramatics Will Soon Become Nuisance To Western Nations – OpEd

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By Shenali Waduge

There’s always a tolerable level to anything and sooner than later the LTTE diaspora are going to find out that they may need to do far more than take to the streets in processions against Sri Lanka, bribe the local MPs while carrying out nefarious acts like credit card scams, gang wars, human smuggling, narcotics, terror financing etc. Should we even flag these crimes to any of these Western governments? Well if these western governments and their leaders are not bothered that their own citizens are victims of people demonstrating on behalf of a banned terrorist outfit – we simply say good luck and good riddance. Let these LTTE Diaspora get up to all sorts of mischief and become a nuisance in these foreign climes. Afterall, these very nations that embraced immigrants are now saying adios to multiculturalism. So it is only a matter of time that LTTE Diaspora will become an intolerable nuisance to these western governments.

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Western governments do not need us to remind them what the LTTE or the LTTE diaspora has been upto over the years. Of course we did cry foul that having banned the LTTE as a terrorist organization it seemed ludicrous to allow its international headquarters to openly function in London while LTTE’s ideological head and his wife openly advocated separatism. But if that is how the West fashions its agenda – so be it. We could never expect miracles from Governments that harbored terrorists and their stooges and chose only to issue sympathy statements for civilian killings by LTTE over 3 decades. From all this it is clear and suffices to conclude that the Diaspora was simply a useful tool to inflict pressures upon the Sri Lankan Government – naturally the Diaspora made the most of the opportunities that came their way.

The cries of “discrimination”, “ethnic bias”, “human rights violations” were marketed to perfection both by the LTTE and the Western Governments. For the LTTE, it provided them a cover to hide their brutality and for western nations it was simply a convenient means to advance their own agendas.

So while the LTTE were using the Diaspora, the Diaspora were using the Western Governments and Western Governments were using the Diaspora against the Sri Lankan state, it was the citizens of these western nations that were being realistically fooled into accepting a false and hyped up notion of wrongs being done to the Tamil people in Sri Lanka.

There are many like Dayan Anthony – recently refused refugee status and turned back to Sri Lanka. His story is that the agent taking money to transport him to the West insisted he play the discrimination card. This is how 1m Tamils have ended up in the West and none too happy to return home and it has nothing whatsoever to do with the Sinhalese. It is the same with the boatpeople. How have they come in possession of such money to be giving to agents who they do not know? Could they be used as ploys to make an international statement? It is not hard to presume that these men, women and children are all low caste and obviously their fate is of no consequence to those that may be sponsoring them to travel on unsafe boats probably not meant to even land at any destination. LTTE has been known for human smuggling and western intelligence have enough dossiers on the LTTE. The Sinhalese have become a convenient scapegoat for people to access foreign shores. This is something minorities are able to misuse with ease. Often the impression that is given overseas by the Diaspora is that Tamils asked to return will be killed. If this argument is true how is it that there are more Tamils living in Colombo amongst the Sinhalese than ever before? How is it that practically all the condominiums built from Wellawatte to Dehiwela numbering well over 250 all belong to Tamils and occupied only by mostly Tamils with owners openly declaring that apartments will not be rented out for Sinhalese! It is impossible for a Sinhalese to play the discrimination ticket on the basis that they are the majority. The only other way is to portray political discrimination, media discrimination etc which have all become key instruments in obtaining passports to foreign shores for some. There are also those that are nothing but anti-Sri Lankan, anti-Sinhalese who are of course lavished with foreign currency and made to continue the campaign to voice such sentiments through organizations that have been set up exclusively for this purpose and staying in Sri Lanka for them is far more lucrative than living overseas where they would neither be creating headlines nor gaining too much limelight! In other words everything is simply a farce.

Returning to the question of the LTTE diaspora we do not need to waste time any further in highlighting all the ills that these Diaspora members are upto in foreign shores. Bribing local MPs certainly calls for investigation by these authorities. It is evident that these foreign MPs speak on behalf of terrorist groups, rally alongside Diaspora calling for a separate state, attend terrorist events atop decorated stages where speakers glorify suicide cadres and speaking glowingly about its terrorist leader has nothing liberal or democratic about it and is everything to do with mutual benefits both for Diaspora and these local MPs.

It is through these local bodies that most of the Diaspora have come to tap into welfare systems and schemes. Most loans taken are never returned. Using tax payers money hundreds of “LTTE madrasas” have emerged all over Europe where local education authorities have pinpointed that learning imparted is not upto standards and not without query. Hundreds of foreign citizens have become victims of credit card scams all engineered by LTTE diaspora, even several kovils have been subject to investigation for terror financing. It goes without saying that even amongst the diaspora there are differences and divide obviously due to caste and class emerging amongst their own on foreign shores, some of which is being imported back to Sri Lanka. Observe Wellawatte and discover the new face of Tamil males – long hair, at least one earring pierced, driving flashy cars all denoting to mean that they are unlikely to be taking any guns not that any Colombo Tamil did throughout LTTE terror preferring instead to rope in low caste Tamils from the East and the Wanni.

If embarrassing Sri Lanka’s head of state is what makes them tick so be it because on an official visit if western Governments compromise the security of a foreign leader its outcome is nothing that should embarrass Sri Lanka but the country hosting Sri Lanka’s head.

What Sri Lanka’s missions need to be concerned about is first and foremost to portray the correct picture about why we refuse to accept the argument of discrimination and to showcase the reasons why and to place the fact in order to allow western citizens to derive their own conclusions.

With the record that the LTTE diaspora has it does question their right to be pointing fingers at Sri Lanka’s armed forces in the light of none of them sending a cent to uplift the life or livelihood of a single Tamil and how many of them ever raised a voice to insist that LTTE do not turn Tamil children into killers by kidnapping them. There is enough evidence available with the UN to showcase how children were very much part of LTTE’s killing machine. It is not difficult for anyone to accept how the North and East have changed since the elimination of the LTTE. None of these LTTE diaspora will ever understand how it feels for their own people to feel free and neither do they like to accept that the Tamil people in the North and East are grateful and happy that the armed forces are amongst them to protect them now that they have come to realize that the army is not their enemy. The LTTE Diaspora and the TNA have a very dismal record in terms of helping Tamil people – for most part they are no action – talk only or rather action confined to demonstrations and placards disturbing foreign citizens!

There are millions of Chinese diaspora all over the world, similarly there are thousands of other diaspora carrying on with their lives – so what exactly is wrong with these LTTE diaspora. From what emerges there are enough differences amongst their own with different forums trying to become THE LEADER of the Tamil people. Some of these power struggles are nothing we should worry over and simply watch the curtain raiser and watch the theatrics unfold – it would be nothing short of how the LTTE eliminated all other Tamil militant parties to become self-appointed as Tamil liberators.

Domiciled overseas any mischief LTTE Diaspora get upto has NOW nothing to do with Sri Lanka – Let these foreign governments handle their new found headache.

Let us simply get on with putting Sri Lanka in order.

The opinions expressed are the author’s own.

6 thoughts on “LTTE Diaspora Dramatics Will Soon Become Nuisance To Western Nations – OpEd

  • July 27, 2012 at 7:38 pm
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    I Don’t think this author has a clue of what is going on. If this author believe that the tamils are using the singalese as sscapegoat then why don’t the SL government implement everything the international community wants. Plus why don’t they allow teh UN to come into the country top hold an independent investigation. FEAR that they did something wrong. Maybe the tables have turned by using terrorism as a masking for ethnic cleansing.

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    • July 28, 2012 at 6:31 am
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      Author and hard line sinhalese wishes and prays the diaspora to become a nuisance, but actions of diaspora are far from it, I think they are aware of it, smart I say.

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  • July 27, 2012 at 9:02 pm
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    Ohh… Sean,

    You don’t sounds to have undertood what the author has said.
    Will America implement everything the international community wants? Will UK, France, Germany, Italy or India do that? So why should SriLanka? Why did Israel ceased all the connections with UN HR council? Terrorism was used for ethnic cleansing by the LTTE and now that is over for good.
    Don’t show your ignorance to the facts.

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  • July 27, 2012 at 11:52 pm
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    The following part from the article lays bare the adherence to truth of the entire article:

    “None of these LTTE diaspora will ever understand how it feels for their own people to feel free and neither do they like to accept that the Tamil people in the North and East are grateful and happy that the armed forces are amongst them to protect them now that they have come to realize that the army is not their enemy. The LTTE Diaspora and the TNA have a very dismal record in terms of helping Tamil people – for most part they are no action – talk only or rather action confined to demonstrations and placards disturbing foreign citizens!”

    If the Tamils in the North and East are grateful to the armed forces that are among them and do not like the TNA, why they did vote for the TNA in the elections causing the TNA to win by landslides thus humiliating the UPFA, the leader of whom is the commander-in-chief of the armed forces? The very TNA that complains of the massive armed forces presence in the North-East? The tamils in the North East have spoken in clear terms about their opinion of the government and the armed forces, by who they chose to vote for. Articles like this only make Sri-Lanka and the author look like fools to the entire world.

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  • July 28, 2012 at 3:36 am
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    The article is fantastic, it tells the truth as it is. The Tamil populace in the North and East of Sri Lanka were merely used as puppets for the illegitimate gains of higher caste criminals deriving from Tamil Nadu, India. It all started when TN couldn’t attain an independent nation in India. They tried so hard and caused massive chaos in India initially but when that went to the dirt, they looked for other targets. If you analyse history there are thousands of articles on this. They turned their attention on not only Sri Lanka but when Sri Lanka got too difficult in the mid 1980’s the Maldives, Malaysia etc as well were targeted. They always believed however Sri Lanka was their best option, now it has also hit the dirt. Their lies, abuse and violation of the Tamil populace in Sri Lanka has been exposed and now they have nowhere to run. They have violated many other innocents through their criminal schemes in various nations across the planet, stealing life savings and ruining thousands of other lives not even involved in conflict. Their drug running, people smuggling, arms dealing etc have been other sources of great pain to the planet. They truly are the scum of the earth and they will get due punishment for their crimes against all of the populace within sri lanka including the tamil populace and the tens to possibly hundreds of thousands of others who have been violated through their criminal schemes.

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  • July 28, 2012 at 2:29 pm
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    Diaspora is not a nuisance to the west but to the racist undemocratic SL govt.which among other things crudely employs mercenary journos like the author.

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