“There has been a deafening global silence in response to Sri Lanka’s actions,
especially from its most influential friends. The international community cannot
be selective in its approach to upholding the rule of law and respect for human
rights. Impunity anywhere is a threat to international peace and security
everywhere.”
THE TAMIL VOICE
Almost 40 years ago in 1974 the leader of the Tamil United Front (as it was at that
time), SJV Chelvanayakam (popularly referred to as Thanthai Chelva) submitted a
Memorandum on behalf of the Tamils to the Delegates attending the 20th
Commonwealth Conference being held in Sri Lanka that year. In that epic
Memorandum he referred to how the Sinhalese government was engaged in a
genocidal process of diluting the identity of the Tamils through a process of
assimilation. He states,
“The Sinhalese leaders have one objective of converting the bi-national, bilingual, multi religious state of Ceylon into a uni-national state with one
Nation –the Sinhalese, a uni-lingual state with Sinhala only and with one
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