Tamil - Break The Silence!
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What would it take for you to leave your homeland forever?
100,000 Tamils living in London
300,000 Tamils in the U.K
80 million Tamils world wide
Why is their story so suppressed?
When will worldwide media finally break the silence on Sri Lanka and one of the fiercest genocides of our time?
-and my big question is:
How is it that WW2 criminals are still being jailed for crimes of complacency, for allowing mass slaughter to occur, when that is just what we are asking the Tamil People, along with the rest of the world, to do right now in 2009?
Music: Gaea Knight , Shape Your Fate. gaea@betarecords.com
Paris What Would You Do? from PeaceNotWar CD2
Additional footage: K&J photography
Jason n Parkinson
To follow:
Mercy Mission Launch at The Royal Horse Guards, Westminster.
Politicians, celebraties, doctors and human rights workers meet media to launch the Mercy Mission, a ship ready to take medical supplies, medics and humanitarian aid to Tamil community in Sri Lanka.
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drawing from Chris
- 3 years ago
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da100thmonkey
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drawing from chris.
This week has been devastating for UK Tamils.
The ceasefire that should have been endlessly promoted by the British has not been realised.I walk down to Westminster and each day a person has told me "my family has been caught. Brothers, sisters, parents have now been caught and killed".
What am I meant to say?
Its alright
We're doing our best?
Well, its not. We're not.
I can only thank each one for continuing to believe
In a greater form of humanity
Than we are endlessly shown. - 3 years ago
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reply from Dj Play (New Zealand )
What strikes me the most, there has been quite in depth coverage over here of events and if there has been any bias it has tended to lean towards the Tamils on humanitarian grounds. The bulk of that coverage has been televised by bbc world news although some from NZ channels too.So the apparent contrast with the lack of coverage back in the UK is the thing that gets my brain ticking over. I can only guess that the story is being sidelined there where people are more likely to be interested or personally affected, and bandied around here where people are less likely to care, as an example of "brave, unbiased quality journalism"
One other soundbyte I did hear, although I'm not sure how accurately my memory serves me on this, is that the Tamil population was the dominant cultural force amongst the native peoples during the British occupation (divide and conquer being a large part of any successful colonisation strategy) and all though it wasn't mentioned as such it certainly suggested that may be an underlying reason for the current status quo or at least fuel for the fire.
I'm tempted to say its a case of western governments fighting terrorism "wherever it rears its ugly head" ,"except when its not in our immediate national or corporate interests, whether or not we are wholly or partly responsible for creating it in first place" .
- 3 years ago
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