Politics | July 14, 2009 | 6 comments

Tamil: Silent Genocide

source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmcbNGVd9w0

JasonNParkinson
Part one of two films documenting the UK Tamil protests that spanned six months, as the final surge by Sri Lankan forces against the Tamil Tigers killed tens of thousands of innocent Tamil civilians and left 300,00 displaced, locked behind barbed wire refugee camps.

For a more indepth report: http://jasonnparkinson.blogspot.com/2009/07/film-tamil.html

The film is also available on issue 19 of Reel News: www.reelnews.co.uk

This film is copyright (c) 2009 Jason N. Parkinson. All Rights Reserved.

For use please contact the author directly: jasonnparkinson@gmail.com
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6 comments // Tamil: Silent Genocide // Video

  • venkattan
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      venkattan  

    • if it is not genocide what is this? govt said war to release ppl, with no killing. what happend to 30000 ppl. ust anser this :
      why ppl are sitlll in camps?
      govt said only 200 ltte left. now says 10000 ltte arrested. who are they?

    • 2 years ago
  • Meykandal
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      Meykandal  

    • Theekshani, perhaps you should talk to the Tamils and find out yourself - if you believe the government propaganda then it's because you want to believe it, some people don't question anything the authorities say. All the Tamils who were in these demonstrations have close family members who were victims in this war - they know who killed them, who injured them, they've spoken to them on phones and are constantly updated on what is happening there. This war has been going on for decades, you will find very few Tamils in the diaspora who haven't had direct experience of Sri Lanka's atrocities, or their immediate family members have that experience. Open your eyes!

    • 2 years ago
  • Theekshani
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      Theekshani  

    • Your extreme bias is showing.

      No country or legitimate source is calling this war a genocide, only sensationalist journalists and pro-LTTE protesters. Tamils easily integrate into the Sri Lankan population, this is extremely evident in Colombo. No one in Sri Lanka is attempting to ethnically cleanse the nation of Tamils. On the other hand, the LTTE has managed to ethnically cleanse the territory they possessed before they lost the war. You are abusing the word "genocide" for your personal gains Jason.

      Also, the majority of these protesters are Tamils from India, not Sri Lanka. The entire country of Sri Lanka is a fraction of the size of Tamil Nadu (the Tamil province in India) and cannot possibly fit the whole Tamil population even if they managed to break off a piece of Sri Lanka for themselves. These protesters do not care about Sri Lanka, they are mainly discontent because they cannot posses their own nation. They are welcome in Sri Lanka and India, as long as they do not continue deadly terrorist attacks on civilians. India will not give them their own nation and neither will Sri Lanka, so unfortunately, their anger will continue and they will keep crying out "genocide" when in reality, less people died in the final months of this war than the previous 26 years of fighting. Genocide? Certainly not.

    • 2 years ago
  • london_eelam_Tamil
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      london_eelam_Tamil  
    • Theekshani:

      Here is a person who has no clue on what the tamils feel. Clealry showing a week agument by saying tamils are in colombo. Tamils are not from colombo. Tamils are form Eelam, the North and East of Sri lanka, the tamil kingdom. Colombo tamils migrated from Eelam Since unfication of Ceylon by the British Empire. For a person who didn't attend the protest how can you say wild statements such as protestors are indian when clearly anyone who attended knows that 99.9% of protestors were Eelam Tamils.

      The weakness of your argument is clear when you use the number 26 years when all tamils use the number 60 years. 60 years is when tamil politicians started the fight for self determination. Chelvanygam Q.C. the 1st national leader started the movement 60 years ago. In 1976 the vaddokodai resolution was approved by the tamil population in the 1977 national election.
      Even Mahinda stated that there are no minorities in Sri Lanka, clearly not recognising the Tamil people. This recognition by the Sinhala govenment is what the tamils have been politically and militarily fighting for. The acceptance of our national heritage embodied by the bandranaike-chelvanykam pact which was torn due to pressure from the JHU.

      If it is not genocide then why was the war conducted behind closed doors? Why is the international community and international aid agencies barred from vissiting and helping the 300,000 tamils in the IDP camps?

      If Sri Lanka has done nothing wrong then why do they prevent an international investigation into abuses commited by the LTTE and the SLA in the recent conflict?

      Hiding the truth is an admission of Guilt in any language.

      Open Sri lanka to international media, NGO's and international investigation to show your innocents.

      Who would believe the words of a President who protects murderers?

      If the president cared about Tamils he would have completed the APRC before starting the war and killing < 20,000. Now the APRC is defunct and there will be no political solution to solve the oppression of Tamils

      Chelvanygam's Will will Win in the End

    • 2 years ago
  • Theekshani
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      Theekshani  
    • Theekshani:

      Please point out where I supposedly said Tamils are FROM Colombo? I said there are Tamils living in Colombo that peacefully reside with a majority Sinhalese population in Colombo. Clearly, a separate, ethnically cleansed nation in Eelam is not necessary for Tamils when others in Sri Lanka are slowly but surely learning to live in peace. Please prove to me that 99.9% of protesters are from Eelam.

      This is an unpopular war, and it's shameful that it is being conducted behind closed doors. I completely agree with that, but there is no evidence of a genocide. That is a radical claim that remains wholly unproven. The Sri Lankan government could have ended this war in less than months if their goal was to kill as many Tamils as possible. They clearly took their time to reduce causalities. The number of people killed by the Sri Lankan government vs the number killed by the LTTE is not clear. It is ridiculous to imply that the government intentionally killed over 20,000 Tamils when there is evidence that the LTTE shot their own people who tried to escape.

      In no way did I say I fully support the actions of the Sri Lankan government, I am debating on the use of the term "genocide".

    • 2 years ago
  • venkattan
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