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Tamil Cries soothed by Sikh
support
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With tears rolling down my cheeks, I read and shared the pain
and anguish of Tamil brethren who appreciated my concern while
many in the world were deriding them for their fight for
distinct identity and sovereign status.
I am overwhelmed by words of Tamil-Sikh friendship,
Vaisakhi-Pongal as common new calendar years of the two
nationalities, best wishes for me and my family and their
appreciation of the similar dilemma faced by the Sikhs.
The Tamil Diaspora groups with their systematic, passionate,
well-documented and well-orchestrated campaign to arouse the
international community out of deep slumber to the humanitarian
crisis that war-torn Sri Lanka is facing deserves commendation
and compliment. The expectation of the ‘last ditch battle in
Mallaivithu” to be over soon is a tragic and grim expectation in
the wake of an unending human tragedy and aspirations of a
people.
The work of the plethora of Tamil groups who have spared no
effort in ensuring international intervention by many world
countries including India and the United Nations may result in
some succour though it is not expected that the Sri Lankan
government will act humanely and justly.
While I have personally thanked each one of the Tamil
supporters, I reiterate that it will be my endeavour to follow
the spirit of the Sikhism and raise my voice against injustice
and attempt to provide succour, support and solace whenever and
wherever it is needed.
It was obviously impossible to publish the flood of letters
received by World Sikh News. A representative section has been
reproduced. Some have been edited for reasons of space and
clarity. All the letters would be published online. |
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Sat Sri Akaal
Jagmohan Singh Ji
All those human
miseries going in Sri Lanka is highly disturbing to the humankind
world over. The way India behaves is ruthless.
I
S.Sivabalan, Lecturer, Annamalai University.
I read Whose
Responsibility is to protect? in World Sikh News. There are no words
to appreciate your good work. I salute you.
S.Venkateswaran
Even though you
were writing to Charles Anthony, it inspired and gave me more hope
as a Tamil student living in the Diaspora. We are at a point where
every single word of encouragement counts. Slowly as the days go by
we've been pushed into hopelessness because the world still has not
opened its eyes. Your letter to him has refreshed my motivation, and
reassured me that we are not the only ones to support this struggle
and hoping to win our Thamil Eelam. Thank you for bravely putting
your message.
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If only I could reach your hand, I would kiss it a thousand
times for your great article. |
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Kiruthika
Thusyanthan
Thank you so
much for writing such a wonderful letter and really it made me happy
to read this. To be honest with you, this is the first time I am
reading this kind of letter. Thanks again for your support and
prayer.
Peace.
Vathany
Your letter has
been inspiring and heart-warming because as a non-Tamil you have
seen things that we thought only we can see. As a second-generation
Tamilian, I have the strength and determination to hold the torch of
Tamil Eelam. The fire will always be burning, especially after such
atrocities. Thanks for your understanding.
- Nisha
I read your
letter to our leader's son Charlnes Anthony on
www.worldsikhnews.com. I really appreciate your support for our
struggle. As a Tamil, I'm deeply depressed about what is happening
in Tamil Eelam at this moment. I was really worried about the
outcome of our struggle. Your letter has given me a little hope
again. Thank you for your support again.
-Brinthan
Yoganathan
Thank you Mr
Jagmohan Singh for writing your open letter to Charles Antony. It
brought me to tears and definitely inspired hope for the Eelam
Diaspora. Thank you again. We are on the right side of history.
Kasthuri
Paramalingam
I salute to you
and your brave martial race. Only a warrior can realise the value of
freedom and the bravery of other warriors. Thanks for wishing us
freedom. Please continue to write and bring the awareness of our
struggle among your society.
Sorubini
I really admire
your bold stance on this matter, even during this dire period. I
fell happy about the solidarity of the Sikh community.
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Like you said, freedom never comes cheap. We will have to
fight until we win. |
S. Thivakaran
I would like to thank you for writing what happening and happened to
Sri Lankan Tamil People. As your community knows, but rest of the
international countries does not know. Actually, they know but they
don't want to take action or acting like that they don't know. I
hope God will listen, while countries of the world sleep in deep
slumber.
Gayathiri T
I would like to
thank you for writing "Whose Responsibility is it to protect?". We
need all the help we can get. We are fighting for justice - our land
and our freedom.
Thiru
Thanks for your
letter to Charles Anthony. I was really moved. I got emotional and
tears appeared in my eyes. When our country is killing us and the
TamilNadu leaders who are in power now are using us for their
election purpose only, you showed your support for our cause in your
well-written letter. It shows how great a man you must be.
Vipul
I thank you very
much whole heartedly for your article and your faith in our
struggle. I have read some historical happenings about your race and
often compared it with our race. Please share our sufferings with
your friends and colleagues and please write more about your untold
sufferings.
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One day the free Eelamist will remember you and thank you for
your moral support. |
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Kumar
It is very
encouraging to see a letter of solidarity from you. It is also very
pleasing to know that most of the Sikh people are supporting the
cause of Tamil Ealam. I am a Tamil from Tamil Nadu. Most of the
Tamils in Tamil Nadu are also champions of Eelam cause, but it is
the TN politicians who play the spoilsport. It is also very
disheartening to see the purview of Indian English media and
non-Tamil Indians, who see the issue in Sri Lanka as a war on
terrorism. People like you should continue to raise your voice in
this issue and raise awareness among people of various quarters in
India. Once again, I thank you whole-heartedly for your article
regarding the Sri Lankan Tamil issue.
Chocka
With deep
sadness, I read your article and was very happy to find that at
least one Indian journalist understand our freedom struggle. We as
Tamil community are very sad that the whole world ignores our
freedom struggle. The international community and India could have
saved 6500 innocent civilians but they were ignorant as ever and
taking revenge in the name of terrorism. The current generation of
Sri Lankan Tamils and future generations will never forget this
history and never give up on the fight to stay in our motherland.
Our homes and land were taken over and our brothers and sisters made
refugees for life.
Like you said,
freedom never comes cheap. We will have to fight until we win.
S. Rasa
I was moved to
tears reading your letter to Charles. It gives me more courage and
determination to continue with the struggle. Thank you for thinking
about us!
Andrew Thill
I read your open
letter to Charles Anthony just now and was comforted by the spirit
of the letter. Finding people like you is like looking for a needle
in the haystack. This world is full of cheats, liars and betrayers.
It is nice to know sincere people like you with amassing knowledge
about Tamil Struggle and freedom struggle worldwide.
Good on you, we
Tamils appreciate your support, time and guts in writing this letter
to Charles Anthony at the time of need, It just shows Sikhs are a
strong people with conviction and commitment.
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I join you in your hopes and prayers for Tamil Eelam. You come
from a noble people, whose religion is love of your fellowmen in
the true sense of the word. Compassion reigns within your
martial prowess which seeks nothing but self-respect and
dignity, and the desire to protect the intrinsic human rights of
your people. I was humbled by my visit to the Golden Temple in
Amritsar, though not a Sikh myself. |
Haran
Chelliah
Thank you for
your moral support for Eelam Tamils’ just struggle toward Freedom
and Peace. May God Bless you.
Aru
Your knowledge
and deep understanding of our struggle impresses me; Our fellow
Indian Tamilians should feel extremely embarassed. Recent events and
pseudo-humanistic posturing of the International Community shattered
my faith in humanity. You have somewhat restored it. We
feel extremely encouraged by your assertion that there were many
Sikhs who admired the spirit, determination and fighting prowess of
Tamil Eelam fighters. Sadly it was an extremely asymmetrical
warfare. This may well be the only time in the history of the world,
when US, India, Pakistan and China colluded to decimate a determined
struggle for independence.
Sir, I have no
illusions about the current situation. Our fighters may perish but
the struggle will continue. We need all the moral support from the
Sikhs world over.
Sadly, the
rotten diplomacy of the Rajiv G, Dixit & Co. in 1987 put our
fighters and the Sikh regiment on a collision course. Let me say
this to you. The admiration for the courage and determination (esp.
the 30 odd ill-informed Sikh commandos heli-lifted to capture VP on
the second day of the conflict) was mutual.
Satish N.
If only I could
reach your hand, I would kiss it a thousand times to say thank you
for the great article. Reading your article gave me a belief that in
fact Tamils of Sri Lanka aren't alone after all. We do have brothers
in the North too.
Rajmohan
I thank you from
the bottom of my heart for your kind and encouraging words. Your
voice is that of the spirit of freedom denied to many in this world
by the so called criminal elements occupying the usurped Government
chairs.
Fantastic
article. Well informed about the struggle. Your advise are sound.
Thank you so much. One day the free Eelamist will remember you and
thank you for your moral support.
Dr A
Thevathasan
Sat Sri Akaal
Jagmohan-ji
I just wanted to commend you for writing the piece, "Whose
Responsibility is it to protect?" in World Sikh News regarding the
Sri Lankan Tamil issue and Tamil Eelam itself. I am a Canadian of
Sri Lankan Tamil descent (my parents are from
Jaffna,
Sri Lanka)
and this really means a lot to me. A Sikh friend of mine and me
actually started a facebook group called "Centre for the Advancement
of Punjabi-Tamil Relations" which tries to advocate solidarity,
discussion and unity between our two great groups of South Asia. We
need more people in India speaking the truth like you just did in
your piece and I sincerely hope more of you will come out in the
days to come. Shukriya.
Kishan
We are grateful
to the Sikhs for their solidarity. It is indeed a touching act of
decency in difficult times.
A Sri
Lankan/Indian Tamil
Thank you man,
you are the man.
Mangeshcar
I applaud you.
You have expressed so simply, so sincerely, with such love, your
feelings for a people the world has forgotten. Like you, I am not
from Sri Lanka. But I feel keenly the agony of a forsaken people.
Voices like yours are drops of water to a thirst-ridden people.
I have been
working for some respite for the women and children of Tamil Eelam
for the last twenty years. Even we are now helpless to bring any
consolation from so far here in Australia. But we must not lose hope
that in the end by the grace of God, truth and justice will prevail
for the Tamil people. I join you in your hopes and prayers for Tamil
Eelam.
You come from a
noble people, whose religion is love of your fellowmen in the true
sense of the word. Compassion reigns within your martial prowess
which seeks nothing but self-respect and dignity, and the desire to
protect the intrinsic human rights of your people. I was humbled by
my visit to the Golden Temple in Amritsar, though not a Sikh myself.
God bless you,
Sir. And Godspeed to your work in bringing courage to the down
trodden people of Eelam. Charles Anthony is the son of a great
father. I am sure your letter will bring courage to him and his
people.
Nesa Eliezer
I read your
article on World Sikh News on
22/04/2009.
I have to say how intellectually you have understood Sri Lankan
Tamils problem. The world seemed not to have got it or pretended to
be that it didn't know anything about it. We Tamils are fighting for
basic human rights, to be treated with dignity. We have been
fighting for this for the past 60 years and in different forms. Arms
struggle was an inevitable action after trying for 30 years to
persuade successive Sri Lankan governments. Tamils had to resort to
take arms in their hand because nothing happened for 30 years with
talks. Government sponsored ethnic riots drove Tamils out of the
country. Tamils came to a conclusion that living together along with
Sinhala was not going to work because the Sinhala government or
people don't have broad mind to treat the Tamils equally.
In the recent
war, Tamil fighters have been not just Sri Lankan army. The Indian
Army, Chinese and Pakistani military arsenal and other international
countries aid and help with intelligence is also being fought.
The world should
understand the fundamental problem to Tamils in Sri Lanka. This will
never be solved without a separate homeland for Tamils. Truth will
win. Tamils will win. People like you are truthful people. Your
support and admiration will help us to win against the evil forces.
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We as a people do live through the worst times of our struggle,
with our entire existence being on the edge. Day by day we cry
our hearts out faced with the suffering of our brethren, which
is being transferred thousands of miles to the far exiles we are
forced to live in. No night passes without the cries surpassing
our dreams and ears, pulling us back to the reality we fled
from. No day has passed for us without this suffering and all
its psychological and physical effects it has on us.
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Janam
I am pleased to see your support to our people struggle in Sri
Lanka.
India
is the major culprit.
Sangar THIRU
It’s 5 am in the
morning in Canada and I still can’t sleep. I am sitting in front of
the computer, crying while reading the news on various sites which
is not good. I just couldn’t continue reading the article which
gives the gruesome details of our people’s suffering. I had hit
rock-bottom; sadness and a great sense of loss had enveloped me.
And then I found
your letter to Charles Anthony by chance. And I am weeping as I
write this. When I thought the whole world is against us and we have
no one who cares for us and my heart was weeping for our people and
our freedom fighters I found your letter. I was wrong; there is some
one who cares and a beautiful soul at that. Your letter was so heart
warming, so comforting and so uplifting and you were so damn right
in your analysis of those who were supposed to be our friends and
could have helped more effectively and constructively and had let us
down when we truly needed help, some one to speak for us in the
world arena like the Norwegians; who were asking for a stiff price
for their favour -asking to lay down the arms far too early.
May God bless
you and your family and your whole generation for ever and ever.
Usha S
Sri-Skanda-Rajah
We highly
appreciate your comment “I belong to a martial race. Sikhs are known
to befriend martial people”. Yes. It’s heartening to realise how
similar the cherished values of our two societies which bonds us and
ties our destinies together even further. Another commonality that
bonds us is that we are all people of Nations without States.
But on a sour
note it appears that the scheming Indian Empire has been using some
of our own people from the two ancient nationalities as a double
edged sword to stab on each other’s back in order to keep these two
communities apart with mutual historical grudges.
It was said that
Indira Gandhi used Madras regiment Tamil soldiers to storm the
sacred
Golden
Temple
of the Sikhs to create a historical rift as a part of her Kautilyan
move to keep these two nationalities apart and to keep the Indian
empire intact. It was also rumoured that the captured weapons were
given to TELO - the quisling of the RAW in those days. Later
during the invasion and occupation of Eelam the IPKF used mainly
Sikh regiments to harass and kill Tamils.
If we do not act
now, our two nationalities will become the common prey in this
Divide and Destroy game. We the Eelam Tamil people will be eternally
thankful for your esteemed and timely help in preventing this
horrific war crimes and genocide of an ancient nationality.
Sara Ananthan
29
April 2009
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