NANDHIVARMAN OPINES

Nandhi Speaks……

These are days when everyday one scam comes out in media and people forget

it after few days. To refresh the memory of people let me place the corruption history of Congress governments.

Jeep Scam of 1947 : Pakistan invaded Indian territory of Kashmir and Indian army needed Jeeps to travel in difficult terrain of Kashmir. V.K.Krishna Menon was India’s High Commission to Britain. Like our Suresh Kalmadi, he placed orders for 4603 Jeeps from a dubious company. You may ask what is wrong in it ? The Jeeps were of poor quality. It was supplied after the War was over. Parliament rocked. Ananthasayanam Iyengar Committee was constituted to probe the scam. It had submitted its report which till date had not been made public. So the Congress party which Mahathma Gandhi wanted to be disbanded once independence was attained and become a Seva Sangh, started serving India with being the first in bagging the trophy for corruption. Congress also taught Indians that it can not only rule but can lay precedent to misrule by sending the first scam report to cold storage.

First corrupt politician to be jailed 1949 : The then Industries Minister of Vindhya Pradesh Rao Shiv Bahadur Singh was caught red handed receiving a bribe of Rs 25,000 for renewing a diamond mine lease in Patna. Singh was imprisoned for 3 years. The first Congress leader to go to jail and starting the Corruption brigade in Congress which now has Suresh Kalmadi as national show piece .

First bureaucrat to be jailed 1951: There existed a quota for import of cycle parts, and it was given to a sole importer benefitting that particular importer and in this scam Union Industries and Commerce Secretary S.A.Venkatraman was sentenced to three years imprisonment. The great honour of going to jail was conferred on a Tamil Brahmin bureaucrat who taught the bureaucracy graftology.

Mundra Scam that hit T.T.Krishnamachari 1957 : Life Insurance Corporation of India was influenced by Finance Minister T.T.Krishnamachari to lend Harida Mundra of Kanpur Rs 1 crore by purchasing shares in his firms with no real standing in order to boost the prices of those companies in share market. Haridas Mundra was jailed for 22 months.  Finance Minister T.T.Krishnamachari, a South Indian Brahmin had to resign earning the reputation of first Union Minister to step down and for a Dalit Minister to get this honour it took time till 2011.

Hasan Ali of those days Teja Caper 1962 : Liechtenstein bank as safe have for black money is very much in news nowadays, thanks to Hasan Ali popularizing that bank and Puducherry Lt.Governor Iqbal Singh helping Hasan Ali get fake passport. Jayanthi Dharma Teja set up a shipping company with a paid up capital of Rs 200 only. A Nehruvian recommendation got that company Rs 22 crore as loan. Jayanthi Shipping Company of Dharma Teja pocketed all advance payments in his Leichtenstein bank account. In this scam finally Dharma Teja was arrested in London in the year 1970 . Het got six years imprisonment. But he escaped and like Puducherry absconder Ravi Shah co-accused along with his brother Kamal Shah who raped and brutally murdered his elder brother Ravi Shah’s wife Parvathi Shah , Dharma Teja is absconder and Indians forgot this scam too.

Punjab Scam of its Chief Minister 1964 : Allowing family members to amass wealth disproportionate to known sources of income may be famous because of Jayalalitha’s disproportionate asset case and 2 G scam cases but first Chief Minister to fall prey to his family’s greed  was Punjab Chief Minister Pratap Singh Kairon. Dass Commission of Enquiry indicted him and he had to step down from office.

Nagarwala Mystery of 1971 : After liberating Bangla Desh Indira Gandhi was called as Goddess Durga by Indian masses. Before 1971 because of Congress party split and veterans like Kamaraj leaving Congress to start Old Congress which was known as Syndicate, the Indira Gandhi Government survived with the support of 25 member DMK Parliamentary party headed by orator Nanjil Manoharan. Aringnar Anna inculcated in the blood and veins of DMK cadre anti-congressim but Kalaignar M.Karunanithi made the historical mistake of supporting Congress to survive, which he must be repenting now in 2011. In 1971 polls DMK-Indira Congress alliance was struck. I still remember as Student DMK leader, the veterans of Congress like R.Venkatraman, C.Subramanian, Mohan Kumaramangalam and others of the Congress delegation standing before DMK President posing photographs without sitting in available sofas to get only 10 Parliament seats with NO assembly seat for Congress in the alliance deal. In such historical year of 1971 State Bank of India chief cashier got a phone call with someone speaking in Indira Gandhi’s voice directing him to  give Rs 60 lakhs to her messenger, a former army officer Rustom Sorab Nagarwala ………

Appeal to Presidents/Prime Ministers of Member nations of European Union to support Tamil Eelam Government in Exile

 

Hon’ble Mr. Gordon Brown.                                                        12.03.2010

Prime Minister of Great Britain

10 Downing Street

London SW1A 2AA

 

 And

 

Hon’ble David Miliband

Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

King Charles Street

LONDON SW1A 2AH

 

Respected Prime Minister

Respected Secretary of State

 

We from India on humanitarian grounds would be expressing our solidarity with Tamils of Eelam living across the continents in various countries including Britain. Britain has special responsibility to resolve the Tamil question because it once ruled India and Ceylon and we now see a ray of hope in your utterances that reveal your sympathies too are towards Tamils of Eelam crushed by a genocidal war.

 

We would like you to revisit January 1994 in your memory lane: A Year that led to the dissolution of three multinational federations namely Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia also gave birth to nineteen new states. Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan , Macedonia, Moldova , Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan , Turkmenistan , Ukraine ,Uzbekistan and Yugoslavia [ Serbia and Montenegro ]. Three states namely Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania regained their independence. Chechnya in Russia and Kosovo in Serbia were engaged in struggle for independence.

 

European nations granted conditional recognition to these states. Therefore a precedent exists. When Tamil Eelam was struggling for independence Tamil Diaspora living in almost all of the European nations was in streets urging these nations to step in to redeem Tamils of Eelam from a genocidal war. Necessary alarm bells have been sounded and European nations which had established norms to recognize new nation states, could have applied their collective mind and proven their political will by extending the precedent to Tamil Eelam. But alas! That historical opportunity was lost by the saviors of civilized democracy whereas freedom aspiring people of Tamil Eelam failed to win recognition for their homeland nation.

 

In December 1991 EC Council of Ministers chose to recognize Yugoslav and [Soviet] Republics seeking independence. It was a conditional recognition. What are those conditions? Let me quote in verbatim:

 

“The European Community and its member states confirm their attachment to the principles of Helsinki Final Act and the Charter of Paris, in particular the principle of self determination. They affirm their readiness to recognize, subject to the normal standards of international law, those states which following the historic changes in the region, have constituted themselves on a democratic basis, have accepted the international obligations and have committed themselves in good faith to a peaceful process and to negotiations. Therefore, they adopt a common position on the process of recognition of these new states, which requires:

 

► respect for the provisions of the Charter of United Nations and the commitment subscribed to the Final act of Helsinki and in the Charter of Paris, especially with regard to rule of law, democracy and human rights.

► guarantees for the rights of ethnic and national groups and minorities in accordance with the commitments subscribed in the framework of CSCE

► respect the inviolability of all frontiers which can only be changed by peaceful means and by common agreements

► acceptance of all relevant commitments with regard to disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation as well as to security and regional stability.

► commitment to settle by agreement, including where appropriate recourse to arbitration, all questions concerning state succession and regional disputes.

 

Let me remind you humbly the above quoted, Declaration on Guidelines on the Recognition of new states in Eastern Europe and in the Soviet Union and the Declaration on Yugoslavia: Extraordinary EPC Ministerial meeting [Brussels} / EPC Press Releases P 128 & 129 of 1991 dated 16th December 1991. Further the Congress of Berlin 1878 had spelt safeguards for minorities in the post First World War Settlements. These documents would have given the parameters to grant recognition for Tamil Eelam and Tamils in forefront of freedom struggle would have declared independence and sought recognition as laid in these precedents, but they lacked the initiative.

 

Let me also remind the precedent laid by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill during the Second World War when he endorsed the setting up of Free French Government in Exile headed by Charles De Gaulle in British soil. Now that Tamil Eelam is under occupation by forces of aggression recognition of Tamil Eelam Government after establishing it within Srilanka would not be possible today, though it could be justified. As immediate step Britain which once granted independence to Srilanka without resolving the ethnic question, due to historical compulsions of the post-Second World War conditions, could allow the setting up of Tamil Eelam Government in Exile. Such Government must pledge to the parameters laid down as mentioned in earlier paragraphs and collective recognition of that Tamil Eelam Government in Exile must emanate from Member Nations of European Community. Britain must take the lead to mobilize support for such initiative.

 

Perhaps India factor and Europe’s nobility to uphold Indian geo-political interests would have made European community speechless at the height of civil war in Srilanka. But now in the aftermath of the so-called ghost of terrorism laid to rest, when in country after country Tamils of Eelam through democratic process by way of referendums are expressing in favour of Independent Tamil Eelam, it is high time for European Union to recall the precedent laid and conditions spelt for recognition of states in last decade of last century in Europe. India too houses the Tibetan Government in Exile and it would not be an untouchable proposal if a democratic Government of Tamil Eelam attains independence.

 

 To enlighten European Union and to awaken the Indian Union it would be our duty as responsible political party in India to recall the events that led to the birth of Bangladesh before placing you our pleas for Tamil Eelam. International law had not prohibited the creation of new states by way of secession, the Singapore [1965], Bangladesh [1971] and Eritrea [1993] precedents reveal. But here we wish to lay emphasis on Bangladesh secession since India was supportive of that secession.

 

Let me quote from the International Commission of Jurists, “The events in East Pakistan 1971’ [Geneva ICJ, 1972 page 69] “If one of the constituent peoples of a State is denied equal rights and is discriminated against, it is submitted that their full right of self determination will revive” It must be noted that self determination here meant the right to independence. India’s use of force in violation of jus cogens was mitigated by humanitarian concerns caused by the Pakistan’s campaign of violence against Bangladeshi people. We want to stress that India forgot its own precedent, forgot its own defense as reported in the Security Council debate [UN Doc S/PV 1606 dated 4 th December 1972] with regard to its justification for intervention in Bangladesh. Much grave crimes against humanity had been unleashed in a genocidal war against Tamils of Eelam. Yet India failed to follow its own Bangladesh precedent, may be due to hatred for the group that led the freedom struggle. Now that the much despised group had been eliminated, still Tamils of Eelam are not getting any justice under the Neo-Nazi Leadership of Srilanka President Mahinda Rajapakshe; time for introspection by India had arrived.

 

The Dublin Report of the People’s Tribunal which comes as annexure is one more recent indictment against the Rajapakshe Government. Hence we urge the nations of European Union collectively to recognize the right of self determination of Tamils of Eelam, and allow the setting up of a Government in Exile in their soil with their recognition.

 

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, as adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assembly resolution 2200A (XXI) of 16 December 1966  entry into force 23 March 1976, in accordance with Article 49 , PART II ,Article 2 States: 1. Each State Party to the present Covenant undertakes to respect and to ensure to all individuals within its territory and subject to its jurisdiction the rights recognized in the present Covenant, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.

 

We are ready to prove that on each count Srilanka had miserably failed, wantonly violated the provision, ever since it got independence. Tamils of Eelam were never for independence nor for total dependence but were for interdependence, and all democratic demands endorsed by Eelam Tamils in elections and voiced through their elected Parliamentarians were never fulfilled in past and in present too, even after claiming victory there seems to be no magnanimity or maturity to meet an international obligation to Tamil minorities, who first sought federalism and when failed to attain waged a civil war, and having lost the war Tamils are treated like slaves in their own soil. It is here we appeal to your conscience to consider other options for Tamils of Eelam.

 

Srilanka: Ground Reality

 

As long as article 2 of Srilankan Constitution says “the Republic of Srilanka is a unitary state” there is no room for federalism and all talk about political solution leads only to dead end. This article blocks political devolution. It is needless to say that political devolution means creation of states with sovereign legislative power on subjects allocated or earmarked for that provincial administration.

 

Then the other dangerous provision from the Tamils stand point is article 76 which states “Parliament shall not abdicate or in any manner alienate its legislative power and shall not set up any authority with legislative power”. If there is no political devolution or political decentralization, what the Government of Srilanka plans to offer on platter to Tamils is nothing but slavery.

 

Whoever headed or heads the Srilankan Government, they were never for resolving the conflict satisfying the legitimate demands of the Eelam Tamils. This has to be borne in mind. The past must be evaluated before accepting at face value the verbal gymnastics of Srilankan President Mr.Mahinda Rajapakshe.

 

 

Minimum Demands that were never met:

 

The following would have satisfied legitimate demands of Eelam Tamils, if Srilankan Government had offered before launching the current genocidal war against Eelam Tamils.

 

A] Repeal of the Article 2 of Srilankan Constitution to pave way for the introduction of federal form of governance, or for a con-federal system of government

 

B] Repeal of Article 76 to allow political devolution

 

C] Amending the Article 18 to declare that “the official languages of Srilanka shall be Sinhala and Tamil, enforceable throughout the country without any restrictions.

 

D] Amending Article 9 to delete “the foremost place” granted to Buddhism and to declare Srilanka a secular state.

 

These could be termed as minimum demands that could have satiated the Tamils of Eelam before current genocidal war. These were the demands voiced from much before British left Ceylon, and were the theme of many broken pacts and failed promises, in which Srilankan Governments remains the unique country that adopted ethnic cleansing through genocide successfully, while the conscience keepers of this world must rise up to the occasion even though belatedly to support Tamil Eelam Government in Exile.

 

India too fails: The Indo-Srilankan Agreement of July 1987 paved way for the temporary merger of Northern and Eastern provinces into a unified North-Eastern Province. This merger was to be endorsed by a referendum before the end of 1988. One Provincial Council was set up in North-Eastern Province as well as 7 other provinces. In order to implement this accord Mr.Rajiv Gandhi sent the Indian Peace Keeping Force in the first week of August 1987. The pressure brought by Mr.Rajiv Gandhi also made LTTE agree to cessation of hostilities. LTTE also started handing over weapons to IPKF. So far everything went well. Then how this accord was sabotaged and who torpedoed it?  A general amnesty was granted under the accord to “political and other prisoners now held in custody under the Prevention of Terrorism Act and other Emergency laws, and to combatants, as well as those persons accused, charged and or convicted under these laws.”

 

 Government of Srilanka, known for treachery which current breed of politicians may have erased from memory withheld amnesty to 1250 Tamil political prisoners. This was done by twisting the amnesty clause to say that it applied only to NEP and not offences committed outside North Eastern Province. LTTE retaliated by suspending surrender of arms.

 

 

Now, to trust Mr.Rajapakshe that after eliminating terrorism, he has a peace formula under his red towel, which he will wave along with olive branch, would amount to total ignorance of the history of betrayals, for which many Sinhalese rulers till now are held accountable before the conscience of the world.

 

Racial Riots in 1883 hit Christians in 1902 Dalits, in 1915 Muslims, in 1930 Malayalees, then Plantation Tamils and from 1983 Eelam Tamils:

 

 Nazism is not dead, and just because it thrives in a tiny island, it need not be condoned or ignored. The problem with Sinhalese is not Tamil-phobia. They are against everybody. The seeds of hatred are ingrained in their brains. A scholar Kumari Jayewardene, a Sinhalese herself, had chronicled the history of clashes and communal unrest in Srilanka. The starting point of Tamil Sinhala ethnic clashes are considered to be 1983. But hundred years before that, in 1883 the Sinhalese turned their ire against Catholics. The Buddhist religious firebrand Anagarika Dharmapala criticizes the British for their religion.

 

 “When the ancestors of the present holders of our beloved land were running naked in the forests of Britain with their bodies painted and later on when their ancestors had gone under the imperial rule of Rome and some of them were being sold as slaves in the market place of Rome, our ancestors were already enjoying the fruits of glorious and peaceful civilization. Buddhism was the religion of the state in Ceylon like the Church in England in the British isles” proclaims Anagarika Dharmapala, forgetting what the sacred book of the Sinhalese, known as Mahavamsam says about the first originator of the Sinhalese race.

 

Born to parents who are cross breed between a Lion and a Princess that too born to a brother and sister incest couple, the unruly Vijayan driven by his father with such credentials, landed in Srilanka and married local women, i.e. Tamil, even a Pandyan princess. Then how come Sinhalese can claim racial superiority or purity. Like Anglo Indians, they are half Tamil, half foreign. So assuming they are racially superior, the Sinhalese called Christians barbarians and launched attacks in 1883. Then in 1915, Sinhalese wanted to drive away the North Indian and South Indian Muslims.

 

“The Mohammedans, an alien people, who in the early part of the nineteenth century were common traders, by Shylockan methods became prosperous like the Jews. The alien South Indian Mohammedan comes to Ceylon, sees the neglected illiterate villagers without any experience in trade, without any knowledge of any kind of technical industry and isolated from whole of Asia on account of his language, religion and race, and the result the Mohammedan thrives and the son of the soil goes to the wall……..What the German is to the British that the Mohammedan is to the Sinhalese by religion, race and language. He traces his origin to Arabia” incited the same Anagarika Dharmapala. Violent attacks, arson, looting were unleashed against the Muslim traders in 1915.

 

Readers of both the quotes from a Sinhala firebrand who planted seeds of hatred between communities and who is one among those who ignited communal clashes must take note of a contradiction in his statement. While speaking about British in 1883 he claims Sinhalese were enjoying the fruits of glorious and peaceful civilization. But in 1915, he admits that Sinhalese have no experience in trade and are without any kind of knowledge. Then how could they be the architects of the glorious and peaceful civilization. And that civilization must be of the Tamils, who can establish the fact with historical and archaeological evidences right up to Indus valley.

 

In between 1883 and 1915, other unfortunate riots hit the dalits from India, who had gone to Ceylon as plantation labour. The arrogant Sinhalese refused to drink tea plucked by untouchables. Later in 1930 the Sinhalese turned their ire against the 30,000 Malayalees, who had gone to Ceylon from Travancore-Cochin state. A trade union leader A.E.Kunasesinghe launched the racial fire against them by his fiery speeches.

 

Between 1871-1881 when coffee, tea plantations came up in large numbers in Ceylon, lots of Tamils from India went there seeking work. They constituted nearly 10 % of the then population of Ceylon. Donoughmore Commission constituted before independence said out of these roughly 50 percent labour were permanently residing in Ceylon. Jackson Report of 1928 said they were around 60 percent. The Soulbury Commission of 1946 stated 80 percent of these labour were permanent residents of Ceylon.

 

Donoughmore Commission had recommended that for all those who had lived for 5 years and above citizenship rights must be conferred. Ceylonese Government did not accept that recommendation, thus the crisis started. In 1940 both India and Ceylon discussed this issue. Again in 1941 September there was a bi party conference between India and Ceylon. The agreed joint declaration which emanated in this meeting was not implemented.

 

The irony is that in 1942 Ceylonese Government itself had written to Indian Government requesting India to permit labour to come and work in its rubber plantations. In the first General Elections of 1947 plantation labour had voting rights. They backed the Ceylon Indian Congress and elected 7 members to Parliament. They were the deciding factor in another 20 Parliamentary constituencies.

 

D.S.Senanayaka, first Prime Minister of Ceylon amended the 8 th article of the Citizenship Act and disenfranchised plantation Tamils called as Malayaga Tamils. He passed in Parliament the amendment by the year 1949 and removed people of Indian origin from the voters list. That is how the voting rights of plantation Tamils who chose 7 Members to Parliament were deprived from them. Then Indian origin people were asked to apply for citizenship. 8, 25,000 people applied for citizenship. Only to 1, 00,000 people Ceylonese citizenship was granted. To resolve this deadlock at London both Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Ceylon Prime Minister Dudley Senanaiyaka talked but could not resolve. In 1954 a pact was signed between Jawaharlal Nehru and Sir John Kotewala, Ceylon Premier. It was never implemented. By 1964, Srilankan Prime Minster Srimavo Bandaranaike and Indian Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri signed a pact, wherein Srilanka agreed to give citizenship to 3, 00,000 persons. India admitted to take back 5,25,000 persons.

 

“All American people were once migrants from Europe. Yet no European country foolishly signed a pact with America to take back its citizens. Even after signing such a pact India had left more than 2, 00.000 people of Indian origin in Srilanka.

 

Sinhala Racism in Parliament:

 

Mr.D.M.Chandrapala, Sinhalese Buddhist Member of Parliament from Kundasale spoke the following words in Srilankan Parliament on July 1981. “Now Sir… what should we do to this so called leader of the Tamils? If I were given the power, I would tie him to the nearest concrete post in this building and horses whip him till I rise to his wits. Thereafter let anybody do anything he likes, throw him into the Beire [lake] or into the sea, because he will be so mutilated that I do not think there will be life in him. That is war.”

 

 Can anyone in civilized world in any of the democracies of the world, could have heard such a speech. That speech too is against democratically elected Tamil leaders demanding federalism and not independent state at that juncture. There was no terrorist in Parliament yet if Sinhala Parliamentarian spits such venom, how could Tamils live within unitary Srilanka,

 

Mr.G.V.Punchinilame M.P from Ratnapura spoke in Srilankan Parliament in July 1981. “Since yesterday morning, we have heard in this Honorable House about the various types of punishment that should be meted out to them {Tamil Parliamentary Members}. The M.P from Panadura Dr.Neville Fernando said there was a punishment during the time of Sinhalese kings, namely, two areca nut posts are erected, these two posts are then drawn toward each other with a rope, then tie each of the feet of the offender to each post and then cut the rope which will result in tearing apart the body. These people should also be punished in the same way.

 

…………..some Members suggested that they should be put to death on the stake, some other Members said that their passports should be confiscated, still other Members said they should be made to stand at the Galle Face Green and shot at. The people of this country want and this government is prepared to inflict these punishments on these people.”

 

If in Srilankan Parliament such barbarian punishments are sought against duly elected Tamil Members of Parliament even in 1981 much before the birth of militant movements, how can Tamils live under unitary Srilankan state? It is time to read the speech of the cunning fox Mr.J.R.Jayawardane, President of Srilanka, which appeared in Daily Telegraph of 11th July 1983. “I am not worried about the opinion of the Tamil people…… now we cannot think of them, not about their lives or their opinion….. the more you put pressure on the North, the happier the Sinhala people will be here… Really if I starve the Tamils out, the Sinhala people will be happy.” Mr.Mahinda Rajapakshe used starvation as weapon to make Tamils slaves and even now he handles that same weapon, a weapon much sought by Srilankan President of 1983 is still in use till 2010.

 

TAMIL MASSACRES: ROLE OF SINHALESE LEADERS

 

Ceylon’s First Prime Minister D.S.Senanaike while addressing the new Sinhalese settlers in Tamil areas of Padaviya spoke: “Today you are brought here and given a plot of land. You have been uprooted from your village. You are like a piece of driftwood in the Ocean, but remember that one day the whole country will look up to you. The final battles for the Sinhala people will be fought on the plains of Padaviya .You are the men who will carry this island’s destiny on your shoulders.”  So as he wanted after decades of colonizing Tamil homeland current successor to him, Mr.Mahinda Rajapakshe had eliminated physically using chemical weapons of destruction unnumbered thousands of Tamils and is hastening complete take over by Government sponsored colonization, while uprooted Tamils are languishing in concentration camps, watched helplessly by UN and world nations.

 

Soon after the racial riots of 1983 Oxford educated Sinhala Minister Gamini Dissanayake spoke: “Who attacked you? Sinhalese… Who saved you? Sinhalese. It is we who attacked and protected you. They are bringing an army from India. It will take 14 hours to come from India. In 14 minutes the blood of every Tamil in the country can be sacrifice to the land by us. Yes this in 1983. In 2009 Mr.Mahinda Rajapakshe inflicted a blood bath, may be he offered Tamil blood as sacrifice to his soil.

 

With due thanks to North East Secretariat on Human Rights of Srilanka we are listing out Tamil massacres since independence of Ceylon, to justify our argument that only Tamil Eelam will end this genocide.

 

 

 

1.         Inginiyakala massacre [05.06.1956],

2.         1958 pogrom,                                              

3.         Tamil research conference massacre ‐10.01.1974,  

4.         1977 communal pogrom                                       

5.         1981 communal pogrom                                                                           

6.         Burning of the Jaffna library ‐01.06.1981                                             

7.         1983 communal pogrom                                                                           

8.         Thirunelveli massacre ‐ 24 25.07.1983                                                            

9.         Sampalthoddam massacre ‐ 1984                                                         

10.       Chunnakam Police station massacre ‐08.01.1984                            

11.       Chunnakam market massacre ‐ 28.03.1984                                       

12.       Mathawachchi – Rampawa ‐ September 1984                                               

13.       Point Pedro – Thikkam massacre ‐ 16.09.1984                                   

14.       Othiyamalai massacre ‐ 01.12.1984                                                      

15.       Kumulamunai massacre ‐ 02.12.1984                                                 

16.       Cheddikulam massacre ‐ 02.12.1984                                                   

17.       Manalaru massacre ‐ 03.12.1984                                                          

18.       Blood soaked Mannar ‐ 04.12.1984                                                       

19.       Kokkilai‐Kokkuthoduvai massacre ‐ 15.12.1984                               

20.       Vankalai church massacre ‐ 06.01.1986                                              

21.       Mulliyavalai massacre ‐ 16.01.1985                                                      

22.       Vaddakandal massacre ‐ 30.01.1985                                                     .
 23.     Puthukkidiyiruppu Iyankovilady massacre 21.04.1985                     

24.       Trincomalee massacres in 1985                                                              

25.       Valvai‐85 massacre 10.05.1985                                                             

26.       Kumuthini Boat massacre 15.05.1985                                                   

27.      Kiliveddi massacre  1985                                                                                   

28.       Thiriyai massacre ‐ 08.06.1985                                                              

29.       Sampaltivu ‐ 04 to 09.08.1985                                                                

30.       Veeramunai massacre ‐ 20.06.1990                                                     

31.       Nilaveli massacre 16.09.1985                                                                  

32.       Piramanthanaru massacre ‐ 02.10.1985                                              

33.       Kanthalai‐85 massacre ‐ 09.11.1985                                                   

34.       Muthur Kadatkaraichenai ‐ 08, 09, 10.11.1985                                  

35.       Periyapullumalai massacre in 1986                                                       

36.       Kilinochchi Railway Station massacre ‐ 25.01.1986                          

37.       Udumbankulam massacre ‐ 19.02.1985                                              

38.       Vayaloor massacre ‐ 24.08.1985                                                            

39.       Eeddimurinchan massacre ‐ 19, 20.03.1986                                       

40.       Anandapuram shelling ‐ 04.06.1986                                                    

41.       Kanthalai‐86 massacre ‐ 04, 05.06. 1986                                           

42.       Mandaithivu sea massacre ‐ 10.06.1986                                              

43.       Seruvila massacre ‐ 12.06.1986                                                             

44.       Thambalakamam massacres ‐ 1985, 1986                                          

45.       Paranthan farmer’s massacre ‐ 28.06.1986                                         

46.       Peruveli refugee camp massacre ‐ 15.07.1986                                   

47.       Thanduvan bus massacre ‐ 17.07.1986                                                           

48.       Mutur Manalchenai massacre ‐ 18.07. 1986                                      

49.       Adampan massacre ‐ 12.10.1986                                                          

50.       Periyapandivrichchan massacre ‐ 15.10.1986                        

51.       Kokkadichcholai‐87 massacre ‐ 28.01.1987                                      

52.       Paddithidal massacre ‐ 26.04.1987                                                       

53.       Thonithiddamadu massacre ‐ 27.05.1987                                           

54.       Alvai temple shelling ‐ 29.05.1987                                                        

55.       Eastern University massacre ‐ 23.05.1990                                           

56.       Sammanthurai massacre ‐ 10.06.1990                                                

57.       Xavierpuram massacre ‐ 07.08.1990                                                    

58.       Siththandy massacre ‐ 20, 27.07.1990                                                 

59.       Paranthan junction massacre ‐ 24.07.1990                                         

60.       Poththuvil massacre ‐ 30.07.1990                                                         

61.       Tiraikerny massacre ‐ 06.08.1990                                                          

62.       Kalmunai massacre ‐ 11.08.1990                                                          

63.       Thuranilavani massacre ‐ 12.08.1990                                                  

64.       Eravur hospital massacre ‐ 12.08.1990                                                

65.       Koraveli massacre 14.08.1990                                                                 

66.       Nelliyadi market bombing ‐ 29.08.1990                                                

67.       Eravur massacre ‐ 10.10.1990                                                                

68.       Saththurukkondan massacre ‐ 09.09.1990                                         

69.       Natpiddymunai massacre ‐ 10.09.1990

70.       Vantharamullai‐90 massacre ‐ 05, 23,09,1990                                 

71.       Mandaithivu disappearances ‐ 23.08.1990, 25.09.1990        

72.       Oddisuddan bombing ‐ 27.11.1990                                                     

73.       Puthukkudiyiruppu junction bombing                                                 

74.       Vankalai massacre ‐ 17.02.1991                                                          

75.       Vaddakkachchi bombing ‐ 28.02.1991                                               

76.       Vantharumoolai ‐ 09.06.1991                                                               

77.       Kokkadichcholai‐91 massacre ‐ 12.06.1991                                      
78.       Pullumalai massacre ‐ 1983‐1990                                                

79.       Kinniyadi massacre ‐ 12.07.1991                                                                    

80.       Akkarayan hospital massacre ‐ 15.07.1997                                       

81.       Uruthrapuram bombing ‐ 04.02.1991                                                   

82.       Karapolla‐Muthgalla massacre ‐ 29.04.1992                                   

83.       Vattrapalai shelling ‐ 18.05.1992                                                          

84.       Thellipalai temple bombing ‐ 30.05.1992                                            

85.       Mailanthai massacre ‐ 09.08.1992                                                       

86.       Kilali massacre ‐1992, 1993                                                                  

87.       Maaththalan bombing ‐ 18.09.1993                                                    

88.       Chavakachcheri‐Sangaththanai bombing ‐ 28.09.1993               

89.       Kokuvil temple massacre & bombing ‐ 29.09.1993                          

90.       Kurunagar church bombing ‐ 13.11.1993                                         

91.       Chundikulam‐94 massacre ‐ 18.02.1994                                        

92.       Navali church massacre ‐ 09.07.1995                                                

93.       Nagarkovil bombing ‐ 22.05.1995                                                       

94.       Chemmani mass graves in 1996                                                                      

95.       Kilinochchi town massacre ‐ 1996‐1998                                          

96.       Kumarapuram massacre ‐ 11.02.1996                                               

97.       Nachchikuda strafing ‐ 16.03.1996                                                    

98.       Thambirai market bombing ‐ 17.05.1996                                           

99.       Mallavi bombing ‐ 24.07.1996                                                             

100.    Pannankandy massacre ‐ 05.07.1997                                                

101.    Kaithady Krishanthi massacre ‐ 07.09.1996                                     

102.    Vavunikulam massacre ‐ 26‐09‐1996, 15‐08‐1997                  

103.    Konavil bombing ‐ 27.09.1996                                                             
104.       Mullivaikal bombing ‐ 13.05.1997                                                 

105.    Mankulam shelling ‐ 08.06.1997                                                                    

106.    Thampalakamam massacre ‐ 01.02.1998                                         

107.    Old Vaddakachchi bombing ‐ 26.03.1998                                         

108.    Suthanthirapuram massacre ‐ 10.06.1998                                       

109.    Visuvamadhu shelling ‐ 25.11.1998                                                   

110.    Chundikulam‐98 bombing 02.12.1998                                              

111.    Manthuvil bombing ‐ 15.09.1999                                                        

112.    Palinagar bombing and shelling ‐ 03.09.1999                                  

113.    Madhu church massacre ‐ 20.11.1999                                              

114.    Bindunuwewa massacre                                                                       

115.    Mirusuvil massacre ‐ 19.12.2000

 

The North East Secretariat for Human Rights  had documented updating up to 2008 which is in the book :Massacres of Tamils 1956-2008 -  (Paperback Rs. 400, Hard Bound Rs. 500), which is an  attempt to document 61 years of Tamil Massacres in Sri Lanka. This book painstakingly records massacres that occurred since 1956 – 2008 from first hand information. We would urge upon Britain and nations of the European Union to take note of continuing genocide. If all war crimes of 2009 could be compiled it will excel and exceed Adolph Hitler’s genocide in statistics.

 

Naked Facts about broken Pacts:

 

Having traced the thorny issues now let us look at the various peace proposals which Srilanka aborted in the past.

 

1. The Bhandaranaike-Chelvanayagam Pact of 1957 signed between Srilankan Prime Minister SWRD Bhandaranaike and Federal Party leader SVJ Chelvanayagam reached in July 1957 was abrogated in May 1958.

 

2. The Senanaike-Chelvanayagam Pact of 1965 was not implemented even though the pact led to a coalition between Federal Party.

 

3. Federal Party’s model constitution of 1972, submitted to the Constituent Assembly to create a Federal Republic of Ceylon was rejected by the steering committee of the Constituent Assembly.

 

4. Dr.Neelam Tiruchelvam’s report to the Presidential Commission on Development Councils in 1979 also was sent to cold storage.

 

5. Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s Initiative of 1983 resulted in bilateral talks between India and Srilanka, as well as between India and TULF, yielded Annexure C proposals due to the efforts of India’s emissary G.Parthasarathy, which was also thrown into dustbin by Srilankan President Mr.J.R.Jayawardane.

 

6. Draft Bill for Provincial Councils which was endorsed by the All Party Conference in 1984 met the same fate under President J.R.Jayawardane’s governance.

 

7. Thimpu Talks in 1985: TULF and LTTE, TELO, PLOTE, EROS and EPRLF participated in Thimpu talks initiated by Government of India. In that conference all the Tamil parties submitted four cardinal principles as conditions for accepting conflict resolution. A] Recognition of the Tamils of Srilanka as a distinct nationality. B] Recognition of an identified Tamil homeland and guarantee for its territorial integrity. C] Recognition of the inalienable right of self determination of the Tamil nation. D] Recognition of the right to full citizenship and other fundamental rights to all Tamils of Srilanka. All Party Conference proposals formed the basis of Srilankan side. Though talks were aborted a Draft Framework evolved which should have been placed before Cabinet for approval before it could be adopted. But President J.R.Jayawardane did not do that, and it met its end.

 

8. TULF presented new proposals to Indian Prime Minister Mr.Rajiv Gandhi in December 1985.The Government of Srilanka submitted its views on that proposals in January 1986. In nutshell the Srilankan Government rejected TULF proposals.

 

9. Indian Minister Chidambaram Proposals: Srilankan Government discussed with the delegation headed by Mr.P.Chidambaram and in May 1986 sent its own proposals to Government of India. Then the Government of Srilanka formulated the Draft Amendment to the constitution of Srilanka to provide legal frame work to Chidambaram proposals.

 

10. Government of India prepared a working paper on the discussions held at Bangalore on 18th November 1986 between Indian Prime Minister Mr.Rajiv Gandhi and Srilankan President Mr.J.R.Jayawardane. The Government of Srilanka submitted its observations on the working paper on 20th November 1986. Then on December 19th of 1986 talks took place between two Indian Ministers and Srilankan President. All such exercises led to the India-Srilanka Accord of July 1987 known as Rajiv Gandhi-Jayewardene accord.

 

11. The fate of that Indo-Srilankan accord puts Srilankan Government in dock for breaking this accord.

 

12. Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of Srilanka was effected in November 1987, and first time provincial councils were set up.

 

13. The Democratic People’s Alliance led by SLFP in its election manifesto for 1988 Presidential and Parliamentary elections offered promises to resolve the ethnic problem, but that alliance failed to capture power, so promises remained promises.

 

14. Tamil political parties ACTC, DPLF, ENDLF, EPRLF and TELO submitted proposals to the drafting committee for the All Party Conference of 1990.

 

15. Srilankan Minister Thondaman’s Proposals: This attracted the LTTE which invited Mr.Thondaman to visit Jaffna to further discuss the proposals but Sinhalese opposition especially by a newly floated Sinhalese Defense Organization paralyzed the proposals.

 

16. Liberal Party proposals to the Committee on Constitutional Reform in 1992 to resolve the ethnic conflict.

 

17. UNP Presidential candidate for the November 1994 elections Mr.Gamini Dissanayake presented his Vision for the 21st century, but since Mr.Gamini Dissanayake was assassinated in October 1994; his own political party UNP buried the proposals along with him.

 

18. The up-country Tamils, people of Indian origin, branded as stateless people, submitted their proposals to the Parliamentary Select Committee on Constitutional Reforms in December 1994. The Up country People’s Front sought separate autonomous territory for up-country Tamils. This has nothing to do with the North Eastern Province seeking traditional homeland of Eelam Tamils, the original indigenous people of Srilanka. Up country Tamils are not in anyway branded as terrorists, in fact their parties had been part of ruling coalitions till date. The unfortunate people of India made as stateless overnight thoughtlessly by signing a pact also failed to get justice.

 

19. Basic Ideas of Chandrika Kumaratunga made in 1995 when she promised peace at all costs before winning Parliamentary elections but changed her tune to peace but not at  all cost, after she won Presidential election.

 

20. Without elaborating the recent sugar coated words after winning the War and also Presidential Elections of 2010 till date Mahinda Rajapakshe had neither given thought to resolving Tamils issue nor are prepared to permit their resettlement but are keen only to hide the war crimes by bullying tactics.

 

SO WHAT NEXT: ………ARBITRATION COMMISSION

 

Is the West contemplating for Alto/Adige/ South Tyrol model of special status? Autonomy arrangements were negotiated for the Alto/Adige/South Tyrol area of northern Italy in the aftermath of Second World War. “The territory had been ceded by Austria to Italy after the First World War but because of large German speaking population there it has to be a seat of unrest and source of tension between the countries for years to come. As early as 1946 Italy had pledged to grant autonomy to the area but Austria objected that Italy was attempting to dilute the majority German presence first by amalgamating the largely Italian province of Trentino and the predominantly German province of Bolzano to create a single region [Trentino-Alto Adige] and later by promoting influx of Italian speakers from other parts of the country. Frustrated by what it viewed as obstructionism on Italy’s part, the Austrian Government took its case to UN General Assembly, which on 31 October 1960 unanimously adopted a resolution calling on Italy and Austria to seek bi lateral solution or failing that to seek recourse to other peaceful dispute resolution mechanisms such as arbitration…

 

There are similarities between Sinhala colonization of Tamil lands, and since bi-lateral talks over half a century had failed, Britain in view of the legacy of conflict it left when hurriedly independence was granted to Srilanka, must seek appointment of Arbitration Commission to resolve the dispute, other wise recognize the Tamil Eelam Government in Exile, which it should recognize and allow to be set up in its soil. Only a nincompoop will believe that bi-laterally Tamils and Srilanka can resolve their problems. If this word bi-lateral and no arbitrator is logical, reasonable and resolves disputes, in Court rooms across globe without Judges the petitioner and respondent can resolve the crisis. India has failed, and it should not stand in the way of European Union initiative, if it emanates towards formation of Arbitration Commission to resolve Tamil Eelam conflict.

 

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Part 1 (Article 1) recognizes the right of all peoples to self-determination, including the right to “freely determine their political status”, [8] pursue their economic, social and cultural goals, and manage and dispose of their own resources. It recognizes a negative right of a people not to be deprived of its means of subsistence, [9] and imposes an obligation on those parties still responsible for non-self governing and trust territories (colonies) to encourage and respect their self-determination.

 

In accordance with this Germany, became the first Nation state among the European Community to advocate the recognition of Slovenia and Croatia. Germany too behaved like India in those days supporting the unity of Yugoslavia, as India now supports the unity of Srilanka. On 19th June 1991 Germany voted in favor of a statement by the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe upholding the unity and territorial integrity of Yugoslavia. “Even after Slovenia and Croatia made unilateral declaration of Independence, Germany supported the Western European Union declaration of June 27 that expressed regret at the recent unilateral decisions of the two republics and urged all political authorities to resume dialogue with a view to secure the unity of the state.

 

India sponsored Chief Minister of North and East Provinces of Srilanka Mr.Varadaraja Perumal before he fled Srilanka had unilaterally declared independence.

 

India gave him political asylum which continues more than two decades till date. India unlike Germany did not resent the unilateral declaration of independence. Like Germany it too pleads for upholding the unity of Srilanka. But at a summit of the European community heads of State on 29 th June, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl declared that “The unity of Yugoslavia cannot be maintained with force of arms.” Yes those same words have to be repeated with regard to Srilanka. Then British Foreign Minister Douglas Hurd stated that integrity of Yugoslavia should not be accomplished by use of force.

 

Time has come for Hon’ble British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Foreign Minister Miliband to have a rethink on their policy towards Tamil Eelam. And this appeal seeks their intervention. They should take into account the democratic expression of people of Tamil Eelam expressed through referendums in various countries. There is no terrorism at sight. If through peaceful means people of Srilanka uprooted from there due to ethnic strife express support for Tamil Eelam, Britian must take steps to allow the establishment of Tamil Eelam Government in Exile as first step making it compulsory for Srilanka to negotiate with that Government for accepting the self determination of Tamils of Eelam.

           

BRITAIN: REFERENDUM FOR TAMIL EELAM

 

 Tamil Net, Monday, 01 February 2010, 01:09 GMT reports that 99.33 percent British Tamils aspire Tamil Eelam. In an unprecedented turnout that brought 64,692 Eelam Tamils to vote in the referendum held last weekend in UK, 64,256 (99.33%)  Tamils endorsed the formation of independent and sovereign state of Tamil Eelam in the contiguous north and east of the island of Sri Lanka. 185 (0.29%) voted against and 251 (0.39%) votes were spoilt. Polling took place in sixty-five booths across London and in major towns and cities throughout UK. Barry Gardner, MP Brent North       Siobhan Mc Donagh, MP [Mitcham and Morden ]Professor Bryan Woodruff, Chairman of the overseeing body of the referendum Labour party activist and trade unionist Mike Griffiths were present.

 

The referendum was initiated by an independent group of British Tamils, who formed a body called Tamil National Council (TNC) a few months ago for this purpose. All main stakeholders of Eelam Tamil nationalism in UK, Tamil Youth Organization (TYO), British Tamils Forum (BTF), Tamil Eelam Activists and the Country Working Group - UK for the formation of Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE) joined in making the endeavor a success.

 

“British-based Tamils have voted overwhelmingly in favor of the creation of an independent sovereign state in Sri Lanka, days after the man credited with crushing the Tamil Tiger’s 26-year rebellion won a second term as the island’s president,” reported leading British newspaper Guardian on Monday. Meanwhile, BBC reported that an overwhelming majority among the Tamil Diaspora in UK has endorsed the call for a separate country for the Tamils in Sri Lanka. “The results of last week’s poll demonstrate the gulf between Sri Lanka’s Sinhalese majority and Tamil minority. Despite a resounding victory across much of the country Rajapaksa lost in areas hit hard by war and where Tamils are in the majority,” the newspaper said. BBC, in its report said that people have been discussing the results in restaurants and community centers in London suburbs where Sri Lankan Tamils form considerable communities, such as East Ham and Wembley. On Sunday, Times Online carried an article by Stuart Cosgrove, saying Tamils are the undisputed world champions of Diaspora politics, who defy a new world order on the epic stage of global politics.

 

GERMANY

 

Tamil Net, Sunday, 24 January 2010, 23:00 GMT reported Overwhelming turnout of voters in Germany, 99.2 percent of voters said yes to Tamil Eelam in an impressive turn out of more than 90% of eligible Eelam Tamil voters for the referendum in Germany on Sunday. International Human Rights Association in Bremen conducted the referendum on the question of forming an independent and sovereign state of Tamil Eelam in the North and East of the island of Sri Lanka. 23,089 voters participated in the poll in 110 centers across the country and 22,904 of them said yes. 136 voters said no and 49 votes were invalid.

 

NORWAY

 

 [Tamil Net, Monday, 11 May 2009, 10:51 GMT] reported that in a secret ballot of universal suffrage, conducted by a Norwegian media simultaneously in 14 centers in the length and breath of the country among Eelam Tamils, 98.95 percent of the voters said that they aspire for the formation of an independent and sovereign Tamil Eelam in the North and East of the island of Sri Lanka. The voter turn out was a high 89.8 percent in the capital city of Oslo and an average 80 percent for the country, Strop biweekly that conducted the ballot said. The ballot gains significance not only in democratically and concretely revealing what the Tamils want, but also in telling that the so-called Oslo Declaration that speaks about internal self-determination is not up to their expectations, Tamil circles said. A couple of days before the ballot, Norwegian Minister Erik Solheim advocated a federal solution to the crisis.

 

DENMARK

 

 [Tamil Net, Friday, 26 February 2010, 20:06 GMT] Denmark went for Tamil referendum and Eelam Tamils in Denmark  cast their ballot in 32 centers across the country in a referendum on the question of independent and sovereign Tamil Eelam in the North and East of the island of Sri Lanka. The referendum  conducted by a professional institute TNS Gallup, specialized in sociological and public opinion research services, deploying electronic system for confidential voting, said Dr. Remmon Washington, the spokesperson of the Denmark Tamils Forum formation committee, which has initiated the poll. The total number of eligible Eelam Tamil voters in Denmark is estimated to be ranging around 6,500.

 

RIGHT TO SELF DETERMINATION

 

 These referendums are an indication affirming the Tamils of Eelam are for the right of Self-determination   and the world cannot deny that right only to Tamil people of Eelam.

 

 “All peoples have the right to self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development. Essentially, the right to self-determination is the right of a people to determine its own destiny. In particular, the principle allows a people to choose its own political status and to determine its own form of economic, cultural and social development. Exercise of this right can result in a variety of different outcomes ranging from political independence through to full integration within a state. The importance lies in the right of choice, so that the outcome of a people’s choice should not affect the existence of the right to make a choice. In practice, however, the possible outcome of an exercise of self-determination will often determine the attitude of governments towards the actual claim by a people or nation. Thus, while claims to cultural autonomy may be more readily recognized by states, claims to independence are more likely to be rejected by them. Nevertheless, the right to self-determination is recognized in international law as a right of process (not of outcome) belonging to peoples and not to states or governments.” As put by UNPO.

 

UNREPRESENTED NATIONS AND PEOPLES ORGANIZATION.

 

You may be pondering on various options to resolve Tamil Eelam issue. Please keep the geopolitical interests at bay. With open heart please recall how Western nations acted in similar circumstances. Britain had faced Irish problem. Canada had met Quebec issue. India too faces Kashmir question. Why not Britain and Canada look for comparisons between their past problems and present problem of Tamil Eelam.? India has a special constitutional provision for Kashmir i.e. article 370, why India fails to understand that for sixty years Srilanka is not even willing to emulate Indian constitutional provision for Tamil Eelam?

 

Self-determination in International Law

 

The principle of self-determination is prominently embodied in Article I of the Charter of the United Nations. Earlier it was explicitly embraced by US President Woodrow Wilson, by Lenin and others, and became the guiding principle for the reconstruction of Europe following World War I. The principle was incorporated into the 1941 Atlantic Charter and the Dumbarton Oaks proposals which evolved into the United Nations Charter. Its inclusion in the UN Charter marks the universal recognition of the principle as fundamental to the maintenance of friendly relations and peace among states. It is recognized as a right of all peoples in the first article common to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights which both entered into force in 1976. 1 Paragraph 1 of this Article provides:

 

All peoples have the right to self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development.

 

The right to self-determination of peoples is recognized in many other international and regional instruments, including

 

►the Declaration of Principles of International Law Concerning Friendly Relations and Co-operation among States adopted b the UN General Assembly in 1970,

► 2, the Helsinki Final Act adopted by the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) in 1975,

►3, the African Charter of Human and Peoples’ Rights of 1981,

► 4, the CSCE Charter of Paris for a New Europe adopted in 1990,

► 5, and the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action of 1993.

►6, It has been affirmed by the International Court of Justice in the Namibia case

►7, the Western Sahara case

► 8, and the East Timor case

►9, in which its erga omnes character was confirmed. Furthermore, the scope and content of the right to self-determination has been elaborated upon by the UN Human Rights Committee

►10, and the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

►11 and numerous leading international jurists. That the right to self-determination is part of so called hard law has been affirmed also by the International Meeting of Experts for the Elucidation of the Concepts of Rights of Peoples brought together by UNESCO from 1985 to 1991,

► 12, it came to the conclusion that (1) peoples’ rights are recognized in international law; (2) the list of such rights is not very clear, but also that (3) hard law does in any event include the right to self-determination and the right to existence, in the sense of the Genocide Convention.

 

“The inclusion of the right to self-determination in the International Covenants on Human Rights and in the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, referred to above, emphasizes that self-determination is an integral part of human rights law which has a universal application. At the same time, it is recognized that compliance with the right of self-determination is a fundamental condition for the enjoyment of other human rights and fundamental freedoms, be they civil, political, economic, social or cultural.”

 

“The concept of self-determination is a very powerful one. As Wolfgang Danspeckgruber put it: “No other concept is as powerful, visceral, emotional, unruly, as steep in creating aspirations and hopes as self-determination.” It evokes emotions, expectations and fears which often lead to conflict and bloodshed. Some experts argued that the title holders should be or are limited in international law. Others believed in the need to limit the possible outcome for all or categories of title holders. Ultimately, the best approach is to view the right to self-determination in its broad sense, as a process providing a wide range of possible outcomes dependent on the situations, needs, interests and conditions of concerned parties. The principle and fundamental right to self-determination of all peoples is firmly established in international law.”

 

Hence under International Law, Tamils have this right, if you include Tamils in human race. If Tamils are living human beings on Earth, they can have this right by virtue of their existence. Srilankan President Rajapakshe who committed genocide by killing 50000 Tamils in War must continue to kill every Tamil in Eelam and all in Tamil Diaspora and every Tamil of Tamilnadu before he can proclaim to the Member Nations of the United Nations, that since he has erased the existence of all Tamils on Earth, the right to self determination cannot be claimed by dead souls. Only living humans have such right, he must thunder before the world. Until such thing happens, as leaders of democracies and civilized world, we hope all leaders of member nations of United Nations will not snatch the right to self determination from the hands of Tamils of Eelam.

 

UN General Assembly adopts the Declaration in September 2007

 

With an overwhelming majority of 143 votes in favour, only 4 negative votes cast (Canada, Australia, New Zealand, United States) and 11 abstentions, the United Nations General Assembly (GA) adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples on September 13, 2007. The Declaration has been negotiated through more than 20 years between nation-states and Indigenous Peoples. Les Malezer, Chair of the International Indigenous Peoples’ Caucus, welcomed the adoption of the Declaration in a statement to the General Assembly:  “The Declaration does not represent solely the viewpoint of the United Nations, nor does it represent solely the viewpoint of the Indigenous Peoples. It is a Declaration which combines our views and interests and which set the framework for the future. It is a tool for peace and justice, based upon mutual recognition and mutual respect.” Tamils are indigenous people of Srilanka. As told by the sacred book of Sinhalese Mahavamsam, the first Sinhalese king set his foot on Ceylon where Tamils lived much before his advent.

 

UNPO members :Abkhazia , Aboriginals of Australia ,Afrikaner ,Ahwazi ,Assyria ,Balochistan ,Batwa ,Burma ,Buryatia ,Cabinda ,Chechen Republic of Ichkeria ,Chin Chittagong Hill Tracts ,Circassia ,Cordillera ,Crimean Tatars ,East Turkestan ,Gilgit Baltistan ,Greek Minority in Albania ,  Hmong ,Hungarian Minority in Romania ,Inkeri ,Inner Mongolia, Iranian Kurdistan ,Iraqi Kurdistan ,Iraqi Turkmen ,Kalahui Hawaii ,Karenni State ,Khmer Krom ,Kosova ,Maasai ,Mapuche, Mon ,Montagnards – Degar, Nagalim ,Ogaden , Ogoni , Oromo ,Rehoboth Basters ,Sanjak ,Scania ,Sindh ,Somaliland ,South Moluccas ,Southern Azerbaijan,Southern  Cameroons ,Taiwan ,Tibet ,Tsimshian ,Tuva ,Udmurt ,Vhavenda ,West Balochistan ,Zanzibar .

 

TAMILS OF EELAM must be included in the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization. Tamils are most civilized among the indigenous people possessing a classical language, which had a hoary past.

 

In an article that appeared in the International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics, Deputy Election Commissioner of the Election Commission of India Mr. R.Balakrishnan’s  research paper titled Tamil: A Toponymical Probe had given a long list of place names that bear the “Tam” prefixes. In a state wise alphabetical list of Tam prefixed place names in India, he states that in Andhra Pradesh [29], Arunachal Pradesh [11], Assam [38], Bihar [53], Gujarat [5), Goa [1], Haryana [3], Himachal Pradesh [34], Karnataka [24], Maharastra [120], Meghalaya [5], Manipur [14], Madya Pradesh [60], Nagaland [4], Orissa [84], Punjab [4], Rajasthan [26], Tamil Nadu [10], Uttar Pradesh [64], West Bengal [24] with a grand total of 612 places names resembling Tamil and Tamil influences do occur.

    

“In the Godda District of Bihar there is a village named Tamilgoda. In that District alone there are 12 place names, which end goda Tamilgoda is one of them. In the Puri District of Orissa a place name called Tamilikudi draws our immediate attention. There is no need to establish the Dravidian etymology of the suffix kudi. Tamilikudi is not an isolate case of occurrence as there are 37 place names with kudi suffix within the administrative boundary of Orissa. “In the process of locating Tamil related place names the entire list of India was scrutinized and I found a name called Tamia in Chindwara District of Madya Pradesh. Having come across Tamilgoda and Tamilkudi is not surprising to me. However when this name was noticed in the surprising company of such typical Tamil place names Palani, Tekadi, Theni, Bodi and many other geographical names that are in currency in the Madurai region of Tamilnadu and its adjoining upcountry neighbor Idukki, its significance and implications could be understood,” says Balakrishnan. Throughout India Tamils lived, spread, and ruled, it is history. The Indus Valley Civilization places Tamils in high pedestal.

 

 If I could present facts quoting the Father of Indian Constitution Dr.B.R.Ambedkar it would establish the Tamil as mother tongue of Nagas, who are Dravidians. Nagalim is admitted as member in the UNPO. Now the Nagas may speak different dialect but they were Tamils in pre historic period. Let us look at the conclusions Dr.B.R.Ambedkar had reached in his scientific enquiry.

 

“It is clear that the Nagas and Dravidians are one and the same people. Even with much proof, people may not be found ready to accept this thesis. The chief difficulty in the way of accepting it lies in the designation of the people of South India by the name Dravidian. It is natural for them to ask why the term Dravidian has come to be restricted to the people of South India if they are really Nagas. Critics are bound to ask: If the Dravidians and Nagas are the same people, why the name Nagas not used to designate people of South India also. This is no doubt a puzzle. But it is a puzzle which is not beyond solution. It can be solved if certain facts are borne in mind. The first thing to be borne in mind is the situation regarding language. Today the language of Southern India differs from that of the people of North India.”

 

“The second thing to be borne into mind is that the word Dravida is not an original word. It is the Sanskrit zed form of the word Tamil. The original word Tamil when imported into Sanskrit became Damita and later on Damila became Dravida. The word Dravida is the name of the language of the people and does not denote the race of the people.” “The third thing to remember is that Tamil or Dravida was not merely the language of South India but before the Aryans came it was the language of the whole of India and was spoken from Kashmir to Kanyakumari. In fact it was the language of the Nagas throughout India.”  “The next thing to note is the contact between Aryan and the Nagas and the effect it produced on Nagas and their language. Strange as it may appear the effect of this contact on the Nagas of North India was quite different from the effect it produced on the Nagas of South India. The Nagas in North India gave up Tamil which was their mother tongue and adopted Sanskrit in its place. The Nagas in South India retained Tamil as their mother tongue and did not adopt the Sanskrit language of the Aryans.”

 

If this difference is borne in mind it will help to explain why the name Dravida came to be applied only for the people of South India. The necessity for the application of the name Dravida to the Nagas of North India had ceased because they had ceased to speak the Dravida Language. The special application of the use of the word Dravida for the people of South India must not therefore obscure the fact that the Nagas and Dravidas are one and the same people. They are only two different names for the same people. Nagas was a racial or cultural name and Dravida was their linguistic name” concluded Dr.B.R.Ambedkar.

 

Similarly there is no race on Earth called Sinhalese. Race itself is a myth, culture oriented, proven in our days when all humans have common genes. Yet under the illusion they are Aryans, a barbaric tribe claimed separate status for them, in spite of their own mythology tracing their root to a marriage between a Lion and Human Princess. The superiority complex leads Sinhalese to work overtime to ethnic cleansing, hence genocide in Srilanka starts from 1956 itself. The failure of the British to resolve many issues before granting independence to Ceylon had left Tamils at receiving end of genocide. Hence, Dravida Peravai urges Great Britain to play an active role in view of its association with India and Ceylon and its moral duty to clear the garbage accumulated in civilized governance of Ceylon.

 

The Indian sub continent was ruled by Tamils, their Empires disintegrated, deluge and other natural calamities struck at the Tamil land. Later in British period on their eve of departure there were 11 Presidencies and 562 princely states, which when the winds of nationalism blew over Indian sub constituent were welded together as Indian Union under a Constitution of India. The problems left over by colonialism, be it border dispute with China or Kashmir still bleeds India. Same problems galore haunt Ceylon. As head of Commonwealth too Britain has locus standi to intervene to correct past mistakes.

 

Let me recollect a tiny problem between India and Bangladesh which got its independence with India’s help. “The rulers of two princely states of Kooch Bihar and Rangpur within the Old Bengal Presidency during British rule in India lost their territories to each other playing the gambling by cards. There are till date 111 Indian enclaves in Bangladesh and 51 Bangladesh enclaves within India, as a result of this gamble by 2 princely states.’ Yet no one had the moral courage to resolve even this issue which every government keeps in cold storage. Hence it would not be prudent for all Member Nations of UN or of Commonwealth or of European Union to pin hopes on India alone to redeem Tamils of Eelam from slavery and to recognize their right to self determination.

 

TAMIL EELAM GOVERNMENT IN EXILE MUST BE RECOGNIZED BY GOVERNMENT OF BRITAIN AND ALLOWED TO FUNCTION FROM BRITISH SOIL.

 

TAMILS OF EELAM MUST ELECT THEIR REPRESENTATIVES THROUGH REFERENDUMS IN THE COUNTRIES THEY LIVE NOW, AND SUCH REPRESENTATIVES MUST CONSTITUTE THE GOVERNMENT OF TAMIL EELAM IN EXILE.

 

ALL TAMILS WITHIN SRILANKA MUST BE SUPORTED TO FORM A TAMIL EELAM IN THAT SOIL. TOWARDS THAT GOAL WORLD GOVERNMENTS MUST BACK TAMIL EELAM GOVERNMENT IN EXILE.

 

BRITAIN AND EUROPEAN UNION CAN TAKE THE FIRST INITIATIVE…..

 

With Regards

Yours fraternally

 

N.Nandhivarman

General Secretary Dravida Peravai [Indian political party] 

Hon’ble Thiru.P.Chidambaram                                                               16.02.2010

Union Home Minister

19 Safdurjung Road

NEW DELHI 110011.

 

Respected Thiru.Chidambaram

 

Subject: Need for your personal visit to probe the anti-national and anti-social activities in the Union Territory of Puducherry.

 

Puducherry and Karaikal had become a haven for terrorists who can slip in and out of the territory or use it as a hide out without subjected to scrutiny or escaping the watchful eyes of vigilant police men with conscience and clean record.

 

We are enclosing a note on what happened in the High Court of Madras in a Writ Petition No 24599 of 09. We are refraining from neither going into who filed against whom nor the contents of the case here. As India’s Home Minister you would agree all are equal before the eyes of the law and none is above the law governed from space. The so called  Court Diary, actually a note by someone interested in public exposure of an incident that had not seen the light of the day had sent this to us and to other from journalistic field. The notable point is the fourth respondent is Superintendent of Police [North]. As you read the so called diary you will find that a Non-bailable arrest warrant had been issued to a person who lives within 500 meters of the Rajniwas and Puducherry North Police station. We enclose that Non bailable warrant Xerox copy. We want to know why a Court order was not complied with landing the SP North as respondent before a Writ Petition. Who gave orders to overlook the Court order, or who prevented the SP North from executing the Court order, we urge you to ask explanations in your review meeting postponed today in Puducherry whenever it happens.

 

We enclose the local Tamil weekly Makkal Manasatchi dated January 27 to Feb 2 of 2010. There are many stories on CBI unearthing many things in Puducherry, and as competent Home Minister you are aware of what happens or what happened. We draw your attention to a Report on its Page 3 about a foreigner overstaying here without visa. The diary stated in above paragraph says : Quote : “ The Chief Justice then asked the legal counsel of the visa authorities their view regarding the visa extension and deportation of one Mr. Peter Heehs. The Counsel for FRRO then declared that based on documents available to them they were of the view that no further extension of visa of Peter Heehs was possible.” If that being the case why no action, we urge the Home Ministry to ponder. If a man is a personality he can be above law and if he is an ordinary citizen, then he had to face the music, seems to be the guiding principle. Puducherry not only attracts regular stream of foreign visitors, who on arrival assume a Hindu name, and their original name is hardly known. With such common practice in the spiritual empire, any criminal can find safe haven.

 

We enclose another issue of the same Tamil weekly Makkal Manasatchi dated February 10-16 of 2010, where the follow up to the Peter Heehs affair is reported.

 

More than that in page 6 there is a story about a suspicious murder of erstwhile Ashram lawyer Raghavachari. Without going into this story, which the police rubbish as accident, in between the lines the story states: Quote: ‘Four foreigners sneaked into India through Pakistan border and they are hiding either in Puducherry or Villupuram District. The lawyer is said to have found them and it is stated a reward of 88 lakhs of Indian Rupee equivalent had been promised “Union Home Ministry must screen all foreigners living in Puducherry and nearby Villupuram District, obtain their original passports, find out their true identity, cross check with Interpol whether they are in wanted list anywhere, and probe the business deals with due tax evasion, illegal money laundering etc that is flourishing here. Also the so called marriages of convenience that take place between Indian citizens and Foreigners including promised marriages to obtain French nationality, where legal loopholes of matrimonial laws are exploited to create a society of cultural decay amidst Indians.

 

In Karaikal regular hawala transactions between Muslims and Hindus through notorious agents who enjoy patronage are taking place and the quantum of transaction may be around 200 or 300 crores which go unchecked.

 

We enclose another issue of the weekly where hooch deaths of East Godawari District caused by illegal brewing of liquor from Yenam, an enclave of Puducherry within Andhra Pradesh are reported. We urge Union Home Ministry to study the lopsided developments made in Mahe and Yenam enclave and ensure that al 4 regions gets funds, jobs, schemes, posts in accordance with their population, Robbing Puducherry and Karaikal enclaves Mahe and Yenam are thriving. This necessitates Statehood for Puducherry, Union Territory Status for Karaikal, merger of Mahe with same linguistic groups UT Lakshadeep, closer in proximity. Let Yenam be merged with Telengana, Rayalaseema or Andhra. Till then we want more powers for our Chief Minister, whom people in streets are mocking behind the back as lame duck Chief Minister. We want redistribution of portfolios; we want the clout enjoyed by tiny regions be put to en end. Last but not the least we want Puducherry UT Government to OBEY the HOME MINISTRY, cancel contracts given to RBI and SEBI black listed companies and review the Port and Power Projects. In both Puducherry and Karaikal in all factories bonded Oriya labour and Bihari labour are working. We as Indians are not against anybody working anywhere, but apart from depriving locals of jobs, these poor men of India are kept without proper wages in makeshift thatched shelters and no labour law is applicable in the plunder of our people.

 

As I wrote this someone from Bihar told me that poor Biharis are kidnapped to Australia to work as coolies. If the procuring agent could catch 40 people and smuggle those Biharis to international waters, a price of 6 crores reaches the kitty of the agent of human trafficking. I am personally going to meet my close friend, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to urge him to put an end to human trafficking from Bihar to Australia. Union Home Ministry must cross check the information I got, and even it is false alert, ponder ways to stop Indians taken away as bonded labour beyond seas as it happened in colonial days.

 

With Regards

Yours fraternally

 

N.Nandhivarman

General Secretary

KARAIKAL UNION TERRITORY STRUGGLE GROUP

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52, Church Street, Karaikal 609602, India: Tel +091-4368-224599

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Hon. President N.Nandhivarman� Chairman .K.Subramanian Vice-Chairman V.S.Nallusamy, General Secretary A.S.T.Ansari Babu Treasurer : S.Radhakrishnan ,Deputy Secretaries : R.Sundarraj, O.S.Uduman, C.Raja , Public Relations Officer: A.A.Rahman, Propaganda Secretary.K.Krishnakumar ,Youth Wing Secretary N.P.Kumanan, Deputy secretaries R.Ayyamperumal, A.Raja Mohammed, T.Dharpareswaran ,Agricultural Wing Secretary M.Sheikh Mohammed. Joint Secretary M.Singaravelu, Minority Wing Secretary S.George, Joint Secretary A.Ahamed Maraicar, Organizers: Karaikal North: S.M.Faried, Karaikal South M.I.Samsudeen, Kottucherry: Subha.Sureshrajan Nedungadu: M.Singaravelu, T.R.Pattinam; Karai Jinna, Neravy: T.K.S.M.Kanagasundaram

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OPEN APPEAL TO UNION GOVERNMENT TO DECLARE KARAIKAL AS SEPERATE UNION TERRITORY����������������������������������������������������������������������

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Respected Leader

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Subject: Karaikal people reiterate their demand for Union Territory status to Karaikal, in case of Statehood is granted to Puducherry on lines of precedent laid out in Goa, Daman, Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli regarding

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Media reports suggest that in this winter session a bill to make the Union Territory of Puducherry into a full-fledged State is likely to be introduced. You may be aware that Union Territory of Puducherry was never a contiguous area. During French rule it was knit together in spite of being enclaves separated by miles and miles. In Bengal too French had an enclave, which too would have remained with us, but fortunately Chandranagore merged with Bengal.

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�The Union Territory of Puducherry comprises of four coastal regions viz- Puducherry, Karaikal, Mahe and Yanam. Puducherry and Karaikal are situated on the East Coast in Tamil Nadu, Yanam in Andra Pradesh.

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Mahe is in the West Coast in Kerala. �Mahe which is 647 kms away from Puducherry covers an area of 9 Sq. kms with 36,000 inhabitants. Mahe is situated on the West Coast of the Indian Peninsula between 11 Degrees 42′ and 11 Degrees 43′ Northern Latitude, and between 75 Degrees 31′ and 75 Degrees 33′ Eastern Longitude, just between Badagara and Thalassery, 58 kilometers from Kozhikode, 24 kilometers from Kannur in Kerela State, Mahe with just 9 square kilometers and speaks Malayalam is ruled by main enclave Puducherry. It should be noted that closer to Mahe, the Union Territory of Lakshadeep with a population 60595 of Malayalam speaking people exists. In the case of Puducherry main enclave becoming state Mahe has three options: 1]. To remain with Puducherry or 2] to have separate Union Territory Status for Mahe or 3] to join with Union Territory of Lakshadeep. It has to be decided by a referendum as per the wishes of people of Mahe.

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�Yanam is one of the regions in the Union Territory of Puducherry. which is 870 Kms away from headquarters. It is situated on the East Coast of the Indian Peninsula at 16 degrees 42′ northern latitude, and between 82 degree 11� Eastern longitudes bounded on all sides by the East Godavari District of Andhra Pradesh State. The town of Yanam lies on the spot where the River Coringa (Atreya) branches off from Gauthami into two parts. The entire region, consisting of Yanam town and six villages is treated as Municipality for purposes of local administration. Yenam covers an area of 30.0 Square kilometers has a population of 31,362 according to the 2001 census. The demand for statehood to UT of Puducherry is vehemently opposed by Yenam�s sole legislator who is in Cabinet of the Union Territory. Telugu media reports that this Minister who had taken oath under Constitution of India is so much upset with Puducherry becoming statehood collected 50000 signatures including children and went to France to submit a memorandum to French government unmindful of protocol or constitutional responsibility. This appeal to erstwhile colonial rulers exhibits his and Yenam people�s anger against Statehood for Puducherry. Whatever future status Yenam wants can be determined by a referendum.

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Whatever valid reasons the main enclave Puducherry advances to obtain statehood, is in no way endorsed by Karaikal enclave.

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Karaikal region is far away from main enclave by 150 kms. It has an area of 161 sq. km. and population of 1, 70,640 as per the 2001 census.Karaikal region is made up of the Communes of Karaikal, Kottuchcheri, Nedungadu, Tirunallar, Niravi and Tirumalarajanpattinam.

This region since its merger with Indian Union and since it became a constituent of the Union Territory of Puducherry had received only step motherly treatment from the main enclave of Puducherry. Regional imbalances and continued neglect for five decades led to the birth of separate Union Territory status for Karaikal. Such grievances had even broken the State of Bihar into two states of Bihar and Jharkand. Hence it is needless to tell enlightened and eminent personality like you that to address the issue of regional resentment territories could be granted separate status. Now that Union Territory of Puducherry in the craze to have more powers for political masters has advanced a demand for elevating the UT into a State.

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To seek your support to de-link the enclave of Karaikal from the Statehood status, and to get the Union Governments nod for conferring Union Territory status to Karaikal enclave, a contiguous region, we are mailing this appeal to you. Let us all look at Goa precedent.

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Goa, a tiny emerald land on the west coast of India, the 25th State in the Union of States of India, was�� liberated from Portuguese rule in 1961. It was part of Union territory of Goa, Daman & Diu till 30 May 1987 when it was carved out to form a separate State.

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At that time Daman, Diu and Dadra Nagarhaveli which has now a population of 1, 58,204 in 112 square kilometers were left to remain as separate Union Territory. Like that we demand that Karaikal be declared as Separate Union Territory while Statehood is conferred on Puducherry in this winter session of Parliament or later. Precedent exists. Other enclaves too can be made separate Union Territories if they seek or wish. But we from Karaikal region are clear in our goal. Yes we want Separate Union Territory Status for Karaikal. Enough with 5 decades of neglect and backwardness thrust on us.

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The number of union territories is dwindling with former union territories becoming states; hence there is historical necessity to create more number of Union Territories to keep the purpose of the Act alive. It is needless to state that if major state rebels against Union and civil war erupt, Union Territories were security sanctuaries and spring board for security forces to regain and restore the integrity of India. With this forethought in mind, Union Territories Act was envisaged. To give life to this Act, we urge Karaikal be de-linked from Puducherry State and kept as separate Union Territory directly ruled by our President.

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�With Regards

Yours sincerely

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Dr. K. JAMANADAS PROVES

TIRUPATI TEMPLE AS A BUDDHIST SHRINE

Introduction by Prof. Dr. M. D. Nalawade,
M.A., B.Ed., LL. B., Ph. D.,
Ex- Registrar,
Retd. Professor and Head of History Dept. Pune University,

The book by K. Jamanadas “Tirupati Balaji was a Buddhist Shrine” has potential credibility to create controversies unknown to historical writing and the Hindu common folks who flock to worship Tirupati Balaji as one of the supreme deities. It is also a new challenge to indologist at a time when politically imbued scholars are engaged to wash out their hands by proving and disproving claims of Hindus and the Muslims against each other as they did over the issue of Ayodhya Shrines. The writing of K. Jamanadas, but stand to the test of researchers and it surpasses all controversial writings relating to Hindu Muslim difference.

Of course, a reader while going through this book requires to be equipped with relative knowledge of the Vedic forms and symbols of worship and the creation of monkhood, prayers and practice of Buddhist way of religious life. The author does not show at any place, his intention to religiously injure anybody and his presentation is purely of academic nature. Neither he intends to dethrone Tirupati Balaji from his present glory nor his popularity. He also does not make any comment on his devotees and his paraphernalia, he has with him. His research is to find out the truth hidden in the origin, growth and glory and his relation with the common man.

An eminent surgeon turned to be an indologist, K. Jamanadas stands for operational methods in the historical research. His study of Tirupati Balaji is the best in the science of architecture, theology and history. It seems from his book that all the essentially necessary and available sources and historical writings related to Balaji are carefully taken into consideration. Of course, one can not confidently say that a new evidence may not come up hereafter.

Religious life and socio-cultural interactions, so also their amalgamations on philosophical lines as well as in day today life among the people of this ancient land have created numerous problems for separating and identifying a particular set of features in a religious life either of the Buddhist or the Hindus except broad features and major differences. The land is the same and the people are also the same, naturally customs and traditions that they have carried on for ages together can not go far away from each other than they were in their previous religious life. There can not be a total change in the manners and etiquettes by changing and earlier religion. The walks of people in the earlier native religion, then to the Vedic which is named by the foreigners as Hinduism and then to Non-Vedic religions i. e. Buddhism and Jainism are through which this land is traveled and people have common following and practices even contradictory customs and philosophies they have through such livings of them although they learnt many things and have come across many images, idols and symbols of worships. The institution of the Viharas in Buddhist period is the first one of its kind as an institution of Temple which attracted the masses to keep its existence either in the manner the Buddhist have or the manner the Brahmin changed to their convenience to influence the masses.

Originally Brahmins and their religion are centered around the system of the institution of Yadyna. The Yadynas of various types such as Isthi, Pashu, Som, Chayan, Sava, Satra and others, for their selfish motives of seeking food, prestige and power. The very institution of Yadyna is to make commoners by way of traits, traps and tricks for sacrifices, the Brahmins are to loose nothing but in all the circumstances gain and gain much more beyond their demands and needs. This is how the institution of Yadyna works.

Nowhere it is found and no text of the Brahmin literature tells that in pre-Buddhist time the Brahmins are vegetarians. The offerings and oblations offered to gods and goddesses so also, the sacrifices made in the Yadynas are basically originated in the minds and tastes of the Brahmins. As being the non - vegetarians or the flesh eaters Brahmins ask the masses to offer such things to gods and to them also. History, therefore of the vegetarian gods in Hinduism opens a new avenue for fresh research in Indology. In pre-Buddhist times cow was never a pious animal and Brahmins of those days are found very fond of cow flesh. Rigvedas are genuine witnesses for that, and the river Charmnyavati is the best example. There is enough of information to know as to how both of her banks are covered over by skins and her waters are redden by the flesh blood of cows and other animals washed into her waters. The very name of the river Charmnyavati in a Rigveda tells many more things as Charm - means skin. The river banks of this river are used for performing Yadynas and the cows are used in sacrifices on large scale in the Yadynas. The whole delta of the river seems to have seen as how Cow Satra - Killing of cows is carried on and the name, therefore, of the river Charmnyavati in a Rigveda confirms the same.

The institution of Yadyna and sacrificing or killing cows in it is very much vital if it is understood against the agricultural background of those times. In those days no other animals but bullocks are used mostly for tilling the soil. Killing of the cows means no bullocks and no bullocks means no farming, no agricultural products. As a result there is starvation and then submission to enemies or the rulers of the religion. The pre-Buddhist times, therefore, are worse in a regard to atrocities and injustices carried on, on the Peasant communities. Fortunately but lord Buddha understands the grave situation and stops cow sacrifices in the Yadynas and prevents the slaughtering of cows. He, thus becomes the First saviour of cows who preached farmers in ancient times not to offer cows to Brahmins and in the Yadynas. Under the circumstances it is very safe to hold a view that the adoption of cow as a pious one in later days and vegetarian food for gods and to the Brahmins for themselves is one of the greatest achievements of Buddhism, but it has to pay its cost in return of that achievement because the Brahmins adopted their means and methods to attract and lure the farming communities and attack Buddhism. It is thus the Hindus and the academicians have to admit that the creation of non - vegetarian gods is not the creation of the Brahmins. Therefore, it is in vain to trace out the origin of gods who are vegetarians in pre-Buddhist times. Morality and non-violence are never the cardinal principles of Brahminical teaching and religion. They are the Buddhist and they are most unacceptable for the Brahmins in those early days.

The institution of Temple that the Brahmins practice and which exists at ‘Tirupati Balaji’ and at all the places of the Hindus is origin in Buddhism as K. Jamanadas rightly states that there are a good number of evidences to prove those facts. The walks of people in the ancient times from one sect or religion to another, from native religion to Vedic, Vedic to Non-Vedic religions that is Buddhism and jainism and then back to Mixed- Vedic or Brahminical religion, although, outwardly, have changed them in adopting different religious names and ultimately, the Brahminism to which popularly called as Hinduism, they continued to practice many of the customs and traditions they liked most and were most difficult for them to unalienate. And to their convenience Brahmins have very skillfully converted Buddhists forms of worship and prayers quite in consonance to Brahminical or Hindu ideals. Therefore, separation and identification of many images, idols and temples have become to show exactly that they either belong to Buddhists or Hindus but as Buddhism is made to disappear, Brahmins claimed them, in totality as the Hindus. And the history of Hindu vegetarian gods is certainly hidden in such changes and conversions from Buddhism to Hinduism.

The book is divided into four parts, but the main theme is dealt with in the second and third parts. Part first naturally begins with earlier findings and interpretations about the strife between Buddhism and Brahminism. The mature saintly opinion of Swami Vivekanand that ” Buddhism was mainly responsible for stopping or lessening the customs of drinking wine and killing living animals for sacrifice or for food in India” during the dominance and arrogance of the Brahminical period is given at very appropriate instance. “Buddhism and Vaishnavism are not two different things” as is stated by the Great Swami to make clear that, “During the decline of Buddhism in India, Hinduism tool from her a few cardinal tenets of conduct and made them her own, and these have now come to be known as Vaishnavism”. The author, not out of vindictive mood, but purely from academic interest collected sources and evidences, that too again from the Hindu saints and scholars to reveal the truth and truth alone as the proud heritage of this ancient land.

Brahmin’s usurpation and imitation of the Buddhist customs, traditions and ideals, so also of forms of architecture , art and sculpture are very common and long back indologists and historians like R. G. Bhandarkar and D. D. Kosambi have brought all those thing to light. The sites at Ter, Aihole, Undavali, Ellora, Badrinatha, Ayodhya, Sringeri, Buddha Gaya and other religious important places have ably been shown as how richly influenced by Buddhist religion and culture and Brahmins have adopted them to their tastes to make the masses feel religiously at home as the Hindus. A fresh touch is given to reascertain for the proved facts by R. G. Bhandarkar, R. C. Dhere and others that the temples of Lord Jagannatha of Puri, Vithalla of Pandharpur, Ayyappa of Kerala, Srisailam of Karnataka and many others as they were originally the Buddhist temples.

The real task of discovering Lord Tirupati as the Buddhist Shrine starts in the Second part. The history given of the worship of Vishnu needs to be added by the information of hymns in Rigveda. Max Muller, Muir and Wilson who have well explained the importance of Vishnu and his Three Strides - Trivikrama. In the Purnsha - Sukta of the Yajurvda (1-31-32) has his description. And to collaborate the original concept of his creation and creating his three different images and the necessities of the Brahmins to convert him in appearance like lord Buddha are not unintentional and without any selfish motive. The author has ably proved that such efforts of the Brahmins have expected good results for them to show their superiority over Buddhism. The chapters- Hindu Shilpa Shastra on Vishnu Images, Nature Image of the Lord of Tirumalai, Is the Image of a Female deity, Is the Lord A Harihara Murthi, and the Account In Venkaechala Itihas Mala, are interesting and thought provoking. They make even commoners to think twice whether he is worshiping Buddhist images or Hindu images and what is his place in such a controversies The reference from a book of Shri. Sitapati P., on Shri. Venkateswara is of great importance in support of author’s theory on Tirupati Balaji. The reference runs -”The image (of Lord Tirumalai) bears some resemblance to the famous Budhisattva Padmapani painting in cave I of the Ajanta Hills”. This statement, is thus, self explanatory to record the attempts.

Part third of the book has debased old challenges of the Hindu claims in South India. How “not only ideals and morals but also temples were taken over by Brahmins” has been aptly shown quoting well known authorities in the field and interpreting the original sources. It is very interesting to know the even Tirtha Yatras are started by the Buddhists and the Brahmins followed them from the Buddhist traditions to forget their earlier Buddhist religion and traditions. The Kalavars and Kalabhras, the names of clans and families quite in resemblance to Kalewar, kalawad or Kalawade and kalbhor, Bhor, Kalmegh and even Kale in Maharashtra are not without their historical roots. The Kalabhras mentioned by the author belonged to Chola country and are the Buddhist, but later on converted to Brahminism.

The claim put forth by the author on Lord Tirupati Balaji as a Buddhist Shrine is based on sound theory and the evidences approved and accepted by the academicians. The fundamental questions which needs to be correctly answered to prove Tirupati Balaji as a Buddhist Shrine have the following points and which are well taken into account–

1. Yet why the attributes of Murthi are not allowed to be discussed openly and publicly?

2. Tirupati has no parivar devatas, his family members as gods. why?

3. And as to why it is the only ek-devata temple in whole of India.?

4. There was no regular worship of this Tirupati till 966 A. D, Why was it?

5.Why the various murthis are not recognised in this temple by their Agamic names?

The term “self manifested” applied to Tirumalai means that the Murthi or idol is existed earlier and it is at that place only. It is found by one Shudra Rangadasa. Then it is resurrected and worshiping it began. Before the Muslims came, Buddhists are the only people who opposed the Brahmins. But no Buddhist King nor Buddhist people are intolerant towards the Brahmins and no evidence is yet produced by any scholar proving that the Buddhists or any Buddhist King made efforts for destroying Brahminical images, idols or places of worship. In fact the Brahmins have done hundreds of such things and they are in reality the enemies of the Buddhists. Hence allowing the Murthi or idol of Tirumalai uncared, then the quarrel over its possession in between the Vaishnavism and Shaivism, all such matter never happens in case of the original idols of Hindu or Brahminical gods. Fortunately till this day this Lord is mistaken and misunderstood as Shiva or Vishnu and as the Vaishnavaites and Shavaites claim him as if he belongs to one of the two, he grows in eminence. In reality the place and the idol are the Buddhist one, which eternally convey the message of well being to all people.

Temple institution is the creation of the Buddhist people and to grab that glory the Brahmins have usurped the Buddhists Temples for their selfish purpose and to attract the masses and then have converted those temples into Hindu forms making necessary changes and alterations. A good number of authorities have proved long ago and many of the authorities on the subject like R. G. Bhandarkar, Percy Brown, G. S. Ghurey, L. M. Joshi, D. D. Kosambi, K. A. N. Sastri, K. R. Vaidyanthan and others have been taken into consideration in the spirit and letters they presented numerous sources and evidences.

So far the story of Lord of Tirumalai stands historically and on the basis of the available sources it is a Buddhist Shrine. Right from its name, fashions and styles, so also customs like the Tonsure, offering of hair and Rathyatra it is all in one - the Buddhist way. Rathayatra is not originated in the Brahminical life due to caste system and observance of untouchability and touch no one those who even from your kin and kith if they are unbathed and the women of their blood also. Under the circumstances Rathayatra tradition is certainly of the Buddhist origin and where ever it is carried on, the places and gods are the Buddhists, without any doubt. The author K. Jamanadas has maintained throughout his work a very high standard of argument and at all instances he placed either the authorities or the evidence in support of his argument and statements.

Although in the socio-cultural life of this country, it introverts all of those who have their origin in this land, to positively come up for better understanding as if it is vicissitude as the times and culture demand. A good lesson will also be derived out of the reading of this thesis for making this land as if of one people with an appeal to both the Hindus and the Muslims to know their best of heritage and noble humane way of life in Buddhism as one people, blessed and guided eternally by that Great, Supreme Lord, Bhagawn Buddha, the Great.

[ The bloodthirsty neo-hitler Rajapakshe who demolishes Hindu temples in Tamil land visited Tirupathi. Why did he visit ? My search began, I found this article. I will search further, you readers too must go deep into this matter... N.Nandhivarman]

UNEARTH SUBMERGED CHOZHA PORT POOMPUHAR:STOP COAL BASED POWER PLANT: TAMILNADU URGED

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The Collector of Nagapattinam District����called for a public hearing on�23.09.2009 but cancelled at eleventh hour. Then public hearing took place on 28.10.2009 at Keezhaperumpallam village near Poompuhar.I was in New Delhi hence I missed it. But I handed over the following memorandum in person to the District Collector on 3oth.

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Respected Collector

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Subject: Historical and Environmental reasons cited to oppose the proposed Thermal Power plant regarding

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We appreciate the District Collector of Nagapattinam for calling for this public enquiry. Our views will be in Tamil�fs historical interest and the traditional rights of indigenous communities like fishermen and farmers of Tamilnadu.

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Pichavaram to Kodikarai is highly important area for unearthing our civilization since ancient harbours existed in this belt with hidden heritage at sea. It needs to be subjected to researches ��highly important for marine archaeology and coastal archaeology.

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Already 250 km out of 1076 km of Tamilnadu coast is without fishermen. The need for preserving the catamaran people and their traditional knowledge is important. Hence all development projects must aim at protecting indigenous communities like fishermen and farmers and should not uproot them from where for centuries they made a livelihood. In fact more assistance to these communities with new scientific equipments would enable them to earn more foreign exchange to our country�fs coffers than offering soaps at the cost of public exchequer to projects of plunder. Generating alternative renewable energy like ocean thermal energy, ocean tidal energy will be more helpful. Developed countries have bid adieu to thermal power. Coal bearing ships and conveyer arrangement will be hazard for the coastal area and will stimulate global warming through carbon discharge. The waste generated from plant will create pollution at sea .Thoothukudi lost its pearl culture of the past cultural heritage by the non ocean oriented people. Bearing these in mind we urge the Government of Tamilnadu to stall all thermal power projects coming up in Nagapattinam District, more particularly the one near Poompuhar.

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�� We all are aware that apart from the Indus Valley excavations, equally important cities of our ancient civilization could not so far be unearthed in South India due to our own lethargy. We have stone inscriptions, copper plates and burial pots and this is not sufficient to establish the greatness of our past. Our literary evidences on submergence of ancient Tamil land illuminate us about our past but western scholars look for more scientific proof. Hence there is a need for undersea-archaeological search to find out our roots. No other ethnic group of Earth possesses so much literary evidences but remains lazy to go to the submerged cities of their ancient land. Though we have a place named as Poompuhar where Dr.Kalaignar M.Karunanithi during his rule erected monuments to recapture the past, it could only serve as tourist spot and could not satiate a researcher�fs quest to unravel a hidden city of our ancient civilization beneath the bowels of our sea in Bay of Bengal. We all know about the changes that continuously occur and the ancient Port City of Chozha Empire is not the Poompuhar of our times, but it is within the sea nearer or far to current Poompuhar�fs coast.

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�� Graham Hancock wrote many books out of which Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization by Crown Publishers, New York 2002 containing 760 pages ISBN 1400046122 hardback priced $ 27.50 is of relevance to our Poompuhar. He undertook marine archaeology in 2002 and brought out as reported in Dinamani that a city with 9500 year old civilization remains hidden off coast of Poompuhar. [Dinamani news clipping enclosed] His earlier books Fingerprints of the Gods and Heaven�fs Mirror had mentioned about his findings. But in this latest book, he lays out evidence �gbased on modern scientific research, comparative mythology, religious and spiritual observances, first hand diving exploration of underwater megalithic structures and ancient maps to demonstrate the likelihood that a technically advanced civilization unrecognized by modern science capable of navigating the globe and with a profound understanding of architecture and building existed and was washed out by global flooding�h.

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��Inundation maps created by Dr.Glen Milne of Durham University shows vast tracts of mostly coastal land which were submerged by three waves of cataclysmic flooding between 17,000 and 8000 years ago. Nearly 5 percent of Earth�fs surface or 25 million square kilometers of land stands submerged. These maps and other sources made Graham Hancock to set his foot in Tamilnadu. Graham Hancock used scuba diving and found many artifacts and evidences roughly 2000 pieces which he displayed in Bangalore exhibition, as per media reports of the day. Graham Hancock had updated Tamil history to 9500 years old.

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��We like parrots were repeating 2000 years as time limit of our ancient civilization, and when Graham Hancock updated Tamil history with fresh facts, the Government of Tamilnadu which is going to celebrate World Tamil Conference, must take pains to employ more scuba divers and marine archaeologists to find out about our Kaveripoompattinam. We should honour Graham Hancock in that Conference.

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��The coast or sea near Poompuhar should not be plundered and kept free from industrialization if our ancient glory brought out powerfully by Dr.Kalaignar had to be proven scientifically. Mr.Graham Hancock investigated about our �gKumari Kandam, an anti-diluvia civilization said to have existed thousands of years ago around South India. It is believed to have been a greater center of learning with magnificent academies which may have left a legacy of cartographic and astronomical knowledge which exists today in the ancient Indian texts. Interestingly the author spoke to local fishermen who described often diving to free their nets caught on underwater temples and columns, pyramidal pagodas and buildings with doorways�h.

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��Coinciding to our Poompuhar, in Gulf of Cambay to city which is 7500 years old was found but media highlighted that and did not do justice to Poompuhar�fs findings. If a scientist within few weeks with the help of National Institute of Oceanography could bring out so many artifacts, is it not the duty of Tamilnadu Chief Minister Dr.Kalaignar M.Karunanithi who instilled in our hearts the greatness of Poompuhar by his powerful pen to employ all scientists, marine archaeologists, scuba divers, and constitute a multi disciplinary State-Sponsored Task Force under Anna University and Tamil University of Thanjavur to explore our exclusive economic zone and our territorial waters in Bay of Bengal at least to begin with to pick up the thread from where Mr. Graham Hancock left in 2002.

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���� Dravida Peravai hence appeals to the District Collector of Nagapattinam in the public hearing on Public Hearing on the proposed 2×500 MW Coal Based Power Plant by M/s. PEL Power Ltd to stop this power project. �Allowing such plants to be set up here with whatever technology will disrupt the scientific and historical research that is needed to unearth our past beneath Bay of Bengal off Poompuhar. We are enclosing a map which shows how much land near our coast had been submerged.

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This is an indication of how much more land would have been submerged for centuries running into thousands of years back. My article Save the Coast in New Indian Express is enclosed.Letting out effluents or dumping waste into rivers and seas had been going on unabated though technically they will promise to use clean technology and blinded by that promise our environmental agencies will give them clearance. First of all we should bear in mind what all technology we get is outmoded and unwanted in developed countries, hence such technologies are dumped on developing countries like India. If we are really a super power we should follow the Swedish precedent to completely abandon thermal power projects to save its environment. Here it is not only to save our environment but also to prove to the world we are an ancient civilization, we need to keep Poompuhar coast and seas close to Poompuhar free from industrial garbage and litter.

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��Coal based power projects are being set up in Tamilnadu coast. There seems to be a policy which permits setting up of power plants near coal mines, so that through National Power grid equivalant quantum of power can reach the power seeking State. Under this policy a current Union Minister of State before he came to power got a Coal Block allotted in Orissa.In this project of a Tamilnadu politician Puducherry Government�fs PIPDIC is a partner. This joint venture plans to set up power project in Orissa to generate power and pass on to the grid so that Puducherry Government will get power without polluting the Union Territory of Puducherry. If a tiny state like Puducherry could follow this route, what compulsion prevails for Tamilnadu to bring coal all the way by ships to set up a power plant in the Nagapattinam coast that too near ancient Port city of Poompuhar?

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�� There seems to be a race to set up more and more ports without planning what products could be brought in or exported from these ports. The Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee when he visited Kanyakumari announced a scheme called Sagar Mala, which means Garland of the Seas. In fact I mooted the suggestion to create a National Seaway on the lines of National Highways to introduce ship connectivity to all the 138 minor or intermediary ports to bring inland cargo that was coming by Lorries and to ferry passengers. This suggestion through Planning Commission reached then Prime Minister who wanted to make use of existing infrastructure to connect all ports in Indian coast. At that time only Gujarat particularly Gujarat Maritime Board was making good use of its minor ports. Tamilnadu which launched a Poompuhar Shipping Corporation under DMK rule lost the race by making its vessels ferry coal and did not think of diverting cargo and passengers from road use to sea lanes. Roads could be re-laid year by year but traffic congestion, loss of lives, making more and more lanes, land acquisition etc could be avoided if our existing ports could be connected under the Sagar mala scheme of Vajpayee. Instead opening new ports with no cargo to handle breeds even sand smuggling to Maldives which was caught red handed by you, the Hon�fble Collector. Hence we Dravida Peravai, a splinter of DMK but with great regard for Dr.Kalaignar in view of personal friendship undiminished by parting of ways, urge Nagapattinam to accord to priority to unearth our ancient city of Kaveripoompattinam and keep this coast free from polluting industrialization.

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��Interestingly the National Institute of Oceanography , Chennai had announced that its scientists in collaboration with Experimental Design Bureau of Oceanological Engineering of the Russian Academy of Sciences� had developed a vehicle named ROSUB 6000 capable of exploring the ocean up to a depth of 6 kilometers and can be remotely operated. Though we have to go further deep not only off the coast of Poompuhar but also even beyond our exclusive economic zone, this vehicle could be used to gather further evidences on our submerged Port City of Poompuhar.

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��International Seabed Authority has allocated 150,000 square kilometers of seabed in the Indian Ocean to India for exploration of cobalt, manganese, nickel and copper which are in the form of polymetalic nodules. Well Government of India will be happily exploring Indian Ocean for minerals and metals but let Government of Tamilnadu explore Indian Ocean to discover the lost continent of Kumari and the Port Cities of Chera, Chozha and Pandyas, including the ancient capitals of Thonmadurai and Kavadapuram which our literature speaks.

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With Regards

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N.Nandhivarman

General Secretary Dravida Peravai

CHINA : BIGGEST THREAT TO INDIA

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Thailand, chairman of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) for 2009, will be hosting the 15th ASEAN Summit and related meetings during Oct. 23-25 in southern beach resort town Cha-am and Hua Hin, media reports. In this crucial time, Dravida Peravai, a political party from India appeals to India to discuss with the leaders of ASEAN countries the inevitability �to ponder carefully each and every move of China and arrive at a common strategy to counter its conspiracies.

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We from India welcome regional cooperation but at same time we would like to caution the nations of the ASEAN through you about the geo-political ambitions of China which will erode the other nation�s sovereignty and cause great havoc to their economies.

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1. Beware of attack on Dollar regime: India and China are now members of the Financial Stability Board, the apex institution to monitor global risks of financial crisis. Their voting shares in the International Monetary Fund will also be slightly increased through an accelerated quota reform process. However post-reform the USA will retain its de-facto veto power with a 17 percent share and the US, EU and Japan will control 53 percent of IMF shares. Individually the shares of US, UK, France and Japan will still be larger than China�s share of fewer than 4 percent. Hence China had planned a new offensive according to Professor of National Institute of Public Finance and Policy Mr.Sudipto Mundle.

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�Zhou Xiaochuan, Governor of the Chinese Central Bank on the eve of G-20 summit suggested that dollar should be replaced with SDR�s as the new reserve currency. The huge dollar reserves held by Central Banks and other global investors would be severely eroded if the dollar were to suddenly depreciate. Yet these investors cannot easily diversify away from the dollar since this itself would trigger dollar depreciation. The Chinese are particularly concerned that an estimated 1 trillion dollars of their total reserves of around 2 trillion are held in dollar asset. The SDR exchange rate is a weighted average of exchange rates of the major convertible currencies. Accordingly under Zhou�s proposals, China and other countries could convert their reserves from dollars to SDR�s at current exchange rates without any erosion in their value. Implementing such a proposal would also mark the end of the dollar as reserve currency. This is the game plan of China which has let the cat out of its bag.

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If China launches SDR missiles to strike at the Dollar regime, India and all ASEAN countries economies will collapse. USA realizing the Chinese designs had been urging India to sign End-use Monitoring Agreement, Communications Interoperability and Security Memorandum agreement, and Logistics Support Agreement. China causes grave concern for USA, hence USA urges India to sign these pacts. China had become emboldened to say to USA to concentrate on western Pacific and China will look after eastern Pacific. Pacific Command Chief Admiral Timothy J Keating had recently exposed this game. It is high time that all those ASEAN nations which are boasting about Free Trade be aware of the future assaults on dollar that will boomerang on their currencies and collapse their economies. India had to wage a diplomatic offensive against China.

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2. Beware of Counterfeit currencies:

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The crime of counterfeiting currency as a means of warfare, such as in the War Between the States in the USA in the mid-1800s and the Bernhard Operation in Europe during the Second World War is practiced. India is being flooded with counterfeit currency. The idea was to overflow the India’s economy with fake banknotes, so that the real value of the said money was reduced; therefore, attacking the economy and general welfare of a society. The INTERPOL Counterfeits and Security Documents Branch (CSDB) is responsible for establishing programs that provide forensic support, operational assistance, and technical databases in order to assist the 188 member countries of INTERPOL regarding counterfeit currency. PTI, Indian news agency reported this year about Indian businessmen given Chinese counterfeit currency at an International Exhibition in China. Hence all member nations must be made vigilant about flooding of their countries with counterfeit currencies. Hence India should seek special investigation by Interpol� pumping counterfeit currencies in India and ASEAN countries.

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3. Unilateral Maritime Boundary by China:

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China had gone for fixing unilateral maritime boundaries of the nations of South China Seas as recently reported in Times of India by seasoned diplomat G.Parthasarathy. This does not augur well for the fishing industry and fishermen of nations bordering South China Seas. International Seabed Authority had earmarked 1, 50,000 square kilometers in Indian Ocean for India to explore cobalt, manganese, Copper and nickel etc. Similarly the ASEAN countries more particularly ASEAN countries with access to South China Seas will be having rights over specified areas for them as per International Sea-bed Authority. In exercising such powers they will realize that China had put a spokes in their wheel by unilaterally encroaching their respective maritime boundary or violating the exclusive economic zones. So let common wisdom be evolved among ASEAN nations to be vigilant about the ASEAN plus nation called China. India should play its role as catalyst.

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4. China gets foothold in Arabian Sea:

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The location of the Republic of Maldives astride the major sea lanes in the Indian Ocean is of strategic relevance to India. — Ministry of Defense�s annual report, 2000. 27 July 2001: China has engineered a manner of a coup by coaxing Maldives‘ Abdul Gayoom government to let it establish a base in Marao. Marao is one of the largest of the 1192 coral islands grouped into atolls that comprise Maldives and lies 40 km south of Male, the capital. Coral islands make fine submarine pens. The Peoples’ Liberation Army Navy or PLAN proposes to deploy nuclear submarines fitted with sea-launched Dong Feng-44 missiles and ballistic missiles (SLBMs) in Marao. The base deal was finalized after two years of negotiations when Chinese Prime Minister Zhu Rongji visited Male on 17 May 2001 on his four-nation South Asian tour. It marks a high point in China’s ambitious - and audacious - plan to encircle India and choke its emergent blue-water navy in the Indian Ocean itself. But once Marao comes up in 2010, China’s power projection in the Indian Ocean will stabilize. It will also set China on the course followed in the earlier superpower, Cold War rivalry between the US and the Soviet Union. Both states built a series of naval bases throughout the world for emergency counter-offensive measures. China is embarked on doing the same. American worry: These developments have worried the US that has proposed to its ASEAN allies and friendly countries to create a joint command to contain China and prevent its expansion in the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean. The US is keen for India to hasten construction of the Far Eastern Naval Command in the Andaman Islands, and this was repeated by the chairman of the US joint chiefs, General Henry H. Shelton, who visited India recently. Specific to the Marao base, the US sent navy chief Dennis Blair to Maldives a month after Rongji’s visit to take stock of China’s military diplomacy. While the US base in Diego Garcia can launch surprise offensives, the US wants to restrict Chinese presence in the Indian Ocean because of its strategic value. According to one survey, some $260 billion worth of oil and gas will be shipped through the Indian Ocean by year 2004. The oil route stretching from the Strait of Malacca to the Strait of Hormuz will be at the mercy of any power that dominates the sea lanes. A Chinese base in Marao islands puts it in a direct position to influence oil commerce. It is a prospect that daunts India, scares Southeast Asia, and alarms the US.

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We appeal to ASEAN summit to think about their sea-lanes and its safety in case of differences with China.�

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5. China-Pakisthan-North Korea Axis:

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�As late as October 2000, Pakistani and North Korean nuclear and metallurgical scientists were invited to observe the mating of miniaturized nuclear warheads and missile systems at China�s Lop Nor nuclear facility in Xingjian province. Of all the nuclear weapon States, China uses nuclear and missile technology transfers as part of its national security policy. It is not a coincidence that both Pakistan and North Korea owe a greater part of their nuclear and missile capabilities to China. Both were seen as important to realizing the twin goals of Beijing�s Asia policy: �contain India and restrain Japan�. The U.S. Ambassador to China, Clark Randt, has gone on record to describe China�s proliferation of strategic technologies as �a make-or-break issue for us.� That China was the chief instrument by which Pakistan got its bomb is well-known. What is not so well-known is the growing North Korea-Pakistan nuclear and missile nexus. While Pyongyang has served as a conduit for ballistic missile supplies to Pakistan, the latter has shared its weapons-capable highly uranium enrichment technology with the North Korean regime. Furthermore, Pakistan (along with China and North Korea) has a growing military relationship with Myanmar�s military junta. It is noteworthy that Myanmar had last year granted sanctuary to two Pakistani nuclear scientists wanted by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) following a personal telephone call from Musharraf. The two nuclear scientists, Dr Suleiman Asad and Dr Mohammad Ali Mukhtar, were flown to Sagaing Division of Myanmar in November 2001. They were apparently moved out of the country to avoid the fate that befell their two other counterparts, Dr Bashiruddin Mehmood, the former chief of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, and Chaudhury Abdul Majid. Both Mehmood and Majid are under investigation for their alleged links with Osama bin Laden�s Al-Qaeda network. Myanmar�s growing links with Pakistan�s nuclear establishment assume significance in the light of the formers recent purchase of a nuclear reactor and a dozen sophisticated MiG-29 fighters from Russia and conventional arms shopping in North Korea. Myanmar, North Korea and Pakistan are militarist regimes, weak and failing States that have initiated conflicts against their neighbors. Islamabad and Pyongyang also have a penchant for engaging in a game of brinkmanship, belligerence and nuclear blackmail and coercion to change the territorial status-quo (at times with overt and covert backing from Beijing).

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Proliferation of weapons of mass destruction to and from radicalized, nuclearized and volatile Pakistan or the unpredictable, regime of North Korea or military-dominated Myanmar and Wahabi clergy-dominated Saudi Arabia certainly does not bode well for peace and stability. says Professor of Security Studies at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, Honolulu, U.S.A. India must evolve suitable counter strategy. In fact USA-USSR cold war is past but Indo-China Cold war is ground reality.

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6. South China Seas: Vietnam must be vigilant

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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and his Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Tan Dung pledged to properly handle border and South China Sea issues on Friday while hailing bilateral trade and economic ties between the two. He pledged to work along with Vietnam to cope with the international financial crisis, promote trade and speed up cooperation with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).� Vietnam will keep high-level exchanges, stimulate trade and two-way investment as well as cooperate with China in regional economic development programs, Dung vowed to properly settle the South China Sea issue and other problems via friendly negotiation with China so as to preserve the development of bilateral ties. As the rotating president of ASEAN, Vietnam will play a positive role in boosting ASEAN-China cooperation, Dung acknowledged. But Vietnam must be made to think of Mekong River waters, which it wont receive due to Chinese water aggression. India must generate this awareness to Vietnam

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7. MONOPOLIZING MEKONG RIVER and CHINESE:

This is bad news for the 60 million people that live in the Mekong Basin. For the many poor people who depend on the abundant resources of the Mekong River, their source of protein and livelihoods from fisheries and other aquatic resources have not been affected so far by the China�s designs over Mekong. The Basin is home to fisheries that yield about 2.5 million tons of fish per year and, at first point of sale, amount to an industry worth at least US$2 billion annually. It is the largest inland fishery in the world. These communities depend on the river as a resource, and are often outside the mainstream economy. They are insulated from global economic fluctuations precisely because they depend so closely on natural systems and not the broader economy for their survival. This is the strength of the natural river system; especially the biodiversity and productivity of the wetlands, marshes, swamps, ponds, lakes and flood plains, and it underlines why the river system is so important for poverty alleviation. Mekong and its tributaries are vital links for transport and commerce in the region.

A pragmatic and internationally accepted way found in the 1995 Mekong Agreement, which Cambodia, the Lao PDR, Thailand and Vietnam signed when they established the Mekong River Commission (MRC). The MRC is the intergovernmental body responsible for cooperation on the sustainable management of the Mekong Basin, whose members include Cambodia, the Lao PDR, Thailand and Vietnam. In dealing with these challenges, it looks across all sectors including sustaining fisheries, identifying opportunities for agriculture, maintaining the freedom of navigation, assessing the sustainability of hydropower, flood management and preserving ecosystems. Superimposed on these are the future effects of more extreme floods, prolonged drought and sea level rise associated with climate change. In providing its advice, the MRC aims to facilitate a broad range of dialogue among governments, the private sector and civil society on these challenges. The MRC is working with its member governments and upstream partners, China and Burma, to ensure these factors are taken into account when planning water-based development in the region.

But you all are aware that China refuses to join the MRC, while building dams across Mekong River. In 1986 China started constructing dams across Mekong River and it has now completed the 4 th biggest dam that will dry the entire Mekong River basin for which Mekong River Commission had been established by 5 countries of South East Asia. Mekong is the worlds 11 th longest river and all such plans to block the river waters within China will create great havoc and cause human losses in the countries of Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam where Mekong empties itself in South China Seas. There won�t be any water, when all waters are arrested within China. Hence ASEAN leaders must emulate the protest lodged by Thailand Prime Minister Thiru.Abisit Vejjajiva on August of 2009 with 11000 signatures. The irony is instead of putting up a united front against Chinese water aggression, Laos , Cambodia and Thailand had woken up to construct dams within their countries leaving the tail end Vietnam to suffer like Tamilnadu in India, where states like Karnataka and Kerala show adamancy in water hijacking.

8. DIVERTING BRAHMAPUTRA:

Yangtze, Indus and Brahmaputra originate in Tibet now under Chinese possession. Half of the population of the world lives in the river basins of rivers that emanate from Tibet. Brahmaputra is known as Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet. China is diverting that river waters to Yangtze known as yellow river, which flows within China. 750 Hydel power stations have been set up across Tibet. As per World Commission on Dams statistics of 2003 there are 22000 dams across China. We have no objection for China to harness its rivers that emanate and flow within its territory. But blocking Indus by dams and Pakistan protesting is another story. Indian silence over Brahmaputra waters being diverted shows sad state of Indian bureaucrats in slumber. International Rivers cannot be hijacked by one country. The Campaign Director of International Rivers.org Mr.Aviva Imhof states that �The head waters of most of the major rivers of Asia are in Tibet and damming them could have implications downstream.�

Hence, Dravida Peravai urges Indian Prime Minister and Indian External Affairs Minister to discuss threadbare with ASEAN leaders the River Waters Issue, which is more serious than any other issue in their agenda.

With Regards� Yours fraternally

N.Nandhivarman� General Secretary Dravida Peravai

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On the eve of the public hearing on the proposed1820 MW Coal Based Power Plant by M/s. Tridem Port and Power Co. Ltd., & 150 MW Coal Based Power Plant by M/s. Nagapattinam Energy Pvt. Ltd, we are submitting our views to oppose the coal based thermal power plants.

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We would like to bring to your notice that within Union Cabinet there is difference of opinion which came to public light after The Hindu, a daily carried out the following news:

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�� The Hindu, English daily reported on July 5 th of 2009 that Environment and Forest Minister Jairam Ramesh has written to Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde seeking to put an end to laying of foundation stones for projects without proper and formal clearances and advising all state power PSUs like National Thermal Power Corporation, National Hydro Power Corporation , Sutlej Jal Vidyut Nigam and North Eastern Electric Power Corporation to show greater sensitivity to environmental concerns at the highest level.

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Under such situation we would urge the Nagapattinam District Administration and Tamil nadu Government to have a re-think on all coal based thermal power projects.

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�� �Recent news from our neighbor China as reported in China Daily dated October 28 th of 2009 states that Chinese Environment ministry had suspended or rejected 29 applications of new construction in petrochemical, steel-making and electricity-generating industries with a total investment of 146.7 billion yuan (US$21.5 billion).Chinese government has promised that its economic stimulus plan would not compromise anti-pollution efforts and policies would not be loosened to allow more projects to pass environmental examinations. Environmental Protection Minister Zhou Shengxian said the government would abide by strict environmental standards when evaluating new projects.

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Unfortunately Tamilnadu is not observing strict environmental standards. It craves for power at all costs.

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►Tamilnadu has 4 major thermal power plants producing 2970 MW of power. The Hindu, daily dated 6 th February 2009 carries a confession by the Chairman of Tamilnadu Pollution Control Board. Mr.R.Balakrishnan admits that thermal power plants in coastal areas of the state are not meeting pollution control standards. If truth could come out of Chairman��s mouth, our voices in protesting power plants stands justified by international, national and regional yardsticks.

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► Thermal Power Plant in Tuticurin, a joint venture between Neyveli Lignite Corporation 89% and Tamilnadu Electricity Board with 11% stake is a 4000 crore project aiming to generate 1000 MW. Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited and Tamilnadu Electricity Board have joined together to start 1600 MW power project at a cost of Rs.8700 crore in Tuticurin District.

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The coal from Neyveli has to be carried by congested roads to Tuticurion. It can be argued that it goes within our state from one part to other. Also by sea route coal may get transported. One can say within the source of raw material i.e. our state power project comes up.

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Even this could be assimilated for argument sake but not bringing 4.6 million tons of coal annually from Orissa to Ennore port in order to enable Tamilnadu Energy Company, a joint venture between National Thermal Power Corporation and Tamilnadu Electricity Board to generate 1000 MW at Vallur in Tiruvallore District of Tamilnadu. The cost is 4500 crores.

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��There is a national policy to set up power plants near mine heads, where coal is mined. Under such policy instead of bringing coal from Orissa to Ennore, Tamilnadu could have planned to set up power plant in Orissa and pass on power to national grid and then draw equal quantum here through national grid. By this way Tamilnadu could have had power as well as avoided unnecessary construction of new harbors and unnecessary pollution of our soil.

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Mind boggling statistics reveals that Ashok Leyland Project, First Corp Petrochem project, UTL Utility Systems project, Essar Power, GMR Power, Trichy Power Project and Coal and Oil Company of Dubai��s project which have planned to produce 1000 MW power each could be avoided if the policy to set power projects at mine head is observed. After all even if power projects are set up same Orissa and Bihar labour have to be brought to work here, since all industries of Tamilnadu and Puducherry uniformly follow a policy to engage only Orissa and Bihar labour and never to disturb local labour from watching free television and eating Rs 1 per kg rice given by noble leader Dr.Kalaignar.

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Empee Power and Infrastructure Ltd aim generation of 1200 MW. A company from Spain aims 2000 MW. Then comes the 4000 MW power project by National Thermal Power Corporation near Thirukuvalai, Chief Minister Dr.Kalaignar��s birth place. Central University coming in his home district is welcome but not polluting industries. The rice bowl of Tamilnadu should have agro-based industries and should promote agriculture and fisheries, the traditional people pursuing these professions for centuries or millennium. Similarly 2000 MW power project near Cheyyur also will erase the ecology of Kaluveli tank; a place of haven for migratory birds, and the tourism potential of ECR road will have to be wiped out to dump fly ash everywhere, congesting roads with coal transport.

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We urge the Tamilnadu Government to re-think its energy policy. The Memorandum of Understanding signed with Tri-Sakthi Energy P Ltd for 525 MW of power. India Power project, SPIC Energy Private Limited, Chennai Power Company etc for 1000 MW each and Cuddalore Thermal Power Project to generate 1320 MW too are coal based. Reliance plans 3000 MW power project. All these projects are coal based environmental hazards.

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☼☼►Dravida Peravai lauds only 2 initiatives of Tamil Nadu Power Minister. The Memorandum of Understanding signed with an American firm for generating sea solar power is welcome. The Project that comes in Udangudi of Tuticurin District to generate 100 MW of Solar Thermal Power is welcome. As on January 31^st of 2009 out of total national production of 9756 MW of wind energy Tamilnadu produces 42 percent and this is a good development. We whole heartedly welcome these solar, wind, and ocean thermal power projects. But we oppose the Coal based Thermal Power projects that are coming up in Nagapattinam Districts, for which this public enquiry is called for.

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►National Thermal Power Corporation of India is pumping 500 million US dollars in a joint venture with Ceylon Electricity Board to set up a power project at Sampur in Srilanka. India that could not ensure safety sail for Indian fishermen in Bay of Bengal more particularly in Gulf of Mannar and Pak Straits is going to ferry coal to Srilanka from Orissa. From Anuradhapura in Srilanka to Thalaimannar of Tamilnadu both India and Srilanka had planned under sea link to transmit power at a cost of Rs 2200 crore. India that for 30 years had not linked its rivers to help Indian farmers, but now wants to link Srilanka and Tamilnadu by under sea link to bring power to boost the growth of all polluting industries in Tamil soil. If India had annexed Tamil areas of Srilanka and merged North and East Districts of Srilanka with Tamilnadu and created a Tamilnadu State within Indian Union on both sides of Pak Straits, then such link between Tamil states may be welcomed but not the current project.

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► Dravida Peravai mooted an idea when the undersigned was Trustee in Tuticurin Port Trust, and took up with Planning Commission and through then Defence Minister Comrade George Fernandes apprised then Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on the need to create a National Seaway Authority like National Highways. Every state government has minor and intermediary ports under its control but they are idle monuments with no revenue generation with the exception of Gujarat��s minor ports. Hence to interlink these 138 minor and intermediary ports for passenger and cargo traffic, creation of such authority is must, we suggested. Accepting that during his visit to Kanyakumari, then Prime Minister announced Sagar Mala scheme for this purpose, which is yet to take off. We now also urge Indian Government and Tamilnadu Government to go for reviving that idea, to use existing harbors for passenger and cargo traffic, thereby creating jobs for educated fishermen coming out of maritime university. It will ease traffic congestion in roads. Unfortunately the regular hidden incomes through frequent laying of roads will be the only loss to the officials and political bosses. Instead of using Sagar mala scheme to purposefully use existing harbours there seems to be a craze to allow harbours under private only to ferry coal to coal based power plants. This ridiculous policy causes the new creation of Ports in Nagapattinam District which we oppose.

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��Tamilnadu must give clearance to biomass power plants. Times of India dated 29 th October 2009 states that 9 companies have approached Tamilnadu Energy Development Agency for permissions to start biomass power plants. Tamilnadu Electricity Board must give clearance for these 9 companies to generate 487 MW of power. The speed with which clearances came for coal based power projects is lacking here, that too for small quantum of power, which can be termed as tokenism too TN Government lacks political will. The biomass energy produced currently is 111 MW writes Vivek Narayanan in Times of India. Hence according clearances for clean energy is must in days when we sing lullabies on climate change.

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��If India has to reduce its carbon emissions; it would mean a major reorientation of her energy strategy, especially if that warranted a shift from its current coal-based to an oil and gas based energy system. Murthy, Panda and Parikh (2000) examined the consequences of alternative CO2 emission reduction strategies on economic development and, in particular, the implications for the poor by empirically implementing an economy-wide model across India over a 35-year time horizon. A multi-sectoral, inter-temporal model is used for this purpose. The model has specific technological alternatives and endogenous income distribution with dynamic behavior; it covers the whole economy in an integrated top-down-bottom-up model. Such alternative thinking must dawn on Tamilnadu Government.

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��International Seabed Authority under the auspices of United Nations has earmarked 1,50,000 square kilometers of sea bed in Indian Ocean for mining of cobalt, nickel , copper etc. We are not aware whether any such area is earmarked in Bay of Bengal. If the pursuit to mine sea-bed begins apart from natural gas to minerals, the traditional living sources of fishermen will be totally robbed from them. Even after Exclusive Economic Zones have been earmarked under International Law of Seas by United Nations, the fishermen of India particularly Tamil fishermen could not tap the fish wealth in their countries exclusive zones. Foreign fishing vessels creep in, sneak in, and poach in our zones, and fishermen with catamarans cannot compete. Fish wealth is near their eyes yet their country allows sharks from other nations to rob that instead of arming Indian fishermen with finances and schemes to make a better livelihood. The policy to uproot people from their traditional professions is suicidal, cynical, unethical and anti-national. Yet hand in glove with corporate world that greases their palms for petty gains and better lives today, our political masters are ruining traditional fishermen and agriculturalists depriving them a decent livelihood, thus earning a historical curse on them for their historical blunder.

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�� In precious stone rich Jharkand and Orissa, mining of this wealth which remained in the bowels of earth over which indigenous tribal peoples lived for millions of years is bartered to corporate world. Dravida Peravai had incorporated in its party manifesto that if a dam is constructed or project is set up uprooting people, such uprooted people and all villagers over which these projects come up must be made share holders in the projects that come up. Share the profits with the displaced people, compensate permanently elevating the lives of the deprived than throwing paltry pittance to political class, companies must be told. This includes the harbour and power project that comes up in Nagapattinam District. If a power project comes in Chief Ministers home village, all its villagers must be made share holders in that projects, all the jobs must be given to every educated youth forbidding total hiring of outsiders, and if talent is needed it should be only from Tamilnadu. No contracts labour system, because Chief Minister��s home village must emulate a national model for development. Let Tamilnadu plan projects that will not aggravate our climate change. Let Tamilnadu go for clean technologies to generate power like Sweden. If our Chief Minister cannot make Tamilnadu a Sweden in energy, a cleaner Singapore in environment, then no one else in India can envisage and transform people��s lives.

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With Regards

Yours fraternally

N.Nandhivarman

General Secretary Dravida Peravai

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