By Dr. Raju Selva
(May 17, Melbourne, Sri Lanka Guardian) In my previous letters, I have told that I am ashamed to call myself a Tamil as LTTE brought more misery and humiliation to the Tamils than any good, forget about the promised homeland for Tamils in Sri Lanka. I strongly believe the Tamil Diaspora (whom I am one of them but I disassociated myself from supporting LTTE long time ago) is as guilty as LTTE for for this predicament for having supported LTTE for the last 25 years.
Last few weeks, the world noticed the Tamil Diaspora shouting and screaming down the streets in big cities in the western block to save Prabha and his killing machine but never demanded Prabhakaran to release the innocent Tamil civilians held as human shield by LTTE. The Tamil Diaspora was least concerned of the Tamil civilians held as hostage by LTTE. The colossal amount of money collected willingly and forcibly by the Tamil Diaspora to fatten the LTTE war chest hoping for a mythical Eelam has almost vanished into thin air now.
LTTE is now cornered into a less than 1sq km and their fighting hard core cadre has almost depleted to a small number of around 500 fighters. To continue the Eelam war, LTTE needs more people to fight. LTTE is not short of their supporters among the Tamil Diaspora. Over the past few weeks, the world noticed thousands of Tamil men, women, youths, children and even infants gathered around the big cities like London, Torronto, Ottawa, Paris, Melbourne, Sydney, Geneva, Oslo in thousands taking part in rallies, demonstrations against the Sri Lankan Government’s war against the LTTE. The most salient feature among the demonstrators was that there were many second and third generation of Tamil youths both men and women probably some of them would not have ever been to Sri Lanka. They would have joined the demonstrations due to peer pressure from their parents. It is sad to see that the new generation of Tamils have been completely misled by their peers.
This is crucial time for LTTE and the dying LTTE needs some oxygen with increased fighting cadres. LTTE needs support of the Tamil Diaspora in manpower. The Tamil Diaspora who was screaming down the big cities can help LTTE in this dire moment. What the parents of the Tamil Diaspora who were screaming down the streets should do now is to dispatch their young sons and daughters from their cosy homes and good schools to the jungles of Mullatihivu immediately (even underage does not matter as LTTE is immune to age barriers) to fight the Sri Lankan armed forces to save Prabhakaran. It is now or never.
An appeal to Tamil Diaspora
